OT The Last decade
DW
George Bush stole the election twice, allowed 9/11 to
happen, oversaw the trashing of our economy, lied to get us
into a war in Iraq and failed to capture Bin Laden even though
he promised to get him.
Dano
Well seeing as where we are...I'll prefer to think of it as absolutely the
finest decade in history to be a Boston sports fan. Without question. It's
not even technically over for a year BTW.
Let's take a break from all that depressing bullshit for just a bit eh?
O'Neil's Faggy Prostate - PIVOT, BARRY, PIVOT!!!
> The last decade will go down in history as the decade where
> George Bush stole the election twice,
Meme.
allowed 9/11 to
> happen,
Nobody allowed that - not Bush, not Clinton, nobody.
> oversaw the trashing of our economy,
Dow reached record highs under Bush and unemployment reached low
levels, levels typically called "full employment."
lied to get us
> into a war in Iraq
Meme.
and failed to capture Bin Laden even though
> he promised to get him.
World's a big place.
Care to try again, Doc?
PLEASE!!!
:D
PETER SHORTS
how could the last decade not be over for another year? by
definition, the last decade is over, as of midnight tonight.
McDuck
<peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>how could the last decade not be over for another year? by
>definition, the last decade is over, as of midnight tonight.
The last decade was over at midnight on December 31, 2000. The current
decade will be over December 31, 2010. At least that is my
understanding of the normal "decade" terminology.
Of course, if we simply mean, by "decade", any 10-year period, then,
as you suggested, a "decade" is over at the end of every year.
PETER SHORTS
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:10:23 -0800 (PST), PETER SHORTS
>
>
> >how could the last decade not be over for another year? by
> >definition, the last decade is over, as of midnight tonight.
>
> The last decade was over at midnight on December 31, 2000. The current
> decade will be over December 31, 2010. At least that is my
> understanding of the normal "decade" terminology.
>
> Of course, if we simply mean, by "decade", any 10-year period, then,
> as you suggested, a "decade" is over at the end of every year.
if you name a decade, then you're talking about a defined decade. but
if you're talking 'the last decade,' i'd assume you mean the previous
ten-year period.
Dano
Agreed. The count begins at one. Ends at 10. That's how I look at it
anyway. Zero is not a number in and of itself. Zero is
nothing...nada...zilch.
PaulH
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:10:23 -0800 (PST), PETER SHORTS
> <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>> how could the last decade not be over for another year? by
>> definition, the last decade is over, as of midnight tonight.
>
> The last decade was over at midnight on December 31, 2000. The current
> decade will be over December 31, 2010. At least that is my
> understanding of the normal "decade" terminology.
The second millennium, 20th century, and 200th decade (not that anyone
counts them that way) did indeed end on 31 Dec 2000. The "[19]90s,"
however, ended a year earlier, on 31 Dec 1999. Not many people would
insist that 2000 was part of the 90s. The named decades are an
informality; by convention and common sense, they begin with the 0 year.
It has nothing to do with the cardinal vs. ordinal argument. The 00s
end tonight.
--Paul
Tristan daCunha
celebrate that day and your birthday together! Eh?
S/B 954RR
"McDuck" <wallyDELE...@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:j79qj554hla4c26jh...@4ax.com...
If you want to see it that way but when people talk about the roaring
twenties they aren't including 1930. The decade that defined a generation
didn't include 1970 and so on and so on.
McDuck
wrote:
Yes, it is all convention. I'd say the current decade is 2001 to 2010
but the decade of the 1990s, for example, is 1990 to 1999. No right or
wrong, since "decade" simply means a 10-year period, and we can pick
when to begin.