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Bergie
12-22-2009, 09:26 AM
What is up with all the best of the decade lists? Don't they know that there are 10 years in a decade not 9?
Smack
12-22-2009, 10:32 AM
Yes, people often forget that there was no year 0 AD.
milo
12-23-2009, 01:25 PM
Was the year 2000 the last year of the decade of the 1990s, last year of the century for the 1900's, etc? Hmmm...
Smack
12-23-2009, 03:29 PM
Was the year 2000 the last year of the decade of the 1990s, last year of the century for the 1900's, etc? Hmmm...

Yes.

1AD - 100AD: first century.

1AD - 1000AD: first millennium

1001AD - 2000AD: second millennium.
Sami
12-23-2009, 04:06 PM
All true, but the '80s mean 1980-1989, the '90s mean 1990-1999 and the '00s mean 2000-2009. They just do.
Gary Gibson
12-23-2009, 05:00 PM
I miss the '80s.

While Bergie is absolutely correct, I refuse to count that shitty ass 1990 as part of my beloved '80s. The world sort of peaked in 1984 and things were already going down hill in '88. 1990 was just an embarrassing disaster that was a fitting start to that equally embarrassing decade.
misspelledgeoff
12-23-2009, 05:16 PM
how can you miss a decade you didn't live through, Gary?:)


I miss the '80s.

While Bergie is absolutely correct, I refuse to count that shitty ass 1990 as part of my beloved '80s. The world sort of peaked in 1984 and things were already going down hill in '88. 1990 was just an embarrassing disaster that was a fitting start to that equally embarrassing decade.
Sami
12-23-2009, 05:29 PM
I miss the '80s.

While Bergie is absolutely correct, I refuse to count that shitty ass 1990 as part of my beloved '80s. The world sort of peaked in 1984 and things were already going down hill in '88.

I hope you're joking. I had just discovered Ninja Turtles and He-Man by then.
Gary Gibson
12-23-2009, 06:06 PM
I hope you're joking. I had just discovered Ninja Turtles and He-Man by then.

The commercial that changed my life in 1981. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HObG9fNzQ4E) I was five years old.
Stu Hughes
12-24-2009, 02:26 AM
Modern consensus has dictated since the new millennium that we start to count at 00, so it's 2000-2009. The Gregorian Calendar only came about in 1588 anyway, and it's all arbitary.
AidenBloodaxe
12-24-2009, 02:28 AM
The advert that changed my life, which I can't find, was a milk one. When I was 5 (1995) there was this milk advert of a little girl doing ballet & her bones were glowing through her skin & ever since then I've been drinking lots of milk & just as I was about to give up hope last year, I discovered SS & Rip & now my hope has been restored.
Nauticus
12-24-2009, 10:57 AM
The 90s were the decade of Nintendo 64 and Nickelodeon. If that didn't make your decade, then you're insatiable
AidenBloodaxe
12-24-2009, 03:18 PM
The 90s were the decade of Nintendo 64 and Nickelodeon. If that didn't make your decade, then you're insatiableNintendo 64 is still making my decade. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, along with the SNES.
brobinson
12-24-2009, 04:07 PM
The commercial that changed my life in 1981. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HObG9fNzQ4E) I was five years old.

Ha, yes, I got Greyskull and Snake Mountain in Christmas 81 or 82! It was then that I realized there was no Santa because the castles has "Made in Taiwan" printed on them.:)
LHPoulin
12-27-2009, 09:06 AM
In my estimation, the '90s were the pinnacle of human achievement. We're in a downward spiral and "modern" society will be lucky survive the century.