Does anyone here have any dumb family superstitions you'd like to share? I ask this because I was reminded of one while helping make tamales: Supposedly if you pee while the tamales are cooking, they won't cook right and the masa will come out raw.

Depends, if you pee while making them and hit the tamales they'll likely end up not too good.

NotMeNotYou said:
Depends, if you pee while making them and hit the tamales they'll likely end up not too good.

I peed a little laughing. Now my tamales won't cook!

My parents have this baffling superstition that having kids will somehow lead to happiness.

ippiki_ookami said:
My parents have this baffling superstition that having kids will somehow lead to happiness.

yeah because they want grandkids

ippiki_ookami said:
My parents have this baffling superstition that having kids will somehow lead to happiness.

It will lead to happiness. THEIR happiness.

My mother and two sisters believe in ghosts and such. My brother, father and I don't.

I do have a superstition that if you say pig balls three times in a mirror holding pig balls in your hands that furryfan will come out and molest a pig.

Sollux said:
yeah because they want grandkids

Dude, you're a furry, they are going to be wanting grandkids forever.
Btw, is it fucked up that grandkids are replacement children for your parents?

My father and mother are both ridiculously Jewish. But for some weird reason, they celebrate Christmas as well as Hanukkah.

Whenever I visit, they absolutely forbid me from leaving my hats on the bed. They say it'll cause someone to die.

EDIT: Also, tattoos. They went absolutely ballistic when I got mine. The fact that I got them of Baphomet and Michael was even worse to them.

I just remembered 2 more.

1) If you start hiccupping and you aren't eating anything it's because you didn't clean your butt correctly.
2) Dr. Bell's Pomade or "La Campana" as my grandmother calls it, cures every skin ailment ever. No exceptions!

Yukon! said:
Dude, you're a furry, they are going to be wanting grandkids forever.
Btw, is it fucked up that grandkids are replacement children for your parents?

1. I think you quoted the wrong person. 2. Being attracted to furry art toes not make you unable to find a companion for procreation, it just usually means kinkier shit.
3. My grandparents say grandchildren are like children they get to spoil and have fun with but dont have to put up with them all the time.

Sollux said:
2. Being attracted to furry art toes not make you unable to find a companion for procreation, it just usually means kinkier shit.

Just like fedoras, neckbeards, and an extremely high expectations still leave you a wide selection of the ladies...[/sarcasm]
It actually hurt a little to type that.

Moon_Moon said:
Just like fedoras, neckbeards, and an extremely high expectations still leave you a wide selection of the ladies...[/sarcasm]
It actually hurt a little to type that.

*TIPS FEDORA LEL*

Jayfeather said:
Just like fedoras, neckbeards, and an extremely high expectations still leave you a wide selection of the ladies...[/sarcasm]
It actually hurt a little to type that.

Hey! Who said all of us furries have neck beards?

Moon_Moon said:
Just like fedoras, neckbeards, and an extremely high expectations still leave you a wide selection of the ladies...[/sarcasm]
It actually hurt a little to type that.

That's why the crazy axe murderer style is so much better, nobody doubts you, ever.
At least not in hearing range.

Anyway, I'm trying to think of superstitions in my family but everything I can think of is overshadowed by the paranoia of my parents. Going away for an hour to play? You better report back all 5 minutes!

NotMeNotYou said:

Anyway, I'm trying to think of superstitions in my family but everything I can think of is overshadowed by the paranoia of my parents. Going away for an hour to play? You better report back all 5 minutes!

Sounds like my mother.

NotMeNotYou said:
That's why the crazy axe murderer style is so much better, nobody doubts you, ever.
At least not in hearing range.

Anyway, I'm trying to think of superstitions in my family but everything I can think of is overshadowed by the paranoia of my parents. Going away for an hour to play? You better report back all 5 minutes!

Every 5 minutes I think you meant? And yeah, I know that. >.o Unless it was in the view of the front window.

123easy said:
Every 5 minutes I think you meant? And yeah, I know that. >.o Unless it was in the view of the front window.

Maybe? Sleep deprivation is never kind to me. But yeah, and that to the person who broke out of kindergarten at the age of five and went home (which was a mile away) because he was bored.
Besides the fact that the reaction of my mother was priceless when she found me sitting in front of the door without a care in the world.
Or that other occasion where we visited a festival in a different city and I just walked off in a different direction for an hour because it was to loud for me.

As if I had a tendency to run away without reason or thought.

Parents.

FatherOfGray said:
I just remembered 2 more.

1) If you start hiccupping and you aren't eating anything it's because you didn't clean your butt correctly.
2) Dr. Bell's Pomade or "La Campana" as my grandmother calls it, cures every skin ailment ever. No exceptions!

Uhh, don't take this the wrong way, but I think one or more of your family members might be neurotic.

My grandma would sometimes tout a few old-world style superstitions, but not any family spesific ones. Lessee...
I seem to remember most of the really obscure stuff was all fairy related. To save fairies one must either ring a bell or clap your hands. A circle of mushrooms is called a 'fairy ring'. If you step on them the fairies will curse you.
Other than that it was fairly standard stuff like 'breaking a mirror is 7 years bad luck'.

She only told me this as a kid though. I think everyone in my family is diehard atheist.

[EDIT] Oh wait! No, there was something. She always insisted that in climatic parts of movies (like when the main character in Neverending Story had to run past a lethal gateway) you had to cheer them on or they wouldn't make it.
I think by the time I was 6 I called her out on this and refused to shout "Run Atreyu! Run!". He still made it.