Thread: Coincidences?

Freekey, My wife a I got married in UK, our room booked for the first night was double booked, we soon met the others with the same sirname as us, similar first names used in their family as ours, we were Ozys they were Poms. After chating for a wile and rooms were being sorted out and free drinks on the house, it turned out that our great grandfathers were brothers, and we got married on the same day

Cheers
Rob

this isn't as interesting , but my wife and I share the same drivers license numbers (obviously in a slightly different order) yet we got our license years apart.
(She thinks I should belong to some strange society of 'trainspotting' number/ sequence counters)

JC

Originally Posted by justinc

this isn't as interesting , but my wife and I share the same drivers license numbers (obviously in a slightly different order) yet we got our license years apart.
(She thinks I should belong to some strange society of 'trainspotting' number/ sequence counters)

JC

now I'm just trying to think of the situation that would have you and your wife comparing drivers licence numbers

There may be another explanation.

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Less freaky perhaps, but more interesting really.

regardless of statistics, whats the chances of

1: every year with a Friday 19th June in my life being of significance in my life?
2: me being single exactly 11 years give or take an hour?

Given the number of people in the world, the chances that it would happen to someone are so high that it would only be remarkable if it had never happened to anyone.

Given that you have probably had thousands, tens of thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands of significant events in your life, once again it is hardly surprising that some significant events have occurred on the same dates.

They aren't just statistics. They are the laws of probability, just mathematical calculations.

*meh* i reserve my right to find it disturbing that it happened

besides which, all the statistics, mathematical probabilities, etc doesnt mean anything once you consider that NOTHING in nature follows any set guidelines or rules, everything has a random factor to it

And it seems to have escaped most peoples attention that Friday the 13th fell on a Thursday this month