Lackland's Laws

1)Never be first.
2)Never be last.
3)Never volunteer for anything.

Shit Peter, when we start PTing for the marine corps, keep lackland's laws in mind or the DIs are going to single you out.

by Copenhagen5150 November 17, 2011

Joshua's Law

The longer a conversation with Joshua is being held, the higher the chance of it becoming deep and/or personal gets.

That's another case of Joshua's Law.

by Joshua's homie November 11, 2021

The Darlington Law

The law that defines a worker doing just enough work to not get fired

Scott abides by The Darlington Law, as not to get fired or excerpt himself too much during the day.

by livingRockChurch January 3, 2014

Sefton's Law

Sefton’s Law states that the likelihood of mainstream adoption of new innovations is inversely proportionate to the extent to which using said innovation makes the user look like a dick.

Coined by Adam Sefton, Executive Creative Director at Reading Room

Google Glass is Sefton's Law in action. That wearers are already being called "glassholes" shows you that it'll never go mainstream.

by SomeRoomie May 7, 2014

The Boom Law

A rule of thumb when planning a project:

"If you can you explosives, then why wouldn't you use explosives?"

"We could use explosives to move these rocks, but is that excessive?"
"According to The Boom Law... nope!"

by MajorGen April 26, 2017

Foster's Law

The rule that "if I’ve Heard of Yer Da I Don’t Need To Hear From You", coined by Dawn Foster. Describes mediocre people who have jobs in the media not because of any talent of their own but because they have rich and famous parents, private schooling and family connections.

Giles Coren a prime example of how Foster's Law holds for almost every man bar Jesus.

by Giles Coren August 22, 2022

Hakimi's law

It is a traditional practice where a married man transfers all belongings under his name to a close relative of his shortly into his marriage to protect himself from possible greedy and selfless abuse of a divorce by his wife resulting in him losing 50% of all belongings or a possibly higher proportion.

I might follow hakimi's law to protect myself soon, I'm worried my partner will divorce me for my money and belongings.

by controllzlmao April 18, 2023