Murphy's Law

Sgt Hartman · 05-01-2008 12:53AM #1

Can anyone here think up some examples of Murphy's law? Some of mine would include..

. The person you try to avoid the most is the person you will bump into the most.
. The busier you are, the more people will come to you with demands.
. The later you are, the heavier the traffic will be.
. The one day you decide not to cook and have something in the work canteen they will have a very poor menu on that particular day.
. The tighter the work deadline, the greater the chance of equipment breaking down on you.

The above laws have almost always been the case in my work-life. I could list some more but I'm too tired.

Jimbo · 05-01-2008 12:54AM

. The later you stay up, the more tired you will be

AckwelFoley · 05-01-2008 12:57AM

The more careful you are, the one time you shagg a minger is the one time the condom breaks and she gets pregnant.

Sgt Hartman · 05-01-2008 12:58AM

jimbo78 wrote: »

. The later you stay up, the more tired you will be

An inconvenience in itself but a perfectly natural phenomenon. Not quite what I was looking for

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Terry · 05-01-2008 01:11AM

Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

That pretty much covers them all.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 05-01-2008 01:13AM

When you become an amateur spelling Nazi on AH and correct someone you'll mak a spelingk miztak yourselv.

PhilipMarlowe · 05-01-2008 01:52AM

if everything is going right ... something is wrong.

highlydebased · 05-01-2008 01:53AM

If there is a choice between two things- the one you want/need most is always NOT the one you pick

Maple · 05-01-2008 01:58AM

you will always look like a spotty bag lady the day you run into your ex.

Goat Mouth · 05-01-2008 02:04AM

You'll buy something exceptionally pricey and pretty soon afterwards you'll find it being sold somewhere else for a cheaper price!

slipss · 05-01-2008 02:14AM

You travel to the other side of the city for ecstacy tablets because there are none available in you locality and in the vicinity on the other side of the city you get stopped by the Garda, searched, arrested, charged and released. Then you walk for three hours back to your side of the city (because the gardai confiscated everything you have, even your bus fair "it could be considered evidence says I", 'pirate gardai apparently'. Then when you get home you run into the fukker that you usually get them off and he says "yeah I got them about 6:05" (you left for the other side of the city at 5:55), so you figure "what the fukk, done for a lamb, might aswell have a good night", and then as your saying goodbye to the slow obtaining baztard, you see him take off in the other direction as fast as his little nikes can carry him, so you turn around and are confronted by two detectives with the kinds of grins on thier faces normally associated with the types of people that you have a gun pointed at but they know your gun is defective and they have a 12" bread knife secreted on thier person, and you get done for the second time in the night for having 14 ecstacy pills on you? That kinda thing?

Overheal · 05-01-2008 02:25AM

The people you love will be the ones you hurt the most.

The hungrier you are the less food there will be to eat.

When you get erectile dysfunction - thats when everyone wants you.

Your obsession with shaved pubic regions will eventually lead to you being accused of paedophilia.

When you need a shower urgently - the water is ice cold.

On exam day you will run out of coffee.

You will have a heart attack the one day you aren't carrying a pain killer.

When you're in the most important conversation ever - your battery will die.

When your steak isn't cooking, you will burn your hand on the other hob because you're a muppet and you can't read the stove dials.

When all you have is cereal the milk will be sour.

You're about to lose your virginity... but you have no condoms.

You type the best post in the world and your session times out.

slipss · 05-01-2008 02:40AM

Just this very moment discovered another one. (kinda, but not really at all)

When you pound on the wall of your house that is also the wall of your next door neighbours house and scream at the top of your lungs " for the last time, turn that fuking classical sh1t down now!!!!" and then you realise you have a set of headphones, which are lying on the floor by your feet, plugged into your computer and a tab (damn you firefox!) open on a website where the backing midi is some classical overture...

Overheal · 05-01-2008 02:50AM

HEY never damn Firefox tabs. ever. Could be worse. Try looking up porn on IE and then whoops you have a pornographically transmitted infection!

Wear a condom: use firefox

gcgirl · 05-01-2008 02:56AM

and isn't it ironic don't you think??

Thanks Alanis

DaBreno · 05-01-2008 03:08AM

slipss wrote: »

You travel to the other side of the city for ecstacy tablets because there are none available in you locality and in the vicinity on the other side of the city you get stopped by the Garda, searched, arrested, charged and released. Then you walk for three hours back to your side of the city (because the gardai confiscated everything you have, even your bus fair "it could be considered evidence says I", 'pirate gardai apparently'. Then when you get home you run into the fukker that you usually get them off and he says "yeah I got them about 6:05" (you left for the other side of the city at 5:55), so you figure "what the fukk, done for a lamb, might aswell have a good night", and then as your saying goodbye to the slow obtaining baztard, you see him take off in the other direction as fast as his little nikes can carry him, so you turn around and are confronted by two detectives with the kinds of grins on thier faces normally associated with the types of people that you have a gun pointed at but they know your gun is defective and they have a 12" bread knife secreted in on thier person, and you get done for the second time in the night for having 14 ecstacy pills on you? That kinda thing?

Sounds like a perfect example.

Toots · 05-01-2008 03:12AM

Toast will always land buttery/jammy side down.

Following on from that, you will always drop a piece of toast made from the last piece of bread in the packet, and when you do the floor will always be dirty.

Aisling(",) · 05-01-2008 02:35PM

Toots85 wrote: »

Toast will always land buttery/jammy side down.

Following on from that, you will always drop a piece of toast made from the last piece of bread in the packet, and when you do the floor will always be dirty.

stick the toast to a cat before ya drop it because cats always land on their feet.....oh wait no thatll just cause anti gravity...never mind

Volvoboy · 05-01-2008 02:38PM

10,000 spoons and all you need is a knife:mad:

L31mr0d · 05-01-2008 02:46PM

lol... had a case of this yesterday in work... on a friday the boss usually buys us lunch from the cafe downstairs, but the food is usually end of week stuff, old, crusty, not really appetizing. So the wife recommended we do an after xmas detox, starting friday with a one day fast. Since the food on friday is usually crap I agreed.

Go in friday and the cafe has cooked us up a fresh dozen sausage rolls to say thanks for the continued business, on top of this one of the staff had their birthday and had brought in a large chocolate gateaux for everyone to have.

I just muttered under my breath "figures!"

Sam Vimes · 05-01-2008 02:57PM

it's like rai-eee-aaayynn on your wedding day

It's a free ride when you've already paid

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

Who would've thought... it figures

uncle-mofo · 05-01-2008 04:30PM

Everything takes longer than it should except for sex.

05-01-2008 04:34PM

Ah good old sods law says anything that can happen will happen when you least what it too

Alter-Ego · 05-01-2008 05:16PM

Anything that can happen, will happen at the worst possible time.

tweety28 · 05-01-2008 07:54PM

the less money you have the more you spend

watna · 05-01-2008 08:02PM

My OH just proved Murphy's law to be true while I was reading this thread.

He's a bit anal about plugging in his laptop to the mains if he's doing anything. He's running a virus scan on his laptop that's turning up loads of hidden things and of course this one time, he didn't plug it in, the battery went and he has to start it all over again!

nlgbbbblth · 05-01-2008 09:57PM

This one used to apply when I was a teenager.

Whenever I was watching a film, my mother or father or both would walk into the room just before the sole sex scene [usually tame] and we would sit there in embarrassed silence.

Toots · 06-01-2008 01:34AM

Going back to my backpacking days:

. If you get food poisoning from the dodgy chinese takeaway, there's not going to be any bogroll in the jax when you need it the next morning. Of course you won't realise that until it's too late

dsmythy · 07-01-2008 09:11PM

Don't know if this is one of those. I was out and about today and it happened again. Often when i'm trying to cross a road where traffic lights are nowhere to be seen i'd see a line of cars coming down one side of the road, the other side empty. I patiently wait until the convoy moves through and what do you know a line of cars come the other way while the opposite side is clear. these cars move on and you think now is the time. But now another perfectly ill-timed snake of cars comes down the road. Very annoying.

Another minor one if your crossing the road away from lights and you see a car coming and stop. He snails his way up and past you leaving you wishing you just crossed the road. Other times you'll make that move because you feel the car is far enough away and it turns out to be a boy racer shooting up the road and you get an angry honking. Also very annoying.

Maximilian · 07-01-2008 11:08PM

If you wear an velvet eyepatch, a gardener will make off with your hoover.

nlgbbbblth · 08-01-2008 12:22AM

When queuing in a supermarket / fast food restaurant:

You decide to change queues as you think the one you are in is going slower.

Never works out. Someone ahead of you in the other queue will throw a spanner in the works and order something awkward or take ages to pay with the credit card.

Murphy's Law

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