Star signs have changed...

[8ball]

all the people here going "science!" are the same people who thousands of years ago, hearing the National Association of Sumerian Astrology pronounce animism a load of tosh would also be smugly claiming "science!".

Actually I think those people have probably been dead for a long time.

 

[discokermit]

Actually I think those people have probably been dead for a long time.

again, thinking you're clever. its exactly the same people.

 

[8ball]

again, thinking you're clever. its exactly the same people.

 

[hash tag]

Hurrah! I always hated being a pisces.

Very fishy

 

[ginger_syn]

Studies consistently show that Scorpios consistently do better at maths GCSE than Gemini's.

Wow how bad are the gemini,

 

[8ball]

Wow how bad are the gemini,

Ask a Scorpio. They're good with numbers and stuff.

 

[existentialist]

Ask a Scorpio. They're good with numbers and stuff.

Except that half of them are now Libras, who are only any good at macrame and putting alphabet spaghetti in alphabetical order.

 

[JimW]

The etymology of disaster is to do with your stars being all wrong, "ill-starred." Not madly relevant but always stuck with me once I read it.

 

[Pickman's model]

it's always interested me to see the same arguments about astrology being had now as they were having the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as a glance at keith thomas' 'religion and the decline of magic' will show.

 

[StoneRoad]

bloke was an old nazi cunt. i prefer astrologers to those.

Nope, he hated Germans & Germany and was anti EU

Also was anti-fox hunting

 

[Pickman's model]

Nope, he hated Germans & Germany and was anti EU

Also was anti-fox hunting

and also well on the right

 

[Clair De Lune]

Except that half of them are now Libras, who are only any good at macrame and putting alphabet spaghetti in alphabetical order.

How very dare you Sir.

You too, eh? It's just as well I don't believe all that stuff, or I'd be a right cunt.

*Chuckle

 

[discokermit]

Nope, he hated Germans & Germany and was anti EU

Also was anti-fox hunting

he was a cunt whatever way you dress it up.

 

[discokermit]

Wow how bad are the gemini,

too clever for the stupid tests.

 

[Clair De Lune]

Where I stand on this is...ahhh its bollocks though init...wait, I'm Virgo now?! Oh fuck off am I!

 

[quimcunx]

Ha! Loyal and dependable friend, not two-faced! I'm totally going to stop dissing you behind your back now and start defending you.

 

[ginger_syn]

Ask a Scorpio. They're good with numbers and stuff.

Proof it is all rubbish as I am pants with numbers

 

[co-op]

You're all wrong about what "your sign" is anyway because proper astrologers* would see "your sign", (i.e the astral body associated with your personal essence) as being your moon sign not your sun sign. Sun signs are the popular short cut used by the newspapers because in a culture that uses a solar calendar (like ours) it's the only sign that most people will know. This all came about because the Daily Express published a horoscope for Princess Margaret when she was born and they got the largest postbag ever from readers demanding to know how they could get theirs done. In a scene probably a bit like something out of Scoop, the astrologer they had used tried to explain about Moon signs, difficulty of calculating them etc and got told to come up with something - hence Sun Signs, quickly copied by every other newspaper.

Nowadays calculating your moon sign is pretty easy using computers.

I know this shit because in the late 90s I was employed to write the blurb for a computer programme that let you see the position of all the planets/heavenly-whatsits at the time of your birth and read what classic astrology had to say about this. I wrote that bit. Took a year, because there are a feck of a lot of entries once you include Houses etc, also they wanted a relationship compatibility chart too. I knew precisely sweet fa about astrology so I had to read up on it as I went, but they had tried to hire trendy hippy astrologer Jonathan Cainer to do it but he started mentioning fees in excess of £1m (he was on £700,000 a year from the Mail at the time) and the company decided a complete know-nothing like me was quite an attractive option at £20,000. Never got any royalties though, they went bust literally months after the project was finished. Still got a copy of the disc though, if anyone wants a sneak preview of the future.


*competing theories do exist.

 

[8ball]

Proof it is all rubbish as I am pants with numbers

As a group they get better GCSE maths results than the Gemini's.
Every single year.

 

[8ball]

You're all wrong about what "your sign" is anyway because proper astrologers...

Wiser folk than me would spot this and know to stop reading.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

it's always interested me to see the same arguments about astrology being had now as they were having the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as a glance at keith thomas' 'religion and the decline of magic' will show.

That might be quite a long glance. It’s quite a big book.

 

[Pickman's model]

That might be quite a long glance. It’s quite a big book.

It has an index as you'll find either by looking at the table of contents or reading it all through

 

[kittyP]

Really? It was an instant "nope" from me for any chap that asked. Either they are an idiot and believe in it or they think that "women like that kind of thing". Both options are dreadful.

Yeah I would assume it was a highly patronising "Oh it's nonsense but women love that shit" too

 

[8ball]

Yeah I would assume it was a highly patronising "Oh it's nonsense but women love that shit" too

Could say similar about football and apply it to men tbf.

 

[wtfftw]

Well. I've just looked up my moon sign and it nothing like my star sign so now all bases are covered. Even more so if my star sign has changed.

I liked this bit
"All right, you might say, but if our Moon Sign is so important, why do only a few of us know their Moon Sign?"

Moon Sign Calculator: Discover Your Moon Sign | Lunarium

Find out what is your Moon Sign with this free online Moon Sign Calculator. Discover the difference between your Moon Sign and Sun Sign.

www.lunarium.co.uk

 

[Saul Goodman]

Almost as if it’s a load of made up bollocks, isn’t it?

No, it's all true, there are only 12 types of people in the world, and 650 million of them are going to reconnect with an old flame this week.

 

[kittyP]

Could say similar about football and apply it to men tbf.

Huh?

For starters football is a real thing.
Also, I don't think straight/bi/pan women purposely go around discussing football with men they fancy when they have no interest in it do they?
Maybe asking "do you like football?" as a conversation point but that's not the same as asking what star sign someone is IMHO.
"Do you believe is Astrology?" would be more comparable

 

[FiFi]

Well, I was born on a day that is sometimes said to be one sign, and somtimes another. Now I can finally state with confidence what I am!

 

[8ball]

Huh?

For starters football is a real thing.

Astrology is real thing too.

Also, I don't think straight/bi/pan women purposely go around discussing football with men they fancy when they have no interest in it do they?

I reckon it happens more than you might think.

 

[Pickman's model]

Well, I was born on a day that is sometimes said to be one sign, and somtimes another. Now I can finally state with confidence what I am!

Alive?