Does it annoy anyone else that everyone thinks a decade ends in the 9th year?
 

This happenes every decade, and it annoys me every time. I do not know why people are so stupid, and why the folks in the media get this wrong every time.

a decade is ten years. NO ONE STARTS COUNTING AT ZERO!

yet, everytime a year ending in 9 is finishing up we get "best of the decade" lists and all sorts of stupid end of decade crap. fucking moron people. 2010 is the last year of the first decade of the 2000's. simple as that. people are such morons. The next decade does not start until 2011.


rant over.

i disagree

Hmm, okay, it should technically be "best of the decade" but "best of the 00's" (since 2010 is in the 10s). It's hardly something I'd be angry with though

2010 is not in the teens,

a decade is ten years.
2010 is the end of the "aughts."

2020 is the end of the teens, etc.

it is what it is.

I have to admit I always think of the zero year as the start of the decade and the 9 year as the end. For example, how can you say 1970 was part of the 60s when there's no 60s in the number? Eh? It's not 196070.

Nope, 2010 is in the 10s but in the 201th decade. A decade is from year ***1 to year **10; the label "*0s", though, is used to encircle years ***0 to ***9. It basically defines the years ending in that or that.
Man this is getting technical :D

Honestly? I don't care.

OH OH OH

^ Yep. This is the only way it makes sense.

Quit trying to fuck with our minds, Rob! You dada-ist surrealist-hater you.

there was NO YEAR 0

do you count to ten like this?

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Stop.

Number 9, number 9, number 9... .

No
But the label "x0's" is not used to count years since year 1, only to refer to years ending in x0's.

wikipedia as a barometer for correctness? ha!

The difference is basically the same in between "The 20th century" and "The years 1900"
The 20th century ended December 31st, 2000
The years 1900 ended December 31st, 1999

I just blew your mind didn't I? :D

So, was 1970 part of the 1960s? No. I refuse to believe it.

OK, I'm willing to agree to this. For tight-ass accountant nerd types, the decade can end on the zero year. For the rest of us normal people, it goes from 0 to 9.

picture of a guy enraging as the real decade only ends in one year and everyone thinks it's the end of the decade

right but,



2000 -2010

^ a decade.
it's not the first decade of the 21st century, according to the gregorian calendar, but it's a decade.

so what happened between jan 1 2000 and dec 31st? a magic nonexistent year! a superfluous, not-gonna-count year!

that is ELEVEN YEARS and not a decade

2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2009
2010

Rob, it was the first year of this soon-to-end decade. Pretty simple, really.

so "normal people" are that ignorant that the numeral 0, nil, naught, the abscence of anything, counts as a year?

Fixed.

what I'm pointing out is that it is different things
The 20th century does NOT equal the years 1900
just as the 201th decade (ahah) does NOT equal the 00s

but you agree that 2000 thru 2009 is 10 years right? Cuz 10 years is a decade. Right? Rob?

Yeah, but, 2000 to 2010 is 11.

Oh, this is fun.

1995-2004 is a decade

1832-1931 is a decade

2001-2010 is a decade

Yes
But the 00s is 2000-2009. The 2010s will be 2010-2019
The 0000s was 01-09 (yeah, only nine years: the label "xx's" does not refer properly to a decade but just to the years ending in xx!) , the 0010s was 10-19, etc.

who made up them retard rules? had to be some "poet"

Mister Jesus himself

Jesus was a carpenter, so he would have been good at math. This is believable.

2020 is the start of the 20s, 2019 is the end of the teens


ps

1. 2000
2. 2001
3. 2002
4. 2003
5. 2004
6. 2005
7. 2006
8. 2007
9. 2008
10. 2009


that appears to be 10 years, roberto, which if i am not mistaken, which i am not, makes a decade.

pps


yeah, it's some jesus shit.

2000 - 2001 I
2001 - 2002 II
2002 - 2003 III
2003 - 2004 IV
2004 - 2005 V
2005 - 2006 VI
2006 - 2007 VII
2007 - 2008 VIII
2008 - 2009 IX
2009 - 2010 X

Rob, yr Lindsay threads are far more interesting than this one.

See, this is why your 1 Day God is a lie. Plying these deep, foundational errors in your 1 Day model only further proves nature's harmonic simultaneous 4-day time cube. You are educated stupid and evil.

Man I love this thread

Yeah, where are the big butts?