What’s a small, harmless superstition or belief that you have?
What’s a small, harmless superstition or belief that you have?
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Thou shalt not deploy anything to production on a Friday.
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Good one!
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Same with making quality or engineering changes in a friday. It's just dumb.
Nothing better than coming in Monday only to have to perform containment of all the bad parts produced over the weekend.
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Actually, in some industries this is actually a good thing
If you can have a bumpy first day on Friday, and e.g. the warehouse is closed on the weekend, you can fix all the things you've seen on Friday during the weekend. And don't have to suffer through a real rough week with in-production patching
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True, and I've worked in corp IT for retail and we did actually do updates to the system on Fridays (or sometimes Saturdays) for exactly that reason.
So it's more a rule-of-thumb than a prime directive, I guess lol.
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The absolute first non-food thing I ever bought in China was a jade "bi" pendant. This is what they look like:
(To be clear, this is not mine for reasons which will become obvious in a moment.)
I was told by the seller that you should never take it off as she strung it on red silk for me, because it's to "protect your health".
Since 2001 I've taken this off only five times, all but one of which was because the string frayed through and it had to be restrung. I don't believe in the slightest that it has any impact on my health, but as a minor, neurotic superstition it stays on. (Which is why I couldn't share a photograph of mine: I'd have to take it off.)
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Never put shoes on a table, mostly just because it's dirty but I think it's something to do with bad luck?
Edit: fat thumbs
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Picking up pennies.
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Fun memory I just had: My dad was a penny picker and would empty his pockets at the end of the day into one of those blue 5-gallon water jugs that he kept right at the front door by the stairs. One time when it was full, I was trying to be slick and take a lil, and knocked the jug down the stairs where it broke and pennies cascaded down them like a waterfall of copper. Dad was pissed at first but then found it funny. Whats even more funny, is that we didn't clean it up for months, we just had penny stairs, and I swear he would come home and just throw his new pennies right on the stairs. He probably would have kept it that way forever but I cleaned it up as a surprise while he was gone one day.
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Reminds me.
I was not there, but a buddy of mine worked as a moving man. That day's client had done something similar, except he'd put the coins in a glass 5 gallon bottle, the kind that were used for water coolers. The client decided to show off for the movers and made to hoist the bottle up onto his shoulder. Bottom came out and coins went everywhere.
Hadn't thought of that story in a while. Thanks
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Do it? Don't do it? People who do it turn into dinosaurs? 37 years good luck? Tell us, man!
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Building off that: If you find a penny on heads its good luck. Finding on tails is bad. But, if you flip over a penny on tails for the next person to find it heads, you walk away neutral
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I must clench and unclench my toes a few times on a carpet at the next available opportunity after landing from a flight
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I never saw a Unicorn before I believed in them. I guess they have a magical defense against being seen by people who don't believe in them.
Now that I do believe in them...I still haven't seen one. I guess they're not local to my area.
I intend to continue to believe in them for the foreseeable future while I do some travel... just in case.
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If I've been a good boy my poop session will go smoothly. If I think I was a good boy, but then my poop is awful, I think "damn I must have done something...". If I have been an asshole, but my poop goes well, I think "wow, I'm gonna have to pay this back tenfold tomorrow!"
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I'm still not convinces platypus are real
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If you hand someone a sharp object like a knife or scissors you will soon get into an argument. Gotta set it on the table for them to retrieve instead.
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I heard a similar idea; you should never gift someone you like a knife because it will sever the friendship.
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I feel like bad things will happen to me if I eat a broken butterfinger bar.
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If three good things happen to me in a relatively short period of time, something bad is gonna happen next.
If three bad thing happen to me in a relatively short period of time, somethig good is gonna happen next.
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If someone says something bad, knock on wood. Like "Well X thing could happen" where X is like. A storm, the cats learning how to tap dance, a river exploding. Knocking on wood to make that not happen.
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IMO there are no harmless ones (by that I mean dictionary definition superstitions - not just things like traditions and adages that have a logical reason or basis), if a person truly believes in actual magical thinking no matter how silly it's a doorway to accepting the rest.
Like letting in bullshit like horoscopes, homeopathy, faith healing, yearning for eschatological prophecies...
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Damn, you must be fun at parties.
Flexible thinking where you can have silly beliefs but know to trust what can be verified is more resilient than embracing fear of the unknown.
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Wot?
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Where's the emoji of Chief pinching the bridge of his nose after 86 speaks when you need it?
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That's as much a superstition as anything else.
Have you got a shred of empirical evidence to back it up?
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That's what I'm saying, it's all bullshit
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If your right palm itches, you’re going to receive money.
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I do a monthly newsletter at work. I collect the stuff for the newsletter in an Excel sheet. I normally end up with around 12 items or so. But that makes my Excel sheet stop on line 13 because of the header row. So I'll add 2 more things. Because if I just add 1 then it will be 13 entries. So my newsletter will have less than 11 or more than 14 entries. I don't know why, I don't care about the number 13 anywhere else in my life.
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If I see my initials in a car rego plate I take it as a good sign.
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It's bad luck to rest your chopsticks inside the bowl.
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Never leave your chopsticks sticking into a bowl of rice.
Always fold robes (and similar) left-over-right.
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