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Original poster

Had a palm reading the other day and was told I will spend the rest of my days alone..

64 replies

Jazzicatz · 23/11/2011 21:40

I know I should just ignore it but it has really hit me for six. Just keep crying about it as I do believe it to be right. I am being really stupid right?

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ImperialBlether · 23/11/2011 21:42

Did you pay much for this nonsense? If so, pay me half and I'll tell you about a brighter future Grin

SherbetDibDab · 23/11/2011 21:42

Palm reading is a load of bollocks and that is such a horrible thing to say to someone. Ignore.

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Jazzicatz · 23/11/2011 21:44

No I didnt pay, a friend did it!

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Get0rf · 23/11/2011 21:44

The person who did that is a horrible minded wretch who did it on purpose in order to be spiteful.

The reading itself means nothing - nobody can tell what kind of life you will have by the way your palm folds.

I am sorry that you are upset but please don't take it to heart.

Doha · 23/11/2011 21:45

Right...
Ignore Ignore Ignore.
My palm reading years ago was so wrong..

  1. I survived past my 40th birthday
  2. never have kids----have 3
  3. would be divorced by 30

Leave these palm reading thingies to the fair grounds. Unless she can tell you the lottery numbers.

Have a hug x

Get0rf · 23/11/2011 21:45

That aint a friend.

tethersend · 23/11/2011 21:45

A palm reader once came into a shop I was working in, grabbed my hand, told me I would never be able to have a child, and then asked me for payment.

I won't tell you what I said, but the second word was "off".

Anyway, I am sat here surrounded by toddler mess pg with no.2.

It's utter bollocks.

Helltotheno · 23/11/2011 21:46

Load of arse. You could've spent that dosh on a six-pack and chips...

Be positive and get on with living your life!

TheFallenMadonna · 23/11/2011 21:47

Why do you believe it to be right? You believe in palmistry, or you are feeling pessimistic generally about relationships?

wifey6 · 23/11/2011 21:47

I believe we make our own destiny & I wouldn't take it too much to heart. Smile

stayformulledwine · 23/11/2011 21:50

I had a palm reading when I was 16, she reckoned I would die when I was 32. Five years to go! Grin seriously, its bollocks.

EverybodysScaryEyed · 23/11/2011 21:53

someone once did my numbers

she correctly told me i came from far away (my accent may have helped) and I was soon to be married (engagement ring)

she then told me not to marry him as he had issues with his father and he would turn out the same. we've been married 7 years and he's not turned into his dad yet! And he has always had a fraught relationship with his mum and gets on fantastically with his dad

EightiesChick · 23/11/2011 21:53

Complete rubbish. There have been all sorts of programmes on TV that I've seen debunking fortune-telling / palm-reading methods. Basically, the good ones use a mixture of 'cold reading' - picking up signals you give off or information they can easily work out (e.g. your shoes are worn out so they tell you you're not very well off and would welcome more money) - or statements that tend to be true in some way for everyone (ie 'you're searching for happiness' 'you've lost someone dear to you'). Enough of this and they become credible enough to throw in more risky statements such as the one you've been upset by - and the worst bit is that they can get away with it because it's unlikely anyone will ever go back to them in 10 years and say 'you were completely wrong about that!' So they look like they know a lot, when they are actually just clever guessers and gamblers.

In the case of your friend, she will obviously know more about you so will have an advantage in any kind of 'reading' of your future - she is likely to know and pick up on your anxieties about this issue, hence mentioning it in her 'reading'. No idea why she would do that but she isn't someone I'd be in a rush to get together with in future. She has absolutely no idea what is in store for you. Don't give her the power of imagining she has. Take control of your own future and spend your time on other things and with other people.

seanbonbon · 23/11/2011 21:55

I was on honeymoon when a palm-reader told me that I'd have 3 marriage type releationships in my life. Of course I blurted out "I'm on honeymoon!"

Then she got all flustered and said "well, you could outlive your husband and then remarry" ??? WTF? Shock

As the granny in Catherine Tate would say "What a load of old shit!!"

smartyparts · 23/11/2011 22:00

Honestly, OP. How could your palm foretell your future? It's ludicrous!

Just forget about it, it's bunkum.

verlainechasedrimbauds · 23/11/2011 22:01

I'm sorry you've been upset by it. It is a load of rubbish and your "friend" is horrible and spiteful (or, more charitably, a little bit loopy). You're much less likely to spend the rest of your days alone if you ditch this friend and go out and about with some more supportive ones!

ninah · 23/11/2011 22:03

I was asked if I'd had an abortion? Hmm when no, then I would have one
fortunately that has not been part of my life experience ...
it's bunkum op

thegirlwithnoname · 23/11/2011 22:18

Well, I was going to die at 25 and have 1 child.
The thing was I had two children and was 27!!! when the palmist told me this.
It didn't go down to well when I laughed out loud at her.
I then spent a few months couple of minutes thinking ooh, what if I have offended her, and she has hexed me Blush

eaglewings · 23/11/2011 22:25

Ignore, it will only become true if you want it to. Do everything you can to have the life you want! This person does not control your life

BibiBlocksberg · 23/11/2011 22:29

Irresponsible fuckers, the lot of them! I had a few run-ins with tarot readings etc in my younger days which left me feeling similar OP.

Where do they get off spouting this utter crap to people who are obviously listening to them since they've paid for this 'advice' Angry

Try to put it out of your mind OP - soon you'll be on here telling us all about the new love in your life Grin

Get0rf · 23/11/2011 22:46

I remember getting VERY upset with a chain letter when I was about 10, saying that if I didn't forward it to someone I would become very ill and get posessed bu the devil Hmm.

Bloody terrified me. I was helped very much (this is sad) by that nice man from Going Live who said that all the people who got chain letters could forward them to him, he didn't care.

Get0rf · 23/11/2011 22:47

The nice man, btw, was emphatically NOT Philip Schofield Grin

PlumpDogPillionaire · 23/11/2011 22:58

'Every man's an island', etc...
We're all ultimately alone - but not, IYSWIM...

And how convenient for your 'friend' not to have to meet your new partner if this did come true. (Often a PITA, isn't it, when single friends get all smug and cosy with someone new and are no longer on tap at the drop of a hat?)

I don't think you've got too much to worry about on the basis of a dodgy palm reading.

Anniegetyourgun · 23/11/2011 23:00

My dad was most impressed by the palmist who predicted that he would not die in the country of his birth. I guess she was safe enough as once he had died (in the country of his birth, as it happened) he was hardly in a position to go back and complain.

HairyGrotter · 23/11/2011 23:07

Load of old guff...My partner read my tarot the other week...got most offended when I said 'what a load of old guff, subjective guff too'

Ignore and ignore some more