Monday, January 24th to be Worst Day of the Year 578
RonMcMahon writes "Dr. Arnalls from Cardiff University has crunched the numbers and has precisely determined that Monday, January 24th will be the worst day of the year.
For those of you who might be wondering, the formula to use when deciding what day to stay in bed is 1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA.
The fact that the 24th happens to land on a Monday is purely coincidental."
In honor of the worst day of the year (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In honor of the worst day of the year (Score:4, Funny)
Re:In honor of the worst day of the year (Score:3, Funny)
Worldwide rioting and looting to follow.
Re:In honor of the worst day of the year (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In honor of the worst day of the year (Score:3, Funny)
Worse... (Score:3, Funny)
... they'll all be dupes.
He miscalculated... It's an inauguration year... (Score:3, Funny)
I think he forgot that it's an inauguration year, and that GW won.
waaaaaahhhh :( (Score:2, Funny)
Re:waaaaaahhhh :( (Score:4, Insightful)
The gave you the lowest price.
2004 called.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:2004 called.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:2004 called.. (Score:3, Funny)
That one liner is firmly owned by the 80's.
And your retort is too...
Don't make the 80's sue you for violating it's IP rights! They will! They're CUTTHROAT!
Re:He miscalculated... It's an inauguration year.. (Score:3, Funny)
Nah, it just takes 4 days for the reality to set in.
Re:He miscalculated... It's an inauguration year.. (Score:4, Funny)
That's not reality setting in, it's the hangover wearing off.
My advice: take another drink, it's going to be a long few years.
Re:He miscalculated... It's an inauguration year.. (Score:2)
Re:He miscalculated... It's an inauguration year.. (Score:2, Troll)
His greatest skill seems to be defeating supposedly smart Democratic candidates.
W != conservative (Score:4, Insightful)
I mean sure, he espouses conservative values
I'm curious- what are these conservative values you speak of?
- Smaller government? Nope. He's never vetoed a spending bill. Even excluding the military and homeland security, government expenditures are growing faster than during Clinton's terms.
- Fiscal responsibility? Dear Lord in Heaven, no. His entire economic policy amounts to "Charge it!"
- State's rights? Just try to pass a medical marijuana (CA) or euthanasia (OR) bill and see what happens.
- Minimally interventionist foreign policy? Hmm, I can't remember the objection here. I think it ends with a "q", but I might be wrong.
- Free trade? Sure, unless you need votes in a big steel state. Then forget it.
- Respect for the constitution? We've got american citizens sitting in jails right now, no charges filed, no lawyers, no trial, ever. Get labeled a terrorist and you can just disappear.
I could go on for quite a while. Bush is not and has never been a conservative in the classical sense of the word. He's a radical.Re:Morbidly Curious (Score:3, Interesting)
And this is what I'm curious about. This is conventionally held wisdom, but what evidence do you have to support this?
That sounds like I want to send you off on a snipe hunt, but I don't. From my own research, I'm fairly confident that you woouldn't find anything but stories from the administration, and that analysis from our intelligence apparatus actually sought to cast some doubt on whether Iraq s
Re:Nostradamus preducted more tsunamis (Score:2)
Re:Nostradamus preducted more tsunamis (Score:2)
I smell a movie plot!!!
Re:Nostradamus preducted more tsunamis (Score:2, Troll)
Re:Nostradamus preducted more tsunamis (Score:2)
Re:Nostradamus preducted more tsunamis (Score:2)
Guess you had better tell the British that... Of course I guess that is just a holiday. Or for that matter, many religions consider Sunday to be a holy day - so it was on Sunday.
Re:Nostradamus preducted more tsunamis (Score:3, Informative)
Reading up on depression? Give me a break. (Score:5, Insightful)
All reading up on the topic does is make you realize that you exhibit more symptoms of depression than you thought. Realizing that you are depressed 90% of the time only spells deeper depression.
I suggest exercise, reading stuff OTHER than depression/illness related material (especially work related), and getting your ass outside.
Re:Reading up on depression? Give me a break. (Score:5, Funny)
I suggest exercise, reading stuff OTHER than depression/illness related material (especially work related), and getting your ass outside.
Seems like you need to take your own advice, buddy. :P I've been seeing far too many posts by you lately.
Re:Reading up on depression? Give me a break. (Score:5, Funny)
Your friendly Canadian slashdotter,
- shazow
Re:Reading up on depression? Give me a break. (Score:2)
Re:Reading up on depression? Give me a break. (Score:2)
Hell on my birthday I was in the middle of a frozen lake in -25 degree temps with gusts of wind dropping the windchill to -35 and below.
Dress warm and learn to get used to it.
Re:Reading up on depression? Give me a break. (Score:2)
"Do you have ANY idea how cold it is ootside? I can't even feel my ass anymore."
I would imagine rather than it being cold outside causing you to loose sensation in your buttocks, it's more likely the fact that you've gone and gotten your ass outside and yet left the rest of you inside, posting on Slashdot...
Go and bring your poor ass in from outside and reattach it sir.
Re:Reading up on depression? Give me a break. (Score:2)
What's funny is that people who live in California are thought of as being crazy.
Re:Reading up on depression? Give me a break. (Score:2)
Re:Reading up on depression? Give me a break. (Score:2)
Hell yeah!
That way you can smoke without everyone whining about it.
Re:Reading up on depression? Give me a break. (Score:4, Interesting)
If your worked at eBay... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:If your worked at eBay... (Score:3, Funny)
My first son (Score:4, Funny)
I hop it's not turning out to be the worst day ever.
Re:My first son (Score:4, Informative)
Re:My first son (Score:2)
Re:My first son (Score:2)
Re:My first son (Score:2)
What a coincidence... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What a coincidence... (Score:4, Funny)
- Thomas
nahhhh (Score:3, Funny)
Re:nahhhh (Score:2)
For me... (Score:2, Funny)
I've just been on holiday to Australia for the last three weeks and Monday is when I go back to work.
Sigh...
Re:OT: As an aussie... (Score:2)
Traffic was nice - both sets of traffic lights worked well, and it only took 35 minutes from Perth to Sydney.
All in all, he highly recommends it.
Can't be (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Can't be (Score:5, Funny)
January 24 in History (Score:3, Informative)
* 41 - Claudius is appointed Emperor of Rome after his nephew, Caligula, is assassinated.
* 1458 - Matthias I Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
* 1679 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.
* 1742 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1848 - California gold rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
* 1859 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania (see December 1, 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions were still missing at this time).
* 1888 - Jacob L. Wortman patents the typewriter ribbon.
* 1908 - Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement.
* 1916 - In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax void.
* 1922 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
* 1924 - St. Petersburg, Russia is renamed Leningrad.
* 1936 - Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
* 1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
* 1952 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.
* 1962 - Brian Epstein signs to manage The Beatles.
* 1966 - An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117
* 1972 - Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier, is discovered on Guam.
* 1982 - Super Bowl XVI: San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals, 26-21 in the first Super Bowl played north of the Mason-Dixon line
* 1984 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
* 1986 - Voyager 2 passes within 50,679 miles of Uranus.
* 1987 - In Lebanon, gunmen kidnap Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh.
* 1989 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair.
* 1995 - The prosecution delivers its opening statement in the O. J. Simpson murder trial.
* 1996 - Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charge he spied for Moscow.
* 2001 - The last two of the Texas 7 are taken into custody in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
* 2002 - Enron Congressional hearings begin.
* 2002 - Terrorist suspect John Walker Lindh's hearing begins.
* 2002 - The United States Department of Justice indicts Robert Nicholas Angleton for conspiring to murder his wife, Doris Angleton, along with his brother Roger.
* 2003 - The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
Births
* 76 - Hadrian, Roman emperor (d. 138)
* 1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
* 1776 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, poet, composer, and painter (d. 1822)
* 1862 - Edith Wharton, writer (d. 1937)
* 1888 - Vicki Baum, writer (d. 1960)
* 1888 - Ernst Heinkel, aircraft designer (d. 1958)
* 1895 - Eugen Roth, lyricist and narrator (d. 1976)
* 1917 - Ernest Borgnine, actor
* 1918 - Oral Roberts, evangelist
* 1925 - Maria Tallchief, prima ballerina
* 1928 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer
* 1934 - Stanisaw Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist (d. 1976)
* 1939 - Doug Kershaw, musician
* 1939 - Ray Stevens, country music musician
* 1943 - Sharon Tate, actress (d. 1969)
* 1944 - Neil Diamond, singer
* 1946 - Michael Ontkean, actor
* 1947 - Warren Zevon, American musician-songwriter (d. 2003)
* 1949 - John Belushi, actor (d. 1982)
* 1958 - Jools Holland, musician
* 1960 - Nastassja Kinski, actress
* 1968 - Mary Lou Retton, gymnast
* 1979 - Tatyana Ali, actress
Deaths
* 41 - Caligula, Emperor of Rome (AD 37-41) (assassinated by his own guards) (b. AD 12)
* 1125 - David the Builder, king of Georgia (b. 1073)
* 1366 - King Alfonso IV of Aragon
Re: January 24 in History (Score:3, Funny)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_24
Thanks... that long list of dead people cheered me right up.
Re: January 24 in History (Score:2)
Everyone dies!!!
Go to your room and muddle over that one for a bit!
Well, maybe the guy is right then. (Score:2)
Re:January 24 in History (Score:2)
Having said that, I somewhat question the value of recording when the Eskimo Pie was invented/patented though.
Northern-hemisphere only? (Score:5, Interesting)
Looking at the comments in the article they're almost all from England or Scotland, so that says most of it.
Re:Northern-hemisphere only? (Score:5, Funny)
Does ANYTHING ever account for those of you in the southern hemisphere?
Where are you guys anyways?
Re:Northern-hemisphere only? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Northern-hemisphere only? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Northern-hemisphere only? (Score:2)
Re:Northern-hemisphere only? (Score:2)
But February is coming up. The weather's always warm in February, isn't it? Hm, what happened last February? - I remember! We had a 100 year flood in the city I live in!
(On the other hand, Monday 24th is a regional holiday, and I'll be with my nieces, so it promises to be pretty good.)
Haha (Score:2)
Maybe I shouldn't even try and give up now.
Why BBC why?! (Score:5, Interesting)
First it was "the perfect joke", then "the perfect horror movie", and "the perfect family game", then I think we had "murphy's law". Every time it's just a bunch of random subjective factors strung together into (usually linear) formula that's realistically as arbitrary and subjective various factors they're combining.
Yes, yes, all fun and amusing and all that. Well, it was the first time - a bit of a laugh. The second time it just seemed a little silly and pointless. By this point it rates about as funny as a slashdot meme. Why publish this crap?
Jedidiah.
Re: Why BBC why?! (Score:5, Funny)
> Why does the BBC continue to publish this drivel? This is about the 5th article where some git has come up with a "mathematical formula" for something which is complete drivel. First it was "the perfect joke", then "the perfect horror movie", and "the perfect family game", then I think we had "murphy's law".
Wonder when they'll get to "the perfect Slashdot post".
Slashdot memes. (Score:2)
I, for one, welcome our new slashdot meme overlords.
In Soviet Russia, the meme's slashdot you!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of slashdot memes.
Oh Great.... (Score:2)
Curse you braniac-part-time-tutors-from-Cardiff!
Great! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Great! (Score:2)
--Stephen
Complete Nonsense (Score:3, Informative)
No units are given for any of the variables. What unit is the result in? It's completely meaningless.
Look at the guy's home page, he seems to be a press whore:
http://www.nopills.demon.co.uk/
Re:Complete Nonsense (Score:2)
Re:Complete Nonsense (Score:3, Insightful)
Well, someone skipped class the day they talked about statistics. A probability is a real number between 0 and 1 inclusively, with no units. Probabilities are often expressed as a percentage, in which case you multiply the probability by 100 and add a percent sign (this is not a unit. Technically, you could write 25% feet == 3 inches). That said I think this is mostly bullshit, but be accurate enough t
Original? (Score:2)
For decades plebes (first-year Midshipmen) at the US Naval Academy have needed to know the daily happiness and gas factors. Hopefully, he cited this prior work.
Not that day! (Score:2, Funny)
Well, look out psycho-history, (Score:2)
Shit... (Score:2, Funny)
Re: (Score:2)
I live in brasil you insensitive clod... (Score:2)
not to mention is summer here, all schools are on vacation, so there's no traffic jams, even in big cities like sao paulo...
you get the picture. this guy should consider adding a geographical factor in his equation.
He must be an Eagles fan... (Score:2)
Don't flame me, I'm an Eagles fan too! Just had my heart ripped out too many times...
Hooray! (Score:2)
--Stephen
Beat the blues! (Score:2)
-- Ketan B Shah, Harrow, England
Ironic (Score:3, Funny)
to the 9th power
1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA^9
is related to him getting laid.
My Birthday (Score:2)
Help with mod points (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Help with mod points (Score:2)
Unfortunately, you can't mod the actual news posts. In this case, it doesn't matter anyway, because slashdot doesn't have a "-1, Who comes up with this shit?" mod.
Every day I work (Score:2)
Uh-oh. (Score:4, Funny)
Oh great! (Score:2)
Thanks for harshing by buzz dude..
self fulfilling prophecy... (Score:2)
On the plus side, at least we know that after the 24th, things will not be that bad again for at least another 11 and a bit months
All I can say is" (Score:2)
And for those of us non-Christians....? (Score:3, Interesting)
Well, as an observant Jew, I suppose I'll need to re-calculate this using a religious-orientation-appropriate substitute.
Any others of the tribe lurking? If so, any suggestions? Maybe Tisha b'Av?
Those of other religious persuasions, feel free to chime in with your own sectarian-oriented suggestions as well.
And, I guess this gets the atheists completely off the hook...enjoy your Monday, you Godless unbelievers!
Re:And for those of us non-Christians....? (Score:3, Funny)
Bliss, I tell you.
What's next? Slashdot horoscopes? (Score:3, Interesting)
Sheesh.
Re:i dont get it. (Score:5, Informative)
1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA. Where:
W: Weather
D: Debt
d: Money due in January pay
T: Time since Christmas
Q: Time since failed quit attempt
M: General motivational levels
NA: The need to take action
oh, well, that explains everythingRe:i dont get it (Score:2)
Re:i dont get it. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:i dont get it. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Total Crap (Score:2)
Re:Total Crap (Score:3, Insightful)
This is just one in a string of such crap from the BBC. With a quick search I found "The Perfect Horror Film" [bbc.co.uk], "The Perfect Film" [bbc.co.uk], "The Formula for Happiness" [bbc.co.uk], "The Formula for On Screen Chemistry" [bbc.co.uk], "The Formula for the Perfect Family Christmas" [bbc.co.uk].
I also recall a "Formula for Murphy's Law", and a "Formula for the Perfect Joke", but the quick search didn't turn those up.
It wouldn't be so bad if they didn
Re:TRUE STORY... I got fired/divorced today (Score:3, Interesting)
I suggest you to take the SCO way: Sue her.
- Gustavo
Re:TRUE STORY... I got fired/divorced today (Score:2)
As someone already said - 2004 called, they want their liberal whining back.
Re:No way (Score:2)