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Irish people are particularly susceptible to a fear of green cars, which worked out okay for me, it made my moonstone cheap as chips and many of my family unwilling to call me for a lift My own irrational superstition involves single magpies. When I was 15 I was dating the most beautiful girl in school. One day I noticed her doing something with her hands every so often. I asked her why, she told me it was to ward off bad luck from the one for sorrow sighting of a single magpie. I won't repeat it here but I've been doing it for 32 years and find myself unable to stop it |
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22nd March 2017, 23:44 | #12 |
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24th March 2017, 22:32 | #13 |
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What goes around comes around.... or Karma in other circles.
At what point does one stop being 'the good Samaritan'?? |
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As far as altruism (the clever word for good samaritan syndrome), most people have that knocked out of them by the time they leave 1st school! Let's face it, we've all read the papers of someone who stepped in to stop a mugging or a robbery or rape or burglary only to end up being prosecuted by the perpetrator. Or even defending themselves from being attacked or robbed for the criminal scum to sue the victim. After a few of these, you think it just isn't worth it. Modern life eh? |
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Here is one from the coastal tribes in Kenya, that not many will have heard of. If your old with white hair and have a white beard, then you could be suspected of being a witch and practicing black magic. The voodoo test for innocent or guilty, is for the victim to be ducked in the river whilst trying to swallow a whole Orange in one go. If the victim did not choke and comes back up out of the river having swallowed everything, then he is free to go. Some others involving Albino's are too horrific to write about.
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25th March 2017, 10:11 | #17 |
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That's a bit like the old witches test with the ducking stool that England practised a few hundred years ago. If you drowned you were innocent, if you lived you were a witch to be burned at the stake!!!!
I guess every culture is unnecessarily cruel and unjust at some time, before settling and becoming civilised with their cruel and unjust-ness. |
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I always say "Hello Mr. ....." to everything, be they cats, or bunnies, or lambs, or birds or doggies, even ladybugs (but not wasps! Never wasps! Evil little naughtywords!).
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