Horoscopes? Does anyone really pay any attention?

[Emsman]

It's my own fault really I suppose- listening to steve wright in the afternoon, and on come the horoscopes.

Do people that phone in actually take any notice of what's said?
Some batty old mentallist just rang to see if she should move closer to the coast in order to find happiness and romance.
Really?

What do the folk of PH think?
I'm firmly in the 'load of old bks' school of thought.

Surely if there was a grain of truth in it, you would have millions of people all having the same thing happen to them at the same time (when mars enters Uranus or similar)

over to you.....

[Handie Andy]

I read them for the fk of it but never expect out. Never had out happen either.

In short Mehh

[Arese]

They're a load of bks. None of them make sense, and those that do are so vague that they could apply to anyone.

I hate them, and never read them and I don't believe in any of that mumbo-jumbo. Which is strange for a Taurus.

[LukeBird]

An absolute load of drivel.
It's written for bored housewives who flick themselves off to Trisha.

[Famous Graham]

Arese said:

I hate them, and never read them and I don't believe in any of that mumbo-jumbo. Which is strange for a Taurus.

[Original Poster]

It is a complete load of bks.

[lankybob]

Complete crap. However it is somewhat creepy when they come true and predict your week spot on.

[Galileo]

It's all based on the assumption that the sun effects you at the time of your birth. It is then worked out from there what will happen to you at any given point in the future. This then fits in with there being 12 months and 12 horoscope star signs that the sun passes through. The whole whole "science" is based on this, and to mixed in with the planets having some effect as well comes over as being plausible.
It all falls down, of course when you realise that the sun passes through 13 different constellations as it appears to travel around the ecliptic, not 12. So if you were born at the end of November you would have been born when the sun was passing through Ophiuchus. It all starts to look a bit silly after that.

[Eric Mc]

lankybob said:

Complete crap. However it is somewhat creepy when they come true and predict your week spot on.

It's called the shotgun approach. Predict enough vagueries and some of it will APPEAR to be accurate - especially when people are incapable of being objective.

It's the horoscopes that make sure I NEVER listen to Mr Wright.

[MK4 Slowride]

It's all bks and also there's a 13th star sign, Ophiuchus (AKA Serpentarius) that's always left out. Ophiuchus is actually based on a real person unlike the rest.

[Emsman]

So, not many believers here either then!

[mattviatura]

Depending on which newspaper I read I can be either of two star signs so I just pick the one that sounds the best.

[Galileo]

Emsman said:

So, not many believers here either then!

Don't be silly. You'll be telling us next that there's an invisible man in the sky that made everything and controls everything that happens.

[lankybob]

Eric Mc said:

lankybob said:

Complete crap. However it is somewhat creepy when they come true and predict your week spot on.

It's called the shotgun approach. Predict enough vagueries and some of it will APPEAR to be accurate - especially when people are incapable of being objective.

It's the horoscopes that make sure I NEVER listen to Mr Wright.

It's Mr Wright that makes sure I never listen to Mr Wright.

[Eric Mc]

lankybob said:

Eric Mc said:

lankybob said:

Complete crap. However it is somewhat creepy when they come true and predict your week spot on.

It's called the shotgun approach. Predict enough vagueries and some of it will APPEAR to be accurate - especially when people are incapable of being objective.

It's the horoscopes that make sure I NEVER listen to Mr Wright.

It's Mr Wright that makes sure I never listen to Mr Wright.

That too.

[Eric Mc]

Galileo said:

Emsman said:

So, not many believers here either then!

Don't be silly. You'll be telling us next that there's an invisible man in the sky that made everything and controls everything that happens.

Aahh - but there is.

[Morningside]

MK4 Slowride said:

It's all bks and also there's a 13th star sign, Ophiuchus (AKA Serpentarius) that's always left out. Ophiuchus is actually based on a real person unlike the rest.

Ah, beat me too it. I knew there was a 13th but did not know its name.

Yup its all crap (touch wood).

[GTIR]

I've just about had enough of you Emsman.

Edited by GTIR on Monday 11th October 18:10

[catman]

I was really bored once, and read all 12 horoscopes in a daily paper and every one said the same thing, but in different words. Utter carp!

But, I have also read a book about peoples character, based on their star sign and found it amazingly accurate when applied to family/friends/me!

Tim

[parapaul]

I don't believe in horoscopes as such, but I have quite a few friends who are the same sign as me, and we all exhibit very similar traits. This might just be me picking like-minded people as friends, but I have plenty of other friends who are different starsigns, who are nothing like us scorpios...