it's not, just like 2000 wasn't the start of the new millennium.

2/19/2010 10:10:05 AM

Because no one is as smart as you, obviously.

2/19/2010 10:10:35 AM

k

2/19/2010 10:10:37 AM

It took you two months to figure this out

2/19/2010 10:11:08 AM

no, it's just been bugging me for years now and obviously i felt it was time to do something about it by airing my grievances on the most important site in the world

2/19/2010 10:12:35 AM

do not lie

2/19/2010 10:12:55 AM

2/19/2010 10:13:45 AM

How has it been bugging you for years if it just became 2010. Were that many people discussing the new decade the past few years?

2/19/2010 10:13:55 AM

i'm not

assholes in the class of '00 at my high school claimed they were the first class of the millennium, when i knew damn well mine ('01) was. i want to feel important

2/19/2010 10:14:06 AM

Im sorry?

2/19/2010 10:14:31 AM

2/19/2010 10:14:45 AM

first world problems ITT

2/19/2010 10:15:29 AM

^^^^ no one cares that '01 is technically the start of the new century/millennium it's all arbitrary dates anyways (see calendar shifts over time)

everyone still thinks more or less that 2000 is more significant than 2001

[Edited on February 19, 2010 at 10:16 AM. Reason : 4]

2/19/2010 10:16:17 AM

oh no i get it, because 2000 is a huge shift from the boring 19.., so we must glorify it. isn't CC for retarded rants that aren't based in reality?

2/19/2010 10:18:16 AM

Yes, because when you talk about the 80's you obviously include 1990


This has already been discussed. In math it would not be a new decade. For practical use and historical classification it is

Regardless the term decade can be used to refer to any sequence of ten years

2/19/2010 10:18:26 AM

hmm, i seem to have been defeated. no matter, i'll get to work on another retarded rant

2/19/2010 10:19:34 AM

cant be a rant if it's under 25 words

dennis leary would be pissed

2/19/2010 10:20:55 AM

LOLZ i had to do a "60's project" in middle school AG, and I wanted to write a report on the Kent State shooting, BUT I WASNT ALLOWED TO BECAUSE IT HAPPENED IN 1970

2/19/2010 10:31:18 AM

wait a minute, why is 2000 not the start of the millennium

2/19/2010 10:31:36 AM

mathematically it isnt because there is no year 0

2/19/2010 10:37:20 AM

because there is no roman numeral for zero

2/19/2010 10:37:34 AM

Everyone knows you start counting at 0.

2/19/2010 10:38:41 AM

1 bc to 1 ad well thats just stupid

2/19/2010 10:45:37 AM

because zero doesn't exsist

2/19/2010 10:48:46 AM

stupid greeks and their insistence that nothing cant be something

2/19/2010 10:52:04 AM

obviously, the general public calls it a new decade because the number in the 10s digit has changed

2/19/2010 10:52:31 AM

decade = 0-9
1990-1999; 2000-2009
millennium = 0000-999
0000-999; 1000-1999; 2000-2999

?

decade describes 10 years; not which 10 years. the which years part is socially set... and we tend to set it as 0-9 because it makes sense to refer to the 80s decade as the 80s, as in 1980-1989

2/19/2010 10:59:17 AM

ANOTHER FIRST WORLD PROBLEM ITT

2/19/2010 11:04:51 AM

We do it just to piss you off.

2/19/2010 11:06:49 AM

wow, wdprice, you couldn't be any more wrong.

the reason the '80s refer to 1980 to 1989 has nothing to do w/ when a decade technically starts. It has everything to do with the digit in the tens place.

and, as everyone else mentioned, there is no year 0, yet you seem to assert there was. dumbass

2/19/2010 11:09:25 AM

hey dickmunch, you know what I'm trying to say. it's all relative anyways, as I said... sure you can say there was no year 0, but there is for each decade/century/etc.

the strict mathematical definition of year counts doesn't really matter here, so you're the dumbass.

[Edited on February 19, 2010 at 11:12 AM. Reason : .]

2/19/2010 11:11:54 AM

Well since they don't know how old Jebus really was when he threw off his mortal coil, I don't know how you can really say what year it is, regardless of any year 0 being in effect or not.

2/19/2010 11:12:16 AM

hahaha. you clearly took some time typing up that post, and you got it so badly wrong. don't get mad at me that you failed so spectacularly

^ IIRC, 1AD is supposed to be when Jebus was born, not when he died...

2/19/2010 11:14:09 AM

There goes all those folks that claim AD is after death then.

Regardless, they don't know exactly when he was born either.

2/19/2010 11:16:10 AM

you truly are that stupid, huh?

yes, the 80's is called the 80's because of the 8 in the tens place... but that is also a decade (the topic at hand) thus the next (new) decade would be the 90s 1990-1999.... which is the social standard... so how do I fail again?

2/19/2010 11:17:10 AM

well, yeah, we don't know when he was born, that's for sure. we have a rough idea, though, based on the stellar descriptions given in the Bible.

btw, anyone who thought AD stood for "after death" is a fool. It's "anno domini". As in, "in the year of our Lord", duh. idiots.

you fail for making a reference to the year zero multiple times. and also for insisting that years started from then. not for agreeing with exactly what I said about the 80s. And, if you want to get pissy, every day is technically a new decade. we get it.

[Edited on February 19, 2010 at 11:19 AM. Reason : ]

2/19/2010 11:18:21 AM

2/19/2010 11:22:58 AM

stupid tar heel fan

2/19/2010 11:39:56 AM

OMG!!!!!!!

Am I gonna call 2011 "Twenty-Eleven" or "Two-thousand Eleven"????????????

I MUST DECIDE NOW!!!!!!!

2/19/2010 11:43:03 AM

Quote :

"There goes all those folks that claim AD is after death then. Regardless, they don't know exactly when he was born either."

the only people who claim that are idiots, ad stands for anno domini or "in the year of Our Lord"

i.e. year 1 is the first year after he was born

and they have it within a 2 year time frame which, for someone born in a backwoods village at that point of time with very little historical evidence, is pretty damn good

[Edited on February 19, 2010 at 11:45 AM. Reason : runon]

2/19/2010 11:44:28 AM

Why do people pretend like they are better than you when they insist that a decade is 2001-2010. It can just as easily be 2000-2009.

2/19/2010 11:48:20 AM

obviously eastern bbq is better than western bbq
the plane will take off
the photos are not chopped

etc
etc

2/19/2010 11:52:01 AM

what do we call this decade? the tens? the teens? the twenty-tens?

for that matter, what are we going to call last decade? zeros? aughts? the two thousands? (that last one sounds more like a century term.)

[Edited on February 19, 2010 at 11:54 AM. Reason : ]

2/19/2010 11:54:09 AM

I want year 0 changed to the year of the penning of the Benny Hill theme song.

It's just as arbitrary and much more fun!

2/19/2010 11:56:59 AM

^^the ooooooo's

2/19/2010 11:58:12 AM

Quote :

"stupid tar heel fan"

i'm disappointed it took so long

2/19/2010 12:00:53 PM

Quote :

"There goes all those folks that claim AD is after death then. Regardless, they don't know exactly when he was born either."

the only people who think that are unc fans and nickleback fans.

And it's already been determinded that Jesus was born either 5 or 6 BC. Also he died when he was 33.

2/19/2010 12:54:24 PM

Nothing significant happened in year 1. Nothing.

2/19/2010 1:13:38 PM

^^ thx, already covered that

2/19/2010 1:20:07 PM

Yeah but you didn't say the year. I just made it more specific. Plus I just get a kick that Christ was born before Christ.

Quote :

"and they have it within a 2 year time frame which, for someone born in a backwoods village at that point of time with very little historical evidence, is pretty damn good"

the evidence they have is the fact that the census was called and the king called to kill all children under the age of two.

[Edited on February 19, 2010 at 1:24 PM. Reason : ]

2/19/2010 1:23:08 PM