Proof that Friday The Thirteenth is a very dangerous day:
I currently have the song **Staying Alive" on a continuous loop on my head.
I did not seek this out or consciously trigger it. I was not thinking about this song, or about the associated films, or about Travolta, or about the BeeGees, or about disco, or about that period of history.
Nor was I in the presence of anything that would seem to trigger this event.
@Barney@f00l@ruouttaurmind@kdemo Probably shouldn’t use I Can’t Get No Satisfaction.
I remember a claim a long time ago that it could cause arrhythmia in susceptible persons. Had something to do with the 5 beat emphasis. (My guess is that it would need to be at an impressive volume for the effect to occur, if it’s even a real thing).
@moondrake When I was in high school we marched (field show) a couple of years to Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is. That was a little fun because part of it is in 5/4 time.
I have proof that it’s Friday the 13th. I just got a notification that a wine shipment is headed my way, and will arrive on SATURDAY. I have a lunch engagement on Saturday, dammit, and I can only hope that it will arrive late in the afternoon. :-{
There is no way I would have expected this, either. I just barely bought it. The description for this purchase shows “Thursday, April 19th - Monday, April 23rd” for delivery. Tomorrow is clearly not in that time range. Dammit dammit dammit.
I’m sitting here at the tire shop patiently passing the time, waiting to have some tires installed, looking through the magazine selection… at the August 2015 edition of Cycle World, February 2016 Motor Trend, and December 2014 (!!) Home and Garden.
@ruouttaurmind im also in a waiting room. But i’m waiting for a drug screening (new job, YEAH!) but had to drink 2 cups of water because the first time i only filed the cup 1/4th which made it invalid.
My mag choices are Time Jan 2018, BH&G for each of Oct-Dec 2017, and Woman’s Day Jun, Nov & Dec 2017. Yet i’m on Meh instead.
@f00l@PlacidPenguin@ruouttaurmind Or spiders. Gardens are a good way to entice spiders to set up shop there. And fire ants. Every garden needs fire ants.
FUCKING CAR broke - engine check light came on blah blah blah, won’t start, dead as a doornail not even any clicking, horn doesn’t even work but oddly the courtesy light does… Worked perfectly fine when I left the house. Tried jumping it. It started then cut out again. Of course it does this at 1pm today. Had to pay to have it towed 47 miles because this fucking dumbshit peice of crap that nearly killed my cat town has no place to fix it and where I am right now is the closest place. Naturally it broke at the vet with my sick cat with me. The towing company that insurance insists I use refused to make a detour past my house (a whole 1.3 miles out of their way round trip) so I could drop off the cat. Got lucky the vet let an office person drive me home and then brought me back. $159 and lose change to tow it. If they can’t fix it tonight then I get to rent a car. FUCK FUCK FUCK (@carl669 this should help the count). I am not superstitious but certainly this is a testimonial that bad crap can happen on a Friday that happens to be the 13th. If I didn’t understand statistics I’d think this was evidence that supported superstition, instead I realize it is just bad luck. Sigh. No wait - not bad luck - its the fault of the goat - that would be you @shahnm
@narfcake I hope so but they think it is also the alternator and they can’t even read the codes until a new battery is in which I just told them then please put one in!!! They said they aren’t sure its the alternator but they were going to start with that assumption unless the codes from the check engine light sent them in a different direction. It did start right up with the first jump. They think, as first guess, the alternator since it up and died again while idling. Battery read at 55 instead of 500 and something so that obviously is part of it. If it is only the battery this would be the most expensive battery on the planet when you add in a 50 mile tow. The timing freaking sucks.
I am not superstitious but certainly this is a testimonial that bad crap can happen on a Friday that happens to be the 13th. If I didn’t understand statistics I’d think this was evidence that supported superstition, instead I realize it is just bad luck.
We are not looking for evidence. We are seeking myth.
@moondrake She’s 17. She has asthma. And hyperthyroid. And the first vet I took her here nearly killed her late last fall. My 11 pound cat was down to 5 pounds. When I was home at Christmas I took her to my sister’s vet and a lot of things were changed and she started to improve. But her liver function was way elevated to the point that that vet didn’t think she’d recover, she didn’t want to eat, wasn’t grooming herself… though I’d have to put her down. Changed vets to the only other one in town. He has the personality of sandpaper but is at least reasonably competent (he mostly does large animals which is why I didn’t go to him first). I spent close to six weeks mostly syringe feeding her, sub Q fluids, then was doing it on and off until about 2 weeks ago. She is finally doing better and is up to 6 pounds. Unfortunately we keep having to increase her hyperthyroid meds as that is not under control any more. Increasing it again today. We can’t seem to get rid of the ringworm she has on her nose. Her breathing is noisy. But she is happy, eating, moving round the apt again, cuddling, purring…
@narfcake OK so battery and something chewed on wires. I was incredibly lucky as they not only worked me in but stayed over time to fix it. I owe them big time. And they finally pulled out the last of the screwed that this very same place dropped into the dash that rolled all over the place driving me nuts, when they did the air bag recall.
@PlacidPenguin I’ll get over it. I just did not have time for this today as I have a bunch of stuff I HAVE to do for work, taxes aren’t done either, I am stressing about the expense as my job ends on the 14th of May…
@moondrake no because my taxes are relatively simple. W2’s medical deductions that are worth more than standard dedications, some donations, mileage, professional membership, and two part year state taxes… It’s a matter of finding all the receipts and then glueing by butt to a chair to do it. The hard part is finding which unpacked poorly labeled box the receipts are in. I got this job late on the 5th of August, had to move and my job started 8am on the 13th of August.
@f00l Well you could get in the car and run away now… just sayin’. Tornados scare me. Been in one (well it touched down in my backyard and encased my house in a lightening ball and melted the lightening rod so technically it just barely missed me). Then there was the one that was about 1/4 mile away that I could see out my car window that was just behind me and just north of me. Big huge dark dark gray and black and very big. I couldn’t run as there was no way to turn off the road I was on. Missed me but again just barely.
@f00l weather here keeps interrupting telling about tornadoes and high winds that are west of me (by car at least an hour west). Hope your weather station is still giving out watches rather than talking about actual tornados. I guess you are the leading edge of what is headed my direction.
@f00l It’s close to impossible for us to have a tornado, surrounded on all sides by several different mountain ranges. But we’ve had two days of sustained 55mph winds with gusts to 65, yesterday the high was 95, today the high was 68. There were a couple of times last night I thought we were going to blow right off the mountain. Tempest abandoned her living room guard post and came to sleep in the bedroom with me and Zephyr.
@f00l Well all that crap you sent us from your state just did in a big tree. Woke up to the tornado sirens. No tornado - just very high winds and very heavy, driving rain. A couple of cats got freaked out and ran under the bed and dresser. Stupid TV (station is 100 or so miles away) said they weren’t sure why our county even shows anything on radar. Umm well take a look out my window fools (that would be spelled with all alphabet letters, no reference to present company) and tell that to the tree that fell in the wind (missed all the cars and building - resting against another tree. I went (after the siren was done) and moved my car across the street to the church parking lot in case the tree finished falling or the other tree gave out. Now I am soaked and good thing I was barefooted as the street was about mid calf deep in water.
On the computer weather radar at least I can look at my town/county. None of the TVs show this far south in most of their views (all the stations are 100 or so miles away north of here). One more rain band to go but no more red in that band that I can see on the computer radar. Bad to bed. Excitement over. And @f00l this you can not blame on myth since it is the 14th
To raise the fear levels for you paraskevidekatriaphobiacs even more, it is a fact that the 13th of the month falls on a Friday more than any other day of the week. I’ve seen several proofs of this over the years, but this was the only one I found in a quick search just now: http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/may32014/index.html
It has cute pictures (of cats, even) and goes into quite a bit of detail, for those interested.
I hope it means people stay home for superstition or whatever reason, and then the roads aren’t clogged.
Proof that Friday The Thirteenth is a very dangerous day:
I currently have the song **Staying Alive" on a continuous loop on my head.
I did not seek this out or consciously trigger it. I was not thinking about this song, or about the associated films, or about Travolta, or about the BeeGees, or about disco, or about that period of history.
Nor was I in the presence of anything that would seem to trigger this event.
/youtube staying alive
Help me.
@f00l Great. Ya, thanks for that brainworm.
@ruouttaurmind
Had to share!
Happy Friday the Thirteenth!!!
Now I’m going to go listen to some history and see if I can scare off the earworm.
@f00l @ruouttaurmind Now you are qualified to give CPR, because that is the beat you use when giving it.
@f00l
This one is worse than the average earworm. It eats away at the cerebral cortex, eventually leaving the victims in a vegetative state.
@ruouttaurmind
I’ll trade you an earworm repellent for a Coral snake egg.
@PlacidPenguin I keep trying to tell you, I don’t mess with no venomous wildlife!
@ruouttaurmind
I figured you’d like your cerebral cortex though.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ruouttaurmind
Explains everything about me today then.
Have some more:
/youtube “how deep is your love” beegees
@ruouttaurmind
I couldn’t get thru the entire video.
@Barney @f00l - In my last CPR class I kept losing count of the compressions because of that song in my head.
Take-away: Don’t stop breathing in my vicinity if you want to survive.
@Barney @f00l @ruouttaurmind @kdemo Probably shouldn’t use I Can’t Get No Satisfaction.
I remember a claim a long time ago that it could cause arrhythmia in susceptible persons. Had something to do with the 5 beat emphasis. (My guess is that it would need to be at an impressive volume for the effect to occur, if it’s even a real thing).
@mehcuda67 It was hard to roller skate to We Will Rock You with the three beats.
@moondrake When I was in high school we marched (field show) a couple of years to Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is. That was a little fun because part of it is in 5/4 time.
I have proof that it’s Friday the 13th. I just got a notification that a wine shipment is headed my way, and will arrive on SATURDAY. I have a lunch engagement on Saturday, dammit, and I can only hope that it will arrive late in the afternoon. :-{
There is no way I would have expected this, either. I just barely bought it. The description for this purchase shows “Thursday, April 19th - Monday, April 23rd” for delivery. Tomorrow is clearly not in that time range. Dammit dammit dammit.
@Shrdlu Have it re-routed to my house. Problem solved!
@Shrdlu
I bet it works out.
That wine wants to be properly delivered to you.
@f00l @Shrdlu
Waaaah!
@Shrdlu You’re whining about wine.
@OldCatLady @Shrdlu @Barney
Should they be “wining about whine”?
Catshirt of the morning:
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/not-bad-luck
Not Bad Luck for $15.00 (Probably New)
I was surprised Woot didn’t feature any Jason shirts. Here’s one (mine).
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/crystal-lake-corporate-retreats
Crystal Lake Corporate Retreats for $19.00 (Probably New)
I’m sitting here at the tire shop patiently passing the time, waiting to have some tires installed, looking through the magazine selection… at the August 2015 edition of Cycle World, February 2016 Motor Trend, and December 2014 (!!) Home and Garden.
@ruouttaurmind
Orange cream fudge recipe in Home & Garden?
@PlacidPenguin I’ll check.
@PlacidPenguin As a matter of fact, there IS a recipe for Orange Cream fudge!
But then, I suspect you already knew that.
@ruouttaurmind
I do not read that kind of magazine.
Why would a penguin need a garden?
@ruouttaurmind im also in a waiting room. But i’m waiting for a drug screening (new job, YEAH!) but had to drink 2 cups of water because the first time i only filed the cup 1/4th which made it invalid.
My mag choices are Time Jan 2018, BH&G for each of Oct-Dec 2017, and Woman’s Day Jun, Nov & Dec 2017. Yet i’m on Meh instead.
@PlacidPenguin
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@mollama congratulations on the new job!
At least your periodical selection is < a year aged.
@PlacidPenguin @ruouttaurmind
Easier to collect coral snakes that way?
@f00l @PlacidPenguin @ruouttaurmind Or spiders. Gardens are a good way to entice spiders to set up shop there. And fire ants. Every garden needs fire ants.
@f00l @ruouttaurmind
How about the two of you grow a garden, and create penguin lawn art.
Then, if Coral snakes appear, you wait for an egg and send it to me.
@PlacidPenguin @ruouttaurmind
Way too exceptionally lazy to do that.
Thx for ideas tho.
@f00l @PlacidPenguin I dislike gardening and venomous critters, so no joy there.
No, like every other Friday I am merely celebrating the start of drinking away my 3 day weekend.
@kdemo
Isn’t it amazing how profound he can be?
@kdemo Or Saturday the 14th
@kdemo @mehcuda67
The problem of course though is that all of these dates are too close to each other.
@kdemo
Does not show on mobile. (Firefox iOS). What is it?
@f00l - I forgot, you don’t see Tweets. You need the special Twitter glasses.
It’s a Neil deGrasse Tyson quote:
“If you do the full calculation you will find that Friday the 13th is no less rare on the calendar than Thursday the 12th.”
@kdemo
Both the quote and the image are Goooooooddddd.
FUCKING CAR broke - engine check light came on blah blah blah, won’t start, dead as a doornail not even any clicking, horn doesn’t even work but oddly the courtesy light does… Worked perfectly fine when I left the house. Tried jumping it. It started then cut out again. Of course it does this at 1pm today. Had to pay to have it towed 47 miles because this fucking dumbshit peice of crap that nearly killed my cat town has no place to fix it and where I am right now is the closest place. Naturally it broke at the vet with my sick cat with me. The towing company that insurance insists I use refused to make a detour past my house (a whole 1.3 miles out of their way round trip) so I could drop off the cat. Got lucky the vet let an office person drive me home and then brought me back. $159 and lose change to tow it. If they can’t fix it tonight then I get to rent a car. FUCK FUCK FUCK (@carl669 this should help the count). I am not superstitious but certainly this is a testimonial that bad crap can happen on a Friday that happens to be the 13th. If I didn’t understand statistics I’d think this was evidence that supported superstition, instead I realize it is just bad luck. Sigh. No wait - not bad luck - its the fault of the goat - that would be you @shahnm
@Kidsandliz
Might be a shorted cell or two in the battery. Jumping won’t help because it’s so low.
@Kidsandliz @narfcake
(I was looking for a whole different kind of gift subject, but this will work just as well.)
Take a deep breath and relax.
@narfcake I hope so but they think it is also the alternator and they can’t even read the codes until a new battery is in which I just told them then please put one in!!! They said they aren’t sure its the alternator but they were going to start with that assumption unless the codes from the check engine light sent them in a different direction. It did start right up with the first jump. They think, as first guess, the alternator since it up and died again while idling. Battery read at 55 instead of 500 and something so that obviously is part of it. If it is only the battery this would be the most expensive battery on the planet when you add in a 50 mile tow. The timing freaking sucks.
@Kidsandliz Hope your cat’s okay.
@Kidsandliz
We are not looking for evidence. We are seeking myth.
Thx for contributing. You did well.
PS sorry re car troubles. : (
@Kidsandliz Things are proceeding exactly as I have foreseen…
But in all seriousness, sorry to hear about your your added troubles!
My bad. I guess…
@moondrake She’s 17. She has asthma. And hyperthyroid. And the first vet I took her here nearly killed her late last fall. My 11 pound cat was down to 5 pounds. When I was home at Christmas I took her to my sister’s vet and a lot of things were changed and she started to improve. But her liver function was way elevated to the point that that vet didn’t think she’d recover, she didn’t want to eat, wasn’t grooming herself… though I’d have to put her down. Changed vets to the only other one in town. He has the personality of sandpaper but is at least reasonably competent (he mostly does large animals which is why I didn’t go to him first). I spent close to six weeks mostly syringe feeding her, sub Q fluids, then was doing it on and off until about 2 weeks ago. She is finally doing better and is up to 6 pounds. Unfortunately we keep having to increase her hyperthyroid meds as that is not under control any more. Increasing it again today. We can’t seem to get rid of the ringworm she has on her nose. Her breathing is noisy. But she is happy, eating, moving round the apt again, cuddling, purring…
@f00l My bad. And here I though science, statistics, etc., like the laws of gravity, worked all the time, not just when you wanted it to.
@narfcake OK so battery and something chewed on wires. I was incredibly lucky as they not only worked me in but stayed over time to fix it. I owe them big time. And they finally pulled out the last of the screwed that this very same place dropped into the dash that rolled all over the place driving me nuts, when they did the air bag recall.
@shahnm
You guess? Umm you ARE the goat.
@PlacidPenguin I’ll get over it. I just did not have time for this today as I have a bunch of stuff I HAVE to do for work, taxes aren’t done either, I am stressing about the expense as my job ends on the 14th of May…
@narfcake That would be screws not screwed LOL
@Kidsandliz
They do, within the limits of known evidence and theory.
So does MYTH. At least: it does, in the presence of the human animal.
@f00l Looking for myth huh? Well then I have some
snake oilprotection I can sell you to protect you from tornadoes including a direct hit.@Kidsandliz
I don’t pay for myth.
I want myth to pay for me.
@f00l In your dreams
/image myth is dreams
@Kidsandliz
@Kidsandliz Have you checked to see if you qualify for free tax prep?
@moondrake no because my taxes are relatively simple. W2’s medical deductions that are worth more than standard dedications, some donations, mileage, professional membership, and two part year state taxes… It’s a matter of finding all the receipts and then glueing by butt to a chair to do it. The hard part is finding which unpacked poorly labeled box the receipts are in. I got this job late on the 5th of August, had to move and my job started 8am on the 13th of August.
@Kidsandliz @moondrake - I used this *free tax program. Easy peasy.
It even auto-imported info from TurboTax.
*free if your household income is below 66k.
@kdemo thanks
Who wants to trade their nice local weather elsewhere for our local tornado watch, going on until 10pm?
Hint:
Not the only risk factor, and sometimes don’t occur, but … Dark greenish-gray skies are to be avoided.
@f00l - You should drink. A lot!!
(Are you safely indoors?)
@f00l I can only trade you the same. Sorry. We will maybe have some later this evening according to the TV.
@f00l
/giphy did I do that urkel
@kdemo
Safe as one can be without a teleportation device or underground bunker.
No tornados have been spotted tho. It’s just that the weather is “iffy”.
Thx for concerns.
@f00l Well you could get in the car and run away now… just sayin’. Tornados scare me. Been in one (well it touched down in my backyard and encased my house in a lightening ball and melted the lightening rod so technically it just barely missed me). Then there was the one that was about 1/4 mile away that I could see out my car window that was just behind me and just north of me. Big huge dark dark gray and black and very big. I couldn’t run as there was no way to turn off the road I was on. Missed me but again just barely.
@f00l weather here keeps interrupting telling about tornadoes and high winds that are west of me (by car at least an hour west). Hope your weather station is still giving out watches rather than talking about actual tornados. I guess you are the leading edge of what is headed my direction.
@f00l It’s close to impossible for us to have a tornado, surrounded on all sides by several different mountain ranges. But we’ve had two days of sustained 55mph winds with gusts to 65, yesterday the high was 95, today the high was 68. There were a couple of times last night I thought we were going to blow right off the mountain. Tempest abandoned her living room guard post and came to sleep in the bedroom with me and Zephyr.
@f00l We had lovely warm and sunny weather, with a gentle, pleasant breeze.
I just thought y’all might enjoy knowing that.
You’ll have your fun during hurricane season (right around the corner)…
@f00l @Kidsandliz We were always told to lay in a ditch if we were caught in the open.
@f00l Our tornado watch went until 9 PM. Although it didn’t even sprinkle here let alone anything else.
@f00l Well all that crap you sent us from your state just did in a big tree. Woke up to the tornado sirens. No tornado - just very high winds and very heavy, driving rain. A couple of cats got freaked out and ran under the bed and dresser. Stupid TV (station is 100 or so miles away) said they weren’t sure why our county even shows anything on radar. Umm well take a look out my window fools (that would be spelled with all alphabet letters, no reference to present company) and tell that to the tree that fell in the wind (missed all the cars and building - resting against another tree. I went (after the siren was done) and moved my car across the street to the church parking lot in case the tree finished falling or the other tree gave out. Now I am soaked and good thing I was barefooted as the street was about mid calf deep in water.
On the computer weather radar at least I can look at my town/county. None of the TVs show this far south in most of their views (all the stations are 100 or so miles away north of here). One more rain band to go but no more red in that band that I can see on the computer radar. Bad to bed. Excitement over. And @f00l this you can not blame on myth since it is the 14th
To raise the fear levels for you paraskevidekatriaphobiacs even more, it is a fact that the 13th of the month falls on a Friday more than any other day of the week. I’ve seen several proofs of this over the years, but this was the only one I found in a quick search just now: http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/may32014/index.html
It has cute pictures (of cats, even) and goes into quite a bit of detail, for those interested.
Just another day. (Exes bday…which means nothing to me now)