PIN number
Enter your PIN number....

No, it's not a PIN number, it's a PIN. The 'N' stands for number, as in Personal Identification Number.

Same at work - EIN number, even though EIN stands for Employee Identification Number.

If you say PIN number then I hate you.
(spazmataz mong-a-long-a-ding-dong, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:33, 17 replies)

there's a name for that
RAS Syndrome or Redundant Acronym Syndrome Syndrome
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:34, closed)

I was about to say the OP's post was brilliant
but this is FUCKING brilliant.
(TheColonel, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 16:23, closed)

Liquid Crystal
LCD Display
( real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:36, closed)

Just wait until you hear 'personal PIN number'. Gnnnn
When writing I just write PIN, but when speaking I say 'PID number', which I think is an acceptable compromise. The dumb fucks who say 'PIN number' won't notice, and anyone who tells me off for saying 'PIN number' is met with a smug explanation of how I did not in fact say 'PIN number' and therefore was not in fact wrong.
( Bob Todd whee, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:36, closed)

pain
I feel your pain. They're all twats.
(spazmataz mong-a-long-a-ding-dong, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 16:11, closed)

Can I start saying 'PI number'?
(Treacle Cock, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:38, closed)

Yep, but in 3.14159265 minutes

( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:39, closed)

3.141592654
I knew I should have kept my PI number more secure.
(Treacle Cock, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:48, closed)

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
if you'd like to have a 50 digit PIN
( lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 16:00, closed)

That really would wind them up in the queue at Tesco.
(Treacle Cock, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 16:05, closed)

I think the introduction of
the 'Chip and Pin' system is beginning to educate people over this.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 16:17, closed)

Or not?
Surely the very fact that "chip and pin" requires a pin means that it's worse than when you mainly had a signature?
(spazmataz mong-a-long-a-ding-dong, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 21:44, closed)

I don't see how.
Everyone can see your signature, so anyone can copy it. Your PIN is only in your head. And the chip is just a wee data storage thing. You only need to enter your PIN; you don't need to do anything with the chip.
( Bob Todd whee, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 23:30, closed)

Mix up
No, I meant signature was better for the phrase "PIN number" as PINs were used less. The fact that we now have "chip and pin" means that more people ask us to type in our PIN number, which makes them a cunt. Ask me to type in my PIN however and I shall be all smiles with you.
(spazmataz mong-a-long-a-ding-dong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 11:14, closed)

I have to enter my PIN number
every time I use an ATM machine.
However, when I use internet banking, sometimes my bank will send me an SMS message to confirm the transaction.


Redundancy irritates me.
(teff, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:05, closed)

Working on an IT Helpdesk for an ISP...
I get this every day with people asking for their MAC (Migration Access Code) Code. Never fails to irritate me.

What makes it worse is that a site supposed to give advice on such matters not only includes this phrase in their content, but it's also their bloody URL! You can also find examples of this all over the 'top' ISP websites.

Luckily I have a major say in the content on my employers website in relation to such things and, as such, I am able to have a sense of self satisfaction that I am educating the unwashed few that choose to visit us.
(KangerooFlapjack, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 12:12, closed)

I salute you

(spazmataz mong-a-long-a-ding-dong, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 9:04, closed)