thursday is clearly better than wednesday. apart from when liverpool are playing in the champions league.

By benji on 07.04.06 1:24 pm

Well, I was thinking that Wednesday isn’t Monday or Tuesday.

Thursday is let down by not being Friday.

But it’s still better than Monday and Tuesday (obviously).

By Daniel on 07.04.06 1:40 pm

Mondays are clearly preferable to Wednesdays - given that Mondays are more likely to be a Bank Holiday. I think that’s a small but nonetheless redeeming feature of a Monday that places it above a Wednesday. I also think Wednesday should come behind a Thursday given that there is no other day further from the weekend, which means it drops off my list. But I’m happy with Friday as top. So, can I suggest:

1. Friday
2. Saturday
3. Sunday
4. Thursday
5. Monday

By Ian on 07.05.06 1:02 am

But Mondays ALWAYS follow a weekend. Therefore, even if it is a Bank Holiday, you know you have 4 more days at work.

Bob Geldolf didn’t write “I don’t like Wednesdays” did he?

You are also missing the point as to why Wednesday should be ahead of Thursday.

With Thursday, you already have one eye on the weekend - but it’s teasing you. You still have two whole days to go - 2/5 of your working week.

Wednesday, however, has no pretensions to being Friday, and instead is quite content to tell you that Monday and Tuesday have gone, and it’s 5 days away until you have to see them again.

Also, Liverpool won their 5th European title on a Wednesday (25 May 2005).

By Daniel on 07.05.06 2:54 pm

How can you have Friday above Saturday? I appreciate that on Friday you are anticipating the weekend and all the wonderful things you will be doing… but Saturday IS the weekend and you will be doing those things you were looking forward to. Thus Saturday has to go top.

The other thing is - Sunday is worse that Friday, so it should go:
1. Saturday
2. Friday
3. Sunday
that being because Sunday only has 22 hours in it - count them - you’ll see that Sundays go really quickly. Also, whereas on Friday you can anticipate all the wonderful things you’ll be doing that night and on the Saturday, all you have to look forward to when you are in a Sunday is Monday - and that’s no fun is it?!

By Mike on 07.11.06 1:57 pm

You make a good point Mike. There is an argument for placing Saturday above Friday.

The line between the two is very fine, so I think it’s a matter of personal preference.

Definitely agree with the premise that both rank above Sunday (except on Bank Holiday weekends - but we established earlier that these are too infrequent to affect the decision).

By Daniel on 07.11.06 8:54 pm

There are currently 8 bank holidays in the UK - not all of them on Mondays, granted. But consider this. We all agree that Monday’s not the greatest day (which is why I placed it 5th in my list). But lets think sensibly about this. If no Mondays were a bank holiday - then Mondays would become even worse days. And so if you already ranked them in 7th position they can’t slide any further down the chart - which is simply wrong! So, the fact that at least 4 of those Mondays are bank holidays, means they have to count for something as (unless your a pro footballer) holidays are better than working days. So it’s at least 5th above boring old Tuesday - and slap-bang-middle-of-the-working-week-Wednesday!

By Ian on 07.12.06 2:19 pm

Wednesday can’t come last. Wednesday is sports day at all Univesities up and down the land. Which means for the sporty types thay gget to partake in their favourite sports, and for the less sporty ones, there’s more room at the bar - so they too can partake in their favourite past time.

I think Tuesday should come last - it’s too near the wrong side of a weekend, i.e. after it, rather than before it and also there’s pancakes once a year on a Tuesday - and I hate pancakes - thus it has to be worse than a wednesday!

By Mike on 07.12.06 2:23 pm

So here is my final list…. I know you wanted top 5, but I have worked out all 7 days of the week (who is up for Months of the year next??? )

1. Saturday
2. Friday
3. Sunday
I have posted my reasons already.
4. Thursday - it’s near Friday and over half way through the week. If the week were a hill with the top being a Wednesday. If you were pushing a shopping cart up that hill, on Thursday you could sit in the cart and wizz down the hill towards the weekend.
5. Monday - okay it’s bad - but it’s saving grace is that sometimes it’s a bank holiday. And what is better than any old daybeing a bank holiday, than a day you’d rather not go to work.
6. Wednesday - reasons as above
7. Tuesday - well what can we say about Tuesday? Not only do I have to put up with people munching pancakes, but sometimes Tuesday becomes a Monday (when Monday is a bank holiday) and you get all the Monday morning blues on the wrong day of the week.

It’s official - Tuesday sucks!!!

By Mike on 07.12.06 2:30 pm

Only 4 Bank Holidays fall on a Monday this year (one of them being Christmas Day), so the other 48 (it might be 47, I’m not going to count) are work days.

That’s 1 in 12 Mondays being a good Monday - meaning that over 91% of Mondays are bad.

The fact that on these Mondays you will be wishing they are Bank Holidays (or that they are Friday or Saturdays) means that they are even more evil.

Wednesday never pretends to be anything other than what it is. It is the day furthest away from Tuesday and Monday (the two days fighting for the right to be the worst day), and therefore has to rank above Monday.

As for deciding which day is the worst, I like Mike’s argument for Tuesday - BUT, we have shown that Monday is obviously a shocker, and the fact that it lulls you into thinking it might be a Bnak Holiday (but rarely is), AND it’s the day before Terrible Tuesday, then Monday has to be the worst day.

It’s wasn’t just the Boomtown Rats that have written songs about the poor state of affairs that is Monday. The Bangles did too.

By Daniel on 07.12.06 2:48 pm

1.Saturday
2.Friday
3.Sunday
4.Thursday
5.Wednesday
6.Monday
7.Tuesday

I think, from another point of view, that if you have a heavy weekend you can sometimes coast through Mondays not doing a fat lot of work, but come Tuesday you’ve really got no excuse but to knuckle down. Mondays can, in effect, be treated as a bit of a doss day, easing you into the week. When Tuesday hits the real work begins, and that just plain sucks.

By Bev on 07.12.06 3:03 pm

how on earth could Friday ever be top?

By Nobby on 07.17.06 12:05 pm

You are allowed to disagree - but please give your reasoning. Otherwise it just turns into a ‘who can shout loudest’ competition.

And I’ll win that, as I can delete your comments.

By Daniel on 07.17.06 2:21 pm