Thread: Coincidences?

To quote one Auric Goldfinger..
"The first time it's coincidence, the 2nd time it's happenstance, the 3rd time it's enemy action"

True and correct.

always wondered who came up with that one

Theres no such thing , anything after the first one then there relly trying to get u

A lot of "coincidences" are not very unlikely - in many circumstances humans are simply not good at estimating probabilities.

As an example, on my recent trip back from Yass, I stopped, as I often do, at the craft shop in the old courthouse at Booroowa to buy some jam. I found that one of the ladies there grew up about ten miles from here. Hardly a coincidence given the relatively small population of Western NSW seventy years ago.

Similarly, I bought a second hand tractor and a little later, from a different source, an owner's handbook to go with it. The serial number in the book matched the tractor - not much of a coincidence - both came from the same area, and there were probably only a few dozen of that model, if that, sold locally.

John

I am a great believer in coincidences, in that;
both my wife and I were both married on the same day,
My eldest daughter and her husband were both married on the same day, and to top it all off my youngest daughter and her husband both married on the same day as well.
It was fairly common for two kids sitting together in class often to get exactly the same wrong answer to the same exam questions.
Surely these examples must all be coincidental.
More to the point, what has happened to bring on this thread?
Regards
Glen

well try these on for size

i started at my new job on monday, my niece is the receptionist, first thing i asked (we rarely bump into each other normally) was wtf her name was on facebook as i hadnt been able to find her

at lunch, i dropped into the local telstra shop to get a price on a new phone and car cradle (figured i'd look into it as i now have a job lol) and had a bit of a chat with the girl behind the counter

went home, found the name my niece had given, checked her friends list to make sure i had the right one, saw her half sister on there, and she was in the right town, so i added her

later that night, 2 people had added me, i had a look at thier facebook pages, and noticed that the person who i thought was my niece was actually the girl at the telstra shop..... checked the other persons profile, and the telstra shop girl shared the same birthday as him..... 8th may 1991 (he was born in 1985, helped my dad and i a lot when my parents got seperated) and wierder still, i havent seen him since 1991.... the year the girl from the telstra shop was born......

checked my nieces half sisters facebook friends list, and sure enough, theres 2 contacts with identical names..... and they work within a block of each other...

whats the chances of that lot happening?

For a short period recently, 4 weeks to the hour to be precise, i had a gf

Not bad so far, 4 weeks to the hour.....

We got together ~11:30pm on the 19th of June.
We broke up on the 17th July in time for me to be at the pub and knocking back a couple of shots by midnight.....

Unless I've screwed up the dates (I'm 99% certain i'm not, gotta check my passports tho) this is really ****ing freaky, I am certain it was the 20th or 21st, and it was a saturday I flew out of Heathrow....

I broke up with my ex mid afternoon on the 19th june 1998, left the country the next day.

Freaky enough?

It gets better..... 19th June is a friday in both 1998 and 2009, 11pm Australian east coast time on june 19th is 2pm in the UK..... Exactly 11 years give or take an hour or two.....

From 1980 to 2020, these years have a friday 19th June:
1981 - year i was born
1987 - ultimate year of what I regard as my cult car, dont believe me pm me and I'll tell you my hotmail addy that I've been using since I first got online properly ~2002
1992 - parents divorce/property settlement was finalised (I think) and parental custody was awarded to my dad.... i didnt want to live with my mum.... (that last bit i know)
1998 - broke up with my first serious gf and left england (yes, I was young, but we'd been an item for nearly 2 years at that point, still talk occasionally)
2009 - first gf in 11 years
2015
2020

I'm in the same zone as Glen, in that I got married on my wife's birthday and my wife actually got married on her birthday too.........freaky!