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SeanH said:
Supposedly the most depressing day of the year.

So here's seven and a half minutes of genius to cheer you up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyoDbX1EkPQ
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FUCKING BRILLIANT! I don't know how many 12" vinyl mixes I had of this.

It now reminds me of the scene from 'Shaun of the Dead' where they were flinging records to decapitate zombies and it was sacrilege to throw "Blue Monday". LOL!
 
I had no idea:


Blue Monday (date)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blue Monday is a name given to a date stated, as part of a publicity campaign by Sky Travel, to be the most depressing day of the year. It is patent pseudoscience.[1]
This date was published in a press release under the name of Cliff Arnall, at the time a tutor at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, a Further Education centre attached to Cardiff University. Guardian columnist Dr. Ben Goldacre reported that the press release was delivered substantially pre-written to a number of academics by public relations agency Porter Novelli, who offered them money to put their names to it.[2] The Guardian later printed a statement from Cardiff University distancing themselves from Arnall: "Cardiff University has asked us to point out that Cliff Arnall... was a former part-time tutor at the university but left in February."[3]
According to a press release by a mental health charity,[4] the formula is:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/math/0/4/8/0488676cfd763b28dd774e06b7f554b4.png

where weather=W, debt=d, time since Christmas=T, time since failing our new year’s resolutions=Q, low motivational levels=M and the feeling of a need to take action=Na. 'D' is not defined in the release, nor are units.
Arnall says the date was calculated by using many factors, including: weather conditions, debt level (the difference between debt accumulated and our ability to pay), time since Christmas, time since failing our new year’s resolutions, low motivational levels and feeling of a need to take action. Writing about the calculation, Ben Goldacre stated: ... the fact is that Cliff Arnall's equations ... fail even to make mathematical sense on their own terms.[2]
This date allegedly falls on the Monday of the last full week of January. The date was declared by Arnall to be 24 January in 2005,[5] 23 January in 2006,[6] 22 January in 2007,[7] 21 January in 2008,[8] 19 January in 2009,[4] 18 January in 2010. In 2011 there has been confusion about the correct date. Some claimed it was on 17 January 2011[9] while others say blue Monday was on 24 January 2011.[10][11][12].
Mr Arnall also says, in a press release commissioned by Wall's ice cream,[13] that he has calculated the happiest day of the year—in 2005, 24 June,[14] in 2006, 23 June,[15] in 2008, 20 June,[16] in 2009, 19 June[17] and in 2010, 18th June.[18] So far, this date has fallen close to Midsummer.
 
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slave_ said:
FUCKING BRILLIANT! I don't know how many 12" vinyl mixes I had of this.

It now reminds me of the scene from 'Shaun of the Dead' where they were flinging records to decapitate zombies and it was sacrilege to throw "Blue Monday". LOL!
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Best selling 12" of all time.
 
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