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[–] 47 points 2 years ago

It is I, Intentionally Blank Tar_Alcaran.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    I used to work for an Australian company that produced HR software - recruitment, 360 reviews, etc. Our job application form 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. Some understandable for a university (things like "Prof" or a suffix of "Ph.D.") and some... less understandable (Colonel, Lieutenant, General, Father, Capitan, Sir, The Honourable, ...)

    The customer is always right... We had to add a "huge list of titles" feature flag to the system, that was only enabled for this one client. All other clients were fine with the standard list.

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  • 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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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Genuine Question:

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    As a viceroy, I am highly offended.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I’ll take Intentionally Blank for 400, Alex

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    LEFF-TENANT COMMODORE, I presume.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They should add 'Emir', 'Pasha' and 'Bey'

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I thought that was a password selection combo box

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  • Professor Baroness Wessley

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Commodore and Admiral are a higher rank.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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