Friday the 13th!!!

Chonaic · 13-08-2004 01:45AM #1

Is this day unlucky for you or just another friday?

OfflerCrocGod · 13-08-2004 02:13AM

Just another friday but some web sites seem to take it seriously.

keu · 13-08-2004 02:20AM

thats mad, its like tall buildings leaving out the thirteenth floor.
Just another friday for me (and I love fridays)

Chonaic · 13-08-2004 02:25AM

Normal for me aswell, but if something does happen it goes down as friday the 13th bad luck.

Suaimhneach · 13-08-2004 02:48AM

I think its a load of crap tbh, but then, ya never know. Superstitions and coincidences and whatnot....

SantaHoe · 13-08-2004 03:09AM

I was born on a Friday 13th, so it's supposedly my lucky day... or I'm the anti-christ.. I forget which.

RobertFoster · 13-08-2004 04:00AM

just another friday - I didn't even realise it was friday or the 13th tbh...

garthv · 13-08-2004 04:03AM

funnily enough friday 13th has always been a lucky day for me

Bacchus · 13-08-2004 04:12AM

Ah ****.... tommorow's the 13th. I'm going to Canada's Wonderland tommorow. That's plenty of opportunities for my seat restraints to come lose and me fall out. Fantastic :eek:

voltamadan · 13-08-2004 05:29AM

there were two accidents where i work today-one guy got electrocuted and another guy suffered a heart attack-freekay! :eek:

Peewee_lane · 13-08-2004 06:32AM

Im in work and crazy stuff has been happnin all night, people keep sayin that they'll be "right back" all night,and no sign of them! :eek:

bizmark · 13-08-2004 07:21AM

It will be the best day so far this year if doom 3 is droped through the letter box later on today

gobby · 13-08-2004 08:00AM

Just another day...

DivX · 13-08-2004 08:13AM

Not worried, like bizmark waiting for my copy of Doom 3 to be dropped through the door.

ArthurDent · 13-08-2004 08:29AM

Nah -All Fridays are good - now Mondays - Thursdays can be a bit of a
Ba$%&*d! But Fridays- ahh sweet! Off to the Shannon for the weekend

Ste- · 13-08-2004 08:35AM

Thanks, I had forgotten what day it was. :mad:

Sleepy · 13-08-2004 09:38AM

It's Friday Woohoo! That means drinkies

Jim · 13-08-2004 09:39AM

Today is a good day to die.

bizmark · 13-08-2004 09:40AM

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

Today is a good day to die.

F*cking klingon's

Stephen · 13-08-2004 09:55AM

Just another day. Hate all that superstitious bollocks.

Beruthiel · 13-08-2004 09:58AM

Friday the 13th and The Knights Templar

One theory holds that it came about not as the result of a convergence, but a catastrophe, a single historical event that happened nearly 700 years ago. The catastrophe was the decimation of the Knights Templar, the legendary order of "warrior monks" formed during the Christian Crusades to combat Islam.
Renowned as a fighting force for 200 years, by the 1300s the order had grown so pervasive and powerful it was perceived as a political threat by kings and popes alike and brought down by a church-state conspiracy, as recounted by Katharine Kurtz in "Tales of the Knights Templar" (Warner Books: 1995):
"On October 13, 1307, a day so infamous that Friday the 13th would become a synonym for ill fortune, officers of King Philip IV of France carried out mass arrests in a well-coordinated dawn raid that left several thousand Templars — knights, sergeants, priests, and serving brethren — in chains, charged with heresy, blasphemy, various obscenities, and homosexual practices. None of these charges was ever proven, even in France — and the Order was found innocent elsewhere — but in the seven years following the arrests, hundreds of Templars suffered excruciating tortures intended to force 'confessions,' and more than a hundred died under torture or were executed by burning at the stake."

so Friday the 13th came about cos the Pope tried to take all the knights out in one swoop - hence it became an unlucky day....

lisa.c · 13-08-2004 10:18AM

i was born friday the 13th... and whata lucky day it was then for the world..

Villain · 13-08-2004 10:22AM

lisa.c wrote:

i was born friday the 13th... and whata lucky day it was then for the world..

Friday 13th heh!! Thats Freaky

ixoy · 13-08-2004 10:31AM

Anyone else feeling an itch to don a hockey mask, grab a chainsaw, and get rid of a few teenagers?

Villain · 13-08-2004 10:42AM

ixoy wrote:

Anyone else feeling an itch to don a hockey mask, grab a chainsaw, and get rid of a few teenagers?

Ya but but I felt that yesterday as well!

DivX · 13-08-2004 11:06AM

Some useless facts.

According to the bible there were thirteen people at the Last Supper, including the double-crossing Judas Iscariot.

Friday was execution day in ancient Rome -- Jesus was crucified on a Friday.

The ill-fated Apollo 13 lunar mission left the launch pad at 13:13 hours and was aborted on April 13 (Friday?)

The RAC did a survey a survey a few years ago and found that the risk of hospital admission as a result of a transport accident could have been as much as 52 per cent higher on Friday 13.

Both Friday and the number 13 were once closely associated with capital punishment. In British tradition, Friday was the conventional day for public hangings, and there were supposedly 13 steps leading up to the noose.

More than 80 percent of high-rises lack a 13th floor.

Many airports skip the 13th gate. Airplanes have no 13th aisle.

Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.

Italians omit the number 13 from their national lottery.

On streets in Florence, Italy, the house between number 12 and 14 is addressed as 12 and a half.

Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue

In France, socialites known as the quatorziens (fourteeners) once made themselves available as 14th guests to keep a dinner party from an unlucky fate.

If you have 13 letters in your name it is said that you will have the devil's luck . Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names.

And no I don’t suffer from triskaidekaphobes (fear of the number 13) and I love Fridays!

lisa.c · 13-08-2004 11:54AM

ioxy what teenagers exactly...

Flashraziel · 13-08-2004 11:58AM

I was also born on Friday the 13th. It was a great day. next year my birthday is on a friday too. Its sure to be a good one.

Oh and Beruthiel, did that actually happen or was it just from The Da Vinci Code? Its very hard to tell whats real and whats fiction in that book.

quarryman · 13-08-2004 12:06PM

yeah that quote seems lifted straight from the book.

How much of it is actually true?

OfflerCrocGod · 13-08-2004 12:10PM

DivX wrote:

like bizmark waiting for my copy of Doom 3 to be dropped through the door.

Prepare yourself for BOREDOM after the first 2 hours of WOW

bizmark · 13-08-2004 12:13PM

Shh you

i know what to expect from doom 3 and am looking forward to it....In fact im off down town now to buy my copy seeming my copy from play.com didnt come

Friday the 13th!!!

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