Comments on: My Gods, I feel lucky…

By: Loki

Loki — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:51:01 +0000

The latter.

By: Terje Phlegmont Mendoza

Terje Phlegmont Mendoza — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:31:50 +0000

You mean like all the other people who invented godesses or luck? Or just the population in general, who from then on had to live with such a concept?

By: Loki

Loki — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:53:01 +0000

Or maybe everybody else just had a long run of shitty luck?

By: Terje Phlegmont Mendoza

Terje Phlegmont Mendoza — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:56:30 +0000

Perhaps he was just lucky?

By: Loki

Loki — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:38:18 +0000

“Granted that luck actually exists other than as a way to describe a situation where someone have had the odds on their side, of course.”

Of course it does. What, you think Fortune was just made up by some Roman guy with too much spare time and then av score of really intelligent people bought into his fantasy just like that for a couple of millenia afterwards? ‘Course not. That’d be HIGHLY improbable.

By: Terje Phlegmont Mendoza

Terje Phlegmont Mendoza — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:03:55 +0000

“So what you’re saying is, someone from, say, Sudan, coming here, would have virtually zero chance of winning the lottery as his or her luck would be of non-Norwegian proportions.”

Granted that luck actually exists other than as a way to describe a situation where someone have had the odds on their side, of course.

By: Lotta

Lotta — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:57:41 +0000

But if we went to Sudan and played the lottery there we’d be rich in an instant!

This depends of course on whether or not they even have a lottery - or if you’ll get out with it alive.

By: Loki

Loki — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:19:41 +0000

Indeed.

So what you’re saying is, someone from, say, Sudan, coming here, would have virtually zero chance of winning the lottery as his or her luck would be of non-Norwegian proportions.

By: Terje Phlegmont Mendoza

Terje Phlegmont Mendoza — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:33:14 +0000

“Magnificent? Isn’t that laying it on a bit thick?”

Well, yeah, that’s why I tried to modify “magnificent” with that stuff I put in the parantheses.

“That said, it would still be nice to win the lottery as well”

Indeed. Hell, just being born in Norway to begin with would seem to indicate that we’re all lucky bastards, so perhaps we should try start playing Lotto? Although, obviously, in a nation of Gladstone Ganders, our incredible luck would negate each other’s, and we would all become perfectly ordinary, luckwise, thus restoring the laws of chance.

Or something.

By: Lotta

Lotta — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:35:38 +0000

I heard somewhere that you had a better chance of winning the lottery ten times in a row than being born in Norway.

That said, it would still be nice to win the lottery as well