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O.P. Do you believe in Sod's Law
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

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03-21-2005 08:20 PM
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RE: Do you believe in Sod's Law
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.
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RE: Do you believe in Sod's Law
yes but its not been proved yet... so we cant know if its real or not

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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"
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RE: Do you believe in Sod's Law
Probably just imagination helping you along :P
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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
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RE: Do you believe in Sod's Law
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.

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@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

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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 :)

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I found an interesting PowerPoint :)

http://uk.download.yahoo.com/aut/fu/learnt.pps
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yes its a rite barstard
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