here are a few i've heard throughout my life. i find myself following them although i dont necessarily believe them.

mostly involving getting bad luck

shoes on a bed = bad luck

passing someone on a staircase = bad luck

(a japanese one)

sleeping with your head pointing north = bad luck

I can't sleep with my head pointing towards a door or a window. I have to be ready. For whatever may come through the window/door.

The funniest superstition is in South Korea where a lot of people believe that an electric fan will suffocate people because it chops up the air.

I always flip a lucky cigarette over in the pack.

If I have an eyelash on my finger, I blow it off and make a wish.

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MrMephisto Wrote:
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> I always flip a lucky cigarette over in the pack.
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> If I have an eyelash on my finger, I blow it off
> and make a wish.


Ghey

I don't like the number 6. I always get bad vibes when there is a six count of something.

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> I don't like the number 6. I always get bad vibes
> when there is a six count of something.


Six packs of beer or soda give you 'bad juju'?

bloody blisters Wrote:
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> here are a few i've heard throughout my life. i
> find myself following them although i dont
> necessarily believe them.

> shoes on a bed = bad luck


i thought it was "hat" on a bed.
i put my shoes on the bed all the time.

gulp.

yeefuckinghaw

What is the background behind this? My shoes and hats are on the bed all the time.

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> What is the background behind this? My shoes and
> hats are on the bed all the time.

The hat-on-bed bad omen is from the film "Drugstore Cowboy".

Great flick.

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> The hat-on-bed bad omen is from the film
> "Drugstore Cowboy".
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> Great flick.

+100

yeefuckinghaw

I always tie my dick in a knot and walk backwards on Thursdays. It works as I haven't died yet.

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> Ghey

Says the guy pretending to be a 50 year old woman on the internet.

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> > I don't like the number 6. I always get bad
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> Six packs of beer or soda give you 'bad juju'?


eesh, are you scared of me. You know three 666's = the Devil.

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> >
> >
> > Six packs of beer or soda give you 'bad juju'?
>
>
> eesh, are you scared of me.



No.

Blessed are the murderous.

eesh is scared of your breath.

It's bad luck to walk under a ladder.
If a broom touches your feet while someone is sweeping, you will never get married.
Cats suck the breath out of babies.
Break a mirror, seven years bad luck.
If your palm is itching, you're getting money.
If your ear is itching, someone is talking about you.
Pulling out a grey hair will cause ten to grow in its place.
It's bad luck to do laundry between Christmas and New Year's Day.
Step on a crack, break your mothers back.

hoocoodanode, what do you look like?

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BIG, FAT, and UGLY.

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What is Gravis, Alex?

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> > > vibes
> > > > when there is a six count of something.
> > >
> > >
> > > Six packs of beer or soda give you 'bad
> juju'?
> >
> >
> > hoocoodanode, are you scared of me.
>
>
>
> No.


not me.
no offense to 6x but "666" has three sixes, not six.
that, and, my spelling is wayyyyyy better than that.

yeefuckinghaw

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> > > > > I don't like the number 6. I always get
> bad
> > > > vibes
> > > > > when there is a six count of something.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Six packs of beer or soda give you 'bad
> > juju'?
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> > > hoocoodanode, are you scared of me.
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> > No.
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> not me.
> no offense to 6x but "666" has three sixes, not
> six.
> that, and, my spelling is wayyyyyy better than
> that.


x=2! x=2! ahhh algebra!

When are we going to have the sumo match between themuse and hoocoodanode?

2? I thought x=111?

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Signatures are for fags

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i suck at math, i failed geology

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That's stupid bb

No one has mentioned it so far but I always heard it is bad luck to be fat and ugly.

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/07/2014 03:51AM by chuckhoffmann.

I thought you were gone.

Another case of:

MrMephisto Wrote:
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I've seen plenty of people do this. One time I was bumming one and my buddy told me not to grab the one that was flipped.

Have known people who would never use the last match in a pack of matches, saying it was bad luck. No idea where that one came from.

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> The funniest superstition is in South Korea where
> a lot of people believe that an electric fan will
> suffocate people because it chops up the air.

Sometimes they believe it'll chop up their baby...and sometimes they believe that isn't necessarily a bad thing

i hold my breath when passing a cemetery
"Friday night dream, on Saturday told, bound to come true no matter how old"
tails up penny vs. heads up penny

> I don't like the number 6..

Chinese don't like the number 4 since it sounds like the word "death". Since 10 sounds like 4 (more or less) the number 44 is decidedly a no-no.

8, on the other hand, is highly favored - I don't know why - probably google would have an answer.

> ...8, on the other hand, is highly favored - I don't know why - probably google would have an answer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture

Should have looked it up before posting.

I've always liked particular numbers.

I'm not sure if you consider it a superstition, but I hate sleeping right next to windows. I always think that something/someone can break through it and get me. It's even worse if it's a ground floor window (Above ground level, I'm cool with sleeping near a window, just not right against it).

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).

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> > > > > > I don't like the number 6. I always get
> > bad
> > > > > vibes
> > > > > > when there is a six count of something.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Six packs of beer or soda give you 'bad
> > > juju'?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > hoocoodanode, are you scared of me.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > No.
> >
> >
> > not me.
> > no offense to 6x but "666" has three sixes, not
> > six.
> > that, and, my spelling is wayyyyyy better than
> > that.
>
>
> x=2! x=2! ahhh algebra!


6X = XXX = 6pack of X's
_____XXX

XX = Dos Equis

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Great song, muse! :O)

I didn't know themuse could play the piano or sing.
But I always knew she was a black guy.

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> > I don't like the number 6..
>
> Chinese don't like the number 4 since it sounds
> like the word "death". Since 10 sounds like 4
> (more or less) the number 44 is decidedly a
> no-no.
>
> 8, on the other hand, is highly favored - I don't
> know why - probably google would have an answer.




Numerology is fascinating and it's interesting to see how different cultures are wary of certain numbers.

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> where
> > a lot of people believe that an electric fan
> will
> > suffocate people because it chops up the air.
>
> Sometimes they believe it'll chop up their
> baby...and sometimes they believe that isn't
> necessarily a bad thing
>




Some Korean amusement parks have a room that you enter, where the lights go dark and a loud fan speeds up, then all the Koreans run out in terror. They pay money for this.



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> Some Korean amusement parks have a room that you
> enter, where the lights go dark and a loud fan
> speeds up, then all the Koreans run out in terror.
> They pay money for this.

Shut the fuck up. No way. No way does that happen.

Really? Like, seriously?

So leaving a fan run in your house at night is the best way to protect yourself from Korean burglars?

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"Fan Death" is a real superstition in South Korea to the point all fans sold in Korea have a timer on them so a person won't leave it running overnight and "suffocate" themselves.

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> "Fan Death" is a real superstition in South Korea
> to the point all fans sold in Korea have a timer
> on them so a person won't leave it running
> overnight and "suffocate" themselves.

I looked it up after you mentioned it, but is that shit really in amusement parks?

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> I looked it up after you mentioned it, but is that
> shit really in amusement parks?



Yes.

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> Yes.

Wow. Just... Wow.

Well, at least I know how to non-violently torture a Korean if the need ever arises.

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