The 00's, really?

[Sightless Wisdom]

So 2010 is approaching and that means the decade is drawing to a close. Because people do so love to spew out judgements, criticisms, and "old" memories about every arbitrary number of years we need a name for the past ten. It seems that the 00's is the commonly used title for the most recent decade, but...really? I can't be the only one thinking "Wow, what a crappy name." There must be something better to call it... right? So what say you Escapists? Do you have a better name for this decade?( I sure hope so!)

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

Noughties?

 

[TheGreenManalishi]

It kind of named itself. By existing.

 

[WrongSprite]

The 2 thousands is what I call it.

I hear "noughties" a lot. I fucking hate it.

 

[xHipaboo420x]

I call 'em either the noughties (which sounds like a group of mischievous children) or the two-thousands (which sounds like a band).

But yeah, it works for me!

 

[FolkLikePanda]

Noughties or the crap decade.

 

[Pielikey]

"THAT Decade".

 

[rokkolpo]

how bout we take it Bond. James Bond.

Double O year

triple if youre feeling fancy

 

[Bassman_2]

Birth of Century # 21
or
Year of the Nothing, or the Yes/No. See cuz 00 = 0 which is nothing, 2*0*0*0 is still nothing. 2+0 is still a miniscule number and if you divide 20 by 00 you get....?

 

[Dorian]

I only have one idea for it.

"The New Millenia"
Seriously. That's an awesome name for it, and it can be abbreviated to TNM. Good enough pour moi!

 

[Rawker]

how bout we take it Bond. James Bond.

Double O year

a win to the Nth degree. /thread

 

[ErGo]

So 2010 is approaching and that means the decade is drawing to a close. Because people do so love to spew out judgements, criticisms, and "old" memories about every arbitrary number of years we need a name for the past ten. It seems that the 00's is the commonly used title for the most recent decade, but...really? I can't be the only one thinking "Wow, what a crappy name." There must be something better to call it... right? So what say you Escapists? Do you have a better name for this decade?( I sure hope so!)

Nope... I'm not very creative.

Okay how about ... The Double Digit decade ... yeah ... no.

 

[El Poncho]

Century of the Fruitbat.

I don't usually refer to the century in my daily life.

 

[hotdogoctopus]

I think that all the years, contained in the ought's will sound badass, "in the year two-ought-six, people were complaining about what that decade would be called, as if there was a commitee every ten years to decide what it should be called in english. Much to their dismay, there was not."

 

[Disaster Button]

Birth of Century # 21
or
Year of the Nothing, or the Yes/No. See cuz 00 = 0 which is nothing, 2*0*0*0 is still nothing. 2+0 is still a miniscule number and if you divide 20 by 00 you get....?

23?

How about that decade upon which nobody gave a crap? Or the Double O Year suggested by rokkolpo, I hate that slightly less than all the others.

 

[Bobobble]

Decade of the Millenium! It's cool because it barely makes sense in context.

 

[orangebandguy]

New millenium? Sounds fancier than the 00s.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Well the Double 0 years is slightly better than... 00's. (I don't even know how to use that grammatically, it's just so weird)

 

[Distorted Stu]

The decade of complaits, restriction, sterotypes and fail.