{"id":1392,"date":"2006-02-07T15:39:49","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T15:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/02\/select_your_cou\/"},"modified":"2006-02-07T15:39:49","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T15:39:49","slug":"select_your_cou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/select_your_cou\/","title":{"rendered":"Select Your Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there’s one thing that annoys me on when you’re filling out forms on the internet, it’s those drop down boxes where you choose a country, and they always helpfully put United States of America at the top before Afghanistan and the rest. The implicit message is “USA gets to the top of the list, everybody else can just scroll.”
\nWith us Brits, there’s the added confusion of seeing how they’ve listed our country. Is it “United Kingdom” or “Great Britain”? Perhaps it’s just “Britain” or even “England”. It’s a fun game.
\nAnyway, this<\/a> is possibly the best Select Your Country dropdown I’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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