Slugger O’Toole tells the story of an Irish citizen who tried, and failed, to use the web site of the French national train company SNCF to pay for a ticket. The problem: Ireland is absent from the list of pre-defined country names on the address form of the payment site. Asked about this, the SNCF answers that Ireland is part of Great Britain…
To be fair, in my experience the French tend to be reasonably good at geography. Still…
Via Crooked Timber.
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