The Most Ridiculous Rant I've Heard This Month.

"It happens only once in every 823 years" - This particular sentence was the most common fb status update and Tweet I came across this month. Folks what these innocent people were trying to say was ' In this month(October 2010) we have 5 Fridays , 5 Saturdays & 5 Sundays.'  It never ceases to amaze me how gullible  these Social Networking sites is making us all. What's even more astonishing is the fact that just because a single fool posted this as a tweet or status update or blog or whatever 100's of them reposted this without even sparing a moment to think about it. Well one thing is true though. October 2010 indeed has Five Fridays,Saturdays & Sundays. The rest of it is just bullshite. Just think of it. For a month to have 5 long weekends should have 31 days. So we can exclude February, April, June, September & November. All the remaining 7 months has the possibility to have 5 long weekends with the first day of those months being a Friday. A year has 365 days. Which means it has 52 weeks and one day. So because of that one day every successive year starts on a day after the year before. Eg : 1st January 2010 was Friday and 1st January of 2011 will be Saturday. But, every 4 years we get Leap Years. So these changes aren't that regular. We would have got the same days for every 7 years if it wasn't for the leap years. Because of the Leap Years this happens like say every 8-11 years. On average every 8 years we get the same days in the year. October 1999 had 5 long weekends just like October 2010. The number weeks in a year is 52. Which gives us 12 variable length months.So every eighth month has 5 long weekends which means July 2011 will have 5 long weekends. How is this even close to 823 years????  Bollocks!! I wonder where does these people come up with such an absurd and stupid theory???? Hoping these Idiots don't breed for the sake of the World.
Cheers!!