I am sorry it is a rant, but I have seen three number plates today on cars that all have 666 in the number.
Now, I may be a little on the paranoid side ;-) but come on folks, lets not tempt fate, there must be better numbers!!!
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tempt fate-agggghhhh.
widely thought of now as 616 as some older texts have been found pointing towards 616 instead
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i wouldnt fancy a plate with 666 on it but strangely i was drawn to one a week ago that i fancied
maybe it was the devil in me ?
anyway i resisted the urge of the jam biscuit with the soft inner and walked away and spoke to garibaldi instead
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Its a number, who gives a monkeys, the devil dont exist anyway.
If i dont make it home tonight, someone tell the wife what happened please...
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>..the devil dont exist anyway.
Yes she does.
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No i wouldn't have that number at any price, nor chassis number.
Some stones best left unturned.
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There are no such things as luck and bad luck, There are no such things as lucky or unlucky numbers. Nice things happen, carp happens. There is no predicting it and it is s*d all to do with numbers or black cats or rabbits feet.
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>> as lucky or unlucky numbers. Nice things happen, carp happens. There is no predicting it
>> and it is s*d all to do with numbers or black cats or rabbits feet.
No? tell that to the unlucky three footed rabbit or cat.
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Somebody I've worked with chose S666 & his initials when he changed his car and got a DVLA select plate for it. Says people make way for him!!
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Wed 20 Apr 11 at 20:36
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Here's a 10 minute sermon on the topic at hand.
Contains swearies if that offends you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o
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I took a lorry out last week with 666,666km on the clock.
>> Now, I may be a little on the paranoid side
You're telling me! I was extra careful that day.
Last edited by: Dave_TDCi {P} on Wed 20 Apr 11 at 20:52
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I remember I got home once and the car had done 666 miles, I went round the block and parked at 667!.
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If you're gonna link Maiden, go for the money...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTaD9cd8hvw
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>> If you're gonna link Maiden, go for the money...
Well call me old fashioned but I thought I'd go for the one that's relevant to the thread :)
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>> >> If you're gonna link Maiden, go for the money...
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>> Well call me old fashioned but I thought I'd go for the one that's relevant
>> to the thread :)
Have you learned nothing in your time here?
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Sorry, isn't this the Isuzu thread???
Nurse! Nurse!
/dribble
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>> >> Well call me old fashioned but I thought I'd go for the one that's
>> relevant
>> >> to the thread :)
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>> Have you learned nothing in your time here?
I promise it won't happen again :)
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They both made good listening!
Pat
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Blimey! What a lot of wusses.
Pull yourselves together - it's bad luck to be superstitious.
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>>>I remember I got home once and the car had done 666 miles, I went round the block and parked at 667!.
Me too!!!
I look at data all day (and it is always other firms data) and I could swear that the aforementioned number appears more then any other similar set!
In fact I think I am going to write a program to test it - now that is paranoid!
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>> I could swear that the aforementioned number appears more then any other similar set
That's similar to the idea that the letter Z appears on many more numberplates than should be expected from a random sample. In fact, the odds of seeing a Z are 1/24 for the first letter of three (I and Q are unused) + 1/24 for the second letter +1/24 for the third letter = 1 in 8 of all numberplates.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
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In fact, the odds of seeing a Z are 1/24 for the first letter of three (I and Q are unused) + 1/24 for the second letter +1/24 for the third letter = 1 in 8 of all numberplates.
Not quite, Dave.
p(at least one Z) = 1-p(no Z)
=1-(23/24)3
=0.1199 so yes, almost one in eight, but you'd need more than 24 places to be certain of seeing a Z, so it's not a simple additive calculation. Given the some buyers get to choose their number, there may also be some active selection in favour of letters like Z and X.
And no thumbs up from me, PP. Denying the influence of luck (i.e. factors that we can neither control nor predict) on life is as foolish as trying to control them with rabbits' paws and lucky pants.
Last edited by: WillDeBeest on Fri 22 Apr 11 at 07:30
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>There are no such things as luck and bad luck, There are no such things as lucky or unlucky numbers.
Absolutely, anyone who doesn't take adequate precautions is asking for it.
I keep a cufflink box containing chicken bones on my desk. They protect against all but the most powerful software demons and are in great demand at the customer site where I work. The only greater protection is to sacrifice a virgin but those are now impossible to find in Reading.
I also have two native american indian fetishes I carry at all times. A Zuni bear for health and strength and another for protection while travelling.
As examples of how well they work:
A few years ago I was returning to the US from Japan when the plane hit severe turbulence. A number of passengers and two crew were injured but I was still buckled up and didn't even spill my gin and tonic.
I was in Bangalore and had a snack from a roadside vendor. It was delicious and had no ill effects. My colleague, who did not have any Zuni fetishes, was mainlining immodium for days.
;-)
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There isn't a Flat 13 in my block - there's a 12A instead!
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It is amazing how in this allegedly non religious age how many people are are superstitious or believe in the supernatural
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>> It is amazing how in this allegedly non religious age how many people are are superstitious or believe in the supernatural
What's amazing about it? People have lost their religious faith through a combination of idleness, distraction and (usually rather restricted) 'rationality'. But they are still (so to speak) afraid of the dark.
I myself am no exception. I address single magpies with rather bad-tempered courtesy for example.
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When I see one I have an urge to address it with a shotgun.
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>> address it with a shotgun.
Not necessarily a good idea Zeddo.
In my adolescence I drilled one with an air rifle. It flew off, landed in another tree, sat there for a few seconds and then dropped dead.
Many years later, when I was here for the weekend actually, I saw a big fat one all alone and chortled something to the effect that I hoped the sorrow wasn't going to be as fat as the bird. A couple of hours later I got a phone call to say my father had been taken to hospital. When I rang the hospital they told me he was dead.
Magpies have got it in for me. I don't blame them either.
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Plenty of similar tragedy type tales in my life, but no Magpie can claim credit for it.
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Death after three score years and ten isn't strictly speaking a tragedy, although of course it often gives pain to the survivors.
Nor do I imagine the magpie had anything to do with my father's demise. Just a vivid and complex association of ideas. That's what superstition is actually.
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>> Death after three score years and ten isn't strictly speaking a tragedy, although of course
>> it often gives pain to the survivors.
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But more to the dead, if you believe in purgatory.
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Things happen and there are circumstances prevailing but there is not necessarily a connection. As the great Norman Stanley Fletcher observed, during a discussion about superstition, " My grandad walked under a ladder once and, you know what? Over the next 40 years all this teeth fell out!"
Last edited by: Perky Penguin on Fri 22 Apr 11 at 07:49
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Oh, quite so. It was
There are no such things as luck and bad luck
that I objected to, because there certainly are and they affect us all. Perhaps we do agree after all.
}:---)
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>> Oh, quite so. It was
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>> There are no such things as luck and bad luck
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>> that I objected to, because there certainly are and they affect us all. Perhaps we
>> do agree after all.
>> }:---)
There is NO such thing as Luck or bad luck. For the most part those who bemoan bad luck have usually made their own, and those who are lucky ditto.
Things that happen to us out of our control are just that. Sometimes its good sometimes its bad. Luck has FA to do with it. But very little stuff happens outside our control in some way or other.
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And here endeth our lesson for Good Friday....spoken by the Oracle.
Pat
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>> And here endeth our lesson for Good Friday....spoken by the Oracle.
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>> Pat
Agree or disagree Pat, but don't be snidey, you do it very badly.
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Zero, I was being humorous, at least so I thought >>>sigh<<
If I want to do snidey you'll find I can do it very well, just like most women!
Pat
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>> Zero, I was being humorous, at least so I thought >>>sigh<<
Unlucky then.
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Not at all Z, I'm used to banter with a load of thick skinned lorry drivers who laugh at themselves too.
It's only recently I've encountered the fragile and frosty male species:)
Pat
Last edited by: pda on Fri 22 Apr 11 at 11:24
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>> Not at all Z, I'm used to banter with a load of thick skinned lorry
>> drivers who laugh at themselves too.
Because your jokes are crap? ;P
Last edited by: Zero on Fri 22 Apr 11 at 12:29
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>>There is NO such thing as Luck or bad luck. For the most part those
>> who bemoan bad luck have usually made their own, and those who are lucky ditto.
If you, I and Pat walked together past a building site and somebody dropped a hammer that hit me on the head, I'd say I was unlucky, and that you and Pat were lucky.
Luck is just randomness isn't it? Which is why there's no point in throwing black cats over your shoulder, unless you just hate cats.
It does nark me though when people use bad luck as an excuse - as Gary Player used to say when he made a a 'lucky' shot "the more I practice, the luckier I get".
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Napoleon believed in luck. He required his generals to be lucky. He was lucky himself, although being a genius probably helped. His operations determined the shape of modern Europe and to an extent the nature of modern European man. Of course it was all terribly burdensome to the French who remain ambivalent about him to this day.
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>> Napoleon believed in luck. He was lucky himself,
He lost, everything.
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Yes. It ran out. ..........................greatly helped by the British!
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The great Gary Player believed in luck - most golfers do.
To mis-quote him 'I believe in luck. The more I practice, the luckier I get.'
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