Really? REALLY?

[akirlu]

Aer Lingus doesn't allow apostrophes in the name fields of their web forms. Aer LINGUS. I'm sorry, but I'll have to kill you now.

Sincerely,

Mrs. O'Brien, with the apostrophe, thanks

Comments

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. "Aer Fungus" need to die for that.

Crazy(Seriously? No apostrophes in the name field, and it's an IRISH company?! Yeesh!)Soph

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's the fact that they are, themselves, Irish that is so exquisitely galling.

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

...and it's probably for some really stupid reason, like the people who did the underlying database used apostrophes as meaningful characters, or something! There's always a dumb excuse!!!

...I'll try to calm down now.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Local friend thinks that it's because all of the airline backend systems were all coded in the 1960s and had no punctuation characters because of Fortran- or Cobol-related coding reasons and the web aps are just stuck with the legacy.

[sraun]

Say WHAT?!?!?!

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I know, right? So very wrong.