deserves to lose

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deserves to lose - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  deserves to lose
   adj.
  
     [common] Said of someone who willfully does the Wrong Thing;
     humorously, if one uses a feature known to be marginal. What is
     meant is that one deserves the consequences of one's losing
  actions.
     "Boy, anyone who tries to use mess-dos deserves to lose!" (ITS
     fans used to say the same thing of Unix; many still do.) See also
     screw, chomp, bagbiter.