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Flight 666 to Hel(sinki) lands safely at 13:00, Friday 13th
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 2:51 am
by Captain Picard's Hair
https://www.cnet.com/news/friday-the-13 ... ds-safely/
Not mentioned: the pilot broke a mirror while walking under a ladder as a black cat crossed before the flight... or not. How would I know that?
Re: Flight 666 to Hel(sinki) lands safely at 13:00, Friday 1
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 7:25 pm
by IanKennedy
What's wrong with 13:00? I get the 666, Hel although that's a reach. Friday the 13th I've heard of but what's the 4th?
Re: Flight 666 to Hel(sinki) lands safely at 13:00, Friday 1
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:08 pm
by Captain Picard's Hair
The number 13 by itself is considered by many unlucky in whatever form it appears. It's a 13 year old plane too, so there could be as many as five 'curses' there.
That's all nonsense of course. Now, if the pilot had abducted Liam Neeson's daughter, things wouldn't have gone as well...
Re: Flight 666 to Hel(sinki) lands safely at 13:00, Friday 1
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 10:24 am
by IanKennedy
OK, but I don't think there's anything about the time 1pm. Too few people think of it as 13:00 for it to be a thing.
Re: Flight 666 to Hel(sinki) lands safely at 13:00, Friday 1
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 10:35 am
by IanKennedy
The 13 think is far from unique. For example all the Chinese/Japanese like countries think the number 4 is bad luck, rather than 13, as it sound just like the worth for death. It's so bad that companies will often not have a fourth floor in their buildings. They wont release version 4 of a product, or will name it some other way to avoid it. Much like our 13.
Re: Flight 666 to Hel(sinki) lands safely at 13:00, Friday 1
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 9:38 pm
by Mikey
IanKennedy wrote:The 13 think is far from unique. For example all the Chinese/Japanese like countries think the number 4 is bad luck, rather than 13, as it sound just like the worth for death. It's so bad that companies will often not have a fourth floor in their buildings. They wont release version 4 of a product, or will name it some other way to avoid it. Much like our 13.
IDK about the UK or the Continent, but over here it's rare (if possible at all) to find a hotel with a 13th floor. It's a Christian tradition to consider the number 13 bad luck, stemming from the fact that pre-Christian Jewish gematria holds the number 13 in a positive regard.
Personally, I think the whole business reeks of the Discordian Law of Fives.
Re: Flight 666 to Hel(sinki) lands safely at 13:00, Friday 1
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 10:50 pm
by IanKennedy
I've seen it here too.
Re: Flight 666 to Hel(sinki) lands safely at 13:00, Friday 1
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 6:43 pm
by Mikey
To be completely fair, it's still a common superstitious tradition among Jews to alter the amount of a monetary gift to an amount concluding with, or a multiple of, the number 18.
Re: Flight 666 to Hel(sinki) lands safely at 13:00, Friday 1
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 8:27 pm
by Captain Picard's Hair
Mikey wrote:To be completely fair, it's still a common superstitious tradition among Jews to alter the amount of a monetary gift to an amount concluding with, or a multiple of, the number 18.
So a sneaky Jew might give a gift of $234 (13 x 18). I wonder how the balance of luck is supposed to work out there.
Re: Flight 666 to Hel(sinki) lands safely at 13:00, Friday 1
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 11:18 pm
by Mikey
Usually we don't get quite that intricate - if the occasion called for $200, for example, we'd give $218. In gematria, the Hebrew word for "life" totals 18.
Re: Flight 666 to Hel(sinki) lands safely at 13:00, Friday 1
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 9:30 am
by IanKennedy
For the far east the number 4 is bad, as explained, but the number 8 is highly lucky again because it sounds like another word, this time the word for "prosper" or "wealth". For example:
the bidder who recently paid 18.1 million Hong Kong dollars, or $2.3 million in U.S. money, for an “auspicious” license plate bearing the number 28. That sounds like a wildly exorbitant amount of money (and it is), but the thinking is rather simple. In Cantonese, “28” sounds similar to the words for “easy” and “to prosper,” so the number is thought to bring good fortune to its owner.
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Re: Flight 666 to Hel(sinki) lands safely at 13:00, Friday 1
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:22 pm
by McAvoy
Just remember next Halloween falls on Friday the Thirteenth.
Re: Flight 666 to Hel(sinki) lands safely at 13:00, Friday 1
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:42 am
by IanKennedy
How can the 31st October fall on the 13th? Unless it's in a mirror I suppose
Re: Flight 666 to Hel(sinki) lands safely at 13:00, Friday 1
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 5:48 pm
by Mikey
IanKennedy wrote:How can the 31st October fall on the 13th? Unless it's in a mirror I suppose
Then it would be on a Yadirf.
Re: Flight 666 to Hel(sinki) lands safely at 13:00, Friday 1
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 7:25 pm
by McAvoy
IanKennedy wrote:How can the 31st October fall on the 13th? Unless it's in a mirror I suppose
I guess you never saw that meme then. It's a joke because there are a shit ton of gullible dumb people out there that would believe it without engaging the brain.