For Those Who Do Not Understand Whether Or Not This Is A New Decade...

So with that logic, the year 2000 is part of the 90s, and 1990 is part of the 80s. Do you know how confusing that would be if we counted the decades like that? Also, you were like implying that 2000-2001 did not count for a year. The year 2000 was the start of the 21 century, but it did not start a new decade?

Ok, I am just going to continue thinking the today is the start of a new decade.

[QUOTE="theone86"]

[QUOTE="GreyskullPower"]Ok, try this. When you play monopoly, and you have to move 5 spaces, don't you move the piece once? that makes one space. You are not staying on the same spot and counting that 1 space, and then moving the piece, now are you?GreyskullPower

There is a year 1 BC or before Christ, correct? That's the year before Christ was born, shouldn't next year be 0, or the year in which Christ was born? It's not about moving spaces, it's about having the right number of spaces in teh first place. The Gregorian calender is missing Go.

lmao! what? that didn't make any sense? You just skip a year?

[QUOTE="RockysCatnipCo"][QUOTE="MrGeezer"]

And "the 200th decade" is the 200th decade, NOT "the 90s".

MrGeezer

A quick two question quiz...

1) Is 1987 in the 19th century AD, or the 20th century AD?

2) Is 2006 in the second millenium AD, or the third millenium AD?

If you managed to answer both of these questions correctly, then you surly see where i'm coming from. And if you failed to answer either of these questions correctly, then I sure as hell hope that you're not representative of what passes aas "normal".

[QUOTE="GreyskullPower"][QUOTE="zbdyx"]Wait, 2000-2001 doesn't count? Since when? I always thought it went 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 05-06 06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 That's 10 whole yearsdanjammer69

Yea this, the 90's just like the 80's ended in 99 & 89

when we write our history timeline it goes by 70's 80's 90's, 2000s

Not 71st, 81st, 91st............it actualy makes more sense that timelines are done this way.....We popped bottles and got drunk on 2000, it was the end of the 19s, we weren't going to go oh lets wait to 2001 to celebrate, PLUS all the videos like Waiting for tonight counted down the millineum so there!, i'm kidding.

Imagine if we did write out stuff in the way these people are suggesting 'Great bands of the 71's xD, the Zero is there because it emcomposes the entire decade, saying anything different such as great bands of the 71's is just encomposing that 1 year, timers start at zero and then they go up, the zero is the sign of change, the sign of a new begining, not 2001 dammit.

Cool story, bro. Go ahead and keep on preaching if it makes you feel superior like so many of these other charming folk. The truth is the majority does not give a rat's ass whether it's technically correct or not.

Renegade_Fury

Yea it reminds me of the 'Americans aren't Americans' arguement, The name of the country is America and regardless of what the continent is called, noone else in the Americas refer to themselves as Americans, and Politicaly when people refer to Americans, they mean people of the US......if they mean anyone else they would say 'North America' or what have you.

[QUOTE="danjammer69"][QUOTE="GreyskullPower"] and so is 1987 to 1997. What I'm saying is that 2000 is still apart of the 1990's, and that the new millenium, (00's) in THIS decade, is not over.Euroshinobi

Yea this, the 90's just like the 80's ended in 99 & 89

when we write our history timeline it goes by 70's 80's 90's, 2000s

Not 71st, 81st, 91st............it actualy makes more sense that timelines are done this way.....We popped bottles and got drunk on 2000, it was the end of the 19s, we weren't going to go oh lets wait to 2001 to celebrate, PLUS all the videos like Waiting for tonight counted down the millineum so there!, i'm kidding.

Imagine if we did write out stuff in the way these people are suggesting 'Great bands of the 71's xD, the Zero is there because it emcomposes the entire decade, saying anything different such as great bands of the 71's is just encomposing that 1 year, timers start at zero and then they go up, the zero is the sign of change, the sign of a new begining, not 2001 dammit.

Yeah, but just because people have been thinking one way for a long time, doesnt make it right. Yes, we've been thinking that XXX9 is the end of one decade, and XXX0 is the beginning of a new one. It's easy to understand. But it's wrong. There was no year 0, which mean to complete the first decade (AD), the last year was 10. And after 2000 years it's the same - 2000 was the last year of 20th century, 2001 began a new one and a new decade, and 2010 will end it - not 2009.

To make it easier to uderstand pretend years are Skittles - and count them the same way. Skittle #2000 will complete 2000 skittles (two millenia), and skittles 2001-2010 will be the next 10.

Well, wasn't the year 1990 part of the 90's, not the 80's? 1990 was the start of a whole new decade, so was 2000 and therefore so is 2010.

Yeah, but just because people have been thinking one way for a long time, doesnt make it right. Yes, we've been thinking that XXX9 is the end of one decade, and XXX0 is the beginning of a new one. It's easy to understand. But it's wrong. There was no year 0, which mean to complete the first decade (AD), the last year was 10. And after 2000 years it's the same - 2000 was the last year of 20th century, 2001 began a new one and a new decade, and 2010 will end it - not 2009.

To make it easier to uderstand pretend years are Skittles - and count them the same way. Skittle #2000 will complete 2000 skittles (two millenia), and skittles 2001-2010 will be the next 10.

[QUOTE="XanderKage"]

Yeah, but just because people have been thinking one way for a long time, doesnt make it right. Yes, we've been thinking that XXX9 is the end of one decade, and XXX0 is the beginning of a new one. It's easy to understand. But it's wrong. There was no year 0, which mean to complete the first decade (AD), the last year was 10. And after 2000 years it's the same - 2000 was the last year of 20th century, 2001 began a new one and a new decade, and 2010 will end it - not 2009.

To make it easier to uderstand pretend years are Skittles - and count them the same way. Skittle #2000 will complete 2000 skittles (two millenia), and skittles 2001-2010 will be the next 10.

_Cadbury_

Well, that would leave the first decade ayear short, wouldn't it...

But yeah, I realize I'm nitpicking. It's just details like that annoy me sometimes.

It's like this:

Since there was no year zero, the time between 2001-2002 makes 1 year. people often get confused and think that the 2001 and 2002 periods are two years.

Also, since the new millenium did not start until 2001 that means that the time between 2001 and 2002 is one year.

2001--------------------1 year-----------------------2002

So, a better understanding would be that (starting from 2001) 2001 to 2002 makes one year, 2002 to 2003 makes 2 years, 2003 to 2004 makes 3 three years.

Go all the way up to 9, then that means:

2009-----------9 years-------------2010

So, that means that this new year is the 9th year in this decade of the new millenium.

Hope that helps :)

GreyskullPower

Wow you looked WAY too far into this :|

2009 turns to 2010, notice the 1 in place of the 0? That means it's a new decade :S durrrrr

kerrman

Its funny-- TC hasn't chimed in in a while....

No you guys im seriously right now, I'm pissed off at god........I aged 3 times in the period of 1999-2001, i wanna know why the hell god aged me 3 times when 2000 isn't a year, its BS jesus and i'm calling you out on it, ITS BS, kiss my ass jesus kiss my ass, you racist

[QUOTE="XanderKage"]

Yeah, but just because people have been thinking one way for a long time, doesnt make it right. Yes, we've been thinking that XXX9 is the end of one decade, and XXX0 is the beginning of a new one. It's easy to understand. But it's wrong. There was no year 0, which mean to complete the first decade (AD), the last year was 10. And after 2000 years it's the same - 2000 was the last year of 20th century, 2001 began a new one and a new decade, and 2010 will end it - not 2009.

To make it easier to uderstand pretend years are Skittles - and count them the same way. Skittle #2000 will complete 2000 skittles (two millenia), and skittles 2001-2010 will be the next 10.

_Cadbury_

If came here on January 1 2013 and start declaring it "the first day of the new millenium", are you honestly saying that you wouldn't tell me to STHU?

Feh. It's all semantics. I consider this a new decade, I could care less about whether a the 1st decade had 10 years or not. I don't group 2000 with the 1990s. And I sure as hell aren't goint ot call it the 285th whatever decade either. It's like the North Pole and the REAL magnetic North Pole. Hardly matters.Eman5805

It mattered enough for people to spend ten pages trying to justify that we've just entered a new decade.

It takes two to tango. So it's sort of weak to criticize the topic creator for talking about something that "doesn't matter". It mattered enough for him to start this thread, and it mattered enough for people to stay interested in it.

Well regardless, we can all still get drunk and womanize right?

Well regardless, we can all still get drunk and womanize right?jackandblood

It is a new decade...0-1 was a year....so is 2000-2001.

When the Earth started ---> 1 year later...that is what year 0 is...or at least that's how I am thinking.

It's like this:

Since there was no year zero, the time between 2001-2002 makes 1 year. people often get confused and think that the 2001 and 2002 periods are two years.

Also, since the new millenium did not start until 2001 that means that the time between 2001 and 2002 is one year.

2001--------------------1 year-----------------------2002

So, a better understanding would be that (starting from 2001) 2001 to 2002 makes one year, 2002 to 2003 makes 2 years, 2003 to 2004 makes 3 three years.

Go all the way up to 9, then that means:

2009-----------9 years-------------2010

So, that means that this new year is the 9th year in this decade of the new millenium.

Hope that helps :)

GreyskullPower

Sorry but no. 2000-2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_(decade)

It is a new decade...0-1 was a year....so is 2000-2001.

When the Earth started ---> 1 year later...that is what year 0 is...or at least that's how I am thinking.

AlphaRail

Sorry but no. 2000-2009teddyrob

WTF? So 2000 wasn't the start of the millenium? I call shenanagins, the decade ends now.enterawesome

What I'm saying is that 2000 is still apart of the 1990's, and that the new millenium, (00's) in THIS decade, is not over.GreyskullPower

2000 is part of the 2000-2009 decade. While the new millenium is 2001. You are getting these two seperate things mixed up.

2000 decade

21st century

You can't go making your own ideas up when it has already been decided.

[QUOTE="enterawesome"]WTF? So 2000 wasn't the start of the millenium? I call shenanagins, the decade ends now.Dawq902

People here really care about accuracy.

same goes for 90's 80s etc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineties

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighties

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenties

same goes for 90's 80s etc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineties

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighties

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenties

teddyrob

Pop culture wise we go by 2000-2009 as a decade.. When we say the 90s, 80s, etc which is common rhetoric on a certain decade, it would not make sense.sSubZerOo

Not just pop culture. The decade is 2000-2009 that is already decided. Go and change wiki if you think it will make a different. It will be changed back.

The calender was just made up anyway. There was really no year 1BC or 1AD they didn't even know Jesus was coming. It was decided yearsand years later.The calender is a bit of a mess anyhow many think. Many consider Jesus was born in -4BC.

http://bible.org/article/birth-jesus-christ

It's a new decade. If there was not a year 0, then there should have been. Same reason why babies do not start at 1.

Otherwise, unless I'm mistaken, if we were to be really technical about this, the year should be somewhere in the 4.54 billions.

So...you're saying that today's date is January 0?MrGeezer

[QUOTE="MrGeezer"]So...you're saying that today's date is January 0?Link256

The Same Debate on Wikipedia

[QUOTE="MrGeezer"]So...you're saying that today's date is January 0?Link256

I'm saying that a newborn baby is in it's first year, even if it was only born 30 seconds ago.

0 goes before 1, so we start from 0. 1)00-01 2)01-02 3)02-03 4)03-04 5)04-05 6)05-06 7)06-07 8)07-08 9)08-09 10)09-10 and then we start again: 1)10-11 2)11-12 3)12-13 4)13-14 5)14-15 6)15-16 7)16-17 8)17-18 9)18-19 10)19-20 So yes we are starting a new decade.cyberdarkkid

Is January 0 the first day after December 31?

[QUOTE="cyberdarkkid"]0 goes before 1, so we start from 0. 1)00-01 2)01-02 3)02-03 4)03-04 5)04-05 6)05-06 7)06-07 8)07-08 9)08-09 10)09-10 and then we start again: 1)10-11 2)11-12 3)12-13 4)13-14 5)14-15 6)15-16 7)16-17 8)17-18 9)18-19 10)19-20 So yes we are starting a new decade.MrGeezer

Is January 0 the first day after December 31?

[QUOTE="MrGeezer"]

[QUOTE="cyberdarkkid"]0 goes before 1, so we start from 0. 1)00-01 2)01-02 3)02-03 4)03-04 5)04-05 6)05-06 7)06-07 8)07-08 9)08-09 10)09-10 and then we start again: 1)10-11 2)11-12 3)12-13 4)13-14 5)14-15 6)15-16 7)16-17 8)17-18 9)18-19 10)19-20 So yes we are starting a new decade.cyberdarkkid

Is January 0 the first day after December 31?

Wrong. There's no difference.

Day or year, you start at 1 because it is the FIRST day/year.

[QUOTE="Link256"]

[QUOTE="MrGeezer"]So...you're saying that today's date is January 0?MrGeezer

I'm saying that a newborn baby is in it's first year, even if it was only born 30 seconds ago.

[QUOTE="cyberdarkkid"][QUOTE="MrGeezer"]

Is January 0 the first day after December 31?

MrGeezer

Wrong. There's no difference.

Day or year, you start at 1 because it is the FIRST day/year.

Baby's birth - Baby's first birthday party, 1 year, that is why you have one candle on the cake. When a baby's born he is on it's way to become a one year old, 0-1.cyberdarkkid

[QUOTE="GreyskullPower"][QUOTE="lol_haha_dead"]So it is the start of the new decade right?super_mario_128

Wow... The same two people are still defending this dumb argument. Give it up already, it's a new decade by everyone else's logic. Your opinion on whether or not it is a legitimately new decade isn't going to change anyone's minds.