Bad Luck

[Crimson Azure]

I don't believe in it.

It think "bad luck" could be better defined as a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time & unforeseen occurrence, nothing more.

I was just wanting to find out the origin of some of the bad luck superstitions & some of the superstitions out there related to bad luck that may be a little less well known.

Also I would love to observe a case study done where someone is to engage in as many "bad luck" scenarios as possible at one time to see if bad luck really exists.

If they do not spontaneously combust or immediately get struck down by lightning then as suspected bad luck does not exist.

So far I have got few to get us started:
- Walking under a ladder
- Umbrella open indoors
- Breaking a mirror
- Black cat

These are some of the more common ones we have all heard of.

What other supposed "bad luck" causing things are out there?

 

[raikkonen]

Hows this for bad luck:

Ok, so i won an award, and got a trip to Melbourne, along with 19 others from across the country. A team building exercise the next morning after we arrived was "white water rafting." Id hardly call it anything at all, we had to get out and walk over the rapids! This bloke, Luke, and I shared a sports raft, and not a 6 man raft, so when the two sports-rafts that were being used got too far ahead, we were told to stop. So we did...I thought id use this opportunity to go and have a leak behind a nearby tree, so Im standiong there, when all of a sudden I hear a loud crack and a "look out!!!" from the 3 guys still in the boats, I start to look up, before being clonked on the head with this massive tree branch that had fallen.

What were the chances of me having a leak, under that tree, at that EXACT time that the branch decided to snap off. It's lucky I had the helmet on otherwise, it could have been very...dangerous. I still had a fair lump on my head though!

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Well "luck" exists. Like if you find a $5 note under the cushions that is good luck. Or if you lose a $5 note that bad luck. There's no supernatural reasons for it though.

Walking under ladders/black cats/etc are just bullshit that gullible people believe.

 

[kaysee]

When I was 16yo I was working over the summer holidays in a furniture factory. I accidently knocked over a stack of mirrors and broke 14 of them... so I did the math:

14 mirrors * 7 years bad luck per mirror = 98 years bad luck

Thought "Well, my life's F&%$ ed".

Ever since it has given me the guilt free mind over walking under ladders, opening umbrellas and all the other BS.

 

[Mattlowry]

What were the chances of me having a leak, under that tree, at that EXACT time that the branch decided to snap off. It's lucky I had the helmet on otherwise, it could have been very...dangerous. I still had a fair lump on my head though!

To be fair if someone was taking a leak on me i'd probably fight back too...

 

[emuboy]

Some people just seem to have such terrible luck and you can't explain it; it seems almost supernatural. A few cases in point:

Sophie Delizio (Unsure of spelling of the surname) - Was severely injured when a car ran into her day care centre and caught on fire; several years later she was run over by a car.

Violet Jessop: The young stewardess was on board the White Star Liner Olympic when it rammed a Navy frigate in 1911. In 1912, she was working on the Olympic's more famous sister the Titanic when it hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage. Then in 1916, while serving as a nurse during World War I, Violet was stationed on the third ship, the Brittanic, when it hit a mine and sank in the Mediterranean.

Jamie Tape: The late Richmond and Collingwood player from the 1990s battled Lymphatic Cancer in 2002 and seemed to have recovered. Early in 2003, he suffered a brain anyeurism while driving, and died in the subsequent accident.

 

[Team Mo']

don't know if this is bad luck, but;
i told my friend before a footy game to "break a leg, your right one" i joke...

and during the game he did his ACL

I think I shall never say anything again incase it comes true

 

[Team Mo']

It's lucky I had the helmet on otherwise, it could have been very...dangerous. I still had a fair lump on my head though!

hehe..taking a leak and you got hit on the head..i chuckled

 

[raikkonen]

hehe..taking a leak and you got hit on the head..i chuckled

Haha, what is bigfooty becoming!!

 

[daddy_4_eyes]

Luck sure does exist.

Quantum physics has taught us that science isn't exact, it merely works on probabilities. So bad luck may be a case of someone constantly being on the receiving end of these probabilities going against them.

Search "Schrödinger's cat" on google or wikipedia, its a famous experiment that basically illustrates what I'm trying to get across.