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R.Wreck
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USA
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 Posted - 01/23/2006 : 19:30:08
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Or maybe not. January 23 is the unhappiest day of the year.
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Cliff Arnall, a health psychologist at Cardiff University, has devised a formula to work out the worst day of the year and has come up with Jan 23 for 2006.
His calculation is based on the poorest weather, debts owed for seasonal spending, the time since Christmas, the period of time before you abandon New Year's resolutions, the dates when motivation levels seems to be at their lowest and the timing for the need for action to escape the blues.
Hope your day hasn't sucked too bad. Cheer up, it only gets better from here on out.
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The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 01/23/2006 : 19:48:36 [Permalink]
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Lol, actually I felt today like I was finally coming out of a nagging funk. I managed to pay off some debts, including my last car payment. And January 23rd is about the time I first start trying to make good on my News Year's resolutions. I guess I'm just a slow starter. 
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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UncleJ
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Posted - 01/23/2006 : 20:20:09 [Permalink]
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| Actually I was really in a bad mood yesterday. Today seemed to go pretty good but there are still a couple of hours to go. Maybe I can pick a fight with the wife! |
"The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church." - F. Magellan
"I can't be a missionary! I don't even believe in Jebus!" - H. Simpson |
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 01/23/2006 : 20:48:52 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by R.Wreck
Or maybe not. January 23 is the unhappiest day of the year.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Cliff Arnall, a health psychologist at Cardiff University, has devised a formula to work out the worst day of the year and has come up with Jan 23 for 2006.
His calculation is based on the poorest weather, debts owed for seasonal spending, the time since Christmas, the period of time before you abandon New Year's resolutions, the dates when motivation levels seems to be at their lowest and the timing for the need for action to escape the blues.
Please write to him and tell him, No it's not!
I have no debt, I make no resolutions (although I did sort of this year and have so far kept it), school starts soon so I'm getting really motivated. The only thing he had going for him was the weather and today was odd otherwise I like this time of year. Unusually high wind which prevented me from going somewhere but saved me gas so it wasn't all bad. Cliff doesn't know what he's talking about, IMO.
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2006 : 02:05:49 [Permalink]
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| Hey, we had Sun after 30 some straight days of rain. No way was it a bad day. |
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
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Posted - 01/24/2006 : 03:34:13 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by R.Wreck
Hope your day hasn't sucked too bad. Cheer up, it only gets better from here on out.
My January 23 was great!
My wife gave birth to our second child, a beautiful boy.
Life is good!
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 01/24/2006 : 05:56:52 [Permalink]
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| I got 20$k in new debt on the 23rd! hooray. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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UncleJ
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Posted - 01/24/2006 : 09:02:01 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Starman
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Originally posted by R.Wreck
Hope your day hasn't sucked too bad. Cheer up, it only gets better from here on out.
My January 23 was great!
My wife gave birth to our second child, a beautiful boy.
Life is good!
Congratulations Starman! |
"The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church." - F. Magellan
"I can't be a missionary! I don't even believe in Jebus!" - H. Simpson |
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2006 : 17:59:09 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Starman
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by R.Wreck
Hope your day hasn't sucked too bad. Cheer up, it only gets better from here on out.
My January 23 was great!
My wife gave birth to our second child, a beautiful boy.
Life is good!
Congrats Starman!
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf:
I got 20$k in new debt on the 23rd! hooray.[/quote]
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The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2006 : 18:13:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Starman
My January 23 was great!
My wife gave birth to our second child, a beautiful boy.
Life is good!
Congratulations! I'm so sorry his birthday is going to be so depressing every year.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 01/25/2006 : 06:31:36 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Starman
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Originally posted by R.Wreck
Hope your day hasn't sucked too bad. Cheer up, it only gets better from here on out.
My January 23 was great!
My wife gave birth to our second child, a beautiful boy.
Life is good!
Congratulations! |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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furshur
SFN Regular
USA
1536 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2006 : 11:29:06 [Permalink]
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Congratulations starman. The 23rd was also a happy day for me; it was my daughters 13th birthday. Starman, I'm terible with remebering birthdays, but this one is as easy as 123!
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Subjectmatter
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 01/25/2006 : 11:42:32 [Permalink]
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Oh, I would congratulate you, but I feel that it is primarily tragic that he will have his birthday on the most depressing day of the year...
Congratulations! |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 01/25/2006 : 12:14:09 [Permalink]
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| Congrats, Starman! May he live many a happy year! : ) |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
3739 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2006 : 13:00:30 [Permalink]
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| Dang - I broke my New Year's Resolution on Jan 22 and felt like crap about it the next day. (Although I'm still trying to keep it regardless of messing up.) So I guess his guess was good. |
"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong
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