When the phone rings at work, it's an evil omen. Something bad is about to happen, this is known.
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
The only story I can think of was a woman at work who freaked the hell out when I used canned air to clean a computer/keyboard. I had to warn her before I did it so she could leave the office.
If it's work environment I doubt being moved a desk over will help much. With people being so lawsuit happy nowadays, it's tough to blame the employer. I'm sure management thinks it's nonsense, but easier to move her than have it escalate if by some unrelated coincidence she got cancer too later on.
It is likely superstition, but some cancers (cervical ones come to my mind - but I don't think she got that one) are often caused by a virus that spread, but those viruses don't spread just by sharing a desk.
And some cancers seem to spread directly from individual to individual - but among Tasmanian devils; not among humans.
A maid at a place I worked gave me a silver ring to wear during my late night shifts because silver would protect me from spirits that haunted the place.
Though I'm more open to believing her, then probably most who post here.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
Yes and no. Most types of cancer, you're correct. It's basically a failure of the immune system and not a disease in and of itself (cancer cells develop when the pre-programmed cell death after a certain number of divisions "short circuits" - one of the primary functions of the immune system is to destroy cancer cells). There are substances that can increase the risk of cancer, but they don't outright cause it themselves. There IS one variety that can be transmitted person to person though: cervical cancer. It's actually caused by a virus. But in that case it's only transmitted sexually (men are carriers and don't develop symptoms, it's estimated that a large percentage of the male population actually carries it), so you don't have to worry about sharing a desk with someone.
-=Z=- Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek! -=Z=-
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I think everyone has a little "something" they do for luck or whatever.
*knocks on wood*
On top of that, I heard that "anthropomorphism" is pretty normal, psychologically speaking. Talking to things...(like yelling at my damn computer for being so stubborn), stuff like that.
If superstition also includes talking to yourself then I have the most superstitious fucking colleague in the whole wide world. She doesn't shut up.
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