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A New Twist To Murphy’s Law

Murphy’s Law (sometimes called Sod’s Law) tells us that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

It can be summarized as “The universe opposes what you try to do.” Toast will always land buttered side down, and so on.

There is a corollary with the big potato, one that says that the universe opposes what you suggest, and even what you think. Whatever you propose will always be opposed by the real world.

It would be a great idea to popularize the word twatterati for the blob and the woke brigade. We managed to have chatterati, meaning the chattering classes, put into the OED. Surely twatterati can’t be far behind?