Thanks to the ‘Scotland or North Korea’ thread, I now know about Poe’s Law. That set me thinking about the multitude of other ‘laws’ which the internet has spawned, Godwin’s, for example, or Rule 34 (‘If it exists, there is porn of it’).
My hands-down favourite ‘meatspace’ law has to be Parkinson’s Law (‘Work expands to fill the time available to do it’).
Wot’s yours?
Sod’s law.
Sod’s law is similar to, but broader than, Murphy’s law (“Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong”).
According to David J. Hand, emeritus professor of mathematics and senior research investigator at Imperial College London, Sod’s law is a more extreme version of Murphy’s law. While Murphy’s law says that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong (eventually), Sod’s law requires that it always goes wrong with the worst possible outcome. Hand suggests that belief in Sod’s law is a combination of the law of truly large numbers and the psychological effect of the law of selection. The former says we should expect things to go wrong now and then, and the latter says we remember the exceptional events where something went wrong, but the great number of mundane events where nothing exceptional happened are forgotten.
Wot he said.
I was going to post something similar, but, hey, you got there first. Sod’s law.
Isn’t there also some factor built into Sod’s Law that when you try to demonstrate it, it refuses to ‘co-operate’.?
The simplest example of this being that we all know if you drop a slice of toast, the buttered/ olive spreaded side will hit the. floor. This will likely happen every sodding time you can recall. However, should you deliberately drop a slice ‘ just to show what always happens’, it will of course land buttered side up.
If you make something Idiot-proof, sooner or later an even bigger idiot will appear, because stupidity is the most plentiful element in the universe.
What is the SI unit of stupidity?
The Trump.
Yes, I was weighing up the morgan and the trump.
1000 millimorgans = 1 morgan
1000 morgans = 1 trump
1000 trumps = to stupidity and beyond.
Pre-Trump, the former US unit was the Doh! In Europe the unit is still the Derrr.. but this is under review.
Lennie? (M.I.A. when the boat went down, still tweets)
Beany’s Law. “It’s so bad it’s good.”
Serves me well when on the regular search for bad/good records. Here’s the latest example by Barbara Mullaney I found this week. Barbara Knox to you.
https://youtu.be/KTD6CU4oSPQ
That’s Rita Tanner (née Littlewood, previously Sullivan, and Fairclough) to the rest of us
I managed not to call her Rita when I was introduced to her at the G-MEX Art Fair.
There should be an Afterword Law. “Somebody on here will have a story about somebody famous”
Like being in a lift with Liz Dawn. Her daughter looked more like Vera Duckworth than she did.
Some of us are old enough to remember when Rita was something of a sex siren in Corrie.
I have not watched Corrie for years. I heard Roy Hudd on the radio this week talking about his part of the undertaker and burying Fred the butcher. Fred’s dead?
Naturally I have obscure stories about those two as well *winky face*
In true Corrie style Fred Elliott expired of a massive heart attack in the hallway of Audrey’s house. On his wedding day.
Poor Uncle Dad. I saw Audrey shopping in Sainsbury’s once. Also Gail.
Speaking of Audrey, is this yours Beany?
http://i.imgur.com/xdhUcZP.jpg
It is now.
So is this
A big thumbs up for Len there.
Some of us still think she is.
Muphry’s Law. The gist is that whenever you write something criticising another person’s grammar you will make a grammatical error. Like I probably have here
Not so much a universal law, but a constant chez nous ‘no matter how long we have, Mrs P will need five minutes more’. Actually. That may be a universal law.
The 5 Minute Law.
A womans “I’ll be ready in 5 minutes” and a blokes “I’ll be home in 5 minutes” are exactly the same length of time.
And neither of them are 5 minutes
Hofstadter’s Law : It always take longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
or ….
This – reminds me of dropping off to sleep aged about 10 or 11 (could often hear it drifting up the stairs from the lounge). Cracking bit of Mike Post-age
(Theme from LA Law)
Prince Buster had Burke’s Law of course:
http://i.imgur.com/5JfxKKa.jpg