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I was in the UK recently and - if you can believe it - there was a car on the block I stayed whose plates contained 666. Also, have a feelin you meant to do 13
by lelandfe 5y ago
I was in the UK recently and - if you can believe it - there was a car on the block I stayed whose plates contained 666.
Also, have a feelin you meant to do 1312. What’s the issue with 4444, though?
- DocTomoe 5y agoIn Germany, where you can request number plate combinations (as long as they are free and follow a few roles), 666 is a pretty common combination amongst young drivers. > What’s the issue with 4444 4 is pronounced similar to "death" in sino-japanese languages and dialects.
- exar0815 5y agoAlso, as you have the muncipality-shortcut at the beginning, and then two user-definable letters, you freqently see "rude" combinations, and noone bats an eye. BIT-CH, MON-GO, ANA-L, DIL-DO. (And those are just the combinations that are understandable in english which I saw when driving). I'll never forget the face of the guy at the Zulassungsstelle when I was there with a friend who wanted COC-K-6969. He got it it, btw. When I tried some years later, AC-DC-666 sadly was already taken.
- teddyh 5y ago> What’s the issue with 4444, though? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia
- lelandfe 5y agoWoah, had no idea! > When Beijing lost its bid to stage the 2000 Olympic Games, it was speculated that the reason China did not pursue a bid for the following 2004 Games was due to the unpopularity of the number 4 in China. Instead, the city waited another four years, and would eventually host the 2008 Olympic Games, the number eight being a lucky number in Chinese culture. Thought this was particularly interesting.
- nicoburns 5y agoWhat’s the issue with 1312?
- baud147258 5y agoit spells ACAB if you match each number with the letter in the alphabet at this index (I realized that after seeing a bunch of 1312 tags around where I live)
- thaumasiotes 5y agoWhat's the issue with ACAB?
- wasmitnetzen 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAB
- tsimionescu 5y agoPeople explained 4444, with 1313 I was thinking of the equivalent for superstitious westerners afraid of the number 13.