superstitions...

[Doro]

my granny was very susperstitious

the usual

breaking a mirror = 7 years bad luck
stirring the tea = will cause an argument
putting shoes on furniture = bad luck
picking up pins & pennies = good luck
walking under ladders = bad luck
black cats = bad luck if they cross your path
pictures of birds or feathers in the house = bad luck
picking up dropped cutlery on a Friday = bad luck
putting up umbrellas in the house = bad luck
spilling salt = throw some over your left shoulder to ward off bad luck
new baby = cross it's palm with silver for good (financial) luck
new pram = bad luck to bring it into your house before the baby is born

funny how some of them I still instinctively follow and some I ignore cos 'it's superstitious nonsense' lol

the shoes on furniture - I never do that :eek:

and the baby ones I do

the rest I don't believe in

wierd huh?

[scouselee]

Picking up Pennies - might just need it for something or to pass to someone else
I don't walk under ladders - ever
the rest I ignore, perhaps throw salt if I spill it, but it makes the ceramic tiles slippy

[pingusprogressed]

shoes on tables dont do(mother would have slapped us anyway, so hurt as well)

in restaurant where i worked a waitress wouldnt pick up a knife if she dropped it(which she did regulary) as bad luck, and had too leave for someone else :mad:

[Fall3nAng3l]

shoes on tables dont do(mother would have slapped us anyway, so hurt as well)

in restaurant where i worked a waitress wouldnt pick up a knife if she dropped it(which she did regulary) as bad luck, and had too leave for someone else :mad:

I think someone was extracting the urine with that one! ;) :p

[chazz]

yep,my sister wont pick a knife up if she drops it,an my ma would go mad if i polished my boots on the table bad luck apparently,another was dont pass on a staircase bad luck,no wonder im fookd

[Doro]

shoes on tables dont do(mother would have slapped us anyway, so hurt as well)

in restaurant where i worked a waitress wouldnt pick up a knife if she dropped it(which she did regulary) as bad luck, and had too leave for someone else :mad:


my gran would pick it up if it wasn't a friday - on friday's no-one was allowed to pick it up

[Doro]

yep,my sister wont pick a knife up if she drops it,an my ma would go mad if i polished my boots on the table bad luck apparently,another was dont pass on a staircase bad luck,no wonder im fookd

oh yeah - I forgot about passing on the stairs - it was ok tho if you touched the person you were passing :)

[Fall3nAng3l]

It's bad luck to use an electric vibrator while soaking your feet in a basin :rolleyes:

[Erogenous Jones]

It's bad luck to use an electric vibrator while soaking your feet in a basin :rolleyes:

Have you got a wind up one for such eventualities now then?

[The Beer Monsters]

Anyone else say "Good Morning, Mr Magpie" when they see said B&W bird?

[bunbag]

black cat cross yer path good luck up here

foot prints in the butter , elephants in the fridge :confused:

[BigBod]

Anyone else say "Good Morning, Mr Magpie" when they see said B&W bird?

Yep, always but only if it's one on it's own. If there is more than one it's okay.

[Violetmay]

Anyone else say "Good Morning, Mr Magpie" when they see said B&W bird?

If I see a single magpie.. I salute him, and say 'Mr magpie go away and come again another day,'


madness. But have to. :D

[Violetmay]

Also..

don't do ladders... cross on stairs... say beetle juice 3 x in case it is true... and flick salt over left shoulder at the devil if I spill any.

Won't drink out of cup which has had two spoons used in it.. (ginger twins, and as am ginger...)

Don't pick a fight on a full moon...

that's all I am prepared to share. They're coming to take me away ...

[Born2bVile]

Don't believe in any of it.

It's bad luck to be supersticious :D

Cheers,

Byrnie.

[Dougie]

Anyone else say "Good Morning, Mr Magpie" when they see said B&W bird?
Yep,me.Anyone else notice how many of the buggers there are now?15 years ago hardly ever saw one up here.

[Nik]

Anyone else say "Good Morning, Mr Magpie" when they see said B&W bird?

Yep, me too ... ;)

Always pick up coins I see in the street too ... not sure whether that's superstition or down to my legendary skintness though. :o

[PILRCGeff]

yes, hundreds of them all over and seagulls too.

You make your own luck is what I was always told

[bunbag]

If I see a single magpie.. I salute him, and say 'Mr magpie go away and come again another day,'


madness. But have to. :D
good morning mr magpie hows the wife an kids all the time :o

[bunbag]

anyone look in a mirror and say candyman candyman candyman
not feckin liklely :D

[PILRCGeff]

I did, fa happened

[iomrob]

oh yeah - I forgot about passing on the stairs - it was ok tho if you touched the person you were passing :)

must try that on a good looking female in a shop, mind you might get a slap , or arrested, will just say its the superstition that made me grab her boob :D

oh , gonna get slagged for this , but we have a bridge here called fairy bridge {coz the fairies live under it} and its bad luck not to wave to them, or say hello when crossing it, i always do :) ,,,,,,,,,, go on then insert your slagging below

[critch]

gnnn ak gotta resist................ aw soddit


robs "intimate" with fairies

that any good for you?

pretty boy ,fairies all starting to make sense now ;)

[krammer]

must try that on a good looking female in a shop, mind you might get a slap , or arrested, will just say its the superstition that made me grab her boob :D

oh , gonna get slagged for this , but we have a bridge here called fairy bridge {coz the fairies live under it} and its bad luck not to wave to them, or say hello when crossing it, i always do :) ,,,,,,,,,, go on then insert your slagging below these faries then rob, do they all have freddie mercury style moustache's?

[iomrob]

yeah go on , fill yer boots ya kants :p

[krammer]

when you're mincin.......err i mean walking over this bridge do you not only wave but shout yooohooo!! to these fairies rob?

[critch]

when you're mincin.......err i mean walking over this bridge do you not only wave but shout yooohooo!! to these fairies rob?
*guffaw* :D

[Dougie]

Erm......don't know how to say this,but......Jeez I'm gunna get stick fer this....... :eek:
For once I am in agreement with Pretty Boy Robert.Been over Fairy Bridge,said hello to the wee folk.

[iomrob]

http://www.iomguide.com/santon/photos/fairy-bridge2-big.jpg

[critch]

Erm......don't know how to say this,but......Jeez I'm gunna get stick fer this....... :eek:
For once I am in agreement with Pretty Boy Robert.Been over Fairy Bridge,said hello to the wee folk.and skipped off hand in hand with P.B.R.


i never even guessed :eek: :eek: :D

[Dougie]

i never even guessed :eek: :eek: :D
Oh you shall pay for that,oh yes,you shall pay............ :D

[BigSlim]

Anyone else say "Good Morning, Mr Magpie" when they see said B&W bird?
Nope i just spit 3 times, supposed to ward off evil. which is why me mam keeps doing it every time she sees me! lol :D

[BigSlim]

only just started on forum but you've already brightened up my day.
CHEERS IOMROB :D :D

[iomrob]

only just started on forum but you've already brightened up my day.
CHEERS IOMROB

oh ffs his 4th post and he's slaggin me :rolleyes: :p

[Grav]

oh ffs his 4th post and he's shaggin me :rolleyes: :p


Tart!........ :D

[griff2000]

[QUOTE=Doro]
picking up pins & pennies = good luck
QUOTE]

I used to pick up old washers, nuts, bolts and screws, 'just in case'.
Never used one of them...ever.

Used to pick up women too but got a bad back now.............

Talking of which, whats the difference between a bint from birmingham and a dustbin?
The dustbin gets picked up more often.............................

[krammer]

[QUOTE=Doro]
picking up pins & pennies = good luck
QUOTE]

I used to pick up old washers, nuts, bolts and screws, 'just in case'.
Never used one of them...ever.

Used to pick up women too but got a bad back now.............

Talking of which, whats the difference between a bint from birmingham and a dustbin?
The dustbin gets picked up more often............................. that is fighting talk that is.

[Lyn]

When I'm full of confidence and the joys of spring I probably don't do any of them, but when I'm down on my luck I make sure I do 'em all :D :)

[chazz]

when i was a kid we had one were if you ran the tap at midnight and said "john bibbys blood " three times the water went red,never did it but bragged that i had :D

[critch]

i believe its incredably unlucky to pass up free beer ;)

[Freak]

As my Grampy used to say

SEE A PENNY
PICK IT UP
AND ALL DAY
YOU'LL HAVE....











A PENNY
:rolleyes:

I believe it's all bollox.... you make your own luck, good or bad

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[the boatman]

my dad always said : Red sky at night shepards huts on fire, red sky in the mornin still goin strong :D

[chazz]

i believe its incredably unlucky to pass up free beer ;)
trust you
:p

[tinkerbelltinkers]

feck it i was doing me mother in laws hair monday and stood on the mirror ..............it broke :eek: 7 years bad luck











good job i dont give a poo :eek: i hope :)

[bunbag]

why do people cross them self when they see an emergency ambulance
and say touch ma foreheid touch ma knee hope ti christ its no fir me . :confused:

[bunbag]

so ye get out the wrong side o the bed
get down the stairs an yev have to touch someone
get yer breakfast cross knifes on the table
comb what hair you have left the mirror candymanx3 fall,s to the foor
get ready for work outside a black cats just crossed yer path
so you dont step oan the cracks onthe pavement fuck cats just jumped oan the magpie its now flew into yer window of your house
pick up the mornin paper friday the thirteenth
turn round go back in the house got into bed an let the world go bye

[fazerdaze]

Sometimes I'm a bit embarassed to be doing it but I do the picking up pennies and pins thing - just a habit learned from childhood I guess :rolleyes:

I won't have shoes on the table - that's just hygiene

and I won't buy, and probably wouldn't ride, a white Triumph. I've only known of two, and both their owners came to a nasty end :(

[kitkatman]

dont believe in nothing like that, load of supernatural twaddle, tinks believes in a lot of it....i however think its a load of bollox! :D

[tinkerbelltinkers]

dont believe in nothing like that, load of supernatural twaddle, tinks believes in a lot of it....i however think its a load of bollox! :D

only the baby ones, you do the pick a penny up and all day long your have good luck or is that cause your tigth tramp :D :eek:

[Violetmay]

only the baby ones, you do the pick a penny up and all day long your have good luck or is that cause your tigth tramp :D :eek:


I pick up pennies... and always put money in a new purse to bring it luck.. Hah! :D

[Doro]

oh yeah money in a new purse - another one me granny used to do - and the cracks in the pavement :)

[scouselee]

Anyone else say "Good Morning, Mr Magpie" when they see said B&W bird?

every time :D


and as for the Fairy bridge, never ever don't say hello to them , cos they get you back :D

[Doro]

the increased numbers of magpies is a huge problem cos they kill or scare off all the ikkle garden birds like sparrows n blue tits n robins

the reason why we have so many magpies all of a sudden is cos the govt made it illegal for farmers to shoot them

tis a problem wot needs sortin' :mad:

[Violetmay]

oh yeah money in a new purse - another one me granny used to do - and the cracks in the pavement :)


In case the bears get you...(A A Milne). :D

[bad toad]

the increased numbers of magpies is a huge problem cos they kill or scare off all the ikkle garden birds like sparrows n blue tits n robins

the reason why we have so many magpies all of a sudden is cos the govt made it illegal for farmers to shoot them

tis a problem wot needs sortin' :mad:
fecking magpies i shoot on sight get good money fer the feathers!!! :D

[kitkatman]

only the baby ones, you do the pick a penny up and all day long your have good luck or is that cause your tigth tramp :D :eek:
a tight tramp babes........lol...... :D

[iomrob]

well went over fairy bridge today , waved and said hello to the fairies, and on the way back told them about Critch and Krammer making fun of them. so just wait if either of them come over , boy are they in trouble. :D can be evil little buggers if you cross them :eek:

oh and another one over here is, you cant say r.a.t , it either long tail , or big fella. and there is millions of they buggers over here, no wild enemies like foxes to control them.
there are a few things some of the manx do if you say r.a.t, they whistle, touch wood, and turn round.