when a purchase is rung up totalling $6.66...

at least twice i've had a cashier react disapprovingly and then quickly add a penny i guess to prevent the devil from appearing in the store

also buying snax and the total comes to $4.20 *snicker*

I don't understand people's surprise that this is a thing. It's totally a thing. Also a thing: refusal to have 666 as a home address or in your phone number or something. I'd be surprised if the recipient DIDN'T call the phone company and change it, for instance.

also buying snax and the total comes to $4.20 *snicker*

― shartin jort (am0n), Monday, December 14, 2009 4:42 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

snickers

no, snickers ice cream

i'm not surprised. that doesn't make any less of a dumb thing

I've never heard of this in the UK. Especially: "refusal to have 666 as a home address or in your phone number" - it's just not a thing here.

Now now. No one wants to be the Home of the Beast.

I think 664 and 668 are probably suspect as well -- no one wants to be the NEIGHBOR of the Beast, either.

uk: 1
usa: 0

666 was a very common prefix where i grew up. you couldn't avoid it.

i even remember two different phone numbers of people i haven't talked to in 15 years whose numbers began with 666.

is that why you don't talk to them?

How 'bout that 666 Fifth Ave, huh? What's up with that?

When I was a waiter, I had to alter someone's check once because it was 6.66. They were honestly shocked that I brought it to them in that condition. I deducted a penny though.

Well the joke, as I've said before, is on them, because some scholars figured out that there'd been a mistake in translation resulting in 666 being the dreaded number, but in fact it's 616. Which is the area code for Grand Rapids, MI -- the home of religious/capitalist behemoth Amyway and also at least 3 different Christian colleges and several religious publishers (Zondervan).

Amway. Apologies to any Amys out there.

Zondervan sounds like some ominous shit.

i would be happy to live in or have the phone number 666
or even 616 now that knowledge bombs have exploded. also i would be happy to pay $6.66
superstitionisms is some bullshitz

$80.08

BOOB

one of my coworkers @ a summer job figured out a specific order off the denny's menu (sandwich + drink) that, including tax, always totaled up to precisely $6.66. then would make sure to have exact change at the ready when the bill came, which sorta freaked them out

XD

I sold a bunch of CDs to Amoeba once and the guy was adding up his numbers... "It'll be (400-something) in cash, or if you want store credit, it'll be..." tapping at his calculator, "WHOA!" He looked a little freaked out and showed me the calculator, which said 666. He said "you okay with that?" and I said "well I don't want less, you can make it six-seventy if you want to." He made the credit slip out for 666.

i hate when stuff is on the 14th floor of a building but it's really the 13th floor

like why do they have to label it wrong to appease crazy people

i inherently distrust buildings with no 13th floor. oh good, this place is run by superstitous children.

i used to work in one but i was on the 16th floor that was really the 15th floor

"if you fall off the roof you will die EARLIER"

Back in the (Britisher) day if metal kids bought some stuff and it came to £6.66 they took a photo of the receipt and sent it to Kerrang magazine - not seen this for years ;_;

always just roll my damb eyes anytime a cashier comments on this

here in some buildings there is no 13th floor and also every floor # that ends in a 4 is skipped. also they will start from the 5th floor

Whenever the total comes to $6.66 it's a good move to say "...and now it is complete"

also every floor # that ends in a 4 is skipped.

? is this some feng shui thing or something?

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BOOB

― shartin jort (am0n), Monday, December 14, 2009 5:16 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

I still do this on calculators because I am 12 inside really.

haha i remember when someone showed me that 5318008 is "boobies" upside down in like 3rd grade, having that knowledge was vv scandalous back then

Yeah, that!!

Trayce the pronunciation for '4' is a homophone for death in Chinese, Japanese, and (I think) Korean

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― shartin jort (am0n), Monday, December 14, 2009 5:16 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

I still do this on calculators because I am 12 inside really.

^^

55378008

sad

present

l o l

0.7734

85

I still get happy when I get rung up for $6.66.

Lotsa 666 license plates out there too which I not so secretly covet because I am
also 12 on the inside.

Trayce the pronunciation for '4' is a homophone for death in Chinese, Japanese, and (I think) Korean

Aha yeah I thought it might be something like that.

aw, this used to happen to me when i would get a sparks+ and a pack of pall mall lights @ the pilot on chapman hwy u_u