"There's really one more year in this decade"

[TexArcher 39037]

Stop it.  Yeah, there was no Year 0.  No one cares.  If you actually think 1990 was part of the 1980s, you're a ridiculous hipster twat.

 

 

[RDCanecutter 26871]

Thor cares nothing for your "decades."

[Hairy Biped 596]

Babies don't start at 1 years old.  Neither do decades. 

[Eastwood 4394]

Nobody calls a 20 year old a teenager. We're in the 20s tomorrow.

[Surly Bevo 25718]

It was over with the OP

[WhatTheBuck 28928]

Every year starts a new decade. 

[Buzzrock 15136]

[RPM 26614]

[Guest Lobo]

2 hours ago, Hairy Biped said:

Babies don't start at 1 years old.  Neither do decades. 

You obviously don't know many Japanese babies.  

[tx 3 putt 78668]

 

[elfenix 34744]

Babies don't start at 1 years old.  Neither do decades. 

Roman babies did

[Guest Lobo]

So do Japanese babies. 

['stache 22131]

Agree, so obnoxious. A “decade” is any ten year period, and can be defined however you want. We use 0-9 to discuss trends, news, etc. the “Year 0” thing only matters if you’re measuring to the beginning. The 202nd decade starts next year. The 2020’s start today and end in 2029.

 

You’re not smart by pointing it out, like people who say your 20th birthday is actually your 21st. Look asshole, we define a “birthday” as the anniversary of the day you were born. That’s how language works, there can be commonly accepted meanings. Stfu already.

 

 

[Junior Miller 1502]

15 hours ago, Hairy Biped said:

Babies don't start at 1 years old.  Neither do decades. 

Are you saying babies aren't alive until the minute they're born?

MURDERER!!!!!!!!

PRAISE THE JESUS!

[Biff Tannen 46150]

12 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

Came here to post this.  Best Newman noise ever.

[clapclapclap 9000]

Hey OCD types, just think of the first decade as a 9-year reverse-leap decade.

[Rimbo 27002]

[Homercles 10206]

On 12/31/2019 at 6:38 PM, TexArcher said:

Stop it.  Yeah, there was no Year 0.  No one cares.  If you actually think 1990 was part of the 1980s, you're a ridiculous hipster twat.

 

 

[Ghost of LL 15698]

On 12/31/2019 at 6:38 PM, TexArcher said:

Stop it.  Yeah, there was no Year 0.  No one cares.  If you actually think 1990 was part of the 1980s, you're a ridiculous hipster twat.

 

 

Yeah, well, ok.  I'll tell you, I'm generally in agreement.  But 1980 had a lot more in common with the 1970s than it did the 1980s (music, film, politics).  I don't think I have such a strong feeling about 1990, but if you go back and look at 1980, it definitely feels like the last years of the '70s.

[bolverk 30313]

39 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

Yeah, well, ok.  I'll tell you, I'm generally in agreement.  But 1980 had a lot more in common with the 1970s than it did the 1980s (music, film, politics).  I don't think I have such a strong feeling about 1990, but if you go back and look at 1980, it definitely feels like the last years of the '70s.

I tend to agree on your 1980 sentiment and would argue that, culturally/musically, 1990 was much more similar to the 1980s. For me, the 1990s really didn't kicked off until the release of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and the rest of the Seattle Sound, grunge, and flannel.

[RDCanecutter 26871]

Lots of decades seem to gel 2 or 3 years in. (Hell, Sinatra probably owned the 60s up until 1965.) Early 70s indistinguishable from late 60s, Carter 1980 just like late 70s.

Then don't forget the long 19th Century from 1789 until 1914.

It's almost as if it's arbitrary.

[Ghost of LL 15698]

I tend to agree on your 1980 sentiment and would argue that, culturally/musically, 1990 was much more similar to the 1980s. For me, the 1990s really didn't kicked off until the release of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and the rest of the Seattle Sound, grunge, and flannel.

I would go with that coupled with the first Persian Gulf War, which started in January 1991.


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[DoobieWah 1535]

In a society where the literal meanings of "man" and "woman" can be debated, you can't be surprised when a word like "decade" can as well.

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[Armybrat 41388]

How much is that in dog decades?

[TrashMaster G 18073]

The only thing sillier than getting hung up on the fact that the new decade doesn't start until next year is getting pissed off by people pointing it out.

[Huckleberry 34578]

As I said elsewhere, the entire thing is a misunderstanding by people who want to seem smart.

The 1900s were a century. They just weren't the 20th Century because that term clearly indicates a succession of centuries starting from Year 1. So the confusion and annoying arguments from 2000 made sense because there really were two different centuries being widely discussed - 1900-1999 (the 1900s) and 1901-2000 (the 20th Century).

Nobody fucking talks about the 202nd Decade. They talk about the Teens and the Twenties and so on. So there is no reason for this to even be a thing.

Edited January 4, 2020 by Huckleberry

[Armybrat 41388]

Math is hard.

[utee94 16079]

There might be one more year in THAT decade, but there are ten years left in THIS decade, ya see.

[HouTex 1939]

As I said elsewhere, the entire thing is a misunderstanding by people who want to seem smart.

The 1900s were a century. They just weren't the 21st Century because that term clearly indicates a succession of centuries starting from Year 1. So the confusion and annoying arguments from 2000 made sense because there really were two different centuries being widely discussed - 1900-1999 (the 1900s) and 1901-2000 (the 21st Century).

Nobody fucking talks about the 202nd Decade. They talk about the Teens and the Twenties and so on. So there is no reason for this to even be a thing.

This is correct. It’s really not that hard.

Edit: but 1901-2000 was the 20th century.

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[TexArcher 39037]

12 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

The only thing sillier than getting hung up on the fact that the new decade doesn't start until next year is getting pissed off by people pointing it out.

So you're prepared to say, with a straight face, that 1990 was not part of the 1990s?

 

Edited January 4, 2020 by TexArcher
Don't do it...

[Armybrat 41388]

What’s in a number?

[FondrenRoad 4378]

On 1/2/2020 at 12:09 PM, Ghost of LL said:

Yeah, well, ok.  I'll tell you, I'm generally in agreement.  But 1980 had a lot more in common with the 1970s than it did the 1980s (music, film, politics).  I don't think I have such a strong feeling about 1990, but if you go back and look at 1980, it definitely feels like the last years of the '70s.

I think late 1991 to early 1992 was when 90s culture separated itself from the 80s. 1990 was very similar to the 80s and didn't have much in common with 1992-2000.

Still, as far as decades go, yeah, they end with 10 so we count them wrong. But we have counted them wrong consistently, so 1990 is part of the 90s.