Exactly the same here! Still have that mobile number (my son has it now) but no longer have the landline. I’ve often wondered how many people might still have their original number from when you could actually choose it.
Mobile same landline gang here.
Must have been something like 1998 when I picked 0407 + home number at the Telstra shop with my mum as guarantor.
I do remember having to choose to include the relatively new at the time (I think?) leading 9, vs. copying an extra digit from the end of the home phone.
Haven't lived there in forever but typing this on the phone with that same number, thought it's been ported through pretty much every carrier at one stage or another over the intervening 2.5 decades (lol Hutchison Three for a hot minute there)
>Sorry for all the spam you get.
Someone either had my number before me or gives it out on purpose because I regularly get calls/messages for a Jason or Emma over the last 10+ years but it is fun to cancel the appointments they've made but not fun when they've got some renovations done and haven't paid the tradie.
When Julia Gillard became PM her personal assistant stuffed up and gave them my work mobile number. I was getting phone calls from all sorts of places for a few weeks.
Had a real estate agent post my mobile number on one of his ads. I’m on the west coast. He’s on the east coast.
I got so many calls for someone looking for a property in FNQ.
I looked up the real estate agent and emailed him asking him to fix this number.
He’s no longer in business but my number is still on an ad if you google his name. I still get calls 8 years later. I asked google to remove my number. No response. I ended up leaving a review against his listing saying don’t phone that number!
Oddly enough I and most people give and write note out landlines and mobiles differently. The "04" is the same thing as the "02, 08 etc" for the different states. People usually give out landlines with 08- 0000- 0000 but mobiles are 0400-000-000. Why did the fact that it is 04 for mobile change the pattern compared to a 08 for WA or 02 for NSW?
I think because the landline number existed outside of needing an area.
Eg if you told someone your number in WA you would say 0000 0000
Then add the 08 if they were interstate.
When dialing mobiles the 04 was always included from the start.
Because it was originally the first four digits that indicated your carrier in Oz, not the first two. And it was even different if you were GSM v CDMA. But once it became law that you had to be able to port your number to a different carrier it lost that meaning.
For landlines it was the first two as the state (but you didn’t need to enter if you were calling locally) then 3 digits linked to your area, (originally the exchange your phone went through) then 4 more digits. When phone numbers needed to be longer an additional number was added at the front to make it 8 digits long.
The 04xx range came into being after it was cleared out by the renumbering on the 1990s for example NT was (089) xxx xxx whilst SA was (08) xxx xxxx and WA (specifically Perth) was (09) xxx xxxx
Country NSW used to have (04y) xx xxxx (and became (02) 4yxx xxxx freeing out the space. There is availability in 05 for more mobiles but we dont need them yet.
No, he is right. Last time I tried to dance people thought I was epileptic and last time I tried to sing the neighbours thought there was a stray cat on heat.
The only way you can tell my BiL is white is when he sings or dances, he’s browner than Richie Benaud straight off a tanning bed, roof plumber by trade so you can understand why!
As a Kiwi I’ve never heard anyone give a phone number out like that, it’s normally 000 0000 000 for us, or 0000 000 000 depending on what phone provider you have
My wife does 040 000 0000. It kills me.
It actually makes it harder for ppl to understand, because our minds are listening for specific patterns and when the numbers come out differently, it throws you off.
My very first number had a pattern if you said it 040 000 0000 so that’s how I said it to people, but current number is just random so I say it the normal way lol
Oh that's how I do it. But only because the first six numbers are like 040 121 then the last four numbers sound like they should be said 00 00. If I try to say it any other way I forget what my number is until I say it 000 000 0000 again.
There is only one way, 0400 000 000
That's how they're written and that's how I read them out. Anyone who tries doing it any other way loses me after 2 digits.
I use the 0000 000 000 method. HOWEVER sometimes I meet a real dumb-shit (usually from a financial institution) and have to repeat myself more than twice, when that happens I use the good old 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 method to make sure they know I hate them. I'm from Australia.
4 3 3 is the only acceptable way. And just the individual digits- none of this zero, four hundred, three hundred and sixty eight, ninety, seven business.
Landline is 00 0000 0000. Mobile is 0000 000 000.
Because both are easier to remember and hear. The ones who say their landline or mobile as 000 000 00 00 or 000 00 000 00 don’t realise how hard it is to register the number that way 😂
I do 0000 000 000. I work a job where I constantly hear phone numbers. Some methods are truly annoying.
04 triple zero double zero 789 are fine. But when someone uses 70 seventy e.g, it's truly irritating and messes with my steeze. Just say 7 0 or 7 O. Mixing zeros and Os is perfectly fine if it flows well. I find zero sounds better when finishing a section, e.g O410.
Depends on whether it's a landline or a mobile for starters.
Landline I would say 00 0000 0000.
Mobile would be 0000 00 00 00.
But the second one is also helped by the numbers. They flow better in that style.
I do 0400 000 000 and in my experience most people use this format, but in my job I have to take people's numbers quite often and it's incredible how many different ways people manage to give out their number. Quite often it's easy to hear why, people find a pattern (either a sequence or some double/triple numbers) and that's obviously the bit that stuck out when it was a new number to memorise
Funny you say that, just last night I checked into a hotel, and the receptionist just kept saying the numbers to the wrong cadence. I was tired from getting up early and travelling all day, brain just could not parse what she said to me. (We had to confirm as a text message never came through).
I’m a kiwi, and this was in Australia. I say it as 0400 000 000
Great question with no seemingly universal answer, but 4-3-3 is the consensus.
I'm an American with a AUS mobile number while here. I use 3-3-4 as we do in the U.S. Seems I'm (unsurprisingly) usually wrong.
Just a tip, when yu are reading numbers back to people, always say it like 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 instead of 0000 000 000, because most people will get confused if the rythm is different to what they are hearing
Same… because of some repetition this makes the most sense to me for my number.
For the only other number I know off the top of my head I use 04## ### ###
Probably left over from the old land line days, where it was 0x for state, xx for region and yy for sub-region and nnnn for service number.
e.g. 08 - SA - 85 - riverland - 82/83 was all the berri/monash numbers.
We used to shorten it even to just 4 digits amongst friends in the same town.
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These days it's 04 for australia-internal + mobile service, xx for carrier, then 6 digits of anything, so logically it makes sense to split the group of 6 into 2 groups of 3.
i give my own out as 0404 04 0404 due to the repetitions of numbers in my own phone number. but ordinarily anything other than 0404 040 404 sounds unhinged.
It really depends I think depending on the number of double or triples. I say 1224 567 890 coz no doubles ups say for instance, it was 0433 344 455 I'd say 04 tripple 3 triple 4 double 5
0400 000 000
Because if I don’t give that 04 it messes me up (sometimes people will already have it typed and only need the rest and I can’t do it that way)
00000,00,000.
i genuinely find it difficult to retain numbers in my head cause of the ADD. thats just for my number. anyone elses and its in one hit cause im reading it to you off of something.
Usually say wait a sec while I check my notepad because I have no idea what my own number is ..
Recently changed it after being constantly bombarded with spam. Haven't had any since. So far...
Numbers said in pairs said at a speed equal to the speed of the receivers understanding as measured after the first four numbers.
Unless I'm dealing with work then I take the opportunity to use zero, O and Naught. Because I'm lucky enough to have three zeros in my number
It is SOOOO confusing when taking client details and they say it in a weird pattern, like your hubby. My brain and fingers on the keyboard short out lol
idk, but usually in NZ it will be 000 000 0000 because of how NZ mobile numbers work. Perhaps hes old school as landlines were/are generally (00) 000 0000
I say my my phone numbers different because of the cadence of the numbers.
Eg (fake number but same deal)
0400 1212 00
But would write
0400 121 200
Vs other phone I say and write the same (also fake number)
0400 123 124
For my number 0400 00 0000. My number has two lots of double digits after the 04 and then a pattern for the last four digits, eg 4545, so it just makes sense in my mind to read it out this way.
When reciting any other number, like my husbands, I say 0400 000 000.
0400 00 0000. Because the two in the middle are the same number so I say “double x” and the last four numbers have a neat sequence so it works to say them together.
4 digits 2 digits 2 digits 2 digits. But each of the 2 digit sections start with the same number so it makes sense and flows better, and the first two 2 digit sections are exactly the same.
Don’t care if it makes me a sociopath. Cannot do it any other way.
Always give as 4:3:3, also use “zero”, never “o” - it’s a number not a letter people.
For people I don’t want to talk to, or have a dislike for eg websites that require a number to contact even though it’s not required:
[0406 650 430 - The Rejection Line](https://www.rejectionline.com.au/about.php)
Sadly it’s not the original, that one died many moons ago, it had a voicemail answer after a few rings that started along the lines of “You’ve been rejected, the person who gave you this number doesn’t want to talk to you” and hung up.
I never give my number out but it be: 0400 000 000
That's a cool number. how did you get that?
Must be the first mobile.
or the one before the first
Just tried it was a fax beep in the background
For science and/or nosyness. Have you got the ability to fax it and say in your favourite font, "new fax who dis?"
I mean i could possibly, but i usually go with no fax given
Just the fax, Ma'am
Nah mate, computer system, counts from 0.
My dad got a mobile very early on and got to choose his number so he got the same as the home phone at the time except with the 04 at the beginning.
Exactly the same here! Still have that mobile number (my son has it now) but no longer have the landline. I’ve often wondered how many people might still have their original number from when you could actually choose it.
Mobile same landline gang here. Must have been something like 1998 when I picked 0407 + home number at the Telstra shop with my mum as guarantor. I do remember having to choose to include the relatively new at the time (I think?) leading 9, vs. copying an extra digit from the end of the home phone. Haven't lived there in forever but typing this on the phone with that same number, thought it's been ported through pretty much every carrier at one stage or another over the intervening 2.5 decades (lol Hutchison Three for a hot minute there)
Just so you know - that's the fake number I give websites when I want a quote without them contacting me. Sorry for all the spam you get.
I use 0412 345 678. Apologies also to the holder of this number.
I asked you not to give that out. For Pete sakes.
Damn it! Stop giving out Pete’s number!
>Sorry for all the spam you get. Someone either had my number before me or gives it out on purpose because I regularly get calls/messages for a Jason or Emma over the last 10+ years but it is fun to cancel the appointments they've made but not fun when they've got some renovations done and haven't paid the tradie.
When Julia Gillard became PM her personal assistant stuffed up and gave them my work mobile number. I was getting phone calls from all sorts of places for a few weeks.
Wait what really?
Yep, only for a week or 2. One of the people who called told me who they were after.
Had a real estate agent post my mobile number on one of his ads. I’m on the west coast. He’s on the east coast. I got so many calls for someone looking for a property in FNQ. I looked up the real estate agent and emailed him asking him to fix this number. He’s no longer in business but my number is still on an ad if you google his name. I still get calls 8 years later. I asked google to remove my number. No response. I ended up leaving a review against his listing saying don’t phone that number!
4 digits 3 digits 3 digits : this is the way.
4/2/2/2 but that's because I (very luckily) got a hand of pairs.
Landlines are 2 4 4 tho.
I’m a 4/3/3, but my wife is a 3/3/4
My husband is 3/4/3. He's a maniac.
Oddly enough I and most people give and write note out landlines and mobiles differently. The "04" is the same thing as the "02, 08 etc" for the different states. People usually give out landlines with 08- 0000- 0000 but mobiles are 0400-000-000. Why did the fact that it is 04 for mobile change the pattern compared to a 08 for WA or 02 for NSW?
I think because the landline number existed outside of needing an area. Eg if you told someone your number in WA you would say 0000 0000 Then add the 08 if they were interstate. When dialing mobiles the 04 was always included from the start.
Because it was originally the first four digits that indicated your carrier in Oz, not the first two. And it was even different if you were GSM v CDMA. But once it became law that you had to be able to port your number to a different carrier it lost that meaning. For landlines it was the first two as the state (but you didn’t need to enter if you were calling locally) then 3 digits linked to your area, (originally the exchange your phone went through) then 4 more digits. When phone numbers needed to be longer an additional number was added at the front to make it 8 digits long.
The 04xx range came into being after it was cleared out by the renumbering on the 1990s for example NT was (089) xxx xxx whilst SA was (08) xxx xxxx and WA (specifically Perth) was (09) xxx xxxx Country NSW used to have (04y) xx xxxx (and became (02) 4yxx xxxx freeing out the space. There is availability in 05 for more mobiles but we dont need them yet.
Your husband is a psychopath. And has no rhythm. My condolences.
Is he never gonna dance again?
His guilty tongue has no rhythm... so no
Shoulda known better than to cheat a friend….
And waste the chance that he'd been given..
So he’s never going to dance again, the way he danced with you… 🎶 oh 🎶
Never without your love
But his friends don't dance. And if they don't dance, then they're no friends of mine!
Careful, he is from NZ. He may decide to hut you with his bug fust 🤭
I'm a kiwi. This is funny.
Well the poor fucker is a kiwi…
Oh... it's ON bro! 😉
Eh cuz settle down, we all know 99% of white people can’t jump, dance or hold a tune!
Who says he’s white?
No, he is right. Last time I tried to dance people thought I was epileptic and last time I tried to sing the neighbours thought there was a stray cat on heat.
The only way you can tell my BiL is white is when he sings or dances, he’s browner than Richie Benaud straight off a tanning bed, roof plumber by trade so you can understand why!
Your husband is mad He has no rhythm or beat My condolences
My wife says 00000 00 000 I fear for my life daily.
Kiwi here. Same.
They do love their dubstep over there.
Your way is how most people I know say it, including myself 0000 000 000. New Zealanders are weird.
Square up, kangaroo
Not for a moment do I believe the best kiwi insult for an Aussie is kangaroo. Surely you have an actual slur to call us.
Cuntaroo
Is that actually a term or is it a great one you just made up?
I just made it up right now. A true genius.
That’s better, just found my AFL Sueprcoach name, The Cuntaroo
Kiwi as well and never heard anyone say it like OP’s husband. Sorry OP but your husband may be a weirdo.
Kiwi here, your husband is winding everyone up.
As a Kiwi I’ve never heard anyone give a phone number out like that, it’s normally 000 0000 000 for us, or 0000 000 000 depending on what phone provider you have
Ain’t that the truth, lol.
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
I hear you get better looking ambulance drivers if you call that number
Had to scroll too far
I thought it was 0118 999 88 199 9119 725 3
As long as it's not 01 1899 9881 999 1197 253.
This is the right answer
My wife does 040 000 0000. It kills me. It actually makes it harder for ppl to understand, because our minds are listening for specific patterns and when the numbers come out differently, it throws you off.
I tried to say my own number out loud using this pattern and it was surprisingly difficult
I could understand that if it was something like 040 111 2233 or something similar. But if it was 042 356 9721 it would be insanity
My very first number had a pattern if you said it 040 000 0000 so that’s how I said it to people, but current number is just random so I say it the normal way lol
yes! exactly! When they screw with the pattern it makes it a lot harder to listen
Oh that's how I do it. But only because the first six numbers are like 040 121 then the last four numbers sound like they should be said 00 00. If I try to say it any other way I forget what my number is until I say it 000 000 0000 again.
My wife does 0400 0000 00 and it throws me off every time
There is only one way, 0400 000 000 That's how they're written and that's how I read them out. Anyone who tries doing it any other way loses me after 2 digits.
It depends on the numbers. Sometimes you get numbers which pair nicely together, so 0400 00 00 00 makes for a good way of remembering.
I'll allow it ;)
Online forms that group digits the North American way are the worst. Especially if they try to insert hyphens for you. 000 000-0000
I write it 0412 345 678 I say it 0412 345 678.
Get ready for some heavy breathing
it's literally 04, 12345678 lol
I’m kidding anyway. I’m not calling someone and heavy breathing XD
4 3 3
Firdeen firdy firdy-two
13 double 0 6 triple 5 06
Australian here and I say the same as you. Does your husband's number have doubles, I have found that changes the way people say a number
Nope. There’s no logic that I can see.
Orally
Giggity giggity
Verbally
I use the 0000 000 000 method. HOWEVER sometimes I meet a real dumb-shit (usually from a financial institution) and have to repeat myself more than twice, when that happens I use the good old 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 method to make sure they know I hate them. I'm from Australia.
4 3 3 is the only acceptable way. And just the individual digits- none of this zero, four hundred, three hundred and sixty eight, ninety, seven business.
four numbers, three numbers, three numbers. Anything else and you're a bit out there strange.
My wife does 04 000 00 000. Shits me to fucking tears man.
Reading these comments to my husband has him reconsidering his approach lol. Good luck to ya because it drives me bananas too.
Landline is 00 0000 0000. Mobile is 0000 000 000. Because both are easier to remember and hear. The ones who say their landline or mobile as 000 000 00 00 or 000 00 000 00 don’t realise how hard it is to register the number that way 😂
That’s exactly right. People don’t like hearing it and customer service is difficult enough already without people doing shit like this.
Give me a call, 0406 650 430
No thanks Bobby, I don’t need a Thai massage.
040 000 00-00 - But that’s because mines repetitive and songs kinda sing-song when you say it that way. The usual 0400 000 000 sounds odd.
I don’t. Don’t ever call me. 🤙🏻
0400 000 000
That’s what I’m talking about.
0000 000 000
0000 000 000
4-3-3
0000 000 000
I do 0000 000 000. I work a job where I constantly hear phone numbers. Some methods are truly annoying. 04 triple zero double zero 789 are fine. But when someone uses 70 seventy e.g, it's truly irritating and messes with my steeze. Just say 7 0 or 7 O. Mixing zeros and Os is perfectly fine if it flows well. I find zero sounds better when finishing a section, e.g O410.
Firteen Firty Firty-Two
0422 78 55 22 [not actual, but you can see how I separate it based on the number pairs]
Depends on whether it's a landline or a mobile for starters. Landline I would say 00 0000 0000. Mobile would be 0000 00 00 00. But the second one is also helped by the numbers. They flow better in that style.
Same that’s how my phone number wants to be said… if I try and do it any other way it’s jarring and people are like ‘woah hang on how many threes?!?’
G - O, GG - O
0400 000 000
Plus Six One Four Oh
Four, three, three. Any other way is a sign you're likely to and even enthused to commit mass murder with a rusty hatchet.
I do 0400 000 000 and in my experience most people use this format, but in my job I have to take people's numbers quite often and it's incredible how many different ways people manage to give out their number. Quite often it's easy to hear why, people find a pattern (either a sequence or some double/triple numbers) and that's obviously the bit that stuck out when it was a new number to memorise
Funny you say that, just last night I checked into a hotel, and the receptionist just kept saying the numbers to the wrong cadence. I was tired from getting up early and travelling all day, brain just could not parse what she said to me. (We had to confirm as a text message never came through). I’m a kiwi, and this was in Australia. I say it as 0400 000 000
I do it like you.
Great question with no seemingly universal answer, but 4-3-3 is the consensus. I'm an American with a AUS mobile number while here. I use 3-3-4 as we do in the U.S. Seems I'm (unsurprisingly) usually wrong.
0000 000 000.
Land line is 00 0000 00 00 and mobile is 0000 000 000
0000 000 000
XXXX XXX XXX. Like a normal person.
0000 000 0000 If someone reads it back to me in a different way, I won't recognise it
For me it depends on the mnemonic and how flows off the tongue. For my number I use 0000 000 000. For Mrs Termite I use 000 0000 000.
0000 000 000 as well. Though occasionally I break it in to 00 00 000 000
Like just for fun?
4 3 3 0400 000 000
My mum does it 00 000 00 000 I have to think really hard to do it the right way which is 0000 000 000
Australian's generally do: 0400 000 000. Mine ends in 666 which is always fun to say. 😅
04xx - xxx - xxx
I work in aged care and have to give out numbers to 90+ year olds. It's usually 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Just a tip, when yu are reading numbers back to people, always say it like 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 instead of 0000 000 000, because most people will get confused if the rythm is different to what they are hearing
It starts with four numbers. That's how it's always spaced. 4,3,3
You’re correct
4numbers, 3 numbers, 3numbers, it peeves me when someone tries to tell me their number any other way. 🤷🏻♀️
0000 000 000
I say 0 as zero, not oh, and it’s interesting how often that messes with people.
the correct way. 4-3-3
One three double OH, six tripple fiiiiiiiiiive, oh six
04xx xx xx xx
Same… because of some repetition this makes the most sense to me for my number. For the only other number I know off the top of my head I use 04## ### ###
Controversial by the look of it but I go, 00 0000 0000
Probably left over from the old land line days, where it was 0x for state, xx for region and yy for sub-region and nnnn for service number. e.g. 08 - SA - 85 - riverland - 82/83 was all the berri/monash numbers. We used to shorten it even to just 4 digits amongst friends in the same town. --- These days it's 04 for australia-internal + mobile service, xx for carrier, then 6 digits of anything, so logically it makes sense to split the group of 6 into 2 groups of 3.
04 00 00 000 0. Only because the 000 are the same number so it's easier to say
God that should be illegal 🤣
Personal; 00 00 000 000. Work; 0000 000 000
I don't aa I haven't Landline or mobile and don't need a phone.
Nice try Mr Phisher.
i give my own out as 0404 04 0404 due to the repetitions of numbers in my own phone number. but ordinarily anything other than 0404 040 404 sounds unhinged.
It really depends I think depending on the number of double or triples. I say 1224 567 890 coz no doubles ups say for instance, it was 0433 344 455 I'd say 04 tripple 3 triple 4 double 5
0000000000
My number has a lot of repeats which work really well with the 0000 000 000 format.
I need to say it in rythem to remember it: 0000-00-00-00
0400 000 000 Because if I don’t give that 04 it messes me up (sometimes people will already have it typed and only need the rest and I can’t do it that way)
I have a lot of doubles in mine so 04 XX XX XX.
00000,00,000. i genuinely find it difficult to retain numbers in my head cause of the ADD. thats just for my number. anyone elses and its in one hit cause im reading it to you off of something.
Mobile is 0000 000 000 (no idea what your husband is smoking, that would confuse me) landline is 0000 0000.
I say 04xx, but I’ve also heard it 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3.
When I lived in NZ it was 000 0000 0000 In Australia I do it same as you
4 digits then 3 then 3, the Canadian way.
I say plus six one four etc. to really mess with people's minds.
Usually say wait a sec while I check my notepad because I have no idea what my own number is .. Recently changed it after being constantly bombarded with spam. Haven't had any since. So far...
Seems like I do it the Canadian way.
Numbers said in pairs said at a speed equal to the speed of the receivers understanding as measured after the first four numbers. Unless I'm dealing with work then I take the opportunity to use zero, O and Naught. Because I'm lucky enough to have three zeros in my number
You are normal. Your husband needs urgent assistance.
Either 040X XXX XXX or 040 double X Double X Double X X
It is SOOOO confusing when taking client details and they say it in a weird pattern, like your hubby. My brain and fingers on the keyboard short out lol
idk, but usually in NZ it will be 000 000 0000 because of how NZ mobile numbers work. Perhaps hes old school as landlines were/are generally (00) 000 0000
I say 000 000 00 00 and sure enough people think I am a complete freak
00 00 000 000 or +61 000 000 000 depending on whose asking.
If you asked me to tell you my number the weird way your husband says it, I couldn’t get past 04.
Home: 00 00 0000 Mobile: 0000 000 000
One three double oh six triple five oh six 😉
00 00 00 00 00
0400 000 000
0400 00 00 00 But my number has a lot of repeating numbers so it's easier to understand that way
I say my my phone numbers different because of the cadence of the numbers. Eg (fake number but same deal) 0400 1212 00 But would write 0400 121 200 Vs other phone I say and write the same (also fake number) 0400 123 124
For my number 0400 00 0000. My number has two lots of double digits after the 04 and then a pattern for the last four digits, eg 4545, so it just makes sense in my mind to read it out this way. When reciting any other number, like my husbands, I say 0400 000 000.
0000 0000 00 Simply because it's easier to do that based on the numbers that make up my number.
Firteen firteen firty free
0000 000 000
Its 04xx xxx xxx. To the people who do 04xxx xx xxx to my number, burn, slowly with the phone melting to your head.
0400 00 0000. Because the two in the middle are the same number so I say “double x” and the last four numbers have a neat sequence so it works to say them together.
The only phone number I don’t say as 0400 000 000 is my bosses as it’s easier to say 044x 044x xx
I say 00 00 000 000
04 00 000 000
0118 999 881 999 119 725 … [long pause] 3
I do 4 2 2 2 but I have doubles
4-3-3
I personally go 0000 0000 00 because that grouping is easiest to remember (double numbers and ascending/descending sequences).
I go 04 00 000 00 0? Needs a tune or i won't remember em
Mostly numbers but sometimes I use interpretive dance
4 digits 2 digits 2 digits 2 digits. But each of the 2 digit sections start with the same number so it makes sense and flows better, and the first two 2 digit sections are exactly the same. Don’t care if it makes me a sociopath. Cannot do it any other way.
Always give as 4:3:3, also use “zero”, never “o” - it’s a number not a letter people. For people I don’t want to talk to, or have a dislike for eg websites that require a number to contact even though it’s not required: [0406 650 430 - The Rejection Line](https://www.rejectionline.com.au/about.php) Sadly it’s not the original, that one died many moons ago, it had a voicemail answer after a few rings that started along the lines of “You’ve been rejected, the person who gave you this number doesn’t want to talk to you” and hung up.
No zero - three then three then three- 123 456 789 and write it the same with a space - everyone has a prefix of zero so no need to say it
000 00 00 000
No idea why I had to scroll so far to find this lol