Why Is Friday the 13th Considered Unlucky?
 

For the first time in 11 years, Friday the 13th is falling in two consecutive months. The ominous date falls on three Fridays this year: February 13; this Friday, March 13; and again on November 13. The 13th falls on Friday more often than any other day of the week.

It's been estimated that [U.S] $800 or $900 million is lost in business on this day because people will not fly or do business they would normally do.

Some organization counsels clients on how to overcome fear of Friday the 13th (triskaidekaphobes), a phobia estimated to afflict 17 to 21 million people in the United States.

Symptoms range from mild anxiety to full-blown panic attacks. The latter may cause people to reshuffle schedules or miss an entire day's work.

This fear of 13 can even be seen in how societies are built. More than 80 percent of high-rise buildings lack a 13th floor. Many airports skip the 13th gate. Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.

I blame Loki.

all because of the movie Friday the 13th LOL

No it is not, LOL.

Sure it is.



I think you should check your sarcasm meter.

It goes back to 1307.

Didn't even realize it was Friday the 13th... fuck!!!.... stubbed my toe!

this threads unluckly

i blame tom hanks

12 jurors.. 1 judge... 13... UNLUCKY! :)

The number 13 is considered unlucky. A lot of buildings do not have a 13th floor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskaidekaphobia

http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/his...the_13th_2.htm

Check out the Knights Templar.

Man a month ago I sliced my leg pretty badly and had to get 7 stitches... Just yesterday I did the math and realized that happened on Feb 13... :helpme

Yesterday went off without a hitch.

Two possibilities:

The Knights Templar were a monastic military order founded in Jerusalem in 1118 C.E., whose mission was to protect Christian pilgrims during the Crusades. Over the next two centuries, the Knights Templar became extraordinarily powerful and wealthy. Threatened by that power and eager to acquire their wealth, King Philip secretly ordered the mass arrest of all the Knights Templar in France on Friday, October 13, 1307 - Friday the 13th.[1]
The connection between the superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in the 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code. However, some experts think that it is relatively recent and is a modern-day invention.[7][6][5] For example, the superstition is rarely found before the 20th century, when it became extremely common. One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth,[10] in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.[1]
A further theory goes back to a combination of Paganism, Christianity, and the Battle of Hastings. For many, the number 13 was considered a lucky number (such as 13 lunar cycles each year), but with the efforts of Christianity attempting to degrade all things Pagan, they promoted 13 as an unlucky number, with Friday thus also being considered a bad day of the week. However, on Friday the 13th of October 1066, the decision was made by King Harold II to go to battle on Saturday the 14th of October, rather than allow his troops a day of rest (despite his army having made a long and arduous march from a battle near York just 3 weeks earlier). This decision in going to battle before the English troops were rested (the English lost and King Harold was killed), further established Friday the 13th as an unlucky day.

That goes back a long long way :)

yep, perzactly :thumbsup

err, and 2x misfortune ... the templars had been arrested, but the greedy
king never found their big treasure :thumbsup