Tuesday: classic or dud?

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I'm sorry, I'm very bored.

The case against Tuesday:

1. You get past Tuesday, only to find Wednesday. At least once you are past Wednesday you have the solace of Thursday.

2. Everybody is mentally primed to deal with Monday. No one pays enough attention to the trials of Tuesday.

3. Tuesday afternoons IMHO are the longest of the week.

4. When was the last time something good happened to you on a Tuesday?

― jel --, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tuesday suXoR (did I do that right? did I? he looks up in supplicant stylee)

I am blue today. I want to be in a lighthouse with a dog and a cat and a mouse, a large arran sweater, a gramaphone and a pile of crosswords.

I don't want to be where I am.

― misterjones, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

For the lighthouse I will trade one whitewashed cottage on Luce Bay or somewhere right at the end of Cornwall.

― misterjones, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I hate Tuesdays. I go straight from work to class and I don't get home til at least 10:00 pm.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

For god's sake, people, if you don't like your life, change it! Don't just grumble and stay stuck in your rut! Life is short, you know...

― Momus, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'Live without dead time' Guy Debord, who could have added '-- you're dead a long time'.

― Momus, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh, just venting. Tuesdays will improve significantly by late April.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

What if you thought you wanted to be in the rut when you got in it, and you can still just about see why you thought that (if you squint a bit), and some of the reasons for getting into the rut still hold, although, okay, they're not as pressing or as pure as they once were? And you've put five years into converting your rut into a comfortable, spacious abode and you didn't really notice until quite recently that the area around the rut had become a subsidence ridden danger zone? And what if some of the immediate problems of the rut (the muddiness, and the leaks, say) might prove to be marvellous advantages (mud statues and a decent water supply, say) with just a bit of work and patience? PLUS *from* your rut you don't see any other ruts you like? What then, Momus, hmm, what then [purely hypothetical]? Bloody Tuesdays.

― Ellie, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Theoretically I could, Momus, but I like the comfort value here. ;-)

Tuesdays I very much agree are the ass-day of the week as a whole. Most of the week still lies ahead of you and not much ever seems to happen. It is therefore obnoxious.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

how d'you chance yr life so as to abolish tuesdays? this is utopian dreaming surely

nor did the freaky trigans possibly?)

― mark s, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

oops: erm that was about the romans not having words for days of the week, or indeed weeks hurrah, and then made the jump from roman to trigan to freaky trigan

― mark s, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Personally I love Tuesdays. I don't think Debord was saying you could simply delete certain days. He was saying that if you live without dead time, there will be joy on Tuesdays also. (Actually, some of us love Tuesdays in particular because they're so far from the Bridge-and-Tunnel weekends, when we have to share Manhattan.)

Captain Sensible: 'You've got to have a dream, if you don't have a dream, how're you going to make your dream come true?' (Actually it was Rodgers and Hammerstein.)

― Momus, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

They are especially bad when when your car dies in the middle of a g-damned intersection. grumble.

best way to spend it: "smokin' and drinkin' on a Tuesday night"

― Samantha, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tuesday = cheap night at the cinema!

― DG, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tuesday = My only day off hurrah

― Graham, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm only in a rut on Tuesdays :) (p.s sorry if this question was a bit of a downer!)

― jel --, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

if you can make it through the day there's a new onion waiting for you.

― ethan, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh, hang on. Dud. The chip shop closes early of a Tuesday.

― Graham, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tuesday is when my mail order parcels usually arrive!

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i like every day equally. the day is what you make of it. i am feeling particularly restless at present, alweays doing stuff, plenty to do, can't sit still, gotta move...

― di, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tuesday = Buffy night!

― rosemary, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tuesday afternoon is never-ending.

― Prude, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

Friday

― the pinefox, Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:03 (twenty years ago) link

Gah you ilX0rs gaily working through your standard monday to friday without a care for those who don't share you're regimented shift patterns. Tuesday is the last day of my working week and therefore rules, it's also a really busy day at work so it flies by. And then I'm on the lash for two days. Tuesday is the third greatest day of the week after my weekend of Wednesday and Thursday.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:09 (twenty years ago) link

For you're read your, I am appalled with myself.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:10 (twenty years ago) link

Guy Debord also committed suicide, oui?

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:48 (twenty years ago) link

four years pass...

Tuesday, you are shit.

― *rumpie*, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link

agreed - I was discussing the crapness of Tuesday with a colleague as I walked to work.

do ppl always schedule the most boring meetings for Tuesdays or does it just seem like it?

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link

LOL @ Momus

― Tom D., Tuesday, 2 October 2007 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link

My most boring meeting is Tuesday, I can confirm. I just got out of it, actually. It's like the morning de-motivation session.

― kenan, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

tuesday is pretty crap. how are you all redeeming this crap tuesday?

― no fucks given or implied (get bent), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 23:37 (nine years ago) link

tuesday pro tip: it's a good night for a weekly potluck w/your friends

― virtuoso thigh slapper (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 23:43 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

dear god it's only tuesday

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link

Ive been expecting the weekend since 4pm yesterday

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

Best day of the week imo

― calstars, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link

Surprised no one mentioned it being new release day (Stateside anyway), which of course it no longer is. I wonder if anyone ever determined that the shift to Fridays for new releases helped or hurt anything. Though I haven't done many day-of-release purchases in recent years.

When I worked five-day weeks I think I regarded Tuesday as a day to regain hope and inspiration after having managed to get through Monday.

― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link

It used to be dole day so would be the weekend for a lot of people.
The day when people hedonised etc.

― Stevolende, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 08:55 (seven years ago) link

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