Nice use of bluetooth but how long until someone exploits this situation? What better way could there be to get your malware on multiple phones than by masquerading as an application that the police are advertising .....

Good man.

That is probably true, but it would also make people aware of how much they're over the limit - so it probably worked - even if the app was used as a scorecard!!

Hey, we need to get people to drink less. Ooh, I've got just the right idea - let's add a score to drinking. People will totally not drink even more just to get more points than their buddies.

I have an even better idea: get the bluetooth app to talk with nearby devices and create a scoreboard. Surely this will make people drink less, in order to race to the bottom of the chart!

Srsly, who comes up with this stuff? I mean, from my point of view it's fun, but if anyone believes that making drinking into a competition - because this is what the app does, even if the developers didn't intend it to - can make people drink *less*, he's deluded.

I'm not allowed to smoke in pubs.

Now I'm not allowed to go out an enjoy myself and have a few without some arsehole taking the fun out of it by telling me that I have to "watch how much I drink".

Fuck off. Leave me alone.

I hope the app written in Scouse-Talk for those little darlings ??

Hey Hey Calm down ya drinkin' like, like mate ...

Eh-La, Gissa-a -pint or I'll doyous...

Errr, can I lob dis moby at da next footy match I go to - like errrrm like cos I'm well 'ard...??

I wonder what the increase in mobile phone thefts were in the "Capitol of Culture" during this period....

"Scores get more unreliable as evening progresses..... "

evening????

My phone says I'm sober! See? Seeeeee????

I'm waiting for the first court case siting this app as a defense.

If someone simply suggesting to you that you don't drink too much can really be "taking all the fun out of it" for you, I'd suggest that you're not much good at having fun. Sounds like you have such a chip on your shoulder that you'd willingly cut off your own nose to spite your face. So if you set out to have a bad time and got exactly what you wanted, why are you complaining again?

Maybe it's your own fault for being such a sulky grumpy old miseryguts.

...compatible with the scousers' laptops?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scousers+laptop

Of course, it's a bit late by then ;o)

back in college, a few years ago, they had simple calculations of how many drinks per hour you would need to get to the legal limit. We used it the other way, determining first how drunk we wanted to get, and then applying that to our night's activities.

Does this automate that process?

Sort of like the informational speed boxes they are putting out to show what your speed is. These can be used to figure out how FAST you can go too! (many things can be used for good and evil. or the law of unintended consequences.)