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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

OK, this has freaked me right out...

This morning I choose a random quote to put as a status, said quote came from Game of Thrones.

Tonight the telly is on, not much being watched so a random episode of GoT is left on ...and I shit you not, it's the very episode that the quote is uttered!

What coincidences have you experienced of late?...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I took a shirt last week to a tailor and when I got home there was a leaflet that had come through for a new tailors that had opened down the road… thought it was quite a strange coincidence!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I took a shirt last week to a tailor and when I got home there was a leaflet that had come through for a new tailors that had opened down the road… thought it was quite a strange coincidence!"

...was it the same tailors?

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By *ack688Man
over a year ago

abruzzo Italy (and UK)

I had a real yearning to listen to a few Nanci Griffiths albums recently, so I dug them out and was enjoying them and wondered if she had any new albums out, so I looked her up and she had died a few days before.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I needed a new lamp I thought to myself one day, and came home from work and there was one on the doorstep.

Neighbour is having a house sort out and I keep finding various odd items at my door. Does she harbour a handsome young man I wonder. *I need a nice young man, I think to myself.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I opened a tailoring shop last week.. Went leaf letting later

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I had a real yearning to listen to a few Nanci Griffiths albums recently, so I dug them out and was enjoying them and wondered if she had any new albums out, so I looked her up and she had died a few days before."

Blimey don't jinx anyone else

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By *dam1971Man
over a year ago

Bedford

I was going to write a thread on coincidences a minute ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I took a shirt last week to a tailor and when I got home there was a leaflet that had come through for a new tailors that had opened down the road… thought it was quite a strange coincidence!

...was it the same tailors?

It wasn’t it was a new one that had opened

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I opened a tailoring shop last week.. Went leaf letting later

cheeky … I know where to go next time

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By *ack688Man
over a year ago

abruzzo Italy (and UK)

Blimey don't jinx anyone else

Yeah, back in 2016, I pretty much had to stop listening to music, I was wiping everyone out

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Blimey don't jinx anyone else

Yeah, back in 2016, I pretty much had to stop listening to music, I was wiping everyone out"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not necessarily a coincidence but every single day I see the numbers 11:11. Usually as the time on my phone, watch, car, tv. Whatever.

Done this since about the age of 12 and it’s freaky to the point I’ll be walking along and suddenly just pull my phone out and it happens to be 11:11.

The other day It was change on a till flashed up as 11:11. Emails is another common one. Pinging in at precisely 11:11.

Mental

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

"Not necessarily a coincidence but every single day I see the numbers 11:11. Usually as the time on my phone, watch, car, tv. Whatever.

Done this since about the age of 12 and it’s freaky to the point I’ll be walking along and suddenly just pull my phone out and it happens to be 11:11.

The other day It was change on a till flashed up as 11:11. Emails is another common one. Pinging in at precisely 11:11.

Mental "

I have this with the number 131 or variations 1131, 1310 etc. It was the door number of the house I grew up in so I guess I am predisposed to notice it.

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By *otPrinceHarryMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

I was once reading an Iain Banks novel on Kindle- I forget which one.

I came across a work I wasn't familiar with, and pressed on it. For those not familiar with the Kindle, this allows you to open up the dictionary defintion.

Which will also often open up an example of the word used in a literary work...

... IT WAS THE VERY SAME SENTENCE I WAS READING!

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

"Not necessarily a coincidence but every single day I see the numbers 11:11. Usually as the time on my phone, watch, car, tv. Whatever.

Done this since about the age of 12 and it’s freaky to the point I’ll be walking along and suddenly just pull my phone out and it happens to be 11:11.

The other day It was change on a till flashed up as 11:11. Emails is another common one. Pinging in at precisely 11:11.

Mental

I have this with the number 131 or variations 1131, 1310 etc. It was the door number of the house I grew up in so I guess I am predisposed to notice it. "

As an aside my 1st post on this thread was 13….

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By *tarflyLouWoman
over a year ago

Preston

I had a Zoom interview for a place on a Masters degree course. The interviewer turned out to be one of my tutors from when I did my degree in a different subject at a different university 23 years ago!

I was offered a place, I start tomorrow

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

"I had a Zoom interview for a place on a Masters degree course. The interviewer turned out to be one of my tutors from when I did my degree in a different subject at a different university 23 years ago!

I was offered a place, I start tomorrow

Congratulations!!

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By *tarflyLouWoman
over a year ago

Preston

I was offered a place, I start tomorrow

Congratulations!!"

Thank you! I’m equal parts excited and terrified!

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

I was offered a place, I start tomorrow

Congratulations!!

Thank you! I’m equal parts excited and terrified!"

Now that is what we should all be in this life

You will be fine, just remember to breathe and don’t beat yourself up about not knowing and you will get the knowing.

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By *tarflyLouWoman
over a year ago

Preston

I was offered a place, I start tomorrow

Congratulations!!

Thank you! I’m equal parts excited and terrified!

Now that is what we should all be in this life

You will be fine, just remember to breathe and don’t beat yourself up about not knowing and you will get the knowing. "

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By *ny1localMan
over a year ago

READING

Quite often I'll have an old tune or song running through my head, then on the radio it's the NEXT one to be played.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thinking and asking about people I hadn’t seen for decades for our path to cross randomly. The last one was weird as the guy I thought about was old when I last saw him about 13 years ago. But he stopped next to me in the park when I was with a group of friends, I looked up to see him, laughed then greeted him and he looked just the same.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I was offered a place, I start tomorrow

That's a good one! Best of luck with it all too; congratulations

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Quite often I'll have an old tune or song running through my head, then on the radio it's the NEXT one to be played. "

Have had this a few times too, there's got to be some science to explain probabilities and chance

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I was once reading an Iain Banks novel on Kindle- I forget which one.

I came across a work I wasn't familiar with, and pressed on it. For those not familiar with the Kindle, this allows you to open up the dictionary defintion.

Which will also often open up an example of the word used in a literary work...

... IT WAS THE VERY SAME SENTENCE I WAS READING!"

Woah, that's like a coincidence loophole all in one!

#MindBlown

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By *yronMan
over a year ago

grangemouth

Was thinking about the film 'The Rock' and checked the TV listings and saw that it was on last night.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"OK, this has freaked me right out...

This morning I choose a random quote to put as a status, said quote came from Game of Thrones.

Tonight the telly is on, not much being watched so a random episode of GoT is left on ...and I shit you not, it's the very episode that the quote is uttered!

What coincidences have you experienced of late?..."

Not recently, but a few years ago, while I was checking to see if Leonard Cohen will have any concert in London , it came on breaking news that he passed away

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By *inkyInkedBiWoman
over a year ago

I’ll often wonder the time and always have a guess of what it will be to the minute, it has freaked me out in the past how many times I am spot on

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By *harlotteBigBoobsWoman
over a year ago

Hull

Not so much a coincidence of late but really freaks me out my families birthdays are cursed. My dad's is march 13th dunblane masacre , My brothers September 11th , 9/11, my cousin's July 7th London bombings my mam's may 5th when the sas stormed iranian embassy and mine April 3rd not so famous but in my home Hull a building collapsed killing 3 local men , it freaks me out x

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Not so much a coincidence of late but really freaks me out my families birthdays are cursed. My dad's is march 13th dunblane masacre , My brothers September 11th , 9/11, my cousin's July 7th London bombings my mam's may 5th when the sas stormed iranian embassy and mine April 3rd not so famous but in my home Hull a building collapsed killing 3 local men , it freaks me out x"

Morbid but fascinating coincidences!! Please let us know of any future family arrivals so we can all stay indoors on the due day!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I’ll often wonder the time and always have a guess of what it will be to the minute, it has freaked me out in the past how many times I am spot on "

I'm sure there is a scientific explanation for this one; I'm off to google...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

These things happen to me a lot or I cause them a lot to others.. the so called coincidence.. I don't believe in it. I would rather think there is a message for me in it.

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By *harlotteBigBoobsWoman
over a year ago

Hull

Morbid but fascinating coincidences!! Please let us know of any future family arrivals so we can all stay indoors on the due day!"

I already do lol x

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By *inkyInkedBiWoman
over a year ago

Here’s another, my mum does 3 numbers on the Irish lotto. You can win £200. She sticks some on for me and sibling too.

Mum saw sibling and they said we were ‘due a win’ and had a moan as we hadn’t won in ages.

Anyway I check the numbers later, there are 3 draws. Siblings numbers have come out, I check and mine have come out too. I ring mum and she tells me her numbers, they have come out as well.

Very very strange!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Here’s another, my mum does 3 numbers on the Irish lotto. You can win £200. She sticks some on for me and sibling too.

Mum saw sibling and they said we were ‘due a win’ and had a moan as we hadn’t won in ages.

Anyway I check the numbers later, there are 3 draws. Siblings numbers have come out, I check and mine have come out too. I ring mum and she tells me her numbers, they have come out as well.

Very very strange! "

...your round at the bar then!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not necessarily a coincidence but every single day I see the numbers 11:11. Usually as the time on my phone, watch, car, tv. Whatever.

Done this since about the age of 12 and it’s freaky to the point I’ll be walking along and suddenly just pull my phone out and it happens to be 11:11.

The other day It was change on a till flashed up as 11:11. Emails is another common one. Pinging in at precisely 11:11.

Mental

I have this with the number 131 or variations 1131, 1310 etc. It was the door number of the house I grew up in so I guess I am predisposed to notice it.

As an aside my 1st post on this thread was 13…."

I’ was just checking the league one footy standings and Fleetwood’s goal difference is 11:11 ??

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

In Morrisons a few weeks ago and three songs they played in a row are on my YouTube playlist.

They are all random songs.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"In Morrisons a few weeks ago and three songs they played in a row are on my YouTube playlist.

They are all random songs."

They're watching you...

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By *he_Wite_NiteMan
over a year ago

Usually Dundee and around

"I opened a tailoring shop last week.. Went leaf letting later

I had a dream of a sexy ladies bum last night...

Then this morning I come on fab, go to the newest thread on fab, and Midnight's sexy ass is there to greet me!

The ass of my dreams!

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

I thought about having a bath this morning but I needed a wee so I went to the toilet instead. When I was on the toilet I noticed a bath in the bathroom - right next to the toilet ! What's the fookin odds..... freaked me out.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I thought about having a bath this morning but I needed a wee so I went to the toilet instead. When I was on the toilet I noticed a bath in the bathroom - right next to the toilet ! What's the fookin odds..... freaked me out. "

Lucky you were sat down!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Some great stories but most coincidences are actually explained by probability, even though it's often counter intuitive.

The best example is probably the Birthday Paradox: in a group of 23 people, the probability of a shared birthday exceeds 50%, while a group of 70 has a 99.9% chance of a shared birthday. This seems hard to believe as there are 365 days in the year but Google it for the maths.

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