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End of the decade?

post #1 of 10
12/27/09 at 12:49am
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Why are there all these 'end of the decade' or 'best of the decade' discussions popping up? The end of the decade is 31 Dec 2010.
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post #2 of 10
12/27/09 at 1:05am
People are stupid. Time is fucked up. Does it really matter?
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post #3 of 10
12/27/09 at 2:00am
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Originally Posted by Dentata View Post
People are stupid. Time is fucked up. Does it really matter?

wow, that's very profound...I enjoy getting philosophical myself from time to time. I think up quotes like, 'you're a stupid douchebag, and pretty much a waste of carbon and space.'

I love philosophy.
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post #4 of 10
12/27/09 at 7:29am
Uhh, am I wrong. Time started at 0. 0000 to 0001 is year one. so then, 1-2 is year two. So on to 9-10 being year 10, the end of the decade? Hmm, seems to be the Roman's lack of a zero may have something to do with confusion and makes the above wrong. Second Edit. A decade is any interval of 10 years and common practice is to call Dec. 31, 2009 the end of this decade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%932009
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post #5 of 10
12/27/09 at 4:07pm
We went through all this same hoohaw at the dawn of 2000.
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post #6 of 10
12/27/09 at 4:42pm
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We went through all this same hoohaw at the dawn of 2000.

+1 on the brewhaha that happened.
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post #7 of 10
12/27/09 at 4:47pm
Who gives a shit what some peckerwood scientist says is the end of the decade? In common usage today the '9 year is the end of the decade, and has been for a while.

It's like getting all up in a huff about tomatoes being in the vegetable aisle because they are really a fruit. Who cares?
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post #8 of 10
12/27/09 at 4:52pm
More importantly, have we agreed to refer to this past decade as the noughties, and to the years as "twenty-oh-something" rather than "two-thousand-and-something?"
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post #9 of 10
12/27/09 at 8:26pm
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More importantly, have we agreed to refer to this past decade as the noughties, and to the years as "twenty-oh-something" rather than "two-thousand-and-something?"

I just say 2k9.
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post #10 of 10
12/28/09 at 1:31am
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Originally Posted by MetroStyles View Post
Who gives a shit what some peckerwood scientist says is the end of the decade? In common usage today the '9 year is the end of the decade, and has been for a while.

It's like getting all up in a huff about tomatoes being in the vegetable aisle because they are really a fruit. Who cares?

+1 some people got no purpose in their life so they want to try to fill the void with some argument
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