Hello Mr Magpie, kindly fuck off!!!

[MrsSippy]

I'm not superstitious really, have no fear of black cats or the number 13 etc... but I DO NOT like magpies who hang round on their own - one for sorrow and all that!

Now one has decided that it quite likes it in my back garden, just the bloody one of course, and my DH is fed up of being called to the window to salute it with me...and he complains that I am drowning out the TV with my 'Hello Mr Magpie, how's your wife and kids'.

AIBU??

We have one that keeps coming in to the garden

I greet them with "good morning Mr magpie, good morning Mrs magpie wherever you are..." Or "good morning Mr magpie, good morning Mrs magpie, thankyou!" Depending on whether there is only one or there are 2+

waffly

Ya soooo nbu. They bad luck. Dh laughed at mo. Last time i saw one (last tuesday) we lost the first house we were attempting to buy.

lolz at waffley

Waffly

YANBU I detest the little fuckers I'm always saluting them.

The real one is
One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a letter
Four for a boy
Five's a wish
And six's a kiss
Seven for something much better than this
Eight for silver
Nine for gold
Ten is for a secret never to be told

It's all bollix

Update: the fucker is strutting round on the garden table!

Does it count if we vicariously see it?

Evening Mr Ms Magpie

That's knee bob.

I didn't actually knee Bob. Bloody autocorrect!

Is knee bob all one word?

A magpie has moved into our garden too and gives a rather rousing fucking infuriating dawn chorus.

You lot are mental.

Can't your dh go out there?

These are all quite polite. I was taught as a child (by my Mum) to say 'where's yer mate?' to magpies, and also that 'seen by two - doesn't come true'.

I am totally sceptical about all supersticious stuff, but can't seem to help myself saluting magpies. I did see 3 magpies together when I was pregnant with DD and she turned out a girl (obviously) but I suspect she was already girlish before the magpies appeared - I was about 6 months gone

There is an appeal to saluting magpies but only because it would be fun, not for superstition.

salute one
curtsy to two
bow to three
double Vs at four
moon five
cheerleading routine for six
release chinese lanterns for seven
21`gun salute for eight
sacrifice a goat for nine
hand over your first child for ten.

Laffy I think that you are getting magpies and sneezes muddled.

Magpies (Modern)
One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret,
Never to be told

Magpies (Original)

One for sorrow,
Two for luck; (or mirth)
Three for a wedding,
Four for death; (or birth)
Five for silver,
Six for gold;
Seven for a secret,
Not to be told;
Eight for heaven,
Nine for [hell],
And ten for the d[evi]l's own sell! [sic].

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_for_Sorrow_(nursery_rhyme)

Sneezes

If you sneeze on Monday, you sneeze for danger;
Sneeze on a Tuesday, kiss a stranger;
Sneeze on a Wednesday, sneeze for a letter;
Sneeze on a Thursday, something better;
Sneeze on a Friday, sneeze for sorrow;
Sneeze on a Saturday, see your sweetheart to-morrow.

I was brought up with "Good evening your Lordship, how's her Ladyship?" so I am clearly posher than you lot!

YABU It's superstitious nonsense and you know it. If I was your DH I'd be getting seriously pissed off at being repeatedly required to take part. Enjoy being silly if you like but don't keep bothering your DH with it when he clearly doesn't want to take part. Any number of magpies is bad, they shit everywhere which is really unhygienic for the kids playing in the garden, especially with all the used condoms when there's more than 7.

Oh I think everybody reading this thread should immediately adopt Waffly's lastest list. Are you all prepared to risk not?

Just hope that eBay order for Chinese lanterns arrives soon

Am quite looking forward to my next sneeze now too.....

I'm leaving for work early today, I've learnt so many mad useful superstitious stuff here, but I'll need to leave earlier to get them all in...

You only have to say it to him on first sight, not every time you meet eyes....

Used to be the same in the Army - only salute the officer the first time you saw him, otherwise he'd be saluting all day!!

YABU, it's a load of old bollocks. They are just birds, and this is 2015 not 1615. Hope that helps

Hey why don't you just say what you mean bollocks :o

They are just birds They know you said that and they're coming to get you.