• Agent641@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 day ago

    TFW you’re australian so you type “AUST” and hit enter but all of a sudden you’re wearing lederhosen and yodeling at some mountains.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
    3·
    22 hours ago

    I’m in Finland and it’s always mildly weird when these country lists have “Aland Islands” right in the top. I’m not entirely sure in which circumstances the folks from Åland even pick that option. But, I mean, it’s an autonomous region, they do have the right to mildly confuse the people who collect user statistics.

    (There was also that one incident when some Google product wasn’t available in EU as a whole due to regulations that had to be sorted out, but it was somehow available in Åland because Google did an oopsie.)

  • arudesalad@sh.itjust.works
    50·
    2 days ago

    What’s worse is not knowing if it’s going to be (E)ngland, (G)reat Britain or the (U)nited Kingdom. I always scroll to the wrong point on the list first

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 days ago

      Similarly, sometimes forms use foreign countries’ English names, and sometimes the native names. Pretty annoying as a German.

      And a special “screw you” to any UI devs that don’t use the native behavior when typing letters while focused on a select field.

    • Deebster@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 days ago

      Or (B)ritain? Once I even found (T)he UK, which I only discovered by searching the page source.

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    2 days ago

    Zimbabwe has the advantage of being at the bottom of the list, so you just scroll all the way down and click.

    It’s the same advantage as having a Volvo.

  • lath@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 days ago

    Americuh’ should be no1 on the list! (None of the other countries on the continent matter.)

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    Of course a lot of these, particularly this with nearly or entirely US users, just put the US at the top. Which is smart. I’d expect shit based on other countries to do likewise, especially non-English sites.