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21.7.2008

Field required: Choose State

Tags: Uncategorized — Author: @ 12:00 pm

Don’t you hate it when you’re signing up for something online and you’re REQUIRED to “Choose State”!? Grrr!!! It makes me embarrassed to be an American knowing my fellow countrymen/web developers never thought that someone outside the U.S. would visit their site.

When forced to choose, I always choose Alabama. Not only because it’s laziest choice at the top of the list, but because I think it’s the closest state to Finland. Geographically speaking.

  • ijusten

    To be fair, the next field seems to be the country.

    It is bad enough that they ask the state before they remember to ask about country, but they did remember to get that far, eventually.. and usually the content of the state disappears/is replaced by something saner.

  • http://www.finlandforthought.net Phil

    To be fair, the next field seems to be the country.

    Hehe, yeah that pic is a bad example. I discovered later that if you choose the country (it’s for AppleID signup), the state is no longer required. But there’s a million other sites I’ve visited that forced me to choose Alabama.

  • James

    “When forced to choose, I always choose Alabama. Not only because it’s laziest choice at the top of the list, but because I think it’s the closest state to Finland. Geographically speaking.”

    Ha ha, that’s hilarious! Are you intentionally fuelling the stereotype that Americans are bad at geography? Maine is the closer to Finland than Alabama.

    http://maps.google.com

  • Keksi

    Yeah, I hate the fucking State -field. “I live in the welfare state, not listed here :P ” Especially if you receive mail because of your registration. Like last time the final two rows of the address were “Espoo, Arizona, Finland”. Too bad the weather is still consistent with our Nordic climate :)

  • http://fredfryinternational.blogspot.com Fred Fry

    I once got mail that was addressed Helsinki, NY with no country mentioned. Still wondering how the post office managed that one.

  • Hank W.

    How bout “Armed Forces Europe”

  • http://www.finlandforthought.net Phil

    You ever had to put in your Finnish Zip Code, and it tells you that you live in Massachusetts? Looks like some bumfuck town in Mass. shares the same zip as me.

  • infinndel the jenkki dogg

    HEY NOW!!!….Watch what you say about Massachusetts…
    Massachusetts is known as ‘TAXACHUSETTS’by us
    Finnish-AmeriKKKans.Others may call our state the “State -of-Confusion” …..but it is not on your menu….SATANA!! ;-)

  • http://www.finlandforthought.net Phil

    HEY NOW!!!….Watch what you say about Massachusetts…

    I heard that Massachusetts drivers are known as “Mass-holes”! LOL!

  • http://www.finlandforthought.net Phil

    How bout “Armed Forces Europe”

    I think that state is exclusively reserved for Chuck Norris.

  • infinndel the jenkki dogg

    In mASSa-two-shits,every time you get in your vehicle,you take your
    chances that some maroon will blindly destroy you and others in the traffic mess that is known as BOSTON and it’s surroundgs..In the countryside a moose or deer or idiot cyclist will cause your car insurance rate to sky rocket!

  • Hank W.

    Is “Armed Forces Pacific” then Steven Seagull?

  • Anonymous

    Phil, don’t you live in Espoo? Yuck! And you talk about bumfuck places to live. I know it had it affulent parts but so does everywhere. I’ve been coming to this country for six years now and traveled (I would bet) more than you all over Finland. How much more of a hick country could this one be? I recently came back from Berlin and upon arriving in Helsinki it seems like the Finns have been put on some form of social/physical regression. I’m really glad you chose this country to be your home. You fit right in. Go Towson Tigers! Don’t ever be a traitor, you’re marked.

    PS. Man, I hate when I log onto a Finnish website and the whole thing is in FINNISH. you retard!!

  • Anonymous

    @13

    Berlin is a piece of shit full of garbage and graffiti So you think the Finns are regressed, well then the Germans are wound tighter than a transformer.

    Go back to Germany, troll

  • Julian Morrow

    I would have thought Finland was more like Wisconsin. But that would involve a lot of scrolling, I suppose.

  • John

    Sounds like you don’t get out of the city much. Not much spruce growing in Alabama. Not many schist outcrops, not much soapstone.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKiWmxD5X9s evil cat

    Hi author! Can I, use pictures from your blog for my school research work??

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