Off Topic The SIR Kenny Dalglish Public House

I left out the part about the intravenous line of gin on a wheeled stand that I was in the habit of cycling with at the time and likely contributed to the collision

 

Wise.

 

The voice of reason. Bar the ****ing gin

 

Yes. I did

 

Yikes! What were the circumstances there, how'd they catch you? Accident, or just saw you wobbling a bit on the saddle?

 

Exactly why I avoid the roads as much as possible with my bike.

I once through my bike at a car after they'd cut me up on a roundabout

 

You not considered going off road instead?

 

Yes

 

FFS

 

Apparently met the 18 yr old in a club and then hired a prossie for a threesome. Seems the prossie called the police after the 18 yr old alleged rape! Sounds a bit of a mess and I am sure his name will come out in due course.

 

I heard substances were involved.

 

So, I wrote new parking/ticketing software for work. Their current data is useless (they don't know who drives what or who theyve given permission to park where).

To get the data clean I wrote a vehicle census website for everyone to log in and say what they're driving. To avoid a bunch of silly colour names when picking the cars colour, I used a drop-down with all the common colours names.... But I left an "none of the above" option so they could fill that in if they have some unique pattern, like a chequerboard, or red and blue stripes, etc.

I shouldn't have given that option. No one with a grey car wants to admit they drive a grey car. My data is already full of people who said "none of the above" for grey so they could enter:
Cyber Grey. Gunmetal Grey. Metallic Grey. Cement. Charcoal. Etc.

How the **** are those colours not grey? Why are people dirtying my data with such nonsense? . This is exactly what I was trying to avoid by giving them a drop-down instead of a text box.

People aren't doing it for other colours. Just grey. My theory is people are embarrassed to say they drive a grey car so feel the need to embellish. People who drive white don't feel the need to embellish and call their car "ecru". And people with red cars aren't embellishing calling their cars "cherry"... But those damn grey car drivers have to say their car is "cement" not grey.

 

Those cold winter nights must just fly by.............

 

Can't you yourself just enter "grey" (or "gray" for you colonials) instead of all the fancy versions?
Think how many people you'd piss off.

 

I am. I'm sanitizing the data and undoing all those "gunmetal grey's" and reverting them to "grey".

We have 8000 employees/volunteers/vendors etc who have parking tags. Some have two or three vehicles, so obviously not about to enter everyone's data myself... That's why was sent out for them to fill in.

(FYI: Even in the US, people who spell it "gray" instead of "grey" are looked at as weirdos. I'd say 75% of people here use the "e" spelling)

 

Interesting, I thought it was the other way around.

 

It is apparently a bit of a grey(gray) area

 

Both are accepted spellings here but I've noticed "grey" more. I just googled it and Merriam Webster says "gray" is more common in the US.

Certainly isn't around here. Unless it depends on what circle you hang with. Perhaps "e" with educated folk and "a" with the trailer park boys... A bit like the "doughnut/donut" people.

 

We have to do similar for most of our stuff. We have online forms people have to fill in with salary info, NI numbers, telephone numbers, DOB etc. but the amount of people that put it in weird format. Use . Instead of / for dob, some do put £ some do put , in salary others just type a number.

Some of stuff we’ve managed to put some data validation around to force correct formats but people still find new ways to mess up what you’d think would be a simple input of data.

As you say, where possible just stick to pure drop down options.

 

If you're going to party then party.