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In response to "These decade-ending lists inspired me to rewatch Sexy Beast. It's even better than I remembered. nm " by Dignan

There's an entire year left in the decade. Aren't these lists a little premature? -- nm

Posted by TWuG Dec 8 '09, 15:14

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nmb TWuG - CovingtonCat Dec 8, 15:25 2
- Awesome! I'm glad you like! You said "no books" but like to road trip, so I took a stab that the book would work. - TWuG Dec 8, 15:28 1
  - Sounds good. Thanks! -- nm - CovingtonCat Dec 8, 15:37
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- Yes, there's the Calendar Decade and the "wow, the numbers changed!" decade. I accept that there are two types of decade. - TWuG Dec 8, 15:26 2
  - see below. No one cares about that decade. It's different for centurys and milleniums. -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 15:34
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- I submit that this decade doesn't start until after 9/11. -- nm - Rudolph Guliani Dec 8, 15:21
Depends on which decade you're talking about. -- nm - nubby Dec 8, 15:17
I'm with you but it seems like most people are going with 2000-2009 as the decade. -- nm - Dano Dec 8, 15:15
Only if you count 2000 as part of the 90's. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 15:15 3
- Which noone does. It's counted as part of the tenth decade of the last century, which encompasses 1991 through 2000. You folks who start counting to - TWuG Dec 8, 15:17 1
  - so... you agree then. -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 15:19
- which would be silly. -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 15:15
Here's where I get stabby. -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 15:14 30
- There is the Nineties, whic encompasses 10 years or a lower-case "d" decade. A Decade (upper case) is ten years starting with a year ending in 1 and - TWuG Dec 8, 15:22 21
  - But what if we put a lower-case-d decade in a title? MAYHEM!!! -- nm - nubby Dec 8, 15:28
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  - So you're not one of the jackholes who was arguing in 2000 that the 21st century hadn't started yet? -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 15:25 6
    - By the Calendar with which we mark time, it had not. -- nm - TWuG Dec 8, 15:30 3
      - Ah. I should've known. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 15:38
      - because that calendar has such a remarkably accurate starting point. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 15:33 1
        
        It may have an arbitrary date of adoption, but the Calendar works both forward and backward. -- nm - TWuG Dec 8, 15:36
    - OK well.... it hadn't. - Reagen Dec 8, 15:27 1
      - Agreed. "Hey, remember the 80s" with Goatboy ... and "Hey, remember the 70s" with Cowman ... -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 15:28
  - So by your logic, Best of the 60s would include the year 1970? Wikipedia disagrees. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 15:25
  - Dear nerds: please don't make this a thing. -- nm - David Dec 8, 15:24 8
    - Dear David, stop calling me a nerd. - musubi Dec 8, 15:37
    - I'm with David on this one -- nm - con_carne Dec 8, 15:29
    - *whimper* -- nm - nubby Dec 8, 15:27
    - it's one of the more baffling ones to me. -- nm - b. Dec 8, 15:26 3
      - as is something like this getting personal. -- nm - b. Dec 8, 15:39 2
        
        Your face is getting personal! - Reagen Dec 8, 15:40 1
        
        so's your mother! - b. Dec 8, 15:41
    - Hey, I'm pretty nerdy, but even *I* understand the concept of a vernacular usage. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 15:26
  - Do I sound this condescending when I do this? If so, I'm sorry, people. -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 15:24 1
    - No intention at condescension. I'll cop to being a pedant on the subject, though. -- nm - TWuG Dec 8, 15:34
- I had no idea TWuG was on your same team. - David Dec 8, 15:20 5
  - I was shooting at blue! -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 15:20 4
    - You were shooting blue...at red. -- nm - David Dec 8, 15:22 3
      - it's also not my fault you killed the guy before my rocket got there! -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 15:25 1
        
        How dare I be great at Halo! -- nm - David Dec 8, 15:27
      - Speaking of which, I should send you the video of this. -- nm - David Dec 8, 15:25
- yes. -- nm - Callisto Dec 8, 15:17
- *turns blind eye* nm - Every possible jury Dec 8, 15:16

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