Win-Win

But what if you're wrong-wrong and it goes bad-bad?

You cunt-cunt.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 11:46, 5 replies)

Actually
That particular phrase is from game theory. In most games, one party wins, and the other loses - a game of cricket, for example, would be win-lose. However, some situations can be described as win-win, as both parties gain - exploration companies like to describe the discovery of oil as win-win, for both themselves and the local communities.

But you're right, it has been completely bastardised by the press to simply mean 'a pleasant surprise'.
(Clerk T Hazarde are all the wine, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 12:48, closed)

I was going to put that
and feel smug yet nerdy at the same time.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 13:12, closed)

this-this

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 14:09, closed)

Outside of oil exploration and Game Theory, **clicks**
(Canerbry porks kittens, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 15:42, closed)

more or less means 'mutually beneficial'
which 'win' on its own does not.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 21:09, closed)