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What is crappy about the decade? It has been one of the best in recorded history.
”End of a Crappy Decade” – John you are a buzzkill… But happy 2010 to you too!
I have confidence that we can make the 2011-2020 decade even worse! We just all have to work together. 🙂
#1 — You must be in China.
#3 — Hmm, interesting concept.
#2 — Thanks!
But, the most important question is waht do we call it. The 0s? The Zeros? My vote, the Aughtites or Naughties
The first decade of the 21st century ends… a YEAR from now.
Technically the decade doesn’t end until 2011, so we’ve got one more crappy year to go.
Mr Ed, re: “The first decade of the 21st century ends… a YEAR from now.”
Actually, that’s a matter of opinion. If you consider 0 a starting point for counting, then the decade ended December 31, 2009. We are now 14 hrs and 49 minutes into a new decade
No, the decade is 12:00 am 01 Jan 2001 to 11:59.999… 31 Dec 2010. We started counting at 12:00 am 01 Jan 0001 AD.
No wonder you’re a Skeptic, you can’t get simple facts straight.
11:59.999… pm 31 Dec 2010 that is.
We can call it the Pre-10s or the PreTeens.
Father, Where did I state a fact. If you need to invent things to support your position, then you have a problem, not I.
It doesn’t matter when you start counting, in our modern and universally accepted base 10 system, we use ten different digits ranging from 0-9 NOT 1-10. Zero to 1 counts as one unit. If you gave me 10 oranges and I started counting them from 7, the total would not be 16. I would be corrected and we would move on from there. Right? Well, they made a mistake on the first calendar’s starting point.
If you gave me 1 orange, I would have 1 orange. I wouldn’t have to wait until you gave me 2 oranges before I had one, now would I?
Skeptic, your analogy falls flat. If I gave you nine years, you wouldn’t have a decade. The years starting from 1 AD to 10 AD constitute the first decade, setting up the counting system for decades that we still use today.
We didn’t define the first year as 12:00 am 1 Jan 0000 AD.
If you want to pretend we did define the starting point as 1 Jan 0000 so that you can call 2000 the start of the decade, merely because you like all the pretty zeros, then knock yourself out.
When aestheticism trumps functionality, the downfall of society has begun.
The pre-apocalyptic decade has past. Out of the frying pan into the fire.
Father, you are mistaking the starting point of the age of the calendar to the starting point of a decade in years. You are pretending that there wasn’t a year 0000. Somehow it doesn’t exist now that the first calendar forgot about it.
EVERYONE, but a few diehards like yoursel, see the stupidity in carrying on as if the 365 days of 0000 didn’t exist. That’s why, to most people, the end of the decade ended yesterday. It makes sense to correct an oversight.
The next time you make an error in a post and want to correct it, should we all stubbornly hold you to your original text? Does that make logical sense to you?
So Father, by your logic, if I am not mistaken, the decade of the 1990’s is defined as the years 1991-2000? That makes no sense whatsoever. The decade of the 1990s is defined as the years 1990-1999, and the decade of the 2000s is defined as the years 2000-2009.
Because JCD said, “2010 — End of a Crappy Decade”, and he used the indefinite article “a”, his statement is factually correct because “a” decade is any ten year period (Ex. 2004 to the end of 2013).
But using the definite article “the”, as in “the decade”, references a specific period of time understood to fall within a regularly defined period. Just as “the current century” refers to the period 1 Jan 2001 through 31 Dec 2100.
Getting back to your point Skeptic, you are correct, there was never the year 0000 in our calendar.
The years count as follows: … 3 BC, 2 BC, 1 BC, 1 AD, 2 AD, 3 AD, …, 2010 AD.
Note: if a year has a leap second applied in Dec, the last moment of the year is 11:59:60.999… pm 31 Dec XXXX.
tikichaos12,
you are in fact correct. The ’90s started on 1 Jan 1991 and ended on 31 Dec 2000.
You have been told otherwise by the vast majority of misinformed or undereducated people that have failed to fully investigate the matter for themselves.
Given that this simple fact (how the years are counted) is so wrongly understood throughout society, is there any hope we can ever really get to the truth of any matter?
Father, you might as well try to convince everyone in the US that the metric system is better. You’re going to get just as far. Deal with it!
Someone always has ruin things by doing the math!
Christ almighty who the fuck really cares?
There’s always a few people who feel the urgent need to be the turd in the punch bowl. Just in case you missed it, the entire world celebrated the end of one decade (2000’s) and the beginning of another (2010’s) last night.
Correct or not when if for all intents and purposes the whole world agrees, then by default that is the correct way.
Don’t be that guy.
And John is right, all things considered, the last ten years sucked.
Father, in popular use and culture, the term “decade” is used as I described. The vast majority of your so-called “misinformed or undereducated” people understand what you are saying and accept it, however, it is not logical no matter how accurate it is. You are taking a simple statement referring to popular culture and viewing it from a scientific stance, insulting those who disagree with you because you have turned a shoulder to the rest of society who use the term “decade” differently.
Sorry, tikichaos12 = geekykid12.
Father, you are just being stubborn. As my very first post said, it’s “a matter of opinion.” …and it is.
Waltersobchack… heh, heh… thankyou. 😉
Olo Baggins, metric IS better. 🙂
My critics remind me of the kids in school who were too cool to work towards completing a good education. They blew off thinking, took up cigarettes, starting drinking and using drugs at an early age, etc.
If being wrong feels better, then go ahead and enjoy your bliss.
If my Doctor cares as little for the truth as some of you, I hope I’m able to detect that before he/she kils me.
In my industry (not medicine) your attitudes could kill people.
Time is relative just ask Einstein, who said all things are relative, relatives are all things, all my relatives took all my things.
I stated that you are right–scientifically. However, from a cultural stance you are very wrong. Your comment about your “critics” only further demonstrates your close-mindedness of popular opinion and your arrogance.
If swiming against the tide makes me appear arrogant, then I’m sorry I offended you.
I appreciate you for taking the time to understand my arguments Tikichaos12.
Father, a sign of the times…
Wikipedia…
The 1980s was the decade that started on January 1, 1980 and ended on December 31, 1989. The time period saw social, economic and…” (consistent with other years as well.)
Common sense will prevail and your broken calendar will be buried in history where it belongs.