With nobody but a few unlucky oddballs held to any sort of account.
They regard the Greek crackup as a freakish, unlucky break, even though this sort of thing is a typical feature of a financial crisis.
We'll even give it to Buzzfeed et al for pointing out this hilariously NSFW GIF (clipped from an Al Wakrah Stadium teaser video), which turns the unlucky viewer into a strange sort of architectural voyeur.
A comparison to baseball might help: Brazil, Germany and Italy are each sort of like the Yankees, while a few unlucky nations, particularly England, the Netherlands and Spain are the soccer versions of the Red Sox or Cubs.
When you combine an historically unlucky day (Friday) with an unlucky number (13), all sorts of weirdness is bound to ensue.
Today's unlucky town: Los Alamos, NM and their nuclear labs; Nebraska nuke plants remain dry, sort of, hopefully...so stop worrying!; PLUS: Another climate science denier enters the 2012 Presidential race..
Unused to love, she picked badly or perhaps was just unlucky, choosing men who left her or who were somehow incapable of providing the sort of financial and emotional security she needed.
The unluckiest have crashed onto a ledge and died slowly from exposureNorwegians are an outdoors sort of people, and all that nature "invites you to use it" says Ms Hollekim.
But Thulani Maseko is unlucky enough to be living in Swaziland, Africa's only remaining absolute monarchy, and to be blessed with the sort of personal courage that makes him vocal about injustice.
"It's just nice to be thought of in that sort of regard," said Joel, still sporting an enormous grin two hours after the game, despite having been the unlucky Wigan chosen for the mandatory drug test.
