Unlucky number 13

[Luna Sasaguri]

Some people consider it lucky. I am one of those people. And I dunno really. I mean to me, if you think about it, it's kinda a random ass number. It's prime, it's not a square, it's odd. What's so great about 13 that it's considered lucky or unlucky anyway?[/b]

[Frankenstein Heart]

^For once I wholeheartedly agree.
I think it's a lucky number, rather than bad.

There's a brand of clothing called "Lucky 13" if I remember correctly.

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Taken From Wikipedia

Unlucky 13

The stall numbers at the Santa Anita Park show that 13 is considered an unlucky number in horse racing.Thirteen is regarded as an unlucky number. Fear of the number 13 is termed triskaidekaphobia. The thirteenth of a month is likewise ominous, particularly when it falls on a Friday in some English-speaking cultures, Sweden, Russia and Germany (see Friday the 13th) or a Tuesday in the Greek and Spanish-speaking world.


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Thirteen may be considered a "bad" or "unlucky" number simply because when a group of 13 objects or people is divided into two, three, four or six equal groups, there is always one leftover, or "unlucky", object or person.

It was suggested by Charles A. Platt writing in 1925 that the reason 13 is considered unlucky is that a person can count from 1–12 with their 8 fingers, two thumbs and 2 feet, but not beyond that, so the number 13 is unknown, hence frightening, hence unlucky.[1] This idea discounts the use of toes or other body parts in counting.

Some Christian traditions have it that at the Last Supper, Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th to sit at the table.

According to another interpretation, the number 13 is unlucky because it is the number of full moons in a contemporary year, but two full moons in a single calendar month (mistakenly referred to as a blue moon in a magazine article of the 1940s) only happens about every 5 years.

Early nursery rhymes stated there were thirteen months in a year because of the natural moon cycle that was used to count the lunar year. In England, a calendar of thirteen months of 28 days each, plus one extra day, known as "a year and a day" was still in use up to Tudor times.

In Tarot decks, the 13th card of the Major Arcana is Death. While Death is rarely interpreted literally, it is possible that this furthered the perception of 13 as an unlucky number.

Another hypothesis about the origin of Friday the 13th as an unlucky day is attributed to this being the day that the Knights Templar were slaughtered in a collaboration between King Philip IV of France and Pope Clement V finishing with the burning at the stake of Jacques De Molay.

The legion with which Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon was the Legio XIII Gemina or the 13th legion.

13 is the 6th prime number. 6 is sometimes considered an unlucky number due to its association with 666.


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In Scotland, there is no gate 13 in any airport, instead there is a gate 12B.


Inside of a Lufthansa plane with row numbers going straight from 12 to 14.Some airplanes skip a row 13, going straight from 12 to 14.[2]

Some tall buildings have resorted to skipping the "thirteenth floor", either by numbering it "14"[3] or as "12a"[citation needed].

Some streets do not contain a house number 13.

In some forms of motor sport, for example Formula One, there is no number 13 car.

In many cultures, getting married on any day of the week that falls under number 13 is highly discouraged.

There is a superstition that should thirteen sit at a table to dine, one will die in the next year. This prompted the formation of The Thirteen Club to debunk it.

The Code of Hammurabi, a collection of laws created ca. 1760 BC, does not contain a thirteenth law.

Microsoft plans to skip Office 13 for being "an unlucky number," going directly from Office 12 to Office 14. [1]

The creators of the online game Kingdom of Loathing avoid the number 13 in all of their programming.

The College of William and Mary claims 13 priorities, or achievements of the academic world, which they accomplished before any other university or college in the United States. For example, William and Mary was the first college in the US to establish an honor code. A marble plaque commemorating these 13 priorities hangs on the exterior wall of the Wren Building, the nation's oldest academic building still in continuous use. Today, the Wren Building houses the college's Religious Studies department.

The Apollo 13 spacecraft malfunctioned after being launched on April 11th at 13:13 CST, forcing it to return to Earth without a landing on the moon and imperiling its crew.[2]

After 13 years of being the richest man in the world, Microsoft Corporation chairman Bill Gates lost this title, according to Forbes magazine's 2008 list of the world's billionaires.[3]

On the first two albums by the Avant-Garde metal band Fantômas, Track 13 has no title, is unlisted on the album cover and consists of a few seconds of silence.

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[Archetype]

I have no thought on that the number 13 is unlucky... Why am I posting here?

[Frankenstein Heart]

Jeezuz, I'm not reading all that.

[Luna Sasaguri]

I read it all, and most of them seem to be either coincidences or people fearing the number 13 from some general cultural standpoint as opposed to a direct incident where the number 13 occured in some bad situation. None of them, to me, seemed convincing enough to make me feel 13 is unlucky.[/b]

[FireMonkey]

in some cultures the number 13 is lucky and number 14 is unlucky

but w/e

good luck : bad luck
idc

[tacomansupreme]

some people just need some odd thing to satisfy them... it may never make sense...

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That's because it can never know happiness with the "<" symbol.

Like 3 can. so it will remain alone and looking like a severed ball sack.
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[Frankenstein Heart]

Yours, perhaps?

[masteredo]

Jun 7, 2008 2:03:55 GMT -5 skizzy said:

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That's because it can never know happiness with the "<" symbol.

Like 3 can. so it will remain alone and looking like a severed ball sack.
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LOL.

Well, I think this is just some way of getting numbers to get all this attention. I mean, really, who cares about what numbers can do to you. The only thing you should be caring about is having sex, living life, and going shopping.

[|[Cailunet]|]

I think it's only unlucky because people expect it to be unlucky, and so they remember the unlucky things and not the lucky things. Personally, a lot of the times anyone says a certain number is unlucky, anything related to that number becomes lucky for me, but I guess that fits in with my first statement. Since they say that it's unlucky, I think that it's lucky, which makes me remember the lucky things more than the unlucky things, so I'm double-reverse phsycology-izing myself to think that what's "unlucky" is lucky, which means...
What the fuck?

[Frankenstein Heart]

^Heh- Confusing ourselves, are we...?

Jul 29, 2008 12:53:10 GMT -5 @masteredo said:

The only thing you should be caring about is having sex, living life, and going shopping.

Shopping and having sex! Interesting.
Hmm... Are you a whore by any chance?
Because "shopping" is definitely under the "Womenz" category...

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Yours, perhaps?

Yes. My ball sack is severed from my body and hangs limply because of the strings connecting the balls to my body.

Anyways if 13 is unlucky then the norse people are fucked because they have 13 months in a year.
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