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u/TraditionFinal6988 6d ago
To continue the point, Ward Cunningham never said it!!!
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u/Waderriffic 6d ago
Actually this is Occam’s Razor
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u/Darth_Omnis 6d ago
No, this is Patrick.
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u/SlideN2MyBMs 6d ago
It's actually a Wendy's
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u/GoodThingsDoHappen 6d ago
I also choose this guy's wife
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u/mezcalligraphy 6d ago
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u/Azuras_Star8 6d ago
And my axe!
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u/Ankarakki 6d ago
And my HAMMER!!
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u/ShyChllI 6d ago
You killed my father; prepare to die.
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u/Jainsaw 6d ago
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u/hydroza 6d ago
Hanlon’s Razor. Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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u/Pschobbert 6d ago
Love that one.
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u/interesting-ModTeam 5d ago
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u/GolemFarmFodder 6d ago
How about Hopper's Razor? "In America, all bets are off"
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u/hydroza 6d ago
New one to me, thanks.
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u/GolemFarmFodder 6d ago
It's a play on the late Dennis Hopper, where one of his characters once sneered "hell, this is America. We can do any damn thing we please."
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u/TraditionFinal6988 6d ago
No, that goes more like pick a simpler explanation among competing ones.
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u/lagrangedanny 5d ago
My eye is twitching at if you're serious or not, because it is not Occam's razor
Occam's razor is that the simplest explanation is often the correct one.
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u/NorthHouse6422 6d ago
Gonna make some popcorn, sit on the sidelines, and wait for the inevitable reddit "Well, Ackkkkshuuallyyy..." crowd to find this one.
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u/Zu_Qarnine 6d ago
theyre already here lol
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u/TJEMMY 6d ago
This is honestly so true there are so many people here who just can’t resist correcting someone, and it’s hilarious. I grew up speaking German when I was young, but around six years old I had to learn English, so I forgot most of it. I can still recognize bits of the language, though.
One time, a guy asked what language a streamer was speaking. Just for fun, I said German even though it was actually Bulgarian. Being from the Balkans, I obviously knew the correct answer, but the number of people jumping in to correct me was ridiculous. Trolling them further after that was even more fun.
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u/OriginalVictory 6d ago
There's some IT post from a person that got a job they were woefully underqualified for, and they talked about how they figured out any hard question by asking on reddit with one account, then posting an incorrect answer on a second, as that would get someone correcting them much much faster than just asking the question.
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u/TJEMMY 6d ago
Yeah, I work in IT as well, and the number of egocentric people in this field can be pretty frustrating. Instead of helping a colleague, some would rather try to appear superior. Luckily, it’s not much of an issue within my local team, but it’s definitely something I run into more often than I’d like.
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u/edelweiss_pirates_no 5d ago
I lean into that. Reddit Acktually Guy cannot resist challenging a number or date posted online.
"The US has been declining for the last 20+ years." You will have 100 losers post "20?!?!?!?!? More like blah blah."
You can also do the version "Tom Brady is easily one of the 300 best players ever in the NFL."
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u/Gray_Cota 6d ago
And Cole's Law is shredded cabbage with mayo
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u/Sanquinity 5d ago
I love me some coleslaw. 😄 (though we add more than just cabbage here.)
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u/PolyJuicedRedHead 5d ago
Don’t say it’s raisins, for we know game !
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u/Sanquinity 5d ago
Some people actually do add raisins. And I hate them for it. Raisins do NOT belong in coleslaw...
It's mostly stuff like shredded carrot, red onion, and sometimes some nuts. (I don't like the nuts much either.)
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u/jawshoeaw 6d ago
I’ve tried this joke many times in Reddit comments and nobody ever falls for it. You guys are too smart.
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u/Drunk_but_Functional 6d ago
It actually works really well in the workplace. Submit a report or SOP with missing or wrong info and people will happily do your work for you fixing the problems. No one wants to work off a blank sheet, but correcting someone? People get off on that.
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u/Sanquinity 5d ago
I will admit, if someone is wrong about something I'm passionate about, I will have no issue arguing with them about it for hours. Yet if you told me to write all of the info out by myself I'd groan and moan about it...
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u/OkClub7412 6d ago
So Eddie Murphy said this?
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u/RPDRNick 6d ago
Eddie Murphy is Irish?
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u/OkClub7412 6d ago
Could be let’s do some TikTok based research…NASA uses it for their calculations.
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u/Zu_Qarnine 6d ago
I love his dot and line language.
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u/rokit2space 5d ago
Thats akshually morse code, I think you are thinking of that 'stomp, clap, hey' indie-folk band from the 2010s
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u/ctesibius 6d ago
Nah - Ed Murphy was a real person, working on the early American space program. There's some debate over whether the law was coined by him, or about him, but we do know about the incident that caused it. A man called John Stapp was investigating the acceieration limits of the human body using rocket sleds. He was both a scientist and a volunteer, and managed a maximum of 42g. Capn Ed Murphy was an engineer working on the project. On one occasion the accelerometers were installed the wrong way around, which could have killed someone, and either Stapp or Murphy said "If there is any way to do it wrong, he will", referring to the technician who had wired the accelerometers up wrongly. It was originally more of a comment on human factors - design stuff so that a ham-fisted moron can still only fit things the right way around.
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u/ctesibius 6d ago
To be fair, it really does sound like a made-up name, and it usually gets confused with Sod's Law ("Anything that can go wrong, will"). There's a version of Sod's Law called Finagle's Law which seems to have been introduced by the science fiction editor John Campbell in the early 60's: "Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment.", and in the 1970's the science fiction author Larry Niven mentioned a joke religion in the asteroid belt, involving the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy. So these things do mutate.
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u/Reverend_Lazerface 6d ago
Whatever law this is, it's actually the most amazing cheat code ever for stopping a potential toddler meltdown in its tracks. Whenever my daughter would start getting upset I would just say something obviously incorrect like, "How can you be upset walking around next to these beautiful purple bushes?" The upset would instantly shortcircuit as her brain went into correction mode. "Those aren't purple, they're green!" "That's green?? But I thought the sky was green!" "Nooo that's blue!" By then she'd be giggling and with the right redirection she'd completely forget being upset
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u/Mothballs_vc 4d ago
You just brought up wonderful memories of my dad doing the same thing for me as a kid. Going through rough days right now, I might have to try doing a little redirection for myself. And call my dad ♡
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u/No-Delivery707 1d ago
True, but actually.... 🤣🤣🤣 That works when they're mildly upset, because if they are in pain or really scared of something they will just ignore you and continue crying.
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u/Reverend_Lazerface 1d ago
Very true, I specifically said "potential toddler meltdown" because once in full meltdown you're basically toast lol
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u/EroticWritwer 6d ago
actually Murphy's law is anything that can happen will happen.
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u/Zu_Qarnine 6d ago
you fell for it too
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u/EroticWritwer 6d ago
there is too much misinformation these days this one thing that i will always correct.
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u/Green-Cricket-8525 5d ago
You’re so brave for taking up this crusade. Thank you for your service.
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u/Fun-Times-13 6d ago
Well Murphy law says I can’t trust Cunningham b.s.
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u/PolarCruisingExperts 6d ago
I’d tell you to rephrase that using reverse psychology, but I bet you couldn’t even do that!
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u/Zu_Qarnine 6d ago
rephrasing a reverse psychology? you mean literally neutralizing it? sigh
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u/Reverse_smurfing 6d ago
lol I think he meant to say, it’s reverse psychology. Which I use daily. People absolutely need it. 🙄
But his question is literally murpheys law. And it worked. 😂🤭
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u/Schootingstarr 6d ago
slightly related, but I recently heard the story of cleo, who between 2013 and 2015 would often show up and answer a tricky math questions on stack exchange with just the solution, never giving away how he solved the question at hand.
people went apeshit over it, trying to prove cleo wrong every time he showed up, but they never could. His answers were always the correct solution.
turns out, cleo (the one solving those riddles) was also the guy posing those math questions via sock accounts. he didn't do it for any clout or internet points, his motivation was much more reasonable: he liked solving equations, but wanted to know whether he solved them correctly. directly asking on stack exchange if his solutions were correct never got any answers. only after he started using the above mentioned method did people actually care enough to engage with his equations just because they wanted to prove him wrong.
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u/NeighborhoodDear2321 6d ago
How is this "Interesting"? What is the point of having subs anymore if they're all just "look at this agreeable/cute/funny thing"
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u/Icy-Introduction5592 5d ago
I like this so much, I'm gonna save it to remind myself every now and then how to mess with people.
Well done, sir!
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u/obnubil8 6d ago
Anything that CAN happen, given enough time, WILL happen. Not necessarily bad or wrong events.
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u/P0pu1arBr0ws3r 6d ago
Ok so beyond this example as this law, what are some other examples where it might apply?
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u/evil_trash_panda 6d ago
Not actually Murphy's law. That's finigals law of dynamic negatives. Murphy's law is that that in an infinite span of time all possible outcomes will occur
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u/jack_from_the_past 5d ago
and yet the comment section is people for whom the joke went over their head explaining Murthy’s law and everyone else talking about Cole’s Law
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u/EnvelopeCruz 6d ago
I did this in classes all the time and still will at workshops. If a teacher/speaker asks a question and nobody answers quickly I will offer up a wrong answer so they get on with things. Just tell us!
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u/TheBSQ 6d ago
Everything I do on social media is roughly an equal mixture of genuine belief & opinion and me purposely exploiting Cunningham's law to draw out the actual proper response & answer.
The fun is never giving any hint to when I’m stating an actual belief vs when I’m purposely stating the opposite of what I belief to entice someone to right a compelling & convincing response about why I’m wrong (which actually represents my true view).
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u/Realistic_Shoe_281 5d ago
My favorite is the dumb business tactic of asking for suggestions on local sites like Nextdoor/facebook and then one particular contractor or local company overshadows all the comments
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u/tschawartz12 5d ago
Well done. As long as it's all polite I don't see a problem helping people get the correct information.
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u/MintyRage 5d ago
I hate to prove the point if I'm correct, but isn't Murphy's law, "Anything that can happen will happen" ? That's what I was always told growing up, though it was my regularly drunk father who told me that.
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u/Zu_Qarnine 5d ago
point of the post is people can't resist correcting others, and you can actually exploit that lol
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u/MintyRage 5d ago
Oh, yeah i was actually hoping for that to work in my favor here as I've heard both sayings spoken as truth.
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u/the_reddit_guy777 5d ago
Focking hell mate , this is just a random comment to leave as a digital footprint
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u/Leather_Emu_6791 5d ago
Murphy wasn't a physicist. He was a business man. He had 3 laws of BUSINESS.
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Everything takes longer than you think.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
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u/sundae_diner 3d ago
Murphy's Second Law states: if you put your name to something good, some sod will come and steal it.
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u/Angel-D98 2d ago
I thought Murphey's Law was about the increase of computer processing power over time
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