Poll: The New Decade!

[Nimcha]

2011. People have already said why. Since the calander started at year 1, the decade ended on year 11...etc...etc.

Yes, but some people can't cope with correct logic and insist on it being 2010.

Maybe people don't want to agree with you since you're being a royal pain in the ass about it.

 

[No_Remainders]

2011. People have already said why. Since the calander started at year 1, the decade ended on year 11...etc...etc.

Yes, but some people can't cope with correct logic and insist on it being 2010.

Maybe people don't want to agree with you since you're being a royal pain in the ass about it.

Apologies if proving people wrong is being a pain in the ass

 

[Mike Laserbeam]

Can't we just say it's 2010 to 3 significant figures...?

 

[Astoria]

Well there are 10 years from 2000 to 2009

I never said that 2000 to 2009 is 9 years. Yes, it's 10 years.

But, we can't argue the facts. The calendar BEGAN on year 1. There WAS NO year 0.
So from year 1 to year 10 is ten years (inclusive). Which is a decade. But then the next one must begin in 11. Add 2000 years to all that. 2001 - 2010, 2011 - 2020.

I wasn't directing that at you or anyone in fact. Just stating my opinion. And I didn't see you say that. Yes techinically it is true that what you're say is right but it is just accepted that a **00 year is the start of a new century so following that a decade is ***0-***9. So in a way both are right but it just depends on whether you want to be accurate or not but for me the new decade started this year.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Techincally the decade begins in 2011 as there is no year zero in either BC/AD calender or BCE/CE one as there pretty much the same ie. 2011 AD = 2011 CE. However it just not the a proper number for us to celebrate the end of a decade. For example would the millenium celebrations have been such a big deal if they where done in 2001 instead of 2000 it just doesn't feel right

 

[DustyDrB]

I always thought of 2010 as the new decade. Whether it's technically right or not I don't really care and it's not important enough to even debate. Plus, most every publication did their best of the decade lists at the end of last year. It would just be confusing to go through all that again.

 

[Uncreation]

2011. People have already said why. Since the calander started at year 1, the decade ended on year 11...etc...etc.

Yes, but some people can't cope with correct logic and insist on it being 2010.

Maybe people don't want to agree with you since you're being a royal pain in the ass about it.

But he is right. Anyway, yes a lot of people are confused about this. A surprising number, in my opinion. Hm, strange.

 

[TOGSolid]

Threads like this one always make me feel very secure in my knowledge that most people are blithering idiots and that I'm totally justified in treating them like shit.

OT: 2011.

Hell, I remember years ago there was a Jeopardy question that asked when the new millenium started.

Hint: The answer was not 2000.

Just because the majority says otherwise doesn't mean they're right, it just means that there's a lot of retards in this world.

 

[Nimcha]

Threads like this one always make me feel very secure in my knowledge that most people are blithering idiots and that I'm totally justified in treating them like shit.

OT: 2011.

Hell, I remember years ago there was a Jeopardy question that asked when the new millenium started.

Hint: The answer was not 2000.

Just because the majority says otherwise doesn't mean they're right, it just means that there's a lot of retards in this world.

If not treating an arbitrary number system that is broken by design (it needs to correct itself every four years) with the utmost care makes me a retard, then so be it.

 

[xDarc]

My only hope is people get with the future and start saying twenty eleven instead of two thousand and eleven. The whole new millennium thing is over, you can stop saying two thousand in front of everything.

But it is the year 2011?

Two thousand and eleven in number.

Why should we say twenty-eleven? Yes I am aware we say nineteen ninety when referring 1990 but for some reason saying twenty-x as a representative of this century sounds odd to me.

Because NO ONE said Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Eight.

NO ONE. It was Nineteen Ninety Eight.

But because of our infatuation with the millennium, which hasn't worn off yet, there were lots of good parties back in 2000, i remember... we keep putting TWO THOUSAND in front of everything.

A hundred years from now, no one is going to refer to 2005 as two thousand and five. It will be twenty o-five. Because all the people who called it that will be dead. You'll see... or you won't rather.

But yeah this has bugged the shit out of me the last ten years.