In china, absolutely. Phone numbers, license plates, condo building floors etc. 8 is good and those fetch high price and 4 is avoided. Hell the US is still sometimes avoiding floor 13 in hotels.
When I worked at a restaurant and someone’s order came to $6.66, they would sometimes add or remove items to prevent that order total. Always made me chuckle.
I went to the US in 2013 and there were still a lot of hotels (and I think some other places but I’m not sure) that skipped the 13th floor and room number 13
I used to have a CD that skipped track 13. It went from 12 to 14. If I put it on track 13 it would have like 5 seconds of silence before going to track 14.
Big companies are doing this so they can sell their product on the Chinese market more easily. The number 9 is associated with death in China.
That’s 4, not 9. The words for death and 4 in Cantonese sound similar, I think with only a small tone difference.
Also, in a similar way, 14 is close to “must die,” and 24 is close to “easy to die”
Are we discussing Bruce Willis movies now?
Waaait, are ppl still that stupisticious?
🤣 People still believe in talking to imaginary friends with superpowers. Magic numbers are tame by comparison.
Now it talks back with GodGPT. /s (if that’s not a thing already…)
How euphoric of you.
In china, absolutely. Phone numbers, license plates, condo building floors etc. 8 is good and those fetch high price and 4 is avoided. Hell the US is still sometimes avoiding floor 13 in hotels.
When I worked at a restaurant and someone’s order came to $6.66, they would sometimes add or remove items to prevent that order total. Always made me chuckle.
There used to be a US highway 666. It was renumbered to 491 back in 2003 due to 666 being associated with the mark of the beast.
Kinda wish they’d went with highway 665.99 instead.
I went to the US in 2013 and there were still a lot of hotels (and I think some other places but I’m not sure) that skipped the 13th floor and room number 13
Interesting, I haven’t seen anything like that. I’ll have to keep a look out for missing room numbers next time I’m in a hotel.
I used to have a CD that skipped track 13. It went from 12 to 14. If I put it on track 13 it would have like 5 seconds of silence before going to track 14.
I’m not superstitious. Heck, I’m not even a little stitious.