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It is I, Intentionally Blank Tar_Alcaran.
This is how such a title picking menu looks like in Austria, in this case for the newsletter signup form of a supermarket chain:
Somebody added that 80th title and still decided against just making it a free text field
That's how you get F.U.C.K.
Yeah.. what a shame. These poor tortured souls have to settle for Dipl. Ass. instead.
There are professors with more than two doctorates whose title is missing here..
What the fuck.
Well you Austrians still have a very weird hard-on for titles
Should add "BSC, SSC".
As in bronze swimming certificate, silver swimming certificate.
I like how you can actually leave it empty, or alternatively choose 'intentionally blank'.
I want my last name as Page and to pick Intentionally Blank.
I wish I could be intentionally blank. I might do better at poker
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.
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.)
What if His Excellency Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron enrolls at that uni?
But where else could he find another spouse?
I’ll take Intentionally Blank for 400, Alex
As a viceroy, I am highly offended.
I thought the one at the very bottom said "Bacon" for a second, and got really excited.
Very well Lt. Commodore Squid, requesting permission for count Ziglin to sip on the blood of commenter above me.
Granted, but only if you're both into it.
They should add 'Emir', 'Pasha' and 'Bey'
Paging user blade to adopt the title ‘Bey’
LEFF-TENANT COMMODORE, I presume.
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.
What does the Engr mean?
No idea. Engineer?
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.
Maybe because it can be a military job? Like subs have engineers... just a wild guess.
Ahhh ok that actually makes sense.
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.
Professor Baroness Wessley
Commodore and Admiral are a higher rank.
Yes, but what have I done to get a promotion?
Being awesome got you ranked up
I am turning down the commission! It doesn't sound as cool!
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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