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by encom 2200 days ago
As long as we're ranting about stupid form design.

Dear everyone: Denmark does NOT have states. Literally dozens of times have I encountered a form that absolutely requires that I input something in the state field before they will ship my stuff. A sufficiently motivated individual could traverse the major landmasses of Denmark by bicycle in about a day[0], we don't need no damn states.

I usually put in "NULL" for state, and hope something breaks.

[0] https://map.krak.dk/m/oNdAL

2 comments

Also, addresses in the country of Singapore do not have cities...

(Also, nowhere in the world except the US has "zip codes", and about 60 countries don't even have an equivalent postal code at all...)

> A sufficiently motivated individual could traverse the major landmasses of Denmark by bicycle in about a day[0], we don't need no damn states.

Well, that hasn't stopped similarly-sized Switzerland with 26 cantons. ;)

But, the cantons existed before there was a Switzerland. There's a reason its official name is "Confoederatio Helvetica." ;)