• Lord Wiggle
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    07 days ago

    Commodore and Admiral are a higher rank.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      67 days ago

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

        • Flying SquidOPM
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          17 days ago

          I am turning down the commission! It doesn’t sound as cool!

          • Darth_Mew
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            37 days ago

            as any other officer rank youd already be commissioned

  • @[email protected]
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    7 days 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:

  • Sibbo
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    367 days ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 days 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.)

  • @over_clox
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    107 days ago

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

    • @toynbee
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      17 days ago

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

    • go $fsck yourself
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      167 days ago

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

  • @remer
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    87 days ago

    As a viceroy, I am highly offended.

  • @thesohoriots
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    77 days ago

    I’ll take Intentionally Blank for 400, Alex

  • Ziglin (they/them)
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    67 days ago

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

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      57 days ago

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

  • @wjrii
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    67 days ago

    LEFF-TENANT COMMODORE, I presume.

      • @wjrii
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        37 days 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.

  • @Masamune
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    67 days ago

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

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    57 days 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.

  • pewpew
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    37 days ago

    I thought that was a password selection combo box