We need to talk about......

... What you hear when Angie Post-a-kagoule says "I always win something in my second year".

It's really getting on my tits that some people seem to hear "I'm going to win a trophy for Tottenham this season". Which obviously he couldn't know, based on other people trying and there being no known certainty. But perhaps more importantly because he has never said that.

Why do people think he has?

I mean he could be referring to a historical record with trophies, that may be true. Which may or may not cease to still be true after this season. He might have been talking about 'a game', or possibly feels that he's won something by getting a second season in the jobs he's had. I don't know.

What I do know is that he definitely doesn't mean the thing that he hasn't said, and couldn't possibly know.

So why do so many people think that's what he means?

Could also go in 'what I spend too long thinking about'.

There's a number of occasions when I feel quite compelled to write a piece on peoples perception/interpretation versus what has actually transpired. I think what has happened is that intentional destabilisation and contradictory messaging has drastically undermined peoples ability to think rationally and rigorously.

You are quite correct that he did not say they he would definitely win a trophy this season. How possibly could he with any credibility at all? How could people take those words and extrapolate to that complete nonsense?

It makes me want to have a lie down.

This is what worries me most. People are much more concerned with what they think, than assessing an objective reality.

Hell in a handcart.

Exactly. There's always something to win.

In all this it seems never to have occurred to anyone to ask him what he actually meant by his statement (I'm plumping for a goldfish in a bag at the local annual traveling fair. Recon I won one every second year as well). Instead they are spending quite a lot of time repeatedly critiquing something he didn't say.

So, to summarise. You absolutely believe that he meant something that he didn't say, that he couldn't possibly know, and that anyone questioning that position must be wrong?

At least we don't need the handcart. We are here. Welcome to hell!

You miss the point. On the first hand knowledge that we have it could just as logically be something such as that.

Which would be a completely bonkers thing to believe at that level of knowledge. Right?

It's not the trophy, per se.

"I always win a trophy in my second year" - that's fact checkable. It doesn't mean "I will win a trophy this year". That thing that is currently true, might not be true this time next year.

Saying a fact today, does not commit the universe and all of quantum mechanics to an irreversible truth for all time.

And nobody said it would.

Sure. (and there's deflection and other things to consider...an interesting discussion to be had around that, and how thick he might assume the commentary would be to get the wrong end of the stick and do his work).

He still didn't say that he will win a trophy this year, and no amount of analysis of that conceit will mean that he has.