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Just another random wednesday you'll forget?

  • 13-08-2008 2:55pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭


    Is today one of those random wednesdays in you life that you will probably never remeber a thing from? incidentally does anyone know how much of our lives we actually completely forget???


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    this is certainly one of those random ah threads that everyone is going to forget about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭Carroller16


    Was just thinking that... it is a very random wednesday... August 13 .. the weather is normal ... everything is normal!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 316 ✭✭Magpie!


    I have a very clear memory of a conversation from this day last year.

    In fact all this week last year is crystal clear, it was a big week.

    This year it's pretty meh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    PCB wrote: »
    Is today one of those random wednesdays in you life that you will probably never remeber a thing from? incidentally does anyone know how much of our lives we actually completely forget???

    Most assuredly not. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭PurpleBerry


    It's a crappy Wednesday that I hope to forget. And it follows a crappy Tuesday that I hope to forget. I'm confident that tomorrow will be a crappy Thursday that I hope to forget.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭LouOB


    Apparently its International Left Handers Day - so there


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


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    ......

    Why bother with a normal, intelligent post when nobody will remember it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭crushproof


    ah balls! i thought it was thursday!!! uggggh even longer to the weekend now!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Wasn't this posted last Wednesday?
    Meh... I can't remember...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    No I'll definitely remember today, because today is the day I read this fantastic, life-changing thread.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    dave! banned for excessive irony.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    dave! banned for excessive irony.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    this is certainly one of those random ah threads that everyone is going to forget about.

    Quite. Much unlike those fantastic, life-changing threads in AH like... like... uhm..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭CountingCrows


    Got tickets for my fav band this morning so one of my better Wednesday's


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    I ain't forgetting this Wednesday for a while! Just had a great meeting which could mean big things in my future!

    Plus I didn't have to use my AK so today was a good day.


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Phlann


    You know the way people get drunk and then can hardly remember anything from the previous night unless people remind us? Well, like the OP, I was thinking there a while ago... how much would we actually remember - without prompting - from a night anyway?

    I can't remember much of what I did last night and I wasn't drinking.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    LouOB wrote: »
    Apparently its International Left Handers Day - so there

    I must remember this later, go with the left for a change in their honour.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    Phlann wrote: »
    I can't remember much of what I did last night and I wasn't drinking.

    Its ok..

    Coincidentally enough you won my "random boardsie I follow with a video camera for 8 hours" lottery yesterday..

    Would you like copies of the tapes?

    O.o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭captainzapp


    it scares me a little how little i remember of my life. like 5th year of school for example. it was a real bad year. nothing happened. i dont remember any of it! and it was only about 4 years ago. i think a can black stuff out quite well. i think i do that quite a lot. i wonder will it have repercussions?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭Naos


    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind type?

    I think this is why you should:
    Do one thing every day that scares you


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭JaneyMc


    Surprisingly not an average Wednesday for me, my brother got his LC results, and I'm going to see a band I really like so \o/. Tomorrow will be pretty average though I reckon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭Creature


    Overheal wrote: »
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    I dunno, I mean I do disagree but when you think about it and try to apply it to yourself and your own life it's kinda hard to not agree. I just wish there were no need for it in the first place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Hauk


    I slept in by mistake and was late for work. It rained and I had a pot noodle for lunch.

    Nothing memorable :(

    Hauk


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 991 ✭✭✭Big_Mac


    Meh, todays one of the many shit days I'd rather forget about

    Crappy day at work, crappy weather, everything shitty.

    Definitely Meh!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    i got my hair cut in a barbers today for the first time in at least 8 years


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    I'm going to be drunker then I've ever been in my life. So yeah, I won't need to forget it, I won't know what's going on in the first place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭Agamemnon


    I'll remember today because I got a 10% raise. \o/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 427 ✭✭pyure


    I'll remember it because it's my birthday :)
    26 today, hooray for me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    What the **** is random about it?

    It's Wednesday. The day after tuesday and the day before Thursday.
    The days of the week are ordered, not random.

    Please check a dictionary for definitions of the word "Random".


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,021 ✭✭✭LadyE


    Terry wrote: »
    What the **** is random about it?

    It's Wednesday. The day after tuesday and the day before Thursday.
    The days of the week are ordered, not random.

    Please check a dictionary for definitions of the word "Random".

    Do you not like Wednesdays?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    It's actually my favourite day of the week, but it's still not random.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 546 ✭✭✭AFC_1903


    Wednesdays tend to suck. I don't really know why, they just do? But next wed i'm off to Reading Festival! And it'll be my buddie's 1st ever time flying. Next Wed will be class!


    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭Procasinator


    Terry wrote: »
    What the **** is random about it?

    It's Wednesday. The day after tuesday and the day before Thursday.
    The days of the week are ordered, not random.

    Please check a dictionary for definitions of the word "Random".

    While I don't fully disagree with you, I wouldn't be so pedantic.

    Let's look at one definition of random (emphasis mine):
    –adjective
    1. proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
    2. Statistics. of or characterizing a process of selection in which each item of a set has an equal probability of being chosen.
    3. Building Trades.
    a. (of building materials) lacking uniformity of dimensions: random shingles.
    b. (of ashlar) laid without continuous courses.
    c. constructed or applied without regularity: random bond.
    –noun
    4. Chiefly British. bank3 (def. 7b).
    –adverb
    5. Building Trades. without uniformity: random-sized slates.
    —Idiom
    6. at random, without definite aim, purpose, method, or adherence to a prior arrangement; in a haphazard way: Contestants were chosen at random from the studio audience.

    Of course, the day itself is not random. Calendar systems are rather formal conventions. However, phrases like "What a random day" are quite regular, and that itself doesn't make sense either.

    When you think of these mundane Wednesdays collectively, this is when you get the randomness. Pick any one, and it's the same - nothing of significance.

    Rant over.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    While I don't fully disagree with you, I wouldn't be so pedantic.

    Let's look at one definition of random (emphasis mine):



    Of course, the day itself is not random. Calendar systems are rather formal conventions. However, phrases like "What a random day" are quite regular, and that itself doesn't make sense either.

    When you think of these mundane Wednesdays collectively, this is when you get the randomness. Pick any one, and it's the same - nothing of significance.

    Rant over.
    It's still not random.

    It was always going to be Wednesday today.
    It's not as if it wasn't expected.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 825 ✭✭✭CtrlSource


    Okay OP, you've achieved your secret purpose! Thanks to you, i will always remember this as "Random Wednesday, August 2008".

    Many thanks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Terry wrote: »
    It's still not random.

    It was always going to be Wednesday today.
    It's not as if it wasn't expected.
    But did you predict the color of the 13th car you would see on the road that day?

    I-Thought-Not :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    "OMG thats sooooo random !!!" and other non-nonsensical rubbish spouted from the mouths of wannabe D4 heads really wreck my buzz.

    Nothing is random about a day , you cannot use that adjective to describe a day. It simply doesn't work. End of the story.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭Procasinator


    Terry wrote: »
    It's still not random.

    It was always going to be Wednesday today.
    It's not as if it wasn't expected.

    Again, it depends on how you look at it. If you think of it as "Just another Wednesday without purpose ...", it can fit into a definition of random.

    It might be strictly correct, but once something enters common usage in language, you can't always look at it in purist form.

    For instance, to me the usage of the word ironic when referring to events of coincidence seems stupid - however this is more or often seen as acceptable, even by dictionary standards.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=random+wednesday

    In summary: I'm bored.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭Procasinator


    KTRIC wrote: »
    "OMG thats sooooo random !!!" and other non-nonsensical rubbish spouted from the mouths of wannabe D4 heads really wreck my buzz.

    Nothing is random about a day , you cannot use that adjective to describe a day. It simply doesn't work. End of the story.

    It depends on what you mean by a day.

    You could say a day can't be nice, long, miserable, etc - but we do.

    I would see saying a long day being as about as acceptable as saying a random day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Again, it depends on how you look at it. If you think of it as "Just another Wednesday without purpose ...", it can fit into a definition of random.

    It might be strictly correct, but once something enters common usage in language, you can't always look at it in purist form.

    For instance, to me the usage of the word ironic when referring to events of coincidence seems stupid - however this is more or often seen as acceptable, even by dictionary standards.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=random+wednesday

    In summary: I'm bored.

    By your reasoning you can use "ramdom" for any use. Just because retards stick it before words and its getting common doesn't mean its right.

    Does this sound ok:

    That car is random
    That book is random
    She is so random


    This could escalate into people just using adjectives for many ways than what they were meant for, therefore making no sense.


    It depends on what you mean by a day.

    You could say a day can't be nice, long, miserable, etc - but we do.

    I would see saying a long day being as about as acceptable as saying a random day.

    A day can be long, technically day time varies depending on the time of year. It can also be nice, miserable but not random.


    ran·dom Audio Help /ˈrændəm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ran-duhm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
    –adjective
    1. proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
    2. Statistics. of or characterizing a process of selection in which each item of a set has an equal probability of being chosen.


    Wednesdays occur every week, days occur every 24 hours , there is nothing random about it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Again, it depends on how you look at it. If you think of it as "Just another Wednesday without purpose ...", it can fit into a definition of random.

    It might be strictly correct, but once something enters common usage in language, you can't always look at it in purist form.

    For instance, to me the usage of the word ironic when referring to events of coincidence seems stupid - however this is more or often seen as acceptable, even by dictionary standards.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=random+wednesday

    In summary: I'm bored.
    It depends on what you mean by a day.

    You could say a day can't be nice, long, miserable, etc - but we do.

    I would see saying a long day being as about as acceptable as saying a random day.

    And you called me pedantic.

    To borrow from KTRIC above, Roddy Doyle is writing a new book on Barrytown.
    OMG, that's so random.
    It's not ****ing random.
    Wednesdays are not and will never be random unless days of the week are picked like quick pick lottery numbers (which by the way are random).

    So to summarise, lottery numbers are random. Days of the week are not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭Procasinator


    KTRIC wrote: »
    A day can be long, technically day time varies depending on the time of year. It can also be nice, miserable but not random.

    Well, let's not get into the technicalities of leap seconds and such, but think about this.

    How can a day be nice? The weather experience during that day can be nice, or the events that happened during that day can be nice, but the day itself cannot be. However, you might just summarise the day as nice.

    Same goes for a long day - just because the events that happened during the day were tedious and frustrating does not make the day any longer.

    Much like the events of a day can be rather random, boring, mundane, stupid, etc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    I'd say i'll be remembering and cursing wednesday 13th for a while..It's the day my social life ended.

    (just bought a house)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    I got married yesterday so I won't be forgetting it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    I got married yesterday so I won't be forgetting it.


    So your social life ended too then!! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    The fact that I posted on After Hours all night on my wedding night gives me the feeling that my social life ended a long time ago.


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Phlann


    pyure wrote: »
    I'll remember it because it's my birthday :)
    26 today, hooray for me


    Another on the slippery slope towards old age and, ultimately, death.

    Welcome. It's an unpleasant place to be.


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