She was miscast in Ozark (plus she's like 55 now), but I thought she was quite attractive in her younger days.

I get more tilted that Jennifer Garner seems to be in every freaking commercial and must be making millions shilling for Capital One.

Unlucky.

It is unlucky to be superstitious.

? Why can't Laura Linney be Jason Bateman's wife? Because she's a few years older than him?

Perhaps it is just bad casting. I first noticed her in Love, Actually, and she was already 39 and hideous then and miraculously attracting interest from a hot young Spanish guy. I guess it's possible she was attractive in her 20s, but frankly, I don't see how.

I know it's hard to understand when you're a a bubbling narcissist, but people don't all find the same women attractive or not attractive.

For example, I don't find Laura Linney particularly unattractive or attractive....she's perfectly...fine. But if I got to know her and liked her, I bet I'd find her more attractive. Because that's how it usually works.

Every time i eat pancakes someone has to mention how waffles are better. I mean, this is true but pancakes are excellent in their own right. It seems like pancakes are the only food open to this harassment. I can eat a burger without someone flying in telling me how steak is better.

getting pissed off at things that shouldn't piss me off

When a show or movie has every guy and girl drooling over some girl thats supposed to be like super hot and shes like a 6 maybe 7 at best but theyre acting like shes beyond a 10.

When I drive my car and the steering wheel flys off.

And people who love their mother-in-law.

There have been generations for which superstitions were not perpetuated?

This should piss you off.

Great hot take. In fact I get pissed off when Wilt doesn't get love in GOAT arguments.

French Toast > Waffles >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>pancakes. Pancakes ****ING SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!

Not that I'm aware of. That doesn't change the fact that the downside of perpetuating superstitions has been well documented.

Sure, cap, I wholly agree with you in theory. But skipping the thirteenth floor standing alone isn’t very noticeable, unless you’re already aware of the superstition. And as superstitions go, this one seems harmless. Random numbering of floors is chaotic: skipping a number is not.

I note for the record that United seat numbering almost always skips from 14 to 20. I noticed this years ago but have never tried to figure out why.

Basic Economy starts there on most planes. Larger planes have the "missing" rows.

Segways

HT,

I certainly don't advocate random numbering.

It's a fairly harmless superstition, but none the less it perpetuates superstitions. If someone is unaware of that superstition they're likely to question why there's no 13th floor. That may lead them to finding out why, and possibly adopting that superstition.

The fact that large corporations invest billions in building skyscrapers and go so far as to misnumber the floors and make the effort to omit a 13th floor button in the elevators lends credence to the superstition in susceptible minds. "Why would a large corporation go to the trouble if it weren't actually unlucky!"

Have you ever known a superstitious person to believe in just one? It starts with the elevator and next thing you know they're avoiding cracks in the sidewalk, trapping black cats, and refusing to eat anything but fish, on days when they have sex, during the week before Christmas.

I've been in many buildings that are missing numbers at the bottom because the developers wanted the top floor to be a certain number. The elevator buttons will go something like:
Ground
Lobby
Mezzanine
Parking 1
Parking 2
10
11
12
14
...

Howard,

It's a shoe storage area. Please tell me that you have not been disregarding it.

Maybe their ancestors were just really superstitious.

Nice one. Funny. On weather delay out of Dulles and needed a laugh, thanks for that.

No one is wondering why theres isnt a 13th floor. And I think you're greatly overestimating the effect this has.

I'd like to think most people, who aren't familiar with the superstition, would wonder why there isn't a 13th floor button when they get on elevators.

I didn't give any estimate of the effect, beyond superstitions being net negative, so I don't think I could have overstated it.