[oliveremberton]

Thanks. I did agonise over that part at the time I wrote it. I couldn't think of a more inclusive alternative, and chose something a little comedic on purpose ('ladies man') in the hope it wouldn't be taken too seriously.

Open to suggestions.

[roel_v]

Suggestion: ignore whiners like this who petition for 'manhole covers' to be renamed 'personhole covers'.

[thezoid]

Or you know... just name them to something generic like "sewer access point covers"

[dubfan]

Not all "access point covers" go to sewers. Some go to communication conduits. Sewerist.

[NickPollard]

I thought it was a great article, but I think it would be better if the image of the 'random character's at the start showed racial variation - saying that your character is totally random and then having a picture of 6 white people was a bit incongruent to me. Otherwise excellent.

[edent]

I thought it was fun. But the protagonist in every screen shot appears to be a straight white male.

Depending on how you're counting, that's about 15% of the world population.

Why not make it interactive, and let the user choose who they are? Or add more variation to the images? Or talk about getting on with people who "aren't like me"?

Good fun piece though.

[Breefield]

Sorry, you're on the frontpage, it's going to be taken too seriously.

I don't think anyone is actually going to catch the joke that generally speaking, entrepreneurs and ladies magnets are not actually "something bigger" at all.