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[Jensonb]

Happy New Year, New Decade everyone! I have a good feeling about this one!

[Hanwombat]

I have a good feeling too but I did in 2009.. and 2008.. and 2007

[Gaz]

Happy New Year Everyone!

[Denthúl]

Happy Easter.

Everyone have a good day/night?

[Jensonb]

Happy Easter.

Everyone have a good day/night?

Yes I did! I started the new year off right: drunk dancing in a club with mates

[Denthúl]

Happy Easter.

Everyone have a good day/night?

Yes I did! I started the new year off right: drunk dancing in a club with mates

I started the new year by...coming up with a name for my new computer. Or rather, selecting one from a list that a friend suggested.

[darwin dali]

Happy New Year, New Decade everyone! I have a good feeling about this one!

Tying the end of the decade to 2009 is a simple enough misunderstanding, brought about by a belief in some quarters that the current western epoch, variously designated as "Anno Domini" (AD) or "Common Era" (CE) started in 0 AD. Not so.

The year 1 BC was followed immediately afterward by 1 AD: there never was a year zero – at least not in our calendar. It is therefore a matter of easy calculation to determine that the real end of the decade follows in 365 days time – and is not tonight.

[suitcase]

Happy New Year, New Decade everyone! I have a good feeling about this one!

Tying the end of the decade to 2009 is a simple enough misunderstanding, brought about by a belief in some quarters that the current western epoch, variously designated as "Anno Domini" (AD) or "Common Era" (CE) started in 0 AD. Not so.

The year 1 BC was followed immediately afterward by 1 AD: there never was a year zero – at least not in our calendar. It is therefore a matter of easy calculation to determine that the real end of the decade follows in 365 days time – and is not tonight.

True true! But (overall) people are too lazy to be literal, and probably too stupid, also.

[Jensonb]

Happy New Year, New Decade everyone! I have a good feeling about this one!

Tying the end of the decade to 2009 is a simple enough misunderstanding, brought about by a belief in some quarters that the current western epoch, variously designated as "Anno Domini" (AD) or "Common Era" (CE) started in 0 AD. Not so.

The year 1 BC was followed immediately afterward by 1 AD: there never was a year zero – at least not in our calendar. It is therefore a matter of easy calculation to determine that the real end of the decade follows in 365 days time – and is not tonight.

Wrong, there are in fact two ways to define the beginning of a new decade. Modern culture is (legitimately) unconcerned with the beginning of AD, since it was actually made up after the fact and therefore there was never actually (In reality) any Year 1, never mind two in succession. Modern culture (Correctly) Ascribes more importance to the change in the numbers. Going from 2009 to 2010 is a more significant shift than 2010 to 2011 and we have been grouping decades in this manner for 50+ Years. To wit, the People's Encyclopedia dictates 2010 as the start of this decade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s .

Additionally, we group numbers generally into X0-X9 sets of ten. In fact that's how decimal Base10 works. Therefore defining the decade as 00-09 makes a lot more sense - especially since nobody is saying "22nd Decade". You're applying the argument against 2000 being the start of the second millennium (The number of years since AD began) to the defining of decades, and in so doing are missing what was actually wrong with calling 2000 the start of the second millennium - the counting part, not the millennium part.

Truth is dictated by common usage, not by outdated and irrelevant historical numbers. You're being a pedant, but you've failed to note that any period for 10 Years is a decade, making any argument about when a given decade starts completely pointless.

[darwin dali]

Happy New Year, New Decade everyone! I have a good feeling about this one!

Tying the end of the decade to 2009 is a simple enough misunderstanding, brought about by a belief in some quarters that the current western epoch, variously designated as "Anno Domini" (AD) or "Common Era" (CE) started in 0 AD. Not so.

The year 1 BC was followed immediately afterward by 1 AD: there never was a year zero – at least not in our calendar. It is therefore a matter of easy calculation to determine that the real end of the decade follows in 365 days time – and is not tonight.

Wrong, there are in fact two ways to define the beginning of a new decade. Modern culture is (legitimately) unconcerned with the beginning of AD, since it was actually made up after the fact and therefore there was never actually (In reality) any Year 1, never mind two in succession. Modern culture (Correctly) Ascribes more importance to the change in the numbers. Going from 2009 to 2010 is a more significant shift than 2010 to 2011 and we have been grouping decades in this manner for 50+ Years. To wit, the People's Encyclopedia dictates 2010 as the start of this decade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s .

Truth is dictated by common usage, not by outdated and irrelevant historical numbers. You're being a pedant to look clever. But you've failed to note that any period fo 10 Years is a decade, making any argument about when a given decade starts completely flawed.

It's the same for 20th and 21st century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century
Why would you change the way of counting just for decades?

[Juliet P]

Happy Easter.

Everyone have a good day/night?

Yes I did! I started the new year off right: drunk dancing in a club with mates

I started the new year by...coming up with a name for my new computer. Or rather, selecting one from a list that a friend suggested.

You give your computers names?

[Denthúl]

Happy Easter.

Everyone have a good day/night?

Yes I did! I started the new year off right: drunk dancing in a club with mates

I started the new year by...coming up with a name for my new computer. Or rather, selecting one from a list that a friend suggested.

You give your computers names?

Yeah. Don't you?

[suitcase]

I started the new year by...coming up with a name for my new computer. Or rather, selecting one from a list that a friend suggested.

What did you name it?

[Juliet P]

Happy Easter.

Everyone have a good day/night?

Yes I did! I started the new year off right: drunk dancing in a club with mates

I started the new year by...coming up with a name for my new computer. Or rather, selecting one from a list that a friend suggested.

You give your computers names?

Yeah. Don't you?

No

What did you name it?

What she said... What did you call it?

[Denthúl]

I started the new year by...coming up with a name for my new computer. Or rather, selecting one from a list that a friend suggested.

What did you name it?

The one I picked from the list was Chaia. This would be the first time I've given a computer a person's name.

Happy Easter.

Everyone have a good day/night?

Yes I did! I started the new year off right: drunk dancing in a club with mates

I started the new year by...coming up with a name for my new computer. Or rather, selecting one from a list that a friend suggested.

You give your computers names?

Yeah. Don't you?

No

Lame. I hate the default "[Name]-PC" or "[Name]-Laptop". And if I used those, I'd get conflicts, seeing as I have so many >.> So I give them a unique name to avoid that.