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Do you believe in Sod's Law by M73A on 03-21-2005 at 08:20 PM

you know sod's law.... its the thing like when you wash the car it will rain.
or for many of the members....:pound:and running out of tissues, lololol

vote..


RE: Do you believe in Sod's Law by user27089 on 03-21-2005 at 08:23 PM

I don't think that some things are bad, its just superstition, and its been crammed into you by your ancestors, so you're used to it.


RE: Do you believe in Sod's Law by Naruto on 03-22-2005 at 03:30 PM

yes but its not been proved yet... so we cant know if its real or not


RE: Do you believe in Sod's Law by saralk on 03-22-2005 at 03:59 PM

its because when it goes right, you don't take notice, but when ti goes wrong, you are like "wtf" and only remember the times when it went wrong before, so you are like "it always happens to me"


RE: Do you believe in Sod's Law by mwe99 on 03-22-2005 at 04:05 PM

Probably just imagination helping you along :P


RE: Do you believe in Sod's Law by .Roy on 03-22-2005 at 04:07 PM

quote:
Originally posted by saralk
its because when it goes right, you don't take notice, but when ti goes wrong, you are like "wtf" and only remember the times when it went wrong before, so you are like "it always happens to me"
exactly. We dont notice everything that happens to us. Only when something bad does and you think of it. If you dont. It doesnt happen
RE: Do you believe in Sod's Law by CookieRevised on 03-22-2005 at 04:30 PM

tbh, that is called "Murphy's law" also, or better know as...


Murphy's Law ('if anything can go wrong, it will.') was first used at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949. It comes from Cpt. Edward A. Murphy, engineer working on Project MX981, a project designed to see how much deceleration a person can stand in a crash. On one day, and after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, Murphy cursed the technician responsible for it and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it". The project manager kept a list of 'laws' and added this one, which he called Murphy's Law.

EDIT:

@may73alliance: edited a bit, cause Sod's law was the original form (but not well known compared to Murphy's law).  Sod's law comes from 'it would happen to any sod who needed such a catastrophic the least'. But 'sod' isn't such a nice word and more used (back in the "days") as a flame. Murphy's Law is much nicer and not cursing...

@traxor & Naruto: actually it is "prooven" ;) What saralk has said is a known fenomena and also you might wanna read: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/2311853.stm

And also, did you know that Murphy's law is even used as a "nature" law by scientists in certain experiments? An example (but not the best "scientific" one) would be: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rajm/

In fact. Murphy's law is taken so serious that there are Nobel prices to win when you use Murphy's law in a scientific way: http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-top.html


RE: RE: Do you believe in Sod's Law by M73A on 03-22-2005 at 04:35 PM

quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
tbh, that is called "Murphy's law"...


Murphy's Law ('if anything can go wrong, it will.') was first used at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949. It comes from Cpt. Edward A. Murphy, engineer working on Project MX981, a project designed to see how much deceleration a person can stand in a crash. On one day, and after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, Murphy cursed the technician responsible for it and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it". The project manager kept a list of 'laws' and added this one, which he called Murphy's Law.

woah:| never knew that *-) sod's law is easy to say tho :)
RE: Do you believe in Sod's Law by mwe99 on 03-22-2005 at 08:56 PM

I found an interesting PowerPoint :)

http://uk.download.yahoo.com/aut/fu/learnt.pps


RE: Do you believe in Sod's Law by benellis2007 on 03-22-2005 at 09:12 PM

yes its a rite barstard


RE: Do you believe in Sod's Law by M73A on 03-22-2005 at 09:17 PM

HAHAHAHAHA GOOD POWERPOINT PRESENTATION, they must feel like complete prats, hahahaha :rofl: