Jan. 24 officially worst day of the year

Cheer up, tomorrow will be better

And now for something completely dreary
David Ward
Monday January 24, 2005
Guardian

If you stumbled out of bed in the dark this morning, fell over the cat, found no milk in the fridge for your porridge, had a row with your partner, received a rude letter from the bank, got covered in snow at the bus stop and finally arrived at work in time to be made redundant, you will already know that today is the most depressing day of the year.
And if you want scientific proof, then Cliff Arnall of Cardiff University has it.

He settled on January 24 after using an elaborate formula expressing the delicate interplay of lousy weather, post-Christmas debt, time elapsed since yuletide indulgence, failed new year resolutions, motivation levels, and the desperate need to have something to look forward to.

In short, all that's left of Christmas today is credit card bills and a pervading sense that the next holiday is months away.

An insurance company added to the gloom by saying that drivers are more than usually miserable in January, losing their tempers with those other road users who have no right to be driving in the outside lane at 48mph and impeding progress to a vital meeting in Birmingham at noon.This syndrome, dubbed winter driver's disorder, could be the cause of two million accidents (but not all happening today, which happens also to be the 40th anniversary of the death of Sir Winston Churchill).

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I'm kinda partial to it, although some of them have been really bad, most have been pretty good.

time.

sure seems like it. But before him, it was a gas.

and it only started a few years ago, really. The song from "Hair" was about just the dawning- which could be felt back in the sixties.

We've been in Pisces since Christ. Aries for 2000 years before that. Good riddance, I say, but yesterday was my birthday... so I'm partial...

:party: :toast:

on my special, if slightly chilly, day.

most of them sucked but it was fun

that's a pet peeve of mine. :evilgrin: