Sod or Murphy?

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Rickles

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#143443 15-Apr-2014 10:28

There seems to be a universal constant that a USB cable plug only fits on the third rotated try?

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#1025440 15-Apr-2014 10:33

yep it's a rule

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#1025442 15-Apr-2014 10:37

Applies x2 to micro usb

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#1025447 15-Apr-2014 10:48

It's covered by Finagle's corollary to Murphy's Law - inanimate objects are out to get us.
A more correct term for this may be resistentialism or the acronym IPOIO (innate perversity of inanimate objects).

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#1025457 15-Apr-2014 11:09

That's a well known phenomenon called the "USB Uncertainty Principle"

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#1025459 15-Apr-2014 11:12

LOL!

Rickles

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#1025461 15-Apr-2014 11:13

I also firmly believe that USB ports on the sides of TVs actually randomly change their orientation !

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#1025469 15-Apr-2014 11:26

Rickles: I also firmly believe that USB ports on the sides of TVs actually randomly change their orientation !

So do the micro USB ports on tablets and Cellphones.

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