Would you describe yourself as superstitious?

[Chromatic]

Bunkum.

I want to search out a car with 666 on the number plate.

Step-daughter has that on her car number plate.

 

[Over The Hill]

Interesting question. How people reply will perhaps depend on how they look at the thing they do or believe.

I would say that touching wood, lucky numbers, horoscopes, ghosts and after life can all be lumped in with more nonsense like Christianity and basically all religion. It is all made up beliefs with no foundation with the threat/carrot of upsetting or being on the good side of some imaginary power.

So someone may tick "no" who does not believe horoscopes but does believe in God.



The only thing that gets (wrongly) classed as superstition is walking under a ladder. Surely that is a basic safety thing.

 

[ianrauk]

Nope.

 

[numbnuts]

Yep - I'm not a great lover of Fruday 13th.

I never go kayaking on that day

 

[Fnaar]

I occasionally touch my wood. Or is it cloth?

 

[Fnaar]

Daily Mash horoscopes:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/featu...-week-ahead-with-psychic-bob-90-2014022684012

 

[MontyVeda]

...

The only thing that gets (wrongly) classed as superstition is walking under a ladder. Surely that is a basic safety thing.

there's a few of those... don't whistle backstage... don't play piggy-in-the-middle on an unfenced cliff top... don't unplug anything in an operating theatre if you're just visiting... the list is endless.

My dad loves his superstitions.... I once put a pair of new shoes on a dining chair, and dad told me to move them because it's bad luck to put shoes on a table... I told him that they weren't on a table, but on a chair... ANY ELEVATED SURFACE! was his reply.

Apparently it's also bad luck to open an inverted crisp packet.

 

[swee'pea99]

I signed up for yes on account of my tendency to touch wood and to (genuinely) fear 'tempting fate' by saying 'well, nothing can go wrong now' and the like. But having said that, there's any number of superstitions I regard with indifference, including ladders, black cats, the number 13 etc etc

 

[Fnaar]

I like inventing new superstitions...
today's one is:
Never look at bricks on a Wednesday.

 

[tyred]

You can consider yourself really unlucky if an ash tree falls on you.

 

[MontyVeda]

All the rules of what superstitions may or may not bring can be easily condensed into one statement... superstition brings bad luck.

 

[morrisman]

I wear, on my neck chain, a Green Man and a Cern Abbess Giant medallion, and, in case they don't work, my MedicAlert tag

 

[ColinJ]

I was going to make a joke of it and say that I never discuss superstition on Wednesdays, but it is probably bad luck to even allude to it!

 

[Dogtrousers]

The story goes that the physicist Paul Dirac had a lucky horseshoe in his office. A colleague scoffed at it: "Surely you don't believe that nonsense".

Dirac replied "No, of course I don't. But I understand that it works whether you believe in it or not".

 

[discominer]

It's all BS.