Anyone superstitious? (1 Viewer)

[dleacht]

Friday the 13th today

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Nope.

 

[dleacht]

I don't believe in it, think it's funny how some people really buy into it though. another one next month

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Friday is more likely to fall on the 13th than any other date. FACT! (maybe).

 

[drkdrk]

No

 

[plug]

no. once... before I grew some logic. I used to be extremely superstitious. waving at magpies and all that shit. I still won't walk under a ladder though, but that's because I don't want to run the (admittedly negligible) risk of getting poleaxed by a falling paint can.

 

[billygannon]

It will be Friday 13th next month as well.

 

[Squiggle]

This topic came up in work just yesterday, weird. I'm not even remotely superstitious. If I walk round rather than under a ladder it would be out of convenience or safety considerations. One of my colleagues has a thing for magpies, if she sees one then she stands at the window until she sees a second.

Does anyone here have anything weird about numbers? I've only recently found out about this.

Alarms, volume settings and things having to have a certain final number. Someone I know always has to have the volume at a 5 or a 0 for example, another will only set the alarm at quarter hour intervals.

I suppose these could be normal enough, but what changes something from an eccentricity to a superstition is the attachment of meaning or consequences.

 

[rettucs]

I'm scared of my shite of tuesday the 23rds

 

[pissypants]

Alarms, volume settings and things having to have a certain final number. Someone I know always has to have the volume at a 5 or a 0 for example, another will only set the alarm at quarter hour intervals.

A friend of mine has to have the volume on the TV at an even number. If it's not, she can't settle and watch the TV.

 

[Squiggle]

A friend of mine has to have the volume on the TV at an even number. If it's not, she can't settle and watch the TV.

See, I find that fascinating. The 5 or 0 one really gets me, does that mean that sometimes it will be either just a bit too loud or a bit too quiet just so the number is right?

In the cases I mentioned they actually think something terrible will happen, or that they'll have bad luck, if the numbers are wrong.

And how is it just volume? Why not channels too? Imagine only watching even number channels. And what if someone set it up so that Channel 4, BBC 2, RTE 2 etc. were tuned into odd numbers and the odd number stations were tuned into even numbers?

 

[Lili Marlene]

is it a mild form of OCD or superstition though?

I have all sorts of balancing games going on in my mind when watching TV but there's nothing superstitious about it.

 

[Goff]

The numbers thing is usally a mild form of OCD and you'd be surprised how many people actually have a form of it. You can usually catch people counting with their mouths when they're distracted.

 

[sealed human]

When I'm watching football on the box and I'm nervous about the outcome, if for example I had my chin leaning on my left hand when a goal was scored, I'll leave it like that in case moving it creates some sort of massive Dublin-Manchester leyline of bad luck and they'll lose their lead...

Sensible? Not at all... I know theres no logic to it but do it anyway. Am I a mentalist?

 

[ratmonkey]

Stevie Wonder is superstitious.

 

[Reets]

I don't think I'm particularly superstitious and if anything, i normally have really good luck on Friday the13th, but my dad hates saturday the 14th, he wont even drive incase something happens.

 

[Cormcolash]

When I'm watching football on the box and I'm nervous about the outcome, if for example I had my chin leaning on my left hand when a goal was scored, I'll leave it like that in case moving it creates some sort of massive Dublin-Manchester leyline of bad luck and they'll lose their lead...

Sensible? Not at all... I know theres no logic to it but do it anyway. Am I a mentalist?

Yeah, like whenever I'm watching Ireland I have to spend every match screaming "COME ON YOU PACK OF FUCKING IDIOTS!" for fear that if I stop they'll lose all of a sudden.
And look, it's working too!

 

[therealjohnny]

as good a time as any for the sage words of Sheba

Throw away almanacs, signs of the Zodiac Then there is sense to be found They are celestial, we are terrestrial Let's keep our feet on the ground Don't let the planets take control of our lives Believe in the truth and not celestial lies

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[cpr]

I'm not a bit superstitious at all. And i had one of the poxiest days of my life yesterday so today is feeling like a walk in the park.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

not really which is lucky as first thing upon leaving the house this morning i saw a single magpie...i do have the "even numbers only" ocd thingy going on amongst others (mutiples of five are acceptable as well though)