Yup, what y'all call chip-and-PIN. All cards are swipey cards in the US, though tap-to-pay is starting to happen.
Funny story: so I only know the concept of "chip-and-pin machines" from an episode of Sherlock, about which my wife and I are both terribly fannish. (If you don't watch it: John says "I had a row with the chip-and-pin machine" to explain why he didn't succeed in buying groceries.) The first time we used our Canadian debit card in Canada, before we moved here permanently (while I was working for U of T but we lived in the US), she kept swiping it and not understanding why it wasn't working, until the helpful cashier explained you had to stick the chip in the machine. "Do you realized what just happened???" I whispered to her once it was over. "YOU HAD A ROW WITH THE CHIP-AND-PIN MACHINE." /fangirl
I do not yet understand celsius, but I agree very deeply that F to C mental conversion is confusing as hell.
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Funny story: so I only know the concept of "chip-and-pin machines" from an episode of Sherlock, about which my wife and I are both terribly fannish. (If you don't watch it: John says "I had a row with the chip-and-pin machine" to explain why he didn't succeed in buying groceries.) The first time we used our Canadian debit card in Canada, before we moved here permanently (while I was working for U of T but we lived in the US), she kept swiping it and not understanding why it wasn't working, until the helpful cashier explained you had to stick the chip in the machine. "Do you realized what just happened???" I whispered to her once it was over. "YOU HAD A ROW WITH THE CHIP-AND-PIN MACHINE." /fangirl
I do not yet understand celsius, but I agree very deeply that F to C mental conversion is confusing as hell.