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I actually get a little pissed at fortune cookies that just make an observation about me, personally, rather than predicting the future.
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Back when I was in middle school I'd flip over every test we were given and draw a good luck charm in the corner. It was a smiling guy I called Lucky Bob, drawn so the back of the staple holding the paper together was his eyes.
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Sep 15, 2017 00:53
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Back in the 56k days, I somehow came to believe that if I left the mouse cursor over this one particular part of the screen, Netscape Navigator would load pages much faster. This, of course, did not work.
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Sep 15, 2017 04:34
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Pastry of the Year posted:I actually get a little pissed at fortune cookies that just make an observation about me, personally, rather than predicting the future. I got take-out last night and it came with two cookies and both of them were the passive-aggressive judgmental kind. "here's your fortune: stop being an rear end in a top hat" Well gently caress you too, cookie!
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Sep 15, 2017 06:16
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Hello I am a neurotic mess. Don't look at mirrors at night. Prime numbers or at least multiples of 3 are good numbers, every other number is a bad number. Always say "I love you" to someone when I leave to go somewhere, or when they leave. Otherwise they might get hurt or I might be hurt because I didn't appreciate them enough when they were around. Always stir tea clockwise, it stirs luck in. Stirring it widdershins is asking for trouble. If the tea goes cold, then you have to pour it out because the faeries have taken it and drinking it will make them mad. If a door is closed- even a closet door- tap on it three times before opening it. It banishes bad things on the other side. Cats- any cat- is good luck and will protect you from bad supernatural bullshit. Tell them you appreciate them often and scritch them if they want. Don't say wishes out loud, or the opposite will happen. This only works if the opposite of the wish would bring a bad thing around. If you can't find an object, set out a cookie or a cup of tea for the faeries. It'll turn up after they're done. If you get that spooky "someone is behind you" feeling, close your eyes and turn around. Only open them once you've turned around.
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Sep 15, 2017 06:27
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Sociopastry posted:
Are you from Ireland and/or the UK?
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Sep 15, 2017 07:03
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I press the AC button on my calculator twice before beginning a new calculation.
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Sep 15, 2017 10:49
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Sociopastry posted:Don't look at mirrors at night. Have you ever thought if you're at an unfamiliar house and it's night and you look anywhere at all that there might be a mirror there you're looking at but you can't see it because it is night you see?
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Sep 15, 2017 10:50
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I take my laptop to work and without fail I always zip the bag up after taking my laptop and charger out. Why do I do this. I just get annoyed when I have to unzip it later. I also have to set and reset my alarms at least five times each before I go to bed, and also I have two alarms. Also if you have something on a thing and it's made an area that's cut off from the rest, like if you made a triangle out of pencils on a desk, I need to move something to make it continuous again. So like with the pencils I'd have to break the triangle. On reading these they're not so much superstitious and more irrational...
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Sep 15, 2017 14:14
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My dad refuses to allow seashells or bird- or butterfly-based decorations in his house. I don't know the exact origins of this superstition other than his mother taught it to him and it has to do with not trying to cage the natural world. Trying to send an Easter card to my grandmother was a pain because the card COULD NOT have birds or butterflies on it. Even now that she's gone I automatically rule out any cards like that. e: once my mom's parents went on a beach vacation and her mom brought back a shoebox full of beautiful seashells she'd found. My dad wouldn't even allow the box inside the house. coronatae has a new favorite as of 14:59 on Sep 15, 2017 |
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Sep 15, 2017 14:56
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coronatae posted:My dad refuses to allow seashells or bird- or butterfly-based decorations in his house. I don't know the exact origins of this superstition other than his mother taught it to him and it has to do with not trying to cage the natural world. Trying to send an Easter card to my grandmother was a pain because the card COULD NOT have birds or butterflies on it. Even now that she's gone I automatically rule out any cards like that. I think your dad and grandma might just be joyless assholes.
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Sep 15, 2017 15:07
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Beachcomber posted:Are you from Ireland and/or the UK? Nope. Just grew up on a ton of faerie tales.
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Sep 15, 2017 15:52
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Pyrotoad posted:I take my laptop to work and without fail I always zip the bag up after taking my laptop and charger out. Why do I do this. I just get annoyed when I have to unzip it later. 
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Sep 15, 2017 19:24
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I fully acknowledge that all these are ridiculous: I work in security and if someone says anything along the lines of "have a quiet shift", "it's been a quiet day today" etc., poo poo is going to hit the fan soon. Most people who've been around those types of industries (security, law enforcement, EMT, etc.) have a similar kind of belief so you can spot the new people because they still say poo poo like that. Someone commented on how quiet it was yesterday, within ten minutes I was doing CPR on someone. I only shine my boots once my work week is done. If I shine my boots before work, SOMETHING will happen to ruin that shine. Whether it's bad weather or whatever, something bad will happen. During college football season, I won't touch items that are the color of a) whatever team my college is playing that week or b) the colors of our main rival. I will never, at any point in the year, handle anything with our main rival's logo on it - I'll put on gloves first if need be. (I've always got latex gloves on me anyway.) I flip coins for fairly major decisions. I've got a Brazilian real coin that stays in the money clip on my wallet because it's made, I guess, of some ferrous metal because it stays on the magnet. Which is handy. Not so much a superstition as just a life lesson: I always tell my family or whomever that I love them before parting. Life is short, tell people you love them. As others have mentioned, I kiss my fingertips and put them on my car ceiling if "running" a yellow light. I'm sure some other stuff will come to me.
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Sep 15, 2017 20:08
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Who What Now posted:I think your dad and grandma might just be joyless assholes. These superstitions are pretty common in Colombia (where they're from) so I guess the entire nation is joyless assholes v vOther fun ones: -buy brand-new underwear to wear for New Year's Eve. It must be yellow and you have to wear it turned inside out. This brings prosperity somehow -don't set your purse on the floor or you'll never be able to keep your money. This one is just good sense imo since you don't wan nasty floor poo poo on your purse
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Sep 15, 2017 20:52
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wyntyr posted:I fully acknowledge that all these are ridiculous: I'm an EMT, and I don't really believe that "quiet" makes bad poo poo happen, but I've been so conditioned to not say it I cringe when people around me say it. Even when I'm not at work.
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Sep 16, 2017 19:19
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I don't ever completely finish a beverage that has an open top, like a regular glass or a soda can. Stuff with replaceable caps are okay. I always leave just a little bit left at the bottom because that's where all the germs are and drinking it will poison me or something.
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Sep 19, 2017 22:00
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Solid Cake posted:I don't ever completely finish a beverage that has an open top, like a regular glass or a soda can. Stuff with replaceable caps are okay. I always leave just a little bit left at the bottom because that's where all the germs are and drinking it will poison me or something. I always did this when I was younger and I can't explain why. Also if you ever drink something with an open top there is a bee inside of it waiting to sting you in the throat, killing you instantly.
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Sep 19, 2017 22:25
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i go to church every week
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Sep 19, 2017 22:30
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The moon pisses me off
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Sep 20, 2017 01:23
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The only reason the sun is so bright is to blind me on my way to and from work.
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Sep 20, 2017 01:27
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My great aunt was very old school and superstitious Japanese and instilled a fear of ghosts, objects that are too old into me from an early age and honestly its a wonder I ever left my room without grabbing a pound of salt to keep all the ghosts away. I dont sleep with my head facing east because of her, for example and put salt under my mattress for the same reason. My friends thought I was weird, but guess who wasn't ever murdered at midnight by ghosts?
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Nov 2, 2017 09:37
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Hardcordion posted:Back when I was in middle school I'd flip over every test we were given and draw a good luck charm in the corner. It was a smiling guy I called Lucky Bob, drawn so the back of the staple holding the paper together was his eyes. My test good luck charm was a rat named Mr. Wuggles, which I believe may originally be from the Rat Race screensaver module from After Dark, because I was a loser mid-'90's child and I loved that poo poo. Mr. Wuggles got drawn on the tops of my tests from fourth grade through at least middle school.
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Nov 2, 2017 09:50
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I have no idea where it came from, but when I was a kid I was convinced that if you put pants on before putting on socks, you would ruin your socks or something. I had this opinion well into adulthood and still do it out of force of habit. And before you ask, you could take your socks off before your pants. That order only applied while getting dressed.
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Don Gato posted:My great aunt was very old school and superstitious Japanese and instilled a fear of ghosts, objects that are too old into me from an early age and honestly its a wonder I ever left my room without grabbing a pound of salt to keep all the ghosts away. Don't Japanese houses tend to be pretty poorly made in terms of not built to last many decades or whatever, in favor of tearing down and rebuilding? I'm pretty sure I've heard that before. I wonder if it on some level has to do with not wanting a house to get old and therefore more likely to be haunted. I don't have many. I'll make a wish at 11:11 if I notice it, but have no expectation that that does anything. And if I say something like "hopefully it doesn't rain tomorrow" and someone says "no, don't say that, now it will", I have to reply with something like "that poo poo isn't true, don't be weird at me" because I don't believe the initial statement has any silly superstitious power, but the other person suggesting it does might imbue it with said power, and my rude dismissal removes it (at the same time making me a hypocrite and kinda rude, but you can thank me when it doesn't rain).
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Diet Poison posted:I don't have many. I'll make a wish at 11:11 if I notice it, but have no expectation that that does anything. And if I say something like "hopefully it doesn't rain tomorrow" and someone says "no, don't say that, now it will", I have to reply with something like "that poo poo isn't true, don't be weird at me" because I don't believe the initial statement has any silly superstitious power, but the other person suggesting it does might imbue it with said power, and my rude dismissal removes it (at the same time making me a hypocrite and kinda rude, but you can thank me when it doesn't rain). I'm gonna use this in my real life. Thank you.
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Nov 2, 2017 21:16
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Picnic Princess posted:I often see life as a sin wave, and it varies in amplitude and frequency. Some people have rather boring lives with low measurements and anything bad that happens to them is pretty tame and they have equally relatively tame highlights. But then there's people who just seem to have the most ridiculous poo poo happen all the time. For each unbelievably incredible experience, they will have monumentally bad poo poo happen to balance it out. And it's not all by choice or lifestyle. Kind of like karma, but instead the universe has to maintain the balance of this wave. I feel the exact same way. Whenever something incredible happens I always get a sinking feeling in the back of my mind of what the massive impending negative is going to be.
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Nov 2, 2017 21:50
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Antivehicular posted:the Rat Race screensaver module from After Dark, I, too, am a loser then because I loved that poo poo. I can't believe I've actually found someone else who remembers those.
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C-Euro posted:I have no idea where it came from, but when I was a kid I was convinced that if you put pants on before putting on socks, you would ruin your socks or something. I had this opinion well into adulthood and still do it out of force of habit. Solid Cake posted:I, too, am a loser then because I loved that poo poo. I can't believe I've actually found someone else who remembers those.
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Nov 3, 2017 09:41
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Don Gato posted:My great aunt was very old school and superstitious Japanese and instilled a fear of ghosts, objects that are too old into me from an early age and honestly its a wonder I ever left my room without grabbing a pound of salt to keep all the ghosts away. How much salt, theoretically, would this require? Can it be in a sachet or does it have to be loose? Theoretically.
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Nov 3, 2017 09:57
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Riatsala posted:Well, since you asked... I think that you have very interesting eccentricity, I have never heard of someone genuinely feel that the 13th of every month or Friday of every week as a sign of bad omen or to eschew ominous predictions. I am sure they give the rich tapestry of your personality a pleasant texture. As for me, I cannot think of many superstitious or irrational behaviors I exhibit. I sometimes, irrationally, take account of all the items in my pockets, especially after leaving a place or from my car to make sure I have not forgotten anything. Not just a single check but I mentally inventory the three things I have sometimes five or more times. I also never will curse or challenge some unseen deity, I do not think if I did anything would come of it, but the thought of cursing a powerful being that is worshipped and acknowledged by countless millions just in my mind seems like a reckless endeavor. However, the irrational or maybe just inconsistent part of this superstition (I'm sure there are rational superstitions) is that I would be more comfortable cursing or damning a deity from some forgotten or not widely worshipped deity but I do not mean I would feel comfortable doing this, just I would prefer To curse a forgotten spirit or Great Being than a more widely venerated one.
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Nov 3, 2017 12:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdxNwByblQE this thread reminds me of this amazing 80s commercial
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Can confirm that the "quiet" superstition is also present in the veterinary industry. My practice uses "manageable" instead, but I did hear from a colleague that the place she trained in used to wish for all the washing to get done on days that looked less busy to ward off emergencies somehow. 
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Nov 3, 2017 12:32
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I channel it into posts for the paranormal/conspiracy subforum. Esp after reading an article about HIV and the food industry.
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Nov 3, 2017 12:48
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I scribe every exercise rep on the back of old receipts. Some are lines, some are circles, some are another thing. The stack is stored between the pages of my expired passport. Every post I make is for the glory of Hecate, Discordia, and most of all Glycon. Magic, like Jesus, is real, because it affects hearts and minds.
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Nov 4, 2017 00:42
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Back when I wrote stuff for the SCP Foundation website, I hated SCP-231 on a fundamental/conceptual level (tldr it's the platonic ideal of "doing terrible things to keep the world safe" stuff they like doing) to the point that I hate any instance of the number 231. It most normally comes up in times (12:31, 2:31); I'll make sure that I don't start or finish something on those times.
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Nov 4, 2017 01:04
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I always hold my breath when driving past cemeteries. Though, if I'm walking past/through one, I'll say hello to every headstone I pass. If things are acting unusually/unexpectedly in my apartment, I always tell our apartment ghost to stay safe.
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Nov 4, 2017 03:04
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Your avatar is cute, and I see its connection to you. Respect the non-material.
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I blow into clean glasses or cups in case there may be bugs stuck in them, no idea why since if there was one. Maybe it's ghost bugs?!
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I never put keys on a table, and get kind of miffed if someone I know puts mine on one. This happens somewhat often, since I work in a bar and every so often someone has to borrow my keys to get into the keg room, or something like that. I thought for the longest time that it was from the north (of Sweden) since the only other person I know who does the same also has parents from the north, but when I spoke about it with my mother (who is the person I learned it from), she told me she learnt it from my paternal grandmother (who was from Uruguay), so I have no idea where the idea comes from.
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