We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those..

it cannot be done


88 (1967-2067)

yes, kauto star one of the luckiest horses ever. And Liverpool team in the 80s unbelievably lucky. As was Tiger Woods until recently.

I think he was taking about the assymetry of randomness and he was right.

Sounds like the losers' anthem.

**really, there are many underlying reasons why people win. Most have nothing to do with luck.

Luck is a convient curtain to cover the underlying reasons.

what about Susan**

" There are lies, damn lies, statistics and then there is form".
From The Sayings of Dr Slicer, available at all not very good bookshops nowhere in the country.

I have seen "Luck" first hand. Both good and bad! Believe me- it does exist.

Imagine a world in which everything bad that happened to you, you deserved.

Is there a difference between luck and fate?

They've never held a luck on the village green?

Very good, Lonesome. Made me smile anyway.

L.U.C.K.

Labour Under Constructive Knowledge.....

yep, my luck seems like hardwork, but i have more good luck than bad, the answer is in there somewhere.

This is a very philosophical thread! Maybe we should consult that famous philosopher Mark Hughes?

alfee 10 Dec 12:28


yep, my luck seems like hardwork, but i have more good luck than bad, the answer is in there somewhere.

Hard work and luck are something to do with luck re gambling/work i would guess.If ,say, a small kid has cancer or run over..would they have been ok if they had put in the 'hardwork'?

if the kid is taught the importance of crossing the road properly, kid survives , cancer is another story, but i was just chatting from a gambling point of view, that whats on peoples minds on here.

but i get what ye is saying blade, have a nice day.

I know..was just saying luck can't just be in some walks of life and not others.If it affects one it's got to affect all.

what a load of old cocteau.

You can't dismiss luck. It's lucky you were born/raised and live in a 1st world country. Lucky you weren't born with a terrible disability. These are things which we cannot control. Circumstances and fate. Now, making the best of the hand you're dealth, that is another matter. So everybody is partly correct, but luck (good and bad) is always there and it's always a factor.

It depends what you mean by luck.
Obviously there are fluctuations due to random chance, which are larger than we intuitively expect, leading us to see patterns which aren't really there.
If by luck we mean a sticky kind of good fortune which is not due to chance, that is another matter.