In the acting world there's a major superstition about saying "MacBeth" in the theatre which curses the current production. As a high school student actor I made this mistake and an actress went nuts and started a strange ritual involving 3 turns in her dressing room and 3 in the hallway. I learned you can only say "The Scottish Play".
Yay black cats! I have one and she is the most loving kitty I've ever had. She was stunted as a baby and as a result, not even a little smart. But she's sweet. I think black and white cats are black cats with a pigment deficiency. Which is also kind of cool.
It has been a LONG time since I actually heard someone sing it, lol my siblings and I had our own parody too. Good times! As for the original, I'm not sure If I have the wording exactly right, but It goes something like the following: "I'm looking over a four-leaf clover, That I overlooked before. One leaf is sunshine, the second leaf is rain, Third is the roses that are grown in the lane. No need explaining, the one that is remaining, Is somebody I simply adore! And that's why I'm looking over a four-leaf clover, That I overlooked before."
Having cats on board the ship also dealt with that pesky rodent problem, as rats could easily destroy food and water stores, so they were useful as well.
The number 3 is the lowest number of things needed to indicate a pattern. If you see two trees in a field of equal age and size, that could reasonably seen as a wholly natural occurrence. Three trees of similar dimensions equally spaced in a field is a sure indication of a human hand deliberately at work shaping the environment.
I have an affection for black cats. Got one for me ex-wife and she left the cat when she took off. That little black cat became my best friend. I lost her when she was 19 years old. I quickly realized I had to have a cat in my life and adopter another little black cat. She is a great cat too.
I can sometimes stop a sneeze right _before_ it starts, though, by squeezing the bridge of my nose, right where those two little openings right under the skin are, along that cartilage. It sorta interrupts the nerve messages. Conversely, and with much better luck, if the sneeze sensation is sort of *stuck,* where you feel like you need to sneeze, but you don't, by also squeezing that little area, and wiggling it a bit with my fingernails. It will go ahead and get that sneeze to happen, so it doesn't just make your sinuses hurt.
The late comic Mitch Hedberg mentioned 13th floors in one of his crazy stand-up bits. "If you jump out the window on the 14th floor, you will die earlier."
There are pretty good reasons to not walk under a ladder though. You can get hurt man. My youngest dog won’t go out when it rains either. I feel your pain, Seth.
I work for a well known university in their physics department working with a free electron laser. One of our researchers who has a PhD in nuclear physics and is a certified genius. He will knock on wood when we are discussing the accelerator and I say things are running well. He is very scientific, but he also says that he doesn't want to take any chances. LOL!
It's true that the "bull" (or better "ox") gesture is understood as a mockery of a man who gets cheated by his wife, for example in italy. Here in germany we have a related saying: "Sie hat ihrem Mann Hörner aufgesetzt" - which can be translated as "She put horns onto her husband", meaning that a wife cheated. It works exclusivly this way, a husband can't "put horns onto his wife" - for this constellation there are different sayings. An ox is a castrated/neutered bull which is pretty passive compared to how bulls actually behave, and as a donkey an ox is traditionally associated with being dumb (even when it is actually wrong, as in case of the donkey) - so the explanation Seth doubted towards the end of the video is actually on point.
In my town people would refuse to “split the pole” while walking down the street with friends because they thought it would cause such bad luck that one of the people would be arrested by the cops unjustly. I thought it was silly when I was a kid but the belief was all over the place when I was a teenager in Hartford CT
My buddy won't "split the poles". If there's a sign that's supported by two poles, he'll go around. He also won't "cross 3", so will go around 3 panels in the ground.
My parents were pastors and they used to make us turn off all the lights in the house and light candles to pray on Halloween because they though trick-or-treating would open us up to demonic activity or possession.
I've been in Chinese hotels that didn't have a 4th, 13th, 14th, 24th, etc floor. Superstitions are nice when it's just a folksy tale people tell each other, but is concerning when people take it seriously.
"The photic sneeze effect is a genetic tendency to begin sneezing, sometimes many times consecutively (due to naso-ocular reflex), when suddenly exposed to bright light. This condition tends to occur more severely after one has emerged into the light after spending time in a dark environment. Although the syndrome is thought to affect about 18-35% of the human population, it is relatively harmless and not widely studied.
Ha. I sneeze when I look at bright lights! lol. I've only known a few people who also do that. When I see my wife's about to sneeze.. I say 'Bless You'! and 7 out of 10 times.. she stops! And then gets mad at me. lol.
In my younger days I had the usual not trying to step on lines or cracks in the pavement. For a number of years I developed this habit of almost having finish climbing up or down steps with my left foot. My Dad used to have a thing about seeing a magpie on their own as seeing 2 together was considered being lucky. On the flip I've been known to deliberately walk under ladders
@@leothenomad5675 Just a personal thing really. I didn't really get it from anywhere, except perhaps putting your best foot forward. Looking back mostly one of those daft things you start doing that then develops in habit.
Magpie? Interesting. There's been a saying about crows that was like that, but I've not heard about magpies. The crow thing goes "one crow: sorrow, two crows: mirth, three crows: a wedding, four crows: a birth, five crows: silver, six crows: gold, seven crows: a secret that can never be told." It's been around in the Central Midwestern US as far back as I can remember. _~shrug~_
I started sneezing from the sun directly after someone told me about it. I was 9. I expect Freya’s cats were Norwegian Forest Cats. The size gets you a little closer to believability, but general cat attitude keeps it in the realm of fantasy. Finally, black cats are ❤️🖤❤️.
My dad could find a 4-leaf clover in about 5 seconds. He'd just look at a patch of clover, reach down and pick up a 4-leaf one. I would stare at the same patch before he did and never saw one. He lived 90 years, so I guess it did bring him pretty good luck. LOL
@Mack Nikko Perhaps if you'd just stuck with "cool story bro" your comment could be read as sarcasm, but your second sentence was point blank contemptuous and lacked any irony. Either way, a sarcastic comment to show you disapproved of a story is still rude and uncalled for so I'm not sure how it excuses your poor manners.
On hand gestures, the thumb-and-pinkie thing is most definitely the sign for "cuckold" in Sicily and Italy, and maybe nearby countries, too. _Really_ don't do it, it will start a fight, a serious one, like _murderously_ serious. In Japan and Korea, you don't point at people with your index finger, you use your whole hand, but it's probably best avoided altogether. Meanwhile the Japanese use an upside-down, whole-hand beckoning gesture which to Weatern eyes looks a lot like someone waving goodbye. These aren't really superstitions, though, just the way things are done.
@TheThinkingAthiest I have a pup just like Linus - Benji hates rain too and is a total drama king. I got him a doggy raincoat - he's not crazy about it, but then realizes that the raincoat is keeping rain off his precious puggle fur and will stay out in the yard long enough to do his business then. Might want to try one for Linus! 😂 Tip from experience if you do - get one that slips over the head, velcros under the belly, and also has elastic for each back leg - otherwise it just slips off when they shake!
Like a lot of other 90s kids, I used to believe that when you were playing Pokemon and had thrown a Pokeball at a wild Pokemon, you could do an input to increase your chances of the catch being successful. Some people said you had to press the A and B buttons together, my method was always to mash A. Now I know this is different than the superstitions presented here because it's part of a video game and not anything affecting the real world, and more to the point it was totally within GameFreak's power to implement that sort of mechanic if they wanted to so it *could have* been true. But no, the only things that affect whether or not you will catch a Pokemon are the strength of the specific ball type used, the Pokemon's health (both in terms of the HP bar and if it has certain status effects), and the Pokemon's specific "catch rate". Did that stop me from mashing A for the longest time? I don't think it did, not for years after I was told that it did nothing XD I also believed that when a Pokemon was evolving, you had to mash A or it wouldn't finish evolving. That isn't a Thing and idk if anyone else believed it was, but pressing B during an evolution will cancel the evolution if you're having second thoughts. Unless it's a traded Kadabra. Afaik this only happens with Kadabra and *no* other traded Pokemon, even if it's specifically holding an item that prevents Pokemon from evolving, and as I've not been able to trade a Kadabra with anyone to test it I guess it's just going to remain hearsay to me. So I guess the old Uri Gellar lawsuit nonsense is still affecting us to this day even though he seemingly canceled it. Asshole >:T
About 13, I'll leave this here. "If 13 is an unlucky number, then so should the letter B be because B looks like a scrunched together 13. What's your name? Bob? Get the hell away!" RIP Mitch Hedberg ruclips.net/video/_dHcvpnjcwI/видео.html
You ought to see some of the weird superstitions of Mormons. Those magic underwear? When they wear out, they MUST be disposed of correctly--you have to cut out the magic marks and cut them into teeny tiny shredded pieces before you can throw away the rest of the fabric.
When you place your horseshoes at your doors, you must be sure to place them in the correct position... with the "heel" upward. You know... so your luck won't run out of it. 😁 (I swear... everything but a "horseshoe" meme on here! 😆)
Spinning coat hangers in the retail shops where I worked was forbidden because it turned away customers. And red and white flowers were not allowed on wards in hospital. No idea why, it was suggested it was blood and bandages of the barber pole. 25 years after I stopped working on wards II still feel queasy at the sight of red and white flowers together. I know it has no significant but I the feeling comes before the thought. And shoes on beds drilled in by grandma make me uneasy because shoes on a bed are a dead persons shoes, completely irrational. I ignore it now but red and white flowere no chance.
@LuthAMF 🤣 I never said Christianity does not does not does not expect or demand special privileges OR special rights. I won't waste my time reading your trash because you are a little fly who is not worth anybody's time. A fly like you is too happy talking to a human
I turned 13 on Friday the 13th…no one came to my bday party. 😥 My grandfather sincerely believed you died if you sneezed three times in a row. A lot of animal shelters here in Texas used to refuse to adopt out black cats around Halloween for fear they would be sacrificed by Satanists…😆 Not sure if that’s still a thing, though.
LOL, my mom would've died tons of times if that thing about sneezing were true, since any time she sneezed (and she was a loud sneezer, too 😆) she almost always sneezed three times! Sorry about your birthday party. It's a bummer. I'd have gone! We always said in my family that Friday the 13ths were lucky for our family. _~shrug~_ Never knew why. They never really explained why they said it. LOL, maybe they were just being contrarians about it, too! I wouldn't put it past 'em! (Edited because my clumsy are hit the button way too soon 🙃)
My stepdad might have more lives than a cat lol, he sneezes 3 times and 4 & 5 time's in a row alot rarely he sneezes once. I bet if he knew him he would freak out when he does lol
Mom always warned us not to rock an empty rocking chair. As it will cause a death in the family We had more superstitions for things not to do between Christmas and the new years. Plus the new year dinner foods required
"...looking into a big piece of steel": there's at least one student pub in Glasgow that had (has?) several two-metre-square sheets of polished steel in the bathrooms instead of glass mirrors. For safety's sake, of course.
I have a phrase when I working with heavy machinery like milling machines, lathes and some one and I'm nervous on what I'm doing: "cross your fingers, cross your nuts, this machine now has my trust." Its weird, but it's just as good as crossing your fingers.
Seth you are a much nicer "Dog Dad." I have a lab / German Shepard mutt at times I have to stand behind and push into his back hips with my knees to get him to go outside for a his potty time. He gets no umbrella mercies from me.
A friend of mine told me about a superstition about being polite to magpies - saying "Good morning" to them, and addressing them by name (Mr or Ms Magpie) whenever you saw them - at a moment when I was under significant job stress and short of sleep. It stayed with me for decades, and it's only in recent years that the habit has begun to wear away.
Even an atheist can have superstitions; it's part of the human brain's pattern-seeking, as well as that thing (can't recall the formal name) where if you're wrong about a superstition, the cost is low, while if you're right but don't act on the superstition, the cost is high. For me, it's a prohibition against stating that I'm certain about something. If I say "I'm sure," it'll turn out that I'm wrong. If I refuse to say I'm certain, then I'm a lot more likely to turn out to be correct on whatever that topic may be. Thankfully, that's also consistent with the scientific method--we might always find out at some later date that we're wrong about an accepted truth.
@Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus that's the pattern-seeing where there isn't one is called, yeah, but ... it's not the one for which they couldn't remember the name. It was Pascal's Wager they couldn't remember.
@@georgierodgers444 yep, I just ran across a video that was about that, specifically having to do with "believing" in "God" just in case "God" was real.
My greyhound is named Freyja and she would totally approve of being carted in a chariot pulled by cats. She could sleep on walks and there's always a snack handy (other greyhound employees will get it)
I use to help my late father in law he had retired and began his own maintenance business. Walking under a later can be bad if a hammer or something falls from the top wrung, lol
The "3 on a match" is about snipers. If you are sitting there in the dark and you strike up a light, the amount of time it would take to get to the third cigarette will be enough time for the sniper to get a fix and bang. Whether this is accurate or not, I don't know, but it's certainly a reasonable precaution in the circumstances.
Maybe, if you say at the end "whether this is accurate or not, I don't know," you should begin with "I have heard that '3 on a match' is..." or "I was once told that the '3 on a match' is..." One shouldn't begin by stating something with certainty, then finish the statement with the fact that the thing you're talking about is not, after all, certain.
@@MaryAnnNytowl I expressed lack of certainty at the end because it occurred to me that I had encountered this so long ago that I cannot now recall where I came across it. So while I believe it to be accurate I would not be able to cite a source for it. Doing a quick check now I find that Wikipedia supports my explanation and dates it to the Crimean war.
My cat Sammy (👈) is the beautiful black cat in this picture, and he's welcome to cross my path any day, all day! It sounds to me like he and your black cat Blaire have similar personalities.
If there's one mirror you don't want to break, it's the one on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) set to launch in December. Actually it's made of multiple smaller mirrors acting as one.
The last bit about hand gestures reminded me of a day-by-day calendar I had of amusing and embarrassing quotes, one of which was a restaurant complaint: "I've been fingering your waitress for fifteen minutes, and she refuses to come." Fear of black cats was a thing when I was a kid, is it still real? I had forgotten about it. My little Abby is a rescue cat, and I feel I got lucky having her in my life.
When my dad went to Indonesia as a conscript during the late forties, there were still people over there that didn’t want their photos taken, because they believed their soul, or part of it, would be taken from them by the camera.
I can stop my sneeze from getting expelled by clamping my mouth and nose shut. It hurts all over, but nothing gets out of me until it's over. I rarely need to, though, unless I'm not able to cover my mouth with my shirt or anything similar.
in Japan, they don't have 4th floors because 4 used to be 'Shi' (し) which also traslated to 'Death'. No one wanted to work on the death floor. The number 4 is now 'Yon' (四)
13 is my favorite number, love or rather adore black cats, leave my purse on the floor, wear some of my cloths inside out,spill salt on a regular basis and wipe with my right hand!
In Italy the unlucky day is Friday 17, Friday for the death of Jesus and 17 for the beginning of the Great Flood and other crappy things that happened during the Roman Empire. I can confirm that the horn sign with the index and pinky fingers means that the targeted man's wife is cheating on him. A likely origin is rooted in the myth of Poseidon punishing Minos (Crete's King) for not sacrificing a magnificent white bull to him. Poseidon made Minos' wife Pasiphae fall in love with the bull, which resulted in the birth of the Minotaur.
I grew up in the Bronx. The building I grew up in was built the year I was born. 1972. It had the 13 th floor labeled 13. While I lived there, 17 years, It was only floor the ever caught on fire. I lived on the 12th floor. Coincidence? Yeah pretty much.
It's always amusing and strange what positive/negative people with their confused and often conflicting positive/negative minds thinks and believe.....so we have loads of opposing thoughts, ideas, theories, assumptions, misconceptions, myths, superstitions and beliefs ...all created or assumed to be meaningful .....often when and where there is ignorance, danger, fear, stress or desperation... or when people have need for something to give hope of protection or positive outcomes...or to use to blame something or someone for the negative. Mainly because they simply can't see or want to simply accept the conflicting chaotic positive/negative constructs and nature of cosmos and reality. But I guess all our regional myths, superstition and works of art and fictions is keeps us amused, distracted or appeased...and of course confused.
I got rid of all these superstitions but for the life of me I still don't say Candyman or bloody Mary lol I know it's all BS but just can't bring myself to do it lol
The Japanese believe in a “good luck cat” called Maneko Neko. ... Seeing a white cat at night is not good. You should not chase a black out of your home or it will bring bad luck.
You glossed over why 3 is bad luck ! The most evil and terrible thing to exist to this day in the 21st century, is the reason and you even said it, and that is : The Father, The Son and the Holy Moly
They really have to start making Jesus Pop Tarts, so every christian with pareidolia can get their own kitschy Pop Tart Jesus, and have their "Proof of god" moment to brag about.
"Knock on wood" is usually meant for when U DON'T want something bad to happen to you.
In the acting world there's a major superstition about saying "MacBeth" in the theatre which curses the current production. As a high school student actor I made this mistake and an actress went nuts and started a strange ritual involving 3 turns in her dressing room and 3 in the hallway. I learned you can only say "The Scottish Play".
Yay black cats! I have one and she is the most loving kitty I've ever had. She was stunted as a baby and as a result, not even a little smart. But she's sweet. I think black and white cats are black cats with a pigment deficiency. Which is also kind of cool.
I had a beautiful black cat named Rachel. She was a sweetheart like your Blair. 🐈⬛💜
Awesome video!!! I'm sure you put a lot of work into this. Thank you!!
It has been a LONG time since I actually heard someone sing it, lol my siblings and I had our own parody too. Good times! As for the original, I'm not sure If I have the wording exactly right, but It goes something like the following:
"I'm looking over a four-leaf clover,
That I overlooked before.
One leaf is sunshine, the second leaf is rain,
Third is the roses that are grown in the lane.
No need explaining, the one that is remaining,
Is somebody I simply adore!
And that's why I'm looking over a four-leaf clover,
That I overlooked before."
Having cats on board the ship also dealt with that pesky rodent problem, as rats could easily destroy food and water stores, so they were useful as well.
The number 3 is the lowest number of things needed to indicate a pattern. If you see two trees in a field of equal age and size, that could reasonably seen as a wholly natural occurrence. Three trees of similar dimensions equally spaced in a field is a sure indication of a human hand deliberately at work shaping the environment.
Seth is back!!! 👍🏽👍🏽💪🏽👍🏽👍🏽
My black cat thinks every day of the year is for him. Shouldn’t have named him Pericles. It went straight to his head.
Loved listening to Dr. Demento. Rover was a staple in his play list.
Oh poor dead puppy. Not much fun...
I have an affection for black cats. Got one for me ex-wife and she left the cat when she took off. That little black cat became my best friend. I lost her when she was 19 years old. I quickly realized I had to have a cat in my life and adopter another little black cat. She is a great cat too.
I can sometimes stop a sneeze right _before_ it starts, though, by squeezing the bridge of my nose, right where those two little openings right under the skin are, along that cartilage. It sorta interrupts the nerve messages.
Conversely, and with much better luck, if the sneeze sensation is sort of *stuck,* where you feel like you need to sneeze, but you don't, by also squeezing that little area, and wiggling it a bit with my fingernails. It will go ahead and get that sneeze to happen, so it doesn't just make your sinuses hurt.
so mirrors were technically horcruxes but without the necessity to murder someone 🤣
Even now my parents won’t let an umbrella be opened in the house nor shoes on tables. Pure superstitions
The late comic Mitch Hedberg mentioned 13th floors in one of his crazy stand-up bits. "If you jump out the window on the 14th floor, you will die earlier."
Come on, man, you know which floor you're really on.
I loved Mitch Hedberg.
There are pretty good reasons to not walk under a ladder though. You can get hurt man.
My youngest dog won’t go out when it rains either. I feel your pain, Seth.
I work for a well known university in their physics department working with a free electron laser. One of our researchers who has a PhD in nuclear physics and is a certified genius. He will knock on wood when we are discussing the accelerator and I say things are running well. He is very scientific, but he also says that he doesn't want to take any chances. LOL!
The Jim Carrey movie was actually 23, but you're right about everything else. 13 is actually my lucky number lol
My parents were married on Friday the 13th and I was born on Friday the 13th. It is my lucky number too.
I'm not superstitious because being superstitious brings bad luck.
Im not superstitious because i know where they come from.I do alot of research on various things
It's true that the "bull" (or better "ox") gesture is understood as a mockery of a man who gets cheated by his wife, for example in italy.
Here in germany we have a related saying:
"Sie hat ihrem Mann Hörner aufgesetzt" - which can be translated as "She put horns onto her husband", meaning that a wife cheated.
It works exclusivly this way, a husband can't "put horns onto his wife" - for this constellation there are different sayings.
An ox is a castrated/neutered bull which is pretty passive compared to how bulls actually behave, and as a donkey an ox is traditionally associated with being dumb (even when it is actually wrong, as in case of the donkey) - so the explanation Seth doubted towards the end of the video is actually on point.
In my town people would refuse to “split the pole” while walking down the street with friends because they thought it would cause such bad luck that one of the people would be arrested by the cops unjustly. I thought it was silly when I was a kid but the belief was all over the place when I was a teenager in Hartford CT
My buddy won't "split the poles". If there's a sign that's supported by two poles, he'll go around. He also won't "cross 3", so will go around 3 panels in the ground.
I tried to do that with my grandmother when I was younger and she literally snatched be back around to her side of the pole.
My parents were pastors and they used to make us turn off all the lights in the house and light candles to pray on Halloween because they though trick-or-treating would open us up to demonic activity or possession.
Wow!
They just didn't want to buy the candy lol
I've been in Chinese hotels that didn't have a 4th, 13th, 14th, 24th, etc floor. Superstitions are nice when it's just a folksy tale people tell each other, but is concerning when people take it seriously.
Image being a new room maid trying to find the right floor to work on.. And an hour later still not daring to ask your supervisor where you be.
The existence of this type of superstition in 2021 makes me feel hopelessly sad for humanity........
@@domiro8156 Crazy and sad That's humans for you.
My husband sneezes in bright light. In fact if he wants to sneeze for some reason, he just stares at a light.
"The photic sneeze effect is a genetic tendency to begin sneezing, sometimes many times consecutively (due to naso-ocular reflex), when suddenly exposed to bright light. This condition tends to occur more severely after one has emerged into the light after spending time in a dark environment. Although the syndrome is thought to affect about 18-35% of the human population, it is relatively harmless and not widely studied.
My husband does exactly that too, he will say I need to sneeze and look straight up into a light and off he goes.
Ha. I sneeze when I look at bright lights! lol. I've only known a few people who also do that. When I see my wife's about to sneeze.. I say 'Bless You'! and 7 out of 10 times.. she stops! And then gets mad at me. lol.
In my younger days I had the usual not trying to step on lines or cracks in the pavement. For a number of years I developed this habit of almost having finish climbing up or down steps with my left foot. My Dad used to have a thing about seeing a magpie on their own as seeing 2 together was considered being lucky. On the flip I've been known to deliberately walk under ladders
Whats the left foot thing? Never heard of it.
@@leothenomad5675 Just a personal thing really. I didn't really get it from anywhere, except perhaps putting your best foot forward. Looking back mostly one of those daft things you start doing that then develops in habit.
@@rhonwenstephens8539 Oh ok thanks
Magpie? Interesting. There's been a saying about crows that was like that, but I've not heard about magpies.
The crow thing goes "one crow: sorrow, two crows: mirth, three crows: a wedding, four crows: a birth, five crows: silver, six crows: gold, seven crows: a secret that can never be told." It's been around in the Central Midwestern US as far back as I can remember. _~shrug~_
I started sneezing from the sun directly after someone told me about it. I was 9.
I expect Freya’s cats were Norwegian Forest Cats. The size gets you a little closer to believability, but general cat attitude keeps it in the realm of fantasy.
Finally, black cats are ❤️🖤❤️.
The sun causes my daughter to sneeze. I Googled it and there is a medical cause. It is a real thing.
If I feel a sneeze coming, and begin to lose it (because admit it, sneezes rock) I look at a light. The sneeze will come.
My dad could find a 4-leaf clover in about 5 seconds. He'd just look at a patch of clover, reach down and pick up a 4-leaf one. I would stare at the same patch before he did and never saw one. He lived 90 years, so I guess it did bring him pretty good luck. LOL
@Mack Nikko I liked the story. No need to be rude if you didn't.
Same for great grandma. She could always find one at her feet
@Mack Nikko Perhaps if you'd just stuck with "cool story bro" your comment could be read as sarcasm, but your second sentence was point blank contemptuous and lacked any irony.
Either way, a sarcastic comment to show you disapproved of a story is still rude and uncalled for so I'm not sure how it excuses your poor manners.
@UCV2QGABOX2TU0FFC5-6eGDQ Allah loves you.
@@lloydchristmas4547 LOL
I loved Seth's speech "Christianity Made Me Talk like and Idiot", so I can't wait for the sequel, "My Dog Also Made Me Talk like an Idiot"!
LOL 😂
Dogs and babies turn us into babbling idiots
A bakers dozen is 13.
On hand gestures, the thumb-and-pinkie thing is most definitely the sign for "cuckold" in Sicily and Italy, and maybe nearby countries, too. _Really_ don't do it, it will start a fight, a serious one, like _murderously_ serious.
In Japan and Korea, you don't point at people with your index finger, you use your whole hand, but it's probably best avoided altogether. Meanwhile the Japanese use an upside-down, whole-hand beckoning gesture which to Weatern eyes looks a lot like someone waving goodbye.
These aren't really superstitions, though, just the way things are done.
@TheThinkingAthiest I have a pup just like Linus - Benji hates rain too and is a total drama king. I got him a doggy raincoat - he's not crazy about it, but then realizes that the raincoat is keeping rain off his precious puggle fur and will stay out in the yard long enough to do his business then. Might want to try one for Linus! 😂 Tip from experience if you do - get one that slips over the head, velcros under the belly, and also has elastic for each back leg - otherwise it just slips off when they shake!
Like a lot of other 90s kids, I used to believe that when you were playing Pokemon and had thrown a Pokeball at a wild Pokemon, you could do an input to increase your chances of the catch being successful. Some people said you had to press the A and B buttons together, my method was always to mash A. Now I know this is different than the superstitions presented here because it's part of a video game and not anything affecting the real world, and more to the point it was totally within GameFreak's power to implement that sort of mechanic if they wanted to so it *could have* been true. But no, the only things that affect whether or not you will catch a Pokemon are the strength of the specific ball type used, the Pokemon's health (both in terms of the HP bar and if it has certain status effects), and the Pokemon's specific "catch rate". Did that stop me from mashing A for the longest time? I don't think it did, not for years after I was told that it did nothing XD
I also believed that when a Pokemon was evolving, you had to mash A or it wouldn't finish evolving. That isn't a Thing and idk if anyone else believed it was, but pressing B during an evolution will cancel the evolution if you're having second thoughts. Unless it's a traded Kadabra. Afaik this only happens with Kadabra and *no* other traded Pokemon, even if it's specifically holding an item that prevents Pokemon from evolving, and as I've not been able to trade a Kadabra with anyone to test it I guess it's just going to remain hearsay to me. So I guess the old Uri Gellar lawsuit nonsense is still affecting us to this day even though he seemingly canceled it. Asshole >:T
The Jim Carrey film is called The Number 23, not 13.
About 13, I'll leave this here. "If 13 is an unlucky number, then so should the letter B be because B looks like a scrunched together 13. What's your name? Bob? Get the hell away!" RIP Mitch Hedberg
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You ought to see some of the weird superstitions of Mormons. Those magic underwear? When they wear out, they MUST be disposed of correctly--you have to cut out the magic marks and cut them into teeny tiny shredded pieces before you can throw away the rest of the fabric.
When you place your horseshoes at your doors, you must be sure to place them in the correct position... with the "heel" upward.
You know... so your luck won't run out of it. 😁
(I swear... everything but a "horseshoe" meme on here! 😆)
Spinning coat hangers in the retail shops where I worked was forbidden because it turned away customers.
And red and white flowers were not allowed on wards in hospital. No idea why, it was suggested it was blood and bandages of the barber pole. 25 years after I stopped working on wards II still feel queasy at the sight of red and white flowers together. I know it has no significant but I the feeling comes before the thought. And shoes on beds drilled in by grandma make me uneasy because shoes on a bed are a dead persons shoes, completely irrational. I ignore it now but red and white flowere no chance.
What makes people interesting and also annoying. Their beliefs.
also the reasons for their beliefs.
@@Ascend777 Some quite reasonable some not.
@@thegroove2000 exactly.
@LuthAMF😂 You do not bring anything to talk about, but you here bitching though. Jesus is calling for his little sheeeep. Go now little sheeeeep.
@LuthAMF 🤣 I never said Christianity does not does not does not expect or demand special privileges OR special rights. I won't waste my time reading your trash because you are a little fly who is not worth anybody's time. A fly like you is too happy talking to a human
I turned 13 on Friday the 13th…no one came to my bday party. 😥
My grandfather sincerely believed you died if you sneezed three times in a row.
A lot of animal shelters here in Texas used to refuse to adopt out black cats around Halloween for fear they would be sacrificed by Satanists…😆 Not sure if that’s still a thing, though.
LOL, my mom would've died tons of times if that thing about sneezing were true, since any time she sneezed (and she was a loud sneezer, too 😆) she almost always sneezed three times!
Sorry about your birthday party. It's a bummer. I'd have gone! We always said in my family that Friday the 13ths were lucky for our family. _~shrug~_ Never knew why. They never really explained why they said it. LOL, maybe they were just being contrarians about it, too! I wouldn't put it past 'em!
(Edited because my clumsy are hit the button way too soon 🙃)
My stepdad might have more lives than a cat lol, he sneezes 3 times and 4 & 5 time's in a row alot rarely he sneezes once. I bet if he knew him he would freak out when he does lol
Mom always warned us not to rock an empty rocking chair. As it will cause a death in the family
We had more superstitions for things not to do between Christmas and the new years. Plus the new year dinner foods required
I love this kind of program! I'm a curious catznjam lol 🥰😘👍
"...looking into a big piece of steel": there's at least one student pub in Glasgow that had (has?) several two-metre-square sheets of polished steel in the bathrooms instead of glass mirrors. For safety's sake, of course.
I have a phrase when I working with heavy machinery like milling machines, lathes and some one and I'm nervous on what I'm doing: "cross your fingers, cross your nuts, this machine now has my trust."
Its weird, but it's just as good as crossing your fingers.
Seth you are a much nicer "Dog Dad." I have a lab / German Shepard mutt at times I have to stand behind and push into his back hips with my knees to get him to go outside for a his potty time. He gets no umbrella mercies from me.
A friend of mine told me about a superstition about being polite to magpies - saying "Good morning" to them, and addressing them by name (Mr or Ms Magpie) whenever you saw them - at a moment when I was under significant job stress and short of sleep. It stayed with me for decades, and it's only in recent years that the habit has begun to wear away.
Even an atheist can have superstitions; it's part of the human brain's pattern-seeking, as well as that thing (can't recall the formal name) where if you're wrong about a superstition, the cost is low, while if you're right but don't act on the superstition, the cost is high. For me, it's a prohibition against stating that I'm certain about something. If I say "I'm sure," it'll turn out that I'm wrong. If I refuse to say I'm certain, then I'm a lot more likely to turn out to be correct on whatever that topic may be. Thankfully, that's also consistent with the scientific method--we might always find out at some later date that we're wrong about an accepted truth.
Pascal's Wager
@Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus that's the pattern-seeing where there isn't one is called, yeah, but ... it's not the one for which they couldn't remember the name. It was Pascal's Wager they couldn't remember.
@@georgierodgers444 yep, I just ran across a video that was about that, specifically having to do with "believing" in "God" just in case "God" was real.
Dr Demento somgs are great.
My greyhound is named Freyja and she would totally approve of being carted in a chariot pulled by cats. She could sleep on walks and there's always a snack handy (other greyhound employees will get it)
Love this 💪🏿🖤
we could sit on the lawn of our high school,
and find 4-5 four leaf clovers in one lunch period
I use to help my late father in law he had retired and began his own maintenance business. Walking under a later can be bad if a hammer or something falls from the top wrung, lol
The "3 on a match" is about snipers. If you are sitting there in the dark and you strike up a light, the amount of time it would take to get to the third cigarette will be enough time for the sniper to get a fix and bang. Whether this is accurate or not, I don't know, but it's certainly a reasonable precaution in the circumstances.
Maybe, if you say at the end "whether this is accurate or not, I don't know," you should begin with "I have heard that '3 on a match' is..." or "I was once told that the '3 on a match' is..." One shouldn't begin by stating something with certainty, then finish the statement with the fact that the thing you're talking about is not, after all, certain.
@@MaryAnnNytowl I expressed lack of certainty at the end because it occurred to me that I had encountered this so long ago that I cannot now recall where I came across it. So while I believe it to be accurate I would not be able to cite a source for it.
Doing a quick check now I find that Wikipedia supports my explanation and dates it to the Crimean war.
My cat Sammy (👈) is the beautiful black cat in this picture, and he's welcome to cross my path any day, all day! It sounds to me like he and your black cat Blaire have similar personalities.
In the Philippines, to beckon someone, you extend your hand palm down and draw your fingers towards yourself.
They point with their lips too
Here in the USA we just thrust our crotch at the direction of person.
@@Ascend777 That's why we love the USA.. the freedom to beckon as you please
I've always wondered if the fingers crossed thing behind the back had anything to do with the term "double cross."
Greater love hath no man than to hold an umbrella for his dog to go potty.
If there's one mirror you don't want to break, it's the one on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) set to launch in December. Actually it's made of multiple smaller mirrors acting as one.
The last bit about hand gestures reminded me of a day-by-day calendar I had of amusing and embarrassing quotes, one of which was a restaurant complaint: "I've been fingering your waitress for fifteen minutes, and she refuses to come."
Fear of black cats was a thing when I was a kid, is it still real? I had forgotten about it. My little Abby is a rescue cat, and I feel I got lucky having her in my life.
When my dad went to Indonesia as a conscript during the late forties, there were still people over there that didn’t want their photos taken, because they believed their soul, or part of it, would be taken from them by the camera.
I’ve met someone who says that too!
I can stop my sneeze from getting expelled by clamping my mouth and nose shut. It hurts all over, but nothing gets out of me until it's over. I rarely need to, though, unless I'm not able to cover my mouth with my shirt or anything similar.
I never walk under a ladder - at 6' 6'' nothing good can come from it and it ain't superstition.
Ah, ah, ah..... I believe you!
I am short at 6'4" and feel the same. Safety first!
in Japan, they don't have 4th floors because 4 used to be 'Shi' (し) which also traslated to 'Death'. No one wanted to work on the death floor. The number 4 is now 'Yon' (四)
I still hear 'shi' in anime for 4 sometimes; is that just 'ye olde' speaking or is it still used in some connotations?
@@HIMPDahak It's still used in certain connotations, but it's trying to be phased out.
My best friend sneezes in bright lights
13 is my favorite number, love or rather adore black cats, leave my purse on the floor, wear some of my cloths inside out,spill salt on a regular basis and wipe with my right hand!
Maybe Freya dangled a sack of catnip in front of her chariot to get her cats to pull it
In Italy the unlucky day is Friday 17, Friday for the death of Jesus and 17 for the beginning of the Great Flood and other crappy things that happened during the Roman Empire. I can confirm that the horn sign with the index and pinky fingers means that the targeted man's wife is cheating on him. A likely origin is rooted in the myth of Poseidon punishing Minos (Crete's King) for not sacrificing a magnificent white bull to him. Poseidon made Minos' wife Pasiphae fall in love with the bull, which resulted in the birth of the Minotaur.
oh yes. the cats know they rule the house.
I grew up in the Bronx. The building I grew up in was built the year I was born. 1972. It had the 13 th floor labeled 13. While I lived there, 17 years, It was only floor the ever caught on fire. I lived on the 12th floor.
Coincidence? Yeah pretty much.
I just recently heard about a 13th zodiac sign
Whenever I say, "knock on wood", I knock on the side of my head.
Skinheads "woods" "pecker woods" in prison would do this. Lol.
And which way is the horseshoe supposed to be hanging above the door?
Broken end up so the luck doesn’t run out!
@@janwoodward7360 interesting! I was also told open end down so the luck is constantly pouring out.
just grab 4 and do the Dune logo
I am a good luck charm to cats.They see me and are in luck!
It's always amusing and strange what positive/negative people with their confused and often conflicting positive/negative minds thinks and believe.....so we have loads of opposing thoughts, ideas, theories, assumptions, misconceptions, myths, superstitions and beliefs ...all created or assumed to be meaningful .....often when and where there is ignorance, danger, fear, stress or desperation... or when people have need for something to give hope of protection or positive outcomes...or to use to blame something or someone for the negative.
Mainly because they simply can't see or want to simply accept the conflicting chaotic positive/negative constructs and nature of cosmos and reality.
But I guess all our regional myths, superstition and works of art and fictions is keeps us amused, distracted or appeased...and of course confused.
I am cat obsessed and adore black cats!
If i see a feline in need i take it home and spoil it.
13 people attended the last supper? Really? I always thought it was 12 people and a gawd.
42:35 Actually there are 13 ZODIACAL constellations as the Sun passes through Ophiuchus as well as the other famous 12.
Thor's chariot was pulled by goats.
I got rid of all these superstitions but for the life of me I still don't say Candyman or bloody Mary lol I know it's all BS but just can't bring myself to do it lol
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. 😂
I must be bad luck;I was born on the 300th day of the year on the 3rd floor in the 3rd room and am a 3 in numberology.Moms birthday was oct 3rd.
@Wolf-dog Cat-dog that is so cool!!
The 👌 is also used as a-hole signal in Germany.
The Greek gods of the underworld where Hades and Prosephane
The Japanese believe in a “good luck cat” called Maneko Neko. ... Seeing a white cat at night is not good. You should not chase a black out of your home or it will bring bad luck.
I live in a house number #13, I used to own a black cat, so I must be a witch?
You glossed over why 3 is bad luck ! The most evil and terrible thing to exist to this day in the 21st century, is the reason and you even said it, and that is : The Father, The Son and the Holy Moly
The word cat is actually spelled with a K in some languages
They really have to start making Jesus Pop Tarts, so every christian with pareidolia can get their own kitschy Pop Tart Jesus, and have their "Proof of god" moment to brag about.
40:14 It was the numbre 23.
Stuperstitions
Lol I was born on Friday the 13th and I'm left handed👊 If all things to the left are evil, why is God situated to the left of Jesus?
no13th floor superstition here in OZ. like how dumb
Jim Carreys movie is not 13 its 23
job 37:18 ( the bibel verse, not the eyebrow thing).
I think that qualifies as a full-time job. Hope they give you benefits!
Lose your superstition and become a happier person.
Hearing that over 40 second intro every time is way too long. Don't waste our time with that, thank you.
I like hearing it! I love hearing Christopher Hitchens and I like that woman who talks about putting her hand on the bible. :-)
Sun sneezer here. :)