how superstitious are you?
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how superstitious are you?
i have to say that i'm a farily superstitious person, sometimes i think i'm overly so 
. though i don't wear like the same underwear when i play sports, there are things that i am absolutely will do/not do.
the biggest problem is of course the integration of both american and taiwanese superstitions i've picked up over the years. for example: i avoid the numbers 13 and 4 like a plague. 13 is pretty self explanatory, and the number 4 sounds like "death" in many asian cultures (not limited to taiwanese/chinese), but i love the numbers 7 (lucky 7), 8 and 9. the numbers "168" put together is also considered lucky (ask anyone who's from Hong Kong).
so besides the word games, there are A LOT of superstition that i also, well, practice.
how superstitious are you?
. though i don't wear like the same underwear when i play sports, there are things that i am absolutely will do/not do.the biggest problem is of course the integration of both american and taiwanese superstitions i've picked up over the years. for example: i avoid the numbers 13 and 4 like a plague. 13 is pretty self explanatory, and the number 4 sounds like "death" in many asian cultures (not limited to taiwanese/chinese), but i love the numbers 7 (lucky 7), 8 and 9. the numbers "168" put together is also considered lucky (ask anyone who's from Hong Kong).
so besides the word games, there are A LOT of superstition that i also, well, practice.
how superstitious are you?
which come to think of it explains alot
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I am totally, 100% NOT superstitious (touch wood).
NEVER have been (rubbing my lucky rabbits foot).
And NEVER will be (salt just went over my left shoulder).
Hey can somebody go out and check to make sure the horseshoe in hanging the right way? On the way out, don't walk under the ladder that I forgot to put away when I hung up the horseshoe.
Watch out for the neighbor's black cat and don't step on any of the cracks on my driveway. You'll break your mother's back! Oh, and can somebody go buy me a lottery ticket? This is the one. I can feel it! All the planets are just right.
NEVER have been (rubbing my lucky rabbits foot).
And NEVER will be (salt just went over my left shoulder).
Hey can somebody go out and check to make sure the horseshoe in hanging the right way? On the way out, don't walk under the ladder that I forgot to put away when I hung up the horseshoe.
Watch out for the neighbor's black cat and don't step on any of the cracks on my driveway. You'll break your mother's back! Oh, and can somebody go buy me a lottery ticket? This is the one. I can feel it! All the planets are just right.
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From: Nashville
i am superstious about stupid things...like throwing a paper towel at the trash can in a public restroom and missing... instead of leaving it on the floor (all hell will break loose in my mind), i pick it up and (all hell will not break loose). Basically about doing the right thing....knocking over some boxes at the store...i fix them, etc.....
when lifting weights i used to always avoid that dredded 13 as my reps.....
but.. i don't care about black cats, walking under latters, broken mirrors.....
Scot
when lifting weights i used to always avoid that dredded 13 as my reps.....
but.. i don't care about black cats, walking under latters, broken mirrors.....
Scot
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Scot
[B]i am superstious about stupid things...like throwing a paper towel at the trash can in a public restroom and missing... instead of leaving it on the floor (all hell will break loose in my mind), i pick it up and (all hell will not break loose).
[B]i am superstious about stupid things...like throwing a paper towel at the trash can in a public restroom and missing... instead of leaving it on the floor (all hell will break loose in my mind), i pick it up and (all hell will not break loose).
