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People entering their PIN number

  • 26-06-2014 11:45pm
    #1
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭


    Do you ever look when people are entering their pin at a shop checkout?

    Did you buy the local paper, cigarettes and a couple of other things this evening around 9.30 and is your PIN 1397, I was the shifty looking bloke behind you.


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  • #2
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Don't be a scumbag OP and look!


    Hehe... :pac:


  • #3
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Senna wrote: »
    Do you ever look when people are entering their pin at a shop checkout?

    Did you buy the local paper, cigarettes and a couple of other things this evening around 9.30 and is your PIN 1397, I was the shifty looking bloke behind you.

    I would say a lot of people have the PIN 1397, it's just the outer corners in an anti clockwise direction so it's easy to remember.


  • #4
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    I would say a lot of people have the PIN 1397, it's just the outer corners in a clockwise direction so it's easy to remember.

    What way do your clocks run backwards boy?


  • #5
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    I would say a lot of people have the PIN 1397, it's just the outer corners in a clockwise direction so it's easy to remember.

    Easy to see too.
    I'm going to start looking at everyone's pin while they enter it and start commenting:
    That's a good one
    Is that the year you were born
    You won't forget that one anyway


  • #6
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    What way do your clocks run backwards boy?

    That's the direction clocks turn in.

    That's why it's called Clockwise! :pac:


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  • #7
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    What way do your clocks run backwards boy?

    Was thinking of a phone keypad in my head when typing it :o


  • #8
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Op you a facking feef or summit ??

    Too many feeves out there.


  • #9
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    why don't people just over their pins though, it's not that hard like


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's annoys me that you have PIN Number in the thread. The same way people enter their PIN Number into the ATM Machine.

    In essence, you're putting your Personal Identity Number Number into the Automated Teller Machine Machine.


  • #11
    waraf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭waraf


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Was thinking of a phone keypad in my head when typing it :o

    still clockwise


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  • #12
    rotun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 303 ✭✭rotun


    Omackeral wrote: »
    It's annoys me that you have PIN Number in the thread. The same way people enter their PIN Number into the ATM Machine.

    In essence, you're putting your Personal Identity Number Number into the Automated Teller Machine Machine.

    What's annoying about it? The P.I.N. Number acronym has become a word in it's own right by now.. pin number rolls off the tongue easier than just pin.. feels like there's something missing when used in a sentence


  • #13
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Senna wrote: »
    Easy to see too.
    I'm going to start looking at everyone's pin while they enter it and start commenting:
    That's a good one
    Is that the year you were born
    You won't forget that one anyway

    What about 1994 - the year you died.


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    rotun wrote: »
    What's annoying about it? The P.I.N. Number acronym has become a word in it's own right by now.. pin number rolls off the tongue easier than just pin.. feels like there's something missing when used in a sentence

    It's redundant. The N negates the need for saying Number. "Please enter your PIN". Sounds alright to me.

    Also, 'Selfie' is a word now so I wouldn't take popular usage as the barometer for intelligent linguistics.


  • #15
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Omackeral wrote: »
    It's redundant. The N negates the need for saying Number. "Please enter your PIN". Sounds alright to me.

    Also, 'Selfie' is a word now so I wouldn't take popular usage as the barometer for intelligent linguistics.

    what about Canadians?

    myself eh?


  • #16
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,787 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Omackeral wrote: »
    It's annoys me that you have PIN Number in the thread. The same way people enter their PIN Number into the ATM Machine.

    In essence, you're putting your Personal Identity Number Number into the Automated Teller Machine Machine.

    Pleonasms!!!!!!


  • #17
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,201 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Omackeral wrote: »
    It's redundant. The N negates the need for saying Number. "Please enter your PIN". Sounds alright to me.

    Yep, it certainly makes more sense than Allied Irish Bank Bank!
    Also, 'Selfie' is a word now so I wouldn't take popular usage as the barometer for intelligent linguistics.

    I genuinely think that stuff like Facebook is affecting intelligence. People who I grew up with and would have considered copped-on and intelligent seem to have regressed mentally if their Facebook updates are anything to go by.

    Ditto grown adults using txt-spk beyond maybe things like "u", "lol" etc. I'm talking entire sentences looking as if they were encrypted! :rolleyes:


  • #18
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    rotun wrote: »
    What's annoying about it? The P.I.N. Number acronym has become a word in it's own right by now.. pin number rolls off the tongue easier than just pin.. feels like there's something missing when used in a sentence

    No, it doesn't roll off the tongue. "Enter your PIN in the ATM" runs much more smoothly. Adding redundant words never leads to a fluid sentence. I find most people just say PIN without adding the superfluous "number".


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