• arudesalad@sh.itjust.works
    74·
    1 month 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

    • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
      34·
      1 month ago

      And then, surprise! It’s a UK company so they artificially put it at the TOP of the alphabetical list, but you didn’t notice it before you scrolled everywhere else first.

    • Willem@kutsuya.dev
      29·
      1 month ago

      Same here, is it going to be (H)olland, (T)he Netherlands or (N)etherlands, with the minor inconvenience of (N)ederland.

      • superkret@feddit.org
        14·
        1 month ago

        Same here, can be (G)ermany or (D)eutschland.
        And when the website sucks (looking at you Microsoft), it’s Deutschland, but placed in the list at G.

        • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
          5·
          1 month ago

          Or (A)llemagne, (N)iemcy, (T)yskland, (S)aksa, (V)asija (you won’t encounter the last two unless you use a website in Finnish or Estonian, however the first three are used in numerous countries including Germany’s neighbors).
          The lists are occasionally auto-translated, sometimes I see “🇹🇷 Truthahn”.

          • LorIps@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 month ago

            In my case it’s either (A)ustria, (Ö)sterreich (listed as O), or (Ö)sterreich (listed after Z)

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
      15·
      1 month 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
      6·
      1 month ago

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

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    22·
    1 month 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.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      I imagine the Australian embassy in Vienna already has forms to handle the situation, and so does the Austrian one in Canberra.

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Congratulations, you triggered a filter search…

        Antigua and Barbuda
        Bangladesh
        Barbados
        Bosnia and Herzegovina
        Cabo Verde
        Cambodia
        Canada
        Chad
        Congo, Democratic Republic of the
        Cote d’Ivoire
        Denmark
        Djibouti
        Dominica
        Dominican Republic
        El Salvador
        ⋮

        This happens so often I instinctively press ⌫, C, Z when I see this specific list.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
      1·
      1 month ago

      On a computer, that’s easy. On a phone, not so much, especially if the field lacks anything that will bring up the keyboard

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    1 month 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.

  • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
    101·
    1 month ago

    I don’t think I saw this mentioned but you’re are all aware that you can press “U” and it will select United States, right ?

  • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.club
    7·
    1 month ago

    Do you know what the worst thing about being from Antarctica is? Those country lists rarely include it. Penguins should invade and conquer the world, for the greatness of the Penguin Country.🐧🇦🇶

  • lath@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 month ago

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

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 month 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.)

    • TeNppa@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      1 month ago

      Also some places have option “Finland” and some have “Suomi” and it should never be “Suomi” unless it’s a Finnish site IMO.

      • umbraroze@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        Also some sites ask for email addresses.

        I give them my .fi address.

        The sites then go “did you mean .fr?”

        And I’m like “No actually I’m in Finland. It’s a whole different country. Don’t get me wrong, I love the French, great country. I love our EU brothers and sisters and enbypals. Just don’t buy a nuclear reactor from them.”

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 month 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.