End of the decade?

[Chargersfan]

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.

 

[Dentata]

People are stupid. Time is fucked up. Does it really matter?

 

[Chargersfan]

Originally Posted by Dentata

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.

 

[HEWSINATOR]

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/2000–2009

 

[Dakota rube]

We went through all this same hoohaw at the dawn of 2000.

 

[Unbreakable]

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

We went through all this same hoohaw at the dawn of 2000.

+1 on the brewhaha that happened.

 

[MetroStyles]

Who gives a **** what some ********** 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?

 

[unjung]

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?"

 

[MetroStyles]

Originally Posted by unjung

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.

 

[sho'nuff]

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

Who gives a **** what some ********** 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