Old wives tales/superstitions

[Reg Smeeton]

Dreaming of fish means someone you know is pregnant 

 You're making these up now aren't you.

  Finding a cockroach in the house means Jarvis Cocker is coming round for tea.

[Batch]

Must be posthumous Reg (Victorian, not the fish thing).

Saluting magpies. WTF is all that about.
Throwing spilt salt over your left shoulder.
Spinning anti clockwise 3 times if you put something on inside out, or be cursed with bad luck.
Never walk under a ladder.
etc.
etc.

My late grandmother had thousands of them. mostly made up I'd imagine. But then, she was German so maybe the Germans are bonkers. But it was probably just my nan.

[Rustle]

You're making these up now aren't you.

  Finding a cockroach in the house means Jarvis Cocker is coming round for tea.

why have you been dreaming of fish 

No im not my gran told me this years and years ago i double checked on the net it's an old wives tale.

[Batch]

No im not my gran told me this years and years ago i double checked on the net it's an old wives tale.

The way you've phrased that makes it sound like you needed to double check on the net that it wasn't true

[axs]

thats exactly what i was typing

[Rustle]

The way you've phrased that makes it sound like you needed to double check on the net that it wasn't true

I did otherwise i would have made meself look a fool and i happen to do that enough as it is 

[flammableBen]

I once had a dream about posting on the TEF. I think that means I should get out more.

[Reg Smeeton]

why have you been dreaming of fish 

No im not my gran told me this years and years ago i double checked on the net it's an old wives tale.

 I refuse to accept this without further evidence.

  BTW eating cheese before going to sleep does give you nightmares.

[Rich Pullen]

Superstitions? All I know is that I don't want the ravens to leave the Tower of London. If they did the Great British party would be well and truly over.

[flammableBen]

Must be posthumous Reg (Victorian, not the fish thing).

But Elizabethan has been taken with 15something - 1603. I proclaim now Neo Elizabethan.

[Rustle]

I refuse to accept this without further evidence.

  BTW eating cheese before going to sleep does give you nightmares.

http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary.html

http://www.whimsy.org.uk/superstitions.html

[flammableBen]

hxxp://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary.html

hxxp://www.whimsy.org.uk/superstitions.html

There's no need to change the http to hxxp on here, I presume you're doing it as away to get around a link filter?

You can swear to. cunt monkeys.

[Reg Smeeton]

But Elizabethan has been taken with 15something - 1603. I proclaim now Neo Elizabethan.

 It's a fair point, I suppose Georgian was done to death by slightly crazed Hanoverians, so George V and VI never got a time.  Serves the buggers right for being so dull in name choice..if only Elizabeth had been called Delia or something.

[Rustle]

There's no need to change the http to hxxp on here, I presume you're doing it as away to get around a link filter?

You can swear to. cunt monkeys.

gotcha. old forum habits die hard i guess.

[axs]

It's a fair point, I suppose Georgian was done to death by slightly crazed Hanoverians, so George V and VI never got a time.  Serves the buggers right for being so dull in name choice..if only Elizabeth had been called Delia or something.

Would this be the 'Delian' era then?