Get ready for Black Monday
p2pnet.net OT News:- Stay in bed tomorrow.
Why?
Because January 24 is, the worst day of the year“.
At least, that’s what Cardiff University’s Cliff Arnalls says, according to the BBC, going on:
“The formula for the day of misery reads 1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA.
“Where W is weather, D is debt – minus the money (d) due on January’s pay day – and T is the time since Christmas. Q is the period since the failure to quit a bad habit, M stands for general motivational levels and NA is the need to take action and do something about it.”
You’ve been warned ; )
Something you think we should know about? tips[at]p2pnet.net
===================
See:-
worst day of the year - ‘I don’t like Monday 24 January’, BBCÂ News Online, January 19, 2005
January 23rd, 2005 at 6:02 pm
Wow you spend all that money to go to a university and you come up with an equation to figure out how bad Monday January 24th is HHHMMM…..
January 23rd, 2005 at 6:26 pm
LOL, that will tell you how education are these days. I’m having my exam on monday 24th Jan
January 23rd, 2005 at 6:34 pm
I wonder what people with birthdays on the 24th think about this ; )
heh
Cheers!
January 24th, 2005 at 12:18 am
I actually saw this on the BBC news a few days ago and had a good laugh about it as 24th Jan is indeed my birthday.
January 24th, 2005 at 2:12 am
Completely meaningless and ridiculous.
So the variables will be the same for everyone for the whole day?
Ah!
What about people in the southern hemisphere! What about the bears!
Someone should tell that “Cliff Arnalls” that how we feel about a particular day is more based on what we expect, what we do and what we remember of it afterwards.
Might as well say that we’ll be extra super lucky april 14th because the magic eight ball said so.
And we all know that the magic eight ball gives predictions more useful than simple mathematical formulas about things that can’t be expressed mathematically.
Besides, using a stupid mathmatical formula to boost credence is a clear sophism.
Oh, right, that was a journalistic text! It is expected to be based on deliberately invalid arguments!
January 24th, 2005 at 11:44 am
I assume it’s double-entendre. I used to live in USA.