good morning, and a happy Blue Monday to you all!
Monday 18 January marks 'Blue Monday', the most depressing day of the year. It's the day when the financial pressure of the Christmas just passed hangs over us most, the weather is at its worst, and the extra pounds we've acquired over the holiday season are proving harder to shift than we anticipated.

Woohooooo!!!!!
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:28, archived)

Cheers

( Cheers Cheers, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:29, archived)

might kill myself to celebrate

(Smegg Wallace The O.G. Q.R., Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:34, archived)

Thankfully we all lost our jobs last year, meaning we couldn't afford food over christmas and therefore have no weight to shift
silver lining to that particular cloud
(dribble, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:34, archived)

funny that, I read this morning that scientists had accidentally discovered the first new blue pigment in 200 years
Crayola are now making it into crayons
( Turing's Artificial Hand Sig Sauer, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:37, archived)

the ancient Greeks had no word for blue,
In fact the only ancient culture to develop a word for blue was the Egyptians.

How about THAT?
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:44, archived)

fancy that

( Turing's Artificial Hand Sig Sauer, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:48, archived)

the reason the egyptians had a specific work for blue was because they had blue dye
everyone else described blue things as variants of green
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:58, archived)

like those South American tribes who count "one, two, many..."

( Turing's Artificial Hand Sig Sauer, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:05, archived)

yes I do

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:30, archived)

What about the abos? They had words for everything

(Nicki Minaj, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:51, archived)

impossible to say as they never wrote anything down

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:59, archived)

Lazy fuckers

(Nicki Minaj, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:09, archived)

too busy getting pissed

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:24, archived)

Vietnamese still uses the same word for both blue and green - xanh
Although they do distinguish by saying 'xanh like the sky' or 'xanh like the trees'.
( Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 10:06, archived)

Most things are turquoise-ish, then

(dribble, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 10:26, archived)

Weirdly the word for turquoise in Vietnamese, ngọc lam, traslates as "dark blue gemstone"
So they clearly have no fucking idea
( Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 11:49, archived)

Will probably turn out to give kids cancer in 20 years time

(dribble, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:20, archived)

Turing's Artificial Hand, you mean

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:24, archived)

I'm like Dr Claw, just a hand in a chair with a plan to take over the world

( Turing's Artificial Hand Sig Sauer, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:25, archived)

the smithszz

(dribble, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 11:19, archived)

I'm feeling rather chipper this morning
handed in my notice yesterday
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:19, archived)

got something else already lined up?

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:24, archived)

yup
got a cushy civil service job, so you'll be paying my wages soon
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:30, archived)

congratulations
from what I could gather your current employer started taking the piss somehow?
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:31, archived)

thanks
yeah, they've been behaving like complete pricks since October, shame really
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:37, archived)

nice one

(Smegg Wallace The O.G. Q.R., Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:38, archived)

cheers BPD

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 10:02, archived)

Civil Servants get showered with taxpayer money and the pension scheme is extravagant, just think how much time you can waste on here while the private sector is milked dry!

(Smegg Wallace The O.G. Q.R., Mon 18 Jan 2021, 10:12, archived)

pension bore

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 10:25, archived)

do a socially-distanced shit on the boss' desk

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 11:56, archived)

Don't worry
This was just bollocks made up by a travel agent to sell holidays.
( Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 10:04, archived)