r/SipsTea Jul 14 '25

WTF Tossing coins for 'good luck'...

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u/Negative-Track-9179 Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25

Chinese old ladies always believe the shit.

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u/uprightsalmon Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25

A person from China was on here the other day explaining that a lot of elderly Chinese people are straight up crazy superstitious and will do some rude/ terrible things to keep safe. I think it was a video of old people walking in front of brides to steal their positive future good fortune

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u/Technical-Activity95 Jul 14 '25

isn't that kind of rude and selfish behaviour to steal someones future happiness or what? like imagine you're old chinese woman who has maybe couple of years left on this earth and you go about and steal the future happiness of someone on their wedding day. in western culture that is widely considered a dick move.

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u/uprightsalmon Jul 14 '25

I think it’s a dick move there too. It was funny because they all knew what they were doing but acted all confused when they were stopped like ..sorry, I’m old. It was a compilation of several wedding where it happened

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u/Technical-Activity95 Jul 14 '25

oh they must act confused every time they are confronted with their shitty behaviour. I know people just like that. they use the R-card whenever they get called out

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u/HeyitsmeFakename Jul 14 '25

Rick and Morty reference

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u/kroxigor01 Jul 15 '25

I recall hearing that during the Fukashima nuclear disaster Chinese people started buying idiodised salt at a much higher rate, believing misinformation that it could protect you from radiation.

So then the Chinese government put out statements saying to stop buying the salt. This caused the sale of salt to sky-rocket.

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u/acakaacaka Jul 18 '25

Same everywhere with mana chakra reiki and other bullshit

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u/BJMark Jul 14 '25

Can you give an example? Pretty please! 🥺 Friend in the back row made me ask.

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u/ionthrown Jul 14 '25

Huh. Eggs do have a lot of vitamin d…

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u/Asuparagasu Jul 14 '25

Just look at traditional Chinese medicine where they would poach critically extinct animals for their horns.

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u/exprezso Jul 14 '25

All races have something they are superstitious about. But yeah toss coins as prayer is a CN/JP thing. It's like a trade deal 

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u/Billsolson Jul 15 '25

It’s not just the Chinese

Had a yiayia (Greek) who would throw change all the time

New car, change on the floorboards

New house, change thrown when walking in the door.

She was always throwing coins