[Closed] superstitious?

I always salute a magpie.

Nowt

(Touch wood)

One of my staff some years ago was discussing having seen four magpies on the way to work and wondered what it might "mean".

I told her that it meant she had seen four magpies on the way to work...

I always salute a magpie.

Really guys? I purposely walk under ladders to prove its just hocus pocus. The looks I get sometimes is breathtaking

Nope, but used to be a teeny bit. I used to carry a StChris in my back pocket when racing "back in the day" and thought it kept me safe. Truth is I don't think it had anything to do with safety, I still crashed and burned. Then one day I crashed and it fell out of my rear pocket and that was it..

I always put clothes on before I leave the house. Every time I haven't, its not ended well

^ lol

It doesnt bear thinking about

Really guys? I purposely walk under ladders to prove its just hocus pocus. The looks I get sometimes is breathtaking

But thats just common sense! not really superstition

I worked with a woman that REALLY believed she would cause someone to die if she washed clothes on New years day I kid you not....

There's more magpie lore here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Magpie#The_Magpie_rhyme

Every four years I put a small cross in a box.
I've experimented with other superstitions, and actually had more success with magpies.

I believe in Sod's Law...

Been waiting a while for a parcel delivery... go take a dump.

I'm not superstitious but I do have specific habits/routines, especially pre-ride checks type stuff, that if aren't "right" bug me until I stop and do it 'properly' ...

I purposely walk under ladders to prove its just hocus pocus.

I beleive this got codified - its called health and safety - a spanner, tin of paint etc landing on your head is not suspersition its serious injury - certainly without your hard hat on.

Many things we see as voodoo or religion actually have a historic useful reason and purpose we dont realise.

Many things we see as voodoo or religion actually have a historic useful reason and purpose we dont realise.

Saluting magpies!?

Saluting magpies!?

I said many things, not everything 😡 ......although you never know, suggestions on a postcard 😀

I've got just one...

Never

Ever

Say...

[b]"LAST RUN"[/b]

Never

Ever

Say...

"LAST RUN!"

Or, "I've not had a puncture for ages"

Guaranteed double-flat on your next ride.

Superstitious people amuse me. Im too rational for it.

I too walk under ladders, run in corridors and can ride a bike without a helmet.

and can ride a bike without a helmet.

From what I hear it's best you pad up when walking at the minute.

Good point TSY - I should be wearing that neck brace as well 🙂

Also the conversation we had before my final ride (into a tree) at the jump site is perhaps an omen 🙂

I've not had a puncture for ages"

7 years bad luck for breaking a mirror is because the lord and lady made you pay for breaking it and it took 7 years to pay it off

Is not a believer excepet where they make sense - ie ladder

Haha... you're right... "one last run.. I'm not superstitious" DOFF!!

Load of cobblers innit

except bike related, [b]then[/b] I'm superstitious, don't mention punctures or lack thereof, don't do a one last run, don't say "looks like we've missed the worst of the weather" etc.

Don't really believe it will tempt fate but I do feel uncomfortable doing any of the above

human beings eh? bunch of wierdos

I'm not superstitious, but my vicar is.

Codified - now that sir is a beautiful word!

I know it's different but I took a girl to the cinema to watch candyman many moons ago. Whilst driving back i said candyman twice in the mirror and she proper freaked out - had to stop the car and she was getting hysterical - not superstition but stupid all the same

Gotta love the female kind, can't live with em' ... can't kill em'

I always salute a magpie.

Yep.

And if I see a single magpie I always try and spot a second one "for Joy". 😀

(and yes [i]obviously[/i] it's cobblers - but it's just one of those things innit?)

Gotta love the female kind, can't live with em' ... can't kill em'

My wife recokns I give it a good try though, constantly breaking her heart and all.......but unlike the vamprire, she maanges to to survive.

I couldnt read this as im superstitious of reading about superstition.

I did see a magpie sitting on the back of a sheep this morning on the way to work, never seen a sheep with a look of ''WTF?!" like that on its face before, ears all pricked.

joao3v16 - Member
Never
Ever

Say...

"LAST RUN!"

Or, "I've not had a puncture for ages"

Guaranteed double-flat on your next ride.

Don't forget those immortal words, "Watch this, everyone..."

Superstitious about nothing except fogfish. Stupid, bastarding fogfish and the stupid, bastarding fog they portend 👿

Plenty of magpies here and I see them almost everyday throughout the year, never countered them at all.

I also tend to leave leftover of food for the birds and there is always one magpie with one leg coming for the food from time to time.

not superstitious at all, but Magpies do freak me out a bit so I always say hello to them.
they always seem to be knocking around wherever I live, with their spooky shrill squawks.

at the moment there is a male, a female and a fledgling magpie in my back garden all the time. at dusk they like to bang sticks on the skylights in my living room which freaks me out good and proper.

Plenty of magpies here

aren't you in Newcastle chewkw?

go on I'll bite, what's a fogfish?

If I see a magpie in the morning I always say "Good morning Mr Magpie, how are the wife and kids?"
Not sure where I got that from...

go on I'll bite, what's a fogfish?

brakes - Member

Plenty of magpies here

aren't you in Newcastle chewkw?

Yes, I am in the toon but am not referring to enthusiastic footie supporters or players.

🙂

[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/bad-things-come-in-threes-final-instalment ]Some people think bad things come in threes. They don't.[/url]

With all this talk of Magpies...

Don't you reckon there are more magpie about these days, than when you were a kid??

it's bad luck to be superstitious..

If I see a magpie in the morning I always say "Good morning Mr Magpie, how are the wife and kids?"

Yes thats is thats what my mates say and salute!

Utter bonkers batshit crazy!

Don't you reckon there are more magpie about these days, than when you were a kid??

Yep. And so do the RSPB:

[url= http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/m/magpie/population_changes.aspx ]"Since World War II, magpie numbers have increased. Their numbers trebled from 1970 to 1990, since when they have become more stable."[/url]

Evil birds, but don't tell them I said so.

"Evil birds, but don't tell them I said so. "

But only when there is one of them, two is fine ... 😉

With all this talk of Magpies...

Don't you reckon there are more magpie about these days, than when you were a kid??

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There were a few years ago, but I see far fewer now. I do see a lot more Jackdaws, and more Jays around than I used to.

I'm knee deep in Jackdaws, Jays, Magpies and Buzzards every time I step outside the front door..