My grandpa’s blood alcohol calculator
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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That’s from a different time. Weight only goes up to 260.
If you remember to use it and are able to accurately do this I’m going to say your are sober
Looks like some video game anti-piracy device from the 80s lol
Richard B. Ogilvie was governor of Illinois in 1969-1973.
At that time, the BAC driving limit just got lowered from 0.15 to 0.10 a couple of years ago.
https://www.myattorneysonline.com/history-of-dui-in-illinois-part-one
This was back when the cops would send you home if you were drunk. I remember my folks telling me stories of police confiscating their beer and making the least drunk one drive everyone else home.
In college, I got halfway through writing an app that does exactly this.
Then stopped development, because only bad things happen when drunks are given something to believe they’re safe to drive.
Not sure if one could read this test after 16 beers.
Looks just like my old school E6B lol. Coincidence? Who said pilots are alcoholics 😂
if I’ve been drinking, this wheel is going to look like the inside of a time bomb that the badguy planted and now I have to defuse to save the city.
This feels like something you’d give a first time or inexperienced drinker. I can’t imagine feeling like I’d need to spin the wheel because I don’t know my limits. It is pretty cool, though. All those dial calculator things are.
Someone actually put engineering into this. Hope it worked at the time, although if nobody would use it now I doubt they used it before
“But ociffer, the calculator wheel says I’m okay!”
Theres no way i could drink 5 and still drive, this calculator says im allotted 5.5 drinks lol
Can I really pound five beers, wait 1 hour, and then be good to drive? That doesn’t seem right. I weigh 200 lbs.
I blew into that hole in the middle and never got a reading. 🤷🏼♂️
Is Leslie Knope your grandpa?
The only thing I remember from D.A.R.E.
Add 0.02 for every 12 floz of 5% beer, 1.5 floz 80 proof liquor, or 1 floz 100 proof liquor. Subtract 0.02 for every hour spent above 0.02. (for an adult male)
If you even need to buy one of those you shouldn’t even be driving
Probably a better idea than the pocket BAC breath tester we got in college. Us dumbasses tired to get the high score before someone broke it. Probably for the best.
Grandpa was calculating BAC before smartphones true retro responsibility vibes.
The actual trick to this device is if you’re capable of figuring out how to use it you’re good to drive.
Can you bring that 12 over to 180?
They used to hand these out at my high school lol
I don’t know this one but I remember this sort of thing. Haven’t thought about them in probably 35-40 years!
What do I do if I can’t read the numbers anymore?
I wonder how many of those knocking 16 drinks have used the calculator hopping it will report a safe BA score?
I just used a website version of one of these earlier looking at the ground pressures of various yields of nukes. That one had SOOOO many numbers on it.
Sober enough to know what I’m doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it
I’m not having 4 drinks and getting behind the wheel. yikes.
give that bad boy a spin and let’s play! [JK everyone, don’t do it, it’s bad]
3 flagons and still good.. in other news how do I use thish thingf *drunk slurring* lol
If you can still use this, you are relatively sober.
I can drive 3 hours after 6 beers?
Can I fuck.
We used to have those things for everything!
“the Governah says I’s fine,
Ossifer”
Using this while shit faced would be the equivalent of piloting a space shuttle for me.
now we just blow into our phones.
Is there a web based version?
In the early 80s, we got these in drivers ed (IL).
This thing doesn’t go up to my weight or the amount of beers I’ll have in a night. Guess I’m good to drive 😎 👉👉
If you need to use a calculator because you are unsure if you’re over the legal limit, probably shouldn’t be driving.
Those were the days when a cop would take you home if he pulled you over intoxicated.
I’m boring. More than one drink, I’m not driving.