It's Friday the 13th, Are you superstitious?

Jesus Wept

:eek: :eek: :eek: It's Friday the 13th :eek: :eek: :eek:


Are you superstitious? Are you afraid to leave the house?



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6548143.stm

bbc.co.uk wrote:

you may be surprised to learn that Belfast City Hall has no bookings for weddings this Friday the 13th on a day, given the time of year, when there could possibly be several.

Would you have your wedding on Friday the 13th (I would, hypothetically).

Have you any weird tales of Friday the 13th's past?

Ruu_Old

Friday 13th, August 2004 was rough for me. Power went out at work and came back a few hours later so we had to stay late, I got shot in the hand with a 2 1/2" industrial staple (went all the way through) and our cat had to get surgery. It didn't end too badly as I had 3 nurses (helloooooooo nurse!) fussing over me in casualty trying to pull the staple out of my hand.
Nothing can go wrong tomorrow, I'm sure it'll be fine...

Ghost Train

One story I've heard involves anybody who starts a thread on friday the 13th, as you can imagine the day doesn't go so well for any of these thread starters. Apparently there's a mod around who goes a bit syco on this date. So if boards seems a bit faster saturday morning, lets just say it won't be because they've upgraded the servers. Watch your back

Nichololas

I heard that if you reply to a thread on Friday the 13th, you will be violated by a black ca

Black Swan

Well, no problemo for those of us 8 time zones west of ye, it's still the 12th for another 18 minutes. Ha! (Gets ready to jump under table in free wi fi hotspot when it strikes the bewitching hour).

Burning Eclipse

I'm being made redundant from my job today.... Obviously I've known for a few weeks, but on Friday 13th... Ya, I got a laugh out of that! Anyway, severance pay ftw.

Stephen

Superstition is for muppets. *breaks a mirror whilst walking under a ladder on Friday 13th*

Stephen

Stephen wrote:

Superstition is for muppets. *breaks a mirror whilst walking under a ladder on Friday 13th*

doooooooomed!

littlebug

I do remember one Friday 13th when I was little when a tree fell on my dad and broke his leg. The same day my mam put her back out and she couldn't move. So I'm a wee bit superstitious about it.

scuse my typoos... hard to typpe with all this cootton wool wrapped around mee.

6th

Simply by worrying about all day can cause yourself to have a bad day. Personally I think very positive on days like this and if anything they've been very lucky for me.

dulpit

it's just another day of the week to be honest, can't see the big deal... The only reason i actually noted that it's friday the 13th is cos i saw this thread on the home page...

Anti

Pfft, nothing bad has ever happened to me before on friday the 13th. I'm not supersticious in the slightest.

6th

I was 13 on Friday the 13th (a few years ago), my birthday this year is on friday the 13th again.

ixoy

I'm ready to blame all problems at work today on it being Friday the 13th. This way I get to remove my responsibilities on to superstition. Win!

WindSock

NO because it's bad luck to be superstitious

Plissken1

Lucky 13 yeaahh ... I must do the Lotto

petes

I'm too hungover to care. Not that I would care anyway.

NutJob

Last day of my job im going for pints after work.
Finishing up little bits here and there.

What could go wrong its a damn good day.:D


Ogh, and the weathers good two!

Kurtosis

May 2005 on Friday 13th I went into school with a mission to try and do as many unlucky things as possible to prove nothing bad would happen. Salt was flying all over the place, got my hands on an umbrella for indoors, I think there was a ladder around as well. All was going fine until last class of the day where I burnt all of the underside of my thumb on an extremely hot test tube and got a massive blister. Lesson learned.

humanji

penguin88 wrote:

May 2005 on Friday 13th I went into school with a mission to try and do as many unlucky things as possible to prove nothing bad would happen. Salt was flying all over the place, got my hands on an unmbrella for indoors, I think there was a ladder around as well. All was going fine until last class of the day where I burnt all of the underside of my thumb on an extremely hot test tube and got a massive blister. Lesson learned.

That's not unlucky, that's stupidity

Archytas

Me and the woman had our first date on a friday the 13th... 4 years later and things are looking good so I'm a happy man.

And I'm pretty sure that friday the 6th is the date to get worried about - that way it knows your not on the look out for those staples and falling buckets or paint cans.... Just like the y2k bug - the real date was the 9th of sept - 3 months before new years!!

seamus

Believing that today will be unlucky for you, causes bad luck to happen to you.

The idea of bad or good luck being a random occurence or being out of one's hands is nonsensical. A negative attitude on a person's part though, will cause negative things to occur around them.

I've never had a Friday the 13th that I could say has been different to any other day.

13 in fact is one of those numbers that keeps appearing in daily life for me (112 being another, which is weird when you add the first digit to the second two...).

Sangre

Friday the 13th unlucky? Don't be stupid! How can anyone believe in that unsubstantiated nonsense.

Now where did I put that Bible...

NutJob

penguin88 wrote:

May 2005 on Friday 13th I went into school with a mission to try and do as many unlucky things as possible to prove nothing bad would happen. Salt was flying all over the place, got my hands on an unmbrella for indoors, I think there was a ladder around as well. All was going fine until last class of the day where I burnt all of the underside of my thumb on an extremely hot test tube and got a massive blister. Lesson learned.

Test tube hot

Stephen

Thirteen is considered a lucky number in Italy too. What does a superstitious italian person in Ireland do on Friday 13th?

tc20

The-Rigger wrote:

Would you have your wedding on Friday the 13th (I would, hypothetically).

Have you any weird tales of Friday the 13th's past?

Actually meself and herself got married on friday 13th nearly four years ago..
Strangely enough there were no other bookings for the hotel that day
I did actually toy with the idea of having a line of ladders outside the church for us to walk under, and for friends to smash mirrors at the hotel for a laugh. but thought this would be pushing it a bit...
No bad luck stories, happiest four years of my life.
On the morning after, we were in the hotel bar with some friends who had stayed over, and on the front of one of the papers was the story about the ship on that RTE reality program (cant think of the name, but it was presented by Derek Mooney) - the ship broke up on rocks on the previous day :eek:

NutJob

Stephen wrote:

Thirteen is considered a lucky number in Italy too. What does a superstitious italian person in Ireland do on Friday 13th?

Get lucky


I'll get my coat.

6th

NutJob wrote:

Last day of my job ..... What could go wrong

Have you not seen what happens to Danny Glover on his last day of work in the Lethal Weapon Movies?

nervous_twitch

6th wrote:

I was 13 on Friday the 13th (a few years ago), my birthday this year is on friday the 13th again.

Happy Birthday so..!

nervous_twitch

nervous_twitch wrote:

Happy Birthday so..!

Unless of course you were talking about the Friday 13th which falls in July.. in which case, have a horrible, horrible day

6th

Yep its July but not that I'll notice its my birthday because baby number 2 is due around 4th July.

petes

Stephen wrote:

Thirteen is considered a lucky number in Italy too. What does a superstitious italian person in Ireland do on Friday 13th?

Has a ****?

Time Magazine

seamus wrote:

The idea of bad or good luck being a random occurence or being out of one's hands is nonsensical.

You're playing football and two of you go for a 50-50 challenge, the ball ends up clocking the ref in the nose.

To me, that's bad luck. Finding a winning ticket for the Euromillions is good luck. The assumption that people's spread of such instances in life are equally distributed with a mean of zero is nonsensical.

Whether there are days when the sum of "luck" is particularly skewed either way, well that's an impossible empirical project. Wouldn't completely rule it out happening mind.

Last Friday there was a power outage in work. Because we have very important government style files on the system, we have a back-up generator that kicks in automatically.

Anyway, that starts and 5 mins later the fire alarm goes off. We're all evacuated and end up standing on the pavement around the corner for 20 minutes while the fire brigade are called and the source of the fire is found. Turns out, a pigeon had died in/on/under/around the generator and that heated up quicksmart.

So, there's the smell of freshly cooked putrefied pigeon wafting all over our office. We're all sent home (it's roughly half 3), and endup going to the Pav in Trinity and getting locked in the sunshine.

T'was a great day. Except for the pigeon.