At Primary School in the '60s the Dinner Ladies put sixpences and thruppenny bits in the Christmas Pud at the end of term. If you found one you had STAND on your chair in the Dinner hall, wave the coin in the air and say "Hello little sixpence" or " Hello little thruppence" whilst receiving a smattering of applause from your choking peers.
Swooping from the sky with a blood-curdling shriek, the magpies that gather around parliament in Canberra have been tormenting politicians by pecking them on the head.
MPs have been left bleeding and some have suffered injuries to their eyes, officials say.
Are you telling me that through some sort of bitter irony my coppers are actually ferrous? I had kind of reconciled myself to the fact that silver coins had no actual silver in them, but now I feel properly brassed off. Are there no depths they won't plumb?I carry a magnet on an extendable rod to collect the more elusive coins.
After reading a section in Animals In Translation by Temple Grandin about how pigeons and pigs have been observed to develop superstitions I totally dropped any slight nod to superstition myself. It is a function of the brain connected with learning that can become overblown and is totally meaningless.
the more elusive coins.
Are you telling me my coppers are actually ferrous? I had kind of reconciled myself to the fact that silver coins had no actual silver in them, but now I feel properly brassed off. Are there no depths they won't plumb?
Yeah, the copper coins these days are a sandwich of copper and steel. They used to be solid copper once.Haha, I see what you did there!
'Copper' coins can be picked up with a magnet. Silver ones can't, except I think 5p pieces. I always, ALWAYS pick up loose change wherever it is.* It's like a little personal superstition.
*Except if it's dangerous. I'm not stupid. I send someone else.
you have to avoid walking over three drain covers on the pavement or you pick up bad luck
These politicians need cable-tie helmets. Swooping from the sky with a blood-curdling shriek, the magpies that gather around parliament in Canberra have been tormenting politicians by pecking them on the head. MPs have been left bleeding and some have suffered injuries to their eyes, officials say. Fiona Knight, the building services branch assistant secretary, said that the magpies had become a menace in many courtyards and outdoor spaces. According to experts, they are unlikely to leave of their own accord; Australian magpies can occupy the same territory for their entire life — up to 20 years. To combat the threat, countermeasures such as scares resembling hawks are being deployed, including recordings of the noise they make. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/mps-under-attack-from-parliaments-angry-birds-3sfbpcvtd
I've mentioned how a former colleague gained a promotion, haven't I?After falling down a drain some years ago I don't even step on ONE.
After falling down a drain some years ago I don't even step on ONE.
I've mentioned how a former colleague gained a promotion, haven't I?
Ha! We became fans of the TV Detectorists a couple of years ago and were pleased to find a decent detector at a thrift store around last Christmas.I found a penny yesterday. I don't usually think finding a penny is a lucky thing, but I found this one after a hard rain washed things around. It was a 1957 penny--my birth year. Should I carry it forever in my pocket or put it in my shoe?
Impress your mates by saying you found it metal detecting.
Then bore your mates by telling them how much you spent on the detector.
Boots or shoes on a bed were bad luck.
A notoriously superstitious bunch in the US in this day and age is...baseball players!
I had never heard of that before, so I did a quick google. Turns out, it was players in South Korea, the cabbage was frozen, and they did it to keep cool in summer. It's been nixed since. So no superstition involved.As a Brit I know nothing about this game but didn't one of them play with a cabbage leaf on his head?
so I did a quick google.
I had no idea! I wouldn't be surprised if the South Koreans had read about Babe Ruth's vegetable technique.Yes I should have done that in the first place. Turns out I was thinking of this guy
https://www.biography.com/news/babe-ruth-facts-biography
and like the Koreans, it was to keep cool and nothing superstitious. They say.
Do you believe in any of that stuff?I’m not a particularly a religious person, but is it just me that doesn’t like throwing away religious paraphernalia that has been given to me in the street, by Jehovah witnesses , or Buddhists etc.
First day back in the office today since COVID, and I have been presented with 4 boxes of toot that had been accumulating in my desk draw these past 12 years, - back in the summer the company employed a firm to empty all the desk draws and put the items into boxes.
Amongst other religious items, I’ve counted 6 watch tower pamphlets, 3 wooden crosses, and 4 red and gold Buddhist good luck tokens.
I keep them as it seems wrong to throw away something that has been given to me as a blessing by a total stranger.
What do you think, am I a geek for keeping this stuff or just completely overly superstitious..?
As mentioned before, when I was friendly with a local West Indian family the mother would keep her several adult female daughters' maternity dresses until they needed them.dream of fish and you will become pregnant
There's an element of truth in this. A woman who works out a lot may produce a little bit of extra testosterone, which may cause an increase in body hair.If you are a girl, you must not exercise too much because it will make you too hairy
Otherwise those first four were just misogynistic crap?There's an element of truth in this. A woman who works out a lot may produce a little bit of extra testosterone, which may cause an increase in body hair.
A lot of old local superstitions are like religion, designed to make you behave in a way someone else wants you to.Otherwise those first four were just misogynistic crap?
I guess so!Otherwise those first four were just misogynistic crap?