Black Monday (1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA)... Enjoy

[spoons]

TODAY

A tutor at Cardiff University has calculated, for the UK at least, that Monday 23 January will mark a zenith of misery for the country as semi-sucicidal Brits descend into a black mire of depression and despair.

The causes are all too familiar to long-suffering citizens of the rain-lashed United Kingdom: crap weather, personal debt on a developing-world scale, post-Xmas blues and a general apathy-inducing malaise.

That, at least, is according to Cliff Arnalls who has developed a formula - 1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA - which is able to pinpoint the worst day of the year.

Factors included in the calculation are:

• 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

Arnalls noted that "any energy from the holiday had worn off by the third week of January", and added: "By Monday, most people will have fallen off the wagon or abandoned the nicotine patches as they fail to keep New Year's resolutions."

That, coupled to a lack of wedge, inertia and inclement weather conspire to make Monday 23 January the absolute pits for Brits.

[Penfold101]

Helps solve the population problem...

[Signum-Steve]

If you can't take it then jump.

[spoons]

I have my own sunny calculation to keep me happy

(VXR+NO2x400/1)+(M6,M5,M40)>02:00:00

[Big Knox]

i have my own sunny calculation to keep me happy

(vxr x 400 / 1)+(m6,m5,m40)>02:00:00

=60+3?

[Penfold101]

I presume that the value of M in (M6,M5,M40) is always less than 70, unless it's M6T...

[spoons]

I presume that the value of M in (M6,M5,M40) is always less than 70, unless it's M6T...

[spoons]

=60+3?

more like =60x3



... at a guess

[rottertron]

Cant be that bad as ive just finished work and got the next 12 days off work.

[FIL 4822]

Or 2.0T+2 (21/01/2012) @ 23:30HRS> M6s-M5s @60mph -J8 SERV.
>M5n-M6n @70mph > 02:00HRS = !