Smashing face!
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
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In Feb 2017 I looked in the mirror and, uncharacteristically, felt that my mouth was looking good for my age and that the Cupid's bow and upper lip were in particularly good shape. I decided to buy new lipstick next day. While walking to my car with the new lipstick I tripped over a pothole and fell flat on my face. The only damage was to my top lip - which despite being repaired by an excellent maxillo- facial surgeon is now permanently disfigured - the cupid's bow I was so proud of has been replaced by a two pronged scar. I had never congratulated myself on my face before and although a year previously I had fallen and broken my nose this is not something I do regularly. I know Freud says there is no such thing as an accident and would no doubt say that I had deliberately sabotaged myself by smashing my face into the tarmac but just to be on the safe side. I now refuse to think positively about any part of my body
Date submitted:Wed, 04 Apr 2018 12:27:46 +0000Coincidence ID:9966
