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Originally posted by Richiefish
Old sailors superstition.Bad luck on sailing boats(boards) bananas, anything green...green bananas, no way.
I can't claim to know anything about Hardie's anal hair but....
No Bananas is a Hawaiian thing, back in the days of the sailing ships, sailors ate fruit to prevent an onset of scurvy. Bananas would ripen and spoil faster than most fruit. The bug larvae in the skin would hatch and infest not just the other fruit but the entire ship itself. It was deemed unfit for sailing ships. Any mention of bananas was seen as a bad omen and would spell misfortune for the voyage.
Nothing Green is an Javanese thing, but the superstition is followed all over Indonesia. The colour of green is said to be the colour of the Javanese Spirit Queen of the Southern Oceans. Local customs dictate that wearing any clothing of the colour green into the ocean is asking for trouble. You inevitably find that when a surfer or in fact anyone drowns in Indonesia he/she has been wearing green and therefore has been lured into the sea and to their fate by the Queen.
Green Bananas? You have got to be kidding! Best left at home