Superstitions

FatherLen

Are you superstitious?
I wouldn't have said that i was but in the last couple of months i have found myself worrying when i see just one magpie and relieved if i see a second.
I dont feel like this towards any other superstitions like ladders, black cats or cracks in the path, just those damn magpies.
any thoughts???

Jesus Wept

No.

admiralofthefleet

no not in the slightest

/takes shoes off table

El Weirdo

Any excuse to post this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE

Fishooks12

<Touches Woods>

im invisible

Not at all, thank God...

danniemcq

anytime i look at porn i touch my wood if that counts?

themadchef

There were three ladders in a row on a pavement.

No choice but to walk under the ladders as walking around them would have meant walking off the pavement and into traffic.

At the other end of the the ladders were three ladies who lunch discussing their options." Cant possibly walk under the ladder, Mary it's bad luck"

Well, ya know what, getting milled by a car eint so lucky either sista. Keep walkin' 0/

So they walked around the ladders and into the traffic??? i stood amazed? The traffic stopped.... thankfully.

No i havent been hit by lightning either. Bit stupid though i thought.

Oranage2

I've stopped gropping girls on the LUAS - Apparently it's bad luck...

jonnyfingers

I'm defiant in the face of superstition. I'll deliberately walk under a ladder. I regularly put shoes on the table. I'll open an umbrella inside the house for the craic like. And sometimes I try to walk only on cracks in the footpath.

For the record no harm has ever come to me.

Chuck Stone

I have this thing where I can't hear the last 7 notes of the Eastenders theme tune, you know, the whistley bit. I have to turn it over before that bit comes on or I just won't feel right.

Is that superstition?

OneArt

I wouldn't consider myself superstitious although I've gotten into the habit of saluting Magpies.

Try discreetly doing it in Germany... I swear the little c*nt just appears to make me look like a Nazi.

FatherLen

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I have this thing where I can't hear the last 7 notes of the Eastenders theme tune, you know, the whistley bit. I have to turn it over before that bit comes on or I just won't feel right.

Is that superstition?

no you're just mad

Dublin Chick

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I have this thing where I can't hear the last 7 notes of the Eastenders theme tune, you know, the whistley bit. I have to turn it over before that bit comes on or I just won't feel right.

Is that superstition?

No

Archeron

Never juggle while making faces at a horse.

Trust me on this one.

Chuck Stone

Dublin Chick wrote: »

No

Just plain ol' madness then eh?

senorwipesalot

I never wear the same underpants two weeks in a row.
And I always put them on brown to the back ,yellow to the front.

Manic Moran

Although not superstitious per se, I am a traditionalist, so I do observe (and enforce) some superstitions simply out of respect for the tradition (Armies are big on tradition).

For example, no apricots are permitted on my tank.
Similarly, a small offering (usually a pen or some such) is sacrificed to the Turret Monster before an exercise.

NTM

luvroad

Carry a licenced firearm at all times!!:D

Manic Moran

luvroad wrote: »

Carry a licenced firearm at all times!!:D

Not so much a superstition as good sense, no? Granted, local laws may prohibit such an exercise...

NTM

mojesius

Hmm, I'm not superstitious per se, although I don't feel great if I accidentally smash a mirror, but that's probably because I have to go out and a buy a new mirror.

Saila

themadchef wrote: »

There were three ladders in a row on a pavement.

No choice but to walk under the ladders as walking around them would have meant walking off the pavement and into traffic.

At the other end of the the ladders were three ladies who lunch discussing their options." Cant possibly walk under the ladder, Mary it's bad luck"

Well, ya know what, getting milled by a car eint so lucky either sista. Keep walkin' 0/

So they walked around the ladders and into the traffic??? i stood amazed? The traffic stopped.... thankfully.

No i havent been hit by lightning either. Bit stupid though i thought.

after reading this bit I thought this was turning into a why its good to walk under ladders story as I was picturing the 3 ladies on the the top of a ladder each in skirts . then I was disappoint

because then I realised [after reading it a few times] you meant after the ladders and not at the other end of the ladders!

scudster

Wouldn't be superstitious myself but what gets my goat is women (well mostly women and womanly men) go on about stupid crap that's bad luck or ask if something that has just happened is a bad omen.
Biatch, sh1t happens, get over it. If ya think a bird thats after takin a dump on your head is a good sign then you are a thick idiot. And if you get run down by a car after walking under a ladder chances are you didn't look before crossing the road.

Ellis Dee

Try lighting a cigarette from a candle anywhere in Scandinavia. It will freak lots of otherwise rational people out.:):)

Mike 1972

themadchef wrote: »

So they walked around the ladders and into the traffic??? i stood amazed? The traffic stopped.... thankfully..

Thankfully ?

John Doe1

I shake 7 times in the urinal for good luck

cocoshovel

1 magpie! touch green!

paddyandy

Once anything hits the fan it's dead.

ejmaztec

senorwipesalot wrote: »

I never wear the same underpants two weeks in a row.
And I always put them on brown to the back ,yellow to the front.

You should change your name to something more appropriate, like Senorwipesfeckall.

Ghost Buster

cocoshovel wrote: »

1 magpie! touch green!

What constitutes 1 magpie?
Is it that you can only see one or that there is only one within a certain distance?
What if one small magpie is standing directly behind a larger one meaning that you can only see one but there are actually two?
What if two folk are standing very near to each other and looking at a pair of magpie... BUT one of the observers has better peripheral vision than the other and can only see the second at the extreme limit of his field of view and the other cannot. Does one get good luck and the other bad luck?

corktina

one for sorrow
two for joy
three for a pie

Dudess

If you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer...

paddyandy

Dudess wrote: »

If you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer...

There are LOADZA things we believe in that we don't suffer from.In fact we ENJOY them without understanding them one little bit.

paddyandy

corktina wrote: »

one for sorrow
two for joy
three for a pie

That's Mystical stuff that hit the popularity road a very long time ago.It's Cola.

BASHIR

Exactly, I believe in the laws of thermodynamics but I don't understand them all :eek:

Dudess

Dudess wrote: »

If you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer...

Quite the opposite when it comes to people with a fear of flying.....