Murphy's Law

DEFTLEFTHAND

"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."

Has this theory ever applied to your life? I know for myself I often use it as an excuse when things go belly up. In reality, is it just the law of averages in practice or do we perceive that we're been persecuted by some unknown force?

Is that you Bad Luck Brian?

coco_lola

"If everything is going well, you have obviously overlooked something".


Story of my life.

electrobanana

Who's this Murphy character you speak of ?

johnr1

Did mr wiggly fail to perform tonight?

DEFTLEFTHAND

electrobanana wrote: »

Who's this Murphy character you speak of ?

Its supposedly named after an American Aerospace engineer who attempted to introduce flawed measurement techniques into his profession.

Sindri

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."

Has this theory ever applied to your life? I know for myself I often use it as an excuse when things go belly up. In reality, is it just the law of averages in practice or do we perceive that we're been persecuted by some unknown force?

Muprhy's Law

I'd say it's the persecuted one.

BUBBLE WRAP

When I read the thread tital, I thought some murphy person was trying to make up a new law. Disssaaapointed....

Lando Griffin

I'll take this one.

Murphys law is only applied when things start going wrong because in the past you didn't make the necessary measures to ensure a positive outcome.
Let me explain in this example.
Conor O'Connor ( not real name ) works in the civil service has a very important work project to be with a dead line to be completed in 4 months.
However Conor O'Connor go off on a drug fueled binge for a couple of weeks and when he realises that time has passed him by decides to get the project done the night before the deadline.
He goes to his laptop and there is no battery left in it.
He goes to charge it and cannot find the charger.
He finally finds the charger and plugs it in only for a windows Service Pack update to start.
An hour and a dose of meth later he finally starts, when suddenly a chugger comes to the door. He is in such a state of dissaray that he attacks the chugger and leaves him in a pool of blood on the ground.
The guards come and after a vicious fight is brought into custody and relased the next morning.
He goes into work the next morning and tells his supervisor that he was sick and not able to complete his task only to be told "ha thats ok it was only a report on speeding up the process of housing people on the waiting list."
Conor cant believe the trouble he went to for such an unimportant issue.

Standard Toaster

Woud be a good name for a Larry Murphy hosted late night chat show.

jimthemental

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Woud be a good name for a Larry Murphy hosted late night chat show.

Even Twink would steer clear of that one.

Jester252

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Woud be a good name for a Larry Murphy hosted late night chat show.

TV3 might buy it