what day does the week start on?

The Bollox · 13-10-2005 1:39pm #1

this is a question me and a friend of mine debated upon today, what day of the week is the first day? I think it's Sunday, but he think's it's Monday, what do you think?

dammit! that should read "who gives a f*ck?"

JungleBunny · 13-10-2005 1:42pm

who fives a f*ck?

Definitely Monday.

monkeyfudge · 13-10-2005 1:44pm

who fives a f*ck?

It's Sunday if you're religious.

[Jackass] · 13-10-2005 1:46pm

who fives a f*ck?

the week starts on Monday morning....going to work, depressed that you are at the furthest possible point to the weekend.

Sunday is the last day of the week, where you do nothing, rest, recover from the weeks exploits, and prepare for a new week, and do it all over again.

[edit] Didn't god create the world in 6 days...and then rest on the last day? the day of sabbeth? Sunday is the day of a sabbeth? so dosen't that make it the last day of the week?[/edit]

monkeyfudge · 13-10-2005 1:59pm

who fives a f*ck?

Sunday being the first day the week is an American thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday#Position_during_a_week

Tobias Greeshman · 13-10-2005 2:02pm

who fives a f*ck?

Since Im not religious, its obviously a Monday for me, the most dull day of the week!! "I dont like Mondays, tell me why I dont like Mondays... la la la"

PJG · 13-10-2005 2:05pm

who fives a f*ck?

monkeyfudge wrote:

It's Sunday if you're religious.

Monday for sure.

I would have thought Monday if your religious. An on the 7th day God rested, sabbath and all that !!

Dades · 13-10-2005 2:08pm

who fives a f*ck?

DubGuy wrote:

Didn't god create the world in 6 days...and then rest on the last day?

No.

Aparantly he played golf that Sunday.

monkeyfudge · 13-10-2005 2:08pm

who fives a f*ck?

It's just any people I've ever met who insisted on Sunday being the first day of the week were pretty religious.

But you're right... in the US and Canada Sunday is seen as the first day of the week which is the more traditional view derived from the ancient Jews, Egyptians and the Holy Roman Empire.

monkeyfudge · 13-10-2005 2:11pm

who fives a f*ck?

The Atheist wrote:

No.

Aparantly he played golf that Sunday.

Yes.. why would someone who is omnipotent need to have a bit of a rest anyway? Golf makes a lot more sense.

Mossy Monk · 13-10-2005 2:14pm

who fives a f*ck?

i would say Monday as that is the beginning of most peoples working week

WhiteWashMan · 13-10-2005 2:28pm

monkeyfudge wrote:

It's Sunday if you're religious.

i think god rested on sunday after a hard weeks work, making monday the first day of the week.

personally, i use sunday as the start of the week, for no other reason than i am a strange fellow...

Tar.Aldarion · 13-10-2005 2:30pm

who fives a f*ck?

monday as the begiining for me as it is after the 'week-end'.

Binomate · 13-10-2005 2:35pm

Thursday tbh.

MorningStar · 13-10-2005 2:37pm

who fives a f*ck?

PJG wrote:

Monday for sure.

I would have thought Monday if your religious. An on the 7th day God rested, sabbath and all that !!

Saturday is the sabbath not Sunday remeber Christianity is the advancement of Jewdism basically. They wait for the saviour, christians say he's been and gone.

arbeitsscheuer · 13-10-2005 2:40pm

I don't really care, but for me it's Monday.
Altho I know religious traditions herald Sunday as the beginning of the week but meh, I'm not religious...

Gandalf23 · 13-10-2005 2:40pm

who fives a f*ck?

tis Monday I tells ya

rainbow kirby · 13-10-2005 2:48pm

Monday... when the weekend's over.

Sifo · 13-10-2005 2:53pm

i suppose it is Monday, but if your religious it's definitely Sunday..
god created the earth in 6 days on the 7 day he rested (and life began, life didn't begin til he finished creating on the 6th day!!)

Kolodny · 13-10-2005 2:55pm

who fives a f*ck?

I was taught at school (in the UK) that Sunday is the first day of the week and most people I knew there thought this but since I moved to Ireland I've been told by more people that it's definitely Monday.

The calendar on the wall in my office starts the week on Sunday, but the calendar in my phone starts it on Monday.

I think it should be Monday as Sunday is classified as part of the weekend, surely?

Simple Simon · 13-10-2005 7:04pm

who fives a f*ck?

Tuesday.

CONTROVERSIAL! :eek:

NotMe · 13-10-2005 8:37pm

who fives a f*ck?

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

monday as the begiining for me as it is after the 'week-end'.

Cant argue with that!

Laguna · 13-10-2005 8:49pm

who fives a f*ck?

Monday for me. The concept of Sunday being the start of the week is rooted in Religion (God having his day of rest on Sunday etc.), so, as I'm not religious, it's got to be Monday for me.

byte · 13-10-2005 9:16pm

who fives a f*ck?

Yup, Monday for me.

aidan_walsh · 13-10-2005 9:20pm

Octeday.

slayer9603 · 13-10-2005 9:57pm

who fives a f*ck?

It's Monday Marts

Face it, I was right and you were wrong.

Sam Vimes · 13-10-2005 11:34pm

who fives a f*ck?

saturday+sunday=weekEND

the clues in the name.

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pickarooney · 14-10-2005 7:18am

I was always taught it was Sunday, as Sabbath/Saturday was the day of rest.
Then again, I was always taught that summer began on the 1st of May.

Pythia · 14-10-2005 8:14am

who fives a f*ck?

Mondays in my head, although in work it starts on Sunday, confusing!

Mortmain · 14-10-2005 8:24am

The week starts on Friday evening and ends on Sunday night - everything in between is a punishment.

MorningStar · 14-10-2005 9:06am

who fives a f*ck?

Laguna wrote:

Monday for me. The concept of Sunday being the start of the week is rooted in Religion (God having his day of rest on Sunday etc.), so, as I'm not religious, it's got to be Monday for me.

The whole bloody calander is based on religion!!
Sunday is not the day he rested as it is old testiment stuff. God rested on Saturday!! Sunday is the end of the week based on the Christian religion of Palm Sunday. So those who say Sunday is the end of the week are basing it on religion!!!
In the western world people consider Monday the start of the working week and hence call Monday the first day of the week but it still remains Sunday.
For all intense purposes Monday is the first day of the week in everyday life but technically it is Sunday.

Dades · 14-10-2005 10:12am

who fives a f*ck?

MorningStar wrote:

The whole bloody calander is based on religion!!

Yeah but all the day names are named after planetary bodies, Roman gods and whatnot.

And if the Romans had known there were 9 planets we'd have 9 days in a week.
Would that mean three or four day weekends, I wonder?

monkeyfudge · 14-10-2005 10:23am

who fives a f*ck?

oh yes.. and now we'd have an extra day called Xenaday... sounds like fun..

actually I remember reading once about a proposal to decimalise time and it seemed to make a lot of sense... it would involve having 10 day weeks.

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