the next one better rock

12/26/2009 6:35:00 PM

blame it on george bush michael vick and that girl that wouldn't sleep with you

12/26/2009 6:36:54 PM

2010 is still part of this decade


<_<

12/26/2009 6:37:43 PM

2000-2009

2010-2019

depends on when you start your year

12/26/2009 6:38:27 PM

no. 2000 was not part of the 90s and 90 was not part of the 80s.

12/26/2009 6:38:49 PM

i prefer to use 1-10


thus we are still in decade 2001-2010

12/26/2009 6:39:40 PM

mcfluffle you're wrong

12/26/2009 6:40:49 PM

if only the same thing could have multiple interpretations! i mean, really..

12/26/2009 6:44:02 PM

i'm talking about the decade encompassing 10 years from this coming new years if you're purposefully going to stick to being retarded, ok

12/26/2009 6:47:43 PM

wow.. mcfluffle is dumb

12/26/2009 7:05:12 PM

Eh, I had a pretty good decade.

Moved through high school, college, and grad school... and into a nice jerb. Can't complain

12/26/2009 7:08:24 PM

The first year was not year 0. The first year was year 1. The first decade was year 1-10. Therefore we are still in the decade of 2001-2010.

12/26/2009 7:12:06 PM

i like to go from 2005-2014

i still have plenty of time for my decade to improve

suckers

12/26/2009 7:15:16 PM

Obama is a commie.

12/26/2009 7:15:28 PM

for historical purposes decades are dated from 00-09

hence when someone refers to the 20's its 1920-1929

12/26/2009 7:15:34 PM

That's only cause people who like history don't know how to count and they start at 0 and not 1.

12/26/2009 7:16:59 PM

decades arent about counting, its about grouping 10 years together into a reference point

12/26/2009 7:18:58 PM

^^^^^^decades are classified as 0-9 (still ten years) because the moment you go from 9-10 you add a new number in the tens place. additionally, in historic dating, ex. itd be like saying 1940 is part of the 1930s, which is clearly wrong and stupid

[Edited on December 26, 2009 at 7:19 PM. Reason : damn posters]

12/26/2009 7:19:17 PM

NRR wins

12/26/2009 7:19:28 PM

it is to about counting. You put 10 years together to get a decade. So you gotta be able to count to 10. DUH!!!!!

[Edited on December 26, 2009 at 7:20 PM. Reason : ]

12/26/2009 7:20:05 PM

^^

12/26/2009 7:20:10 PM

12/26/2009 7:20:47 PM

It's like people saying we were in the 21st century in the year 2000.

12/26/2009 7:21:41 PM

those people were correct

12/26/2009 7:22:02 PM

So a century is no longer 100 years long?

12/26/2009 7:23:25 PM

i thought you were all about some counting? clearly you need help

12/26/2009 7:24:36 PM

Year 100 was the last year of the first century. Year 200 was the last year of the 2nd century. Skip a few years. Year 1800 was the last year of the 18th century, 1900 the last year of the 19th century and 2000 the last year of the 20th century. 2100 will be the last year of the 21st century.

12/26/2009 7:26:02 PM

please dont teach your children that, you couldnt be more wrong

so is 1990 part of the 80's to?

i mean the title of the refernced era explains precisely what years are included, its really pretty easy

in math you would be right, but this isnt math, this is historical classification

[Edited on December 26, 2009 at 7:30 PM. Reason : .]

12/26/2009 7:29:47 PM

wow, sawahash is a moron

12/26/2009 7:31:38 PM

When I'm talking about the 90's I mean 1990-1999

But when I say the 10th decade of the century I mean 1991-2000.


^so is your face!

[Edited on December 26, 2009 at 7:34 PM. Reason : ]

12/26/2009 7:31:59 PM

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

Quote :

"A decade is a period of ten years. The word is derived (via French) from the Late Latin decadem, accusative of decas, from Greek decas, from deca. The other words for spans of years also come from Latin: lustrum (5 years), century (100 years), millennium (1000 years). Although any period of ten years is a decade, a convenient and frequently referenced interval is based on the tens digit of the calendar year, as in using 1960s to represent the decade from 1960 to 1969.[1][2] Often, for brevity, only the tens part is mentioned (60s or sixties), although this may leave it uncertain which century is meant. These references are frequently used to encapsulate pop culture or other widespread phenomena that dominated such a decade, as in The Great Depression of the 1930s. Some writers like to point out that since the common calendar starts from the year 1, its first full decade contained the years from 1 to 10, the second decade from 11 to 20, and so on.[3] The interval from the year 2001 to 2010 could thus be called the 201st decade, using ordinal numbers. However, contrary to practices in referencing centuries, ordinal references to decades are quite uncommon. In addition to the interpretations noted above, a decade may refer to an arbitrary span of 10 years. For example, the statement "during his last decade, Mozart explored chromatic harmony to a degree rare at the time," merely refers to the last 10 years of Mozart's life without regard to which calendar years are encompassed. Thus, an unqualified reference to, for example, "the decade" or "this decade" may strictly speaking have multiple interpretations, and one must consider whether the context is, for example, a cultural reference, an ordinal reference, or some other context."

12/26/2009 7:34:43 PM

ha ha you must bored

12/26/2009 7:35:17 PM

bhahaa

12/26/2009 7:36:19 PM

i'm so fucking bored

12/26/2009 7:36:39 PM