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I just knew it: Holiday Party Sobriety Test App

... let me know how I'm doing as I chat up a girl. Should let me know if I'm skidding off, or right on track....lol!

But it would have to be written by a women, or it would never work right...

I think as experienced men, we can safely assume that all women are interested in science and technology, that pets in hats are not cute, maternal news is banal news, emotions are pointless and nothing says "get 'yer coat" like "You've got great bewbs". It's simply a case of process of elimination before the eventual acceptance.

No?

I guess u will be first in line for robot girlfriend

Even robots have standards

This sounds like a fun drinking game LMAO!

I suspect that these days, a lot of party goers would be too busy texting to get any serious drinking done.
Cheers!

That I may end up having way too much fun driving the drunk train to run the test until it's too late.

We had our annual office shin-dig last week, and there were many who could have used this little gadget. Never mind. It was perfectly possible to tell who was completely blasted and who was slacking off in order to maintain some degree of dignity without such a device, so I have to agree with mark16_15 really. It sounds more like an opportunity for further sporting endeavours then a timely reminder that enough was enough.

As Dean Martin put it, "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on." I'm not sure they make an app' for that though.

...I knew about this last week!

Although to my own amazement, I was not in need of the chat-up app. SCORE!
As a result (and what a result), I had plenty of rib from the lads before the meal...

I took a look at the webpage, and it also installs quickly and easily in Firefox. I think that should be included in the article, which only mentioned the two major phone families.

If you could have it disable texting and facebook and twitter posting when you fail the tests, then you would have something. Just like the app that won't let you call certain numbers (that you select when you are sober) if you don't pass a sobriety test.

Someone spent time creating this app? OK, I agree that some people have to be told not to drink to excess, but I've found that if you have to be told not to drink to excess, you will also ignore any attempts to stop you from drinking to excess.

Let's have a little personal responsibility instead. If you are going to an office party, you are essentially "at work", and unless drinking is allowed at your workplace during working hours, you should abstain. If you feel uncomfortable abstaining, though I don't understand why anyone would, then drink some gingerale with a lime wedge and don't make a big deal of what you're drinking. And while you're at it, since you're sober, you'll have the coordination to take video of the idiots who are drinking. I see opportunity for blackmail.

That's exactly what getting drunk provides, ensuring you have "little personal responsibility". To many people, drinking is part of having fun and you're there to have fun.

Instead, trade your keys for a hand-stamp that gives you access to the bar, and pass the test to get your keys back.

If you're wasted enough that you could make an employment-endangering ass of yourself, you're probably too far gone to remember to check that app.

You are quite right Palmetto and that is the fatal flaw of the app. The only way it would work is if one of your friends uses it on you, and your friends don't need the app as they can tell you are too drunk by looking at you, hearing you, smelling you, etc.

I'm retired.

I don't have a cell phone which could run such apps.

No one invites me to anything anymore and I've not heard from one person I used to work with.

I don't drink.

This is a win-win for me and the HR person I met randomly at a restaurant last week told me that she is jealous of me.

And I'm having great fun pursuing the technologies I never had time for while being a wage slave and disrupted by people like the IT Director whose last words to me were "I don't know what I am doing".

Happy holidays.

Stay safe.

And, for heaven's sake, don't pay good money for useless apps.

"I don't drink"

I don't either, and avoid situations where others will do so excessively.