“million-to-one chances happen nine times out of ten”

One of my favourite quotes from Terry Pratchett is that “million-to-one chances happen nine times out of ten”. When something awful happens, or freakish, we hear news reporters say “it was a million-to-one chance that this would happen”. In February 2009 we had the worst snow for twenty years. Across the UK many schools, colleges … Continue reading “million-to-one chances happen nine times out of ten”