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RodneyCharltonTrotta
RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
edited December 2020 in Fun, Jokes & Captions
Was driving back from London earlier listening to LBC and then thought I really want to hear some christmas songs, particularly "Driving home for Christmas", changed the station to Magic and Chris Rea's song was playing.

The other week was listening to an audiobook and heard the name Lorna Doone, never heard of her before and looked her up.

The very next morning walking the kids to school and looked up at house that I must have passed 50 times and never looked at it before and sure enough they had called their house Lorna Doone.  Wasn't a case of not acknowledging it before,  I had genuinely never looked up at it before.

Weird.

Anyone else experience this sort of witchcraft?
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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,622
    edited December 2020
    Yesterday I was watching the film The Odessa File where in the first few minutes the main character Peter Miller played by John Voight is in his car listening to the radio. The music is interrupted by “we interrupt this programme to bring you news.....” At that very moment my smartphone did its BBC breaking news notification. The BBC were not however reporting that President Kennedy was dead. 
  • The improbability principle in action. Like going on holiday overseas and seeing someone you know from home - what are the chances of that? Not as little as you might imagine.
  • Got a problem with a roof on our bay window, rung a roofer this morning. He came knocked on next doors door, who unbeknown to me had rang the same roofer today as he’s got to probably have a new roof, that’s what I call a coincidence, the second coincidence today was this thread being started.
  • I support a football team where the manager likes to play to aged centre midfielders who pass the ball sideways. The football team I support lack creativity and do not score many goals!
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    The very week we went into lockdown and I started wfh home, our toilet roll spend increased dramatically and when I went back to the office for a few weeks in the summer, it went down again.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    Every time I feel like catching a train somewhere, I turn up at the station expecting to pay a reasonable price for a ticket and to be transported to my destination on time as per the timetable, but it always turns out that I have to pay a small fortune for my ticket and then arrive significantly later than I expected to. What are the chances?!
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  • Positive confirmation 
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    Watched 'Workin Moms' with the Mrs last midweek... There was a headlice outbreak. 

    Watched 'Schitts Creek' with the Mrs on Monday... There was a headlice outbreak. 

    Get an email from Nursery yesterday... There is a headlice outbreak... 

    Coincidence, absolutely but an unusual one!
  • Positive confirmation 

    Not so sure with the Driving Home for Christmas song.   First time I've put music radio on for xmas songs this year and was solely that song that had come in my head as I was driving.

    Wasn't in usual rush hour/ drive time either.  There must be 15 to 20 songs that are xmas mainstays played at this time of year and i don't think we're that far into xmas that it's 24/7 xmas songs yet plus adverts and news breaks so there was a relatively low probability of it being on the first station I flicked to.
  • The improbability principle in action. Like going on holiday overseas and seeing someone you know from home - what are the chances of that? Not as little as you might imagine.
    When I went to primary school there was only 10 or 11 boys in our class (and year as it was one class per year).

    One summer holiday we went to the Isle of Wight for a holiday and went to Blackgang Chine and I ran into two of the other boys, all on the same play area bit, all there independent of each other.

    I know lots of families go there and it was the holidays, but still, 3 out of about 11 kids all in exactly the same place at the same time by chance about 4 hours away from where you all live was odd.
  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    edited December 2020
    This sort of thing seems to happen more often than it should. Spooky stuff. 

    Around 2009/10, we rented a house in Cape Town for a big family holiday, via a local South African property agent. I got a bit nosy towards the end of the trip and tried to work out who owned the house (and why they didn't want to live in it in mid-summer in SA). There were some clues dotted around (names in old books etc.), so I did some googling and soon wished I hadn't - it transpired that the owner, an English airline pilot, had been swept out to sea and drowned in mysterious circumstances a few years before. This already spooked us for the last few days of our stay.

    A year later, I was hosting a business event in Frankfurt and got chatting to a couple of the guests (one German, one English) about holidays, mentioning my SA trip. The English guy said how much he loved Cape Town and asked whereabouts we stayed. When I said Camps Bay, he said that he had recently inherited a property there from his brother, who had tragically drowned. And yes, he was an airline pilot. It was the same house. 

    At first he refused to believe me, so insisted that I describe the layout and how I would get to the house from the Table Mountain cable car(!). He was eventually convinced and as spooked as I was. We stayed in touch and he texted me a photo of his view from the balcony when he next visited. 

    This still sends a shiver down my spine ten years later. 

  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    MrLargo said:
    Every time I feel like catching a train somewhere, I turn up at the station expecting to pay a reasonable price for a ticket and to be transported to my destination on time as per the timetable, but it always turns out that I have to pay a small fortune for my ticket and then arrive significantly later than I expected to. What are the chances?!
    You know I love it @MrLargo
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,372
    Found myself in a Wikipedia binge and whilst looking up Oldham Athletic, there was something on the TV about flat earth conspiracy. My mind then wandered to a documentary I watched last week hosted by Brian Cox about the solar system.

    Within a minute of scrolling down Oldham’s Wikipedia page I see that one of their most famous supporters is Brian Cox....

    And to add to the coincidence, this only occurred about 5 mins before stumbling across this coincidence thread on Charlton Life! 
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,372
    And I’ve now just seen a Flat Earth thread on here get resurrected. 

    This is all getting a bit weird, so think I’m going to log off for a bit.
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  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,607
    edited December 2020
    When I worked with our neighbours in Lewisham, I was often asked to attend supporters trust meetings held at various locations throughout the country.
    On this particular occasion is was being held at the other CAFC.
    My colleague and our skipper all made the trip.
    En route our skipper regaled us with tales of his midnight exploits after a recent golfing trip to Spain, one especially made his holiday as it had involved a ‘brass and a lilo’.

    Oh how my colleague and I laughed as we were escorted into the meeting and our skipper looked like he had just seen a ghost, ran out of the door muttering under his breath.
    The only word of which we could make out was ‘lilo’.
    Yep, one of those at the meeting clearly had another string to her bow when visiting foreign climes.

    Still, he never bothered coming on away days again after that, of which we were very grateful 🤣🤣
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    When I worked with our neighbours in Lewisham, I was often asked to attend supporters trust meetings held at various locations throughout the country.
    On this particular occasion is was being held as the other CAFC.
    My colleague and our skipper all made the trip.
    En route our skipper regaled us with tales of his midnight exploits after a recent golfing trip to Spain, one especially made his holiday as it had involved a ‘brass and a lilo’.

    Oh how my colleague and I laughed as we were escorted into the meeting and our skipper looked like he had just seen a ghost, ran out of the door muttering under his breath.
    The only word of which we could make out was ‘lilo’.
    Yep, one of those at the meeting clearly had another string to her bow when visiting foreign climbs.

    Still, he never bothered coming on away days again after that, of which we were very grateful 🤣🤣
    She could float in swiming pools?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    We played Leicester away in the late 80's/early 90's and we bumped into one of our mates outside the ground who told us he'd rolled his car down a bank while driving to the game (he was a bit shaken but fine).

    Jumped on a tube when we got back to London after the game and one of my mates started talking to a girl in the carriage. When he told her where we'd been she said "oh, my boyfriend's a Charlton fan and explained he was supposed to pick her up on his way back from the game but had crashed so told her to get the train and he'd meet her in London".

    She gave me a very funny look when I asked if his name was *** *** which of course it was. This was before the days of mobile phones so she was pretty worried but we were able to assure her he was fine.
  • Dazzler21 said:
    Watched 'Workin Moms' with the Mrs last midweek... There was a headlice outbreak. 

    Watched 'Schitts Creek' with the Mrs on Monday... There was a headlice outbreak. 

    Get an email from Nursery yesterday... There is a headlice outbreak... 

    Coincidence, absolutely but an unusual one!
    I watched that same episode about an hour ago
  • bobmunro said:
    When I worked with our neighbours in Lewisham, I was often asked to attend supporters trust meetings held at various locations throughout the country.
    On this particular occasion is was being held as the other CAFC.
    My colleague and our skipper all made the trip.
    En route our skipper regaled us with tales of his midnight exploits after a recent golfing trip to Spain, one especially made his holiday as it had involved a ‘brass and a lilo’.

    Oh how my colleague and I laughed as we were escorted into the meeting and our skipper looked like he had just seen a ghost, ran out of the door muttering under his breath.
    The only word of which we could make out was ‘lilo’.
    Yep, one of those at the meeting clearly had another string to her bow when visiting foreign climbs.

    Still, he never bothered coming on away days again after that, of which we were very grateful 🤣🤣
    She could float in swiming pools?
    It evidently wasn’t the only thing she could do in a swimming pool 😳
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    A few years ago did a weekend down at Combe Haven by Hastings. On the Saturday morning I took one of my boys swimming, got there early and there was just one other fella and his lad in pool. Was a mate of mine who played in defence for the Sunday team I ran years earlier.

    2 mins later out the changing rooms walked another mate (and his daughter) who also played in defence for same team. 

    So the only three adults in the swimming pool at this holiday park all played in the same back 4 and hadn’t seen or spoke to each other for years. Bizarre. 
  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    edited December 2020
    Was driving back from London earlier listening to LBC and then thought I really want to hear some christmas songs, particularly "Driving home for Christmas", changed the station to Magic and Chris Rea's song was playing.


    What an amazing coincidence. I'm sure there's a thread on here about Christmas songs and how shit they are. 
  • A few years ago did a weekend down at Combe Haven by Hastings. On the Saturday morning I took one of my boys swimming, got there early and there was just one other fella and his lad in pool. Was a mate of mine who played in defence for the Sunday team I ran years earlier.

    2 mins later out the changing rooms walked another mate (and his daughter) who also played in defence for same team. 

    So the only three adults in the swimming pool at this holiday park all played in the same back 4 and hadn’t seen or spoke to each other for years. Bizarre. 
    You should have added that you played for Combe Haven FC in the Hastings Holiday Camp premier league.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    bobmunro said:
    When I worked with our neighbours in Lewisham, I was often asked to attend supporters trust meetings held at various locations throughout the country.
    On this particular occasion is was being held as the other CAFC.
    My colleague and our skipper all made the trip.
    En route our skipper regaled us with tales of his midnight exploits after a recent golfing trip to Spain, one especially made his holiday as it had involved a ‘brass and a lilo’.

    Oh how my colleague and I laughed as we were escorted into the meeting and our skipper looked like he had just seen a ghost, ran out of the door muttering under his breath.
    The only word of which we could make out was ‘lilo’.
    Yep, one of those at the meeting clearly had another string to her bow when visiting foreign climbs.

    Still, he never bothered coming on away days again after that, of which we were very grateful 🤣🤣
    She could float in swiming pools?
    It evidently wasn’t the only thing she could do in a swimming pool 😳
    Sounds like he was out of his depth with this one
  • A couple of years ago I took a call at work from someone looking for a cricket ground his club could use.
    Got chatting and the club in question was SIMBA.
    I told him that I used to play against them years ago and I missed the 86 maradona hand of god game because I was in the brook A & E after top edging a short ball resulting in my nose being plastered all over my face.
    Told him the bowler was a young tall quickie called Eli.
    Turns out it was Eli I was talking to.
    Not sure who laughed longest, him or colleagues in my office.