As if to end all the dicussion as to the winding up of the Make Poverty History campaign after twelve long months, my MPH band dropped off my wrist today somewhere between the 42 bus from Oxford Road and entering KroPiccadilly...
End of an era indeed.
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That's because it's Friday 13th.
I am starting a new campaign called Make Friday The Thirteenth History, except if you write out its initials, it sounds like a silent-but-deadly fart.
"MFTTH!"
"Okay, who did that?"
How would that work? Would you just have shorter months on the days where there would otherwise be a Friday the 13th? After a while, that would distort time. So would you then ignore the days which would have been Friday the 13ths? Or just the new Friday 13ths?
Or would you just swap the days over - swap a Friday for a Thursday? That could make school timetables complicated. I suppose you could just add it on at the end of the month: We'd have the 30th Jan, 31st Jan then the 13th Jan. Though then, in some cases that could possibly also be a 13th.
Also, "what effect would this have on the global economy, when we just move days around will nilly? Discuss" 3500 words, on my desk, by Monday please.
All you need to do is make the days in the year exactly divisible by 7 (have 364 days) and you never need to have a friday the 13th again.
This would be easy to do by simply adding 4.9 minutes a day to each day.
Make it between 8.30am and 9am and people will welcome the extra time in bed.
Or change the number of days in a week. We could have a 5 day week, with two days of weekend and three days of work.
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