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From now on, I wish to be addressed as Lt. Commodre Squid

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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FlyingSquid@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is I, Intentionally Blank Tar_Alcaran.

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  • Microw@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is how such a title picking menu looks like in Austria, in this case for the newsletter signup form of a supermarket chain:

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    • Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Somebody added that 80th title and still decided against just making it a free text field

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      • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s how you get F.U.C.K.

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      • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There are professors with more than two doctorates whose title is missing here…

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What the fuck.

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    • RidderSport@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well you Austrians still have a very weird hard-on for titles

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    • UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Should add “BSC, SSC”.

      As in bronze swimming certificate, silver swimming certificate.

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  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I like how you can actually leave it empty, or alternatively choose ‘intentionally blank’.

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    • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe it’s to be addressed as ✓ and they didn’t indent it properly?

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    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I want my last name as Page and to pick Intentionally Blank.

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      • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I wish I could be intentionally blank. I might do better at poker

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What if His Excellency Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron enrolls at that uni?

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      • lars@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But where else could he find another spouse?

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    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.)

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The letters are right in front of your face. It’s spelled Commodore.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah well… (Fixed.)

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        LOL, oopsie!

        Have a good day 👍

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Genuine Question:

    Is “Mx” a gender neutral version of Mr/Ms or something else?

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    • gofsckyourself@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a DNS record used for denoting which email server to use. Short for Mail eXchange.

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    • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You have, I’m sure unintentionally, reminded me of an old peer-to-peer sharing client.

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  • remer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a viceroy, I am highly offended.

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  • thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll take Intentionally Blank for 400, Alex

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  • Masamune@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought the one at the very bottom said “Bacon” for a second, and got really excited.

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  • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Very well Lt. Commodore Squid, requesting permission for count Ziglin to sip on the blood of commenter above me.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Granted, but only if you’re both into it.

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  • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    LEFF-TENANT COMMODORE, I presume.

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    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now that they’re in England, it has to be.

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      • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They should add ‘Emir’, ‘Pasha’ and ‘Bey’

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    • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Paging user blade to adopt the title ‘Bey’

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • pewpew@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought that was a password selection combo box

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Professor Baroness Wessley

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What does the Engr mean?

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No idea. Engineer?

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      • Holyginz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Commodore and Admiral are a higher rank.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, but what have I done to get a promotion?

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      • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Being awesome got you ranked up

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