Mythopoeika
I am a meat popsicle
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Well, it is possible the pennies weren't taken, exactly, but were perhaps kicked into the gutter by accident, or something like that. Or maybe whoever took them didn't want to be greedy.Yes, that's how I read it originally. But I asked as I found it exceedingly odd, given that you said at the end of the experiment only a few had been taken. Surely, if you bend down to take one, you'd actually take them all? I genuinely struggle to think of a plausible reason why only a few went.
Either,
a) They are called something else in the States.
b) You, and everyone that you know, have never moved house.
c) Everything you own fits into one backpack.
Like this ...I always imagined "removal men" were removing something more dire than furniture. Like maybe toxic waste or bodies.
Like this ...
Good point ... as long as you don't lick your fingers afterwards. When I was a nipper, I needed a wee so my Mum told me to go around the back of a building we were walking past ... where I spotted about three weeks of pocket money on the floor. I ran back round to tell my Mum there was loads of money on the floor so she came round to have a look .. her first disappointment would have been realising that it was probably only about three pounds there .. her larger disappointment would have been me not mentioning the large turd next to them.How hygienic is it to pick something up off the ground? Maybe that's a factor in not bothering.
Where there's muck there's brass.Good point ... as long as you don't lick your fingers afterwards. When I was a nipper, I needed a wee so my Mum told me to go around the back of a building we were walking past ... where I spotted about three weeks of pocket money on the floor. I ran back round to tell my Mum there was loads of money on the floor so she came round to have a look .. her first disappointment would have been realising that it was probably only about three pounds there .. her larger disappointment would have been me not mentioning the large turd next to them.
I wasn't allowed to pick up the coins
Hasn't worked for me. In my experience, the modern version seems more accurate.This rhyme varies ... See a penny, pick it up and all day you'll have good luck. I've heard a humorously modern version that ends with " .. and all day you'll have a penny"
I still pick up every penny I see. The rhyme has older roots apparently ..
http://psychiclibrary.com/beyondBooks/penny-superstition/
That's because you need a comedy container to throw them in when you get home man .. I use a plastic skull pint glass that I bought from Morrisons a few Halloweens ago and also your bank will be happy to give you a wad of those shrapnel bags so you can make them into pounds as you go along. When else will you get something for free from your bank?. I'm currently at the 2 quid (bagged) and some loose coins and a few cheeky 5p coins for good measure. I usually crack at the 8 quid mark. It's fun and sort of a hobby on the side because it's a bit sad but at the end of the day, you get free moneysHasn't worked for me. In my experience, the modern version seems more accurate.
That's because you need a comedy container to throw them in when you get home man .. I use a plastic skull pint glass that I bought from Morrisons a few Halloweens ago and also your bank will be happy to give you a wad of those shrapnel bags so you can make them into pounds as you go along. When else will you get something for free from your bank?. I'm currently at the 2 quid (bagged) and some loose coins and a few cheeky 5p coins for good measure. I usually crack at the 8 quid mark. It's fun and sort of a hobby on the side because it's a bit sad but at the end of the day, you get free moneys
I never pay any attention to that, I just pick the little fuckers up! ... I probably also will do that from now on though.In your years of collecting pennies, have you noticed a change in luck: depending on whether the coin lay face-up or head-down? SC
Most of the coins I pick up I find both inside and outside our local shop, the school kids can't be bothered with them and just chuck them on the floor.
Ha! You beat me to it...was going to add that it's the fashion amongst the children round these parts to receive their change then chuck it into the road. Bizarre.
I've no idea either. Either that or they theatrically tell us to put the change in the charity box. Fair play to them for that but I expect that'll 'change' when they're renting that first flat.
Maybe those lads have the right idea? ( chucking their coins away.) Youngsters these days never seem short of cash.They sure will. BTW I see what you did there It does seem to be a weird way of signalling a financial status so comfortable that it transcends common sense*. I was treating myself to a burger from a burger van a few months ago when a gaggle of young lads at the front of the queue made a show of launching their change at the feet of passing shoppers. Naturally I retrieved it and thanked them in a jokey way. I think one of them was considering whether it might be a good idea to call me a pikey or something but thought better of it
*...unless it's some sort of superstition.
Interesting activity for an Owl. Are there any Magpies in Larch Forest?It's a reasonably affluent area round here, but I'd be interested to know if this is country-wide behaviour in the UK...
I must admit that we used to do a similar thing at that sort of age where we'd chuck a coin on the ground as a game to see who could get to it first. The victor would then have to endure some very un-PC jibes which I won't elaborate on. But we wouldn't have dreamt of just throwing our pocket money away.
I pick up pennies out of superstition! Then they all go in the 'copper jar' for playing Newmarket at Christmas.
You could always exclaim: 'ooh, a pound!' That would wind other people up.
In so doing, you would be meeting one of the employment styles required to be demonstrated by all employees working at Disney theme parks....any rubbish/trash/money spotted by staff (viz "cast members") must be scooped-up, immediately, with a sweeping flourish. No bending, or paused picky-pickups.Oddly, although I feel a tiny bit self-conscious doing this - and have contrived a rather elegant sweeping movement to retrieve the coin
In so doing, you would be meeting one of the employment styles required to be demonstrated by all employees working at Disney theme parks....any rubbish/trash/money spotted by staff (viz "cast members") must be scooped-up, immediately, with a sweeping flourish. No bending, or paused picky-pickups.
http://guff.com/16-secret-rules-for-disney-employees