General Chat

Congrats to Malcolm for the premium bond win, but it got me thinking on what does luck mean? Is it really lucky to win something? After all, if you aren't in it, you can't win it.

Many people believe in superstitious portends of luck. Lucky numbers, lucky rabbits foot (tough on poor bugs), lucky this and lucky that. But as a famous golfer once said - 'The more I practise, the luckier I get'.

So is winning, for example, the lottery, pure 'luck' or just accepting that it is inevitable that someone will win, given the odds are 14 million to one against getting the jackpot. Why should the winner be 'lucky?' Someone has to get it sooner or later, so surely it's merely odds as opposed to luck.

Some people are described as 'lucky' - myself included for various reasons - but I made all my 'luck' happen. It didn't just appear.

And what about 'bad luck?' When something goes wrong, we tend to ascribe it to 'bad luck', but is it really? Or is it the inevitable result of a previous course of action or whatever. Could 'bad luck' have been avoided with the benefit of hindsight and if so, then how can it be 'bad luck?'.

Funny how the mind wanders on a day off when it's raining :-)

Interestingly, a belief in luck is used in questions on standard personality tests, like the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. (It is used to diagnose disorders like depression, paranoia ...)

One of the statements asking for a true or false response, for example, is:

"Much of the trouble I'm having is due to bad luck."

One commentary on "self-concept" says, of people who respond particular ways:

"The client is unlikely to see himself as responsible for his present difficulties. He is likely to see his difficulties as due to other people, difficult situations, or bad luck, and he will tend to project blame onto others."

Conversely, people with "fear of success" attribute their success to luck, and their failure to their own faults.

Believing that one's fate is out of one's hands, for better or for worse, can be a symptom of a problem, and can cause one problems.

I have a lucky top that I were when I go to the casino.....everytime I go wearing it I win either that or they feel sorry for me....lol

Does Crown Bingo not have a dress code....?

:-)

but surely it's not just pure luck that you win at the lottery. You have to play it first. Therefore you make your own luck, by playing.

Shurrp or I will give you the shock of your life..:-)))))))

Good point TW

ok here's a bit of 'luck' for you....

I went to an auction, bid on some rug wool and canvas etc in a large cardboard box. contents unseen but for the top layer...started at a £1 and pulled out when someone else got up to £7... the 'buyer' then realised he had bid for the wrong lot, so auctioneer knocked it down to me at my maiden bid of £1.

Got it home, unpacked it...and found a bag containing 'dish cloth cotton' with what I took to be knitting instructions rolled up in the middle...pulled out 'instructions' to find it was in fact old £10 notes.... £1410 worth...

now was it ' luck' ? lol

Rose - that was JAMMY)))))

People always say they have Bad Luck when lifes not dealing out what they would like to have

Its your good kuck you have the right timing to do what you do at the time.

Thats logic......

lol Jac wasn't it just! :))
and just at the right time too.
xx

luck is getting a full house on the river card when someone is holding a flush.

Rose...........was it nice coloured rug wool or just all the boreing brown left overs ?..........if it was nice colours then you would indeed have been lucky....lol

Amanda , It was green, red and black lol but I passed it on before I moved, never having got round to making rugs... I did however knit a dishcloth with the cotton, seemed only right and proper lol

xx

Red , Green and Black sound like a most bold combination : )

I've got a bin bag of rug wool up in the loft.........I really ought to get on and finish what I started......lol

Where you able to cash in the old ten pound notes?........I hope so : )