Suspersticious

[Kirkatronics]

Are you supersticious, do you believe in luck?
Theres something i do, like salute single Magpies, but most are just silly little things.
What supersticions do you have?

[triforce_keeper]

Urm, I don't walk under signs and stuff, you know I pavements, with the two metal/wooden poles with a sign on top....even if I have to go into the road to avoid it XD

I think that may be the only one, oh no wait! I have to uncross knives and forks if I see them crossed on a plate or something.

[EEVILMURRAY]

Theres something i do, like salute single Magpies
Is that supposed to bring luck or something? I've never heard of that one before.

[Chris the great]

we make our own luck. so no, i dont have any supersticions, lucky routines or the such.

i do avoid walking under things that may drop and kill me, such as scafolding with workmen busy ontop, but thats just sensible.

[The fish]

"Wise men make their own luck"

I, for one, find it hard to see how touching wood after saying something hopeful can possibly effect the outcome, bar in a psychological manner.

[GothicPlague]

"Wise men make their own luck"

I, for one, find it hard to see how touching wood after saying something hopeful can possibly effect the outcome, bar in a psychological manner.

20 years old and I still laugh at those words.

As for superstitions I don't have any.

[MadDog]

I think all this is bullshit.

[Jonnas]

I, for one, find it hard to see how touching wood after saying something hopeful can possibly effect the outcome, bar in a psychological manner.

Touché.

I like believing that silly little things (even those I made up myself :p) can give me luck. Gives me confidence.

[Daft]

I don't walk in front of moving cars.

Seems to have brought me luck so far.

[Supergrunch]

I have to uncross knives and forks if I see them crossed on a plate or something.
Hmm, never heard of that one. You wouldn't like our formal halls - people cross a knife and fork to indicate when a space has been taken.

Anyway, I'd like to think I have transient thoughts of superstition but deep down think it's rubbish. In reality I'm probably a little bit more influenced than that, but only to the extent sufficient for admittance to the human race. Incidentally, there are some cool studies to do with superstitious behaviour of pigeons in Skinner boxes that suggest some kind of explanation for such things.

[Chris the great]

i read in focus recently (bbc science magazine, a cracking read. i enthusiscticaly recomend it to any one) that there is no such thing as luck. however, viewing oneself as lucky is more likly to lead to more "lucky" events in life. in essence, you view more events as lucky whilst some one who views themself as unlucky is more likly to have more "bad luck events"

in essence a lucky person is more likly to put emphesis on events when luck was on their side, and vise versa.


its all just chance and how you look at things.

[Kirkatronics]

Is that supposed to bring luck or something? I've never heard of that one before.
Its to prevent bad luck.
One for sorrow, 2 for joy. Only salute one and you can be on your way.
i read in focus recently (bbc science magazine, a cracking read. i enthusiscticaly recomend it to any one) that there is no such thing as luck. however, viewing oneself as lucky is more likly to lead to more "lucky" events in life. in essence, you view more events as lucky whilst some one who views themself as unlucky is more likly to have more "bad luck events"

in essence a lucky person is more likly to put emphesis on events when luck was on their side, and vise versa.


its all just chance and how you look at things.
Surely thats confidence then, just your in denial about it.
Urm, I don't walk under signs and stuff, you know I pavements, with the two metal/wooden poles with a sign on top....even if I have to go into the road to avoid it XD

I think that may be the only one, oh no wait! I have to uncross knives and forks if I see them crossed on a plate or something.
I never cross my knife and fork, but i got brought up knowing it was a rude gesture to the cook.

[Dannyboy-the-Dane]

Though I'm open to the unexplained and such, I'm still generally skeptical, and luck is one thing I've never believed in.

[Cube]

I only do the ones which are common sense. Like "Don't walk under ladders".

[Shorty]

Want to hear something funny?

This mispelling of superstitious is so bad that if you google 'suspersticious' you actually get this thread as the first result. Honestly.

[Kirkatronics]

Want to hear something funny?

This mispelling of superstitious is so bad that if you google 'suspersticious' you actually get this thread as the first result. Honestly.
Haha, i did it on a purpose just in case someone needed to find it quickly in future.
:hmm:

[Ashley]

Is that supposed to bring luck or something? I've never heard of that one before.

Apparently so. My housemate also tends to greet the magpie too, but dunno if thats part of it or just a weird quirk.

Personally the only one I do is touch wood but im not sure why (other than my natural use-hands-while-talking-ness anyway). The rest I can't be bothered with. But my housemate does all of them and it just seems like a lot of effort.

Apparently putting a silver spoon in the top of (I think it was a) champagne bottle is good luck...::shrug:

[Raining_again]

Two consecutive Friday the 13ths this year, and another one in November.

I think its an omen *hides*

I don't really follow any superstitions tbh. I'd rather walk under a ladder than walk on the road and get run over by a car :heh:

[MoogleViper]

I find it bad luck to misspell a thread title.

[Kirkatronics]

I find it bad luck to misspell a thread title.
If that were true, id be dead.

[Jav_NE]

I try not to walk on those three-piece drains or whatever they are. Dunno why, think someone said it was bad luck, i believed them and have avoided them ever since haha. I'm also a bit funny about pavement cracks. Dunno why, its not a superstition, just dont like stepping on too many cracks, or unevenly steeping on more cracks with my left foot than my right =/

I obviously dont walk under ladders or dangerous scaffolding etc, but thats common sense as previously said.

I dont salute single magpies, but i try to remember what to say. Its something like "sorry for your loss" isn't it? Poor things.

A pigeon once crapped on my shoulder and it ended up being a good day, so who knows, maybe that superstition is true.

I always put my left sock on first too. I think i saw someone doing it the other way round and i was like, thats weird. I dont think its superstitious, just natural. We write from left to right so, its like normal progression isn't it?

[Supergrunch]

A pigeon once crapped on my shoulder, too. It turned what was an average day into a bad day, especially as the public toilets were closed so I couldn't wash it off. It also happened to me during a go tournament once, although that was all down my front - I had to go back and change, so was late for the next round, but won anyway. But that wasn't luck, it was just being better than my opponent. I lost all but one of the other games in that tournament.

[Dazz]

I never get bad luck on Friday the 13th, I usually get bad luck the day after, lol.

But yesterday was awesome so I was very lucky, lmao.

[Coolness Bears]

I'm just paranoid that the cats are going to get me. :)

I'm not crazy at all, so I don't have any superstions!

What made me laugh is when I got Tarot cards, a real test of a man's steel, I asked whether people wanted to give it a go and yet they were unwilling to try but they had stated previously that they thought these cards were just silly or that they were not superstious at all!

[Roostophe]

I have a weird superstition that I won't wear my Villa shirt on a matchday because it might cause them to lose. I'm wearing it at the moment and we're currently losing 2-1 in a match.

But that doesn't seem to matter whenever I go down the Villa to watch them play. I always wear a Villa shirt when I go and I have a pretty decent spectator record of: Seen 12, Won 7, Drawn 3, Lost 2.


Btw, it's 3-1 now. SeewhaddImean?

[Slaggis]

I'm just paranoid that the cats are going to get me. :)


LkoNuxIzdcI

And just for the sheer horrificness/hilarity of it.

AmDDp-cCo24

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I'm not superstitious in the slightest tbh. I do the little OCD things, like I have to unplug everything in my room before I sleep, because otherwise a fire will start at some point and kill us all. :p

[CoolFunkMan]

Two consecutive Friday the 13ths this year, and another one in November.

I think its an omen *hides*

I don't really follow any superstitions tbh. I'd rather walk under a ladder than walk on the road and get run over by a car :heh:

I tend to be cautious on Friday 13ths, but I haven't had any bad luck on one of them... yet. Tbh, the 12th was more unlucky for me than 13th this time, lol.

I used to follow them, but I don't any more. Although I am obsessed with doing things a certain way, to prevent stuff going wrong. But then that's just me being wierd. :heh:

[Kirkatronics]

I'm not superstitious in the slightest tbh. I do the little OCD things, like I have to unplug everything in my room before I sleep, because otherwise a fire will start at some point and kill us all. :p
My girlfriend does that.

[EEVILMURRAY]

Its to prevent bad luck.
One for sorrow, 2 for joy. Only salute one and you can be on your way.
We have something similar: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told.

Nothing about saluting them though.
I find it bad luck to misspell a thread title.
How much bad luck did you get for this?
http://www.n-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2019

[Dannyboy-the-Dane]

How much bad luck did you get for this?
http://www.n-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2019
Owned. :heh:

The ninja cat is awesome - almost surreal - but the other cat seems very frightened. I don't find it funny, I just think of how the poor cat feels.

[uəʌəsʎɐɾ]

Want to hear something funny?

This mispelling of superstitious is so bad that if you google 'suspersticious' you actually get this thread as the first result. Honestly.
That's actually amazing... roffles :P
A pigeon once crapped on my shoulder, too. It turned what was an average day into a bad day, especially as the public toilets were closed so I couldn't wash it off. It also happened to me during a go tournament once, although that was all down my front - I had to go back and change, so was late for the next round, but won anyway. But that wasn't luck, it was just being better than my opponent. I lost all but one of the other games in that tournament.I fucking hate pigeon crap. Hasn't happened for... two years? Had to get on a train and everything. Ugh.

[Kirkatronics]

We have something similar: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told.

Nothing about saluting them though.

How much bad luck did you get for this?
http://www.n-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2019
Thats where the poem came from, seeing one Magpie is bad luck.
Thats why you dont have to salute any more than one.

[Letty]

I've never seen a magpie, let alone saluted one 0_o

[Ganepark32]

I wouldn't say I believe in luck as such. It's more chance that I believe in but you could in theory class the two as the same thing so ::shrug: Don't really believe in all this superstitious stuff that people do or don't do. For example, I'm not scared to walk under a ladder. Hell, I walked under one about 20 times in a row giving me something like 140 years of bad luck if you believe in it. But I've not had any bad luck as such. Just bad decisions which have caused me to stray from the path that I call my life. Luck is something, I feel, that comes from taking chances. Don't take them, then you'll never know whether it was a lucky choice to take said chance and get something you want. Bad luck is the opposite: sticking to life's walkway, refusing to take a chance on anything or step outside the norm. Taking a chance and not getting something doesn't mean that it's bad luck, it merely means that in that instance it wasn't meant to happen. And now you see I've gone off topic now as that leads on to fate and how I feel people are linked to one or several determinable fates. But that's not what this topic is about.

There is one thing I do but it's not really superstitious. It basically revolves around the placement of my bottle of water when on the train or wherever but that's probably obsessive compulsive disorder (and I'm sure I have it as can be seen from the stack of dvd cases near my tv which I sit and purposely line up to all be in the exact same position in the stack).

[Shorty]

When we were doing the 3rd BISH we chased magpies for a "2 magpies in one shot" (one of Nikki's BISHes that I actually came up with and regretted, because it was hard) and every time we found one Nikki said "Aye, Aye Cap'n" o_O I was a bit confused.

[MoogleViper]

How much bad luck did you get for this?
http://www.n-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2019

Well the fact that you had to go back over three years means a lot. And that was a typo not a misspelling.

[Chris the great]

Surely thats confidence then, just your in denial about it.


its just optimisum and pecimism. glass half full or half empty.

[EEVILMURRAY]

Well the fact that you had to go back over three years means a lot. And that was a typo not a misspelling.
Only a couple of clicks on your profile. Be grateful, his added one letter makes up for the lack of yours.

[Coolness Bears]

LkoNuxIzdcI

And just for the sheer horrificness/hilarity of it.

AmDDp-cCo24



Ninja Cat knows when you sleep. >___<

He creeps me out I've watched that video too many times.

And that other cat is just madness. Those are the first cats they will send into battle against humans in 2012. :grin:

Let it begin.

[Dannyboy-the-Dane]

And that other cat is just madness. Those are the first cats they will send into battle against humans in 2012. :grin:
Before or after the alien colonisation?

[Wesley]

I find it bad luck to hit people.

[Coolness Bears]

Before or after the alien colonisation?

Haha foolish earthling. 'tis merely a rouge created by the cats!

While we prepare ourselves for the "alien invasion" the cats will secretly be taking over our government.

I'm the only reason the human race is safe. I die the humans go with me...

[Dannyboy-the-Dane]

Haha foolish earthling. 'tis merely a rouge created by the cats!

While we prepare ourselves for the "alien invasion" the cats will secretly be taking over our government.

I'm the only reason the human race is safe. I die the humans go with me...
I probably shouldn't say this ... but I side with the cats.

[Coolness Bears]

I probably shouldn't say this ... but I side with the cats.

Don't worry...

so would I! If I had a choice. :(

[Dannyboy-the-Dane]

Don't worry...

so would I! If I had a choice. :(
I have much more faith in the cat race than in the human race.

[Chris the great]

I have much more faith in the cat race than in the human race.

now i love cats, but they are utter bastards.

sat happily eating a meal of fried eggs, black pudding, sausages and brown sauce (best meal ever!), remebering first to feed my part time cat. nice bowl of cat food with a treat of a saucer of milk.

socks waits for me to tuck in happily, glancing between mt magazine and loose women on the telly. life was good.

suddenly "ARGGGGHHH! FUCK!" young socks decided that after eating his lunch, the best way to show his apreciation was to stab me in my calf.

honestly, i almost punched him in the face.

[EEVILMURRAY]

My cat is a right sneaky bugger. When he wants to have the sofa chair to sleep on, he sits by the door as if he wants to go out. When Mummy gets up to let him out, he pounces and grabs the chair.

[Pookiablo]

My cat is a right sneaky bugger. When he wants to have the sofa chair to sleep on, he sits by the door as if he wants to go out. When Mummy gets up to let him out, he pounces and grabs the chair.

In the words of Jurassic Park:

"Clever girl."

[Cube]

My cat acts like she's the boss. She'll sit on your knee for hours. However, if you try to move her then she'll hiss, growl, cling on to your legs with her claws and/or scratch your hands.

Edit:

The big problem is that she's too cute to not let her sit on you in the first place. She doesn't even mind if you don't stroke her much - she's often on my knee while I'm playing Left 4 Dead.

[Paj!]

No, not really.

My sister has to "touch wood" at everything, which is a pain. But I don't see what's so terrifying about a cracked mirror and stuff.

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Oh yeah =P

[Dannyboy-the-Dane]

My cat is a right sneaky bugger. When he wants to have the sofa chair to sleep on, he sits by the door as if he wants to go out. When Mummy gets up to let him out, he pounces and grabs the chair.
Haha, owned. :p