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The Funslinger

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Spade Lead said:
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No, I don't believe in magic, or being cursed, but sometimes there is something that just keeps happening, defying all logic, and it's kind of hilarious. What 'curses' seem to occupy your lives?

The memory stick I am currently using is one I've had for years. Every so often, it's gone missing and I've acquired a new one. Then, a couple of months later, I've found this old memory stick and thought 'nah, I've got everything on this new one. I'll just leave it.'

Then, within a week, something happens to destroy the new memory stick. For instance, a school laptop slipped off of the swing around desk attached to my chair because those desks are shit. Laptop? Fine. Memory stick? Crushed. Or the time I was pulling a memory stick out of a USB drive. It stays firmly lodged in, but the casing disintegrates in my hands. My memory stick is cursed to destroy my other memory sticks with dark magic! :D
No, memory sticks now are just far less durable. And the more memory they handle, the less durable they are. I have an 8 gig that is three years old, and I only ever used it in my car to plug into the radio and play music, but I have bumped into it repeatedly with my knees, or one of my friends has, and it is fine. I bought a 16 gig last year for my photos and document storage, and I broke it after like 9 months, the first time I bumped into it with my knee.

That said, no matter how much better my life gets, (I have a great girlfriend, a lovely family, and a beautiful daughter) everything in my life keeps getting worse (the woman I moved here to be with left me after our daughter died nearly 4 years ago, I lost my job, and now I had to sell my car and Playstation 3 just to pay rent last week because my girlfriend is unable to work because she keeps having seizures, and can't be left alone for longer than an hour, meaning I also can't work) the longer I live in this town.
And to think, I made this thread as a lighter note on the forums :I
 

JemothSkarii

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I'm cursed with strings of illness?

One week I'll be coughing, then that will go away to a week of headaches, then a cold and so forth...for an example.
Right now my issue is being fat X3
 

SadisticFire

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I've recently got a 'curse' of unable having a normal sleep schedule. Where I wake up at six PM, sleep, wake up at 12AM, and go back to sleep at 3PM. Doesn't matter what I do to get it fixed, I always fall into that rhythm. Makes school very very exhausting. Oh, and files not copying/copying slowly when I need to get out of the house ASAP.
 

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Whenever i get to a point of "ok i have 2 hours of uninterupted gaming ahead of me now" somone either calls or writes an IM that means ill have to deal with them for those next 2 hours.

ALso, this forum is a curse. try studying for exams with it on your browser, i dare you.

Earbuds never last for me but in saying so I think everyone has that problem with theirs. They can never last more than 2 years at best (one even broke after 5 months!) cos of the stupid weak wire near the plug will break eventually.
oh boy you got it lucky. the cheap wires from those i buy mean i have to change them every 6 months. granted this last one (which is like 9th) is lasting over a year now, almost 2 actually, so i guess i got a good wire one. wires just arent made to be constantly bended.

I've been using the same pair for... four or five years now.

Do people just not take good care of headphones?
tell me your secret. im the kind of guy that will take good care of anything, i got computers lasting 9 years and whatnot. heck i have never work out shoes in sooner than 2 years and they usually last me at least 5. you wont find a scrached DVD in my house, and i got a lot of them (564 to be precise). but those wires just break, thats how they are.
 

Trippy Turtle

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I'm cursed with the ability to do absolutely amazing things the moment everyone who could see leaves, or I stop recording whatever it is I was doing.
Also whenever I throw something in anger it finds something to rebound off straight back at me. The amount of sore ribs and broken stuff I have amassed is pretty awesome.
 

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Arakasi said:
Doclector said:
I'm cursed to add people on facebook that I later find are complete arseholes, but it's too late because now they work with me and deleting them will cause an unholy shitstorm.
I go one step further and assert that Facebook is the curse, and that people should stay away if they value their lives.

I don't think I really have any curses to speak of. Maybe that's just science brain talking.
I'm not fond of it as a concept, and I'm not fond of it's effects, but it's simply to useful a communication tool for me to stay out of, especially as many people I work with refuse to use anything else to plan meet-ups and projects.

I guess you could say that doesn't annoy me as much as the fact that if I delete someone, it will cause an unholy shitstorm. People care enough about keeping people they don't really like on their friends list that they will make my life hell if I delete them. I wish that was as unlikely as it sounds.
 

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shrekfan246 said:
Oh, not that kind of curse?

I seem to short out relatively "cheap" electronic accessories. I go through headphones and headsets like nobody's business, and goddamn if I can't find a mouse that's Button 1 doesn't start freaking out after three-six months.

Also, if a bottle or cup falls, it's basically guaranteed that I'll only be able to miraculously ninja my way to catching it if it's already empty, or if it's not opened yet at which point I'll catch it with such force that the top, cap, etc. explodes off and it sprays everywhere anyway.
Headsets, ooooh yes. Don't get me started. You're bloody lucky if they last more than one or two months. There's always one little vital component in there that's made of cheap plastic instead of high-quality metal. It snaps and you're finished.
 

shrekfan246

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CoffeeJack said:
shrekfan246 said:
Oh, not that kind of curse?

I seem to short out relatively "cheap" electronic accessories. I go through headphones and headsets like nobody's business, and goddamn if I can't find a mouse that's Button 1 doesn't start freaking out after three-six months.

Also, if a bottle or cup falls, it's basically guaranteed that I'll only be able to miraculously ninja my way to catching it if it's already empty, or if it's not opened yet at which point I'll catch it with such force that the top, cap, etc. explodes off and it sprays everywhere anyway.
Headsets, ooooh yes. Don't get me started. You're bloody lucky if they last more than one or two months. There's always one little vital component in there that's made of cheap plastic instead of high-quality metal. It snaps and you're finished.
I'm not even that lucky. If I get a headset, generally speaking it'll take two weeks until one of the headphones shorts out and stops playing sound, then the microphone will work for anywhere between one and six months before shorting out and not working any more. Every single time.

Hell if I know why, either.
 

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In a strange fact of life when given a choice between two options I will always be wrong unless I have prior knowledge that gives me an advantage. Also if I state that I am always wrong before hand then I will always be right.Its very irritating.
 

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I have a couple of these, some of which have already come up from others.

I have the uncontrollable superpower of falling off paperwork. If I get a speeding ticket, the points never get turned in. At the same time, odds are about even that they'll lose any trace that I'd paid it to begin with. I had a state agency not say a word to me for 7 years regarding a work obligation connected to a scholarship, then come out of nowhere claiming that I hadn't responded to them for the previous 5 years and to submit proof now or start paying the penalty. I once had my company health insurance given to a woman halfway across the country instead for a few weeks and we're not that big of an outfit.

I do the prophetic dreams thing sometimes too -- it's not terribly often, but it's blatantly obvious when it's a prophetic dream, because my "normal" dreams resemble something that would be created if Escher and the guy behind Antichamber got together and took a lot of acid. Except for the last two rooms. Those are always the same.

One is a circular white room with brightly glowing walls, like the place is made of fluorescent light. In the center is a dais made of some kind of black stone (onyx, maybe? It's black, shiny, and smooth.) bearing a statue made of the same material -- a man, well dressed, but with unsettling features, something about them is just not right somehow. He's holding an inkwell in one hand and a book in the other, open and turned to face me. The book and the quill in the inkwell are not part of the statue. The book is filled with writing -- I can make out letters and symbols from various languages (characters from one or another Asian language here, Russian letters there, another is made entirely of little triangular marks in various patterns) but for some reason I can't actually read any of them. I do know one thing though -- I am certain, despite not being able to read them, that the book is full of names. Sometimes I try to sneak around the statue, but no matter how far I walk, I never seem to go anywhere when I try to go around it. I always end up going before the statue, and signing my name in its book, and then pass it into the room beyond.

The other room is made entirely of the same material as the statue except that the back wall is alive. The exact nature of it varies from night to night -- sometimes it's covered in faces, sometimes it's a mass of tentacles, sometimes it's a single giant face, or various configurations and numbers of limbs, or something else entirely. It's always a living, moving mass, and it usually speaks to me -- sometimes it tries to teach me things (that I never seem to remember properly the next morning -- only the broadest strokes), sometimes it talks about my life, sometimes it doesn't make any sense (mostly cryptic, rambling stuff), sometimes it just tries to eat me, or pull me apart (especially if it lacks mouths from which to speak). I always end up here though, and for once, the rest of the room appears to generally be able to exist in 3 dimensional space as we think of it.
 

Smolderin

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I am cursed to deal with the fact that I lose every argument, debate, or discussion....even if I am completely and utterly right, I will still lose. This could be due to a number of things, I have social anxiety disorder and it gets set off quite easily, even on online forums. I seem to lack aggression and conviction when pursuing debates and such.....Or it could just be a unexplained thing like a supernatural curse of some-sort. But maybe it's a blessing in disguise eh? After all, in the words of a Buddhist monk, "He who wins an argument learns nothing". And hell, if that's true, I am probably wiser than most people I know.
 

White Lightning

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Gaming headsets ALWAYS die on me. I'm a little scared to try my new ones considering they cost $200 but they don't have wires so MAYBE these ones will survive...
 

BlackStar42

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Any pair of headphones I buy never last more than a year. I think it's because they just can't handle the sheer volume of awesome on my ipod.
 

DkLnBr

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The only curse I seem to have is the "Left Summer Curse" as I like to call it (because I'm so imaginative with names). Basically what happens is roughly every 5 years in the summertime I suffer an injury that requires a hospital trip on the left side of my body. When I was 5 I hit my head on my Grandparents bed frame and needed stitches in my eyebrow, when I was about 13 I broke my wrist, when I was 16 I stepped on some glass, and when I was 20 I caught my thumb in a pinch point. T-minus 3 years until the next one....

Also I'm aware that 5 to 13, and 13 to 16 isn't five years, its just a generalization really (I also think I broke my wrist before June 21st, so there is an exception to the "summer" rule too).

EDIT: Thought of another one! I have a friend who I talk to on Skype, but he only seems to talk to me when I'm not at my computer. I'll spend all day on my laptop, but those five minutes when I leave to get a snack or go to the bathroom? that's when he tries to talk to me. I swear that he's watching me through a hidden camera or something
 

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Pretty much evertime i go to the nether in minecraft i get trapped there. Even if i die i will just respawn in the nether. One time someone tried to rescue me and the portal worked for everyone but me...
 

Owen Robertson

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Actually, it's called Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, will. Prepare for every eventuality like Batman and you'll make it out alive... unless a jumbo jet crashes into your house one day for no reason.
 

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Hey did you get this idea from the thread I made about curses a little while ago?
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.398585-Poll-You-are-cursed?page=1
 

Grottnikk

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Johnny Novgorod said:
I am cursed with forever missing whenever I throw something into the garbage bin without getting up from my chair.
ERMAGERD! Me too! We must have both angered the same wizard in a past life! A wizard who... disliked basketball and... errant trash on the floor?
 

Dfskelleton

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Okay, this is a weird one:

I really like my school's theater department, and I always sign up for every play. However, here's the thing; at almost every performance, I will always end up hurting one of my fellow cast members. Last play, I remember stepping on a girl's foot, which wouldn't have been nearly as bad if I wasn't wearing shoes/if she was wearing shoes, or if I wasn't nearly twice her size.
This play, which we just finished a few days ago, was even worse; I punched 2 people in the face completely on accident. The first was just a friend and I horsing around with a goofy stuffed sheep my sister thought would be useful for the play. I swung an arm out and hit him square in the forehead. The second one was even weirder; we had decided where we were going for the cast party, so I went out in the hall and told people where we had decided. Then, one of my friends said "Seriously? SWEET! PUNCH ME IN THE FACE!", and it was my intention to do one of those fake punches where you pantomime the action while beating your own chest with the other hand to give the effect that you actually punched the other person, and well... I guess he was a bit closer than I thought. I gave him a bloody nose, and while I felt like crap, he couldn't stop laughing. I'm hoping that it won't happen in our next play, but I fear that it will.

Also, on the subject of recurring/prophetic dreams, I only have one example; I have had several dreams that have taken place in this sleek, futuristic, extradimensional dollar store, that sells things that usually wouldn't be sold in a dollar store.