Murphy’s Laws

We all have some terribly bad days sometimes, and admit it: the best thing we can do is to learn how to laugh at ourselves. Fortunately, once there was a man named Edward Murphy, who made several laws of everyday-life. It’s weird, but these funny laws can really work, especially on those mentioned days… Check your knowledge! How many of these laws have you known?

If something just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

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.

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.

The other line always moves faster.

Everything goes wrong all at once.

In nature, nothing is ever right. Therefore, if everything is going right . . . something is wrong.

When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.
Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

Everything takes longer than you think.

Everything takes longer than it takes.

You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.

The chance of the buttered side of the bread falling face down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

A knowledge of Murphy's Law is no help in any situation.

Don't worry about Murphy's Law, you know it's gonna happen anyway, so just get on with it and get it over with!

Crazy laws from around the world

We have brought you the weirdest and funniest laws from around the world! Below you can read 20 laws that are still on the books! Unfortunately we don’t know the origin of most of them, but their stories must have been very interesting. We wouldn't recommend using these laws as evidence in court unless you'd like the judge to laugh you into jail!

1. It is lawful to kill a Scotsman in York if he is carrying a bow and arrow.

2. In the United Kingdom taxi drivers must ask passengers if they are suffering from plague or smallpox.

3. In the UK it is legal for a male to urinate in public, as long as it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle and his right hand is on the vehicle.

4. You can shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow in Chester, inside the city walls and after midnight.

5. A bed may not be hung out of a window.

6. It is illegal for a lady to eat chocolate on a public conveyance.

7. Any boy under the age of 10 may not see a naked mannequin.

8. In Australia a hackney carriage (i.e. taxi) driver must (still) carry a bale of hay and a bucket to feed and water his horse.

9. In Denmark when driving a car, you must have someone at the front of the car waving a flag so that carriages with horses that come opposite know that there’s an engined car coming.

10. In Denmark if someone in a carriage is trying to get past a car and the horses seem disturbed, the car’s driver must pull over, calm down the horse and cover up the car.

11. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter.

12. In France, it is illegal to name a pig Napoleon.

13. In Milan, it is a legal requirement to smile at all times, except funerals or hospital visits.

14. A dogcatcher must notify the dog at least three days before they capture them, of their intentions in Colorado.

15. Citizens may not enter Wisconsin with a chicken on their head.

16. A man with a mustache can never legally kiss a woman in public in Iowa.

17. In Tennessee it’s illegal for a woman to drive unless a man is in front of the car waving a red flag.

18. In France it is forbidden without a cemetery plot to die on the territory of the commune.

19. A person may not cross any state lines with a duck on top of his head.

20. In Arizona donkeys cannot by law sleep in bathtubs.