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by goodmythical 101 days ago
yeah the standard country dropdown is basically a scrollathon from hell and nobody wants to play "find the united kingdom" when they're just trying to buy some socks real quick
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It's a mess. Do I look in the list of frequently-selected countries and hope to find that we're still in there? Or look for UK? United Kingdom? Great Britain?

I've been foxed before in American forms where I'm forced to select UK but it shows up as GB, even though there is no GB in the list! Every time I come to fill out the form I look at what I did last year and go through the same anti-pattern.