Shades Of A 018
People outside the UK, you know what chip and pin is right?
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I’m from America, either I’m just a little too young, or I’m blissfully ignorant, but I don’t know what a chip and pin is. Lol
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If you’re old enough to be engaged i’m sure you have a PIN number : )
personal identification number number, and automatic teller machine machine. we’re so redundant in this country :3
That’s the best post I’ve read all day, anywhere. :3
Beat you to that one by 33 minutes : P That IS what we say though, ridiculous though it may be!
Well we say pin number in the USA too- but what’s a chip?
Are you talking about the chip that you have in bank cards here? Because we usually don’t have them in the USA.
I’m Dutch, and I know! I think it might be a European thing, but I dunno. Never been outside of Europe. I know the countries around me have it, though.
Also, I do love that beard ♥
They call them “smartcards” here. I had to look it up. They’re not super popular here yet, but there are a number of places that use them.
And btw, USA here, but also from a very small town. I’ve seen them around still, in bigger cities.
I’m from South Africa and almost all stores where I live use the same system. :) all new bank cards have chips in them.
I’m not exactly sure about chip, but I know what a pin is which leads me to believe that a chip works something like a debit card, if that is not precisely what it is in the Queen’s English.
From the USA, I also had never heard of that term. When I looked it up, I went “oh, smartcards!” Same concept, different name, but when you say “enter your pin” that pretty standard at grocery stores. Americans wouldn’t have questioned that, since debit cards and smartcards also request a pin.
I know what a chip and pin is, but only because I have lived out side of the US. America is still pretty ass backwards. But I will say that the system variety in Canada was like an IQ test.
Canada is pretty much on the chip and PIN system for all credit cards now, though there’s a few older card reader machines around that still insist on swiping.
Also, in the early days, when I was a clerk at a hardware store, I accidentally found a way to bypass the chip and go to swipe. If you put the card in BACKWARDS first, it’ll prompt you to reinsert or swipe, assuming something went wrong with the chip, and it’ll let you put it through as a swipe card.
Probably a HORRIBLE security flaw, and I don’t know if they’ve since fixed it, but we at the hardware store never used it for evil, at least, mostly using it to skip a step with elderly customers who were having trouble remembering their PINs and grouching about this stupid newfangled system and what’s WRONG with a signature, should be good enough for anybody, grump grump.
I used to work at a grocery store (also in Canada) and we could do the same thing with our chip readers.
Over here in Sweden we can also swipe if the chip doesn’t work, but it’ll still ask for PIN. Needs to be set up that way I think, in order for you to be able to use the card when the chip might be broken.
/falls over self because I ABSOLUTELY LOVE CHRIS AND ANWAR SO MUCH
I’ve lived in Canada and the US and can confirm that we do say “enter your PIN number” in both places. As for the chip, we’ve switched to that system in Canada, but it wasn’t well known in the US when I left there (probably getting more popular now, it’s been a few years). The word PIN is definitely safe to use though.
And yes before anyone points it out, I’m aware that saying “PIN number” is ridiculously redundant ; )
I’m rather embarrassed to say that I only know what it is because of BBC Sherlock. >_>
Don’t be embarrassed over that! Cultural osmosis is a wonderful thing!
British here, but I’ve spent all my life watching American TV shows and Japanese anime.
Also, he’s just given our Anwar his number, and all we’re talking about is PIN and chip?
Significant plot point is significant, people!
Shhhhhh it’s for JD! If something like that is going to happen, I don’t want it to move QUITE so quickly, Anwar needs to be courted, the shy little darling! >:3 Mind you he’s also supposedly asexual, so I don’t know if forcing that idea would be cute.. or if it would just be offensive. lol
He’s asexual, but is he aromantic? If not, he may very much want to be courted.
This. I had wondered about that. Although I feel like at this moment he’s not looking for a relationship, just a biiiig hunch. But we shall see!
Mmm true… who knows where this shall lead. Either way, if he is going to be courted, it has to be done romantically! >:/
I love my chip cards! The tap functionality on some terminals is great, especially when I’m filling up my scooter and want to leave the gas station quickly.
I’m Canadian, btw.
I’m from Australia and we’ve got the chip system, as well as the paywave/paypass system, so it made perfect sense from here haha.
Oh also, Chris is adorable. <3
In the US, debit cards use PINs, but we don’t have chips in our cards (yet?). I know what they are, though, because I lived in Canada for a while.
How does the machine know what the correct PIN is without the chip? Or is it just not called a chip? I’m confused.
Something about this whole interactions seems off to me. Perhaps I’m jumping at shadows, but my creepy feels just went off the charts. O_o
Australian, and we have PINs. Never heard the term chip used colloquially, but I assume it’s referring to the RFID chips found in cards and toll tags.
UK-dwelling New Zealander here: Chip and PIN is the way EFTPOS was branded in the UK; in the furthest antipodes it tends to be called by its ‘generic’ name, which stands for electronic funds transfer at point of sale.
A bank once sent me a letter containing my “Personal PIN number”. Which took it up to whole new levels of redundancy. I’m still waiting to be asked for my personal PIN identification number…
*giggles* It’s ridiculous, really…
Canadian here, we have pins, but we call it debit or interact.
*groans loudly* Oh god, not the photo shoot scene…tell me at least they won’t do some Hollywood dip in the street. *groans more*
In Canada I would say that the majority of people have chips and pins for their debit and credit cards. It’s pretty standard now. Surprised people haven’t heard about this!
Something kept bugging me about the way this conversation ended, and I finally figured out what. When, exactly, did JD talk directly to Chris without Anwar present during that evening? The implication was that Anwar and Chris (and the others who joined for Dr. Who talk) pretty much talked non-stop until JD came back to say it was late and time to go.
It might just be an excuse to give Anwar his number.
Probably, but it’s altering my impression of Anwar. I would not expect him to be the pursuer, yet in the last frame we get the impression he knows the number is for him rather than casual acceptance it is for JD and the plan to pass it along without thinking twice about it. Nor would I expect him to be at all impressed by a direct play for him that used deception (a “white lie” that JD wanted the number) — something that would become obvious the moment he gave the number to JD.
About the only other idea I had is that Chris and JD have talked at a previous meeting or on FetLife, but in that scenario there is no need to have Anwar involved in passing along information at all, thus coming back to a deception. =/ Well, we’ll just have to wait and see how it plays out.
I think you might be over-analyzing this! For all we know, JD and Chris could have talked about it right in front of Anwar and we just weren’t shown that part of the conversation. Maybe Chris really does want his number passed along to JD, but is also using it as an excuse to make his phone number available to Anwar?
Either way, we will just have to wait and see. :)
I’m in Canada, and we definitely have the chips and pins for our debit and credit cards.
“I had a row in a shop with a chip and pin machine!”
Kayley was sad because she didn’t have chip and pin.
TRiG.