Just another random wednesday you'll forget?

Terry

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

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!

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):

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/random wrote:

–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.

Terry

Procasinator wrote: »

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.

CtrlSource

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

Many thanks

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:

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.

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.

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.

KTRIC

Procasinator wrote: »

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.

Procasinator wrote: »

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.

Terry

Procasinator wrote: »

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.

Procasinator wrote: »

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.

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.

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)

Call Me Jimmy

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

cyrusdvirus

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

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

So your social life ended too then!!

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.

Phlann

pyure wrote: »

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

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