[Misc] Have you any experience of curses?

[exKT17]

Reading the Yaya thread & picking up on the theme of curses.

Way back I used to work for a businessman who, when no other avenues remained, would put curses on his adversaries.

(He was white, wealthy, upper-middle class BTW.)

No dolls and pins, he would simply wish them ill and share the fact...

...it was a no-lose thing to do...

...because if a year later, or two or three years later the 'cursee' lost their job/had an accident/got sued/died then the curse had worked...

...or if nothing happened, then the curse was still there, waiting for its time.

Doing so used to give him a great deal of satisfaction.

I know it sounds utterly stupid and anti-rational, but in my lizard brain I can see some functionality to it. I would prefer not to be walking around with curses upon me, and I think my life chances are better without them. Therefore I try to conduct my life in ways designed to avoid my becoming a cursee.

Making the world a better place, probably.

Clever dudes these ancient Africans say I, they had/have some very elegant social constructions in place.

Ever been cursed or made a curse?

 

[Goldstone1976]

I make a point of cursing mike dean.

I’ll now put a curse on him too. Can’t hurt.

 

[exKT17]

I make a point of cursing mike dean.

I’ll now put a curse on him too. Can’t hurt.

Be careful, because, in the folk-lore of cursing, an unjust curse can bounce back on the curse-giver...

 

[Goldstone1976]

Be careful, because, in the folk-lore of cursing, an unjust curse can bounce back on the curse-giver...

Ah.

Hang on - I think I have every just cause to put a curse on him. Curse, and be damned.

 

[Hampden Park]

When i used to get a knock at the door from a lucky heather selling gypsy, i used to say no thank you and stick your lucky heather where the sun doesn't shine. They would then put a curse on me and my family, to which i would reply, same curse back at you but with double the intensity. They would then apologise and retract their initial curse. Curses pffffft

 

[hart's shirt]

I make a point of cursing The Complete And Utter Shyster.

I’ll now put a curse on him too. Can’t hurt.

If the outcome for Dean is both deserved and fatal, it could well be a case of hearses for curses.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

I wonder how many of us were tempted to put a curse on Aston Villa after that game last May.

 

[exKT17]

I wonder how many of us were tempted to put a curse on Aston Villa after that game last May.

Or had someone cursed Stockers before the Norwich game..? [SHUDDER]

 

[Baldseagull]

I quite like to issue mild curses, such as, "may your armpits be itchy all day today". The thing is, half the time, people will have a little rub of the pits after that one, and this is how curses work, if you think about them, and especially if you believe in them.

 

[Weststander]

This evil Gypsy cursed Harry Enfield in London a few years back. It was caught on film.

 

[exKT17]

This evil Gypsy cursed Harry Enfield in London a few years back. It was caught on film.

Top cursage

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I have never consciously wished anyone ill. However, many people who has crossed me (especially the malicious and bullying types) have come a cropper. When I was 5 a lad made a mob of other nippers chase me home. A few days later a friend threw the purpetrator into a prickly bush. When I was 17, a pillock prefect who was 18 gave me a detention for getting to school 3 minutes late. A year later he as dead. Brain haemorrhage or something. I could go on.....

It is quite relaxing knowing that things always seem to work out well for me in the end. Come what may.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I have never consciously wished anyone ill. However, many people who has crossed me (especially the malicious and bullying types) have come a cropper. When I was 5 a lad made a mob of other nippers chase me home. A few days later a friend threw the purpetrator into a prickly bush. When I was 17, a pillock prefect who was 18 gave me a detention for getting to school 3 minutes late. A year later he as dead. Brain haemorrhage or something. I could go on.....

It is quite relaxing knowing that things always seem to work out well for me in the end. Come what may.

I'm glad you're nice to me on Nsc.

 

[exKT17]

...When I was 17, a pillock prefect who was 18 gave me a detention for getting to school 3 minutes late. A year later he as dead. Brain haemorrhage or something... It is quite relaxing knowing that things always seem to work out well for me

I'm scared now

 

[Gabbafella]

I have never consciously wished anyone ill. However, many people who has crossed me (especially the malicious and bullying types) have come a cropper. When I was 5 a lad made a mob of other nippers chase me home. A few days later a friend threw the purpetrator into a prickly bush. When I was 17, a pillock prefect who was 18 gave me a detention for getting to school 3 minutes late. A year later he as dead. Brain haemorrhage or something. I could go on.....

It is quite relaxing knowing that things always seem to work out well for me in the end. Come what may.

Brain hemorrhage in return for a detention seems just a tad harsh on the curse front there.
I was suspended twice, I dare not look at what happened to my teachers!

 

[AmexRuislip]

This evil Gypsy cursed Harry Enfield in London a few years back. It was caught on film.

Is that Patrick Stewart's new acting role?

 

[AmexRuislip]

I'm glad you're nice to me on Nsc.

Aren't you the lucky one

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Reading the Yaya thread & picking up on the theme of curses.

Way back I used to work for a businessman who, when no other avenues remained, would put curses on his adversaries.

(He was white, wealthy, upper-middle class BTW.)

No dolls and pins, he would simply wish them ill and share the fact...

...it was a no-lose thing to do...

...because if a year later, or two or three years later the 'cursee' lost their job/had an accident/got sued/died then the curse had worked...

...or if nothing happened, then the curse was still there, waiting for its time.

Doing so used to give him a great deal of satisfaction.

I know it sounds utterly stupid and anti-rational, but in my lizard brain I can see some functionality to it. I would prefer not to be walking around with curses upon me, and I think my life chances are better without them. Therefore I try to conduct my life in ways designed to avoid my becoming a cursee.

Making the world a better place, probably.

Clever dudes these ancient Africans say I, they had/have some very elegant social constructions in place.

Ever been cursed or made a curse?

What an evil p***k, how did you manage to work with / for him?

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

I have never consciously wished anyone ill. However, many people who has crossed me (especially the malicious and bullying types) have come a cropper. When I was 5 a lad made a mob of other nippers chase me home. A few days later a friend threw the purpetrator into a prickly bush. When I was 17, a pillock prefect who was 18 gave me a detention for getting to school 3 minutes late. A year later he as dead. Brain haemorrhage or something. I could go on.....

It is quite relaxing knowing that things always seem to work out well for me in the end. Come what may.

I think this is where I am. Some poor sod nicked a load of cassettes out of my Austin 1100 once and died a few days later in a crash and similar things have happened since that have made me think I'd rather people didn't cross me!

 

[Ernest]

I once had a VOODOO doll made up of Dick Tight I used to stick pins in