Did you know that when they made the Ghostbusters cartoon, the role of the Bill Murray character was given to the voice actor who played Garfield … and then decades later, Bill Murray was cast as the voice of Garfield in the CGI movie?
What are the odds of that happening? Huh?
Okay, here's an even better one; what are the odds that I would hear that same bit of useless trivia brought up in conversation on five different fucking podcasts in the space of a week? How the fuck does such an utterly useless bit of information become so viral that suddenly everybody's fucking talking about it? That's what I actually want to fucking know!
… Yeah, okay, alright, I'll get onto the post propper then …
There's a tradie working on my parents' new house at the moment—Let's call him Dave. Dave is an old friend of my brother. They met by chance when they were both living in the top end. It's a complete coincidence that Dave now happens to live in the town where my parents bought their retirement house. But that's not all. Dave's parents also happen to be friends with my aunt and uncle, whom they met in a completely different part of the country, under completely unrelated circumstances.
Now, the population of Australia isn't that big, and I've got a pretty large, and well spread-out family, but this got me wondering; what are the odds of the scenario I just described actually happening? I mean—like—if you were seriously going to work it out—like—mathematically or whatever?
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I did statistics in school, and could give it go, but there's something also skewing it which is race, culture and SES. These will cause people to gravitate to certain some places more than others.
That said, I once lived in West London and was out for a stroll and I ran into an old shag who I knew lived in the far north of London. It was just on a normal suburban street, not Oxford St or anything, and he wasn't aware where I'd moved to, or at least not precisely aware. I don't think either of us really believed it happened.
Relationship cracking up again. Not sure what I'm going to do, and nothing can happen while I have a broken leg, but if it does end, I'll probably be moving to QLD as well.
That doesn't sound good, Suze. Is it something in particular, or a culmination of factors?
A bit too complex to go into here (considering it's basically public), but mostly to do with his complete lack of empathy when I initially broke my leg. He says that is ringing alarm bells at him about his feelings towards me. We are having counselling and shedding a lot of tears, but neither of us can go anywhere right now because of my broken leg, so we are stuck with each other for at least the next couple of months.
How have things gone over the last few weeks?
Decision made - we are separating.
Working hard to keep it amicable at the moment, and it's been fine.
But I'm hazy and depressed from spending so much time indoors and not leaving the house at all except to go to the physio or whatever. I just want it over now so I can start my new life.
Looking at real estate in Queensland pretty seriously now and trying to formulate a plan for the future.
If you need someone to talk to, you know where I am ... provided I've got working internet.
If you do move to QLD, at least you won't have to put up with Melbourne weather anymore. Can you believe it's the end of may, and I'm sitting at my computer, with no heater on, and all I'm wearing is a pair of undies (not even a top).
Oh I'm moving to QLD.
IF I ever get out of fucking Victoria.
I hope everything's okay, Suze.
The timing on this latest outbreak was particularly bad. Sometimes, it feel like there's a higher power fucking with you, doesn't it?
Yeah, I'm now in hotel quarantine, looking out the window on mostly buildings and a bit of the river.
I just had to make the decision to leave, in the end, as there's no way of knowing when Vic would be taken of the hotspot list by QLD. And now with this new variant appearing, I'm super glad I did. The chances of it ending quickly seem to be diminishing with every news cycle.
The only reason I stayed as long as I did to be caught here now is that I was supposed to have a second operation but that was cancelled as non-urgent due to the lockdown (pretty urgent to me since I can't walk until they do it). So I got on the plane and here I am.
I have tried to email you, but
a) your PGP key has expired
and
b) I can't figure out how or if it's possible to use one with gmail. (probably not, given google is a privacy nightmare anyway)
You haven't posted for two months, are you still out there?
I'm now living with my Mum in QLD.
Very happy here, have a house in settlement and am planning to study next year.
How's things going with you?
PS contact me using the first part of my username and iinet d04 net d04 au
I don't know if that'll stop the bots but gmail has good spam filters anyway.
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