One Friday the 13th I put gas in my car and the total was $13.13 at pump 13. DUN DUN DUNNN!!!

Gas was cheaper then.

When you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer, superstition ain't the way.

Heyyy heyyy

Cuz these same people are not going to just buy their stuff on the surrounding days.

Someone cannot make coffee in this office, all is lost.

So I probably should not have forked the Evil Eye sign at those nuns, then.

I broke a mirror in my house and was supposed to have 7 years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me 5.

GameSprocket: Cuz these same people are not going to just buy their stuff on the surrounding days.

This is true of shopping but I think it's more about the people who aren't working. Then again the same logic could apply if they don't use their sick time for that they would probably use it for something else. Then again it's still pretty stupid to believe in luck, good or bad.

AverageAmericanGuy: DREAM WARRIORS!

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Dude, you're thinking of Alice Cooper.

Within the week, my boyfriend moved out and I got notice I will be losing my job in two weeks.

At this point, I welcome whatever Friday the 13th wants to throw at me...it should be an upswing!

If nothing happens to them today, then it just proves that they were right!

Friday the Thirteenth is a SNOWDAY!!!

woot!

/bout time
//bare grass in January makes me nervous

I would not have noticed until you told me. Thanks for nothing, now I will actually notice when things go wrong today and attribute it to bad luck instead of a normal day at work.

One billion dollars, eh? I can't get my mind around that. Can I get that in jumbo jets or Rhode Islands? Maybe football stadiums?

Egoy3k: Then again it's still pretty stupid to believe in luck, good or bad.

Superstition is actually an indicator of rational thinking. It's a by-product of attempting to apply a ruleset to random behavior.

We're going on a trip tomorrow (supposed to leave today, but had to change). I can't believe my husband actually said he's glad we're not flying out today, because of the date. "But I'm not superstitious..."

AverageAmericanGuy: DREAM WARRIORS!

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lolwut?
THESE are the Dream Warriors.

This sounds like one of those "Minesweeper costs American businesses eleventy billion dollars an hour in lost productivity!" stats...

I was born on Friday the 13th, and my name is Jason so I'm getting a cleaver to the head about this thread. /came out before the movie/

This text is now purple: Egoy3k: Then again it's still pretty stupid to believe in luck, good or bad.

Superstition is actually an indicator of rational thinking. It's a by-product of attempting to apply a ruleset to random behavior.

Pull the other one. Maybe for the first person who says, 'a lot of bad stuff happens during the full moon I bet the full moon causes bad stuff.' but not for the billion or so people who just hear about it and accept it without critical thought.

Egoy3k: Then again it's still pretty stupid to believe in luck, good or bad.

Luck exists. If rolling a 1-5 gets me $1 and rolling a 6 gets be $100 dollars, and I roll a 6, then I had good luck. That obviously exists. What's stupid is to believe that my rolling a 6 was the result of blowing on the die before rolling i.

Produce more, thou cog-in-the-machine; The gods of industry demand it thus! You are nothing if not a constituent portion of the GDP.

Jason X needed more T&A.

How much money is being lost due to the fact that this is a friday before a three day weekend and some people want to go for four?

Imperialism: Egoy3k: Then again it's still pretty stupid to believe in luck, good or bad.

Luck exists. If rolling a 1-5 gets me $1 and rolling a 6 gets be $100 dollars, and I roll a 6, then I had good luck. That obviously exists. What's stupid is to believe that my rolling a 6 was the result of blowing on the die before rolling i.

You didn't posses any quality that caused you to roll the 6 you had the same odds of rolling a 1 2 3 4 or 5 as you did the 6.

Egoy3k: Imperialism: Egoy3k: Then again it's still pretty stupid to believe in luck, good or bad.

Luck exists. If rolling a 1-5 gets me $1 and rolling a 6 gets be $100 dollars, and I roll a 6, then I had good luck. That obviously exists. What's stupid is to believe that my rolling a 6 was the result of blowing on the die before rolling i.

You didn't posses any quality that caused you to roll the 6 you had the same odds of rolling a 1 2 3 4 or 5 as you did the 6.

Agreed. Rolling a 6 doesn't make me a lucky person, it means I got lucky on that roll. Would the phrase "variance in my favor" work better?

Egoy3k: This text is now purple: Egoy3k: Then again it's still pretty stupid to believe in luck, good or bad.

Superstition is actually an indicator of rational thinking. It's a by-product of attempting to apply a ruleset to random behavior.

Pull the other one. Maybe for the first person who says, 'a lot of bad stuff happens during the full moon I bet the full moon causes bad stuff.' but not for the billion or so people who just hear about it and accept it without critical thought.

Most of those superstitions aren't bad advice in and of themselves. Broken mirror glass is dangerous; there are hazards to walking underneath a ladder; cats are small, soulless carnivores who plot your murder daily.

Considering we don't live long enough to philosophically ponder the complete ramifications of every minute piece of ephemera that comes our way, we adopt some off blind beliefs that have sufficient external acceptance just because it greatly simplifies our lives and frees us up to do other, more important things.

But do continue to rail at the local inefficiencies of rational behavior. Rational doesn't equal correct. Epicycles were rational, as well.

My wife and I were married on a Friday the 13th, but we didn't choose that date deliberately. We wanted a September or October wedding, so we looked at weekends during those two months. For the place we wanted the wedding, September was completely booked, and only the first two weekends in October were open. Then, we found that there was a significant (to us at the time) price difference between a Friday and Saturday wedding. We had the wedding on Friday for a small group of our closest friends and relatives on Friday the 13th, and our reception/dance on Saturday the 14th.

When people figure out or are told we were married on Friday the 13th, they think it was some weird superstition, or defying superstition, when it wasn't. It just happened that way.

/it was also during a full moon
//still happily married after 11 years

Imperialism: Agreed. Rolling a 6 doesn't make me a lucky person, it means I got lucky on that roll. Would the phrase "variance in my favor" work better?

How is rolling a single die a variance? the 6 is no more or less likely to be the result of any die roll than any other number from 1-6. If you consistently rolled a 6 more often than any other number you still wouldn't be 'lucky' you would be either 'using weighted dice' or 'cheating'.

There is no intrinsic quality that causes statistically unlikely outcomes in favor of or to the detriment of an individual.

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I love the soundtrack to Nightmare On Halloween The 13th Part II: Electric Boogaloo!

Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... He wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now... dear.

One billion dollars lost? More like one billion dollars saved.

I didn't even notice it was frida the 13th til i got to work and someone told me.

Spindle: How much money is being lost due to the fact that this is a friday before a three day weekend and some people want to go for four?

Where and why is it a three day weekend?

Scurvy Dog: My wife and I were married on a Friday the 13th, but we didn't choose that date deliberately. We wanted a September or October wedding, so we looked at weekends during those two months. For the place we wanted the wedding, September was completely booked, and only the first two weekends in October were open. Then, we found that there was a significant (to us at the time) price difference between a Friday and Saturday wedding. We had the wedding on Friday for a small group of our closest friends and relatives on Friday the 13th, and our reception/dance on Saturday the 14th.

When people figure out or are told we were married on Friday the 13th, they think it was some weird superstition, or defying superstition, when it wasn't. It just happened that way.

/it was also during a full moon
//still happily married after 11 years

Woah, dude. Not just Friday the 13 but OCTOBER 13?

namegoeshere: Scurvy Dog: My wife and I were married on a Friday the 13th, but we didn't choose that date deliberately. We wanted a September or October wedding, so we looked at weekends during those two months. For the place we wanted the wedding, September was completely booked, and only the first two weekends in October were open. Then, we found that there was a significant (to us at the time) price difference between a Friday and Saturday wedding. We had the wedding on Friday for a small group of our closest friends and relatives on Friday the 13th, and our reception/dance on Saturday the 14th.

When people figure out or are told we were married on Friday the 13th, they think it was some weird superstition, or defying superstition, when it wasn't. It just happened that way.

/it was also during a full moon
//still happily married after 11 years

Woah, dude. Not just Friday the 13 but OCTOBER 13?

Yes, and 13 backwards is 31! Spooky!

/weren't visited by the pumpkin-headed lawnmower killer, thankfully
//obscure?

Egoy3k: If you consistently rolled a 6 more often than any other number you still wouldn't be 'lucky' you would be either 'using weighted dice' or 'cheating'.

Here is a man who has never lost a board game involving dice in his life, because if a STATISTICAL VARIANCE occurs in which his rolls are consistently poor while his opponent's rolls are consistently good, he is being "cheated".

cantsleep: I didn't even notice it was frida the 13th til i got to work and someone told me.

Spindle: How much money is being lost due to the fact that this is a friday before a three day weekend and some people want to go for four?

Where and why is it a three day weekend?

I had the same question. Turns out, I'm clueless. My eight year old pointed this out to me, with eyeroll. (new window)

Another example of why anyone who can find a way to profit from the stupidity of people will never go broke.

Scurvy Dog: namegoeshere: Scurvy Dog: My wife and I were married on a Friday the 13th, but we didn't choose that date deliberately. We wanted a September or October wedding, so we looked at weekends during those two months. For the place we wanted the wedding, September was completely booked, and only the first two weekends in October were open. Then, we found that there was a significant (to us at the time) price difference between a Friday and Saturday wedding. We had the wedding on Friday for a small group of our closest friends and relatives on Friday the 13th, and our reception/dance on Saturday the 14th.

When people figure out or are told we were married on Friday the 13th, they think it was some weird superstition, or defying superstition, when it wasn't. It just happened that way.

/it was also during a full moon
//still happily married after 11 years

Woah, dude. Not just Friday the 13 but OCTOBER 13?

Yes, and 13 backwards is 31! Spooky!

/weren't visited by the pumpkin-headed lawnmower killer, thankfully
//obscure?

I wasn't going with the Halloween reference. October 13, 1307 is the Friday that started it all.