Superstition

[Bijou Bob]

One of my Geekbook friends, a professional, down to earth, pragmatic woman, keeps posting and forwarding chain links, usually telling me to forward it myself or lose my chance of the fortune coming my way. It drives me almost as mad as the sad tossers who seem to be convinced Apple really do have 500 I pads to give away if you like their page.

I digress. She is too superstitious not to pass them on. Fess up, what superstitions do you have?? Personally, I struggle not to salute single Magpies. I've no idea why.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I dance around oaken clearings naked at full moon sacrificing virgins every time I see a black cat. Apart from that, nothing.

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Saluting magpies is not a superstition. It's the law.

[bobo the clown]

I can't let myself be superstitious or I think I'd be a knob, touchwood.

[Beefheart]

My Italian Gran has a few. She's convinced the numbers 4 and 8 are unlucky, so say she makes a pizza, you ask for 4 slices, she'll refuse or cut one in half so you have 5. She also thinks that if you go out in the sun in March it will make you go mad. No idea why.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Saluting magpies is not a superstition. It's the law.

It's very annoying when driving the car and my missus spots a lone magpie and squeals out "One for sorrow... quick find another one so it's two for joy!", like I can order one up with the click of my fingers ,or for that matter, that I give a flying feck about the one for sorrow bollox.

[bobo the clown]

My Italian Gran has a few. She's convinced the numbers 4 and 8 are unlucky, so say she makes a pizza, you ask for 4 slices, she'll refuse or cut one in half so you have 5. She also thinks that if you go out in the sun in March it will make you go mad. No idea why.

Maybe she went out in the sun one March ??

[Bruce Rioja]

My Italian Gran has a few. She also thinks that if you go out in the sun in March it will make you go mad. No idea why.

Is your Gran a hare?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

My Italian Gran has a few. She also thinks that if you go out in the sun in March it will make you go mad. No idea why.

So let's get this right, your gran stays indoors out of the sun for a whole month? Are you sure she's Italian, not Romanian by any chance? is she afraid of garlic on her pizza?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I've got this fecking earworm now...

thirteeeeen month old ba.by.

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Saluting magpies is not a superstition. It's the law.

It's very annoying when driving the car and my missus spots a lone magpie and squeals out "One for sorrow... quick find another one so it's two for joy!", like I can order one up with the click of my fingers ,or for that matter, that I give a flying feck about the one for sorrow bollox.

'One for sorrow' is indeed a load of old bollocks.

Saluting magpies however is an entirely different scenario - and required by law.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Saluting magpies is not a superstition. It's the law.

It's very annoying when driving the car and my missus spots a lone magpie and squeals out "One for sorrow... quick find another one so it's two for joy!", like I can order one up with the click of my fingers ,or for that matter, that I give a flying feck about the one for sorrow bollox.

'One for sorrow' is indeed a load of old bollocks.

Saluting magpies however is an entirely different scenario - and required by law.

I passed one this morning and failed to obey the law.
I'd like 13,754 other similar offenses to be taken into consideration your honour.

[superjohnmcginlay]

Magpies are evil bastards. There's always 1 waiting for me.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Saluting magpies is not a superstition. It's the law.

It's very annoying when driving the car and my missus spots a lone magpie and squeals out "One for sorrow... quick find another one so it's two for joy!", like I can order one up with the click of my fingers ,or for that matter, that I give a flying feck about the one for sorrow bollox.

'One for sorrow' is indeed a load of old bollocks.

Saluting magpies however is an entirely different scenario - and required by law.

I may be missing something here. Apart from members of the Toon Army is Magpie British slang for anything else? This thread is going over my head.

[Bruce Rioja]

I may be missing something here. Apart from members of the Toon Army is Magpie British slang for anything else? This thread is going over my head.

Ah, I see that you're having a morning off.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=saluting+magpies" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Lord Kangana]

One of them.

[Lord Kangana]

Bloody hell. How do you make that smaller?

[Montreal Wanderer]

I may be missing something here. Apart from members of the Toon Army is Magpie British slang for anything else? This thread is going over my head.

Ah, I see that you're having a morning off.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=saluting+magpies" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thanks, Bruce. I confess that superstition was never part of my childhood education. Indeed the routine "taking your hat off and making the sign of the cross, spitting three times over your shoulder, and saluting the magpie with 'Hello Mr Magpie, How's your lady wife today?" " would have got me into trouble. Making a cross might have been frowned on but public spitting was prohibited. Since they were always waiting to spoil Super John's day I thought they might be some kind of traffic cop who wore black and white. Live and learn.

[Enoch]

Not a single one.

Though on occasion I will walk round a ladder, depends what the c*nt up top's doing.

[Bruce Rioja]

I may be missing something here. Apart from members of the Toon Army is Magpie British slang for anything else? This thread is going over my head.

Ah, I see that you're having a morning off.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=saluting+magpies" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thanks, Bruce. I confess that superstition was never part of my childhood education. Indeed the routine "taking your hat off and making the sign of the cross, spitting three times over your shoulder, and saluting the magpie with 'Hello Mr Magpie, How's your lady wife today?" " would have got me into trouble. Making a cross might have been frowned on but public spitting was prohibited. Since they were always waiting to spoil Super John's day I thought they might be some kind of traffic cop who wore black and white. Live and learn.

I was completely unaware as to this saluting magpies business until I met the now former Mrs Rioja, she used to do it everytime she saw one. Helpfully and to save her further embarrassment I pointed out to her at the time that she was being utterly fecking ridiculous. Given the remarks of some in this thread I have considerably more message-spreading to do.