This is how such a title picking menu looks like in Austria, in this case for the newsletter signup form of a supermarket chain:
From now on, I wish to be addressed as Lt. Commodre Squid
Submitted 2 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Microw@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Somebody added that 80th title and still decided against just making it a free text field
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 months ago
There are professors with more than two doctorates whose title is missing here…
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What the fuck.
RidderSport@feddit.org 2 months ago
Well you Austrians still have a very weird hard-on for titles
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Should add “BSC, SSC”.
As in bronze swimming certificate, silver swimming certificate.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I like how you can actually leave it empty, or alternatively choose ‘intentionally blank’.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Maybe it’s to be addressed as ✓ and they didn’t indent it properly?
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I want my last name as Page and to pick Intentionally Blank.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I wish I could be intentionally blank. I might do better at poker
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
I used to work for an Australian company that produced HR software - recruitment, 360 reviews, etc. We had a fairly standard list of titles (Mr, Mrs, Miss, Mr, Dr, and maybe one or two others) that nearly all clients were happy with. However, a university asked us to add maybe 60 more, much like the list in this screenshot. We had to special-case it so that this one client got the huge list, while all other clients got the regular list.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 months ago
What if His Excellency Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron enrolls at that uni?
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
But where else could he find another spouse?
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Sounds like a university I know - brilliant and accomplished people, very proud of it, to the point of projecting that pride on everyone else and assume everyone must hold their full title as dear as they do. The idea of one of my teachers, some “First Name, Baron of Examplington-Doublename”, telling us to just call him “Mr. Examplington” would have shorted out their brains.
For all their laudable competencies, humility was not among them.
(Not in Australia, but I imagine it’s hardly exclusive.)
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The letters are right in front of your face. It’s spelled Commodore.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah well… (Fixed.)
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
LOL, oopsie!
Have a good day 👍
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Genuine Question:
Is “Mx” a gender neutral version of Mr/Ms or something else?
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a DNS record used for denoting which email server to use. Short for Mail eXchange.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Yes.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You have, I’m sure unintentionally, reminded me of an old peer-to-peer sharing client.
remer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As a viceroy, I am highly offended.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ll take Intentionally Blank for 400, Alex
Masamune@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought the one at the very bottom said “Bacon” for a second, and got really excited.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Very well Lt. Commodore Squid, requesting permission for count Ziglin to sip on the blood of commenter above me.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Granted, but only if you’re both into it.
wjrii@lemmy.world 2 months ago
LEFF-TENANT COMMODORE, I presume.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Now that they’re in England, it has to be.
wjrii@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Like a binary star system, the UK and the US will do an eternal dance to see who can troll the French the most with mangling the loanwords. The Brits win this one.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 months ago
They should add ‘Emir’, ‘Pasha’ and ‘Bey’
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Paging user blade to adopt the title ‘Bey’
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Oh, but I make people call me “Sire.” Lord is so new-fangled and casual.
Or I used to, back when I had friends. I’m not sure where they all went.
pewpew@feddit.it 2 months ago
I thought that was a password selection combo box
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Professor Baroness Wessley
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
What does the Engr mean?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No idea. Engineer?
Holyginz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s my guess. But I’ll say that as an engineer I can’t imagine that as a title someone would actually use when they addressed me.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’ve never encountered “Engr” before and don’t know where it comes from but “Eur Ing” is for Engineers in the European Federation of National Engineering Associations. You can have this title on a UK passport - well, until very recently you could. May have changed.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Commodore and Admiral are a higher rank.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It is I, Intentionally Blank Tar_Alcaran.