Star signs/Astrology

Tesco Massacre

Does anyone here place much store by this stuff?

A friend of mine believes quite strongly in it. To the extent she wouldn't go out with someone who wasn't compatible with her sign.

Personally, I think she's mentally defective.

AlmightyCushion

I find it hilarious that people believe the star signs crap that gets printed in the paper. It's ridiculously vague and the one that applies to you also applies to 1/12 of the earths population.

KungPao

Fergus Gibson knows all.

Disbelieve him at your peril.

Ruu_Old

I only listen to Fergus Gibson. :cool: Is he still around?

KeithM89_old

Was that ur man on live at 3??
Tool..

Sea Sharp

Sagittarius: You will get hungry today and require food, then you will get tired and go to sleep.

TeddyTedson

Well when I check mine it makes sense to me and if I look at the other they don't mean a thing to me mostly...

Dave!

Next time you're reading the paper while she's in the room, read out some random horoscope and tell her it's hers. She'll no doubt tell you how accurate it is, etc., which is when you point out that it wasn't hers at all.

Of course, it won't make a difference to her, and she'll just keep on believing, but at least you'll know that she's a retard and you can feel good about that.

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Well when I check mine it makes sense to me and if I look at the other they don't mean a thing to me mostly...

Bullsh*t. You could interpret at least a few of the other ones so that they fit your life just as easily as your 'real' one. If not, then you're special, cos that's how it works for everyone else.

Sea Sharp

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Well when I check mine it makes sense to me and if I look at the other they don't mean a thing to me mostly...

That's because you see what you want to see.

Carl Sagan

Dave! wrote: »

Next time you're reading the paper while she's in the room, read out some random horoscope and tell her it's hers. She'll no doubt tell you how accurate it is, etc., which is when you point out that it wasn't hers at all.

Of course, it won't make a difference to her, and she'll just keep on believing, but at least you'll know that she's a retard and you can feel good about that.

I'm going to try this and I know it'll work.

I worked for a local paper for a while in transition year and remember the chap writing them. He honestly just pulled a few words out of a mug and wrote them into it. I used to have great fun helping him with them.

TeddyTedson

Well I checked the star signs here
I looked at more than half yet my real one is the only one the is really on track. It's as if it was made specifically for me.

KeithAFC

Nope. Astrology is designed to seem like every sign is specific but they aren't really. Sells papers though.

Bob the Builder

I spent my childhood believeing I was a Capricorn (iirc), and believed all of my horoscopes thinking them to be wonderfully accurate. Aged 13, it is pointed out to me that I am actually a Cancer.

Goes to show, us people will believe anything.

Turpentine

Bob the Builder wrote: »

I spent my childhood believeing I was a Capricorn (iirc), and believed all of my horoscopes thinking them to be wonderfully accurate. Aged 13, it is pointed out to me that I am actually a Cancer.

Goes to show, us people will believe anything.

Who? builders?

TeddyTedson

Turpentine wrote: »

Who, builders?

No one really builders anymore these days. Recession

Oranage2

Newspapers should have less Astrology and more Astronomy

scarymoon1

i worked in a newspaper once and we made the horoscopes up. so don't always believe what you read.

Gummy Panda

its all bullshít

Here is mine:

"The family surprise you with exciting plans and your contribution will be the catalyst that makes them work.

Clever Mercury helps you deal with officials. You can think clearly about love and a decision you hesitated over is now easy.

Single? A workplace romance is one option."

Workplace romance is not an option since I work with mostly guys lol

Biggins

I don't put any stock in that stuff whatsoever.
Amid the billions of starts and galaxies that exist, some is trying to tell me tht because I was born by coincidence under a bunch of particular one, my future can be told?

Cobblers!
People will read into that daily rubbish what they want to read/see, even at a sub-conscious level.

Mr Bloat

There's also the fact that, if the daily horoscope was correct and an indication of someone's future, surely all of the horoscopes printed everywhere would say almost the same thing for each sign? They don't.

fakearms123

How dare you people make fun of horoscopes! :mad: I live my day based solely on my horoscopes! My horoscope was able to predict the two most significant moments in my life!
1. Your birthday party will be ruined once again by your
explosive flatulence

and

2.Your love life will run into trouble when your fiance hurls
a javelin through your chest

Two painful days... both physically and emotionally!

Penn

Think about all the different types of people in the world, people in other cultures, the number of poor people, the number of rich people, the number of healthy people, the number of sick people, the number of people in jail, the number of people who live in tribes etc etc. And I'm supposed to have the same kind of day as 1/12th of all those people? Bull****.

The worst part is people who make major decisions based on their signs. Here's an idea, make decisions based on logic and reasoning, not what constellation was highest in the sky the day you were born

biko

It's a hoax, so says my religious leader Beth Gaga Shaggy

oeb

I know a few different people who write these, they are all either made up on the spot or grabbed from a random website.

The only horoscopes that I have any mass in are the ones on the onion.

eg Virgo - Pluto rising in your sign indicates trouble in your work life, which is problematic because, well, for astronomical reasons, Pluto will be rising in your sign for the next 87 years.

sensibleken

To believe in astrology you have to believe 3 idiotic things

1. Newton was wrong.

2. That burning balls of gas thousands of light years away can effect you life here on earth.

3. The best person to interprit that effect is fergus gibson.

Its the third one that makes least sense

jimthemental

Reading horoscopes aloud to people is apparently bad luck. A couple of my friends actually believe in this slurry so I happily inform them what to expect when I buy a paper. They go ape

WindSock

Being a Gemini, the most intelligent SCHIZO and witty of all the signs I would have to say yes, they do hold some ground :cool:

General Zod

It's a load of oul shíte.

opinion guy

Turpentine wrote: »

Who? builders?

I don't believe in builders!!!!

There...I finally said it...

sensibleken

All being said I do follow the onion horoscopes religiously

http://www.theonion.com/articles/your-horoscopes-week-of-january-4-2011,18719/
eg..

Libra Sep 23 - Oct 23
You have evidently failed to learn the lessons of history, as you will attempt to find the Northwest Passage, unite Britain and Ireland, and get your family to stop exchanging Christmas gifts.

WindSock

sensibleken wrote: »

All being said I do follow the onion horoscopes religiously

http://www.theonion.com/articles/your-horoscopes-week-of-january-4-2011,18719/

Mine

Your sudden desire for stability will lead you to retrofit yourself with StabiliTrak, a rather dated skid- control system that brakes your feet individually to improve control

So true...

Dravokivich

some days i like to stay in and do nothing just to proove to the stars i control what hqppens through out my day...

... especially when i'm meant to discover someone thats tall, dark and handsome...

Duggy747

Boulder-dash, bull-hickey!! Absurd stuff that many wimmen love to believe in.

At least make them more fun:

Libra: You will die a horrible, horrible death today unless you change one thing.......Call 1850 1258342 for more drivel (€4.99 per 10 seconds)

c_man

Taurus: You will read your Star Sign today.


:eek: It's true!

Dunjohn

Things I Do When I'm Really, Really Bored #382: Get yesterday's paper, cover the astrology titles so I don't know which is which, read a random one, and marvel at how accurate it was.

stovelid

I would never hold anything against somebody that believes that myself and themself (and a twelfth of the population) share our personality traits with a goat because of the time of the year in which we were born.

The logic is quite clear.

sensibleken

Pisces: Tonight your mother will sleep with an astrologer. nice.

jester77

it's just a mentaler form of organised religion

Saruman

sensibleken wrote: »

To believe in astrology you have to believe 3 idiotic things

1. Newton was wrong.

2. That burning balls of gas thousands of light years away can effect you life here on earth.

3. The best person to interprit that effect is fergus gibson.

Its the third one that makes least sense

It's not just burning balls of gas, It is burning balls of gas that share no relationship to each other, are many light years away from each other (in all directions) but look to us like they are near each other in the sky.
Primitive people as a means to either navigate at night or just apply some meaning to something that is meaningless drew imaginary lines connecting certain stars and then gave them names.

This was useful for navigation and still is without instrumentation but can not affect you in any way what so ever.

Since astrology is based on whatever so called constellation is in a certain point in the sky, or some crap like that I find it completely impossible to put any stock in it.

Although.... I am a Leo, Leo contains one of the closest stars to Earth called Wolf 359.... I love Star Trek.... coincidence? (only trek nerds might get it)

curlzy

Duggy747 wrote: »

Boulder-dash, bull-hickey!! Absurd stuff that many wimmen love to believe in.

Stop talking out your hole, more guys than girls said they believe it on this thread. Don't be just making **** up about what "wimmen love", you obviously don't have a clue.

Dudess

Like others here, I worked in a newspaper and there were generic horoscope templates that would just get shuffled around from sign to sign.

In my opinion though, believing in star-signs is not as annoying as believing in karma.

Duggy747

curlzy wrote: »

Stop talking out your hole, more guys than girls said they believe it on this thread. Don't be just making **** up about what "wimmen love", you obviously don't have a clue.

Heheh...........I know what a woman should love..........










*Undoes zip*


















*Proceeds to take off jacket, put around woman and give her a nice hug to keep her warm* :pac:

Aseth

Like to read it but don't believe it. Usually forget what it was about 2 minutes after I read it ^^

MagicMarker

It's all bollocks, and if you believe it then you're an idiot.

Pace2008

Dudess wrote: »

In my opinion though, believing in star-signs is not as annoying as believing in karma.

Why, exactly? People who act like dicks will often find themselves ostracised as a result of their actions. Obviously, this is just natural human behaviour but I can at least somewhat understand how people might view this phenomenon as a basis for the existence some quasi-sentient external balancing force.

The idea that that the alignment of celestial objects millions of miles away might affect the minutiae of your day-to-day living is just ****ing nonsense.

kincsem

Same with the horseracing tipsters in the papers. One newspaper reporter said he was both the " ******** Correspondent" and "Captain ****** " . That way he got to pick two horses in every race.

Not much effort involved. He certainly he wasn't stuck in a bush near some racecourse gallops at 7 a.m. in the morning with his binoculars watching horses, or all day on the phone getting information from his stable contacts.

we'llallhavetea_old

Pace2008 wrote: »

Why, exactly? People who act like dicks will often find themselves ostracised as a result of their actions. Obviously, this is just natural human behaviour but I can at least somewhat understand how people might view this phenomenon as a basis for the existence some quasi-sentient external balancing force.

The idea that that the alignment of celestial objects millions of miles away might affect the minutiae of your day-to-day living is just ****ing nonsense.

i thought karma is if you're bad in this life, you'll be reborn into a sh!tty life?

it's all a load of crap to me anyway.

Scarydoll

Aries Your romantic life will hit a rough patch this week when your lover, having grown bored of the relationship, trades you to the Saskatchewan Roughriders.


Wow that is so true. Scary stuff.

Pace2008

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

i thought karma is if you're bad in this life, you'll be reborn into a sh!tty life?

it's all a load of crap to me anyway.

I'm referring to the Western notion of karma ie. what goes around comes around.

I'm not really familiar with the original eastern religious concept of karma and dharma, or if what you're referring to fits into these.

Calibos

Saruman wrote: »

It's not just burning balls of gas, It is burning balls of gas that share no relationship to each other, are many light years away from each other (in all directions) but look to us like they are near each other in the sky.
Primitive people as a means to either navigate at night or just apply some meaning to something that is meaningless drew imaginary lines connecting certain stars and then gave them names.

This was useful for navigation and still is without instrumentation but can not affect you in any way what so ever.

Since astrology is based on whatever so called constellation is in a certain point in the sky, or some crap like that I find it completely impossible to put any stock in it.

Although.... I am a Leo, Leo contains one of the closest stars to Earth called Wolf 359.... I love Star Trek.... coincidence? (only trek nerds might get it)

Ramming Speed!!! Actually thats more related to Aries isn't it? Gives me goosbumps every time the Enterprise swoops in all guns blazing. All that said. I don't consider myself a trek nerd at all

Heres mine

Aquarius Jan 20 - Feb 18
You'll be bitten by a vampire and become one of the Immortal Sanguinary Children of the Night just when the whole fad is about to blow over.

What are you guys talking about? Are you MENTAL? Star signs are for realz, they totally, like, got my day right. It wasn't generic or anything like that. Just like, REALLY vague, but that doesn't matter! It was right, which means you are all wrong!

First you say you think star signs are made up, next you'll be saying my beloved Kabbalah is a load of nonsense, COME ON!