Every traffic light must be red.
Every luck event must fail.
Every plan will be ruined.
Everything will go wrong.
(however, purely skill based events are excluded)
Every luck event must fail.
Every plan will be ruined.
Everything will go wrong.
(however, purely skill based events are excluded)
On the way to an amusement park, get stuck in traffic for over an hour, arrive at the park and wait in line to find the coaster is broken. Four times. Then lock belongings in locker and have a town-wide power outage.
~typical day thanks to the Law of Shen
~typical day thanks to the Law of Shen
by General of Darkness June 23, 2010
Get the Law of Shenmug. "The vessel, or vehicle with the greatest gross tonnage has the right of way."
Based in part on the navigation rule about ships restricted in ability to maneuver and how other ships need to stay away. And the reality of if there is a collision between two or more vehicles the smaller vehicles will take more damage than the larger vehicles. And that greater amount of damage is shared with the occupants of the smaller vehicle.
Based in part on the navigation rule about ships restricted in ability to maneuver and how other ships need to stay away. And the reality of if there is a collision between two or more vehicles the smaller vehicles will take more damage than the larger vehicles. And that greater amount of damage is shared with the occupants of the smaller vehicle.
Smart car v. F-350 crew cab pickup. Pickup driver is shook up and possibly bruised from the airbag, they can walk away. Smart car driver is in the ambulance on the way to the hospital with multiple fractures and or internal injuries. Moral of the story, violating the tonnage law will end up in pain & suffering. Even though you may have the right to be where you are, the right will not protect you from harm.
by Dammitmon July 10, 2011
Get the tonnage lawmug. This law states that any Facebook user with a sizable friends list has at least one friend whose password is "123456" or "qwerty." Don't be this person.
by mrtthekingman November 23, 2009
Get the Gallipeau's Lawmug. “hi homie no dating my bestfriend”
“ok i won’t break homie law where you can’t date da homies best friend”
“ok i won’t break homie law where you can’t date da homies best friend”
by idkoklol March 29, 2020
Get the homie lawmug. Techies Law is a definition coined by Strictly-Software.com to describe a Murphies Law type scenario related to software development.
The law states that:
If you have spent considerable time trying to resolve a bug in your code, a technical problem or any other such computer related issue and you finally resort to asking for help from a colleague or support team member. You can be rest assured that when you go to show that person the problem in action it has miraculously resolved itself all by itself OR you will immediately spot the cause of the problem.
You are then derided for either being a numpty and / or wasting their precious time for no reason.
The law states that:
If you have spent considerable time trying to resolve a bug in your code, a technical problem or any other such computer related issue and you finally resort to asking for help from a colleague or support team member. You can be rest assured that when you go to show that person the problem in action it has miraculously resolved itself all by itself OR you will immediately spot the cause of the problem.
You are then derided for either being a numpty and / or wasting their precious time for no reason.
I just experienced Techies Law in action. After spending hours trying to debug some code I reluctantly called our lead developer over to help me but as soon as he arrived at my desk I immediately realised what the bug was. He called me a numpty.
I am going to utilise Techies Law by spending a third of the time I usually spend bug fixing before asking for help.
I am going to pray to the God of Geekdom that Techies Law will enact itself and fix my network connection for me by calling someone else over to have a look at the problem.
I am going to utilise Techies Law by spending a third of the time I usually spend bug fixing before asking for help.
I am going to pray to the God of Geekdom that Techies Law will enact itself and fix my network connection for me by calling someone else over to have a look at the problem.
by MonkeyMagix October 25, 2011
Get the Techies Lawmug. Apparently this term originated from a website called RPG.net and from a user that is now banned, Danth. Danth claimed to have won a forum argument, and someone else later said in that forum that, "If you have to insist that you have won an internet argument, you probably haven't."
by Press X To Bonetown March 3, 2015
Get the Danth's lawmug. A philosophical theory proposed by philosopher Patrick D. Barlow in 2016:
"If you can talk about it, you can joke about it."
For example: women, mongoloids, and everything in-between is okay to joke about unless you choose to ignore them completely... which in that case just makes you a politically correct douche-rocket.
"If you can talk about it, you can joke about it."
For example: women, mongoloids, and everything in-between is okay to joke about unless you choose to ignore them completely... which in that case just makes you a politically correct douche-rocket.
Alex: "You can't say that the UNICEF kids would make great Xylophones after they die of malnutrition."
Ben: "Barlow's Law says otherwise."
Ben: "Barlow's Law says otherwise."
by Dr. Quokka December 3, 2019
Get the Barlow's Lawmug.