[tsimionescu]

> Or simply omit all alphas and use only numerics.

You're still not out of the park with numerics - people with 1313 or 6660 or 4444 or something will complain a lot. The possibility of a 666 in some new biometric government IDs in my country rose a massive stink from church...

[Kaotique]

My girlfriend got a new bank account and when she received her account number it contained 666. She asked for a different number and they changed it without charge.

[ademarre]

> biometric government IDs

Yeah. An important, long-lived ID that will stick with an individual for their entire life, and that they may want to commit to memory. That seems like a good time to take a hypersensitive approach and adopt some kind of filter.

[lelandfe]

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?

[teddyh]

> What’s the issue with 4444, though?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia

[lelandfe]

Woah, 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.

[DocTomoe]

In 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]

Also, 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.

[tsimionescu]

People explained 4444, with 1313 I was thinking of the equivalent for superstitious westerners afraid of the number 13.

[nicoburns]

What’s the issue with 1312?

[baud147258]

it 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]

What's the issue with ACAB?

[wasmitnetzen]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAB