View Full Version : I've just realised that its the end of the decade in 4 months
and a bit.
Woah, 4 months today until Christmas actually.
But the decade thing - there doesn't seem to be a big huhaha like there was in 1999. I'm sure people where planning their night out months in advance back then and that some how everything would be different. Labour still new into power, the euro, the minimum wage - it was all so promising.
So is any1 planning to party like its 1999?
Audio.
08-25-2009, 02:39 AM
eh its not a big deal to me even that whole fuss about 2012.
I'm more anticipating next year's video games and comicon :)
Dorothy Wood
08-25-2009, 02:53 AM
DUDE, 2010 IS GONNA BE SO INTENSE
DandyFop
08-25-2009, 02:58 AM
Can't wait for VH1's "I Love The 00's" five seconds into the new years.
roosta
08-25-2009, 07:05 AM
I remember New Years Eve 1999, that was 10 years ago.
Holy shit, that is kind of odd feeling.
Kid Presentable
08-25-2009, 07:44 AM
I got lost on New Years 99/00 and fell in Lake Wakatipu.
skra75
08-25-2009, 09:02 AM
What I keep racking my head around is: what are they gonna call this decade?
It doesn't have a nice ring to it like "the seventies" or "the eighties", or "the ninties".
Is it the "zero-zero's"? The "new millenium startup decade"? "the pre-tens"? "the two-thousands".
actually all those sound like shitty so-cal neo-new-wave bands haha.
skra75
08-25-2009, 09:03 AM
I'm more anticipating next year's video games and comicon :)
did you go this year? you probably met me and you didn't even realize it.
Can't wait for VH1's "I Love The 00's" five seconds into the new years.
They already have it. :cool:
paul jones
08-25-2009, 10:25 AM
The decade that everyone spent a lot of time online
hpdrifter
08-25-2009, 11:42 AM
the aughts
Echewta
08-25-2009, 12:10 PM
Anyone have any cool new decade resolutions?
YoungRemy
08-25-2009, 12:15 PM
the aughts
everyone is saying that, but is anyone actually USING that term in casual conversation?
I think time will tell and the answer will be the "Two Thousands" or the (say it like the letter) "Oh's"
What I keep racking my head around is: what are they gonna call this decade?
the teens or twenty teens.
Freebasser
08-25-2009, 12:29 PM
I've been using "The Noughties".
I've been using "The Noughties".
Me three.
Lex Diamonds
08-25-2009, 01:16 PM
As far as I'm aware "The Noughties" is the most universally used term. Maybe they don't use that in the US though. Seems like the easiest to me, anyway.
And the reason there isn't a 1999-style furore is because 2000 was a new millenium and 2010 is just a new decade. Did you idiots seriously not realise that?
The thing I'm most looking forward to in 2010 is the South African World Cup, it's going to be amazing. (y)
And the reason there isn't a 1999-style furore is because 2000 was a new millenium and 2010 is just a new decade.
Yes, we are all that dumb :rolleyes: thanks for pointing it out (y)
I just mean, most of us can remember our night out back in '99 and it was my first proper decade turn where I was old enough to drink and party. Not the same this time but when you think back to the changes that was happening back then - just coming out a recession, the old political order had been gone three years and it seemed as if the new millennium was gonna bring some great things and we've seemed to of crashed and burned into a train wreck that is the world right now (I blame top gear).
In fact, I dunno what I am saying. But 10 years!! woah.
Freebasser
08-25-2009, 01:33 PM
All those people celebrating the new millennium on December 31st 1999 were barking up the wrong tree anyway. The new millennium started in 2001, not 2000. There is no year '0' - only a 1BC and a 1AD :rolleyes:
YoungRemy
08-25-2009, 01:35 PM
also the whole Y2K doomsday phenomenon was sweeping the nations...
we don't get that now, we have to wait until 2012 for that one to roll around...
Audio.
08-25-2009, 01:48 PM
did you go this year? you probably met me and you didn't even realize it.
nah I didnt go. Saturday tickets were sold out and everyone was working on a Friday. I wanted to go. They had a lot great stuff this year.
Audio.
08-25-2009, 01:52 PM
Maybe it be called something like the New 20's or like Neo 70's.
2k80's?
what do people call 1900-1909 and 1910-1919? nothing, that's what
1910-1919 have been called the teens or nineteen teens.
also the whole Y2K doomsday phenomenon was sweeping the nations...
we don't get that now, we have to wait until 2012 for that one to roll around...
You mean 2038 - but I imagine we all will be on 64 bit machines by then so it shouldn't be a problem. But that is what was thought last time, no1 would be using the old machines in 2000.
Its better explained here - http://xkcd.com/607/
edit: even wiki have a page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem) - so you know its serious.
bigblu89
08-25-2009, 04:17 PM
I call it the "two thousands".
And I'll remember it as the decade that I got old.
Moved out of the house, got married, had kids.
Not all I'm doing is waiting to die.
YoungRemy
08-25-2009, 04:40 PM
You mean 2038 - but I imagine we all will be on 64 bit machines by then so it shouldn't be a problem. But that is what was thought last time, no1 would be using the old machines in 2000.
Its better explained here - http://xkcd.com/607/
edit: even wiki have a page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem) - so you know its serious.
I'm actually referring to the Mayan end day theory of 2012.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_millenarianism
I'm actually referring to the Mayan end day theory of 2012.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_millenarianism
Oh, well there is a doomsday scenario every year. It shouldn't effect computers though even though we all die in 2012. The computer uprising should still be able to run for 26 years (y) So I would suggest start collecting 26 years of tinned food in the next 3 years.
Dorothy Wood
08-26-2009, 01:10 AM
what do people call 1900-1909 and 1910-1919? nothing, that's what
they call those the 1900's, or like "early 20th century".
or at least that's what I say when some d-bag is asking me about an antique frame or an old map. they're alls, "why's this so espensive, yo?" and I'm all, "because that shit's like a hundred years old, bro, it's all ancient and shit." and they say, "for real?" and I say, "get the hell out of my store you son of a bitch."
i bet you don't really say that
skra75
08-26-2009, 09:58 AM
what do people call 1900-1909 and 1910-1919?
Alot of times in History class they'd say "the turn of the century"
Actually, that has a nice ring to it.
Problem solved - "turn-of-the-century" it is. Think about it!
Valley girl to valley girl friend: OMG! that all-over print hoodie is SOOOO turn-of-the-century. Yuck!
Top 40 DJ: Are you ready for turn-of-the-century retro weekend with Arcade Fire?
See, it works.
you weird europeans can keep calling them the naughties. What in the hell does that mean anyways?
Freebasser
08-26-2009, 10:04 AM
Nought is a number.
Noughties has the same ring to it as seventies, eighties, nineties, etc.
Aaaaand that's about it :/
skra75
08-26-2009, 10:08 AM
Nought is a number.
Noughties has the same ring to it as seventies, eighties, nineties, etc.
Aaaaand that's about it :/
Nought is a number? I thought it was only used in the expression "All for Nought". I never knew what it meant, I just knew it sounded fancy and British, like little cakes and picnics.
We americans will come up with something clever (it will be either new-millenium, y2k, or turn-of-the-century) and it will become the accepted norm, because everyone knows all pop-culture stuff starts in the US. Sorry. :o
I didn't want the thread to die on the notion that americans are clever - I was gonna do another thread for this but I don't think it deserved one, so its becoming a reply here... Man, I go on for no reason when I'm high...
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Does any1 else find it mind boggling that in the 1800s there was less than 1000 million people on the earth and now there is and now there is near 7000 million. Thats 6000 million people LIVING extra's in 200 years.
And during the zombie uprising in 2012 - who knows?
Also 200 years before the 1800s (1600's for those without a calculator) there was only 500 million. So they managed to double but not 6 times the amount...
Us humans know how to breed!
On December 31, 1999, I sat at home watching tv.
b i o n i c
08-27-2009, 05:12 PM
this is truly scary
Planetary
08-27-2009, 05:26 PM
I've been using "The Noughties".
same here. i think this goes for everyone in the UK.
my band has a song called love in the noughties. crrrazy
Dorothy Wood
08-27-2009, 05:34 PM
yeah, americans ain't gonna be sayin "noughties", it sounds too frou frou.
Freebasser
08-27-2009, 06:11 PM
Yeah, because 'turn of the century' is so street that it hurts.
Randetica
08-27-2009, 06:23 PM
totc
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