amphibian rules

When one or now people are in the pool and there are orders outside, then it is the outsiders role to provide drinks to those in the pool.

Please fetch me a beer. Amphibian rules.

by Sceoan January 19, 2025

The rule of the 70’s gremlin

The Rule of the 70’s Gremlin is that,” you can take a crappy car and spend an exorbitant amount of money trying to make it more powerful and better looking”, but at the end of the day it’s still just a crappy ass Gremlin. You need to try another approach.

Look, we can spend another 2 billion on upgrading the state spending for the year, but it’s sill going to be stuck with “The rule of the 70’s GREMLIN” all over again. We need a fresh start.

by DaMartianAC January 24, 2025

Kelly’s Rule of Inquiry

If you ask the top people for their opinions first, you won’t get effective advice from the people below them.

A group of people can be asked to make a decision and will march off in a direction they never would have taken by themselves.

When doctors are preparing to perform brain surgery on your wife, pull the top surgeons and physicians into a breakroom with residents and other medical staff and ask the people on the lowest rungs of the profession for their opinions on the surgery first.

Source: Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, in 2014 at the annual Visitor Industry Luncheon at the Sioux Falls Convention Center
“I learned you do not want to ask the space shuttle commander, the flight director, the chief engineer or program manager his opinion first. If you do, you don’t get effective advice from the people below them.”

At Los Alamos, visitors Niels Bohr and brother Harald obeyed Kelly’s Rule of Inquiry by running their ideas on the current work by Richard Feynman before asking anyone higher up.

by WhatwasIsaying January 25, 2025

Bauer's Rule of Idiocracy

Of greater danger than nobody knowing what to do is a broadly held presumption that somebody does.

Source: “‘Idiocracy’ is a disturbingly prescient reflection of our current reality, not because nobody knows anything but because everybody thinks somebody does." ~ Jared Bauer

Bauer's Rule of Idiocracy arises in part from characteristics discussed in Erich Fromm’s “Escape From Freedom,” including a desire to defer to a trusted figure to escape the burden of having to puzzle out matters for which one is ill-equipped, the learning curve is steep, or information is at best incomplete.

by WhatwasIsaying January 25, 2025

The Evelin Rule

Evelin cannot be more petty than AJ ever. If you are then you’re going to jail for life.

You’re going to jail for breaking the Evelin rule!

by Unknown384857737572838 January 26, 2025

Seven Minute Rule

The "Seven Minute Rule" states quite simply that if the meeting organizer has not joined the meeting within 7 minutes of the start time - the meeting is therefore officially cancelled.

It was designed by the British Upper Class to ensure punctuality and minimize time wasting.

With globalization and in particular the deterioration of Corporate Culture around the world - this rule is making a comeback and used throughout offices around the world

"Mark set this meeting up, and he's not here, by the Seven Minute Rule the meeting is cancelled and we can go to the beach!"

by DarkFlare4220 February 13, 2025

Rule 1969

For every cool thing in pop culture, there is a lesser, worse Christian version of it.

In the '80s, two of the most popular heavy metal groups were Black Sabbath and Judas Priest. At the same time Whitecross and Stryper were two Christian bands who were watered down, worse versions of heavy metal hereby confirming Rule 1969.

by bvb1123 February 15, 2025