Why everytime I'm queueing somewhere I chose the slower queue? Why when I arrive to the bus stop I see the rear of the bus going away? Is it just me or Murphy's law happens everywhere? What do you think? :-)
2006-08-25 11:02:01 · 16 answers · asked by 𝒶𝓂𝒶𝓎𝓊𝓀𝒾 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
It's "Sod's law" in England and "Murphy's law" pretty much everywhere else. And it is something that is seen when you are in the state of mind to see it - it comes down to those aspects of life you remember. It relates to the age old 'glass half empty/half full' paradigm that is pretty much about how you choose to perceive the world.
In my life, if it can go right, usually it will. Sorry.
2006-08-25 11:10:39 · answer #1 · answered by johninmelb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the checkout queues, we all claim to have the same experience but in fact we only remember the times when we join the "wrong" queue and then claim Murphy's law applies. We feel it happens all the time but it doesn't. It is just chance.
2006-08-25 18:21:53 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice question, Murphy's Law always seems to apply to me, I found these on the internet which shows us that it happens to everyone:
Murphy's Laws
If anything can go wrong, it will.
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the first one to go wrong.
If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
2006-08-26 03:14:28 · answer #3 · answered by sarah b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tends to be called Murphy's law in Ireland and sod's law elsewhere.
It happens to everyone I think
I must be behind you in the long queue
2006-08-25 18:06:23 · answer #4 · answered by mise 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think there is something true about it, but its caused by the destructive thoughts people in western (christian-based)cultures usually have.i.e I don't think you'd get a Murphy-equivalent in buddhist or traditional native american societies
2006-08-25 18:12:29 · answer #5 · answered by deepskyblue 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soy de belgrano; Buenos Aires; Argentina
2006-08-26 19:46:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Murphy's law never works for me.
2006-08-25 18:10:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. There are days when nothing can go wrong, and there are days when nothing seemingly goes right. It goes in cycles, like the tides.
2006-08-25 18:06:59 · answer #8 · answered by L3-knightw1zard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All I can say is, it's certainly in force here in America!
2006-08-25 18:07:35 · answer #9 · answered by silvercomet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought that was sod's law
2006-08-25 18:05:36 · answer #10 · answered by Pookie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋