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over a year ago
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"Don't put new shoes on the table...
Stay away from Priests houses or you'll get a sore hole..."
If you swallow chewing gum it'll be stuck in your stomach for seven years |
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"Don't put new shoes on the table...
Stay away from Priests houses or you'll get a sore hole...
If you swallow chewing gum it'll be stuck in your stomach for seven years"
Has this theory ever been fact checked? |
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Not to gift your partner shoes or clocks/watches. With shoes - you're telling them to go away and with clocks - you're counting the time till its over.
Not to put a handbag directly on the floor or you'll lose money.
Fun fact:
Opening an umbrella inside a house is considered bad luck because back in the olden days people who were poor often had leaky roofs and had to open their brollies inside not to get rained on (read it on Facebook so must be true lol).
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"Don't put new shoes on the table...
Stay away from Priests houses or you'll get a sore hole...
If you swallow chewing gum it'll be stuck in your stomach for seven years
Has this theory ever been fact checked?"
A quick Google search confirms it to be bollocks! |
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"Don't put new shoes on the table...
Stay away from Priests houses or you'll get a sore hole...
If you swallow chewing gum it'll be stuck in your stomach for seven years
Has this theory ever been fact checked?
A quick Google search confirms it to be bollocks!"
Well if it says it on the Internet it must be... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Don't put new shoes on the table...
Stay away from Priests houses or you'll get a sore hole...
If you swallow chewing gum it'll be stuck in your stomach for seven years
Has this theory ever been fact checked?
A quick Google search confirms it to be bollocks!
Well if it says it on the Internet it must be..."
If you Google it, it's reputable sources like the BBC that have debunked it, not some random fuckwit's conspiracy blog |
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"..never look at a new moon tru a window (unlucky for some)
Respect houses with thin walls you never know when you'll need em.
Never heard either of them before..."
The new moon would well known I would of thought |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Magpies know up as far as 7 ffs
Brake a mirror 7 years bad look
Knife to the floor man to the door...
Shared a house with a gay friend of mine years ago...I said this to him in the kitchen
He emptied the cutlery drawer on the floor instantly ...very funny moment  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Magpies know up as far as 7 ffs
Brake a mirror 7 years bad look
Knife to the floor man to the door...
Shared a house with a gay friend of mine years ago...I said this to him in the kitchen
He emptied the cutlery drawer on the floor instantly ...very funny moment "
Magpies might not be able to count to 7 but they are INCREDIBLY intelligent! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Must say I've never ever had a bad Friday the 13th. If anything they've been good days.
Amazing the number of grown adults who still fret over it."
13 is actually my lucky number! Partly |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We were told it was bad luck to walk on fairy rings.
We were told the same bad luck and all that be gara be garage...Darby o Gill shite lol"
If I was still living in Dublin I'd laugh along with you but it's a different story in the wilds  |
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If your walking with someone and you come to a lamp post or pole don't split it, both walk on the one side of it..
Don't set new shoes on the table
Don't walk below a ladder
Don't move house on a Sunday
The main one my mum always told me wa if an ambulance passes you to hold your coller or neck of your top  |
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"If your moving home not to have your first night a Saturday night
Saturday move is a short move "
This wouldn't sit well if your being discharged on a sat afternoon from hospital
Sorry nurse can I please ,please stay one more night  pretty please. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Don't sleep with your socks on or the Devil , actual Lucifer , in the Catholic religion, will infact stand at the end of your bed , and if some of you are lucky enough, you might get a poke in the hole.
Socks on |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"...Partly because everyone else abhors it 
You're not superstitious at all are you  "
I prefer to call it 'magical thinking'
Like I always go to no 13 checkout... usually a shorter queue |
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When the banshee wails there will be a death in the house...
All good (bad) things come in three's...
Lucky penny if you find one...
Get rained on, on your wedding day is good luck...
Beginner's luck...
Cold hands, warm heart...
Unlucky to have a black cat crossing your path...
4 leafed clover is lucky...
The luck of the Irish...
Don't walk under a ladder...
The magpie's saying...
Breaking a mirror is 7 years bad luck...
Garlic wards off vampires...
Unlucky to see the bride in her wedding dress before the ceremony...
Salt around entrances wards off evil...
Frog in your entrance wards off evil tongues...
Unlucky in game, lucky in love...
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"Not to gift your partner shoes or clocks/watches. With shoes - you're telling them to go away and with clocks - you're counting the time till its over.
Not to put a handbag directly on the floor or you'll lose money.
Fun fact:
Opening an umbrella inside a house is considered bad luck because back in the olden days people who were poor often had leaky roofs and had to open their brollies inside not to get rained on (read it on Facebook so must be true lol).
Missus "
all these embedded into us as young children  |
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"When the banshee wails there will be a death in the house...
All good (bad) things come in three's...
Lucky penny if you find one...
Get rained on, on your wedding day is good luck...
Beginner's luck...
Cold hands, warm heart...
Unlucky to have a black cat crossing your path...
4 leafed clover is lucky...
The luck of the Irish...
Don't walk under a ladder...
The magpie's saying...
Breaking a mirror is 7 years bad luck...
Garlic wards off vampires...
Unlucky to see the bride in her wedding dress before the ceremony...
Salt around entrances wards off evil...
Frog in your entrance wards off evil tongues...
Unlucky in game, lucky in love...
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there was me thinkin a Frog twas a sure sign of wet weather to be   |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Eat your carrots helps you see in the dark
Carrots do help improve vision
Full of beta whatsits"
Beta carotene! But no, they don't improve eyesight, that was apparently WWII propaganda |
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"Eat your carrots helps you see in the dark
Carrots do help improve vision
Full of beta whatsits
Beta carotene! But no, they don't improve eyesight, that was apparently WWII propaganda "
It can help your night vision, apparently, which should make it popular around here. |
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"13th and Tuesday is the most popular superstition in Spain, then a huge list of them…
Black cats, walking under a ladder, salt pouring in the floor, etc, etc and even a shit in the shoe. "
The thing about walking under a ladder is one that has probably evolved from personal experience.
Ladders usually have workmen on them, and occasionally they drop things.
Shit in a shoe really doesn't sound like a sensible idea in any fashion |
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Shit in a shoe really doesn't sound like a sensible idea in any fashion
True, it’s like a consolation if that happens… and bring you good luck  "
Well it can only get better after that, to be fair. |
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By *al2001Man
over a year ago
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"Eat your carrots helps you see in the dark
Carrots do help improve vision
Full of beta whatsits
Beta carotene! But no, they don't improve eyesight, that was apparently WWII propaganda "
Everything I read says those beta things do indeed help eyesight.
Have you ever seen a rabbit with glasses?
Apart from bugs in a clever disguise |
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