Coincidences

Blisterman

So, what's the biggest coincidence to ever happen to you?

For me, it was when my younger brother bought a mobile phone off the shelf about 3 years after I got one, different network and everything. The last six digits were the exact same as mine. The odds of that happening are exactly a million to one.

orourkeda

I still havent thought of a witty response.

Hasmunch

Coincidence that joincidence with a C.

Coincidence.. i think not!!

MetzgerMeister

orourkeda wrote: »

I still havent thought of a witty response.

What a coincidence! Either have I!

Turtyturd

orourkeda wrote: »

I still havent thought of a witty response.

But thought you would up the post count anyway?

Coincidence's don't exist.

Dravokivich

I made a joke the other day and the punch line was "Get around" like the beach boys song... get around... then 1 of the lads started singing it... and sure enough... the DJ had it playing in the back ground.

None of us noticed it until that joke.

tony1kenobi

One day no matter where I went the Clash song Rock The Casbah was playing.....it seemed to be playing on every radio station.....then that night I heard Joe Strummer had died the night before.......spooky.

Archeron

I woke up this morning and thought "Hey, I'm gonna start a thread on boards today about coincidences, and see if anyone has any interesting stories to share". Lo and behold, I get onto the PC and someone has already done it!!

Spooky!!

alwaysadub

Dravokivich wrote: »

I made a joke the other day and the punch line was "Get around" like the beach boys song... get around... then 1 of the lads started singing it... and sure enough... the DJ had it playing in the back ground.

None of us noticed it until that joke.

Was that on Saturday night? Cos something like that happened then too!

Lando Griffin

Met a classy girl in a nghtclub once and straight away we started at it.
She went off to the toilet and after 15 minutes no sign.
I counted my losses, and went hunting and later while chating to another girl she turned around and said " My sister is shifting someone who just looks like you", and pointed into a dark corner. Sure enough when we went over there was your one that had gone to the toilet ages ago mauling the face of my brother.

mathie

I'm not a religous man but I found this one interesting...

Many years ago my mam was working for the St Vincent de Paul in one of the shops.
She managed to lose a large sum of money on the way from the shop to the bank.
She put up a 'lost money' notice and did a lot of praying to her favourite saint Martin de Porres.
She got a call that some money was found and to go to an address.
The name of the house was St Martin de Porres and lo and behold the money was there.

phill106

I went into videostore to rent a movie, that was out a few years. Just came into my head that i would like to watch it.
When i get there, the only copy had just been rented...."Wait a minute, i rented it to you didnt i?" said the staff member.
"Not Me, can you check my account, in case someone has my details?"
He checks. Was not me that rented it.
It had been rented.....by.....my.....Identical....Twin!

So randomly both of us decided to rent the same video the same day, not a new release or anything, the movie was years old.

derfderf

tony1kenobi wrote: »

One day no matter where I went the Clash song Rock The Casbah was playing.....it seemed to be playing on every radio station.....then that night I heard Joe Strummer had died the night before.......spooky.

that reminds me of the time princess diana died. Every paper or channel i looked at, or person i talked to, was sayin the same thing, "princess diana has died". Then i found out marge was pregnant and pulled out most of my hair.

phill106

Oh thought of another!

Going through old family photos, A photo is found showing me on holidays in ireland when i was about 8-10 years old. I lived in USA at the time.Im 31 now.
In the photo, I am at a staff party for the airport, and who is that familliar looking girl sitting next to me?
OMG It is my wife!
I had met her in my teens after I moved back, but obviously didn't know our paths had crossed before, and neither did she.

Spooky!

theboss80

Me and my brother have the EXACT same surname, im pretty sure we grew up in the same town aswell.

BeeJazizWafuls

I found that there being 24 bottles of beer in a crate and 24 hours in a day a huge coincidence, great excuse, big coincidence

phill106

theboss80 wrote: »

Me and my brother have the EXACT same surname, im pretty sure we grew up in the same town aswell.

Thats because your your mother didnt tell your dad about the postman or the milkman.....both times....

Dravokivich

alwaysadub wrote: »

Was that on Saturday night? Cos something like that happened then too!

It was yeah

Names were withheld due to er... not entirelly remembering who was around me at the time...

Superbus

My dad was renting a car in Italy once, and when he gave his ridiculously rare name to the Hertz person, they said that he'd already gotten his car. Turns out some Australian with the exact same name had just been!

Turned out he was some distant cousin. Funny, at the time at least.

massdebater

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Met a classy girl in a nghtclub once and straight away we started at it.
She went off to the toilet and after 15 minutes no sign.
I counted my losses, and went hunting and later while chating to another girl she turned around and said " My sister is shifting someone who just looks like you", and pointed into a dark corner. Sure enough when we went over there was your one that had gone to the toilet ages ago mauling the face of my brother.

Was shifting this ugly fella in a niteclub one nite for a bet. Once I realised that I won, I legged it to the toilet to hide, only reappearing when I was sure he was gone.

Seen this much better looking fella later on and took him to a dark corner. We put on another bet with my sister to see if she'd shift the ugliest fella in the place. Turns out she picked the same munter I shifted earlier and he happened to be brothers with my new "dark corner" guy!

What a coincindence! :pac:

Shanotheslayer

Don't believe in coincidence.

Abrasax

I Don't believe in coincidence.

Dudess

tony1kenobi wrote: »

One day no matter where I went the Clash song Rock The Casbah was playing.....it seemed to be playing on every radio station.....then that night I heard Joe Strummer had died the night before.......spooky.

I've mentioned my celebrity-killing abilities here before:

- Few hours before Nina Simone died, I was talking to friends about her
- Night before Johnny Cash died, talking to my brother about him
- Night before Charlton Heston died, talking to my mum about him




Don't ask me to talk about Bono, it doesn't work if you do it intentionally...

Dudess

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Don't believe in coincidence.

Abrasax wrote: »

I Don't believe in coincidence.

Still?

Dravokivich

Dudess wrote: »

- Night before Johnny Cash died, talking to my brother about her

Who was she?

OutlawPete

It takes the earth 365 days to orbit the sun and yet, that is exactly the same amount of days in one full year.

Freaky.

Abrasax

Dudess wrote: »

I've mentioned my celebrity-killing abilities here before:

- Few hours before Nina Simone died, I was talking to friends about her
- Night before Johnny Cash died, talking to my brother about her
- Night before Charlton Heston died, talking to my mum about him

:eek:
Witch.

Actually I got one.
I was in India and took a train to a village about 2 hours outside Bombay, to deliver a package to the family of an Indian friend who lives in Dublin.
When I got off at the train station I shared a tuk-tuk with a Canadian-Indian girl who was visiting some relatives of in the same village.
Turns out we were both staying in the same hotel in Bombay.
A happy coincidence.

i.need.a.job

i always say things at the same time as other people.. even if its a pure random comment. or ill look at my phone an get a message. and i see the numbers 911 every single day some way or another.. in phone numbers, the time, reg's, anywhere.. yesterday it was on the tax disc of some ones car.. freaky. its been happenin for years now.

Dudess

Abrasax wrote: »

I shared a tuk-tuk with a Canadian-Indian girl

?

Dravokivich

i.need.a.job wrote: »

i see the numbers 911 every single day some way or another..

Happens to me too generally see it about twice a day... unless I look at a timetable...

Abrasax

Dudess wrote: »

?

A girl of Indian extraction who was raised in Canada.

phill106

Dudess wrote: »

?

tuk-tuk is those little carriages you see in thailand/india etc. Some are motor driven, some pulled by people.

Run_to_da_hills

Bought a "diamond" RTG number eg: 087 123 **** and my mate got issued with the exact same number digit for digit on 086 two years later. I have prople looking for him and ringing me instead.

**Timbuk2**

I often take the phone out of my pocket to check the time just seconds before I get a text or call!

I often wake up a few minutes before the alarm goes off!

phill106

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Don't believe in coincidence.

Abrasax wrote: »

I Don't believe in coincidence.

You both wrote that at nearly the exact same time!


What a........

















Random Occurrence of probability.

Birneybau

tony1kenobi wrote: »

One day no matter where I went the Clash song Rock The Casbah was playing.....it seemed to be playing on every radio station.....then that night I heard Joe Strummer had died the night before.......spooky.

Wait...Hold on..

You heard "Rock the Casbah" all day the day after the great Joe Strummer died?

I never thought tributes were coincidental.

consultech

Some of the coincidences here are mad.

The maddest one I've heard would be a friend buying a new mobile and getting a (apparently) recycled number from vodafone. Every few weeks he would get the odd text/call looking for "Susan". He met an Irish girl in Oz n started going out with her, and they came home together. He hadn't used his Irish moby in about 6 months n had forgotten the whole Susan thing. It happened again a couple of months later except he passed the phone to his new GF presuming it was one of her friends looking for her. Turned out that was the self same "Susan" who used to own that number.

I used to have a thing where I'd randomly think of a load of Simpson's jokes, not knowing they were all from the one episode, then low and behold that episode would be on on Sky 1 that night. This happened a couple of times per week for months. I was very consciously aware of it n used to predict the episode that'd be on.



Digressively however: I find the human tendency to identify and be fascinated by "coincidence" fascinating in itself. We as a species seem to have an innate quality whereby we identify patterns and only focus on the results of a very limited sample in spite of everything else. Generally speaking, we seem to take huge solice in the hope there is a greater power orchestrating things for us; perhaps tieing in with religion being the "opiate of the masses" n all I suppose.

Perhaps not entirely, but suitably relevant is Derren Brown's interesting piece on something similar. It's the one with the marketing project where he drives various people to a location, subliminally planting various images and words along the route; then they all come up with the one picture for a pet cemetary advertising campaign.

There's something in it though I reckon. We subconsciously absorb info and then do backflips in excitement when the same patterns come up again. I have played a lot of poker over the years, and you have a tendency to ignore the statistically mundane and be fascinated by the re-occurance of certain cards etc. I used to shake my head in pity when I would overhear people talking about the roulette table in casinos, and "14" coming up again etc. "Ah it was up a bit last night too". It probably all boils back down to faith versus science at the end of the day.

Anyone else every get majorly stoned in work?

consultech

I also once saw a documentary about a group of passengers on a flight that crashed on this island, but every one of them was linked in some way in their lives before that.

Went on a bit though.

Abrasax

Abrasax wrote: »

I Don't believe in coincidence.

Actually I'm a great believer in them, more so synchronicities a la Jung.
Example, some guy pm'd me here cause he'd spotted a reference from a book by an author we both liked.
He asked me what I was reading at the minute and I replied 'The Eye in the Triangle' about Aleister Crowley.
'Oh', says he, 'I'm a member of the Thelemic Foundation', a group who practice and spread Crowleys teachings and would I be into checking out the organisation.
Well, I wouldn't have before but based purely on the coincidence....

r3nu4l

Dudess wrote: »

I've mentioned my celebrity-killing abilities here before:

- Few hours before Nina Simone died, I was talking to friends about her
- Night before Johnny Cash died, talking to my brother about him
- Night before Charlton Heston died, talking to my mum about him

I was only thinking about this last week actually because last year, hours before Michael Jackson died, I had a dream that I met him and had a dance-off with him

All the more strange because I can't dance and I've never been a fan of Michael Jackson. Then I wake up to discover that the had died!!

Asphyxia

My father and one of his bestfriends would always say to eachother that whoever died first has to come back just to say goodbye before going to the after life! My father's friend died a few years ago and the day after he died we were all sitting out in the yard when suddenly a car slammed on the brakes and pulled in the gate.

It was a hearse!! It's tyre went flat and needed to pull in fast! The weird thing about it was it was my father's friend who was in the coffin in the hearse. My parents house isn't even in the town it's in the country far from wear he was meant to be. What a way to say goodbye eh?

Lando Griffin

massdebater wrote: »

Was shifting this ugly fella in a niteclub one nite for a bet. Once I realised that I won, I legged it to the toilet to hide, only reappearing when I was sure he was gone.

Seen this much better looking fella later on and took him to a dark corner. We put on another bet with my sister to see if she'd shift the ugliest fella in the place. Turns out she picked the same munter I shifted earlier and he happened to be brothers with my new "dark corner" guy!

What a coincindence! :pac:

What the.
Deloras?
Myself and Odnal ( my ex brother ) havent spoken since that night after the chipper.

r3nu4l

It didn't happen to me personally but I was watching 'Look East'* late last year and there was an article about the wife of a man who wanted to meet the people to whom her dead (obviously) husbands' organs had been donated.

She went to one of the families that agreed to meet with her and was having a chat with them about the recipients life before and after his transplant. He was showing her photos of him on his holiday's the year before, about six months before he knew he would need the transplant.

Turns out that the wife and (organ donor) husband had been in the same place at the same time and in one of the photographs the guy who donated his organs is standing directly behind the guy who received one of his organs! Freaky!!:eek:




*Local East Anglian News TV show on BBC.

Zigmund

Pocketfizz wrote: »

My father and one of his bestfriends would always say to eachother that whoever died first has to come back just to say goodbye before going to the after life! My father's friend died a few years ago and the day after he died we were all sitting out in the yard when suddenly a car slammed on the brakes and pulled in the gate.

It was a hearse!! It's tyre went flat and needed to pull in fast! The weird thing about it was it was my father's friend who was in the coffin in the hearse. My parents house isn't even in the town it's in the country far from wear he was meant to be. What a way to say goodbye eh?

Some best friend if he stays in your garden instead of going to the funeral.

Shanotheslayer

consultech wrote: »

I also once saw a documentary about a group of passengers on a flight that crashed on this island, but every one of them was linked in some way in their lives before that.

Went on a bit though.

So you watched Lost then yeah?:pac:

Shanotheslayer

Dudess wrote: »

I've mentioned my celebrity-killing abilities here before:

- Few hours before Nina Simone died, I was talking to friends about her
- Night before Johnny Cash died, talking to my brother about him
- Night before Charlton Heston died, talking to my mum about him




Don't ask me to talk about Bono, it doesn't work if you do it intentionally...

Can you talk about Justin Bieber?

Edit: Just seen the intentional thing:(

Asphyxia

Zigmund wrote: »

Some best friend if he stays in your garden instead of going to the funeral.

The funeral wasn't till the next day! The wake was on that night that's why we couldn't figure out why he ended up in our yard? My father went to both.

consultech

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

So you watched Lost then yeah?:pac:

Im so not appreciated in my time.

phill106

consultech wrote: »

Im so not appreciated in my time.

Wouldn't hold out much hope for after your time either...

mick_jt

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Met a classy girl in a nghtclub once and straight away we started at it.
She went off to the toilet and after 15 minutes no sign.
I counted my losses, and went hunting and later while chating to another girl she turned around and said " My sister is shifting someone who just looks like you", and pointed into a dark corner. Sure enough when we went over there was your one that had gone to the toilet ages ago mauling the face of my brother.

At the start i thought it was going to end like "the next day I was at a family reunion and it turns out I was shifting my long lost half-sister WHAT A COINCIDENCE!!!:D:D"

But luckily the thread stayed legal and away from incest!!

Dudess

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Can you talk about Justin Bieber?

Edit: Just seen the intentional thing:(

It's pretty devastating that this gift of mine is wasted on people who don't deserve it...
(Heston might be an ambiguous one, granted...)

Really hoping I chat to someone about Jedward without thinking about it...