Just found out in 40s

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My NI number starts with my initials. So I assumed everyone’s did. Just found out it’s a weird coincidence.
What random thing have you recently discovered too?!

@Ekofisk l briefly worked for the Inland Revenue in another life. I seem to remember being told the A was for people born in April, May and June. B for July, August and September. C for October, November and December. D for January, February and March.

Isn’t it referencing town of birth? (The first couple of letters). Mine is.

Mine doesn't, however the two of the numbers are my birth date, one is my house number growing up, the initial is my dad's, the letters at the start is my siblings birth month...so it was really easy to remember and I can reel it off without having to locate a payslip. (Had a proper card when I first got it but that got lost years ago!)

There you go:

ninoapplication.com/letters-in-my-ni-number/

I know iPhones haven’t been around for a long time, but I was today years old when I found out that I can tap the Share icon (the square with an arrow pointing out) at the bottom of the screen. Scroll past the Share options to the Action menu and select Find on Page. Type the word or phrase you're looking for in the search field and tap Search. 😯 I look up a lot of genealogy records on my phone and this will save me so much time.
I did know I can shake it to delete text and shake again to put it back.

@MegaCityOne

I know iPhones haven’t been around for a long time, but I was today years old when I found out that I can tap the Share icon (the square with an arrow pointing out) at the bottom of the screen. Scroll past the Share options to the Action menu and select Find on Page. Type the word or phrase you're looking for in the search field and tap Search. 😯 I look up a lot of genealogy records on my phone and this will save me so much time. I did know I can shake it to delete text and shake again to put it back.

Don’t want to devastate you too much after your find but it’s quicker and easier on an iPhone to just type the word or phrase you’re looking for in the search bar at the top and select “on this page” - same result :)

@MargeGoesBowling

Why is nobody reading what the OP actually said?

😂 This is exactly what I thought

I’m just sitting over here in Aus being all jealous of how you only seem to need 1 number in the UK all over again. I remember being amazed it was the same one for (seemingly??) everything when I lived over there. We have one for tax, one for doctors/medicines and another one for benefits (unemployment/student allowance/mat leave/childcare/disability etc).

Oh and a 4th to log in online and access all of those services.

@Greygreenblue

I’m just sitting over here in Aus being all jealous of how you only seem to need 1 number in the UK all over again. I remember being amazed it was the same one for (seemingly??) everything when I lived over there. We have one for tax, one for doctors/medicines and another one for benefits (unemployment/student allowance/mat leave/childcare/disability etc).

Oh and a 4th to log in online and access all of those services.

You need an NHS number for some things, but yes, the miracle that is the NI number is a lesson for bureaucracy.

Like many of my generation I know my NI number off by heart. Do I know my Medicare or Tax File Number by heart ? Nah.

@rosy71

Mine is almost exactly the same as dp's, which is really weird.

So is mine! We obviously weren’t together when we received our national insurance numbers and there’s an 8 year age gap, so when he receives his, I was 8 🤯 all of our letters are the same and only 2 numbers are different.

@LittleMissnotLittleMrs

Being driven to Clatterbridge, found out it’s Wirral, not The Wirral!

Both 'The' and 'Peninsula' may be silent but they're always implied.

My MIL only found out in her late 60's that French stick wasn't French dick.!!!
She must have been calling it that for years until I happened to hear her ask for it in a bakers one day

I can't think of any weird coincidences, but I did read the question.

My NI number also starts with my initials.

*I have just found out that the percentage on weather apps is the amount of area that will have rain, not the percentage of chance of rain 🙈

Wow I never knew that! I thought the same*

It’s not! It’s the % chance of rain. Trust me, I work with the Met Office.

I agree with @awaywiththefae, certainly for the expression of Met Office data. I also work with the Met Office.

[quote EL8888]@Ekofisk l briefly worked for the Inland Revenue in another life. I seem to remember being told the A was for people born in April, May and June. B for July, August and September. C for October, November and December. D for January, February and March.[/quote]
I was born in May, only child, and have C. DP was born in October and has A (he's also a younger sibling matching the "criteria" upthread, so now very curious about his older sibling's NI number!)

Oh my goodness. Mine is my mums maiden name initials! I didn't realise.

I got divorced the house was sold. My exh new address and my new address add up to the number of the house. Find that a bit odd.

Mine starts with my initials! I thought it was a thing! 😂

Sorry @Sarcobaleno and @LemonRedwood, I did answer it in a post a few down from mine!

It means the item (I assume plastic usually?) is made of a food-grade substance i.e. it's a container that's safe to come into contact with food.

[quote EL8888]@Ekofisk l briefly worked for the Inland Revenue in another life. I seem to remember being told the A was for people born in April, May and June. B for July, August and September. C for October, November and December. D for January, February and March.[/quote]
I’m an April birthday but I’m a C, so I don’t fit that model, although maybe it started off that way and then it just went random when things got computerised?

@CommanderBurnham

It's the driving licence one that gets me. My DOB but not quite. Is it supposed to be that way, or coincidence?

There used to be a thing going round that the person's age could be worked out as some of the numbers in the driving licence number are their year of birth. But mine is off as well.

@starfishmummy your driving licence will be www.drivercheck.co.uk/photocard-driving-licence-explained/
It does include your date of birth.

You didn't realise before that practically no one else's does?

There used to be a thing going round that the person's age could be worked out as some of the numbers in the driving licence number are their year of birth. But mine is off as well.

Are you sure?

My UK licence number definitely includes the day/month/year of my birth, with the extra 5 for being female:

Driving licence number format explained.

JONES – Displaying first five letters of your surname. If surname is less than five characters in length, the remaining spaces will comprise of the digit 9.

849339 – First and last numbers are the year of birth. Second and third numbers are month of birth. (Note: in the case of female driving licence holders, ‘5’ is added to the second digit, this means that the second digit will be 5 or 6). The fourth and fifth digits are the day of the month of your birth.

TS – The first two initials of your forenames. If you have only one initial then the second character will be a ‘9’.

8AD – Computer check digits.

** – Licence numbers

www.drivercheck.co.uk/photocard-driving-licence-explained/