I had my son believing that adults can hear the things that are bleeped out on tv, that when he turned 18 his ears wouldn't hear the bleeps anymore, and instead he would hear what words were actually being said! He actually believed it until he was around 17 when I broke the news to him that it wasn't true LOL
I would love to see an episode of you guys talking about other parts of your Egyptian culture - like favorite foods, learning English, wearing traditional clothing, religion, etc
I was on a "first date" with the guy I'm seeing now and while setting up the billiard balls I started singing Vash's song when he's on the ship trying to scare people away, and he recognized where it was from. Swept off my feet right then. Oh, I wonder if the phrase "sweep you off your feet" is related to the superstition of not sweeping yourself?
@@jtarmstrong1234 I was swept off my feet by the man who became my husband when he revealed to me that he had seen and remembered the movie "The Little Shop of Horrors" (the original, not the musical) on Creature Feature.
Maybe the sweeping at night was actually started by the wives so they didn’t have to work after dark. That’s what I would do. If all else fails, create a wives tail.
It was created by guys. When they got home from working and the wife said, 'Before you sit down, sweep the lounge.' To which he would reply, 'I cannot risk disturbing the ancestors in their sleep. For this will bring bad fortune to our family.' The wife would roll her eyes and say 'Okay my beloved Phatbuttsut, you sit there whilst I cook the dinner. Unless that might disturb the ancestors?'
I think a lot of supersitions were created to help people get some rest from their many daily work in the past, its kinda cute tbh. In my culture on a number of religious holidays or important dates its said its forbidden to sew, to sweep, to build... Im like i see what u did there ancestors ;)
The sweeping at night is u don't want to kick up a bunch of dust before you go to sleep...again back in the day homes had much more dust so when people swept at night they were more susceptible to respiratory infection and sickness could be caused by pissed off spirits :)
The pool thing is partially true! The filter has pipes that attach to the pool to suck water in for filtering. People and children have been known to get stuck to the openings and get injured. Sometimes the suction is hard enough to hold you under water or break skin.
I also thought of something from one of the Final Destination trailers. Pro tip, don't watch those movies if you have any sort of anxiety, it will ruin your life.
actually we had in Germany some deadly accidents with children because the pump sucked in a leg or arm and kept them under the water line. They could not get free on their own and drowned. :-( :-(
At my public pool when I was a kid when they called swim over everyone climbed out of the pool and there was a child that had drowned they had got stuck in the drain in the bottom
My Grand-Aunt's thing was never gifting someone an empty purse, it always had to have at least a coin or something in it or else it would always be empty
You two were meant to have a podcast. You guys are soo entertaining and funny as can be. In my life I have heard about showing the bottom of your feet as being disrespectful but that was certain cultures but the gifting knives was considered bad luck and that came from my mom who is Hispanic. Another one was putting your purse on the ground will cause you to lose money. Love you guys no contact hug 💜💚
Yes always leave a coin in a purse or wallet so the person you give it to will never be broke. We couldn't close a knife someone else opened or it would cut off your friendship but you could sell a sharp object for a penny and you would be fine.
I am Egyptian too and one thing i was told was if a flip flop/slipper was placed with its face on the ground and i didnt fix it i would be a bad person and i've been told the scissor on multiple times
Im in America and I've heard that one too but it doesn't have anything to do with the wind It's just if u make a silly face too often or hold it to long it'll get stuck
Yay!!! NerdESisters podcast 💜💜💜💜 it's so cool learning about Egyptian superstitions and culture. Also, I love the dynamic between you two! 💞💜💞 Some of the superstitions I grew up with are "Don't step on a crack" "Don't walk under a ladder" "Breaking a mirror results in 7 years of bad luck" "Black cats crossing your path is bad luck." "Spill salt and you have to throw some over your left shoulder" "Plant lavender by your back gate for a happy home" And to "touch glass" or "knock wood" to prevent something you're talking about from happening (like I haven't been sick in four years, "knock wood" - so you don't immediately get sick)
Omg the knocking on wood! I have seen people who interrupted the discussion to find something wooden to knock on when someone joked about something innocent, and no one could say a word until they knocked. Sooooo annoying!
These two sisters are darling in their relation to each other and in their respectful questioning of their culture. Delightful! Only loving sisters can talk like this.
The marrying your first cousin is also part of Indian Tradition. It's happened in my family. I told my parents that it was so wrong and they understood.
I mean it’s not exactly wrong. Contrary to the western taboos there’s not much of a biological reason to discourage cousin marriage however it’s wrong to make your kids believe cousins are your safest and best shot at marriage. Actually a lot of ppl hate it as well in Egypt as it causes a lot of problems in the family.
@@moirhann “1 out of 4 have a chance of having a child with recessive genetic conditions, which is 25%, IF both parents have a copy of those genes.” They may not. “According to the Clinical Genetics Handbook, children of non-related couples have a 2-3% chance of being born with a birth defect, and children of first cousins have a 4-6% chance.” Not that much of a high risk to consider it an incest or automatically as assume that said marriages will always result birth defects but the western taboos usually exaggerated the risks. “It is often safe to have children with your cousin, but doctors do recommend genetic counseling for prospective first cousin parents.” www.nytimes.com/2002/04/04/us/few-risks-seen-to-the-children-of-1st-cousins.html genetics.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/can-you-marry-cousin qz.com/1368209/is-it-illegal-to-marry-your-cousin/
They way you talk about the Egyptian marriage culture & girls roles reminds me so much of my life growing up in the mormon culture around marriage and a girls role in life. I'm glad you and your sister broke the mold.
I'm part Romanian/ Russian and I have heard the knife thing before. Another thing I've head from my aunt that if you accidentally spill salt on the table you have to throw it over your shoulder otherwise it's bad luck. Don't know why though. My aunt is Greek.
These are so fun! Given the fact that you’re both multilingual I’d love to hear you talk about that. What you speak most, which one you “think” in, how it was growing up that way, words in one language that have no match in the other etc.
The sweeping at night my grandpa always said it was bad luck.. sweeping on or under people's feet they won't marry.. my grandpa also said if you open a pocket knife you are the open that has to close it.. mirrors can not face each other because it opens a door to bad spirits to be able to pass..
OMG Mandy! My family too! If someone hands me a pocket knife that closed but I opened originally, I won't take it til the open it back up! My dad would refuse his if one of us closed it. Guess it stuck!
In regards to the knives- my mom’s family (from Sicily) always takes a penny to the package when knives are given and the recipient pays the gifted with that penny so they ‘pay’ for the knives. If a purse or wallet is given a penny is also given so that you always have money - granted a penny’s not much these days but we still do it.
Such fun to listen to! My dad used to tell us kids that if we lied then when we died and were buried, our hand would stick out of the ground and people would trip over it. Is that a common one or something he made up? No idea!
As an ex-lifeguard: draining the pool is NOT like pulling a plug out of the bathtub. A lot of the water goes out via the skimmers and regular drains (the ones that take the water through the pipes for chlorination), and, depending on the size or type of, the rest can go through a bigger bottom drain (that has a cover), or you can use a shop-vac or a suction hose. It really depends. But if you're regularly swimming, you definitely won't get sucked in through the skimmers (the small drains at the top of the pool), and most likely will not get stuck to the bigger drains at the bottom of the pool if it's not being drained. That being said, accidents happen, so don't fool around with equipment, and don't swim in a draining pool.
In my family when we give knives the one receiving them have to give you a nickel. They are technicaly "buying" them from you. The other one is lovers should never give the other one a watch. Love should be forever not to see the time pass.
Ahhh Girls..... I am 57 and my husband is 60, we still look for adultier adults! LOL I had my kids convinced that I could see through walls and knew when they were up to mischief. My eldest daughter is carrying on the tradition with my grandsons.
Sometimes parents tell their kids weird tales just to see their faces and see where the kid will take it. Just like sometimes parents will tell kids weird tales just to get them to stop asking questions about a topic the parents either don't know much about or are exhausted thinking about.
Yes. My dad told us kids you find babies under cow patty's. So us kids went looking for them. And freckles came from cows. We told never get close to cows unless we want freckles.
Would you guys please oh please do a podcast of more Egyptian customs and culture someday? I find all of this super fascinating and intriguing to hear all of this!
We were always told not to leave out of one door and come in another door, never take a ring off someone’s finger and to never close a knife someone else opened. It’s all bad luck.
Awe, the both of you would make amazing mothers. The love you have for your own children is immeasurable. It's an over powering feeling, like a lioness who protects her little cubs. As a mother, i would do anything to protect my children no matter what.
Y'all are cracking me up! My husband is from a small village where cousin marriage is really normal. Many of his relatives are married cousins and I would meet family it would get so confusing for me. Marrying me was the most rebellious thing he ever did.
I love listening to you girls !! I laugh so much with you! It was extremely interesting to hear about Egyptian culture and beliefs, I hope you can continue making videos like this.
To get around the gifting of knives (grew up with this and the sweeping and marriage one), we were told to give the person gifting the knives a penny per knife and if you swept your foot, etc. you were supposed to spit on the broom.
I live in a small town in the southern US. There are so many superstitions about different things around here. One that is similar to yours about sweeping feet is the superstition that if you are sitting in a chair and someone sweeps under your feet you will never get married. There is also the superstition that if you are on your period and touch anything while someone is canning sauerkraut that it will rot in the jar. The broom thing is not really true, but we always joke about it because my sister and I are both still single and I'm in my early thirties and she's in her late twenties. The sauerkraut thing is true. I've seen it happen. I'm sure there must be a scientific reason for this, but I have learned not to touch the ingredients or jars while canning if I'm on my period. It's very interesting to hear about other cultures superstitions. My grandma used to say never rock a rockingchair if no one is in it. She had lots of superstitions that they believed growing up. Some were valid, but not for the reasons they thought, and some were just kind of silly.
Not sure how many Roman Catholics are here, but there were SO many superstitions with this-sneezing. It was more my school mates that said you always have to say ‘bless you’ after you sneeze because your soul is vulnerable to the devil after. To this day, even if I’m alone and sneeze, I say ‘bless me’ by reflex! I even bless my kitty is she sneezes :D
So for Santa, I heard of a tradition that I think I'll aim to impart to kids in the family: basically you do the normal "Santa Claus" lie until the kid hits the age (usually around 8 or so) where they start to question the reality. Then you take them aside and give them this speech about the kind of person they became during the year (kind, hardworking, etc) and you graduate them to becoming Santa themselves. That way they don't necessarily lose the magic of Santa and they learn good human values too.
My father told me, that the apple works as a toothbrush, so if you dont want to brush your teeth, you can eat an apple instead🙈 Me and my sister ate often apples before we went to bed, because we were too lazy to brush out teeth😄🙈
If the pool had a water feature or slide with water or something, it might have had a pump system to cycle water to said water feature. So it would never have sucked you in, but if you stuck your hand in there it might have hurt. I remember being told the same thing about water slides and the pool you fall into does have suction at the bottom that feeds the water back to the slide, but I don't think anyone has ever gotten seriously hurt that way, but I was definitely told that it could make me drown or like slice my arm off or something.
Well fluffy, by Egyptian beliefs my dad is a huge bother to the spirits XD. The man snores like a grizzly bear when he sleeps. Me and my dad would just be like "it can't be helped, spirts gotta deal with it if I have to🤣"
So funny the sweeping thing. My grandmother and mother used to say if you swept under someone's feet they wouldn't get married! Or don't sweep dirt out of the house, through the front or back door, use a dust pan to collect it. Because sweeping out of the house through the doorway meant you were sweeping out all of the good luck and fortune of the house. My mom used to say about being afraid of the dark that there was nothing in the dark that wasn't in the light. Scary enough, we lived in a straight up haunted house! I mean furniture moving, doors opening and closing etc . So blessing a house with salt and sage is a one hundred percent thing for me!
Absolutely loved this - thank you so much for sharing. The 🐠 fishbowl tummy was so cute! It was so fascinating hearing about your culture. Hoping for more! Love you both. 💖🥰💐
Wait!! I'm in the knife part of the convo, I have a story too, so, I had a friend, we were really good friends and I asked him a survival bracelet, the ones that have knifes, and he gave it to me for my birthday and that exact same year, stuff happened and I cut him out of my life, it wasn't really a good reason for me to do it but I did. We work together so I see him every weekday and it me like 2 or 1 and a half years to talk to him again and now we're in a comfortable position, we're not friends but it's better than it was. I'm a believer, I mean, if I would've known that, I probably wouldn't have asked him for that bracelet but I can see it all coming together xD
We have a very similar thing about sweeping here in the Czech Republic - you cannot sweep under another person (standing or sitting), because they will not get married. It applies to both brooms and vacuum cleaners. Great listen, love your podcast!
I read a book that had the knife gifting superstition in it, they got around it by giving (smallest amount of money) to the gifter in return, so that it wasn't technically a gift.
My older cousin told me when I was 10-ish, you have to hold your breath when you're driving past a cemetery or you would breathe in a ghost and it would possess you. For some odd reason I still believe that and I'm 30 now
In Norway I grew up hearing that if I couldn’t serve a piece of cake standing up, I wouldn’t be married. There’s also a superstition around summer solstice, that if you go out and pick 7 different flowers in the evening, and sleep with them under your pillow, you will dream about your future husband (only applicable if you are not already married...). Spilling salt is considered unlucky, and if your piece of bread falls and lands butter side down, you will have a bad day.
About the pool thing... My dad used to work for our county recreation department and the public pool here is drained partially by the filter system and goes into the sewers, the remaining water that can't be drained by the filters is then pumped out of the pool. He also said that the pool has an overflow system that sends the overflow into a local creek, which is a bit upsetting because the chlorine can kill fish if that happens.
In Mexican culture and I think a lot of other Hispanic cultures we were also told that sweeping your feet meant you wouldn’t get married. We have a ton of superstitions. Like don’t put your purse on the floor because you’ll lose all your money.
The pool plug thing, the suction of the filters (that are always running) are generally covered with a plastic screen, but if that cover is broken they can suck in and catch a hand or foot and people have drowned this way, it's horribly sad. On a more positive note, a roomba to do your cleaning at night would be lovely to wake up to clean floors. Do iiiiit!! I want one now. XD Hilarious episode you two. The things we're told (lied to about) as kids is just so bizarre! LOL - Tyfs. Hope you both had a lovely weekend.
Pools used have "plugs". And there have been a lot of acvidents - in my home town two children died as they were sucked in. So the public pools used the filter as a "plug" and our pool had a regular plug but it could not get lose as it was deep and there was a mechanism operating it. Also the water would staight go into the canalisation. Sometimes we used it to water the garden (we did not use much chlorine). Hope this helped!
I guess the night sweeping thing is because,in the olden times there were no lights and hence it was not possible to sweep...... And maybe that just carried on to be a superstition
I really liked this vid ! in the UK we have a thing with shoes to growing up - no shoes on the table/work top /sofa I suppose its because they might be dirty , so I get that, we also have a superstition to salute a magpie if we see one (I still do this one XD)
My first husband (He's Egyptian) told me about not sweeping at night and about the shoes. To this day I STILL do not leave my shoes sole side up, and when I see my second husbands shoes in that position I turn them over, My cat's have actually been taught NOT to flip our shoes and they actually listen. As for the sweeping, Mostapha told me that good fortune and the spirit of good fortune "falls" over your home in the form of sand, dust, debris, etc... and that by sweeping at night, you are kicking that fortune OUT of your home. It's like saying "Nah, I don't need this prosperity....Sweep" lol. As a child my parents also told me the one about swallowing seeds, that if you do it'll grow in your belly. One of the cultural superstitions (I'm Native American, Rosebud Sioux Tribe) I still go by is "Never whistle at night because nightfall is when the bad/evil spirits wake up and when you whistle they'll come to you" Also, when the palm of your left hand it itchy, scratch it on wood and you'll receive money. IF the palm of your right hand is itchy, it means that you are going to meet a new friend, or that a new person is going to come into your life. When I was little my parents used to tell us that you shouldn't cross your eyes or some day they'll stick that way. lol. I completely agree with you and Sika. We as adults that are not very good at adulting, are in serious need of Adult Mentor's who can guide us on the proper way to "Adult".
Mine as well. The shoe thing used to drive me nuts as a kid- but as an adult I understand that shoes are dirty and you don't want those ther table where you eat.
I worked as a pool manager for 6 years :) the bottom thing is a drain, which leads to the sewer. Depending on how the. Valves are set, the suction can be strong enough to seriously injury or worse
when I was 6, my parents forgot to put money underneath my pillow for my tooth and since they were in a hurry, my dad just put in there a random bill and told me to wake up, I got 100 dollars, my other siblings were MAD, there were saying that they only got 5 dollar bills.
Thank you for sharing these aspects of your childhoods. It’s so fascinating to hear about other cultures, especially things like superstitions, folklore, mythologies, traditions, etc and also to hear how your views may or may not have changed as you’ve grown up and got used to living in a different culture. Jackie, it’s funny to hear how Pat holds the superstitions more than you since he heard them lol. I’m autistic and, I guess because behaviours like superstitions figures of speech etc don’t make sense to me, I love learning about them and researching where they came from because often they do make sense for the time and place they were created or for a certain problem once you know the context. I suspect the light superstition was to stop kids wasting money/fuel by leaving the light on from the days before a nightlight was an option, the scissors one was probably just a warning against waving scissors around carelessly, and the drinking one was probably to stop kids filling up on drink at meal times and/or gulping so much water that they got ill
In our family it's never do laundry on new year day. Because it means you will be 'washing' or preparing a burial shroud for someone before the year is out.
LoL... Oh gosh. And there I was feeling sorry that I accidentally opened an umbrella once in the house at 7 years old... And hoping it wouldn't have implications.
I would love this as an actual podcast on Spotify! These are so funny, I had a bad day at school and this really picked me up, thank you so much sika and jackie♡♡♡
I'm romanian and I have never heard that superstition. I have had gifted knives and still to this day, I no longer speak with that person anymore, we haven't fought, just don't speak anymore.
Yeah my partner and I have given eachother knives before (I gave her kitchen knives and she gave me an ornate pocket knife) and our relationship seems pretty strong 15 years down the road. In fact I’d say our relationship is stronger than anyone I haven’t given knives to or received knives from!
me being the person i am: hears about the spirit siscor thing.... emedietly takes up a pair of scissors and cuts the air furiously also me: gotten knives from everyone for my birthday: oooh shit
My grandmother used to tell me that if I make a face and the wind changes, I'll stay like that. Making faces was mmy favourite thing and I realised very quickly that this was a lie. That generation is so obsessed with looks and girls being proper and pretty etc... so I used to spend hours honing my skills and then drive my grandma crazy at dinner pulling the most horrific faces.
Y'all are funny... I really enjoyed listening to this! A friend's mother told me when I was around 22 and a young mom myself that adults are just big kids pretending to be adults so that the little kids aren't afraid. I'm almost 50 and that is one of the most accurate things I've ever heard. I still don't have a clue about adulting....
I had my son believing that adults can hear the things that are bleeped out on tv, that when he turned 18 his ears wouldn't hear the bleeps anymore, and instead he would hear what words were actually being said! He actually believed it until he was around 17 when I broke the news to him that it wasn't true LOL
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I would love to see an episode of you guys talking about other parts of your Egyptian culture - like favorite foods, learning English, wearing traditional clothing, religion, etc
"Does he like anime? I mean, I want to know the IMPORTANT stuff!" That sentence is SO Jackie!
I was on a "first date" with the guy I'm seeing now and while setting up the billiard balls I started singing Vash's song when he's on the ship trying to scare people away, and he recognized where it was from. Swept off my feet right then.
Oh, I wonder if the phrase "sweep you off your feet" is related to the superstition of not sweeping yourself?
@@jtarmstrong1234 I was swept off my feet by the man who became my husband when he revealed to me that he had seen and remembered the movie "The Little Shop of Horrors" (the original, not the musical) on Creature Feature.
Pro tip: watch series at Flixzone. I've been using it for watching lots of of movies these days.
@Maurice Kaysen Yup, been using Flixzone} for months myself :)
Maybe the sweeping at night was actually started by the wives so they didn’t have to work after dark. That’s what I would do. If all else fails, create a wives tail.
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It was created by guys. When they got home from working and the wife said, 'Before you sit down, sweep the lounge.' To which he would reply, 'I cannot risk disturbing the ancestors in their sleep. For this will bring bad fortune to our family.'
The wife would roll her eyes and say 'Okay my beloved Phatbuttsut, you sit there whilst I cook the dinner. Unless that might disturb the ancestors?'
I mean I do not disagree I would do the same thing
I think a lot of supersitions were created to help people get some rest from their many daily work in the past, its kinda cute tbh. In my culture on a number of religious holidays or important dates its said its forbidden to sew, to sweep, to build... Im like i see what u did there ancestors ;)
'"Be your own Indiana Jones"
-Inspirational quotes from the goddess of Salt
Side note, I really want to make a poster out of this...
lol do it and tag me 😂
@@NerdEJackieVlogs I'll do one one better and send you the physical poster!
Imma take this quote and apply it
I want to see the poster when done. Would love one
The sweeping at night is u don't want to kick up a bunch of dust before you go to sleep...again back in the day homes had much more dust so when people swept at night they were more susceptible to respiratory infection and sickness could be caused by pissed off spirits :)
It's also a holdover from witch hysteria, women who swept at night would be suspected of being witches and about to ride on them at night
Enjoyed show in Louisiana we call it a junk drawer.
The pool thing is partially true! The filter has pipes that attach to the pool to suck water in for filtering. People and children have been known to get stuck to the openings and get injured. Sometimes the suction is hard enough to hold you under water or break skin.
Disembowelment is a real thing with pool drains
I also thought of something from one of the Final Destination trailers.
Pro tip, don't watch those movies if you have any sort of anxiety, it will ruin your life.
actually we had in Germany some deadly accidents with children because the pump sucked in a leg or arm and kept them under the water line. They could not get free on their own and drowned. :-( :-(
Inwas looking for this comment cause I was like ive heard stories of kids getting seriously injured.
At my public pool when I was a kid when they called swim over everyone climbed out of the pool and there was a child that had drowned they had got stuck in the drain in the bottom
My Grand-Aunt's thing was never gifting someone an empty purse, it always had to have at least a coin or something in it or else it would always be empty
My husband’s family believes this too
Yes! We have that for anything that held money. Banks for children needed a coin in it. Even if it was a penny. Wallets, purses, change purses.
My family does that with gifting things to a new home. Like bread, water, at least one Penny things like that
You two were meant to have a podcast. You guys are soo entertaining and funny as can be. In my life I have heard about showing the bottom of your feet as being disrespectful but that was certain cultures but the gifting knives was considered bad luck and that came from my mom who is Hispanic. Another one was putting your purse on the ground will cause you to lose money. Love you guys no contact hug 💜💚
Aw thank you! We’re so new to this format so we have a lot to learn 😅
Yes always leave a coin in a purse or wallet so the person you give it to will never be broke. We couldn't close a knife someone else opened or it would cut off your friendship but you could sell a sharp object for a penny and you would be fine.
I am Egyptian too and one thing i was told was if a flip flop/slipper was placed with its face on the ground and i didnt fix it i would be a bad person and i've been told the scissor on multiple times
Yes!! Always fix flip flops 😂
My parents told me that too and I'm from India
English superstition: if you make silly faces and the wind changes you'll be stuck like it.
I heard that one in Oklahoma too
Same here in Norway!
That’s what I was always told 🤣🤣
Im in America and I've heard that one too but it doesn't have anything to do with the wind
It's just if u make a silly face too often or hold it to long it'll get stuck
OMG THIS ONE
So when you wave your sharp pointy thing, the spirits are.... A) moved B) cut and upset or C) sister is right and it doesn't matter!
That's exactly what I was thinking!
How about this?
They accept it as long as we subscribe.. if we don’t, they get mad; but not with Jacky, just us😅
Yay!!! NerdESisters podcast 💜💜💜💜 it's so cool learning about Egyptian superstitions and culture. Also, I love the dynamic between you two! 💞💜💞
Some of the superstitions I grew up with are "Don't step on a crack" "Don't walk under a ladder" "Breaking a mirror results in 7 years of bad luck" "Black cats crossing your path is bad luck." "Spill salt and you have to throw some over your left shoulder" "Plant lavender by your back gate for a happy home" And to "touch glass" or "knock wood" to prevent something you're talking about from happening (like I haven't been sick in four years, "knock wood" - so you don't immediately get sick)
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I can attest to the seven years bad luck from breaking a mirror!
Many of those are the same in the UK
Omg the knocking on wood! I have seen people who interrupted the discussion to find something wooden to knock on when someone joked about something innocent, and no one could say a word until they knocked. Sooooo annoying!
All of these are in America too never heard of the lavender one though
I am so relieved to know the adultier adult seeking is common. I am 38 and I have no clue about somethings.
Same!! I'm 41 and still seek adultier people. Adulting is hard, and I still don't feel like one.
All adults need an adultier adult. I'm in my 30s and am fed up that the adult handbook "You'll understand when you're older" was never handed to me 🙃.
These two sisters are darling in their relation to each other and in their respectful questioning of their culture. Delightful! Only loving sisters can talk like this.
The marrying your first cousin is also part of Indian Tradition. It's happened in my family. I told my parents that it was so wrong and they understood.
I mean it’s not exactly wrong. Contrary to the western taboos there’s not much of a biological reason to discourage cousin marriage however it’s wrong to make your kids believe cousins are your safest and best shot at marriage. Actually a lot of ppl hate it as well in Egypt as it causes a lot of problems in the family.
@@maschiaccio574 exactly
@@maschiaccio574 i think you need to do some research.. there is a reaon for this - it is not healthy : ruclips.net/video/kyNP3s5mxI8/видео.html
@@moirhann “1 out of 4 have a chance of having a child with recessive genetic conditions, which is 25%, IF both parents have a copy of those genes.” They may not.
“According to the Clinical Genetics Handbook, children of non-related couples have a 2-3% chance of being born with a birth defect, and children of first cousins have a 4-6% chance.” Not that much of a high risk to consider it an incest or automatically as assume that said marriages will always result birth defects but the western taboos usually exaggerated the risks.
“It is often safe to have children with your cousin, but doctors do recommend genetic counseling for prospective first cousin parents.”
www.nytimes.com/2002/04/04/us/few-risks-seen-to-the-children-of-1st-cousins.html
genetics.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/can-you-marry-cousin
qz.com/1368209/is-it-illegal-to-marry-your-cousin/
Honestly, i don't think it's wrong, since they have different biological parents, but i know it's not healthy
They way you talk about the Egyptian marriage culture & girls roles reminds me so much of my life growing up in the mormon culture around marriage and a girls role in life. I'm glad you and your sister broke the mold.
I am from India, there are lots of similar superstitions that are believed here too.
About scissors, shoes, brooms, etc.
Also the inbreeding 😳
I'm part Romanian/ Russian and I have heard the knife thing before. Another thing I've head from my aunt that if you accidentally spill salt on the table you have to throw it over your shoulder otherwise it's bad luck. Don't know why though. My aunt is Greek.
Omg true!! I forgot about the salt throwing. We do that too
We do the spilt salt over the shoulder thing in the UK! It has to be the left shoulder, as then it goes into the eye of the Devil. Apparently.
Rachael Ray does that frequently! I think she's Italian in New York
Serbian here, we do the same thing regarding salt 🙂
Same in England
These are so fun! Given the fact that you’re both multilingual I’d love to hear you talk about that. What you speak most, which one you “think” in, how it was growing up that way, words in one language that have no match in the other etc.
The sweeping at night my grandpa always said it was bad luck.. sweeping on or under people's feet they won't marry.. my grandpa also said if you open a pocket knife you are the open that has to close it.. mirrors can not face each other because it opens a door to bad spirits to be able to pass..
If you were the one that opened it, you are the one that has to close it!!!
OMG Mandy! My family too! If someone hands me a pocket knife that closed but I opened originally, I won't take it til the open it back up! My dad would refuse his if one of us closed it. Guess it stuck!
In regards to the knives- my mom’s family (from Sicily) always takes a penny to the package when knives are given and the recipient pays the gifted with that penny so they ‘pay’ for the knives. If a purse or wallet is given a penny is also given so that you always have money - granted a penny’s not much these days but we still do it.
Such fun to listen to!
My dad used to tell us kids that if we lied then when we died and were buried, our hand would stick out of the ground and people would trip over it. Is that a common one or something he made up? No idea!
This is so funny! 😂🤣
Oh Lordy that’s scary af but I don’t know if I would mind tripping ppl
As an ex-lifeguard: draining the pool is NOT like pulling a plug out of the bathtub. A lot of the water goes out via the skimmers and regular drains (the ones that take the water through the pipes for chlorination), and, depending on the size or type of, the rest can go through a bigger bottom drain (that has a cover), or you can use a shop-vac or a suction hose. It really depends. But if you're regularly swimming, you definitely won't get sucked in through the skimmers (the small drains at the top of the pool), and most likely will not get stuck to the bigger drains at the bottom of the pool if it's not being drained. That being said, accidents happen, so don't fool around with equipment, and don't swim in a draining pool.
In my family when we give knives the one receiving them have to give you a nickel. They are technicaly "buying" them from you.
The other one is lovers should never give the other one a watch. Love should be forever not to see the time pass.
Aw, I LOVE that. It's beautiful
Well sh*t... my mom literally got my stepdad a designer watch last Christmas (will see how long this marriage lasts)
They can make even the most _carpy_ days amazing. ❤️
Ahhh Girls..... I am 57 and my husband is 60, we still look for adultier adults! LOL
I had my kids convinced that I could see through walls and knew when they were up to mischief. My eldest daughter is carrying on the tradition with my grandsons.
Yup I have convinced my children that when you become a parent, we have an invisible spy network, and that animals and bugs will tell on them.
From now on whenever anyone asks me to do anything social within the “nightlife” I’m gonna say I can’t because it’ll bother the spirits
I can’t believe I’m hearing Jacki and Sika curse without it being blocked. 👀
Right? I was like "am I hearing that right?"
Sometimes parents tell their kids weird tales just to see their faces and see where the kid will take it.
Just like sometimes parents will tell kids weird tales just to get them to stop asking questions about a topic the parents either don't know much about or are exhausted thinking about.
Yes. My dad told us kids you find babies under cow patty's. So us kids went looking for them.
And freckles came from cows. We told never get close to cows unless we want freckles.
I really like your username haha
Ok you need a separate podcast channel called NerdePods or the name Coffee Conversations love you Jackie! ❤️❤️❤️
Would you guys please oh please do a podcast of more Egyptian customs and culture someday? I find all of this super fascinating and intriguing to hear all of this!
We were always told not to leave out of one door and come in another door, never take a ring off someone’s finger and to never close a knife someone else opened. It’s all bad luck.
The knife one still haunts me
Awe, the both of you would make amazing mothers. The love you have for your own children is immeasurable. It's an over powering feeling, like a lioness who protects her little cubs. As a mother, i would do anything to protect my children no matter what.
Y'all are cracking me up! My husband is from a small village where cousin marriage is really normal. Many of his relatives are married cousins and I would meet family it would get so confusing for me. Marrying me was the most rebellious thing he ever did.
I love listening to you girls !!
I laugh so much with you!
It was extremely interesting to hear about Egyptian culture and beliefs, I hope you can continue making videos like this.
Ha! You should put "I need an adultier adult" on a shirt, like the "I can't adult, today" 😆
I love this. Its I think almost better than a pendant I saw that said 'cleverly disguised as a responsible adult' which I think fits me so well
I'm always looking for the adult, and I'm about to hit 40.
To get around the gifting of knives (grew up with this and the sweeping and marriage one), we were told to give the person gifting the knives a penny per knife and if you swept your foot, etc. you were supposed to spit on the broom.
I'm so glad you two broke that mould ❤️ lots of love from South Africa!
I live in a small town in the southern US. There are so many superstitions about different things around here. One that is similar to yours about sweeping feet is the superstition that if you are sitting in a chair and someone sweeps under your feet you will never get married. There is also the superstition that if you are on your period and touch anything while someone is canning sauerkraut that it will rot in the jar. The broom thing is not really true, but we always joke about it because my sister and I are both still single and I'm in my early thirties and she's in her late twenties. The sauerkraut thing is true. I've seen it happen. I'm sure there must be a scientific reason for this, but I have learned not to touch the ingredients or jars while canning if I'm on my period. It's very interesting to hear about other cultures superstitions. My grandma used to say never rock a rockingchair if no one is in it. She had lots of superstitions that they believed growing up. Some were valid, but not for the reasons they thought, and some were just kind of silly.
Love you Jackie and Sika! Hope you all have an amazing day! Your videos have keeping me strong through my 11 month medical quarantine!
Hugs
@@NerdEJackieVlogs aww thank you so much that made my day!
Not sure how many Roman Catholics are here, but there were SO many superstitions with this-sneezing. It was more my school mates that said you always have to say ‘bless you’ after you sneeze because your soul is vulnerable to the devil after. To this day, even if I’m alone and sneeze, I say ‘bless me’ by reflex! I even bless my kitty is she sneezes :D
No opening umbrellas in the house. That was a huge one.
So for Santa, I heard of a tradition that I think I'll aim to impart to kids in the family: basically you do the normal "Santa Claus" lie until the kid hits the age (usually around 8 or so) where they start to question the reality. Then you take them aside and give them this speech about the kind of person they became during the year (kind, hardworking, etc) and you graduate them to becoming Santa themselves. That way they don't necessarily lose the magic of Santa and they learn good human values too.
My father told me, that the apple works as a toothbrush, so if you dont want to brush your teeth, you can eat an apple instead🙈 Me and my sister ate often apples before we went to bed, because we were too lazy to brush out teeth😄🙈
If the pool had a water feature or slide with water or something, it might have had a pump system to cycle water to said water feature. So it would never have sucked you in, but if you stuck your hand in there it might have hurt.
I remember being told the same thing about water slides and the pool you fall into does have suction at the bottom that feeds the water back to the slide, but I don't think anyone has ever gotten seriously hurt that way, but I was definitely told that it could make me drown or like slice my arm off or something.
Well fluffy, by Egyptian beliefs my dad is a huge bother to the spirits XD. The man snores like a grizzly bear when he sleeps. Me and my dad would just be like "it can't be helped, spirts gotta deal with it if I have to🤣"
Right! They already had their lives, this is my time. I don't even do things to help living people, I'm sure not going to bother with spirits!
So funny the sweeping thing. My grandmother and mother used to say if you swept under someone's feet they wouldn't get married!
Or don't sweep dirt out of the house, through the front or back door, use a dust pan to collect it. Because sweeping out of the house through the doorway meant you were sweeping out all of the good luck and fortune of the house.
My mom used to say about being afraid of the dark that there was nothing in the dark that wasn't in the light.
Scary enough, we lived in a straight up haunted house!
I mean furniture moving, doors opening and closing etc . So blessing a house with salt and sage is a one hundred percent thing for me!
Jackie and Sika, you guys are hilarious and always brighten my days! :)
Absolutely loved this - thank you so much for sharing. The 🐠 fishbowl tummy was so cute! It was so fascinating hearing about your culture. Hoping for more! Love you both. 💖🥰💐
Wait!! I'm in the knife part of the convo, I have a story too, so, I had a friend, we were really good friends and I asked him a survival bracelet, the ones that have knifes, and he gave it to me for my birthday and that exact same year, stuff happened and I cut him out of my life, it wasn't really a good reason for me to do it but I did. We work together so I see him every weekday and it me like 2 or 1 and a half years to talk to him again and now we're in a comfortable position, we're not friends but it's better than it was. I'm a believer, I mean, if I would've known that, I probably wouldn't have asked him for that bracelet but I can see it all coming together xD
Weird, the friends who gifted us a knife set for our wedding also are no longer in my life. I didn't even know that superstition.
We have a very similar thing about sweeping here in the Czech Republic - you cannot sweep under another person (standing or sitting), because they will not get married. It applies to both brooms and vacuum cleaners.
Great listen, love your podcast!
When I was in Egypt someone offered my dad 12,000 camels for me.
I wonder how many camels I'd be worth now at 31 after a year of lock down 🤣🤣
There is a website called camel calculator for this 😂
I read a book that had the knife gifting superstition in it, they got around it by giving (smallest amount of money) to the gifter in return, so that it wasn't technically a gift.
My older cousin told me when I was 10-ish, you have to hold your breath when you're driving past a cemetery or you would breathe in a ghost and it would possess you. For some odd reason I still believe that and I'm 30 now
I always hold my breath when driving past a cemetery,
In Norway I grew up hearing that if I couldn’t serve a piece of cake standing up, I wouldn’t be married. There’s also a superstition around summer solstice, that if you go out and pick 7 different flowers in the evening, and sleep with them under your pillow, you will dream about your future husband (only applicable if you are not already married...). Spilling salt is considered unlucky, and if your piece of bread falls and lands butter side down, you will have a bad day.
Adulting is no different from being a kid, except you get to decide when you can eat ice cream.
Unless you have kids, then you must still sneak the ice cream to not get caught
Omg this is so interesting!!! I would have LOVED to have joined in on this conversation.
Would be fun 🥰
I know I am late but oh well as an Egyptian this was really true and now that I look back it's so funny loved this coffee and conversation
THANK U SO MUCH JACKIE I CANT BELIEVE U LIKED MY COMMENT I LOVE U AND SIKAAA
About the pool thing... My dad used to work for our county recreation department and the public pool here is drained partially by the filter system and goes into the sewers, the remaining water that can't be drained by the filters is then pumped out of the pool. He also said that the pool has an overflow system that sends the overflow into a local creek, which is a bit upsetting because the chlorine can kill fish if that happens.
OMGGGGG I LOVE YOU SIKA AND JACK ❤️
This was friggin AWESOME! I want to listen to the two of you every day!
In my Italian/Native American family, it's taboo to put shoes on a table. I'm a fully grown adult and still won't.
We have that in the UK too, because that should only happen when you're dressing a body for a wake or burial.
Like, WHY would you do that anyway? It's gross
In my part of the UK we say it's new shoes. As there would be new shoes bought to dress a body for burial
@@ImBigDave79 I'd heard that variation too. It's all to do with death rites.
My Irish Grandma said that too.
In Mexican culture and I think a lot of other Hispanic cultures we were also told that sweeping your feet meant you wouldn’t get married. We have a ton of superstitions. Like don’t put your purse on the floor because you’ll lose all your money.
To this day when I spill salt I throw it over my left shoulder. I know it's utter nonsense, but now it's a habbit.
The pool plug thing, the suction of the filters (that are always running) are generally covered with a plastic screen, but if that cover is broken they can suck in and catch a hand or foot and people have drowned this way, it's horribly sad.
On a more positive note, a roomba to do your cleaning at night would be lovely to wake up to clean floors. Do iiiiit!! I want one now. XD
Hilarious episode you two. The things we're told (lied to about) as kids is just so bizarre! LOL - Tyfs. Hope you both had a lovely weekend.
first a gaming channel now a podcast holy cow this is epic
Pools used have "plugs". And there have been a lot of acvidents - in my home town two children died as they were sucked in. So the public pools used the filter as a "plug" and our pool had a regular plug but it could not get lose as it was deep and there was a mechanism operating it. Also the water would staight go into the canalisation. Sometimes we used it to water the garden (we did not use much chlorine). Hope this helped!
Finally a Sister stream
"Nothing is off the table"
"WE CAN'T LET THE CHILDREN KNOW SANTA ISN'T REAL!"
(Loving the show)
By the way, here in Chile it is very normal for rich families to marry their cousins so that family fortunes are maintained between them.
The weird part is i love European history so this doesn't surprise me either. A lot of rich families are like that.
Momento UDI
@@MCRTS 🎶 el cambio que tú esperas el cambio de la UDI 🤣
I guess the night sweeping thing is because,in the olden times there were no lights and hence it was not possible to sweep...... And maybe that just carried on to be a superstition
I really liked this vid ! in the UK we have a thing with shoes to growing up - no shoes on the table/work top /sofa I suppose its because they might be dirty , so I get that, we also have a superstition to salute a magpie if we see one (I still do this one XD)
My gran told me shoes on the table causes a fight
My first husband (He's Egyptian) told me about not sweeping at night and about the shoes. To this day I STILL do not leave my shoes sole side up, and when I see my second husbands shoes in that position I turn them over, My cat's have actually been taught NOT to flip our shoes and they actually listen. As for the sweeping, Mostapha told me that good fortune and the spirit of good fortune "falls" over your home in the form of sand, dust, debris, etc... and that by sweeping at night, you are kicking that fortune OUT of your home. It's like saying "Nah, I don't need this prosperity....Sweep" lol. As a child my parents also told me the one about swallowing seeds, that if you do it'll grow in your belly. One of the cultural superstitions (I'm Native American, Rosebud Sioux Tribe) I still go by is "Never whistle at night because nightfall is when the bad/evil spirits wake up and when you whistle they'll come to you" Also, when the palm of your left hand it itchy, scratch it on wood and you'll receive money. IF the palm of your right hand is itchy, it means that you are going to meet a new friend, or that a new person is going to come into your life. When I was little my parents used to tell us that you shouldn't cross your eyes or some day they'll stick that way. lol. I completely agree with you and Sika. We as adults that are not very good at adulting, are in serious need of Adult Mentor's who can guide us on the proper way to "Adult".
I still knock on wood to prevent jinxing myself.
Yes we need more of this content ! Thankyou for being so honest !
OMG my grandmother was very superstitious and one of them was that it is bad luck to put your shoes on a table. She would freak out about it.
Mine as well. The shoe thing used to drive me nuts as a kid- but as an adult I understand that shoes are dirty and you don't want those ther table where you eat.
That's an old one. My mom told me that to. I am from belgium...
Mine too.
I’m still superstitious about new shoes on the table it brings bad luck 🤷🏼♀️
Well that's unsanitary and germy. Shoes are covered with Society. Ew. Society
I worked as a pool manager for 6 years :) the bottom thing is a drain, which leads to the sewer. Depending on how the. Valves are set, the suction can be strong enough to seriously injury or worse
when I was 6, my parents forgot to put money underneath my pillow for my tooth and since they were in a hurry, my dad just put in there a random bill and told me to wake up, I got 100 dollars, my other siblings were MAD, there were saying that they only got 5 dollar bills.
Thank you for sharing these aspects of your childhoods. It’s so fascinating to hear about other cultures, especially things like superstitions, folklore, mythologies, traditions, etc and also to hear how your views may or may not have changed as you’ve grown up and got used to living in a different culture. Jackie, it’s funny to hear how Pat holds the superstitions more than you since he heard them lol.
I’m autistic and, I guess because behaviours like superstitions figures of speech etc don’t make sense to me, I love learning about them and researching where they came from because often they do make sense for the time and place they were created or for a certain problem once you know the context.
I suspect the light superstition was to stop kids wasting money/fuel by leaving the light on from the days before a nightlight was an option, the scissors one was probably just a warning against waving scissors around carelessly, and the drinking one was probably to stop kids filling up on drink at meal times and/or gulping so much water that they got ill
I have a friend that believes if you do laundry on Good Friday you will be washing someone from your life. Anyone else heard of this??
I have heard of that! I forget from where though
Yes I heard that too
In our family it's never do laundry on new year day. Because it means you will be 'washing' or preparing a burial shroud for someone before the year is out.
My grandma was told something similar, except you never washed clothes on any Sunday.
Only two episodes and this is already my favourite podcast !
Adults specialize in one or more adult thing and then when we need help with other adult things we find another adult. Like hiring a plumber.
I love you both. Funny AF. I would like to help with the adultier things haha.
I love the fuckery drawer name. I'm gonna use that from now on.
Wow, I never realized about the Egyptian Culture! Thank you for educating me!
In Jamaican folklore, it's said that you won't get married if you open an umbrella inside a building. 🙃
Quick! Where's my umbrella!
Oh! That’s what happened! LOL
We have the same thing in England but it's supposed to be bad luck
If I heard that as a child I would have been opening an umbrella inside daily LOL
LoL... Oh gosh. And there I was feeling sorry that I accidentally opened an umbrella once in the house at 7 years old... And hoping it wouldn't have implications.
I would love this as an actual podcast on Spotify! These are so funny, I had a bad day at school and this really picked me up, thank you so much sika and jackie♡♡♡
I have been given knives, and my family gives knives around Christmas, and I've never had anyone cut out of my life.
I'm romanian and I have never heard that superstition. I have had gifted knives and still to this day, I no longer speak with that person anymore, we haven't fought, just don't speak anymore.
Yeah my partner and I have given eachother knives before (I gave her kitchen knives and she gave me an ornate pocket knife) and our relationship seems pretty strong 15 years down the road. In fact I’d say our relationship is stronger than anyone I haven’t given knives to or received knives from!
Put a penny with the blade. Don't know the basis, but my mom does it.
@@gabeangel8104 Awww that's cute
@@jtarmstrong1234 that’s interesting, is that supposed to counteract the giving of the knives? Very intriguing
O wow love the podcasts watched about 50 videos this weekend
I Love this!!!!!!
This was so special to listen to! Thank you both for sharing ❤️
me being the person i am:
hears about the spirit siscor thing.... emedietly takes up a pair of scissors and cuts the air furiously
also me: gotten knives from everyone for my birthday: oooh shit
I totally wanna join you’s I’m sat here shouting at my tv hahaha 🤣 love these discussions ❤️🤗 love you both too! xxx
My grandmother used to tell me that if I make a face and the wind changes, I'll stay like that. Making faces was mmy favourite thing and I realised very quickly that this was a lie. That generation is so obsessed with looks and girls being proper and pretty etc... so I used to spend hours honing my skills and then drive my grandma crazy at dinner pulling the most horrific faces.
Y'all are funny... I really enjoyed listening to this! A friend's mother told me when I was around 22 and a young mom myself that adults are just big kids pretending to be adults so that the little kids aren't afraid. I'm almost 50 and that is one of the most accurate things I've ever heard. I still don't have a clue about adulting....
When I was small, my dad told me if you unscrewed your belly button, your butt will fall off.
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Wow, it was very interesting to learn about your cultural traditions. I'll be happy to learn more)) I'm from Russia ))
Lmao I'm early YAY you guys are awesome
Im loving the podcasts cant wait to hear more its so fun to hear you two talk so candidly :)