Does it annoy anyone else that everyone thinks a decade ends in the 9th year? - Page 3

looking glass spectacle · 12.15.2009, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

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.

so i suppose you came out of yr mom's vagina already 1 year old, because you start counting at one. you were never zero years old for a whole year, that would be inconceivable. congratulations on yr superpower counting skills...

suggested reading for this post includes:

Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero (Paperback)

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)

In Defense of Lost Causes (Paperback)

gmku · 12.15.2009, 02:25 PM

I still can't believe it. Three whole pages of a Rob thread and no booty.

pbradley · 12.15.2009, 02:42 PM

1 is a lie. 4 is life.

looking glass spectacle · 12.15.2009, 02:52 PM

a decade can never be ten years old, because the instant it turns ten, it ends. and when you were 20, it was not the tenth year of your teenage years, that was when you were nineteen... think back, now.... i think you'll find that when you were 20 (ending in zero) you were in yr twenties.

have you really lost sight of all logic, mr. instigator?

!@#$%! · 12.15.2009, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

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.

it's y2k all over again

gmku · 12.15.2009, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by looking glass spectacle

a decade can never be ten years old, because the instant it turns ten, it ends. and when you were 20, it was not the tenth year of your teenage years, that was when you were 19...

have you really lost sight of all logic, mr. instigator?

Big butts have turned his mind to mush.

looking glass spectacle · 12.15.2009, 03:08 PM

EVOLghost · 12.15.2009, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

do you count to ten like this?

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

you weren't there man....

no but seriously. we're past that stage. You're are ignoring year 2000. Did year 2000 not exist? I remember it. so yeah. 09 is the end of the decade.

Rob Instigator · 12.15.2009, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by looking glass spectacle

so i suppose you came out of yr mom's vagina already 1 year old, because you start counting at one. you were never zero years old for a whole year, that would be inconceivable. congratulations on yr superpower counting skills...

suggested reading for this post includes:

Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero (Paperback)

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)

In Defense of Lost Causes (Paperback)

reead those books.

you turn ONE after being out yr momma's pussy for a year.

How does that NOT make sense?

Rob Instigator · 12.15.2009, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by EVOLghost

you weren't there man....

no but seriously. we're past that stage. You're are ignoring year 2000. Did year 2000 not exist? I remember it. so yeah. 09 is the end of the decade.

2000 was the last year of the decade that started Jan 1st 1991

gmku · 12.15.2009, 04:15 PM

^why doesn't Chahib delete or ban this guy?

pbradley · 12.15.2009, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

reead those books.

you turn ONE after being out yr momma's pussy for a year.

How does that NOT make sense?

So my two month old nephew is now a year and two months old?

How does that make sense?

StevOK · 12.15.2009, 06:39 PM

Usage dictates definition.

Colossus just meant "statue" until the Colossus at Rhodes.

Do you realize that a billion in America and a billion in the UK are different numbers?

Skuj · 12.15.2009, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

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.

So, July 1970 was still "the sixties" then.

Skuj · 12.15.2009, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by gmku

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.

It's funny how we said almost exactly the same thing.

terminal pharmacy · 12.15.2009, 06:43 PM

decade starts at 0 finishes at the end of nine which is the start of ten which the change of that time is and infintisimal nuremic digit of time

oh and rob lets take the example of a baby, a baby is 1 in the second year of its life, just like at the start of a decade.......

Skuj · 12.15.2009, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by gmku

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

Wha....what? I'll never talk to Rob again.

Skuj · 12.15.2009, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

there was NO YEAR 0

And 2000 (and Y2K and all that) was NOT the beginning of the new millenium.

looking glass spectacle · 12.15.2009, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

reead those books.

you turn ONE after being out yr momma's pussy for a year.

How does that NOT make sense?

exactly, and the ninties turned ONE after being around for a year, which was at the end of 1990.

How does that NOT make sense?

looking glass spectacle · 12.15.2009, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

2000 was the last year of the decade that started Jan 1st 1991

fuck yr thick... i thought you just figured it out.

jesus, man! how hard is it to see that only a lunatic would believe that their twenties started at 21 and lasted until 30, and that their thirties did not in fact begin until 31 but then had the benefit of lasting until 40.

now, i know that many 40 year olds will tell you that they are in their thirties, but they are lying, didn't you know that?

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terminal pharmacy invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 3,358	decade starts at 0 finishes at the end of nine which is the start of ten which the change of that time is and infintisimal nuremic digit of time oh and rob lets take the example of a baby, a baby is 1 in the second year of its life, just like at the start of a decade.......
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