Is January really the worst month of the year?

Stoned Since 2011

Yes the days are short, weather is shite etc but have had some of the best excellent morning horns ever and bought only the essentials on lidl. How was your January?

Lia_lia

Month of my birthday. Worst birthday month ever!

wurzlitzer

yes

ZeroThreat

Stoned Since 2011 wrote: »

Yes the days are short, weather is shite etc but have had some of the best excellent morning horns ever and bought only the essentials on lidl. How was your January?

What are 'morning horns', if you don't mind me asking?

Ruu

Mine was okay but everyone around me is miserable.

Stoned Since 2011

ZeroThreat wrote: »

What are 'morning horns', if you don't mind me asking?

When you reach puberty ask again.

Specialun

Best excellent???

Wtf

kfallon

February is every bit as bad, you can almost smell the Cheltenham Festival and despite it being the shortest month it really drags on

Ally Dick

Morning horns ? Is someone beeping their car outside your bedroom window ?

CFlat

ZeroThreat wrote: »

What are 'morning horns', if you don't mind me asking?

He either plays in the wind section of an orchestra or drives in heavy traffic in the mornings.

8 Bit Girl

I used to absolutely hate it. The last few years ive not minded it atall.

February and March suck though. Tuesday and Wednesdays of the year that they are.

Eugene Norman

ZeroThreat wrote: »

What are 'morning horns', if you don't mind me asking?

Apparently the op has better morning erections in the bleak mid winter.

Stoned Since 2011

Eugene Norman wrote: »

Apparently the op has better morning erections in the bleak mid winter.

And your wife loves them :pac:

Howjoe1

Eugene Norman wrote: »

Apparently the op has better morning erections in the bleak mid winter.

Sounds like it's all downhill for the next 11 months of the year. Poor bastard:p

Tin Foil Hat

January is grand. Mornings and evenings are getting noticeably longer and December/christmas is as far away as possible.

ahnowbrowncow

Eugene Norman wrote: »

Apparently the op has better morning erections in the bleak mid winter.

Maybe he freezes his erection at night?

Stoned Since 2011

ahnowbrowncow wrote: »

Maybe he freezes his erection at night?

No need for a freezer when I try a shot in your one.

RobertKK

Nature is slowed down for winter, the days short, the weather not great. January is the worst month, at least February is a shorter month.
April is the best month, the clocks a few days earlier have changed, longer days, better weather and the summer to look forward to.

Azalea

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

January is grand. Mornings and evenings are getting noticeably longer

Weather still sh-t though, and it's not *that* much brighter.

Dreary month overall.

ToddyDoody

Good month for weirdos.. less ppl about

Hammer89

ZeroThreat wrote: »

What are 'morning horns', if you don't mind me asking?

He's in the army. He gets woken up by a bugle every morning.

Stoned Since 2011

Hammer89 wrote: »

He's in the army. He gets woken up by a bugle every morning.

So does you other half when you are in Fas.

Hammer89

Stoned Since 2011 wrote: »

So does you other half when you are in Fas.

You can't hear this without thinking it's morning.

mzungu

This January has not been to bad at all. The unseasonal mildness has been a big plus.

Stoned Since 2011

mzungu wrote: »

This January has not been to bad at all. The unseasonal mildness has been a big plus.

Have you been able to get an erection?

Azalea

Windy and rainy a lot though.

Stoned Since 2011

Azalea wrote: »

Windy and rainy a lot though.

Do you live in a tent?

Arghus

I think January is unfairly maligned: I love how low-key it is and, as a movie fan, it's the time of the year when some of the best films you'll be seeing for a good while are coming at you thick and fast.

Maybe my love for January stems from my hate for December. Just to be clear here - I don't mean hate for Christmas, that tiny couple of days part of December is okay, but all the crap that surrounds it... Ugghh.

I'm talking about that feeling of barely together hysteria that lingers over the whole month. You know the BUY THIS BUY THAT PRESENTS PLANS BUT NO TIME TO THINK OR ANY MONEY!!! kind of disruptive zeitgeist that's in the air. The whole month masquerades as a celebration of the Christmas Spirit, but all I ever feel is the Spirit of Commercial Pressure and, worst of all, I can't really tell the difference between the two! December just makes me think, that despite the existence of Antibiotics and Wi-Fi, modern life is still fairly awful a lot of the time.

So yeah, January is like a nice comfortable snooze in comparison: I'm all for it. And January is great for plans... even if you don't have plans! If you do want to get something going: no better time than January to start. And if you don't have plans at the start of the year, well then... Good for you! You've obviously got this whole life thing down to a fine art of practised perfection - No better time than January to settle back into that great routine you've got going on!

I could dock a few marks for the weather, but is there any period of the year where the weather in Ireland is truly brilliant? Plus, I spend a lot of time inside with electrical appliances - Why should I care if it's raining outside?

KingBrian2

Winter a bit erratic this year. Most days are breezy and cold than a heat spike. It messes your us. Hard to adjust.

colossus-x

@Angus I was just about to post but after reading yours comments I'll just say I totally agree with you.

November is the month I can't bare. Hype about a festive season that isn't even in that month , heading into winter, evenings getting darker. January means that malarkey is all over and at least you cant start thinking that winter is half over and start hoping for summer even though it's quite a bit to go.

The constant rain ( I'm in the dreary north west ) and no crisp dry days is seriously getting me down though.

colossus-x

@Angus I was just about to post but after reading yours comments I'll just say I totally agree with you.

November is the month I can't bare. Hype about a festive season that isn't even in that month , heading into winter, evenings getting darker. January means that malarkey is all over and at least you cant start thinking that winter is half over and start hoping for summer even though it's quite a bit to go.

Azalea

The wind is howling right now, yet again. Stuff about how the weather hasn't been that bad this January makes no sense. But it's January - not unexpected.

I agree it hasn't been that cold overall. I would prefer cold and dry to mild and wet though - and the relentless damp is a coldness in and of itself (dangerous black ice when the temperatures briefly reached freezing) plus there can be a wind chill.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Up until now, yes it has been the worst...

Stoned Since 2011

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Up until now, yes it has been the worst...

Is it because you have a tiny penis?

Cookie_Monster

25+ nearly every day, little rain, extra days off, quiet days in work and the waters finally warm enough to swim
Gotta love summer Januaries

KingBrian2

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

25+ nearly every day, little rain, extra days off, quiet days in work and the waters finally warm enough to swim
Gotta love summer Januaries

Not down the country.

bodhrandude

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

25+ nearly every day, little rain, extra days off, quiet days in work and the waters finally warm enough to swim
Gotta love summer Januaries

Sounds like Malaga, Marbella or Cordoba where you are.
Edit: Aaaah I see, New Zealand I have a friend who just returned from there the other day back to chilly Galway.

Stoned Since 2011

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

25+ nearly every day, little rain, extra days off, quiet days in work and the waters finally warm enough to swim
Gotta love summer Januaries

What a bedsit.

Cookie_Monster

bodhrandude wrote: »

Sounds like Malaga, Marbella or Cordoba where you are.
Edit: Aaaah I see, New Zealand I have a friend who just returned from there the other day back to chilly Galway.

yeah it's great in winter too. August is pretty much the same as in Ireland

and not because the weather here is great then either

Cork Lass

January is not the best month to be fair. We buy small Christmas presents for each other and use the money to treat ourselves to a holiday somewhere warm in January. It really makes the winter far more bearable. I think November is pretty depressing too.

Stoned Since 2011

Cork Lass wrote: »

January is not the best month to be fair. We buy small Christmas presents for each other and use the money to treat ourselves to a holiday somewhere warm in January. It really makes the winter far more bearable. I think November is pretty depressing too.

November is the best month for the dawn shot.

Junkyard Tom

The great thing about January is that it's the month before the RBS 6 Nations starts. It's also not unusual to have some exciting storms in January. Surprisingly enough the Planet Earth is closest to the Sun in January.

Noo

Its 38 degrees with 100% humidity....january can F right off!

Richard Hillman

Love January, coldest month of the year and you know exactly what you're gonna get.

The months that annoy me are when it is freezing in the morning and warm in the afternoon/evening.

Toots

January sucks purely from a poverty factor if you get paid monthly, having to make the December paycheck last an extra 2 weeks. It used to be ok cos my husband got paid weekly, but now it's monthly and I'm out of work. We were doing really well this month - 28th is payday and on the 27th still had €50 left in my account, happy days! Was in the shop yesterday evening buying the makings of a dinner, card declined. What??? Checked my online banking, and two companies for some reason decided to come in at close of business and take a DD for €40 and one for €57 - neither one is due to come out until 5th of the month! So FCUK YOU Liberty and The AA! Feckin mortified I was, had to go and put all my stuff back and there was a queue behind me as well. Assholes.

Graces7

Well, we observe the Forty Days of Christmas so lights are shining here until Candlemas, then the Chinese New Year by which time January is over, I like it as there is no market trading for me until probably April..Months are what you make of them. But then we do not have the huge noisy Christmas so no letdown,..As for those who complain we have had no winter! Listening to it right now...

Optimalprimerib

mzungu wrote: »

This January has not been to bad at all. The unseasonal mildness has been a big plus.

It was true t-shirt weather alright.

sryanbruen

This January has been my first month in a long time without being sick and trust me, I get very vulnerable to illnesses. So it hasn't been a bad month for me. I hate the weather though. Very wet and the mild theme continuing from December. The cold spell was absolute ****.