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2010 - twenty ten or two thousand and ten

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  • #92
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Well done. That'll really show the other thread.
    :D
    IBTL.

    IBTM..


  • #93
    alan4cult
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭alan4cult


    i concur and I like two thousand ten, although longer to say it's natural to me.


  • #94
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    I blame America for spreading this 'Twenty-x' crap. It's 'Two-thousand and x'.

    I also blame the movie 2012 - it got people saying 'Twenty-Twelve'.

    Sure back in the early 20th century they used to say 'Nineteen-hundred and twelve' etc, not 'Nineteen-twelve' as we'd say.


  • #95
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Valmont wrote: »
    Face it, people are going to say the shortest one. Twenty ten it is. How is that even bad actually?

    I don't agree .. ;)

    People could have said Twenty 05, Twenty 09 etc etc

    But instead they said Two thousand and 5, Two Thousand and 9 etc

    And now that we are used to saying Two Thousand at the start of year in this century, I feel that we will not stop.

    And I put it to you, on this secind last day of the year two thousand and nine .. etc etc :D


  • #96
    WanderingSoul
    Registered Users Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭WanderingSoul


    Twenty Ten for me.


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  • #97
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Has anyone else noticed that when someone says IBTL .. it is almost a guarantee that the thread won't be locked.

    Everyone that says IBTL on a thread and it is not locked after 20 more posts should .. ehh .. get spanked or something :)
    Awaits spanking.


    *heads off to type IBTL in every other thread.


  • #98
    tcm315
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭tcm315


    in the old days, had 89, 97, etc I'm just going to go with 10


  • #99
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    Nick_oliveri wrote: »
    Yeah well we've had the noughties, but the tenties?
    Tweenies is what I'll be calling it.

    Anyway, twentyten for me.


  • #100
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    **Timbuk2** wrote: »
    Sure back in the early 20th century they used to say 'Nineteen-hundred and twelve' etc, not 'Nineteen-twelve' as we'd say.
    And they also said that Titanic was unsinkable...


  • #101
    Aard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    People could have said Twenty 05, Twenty 09 etc etc

    But instead they said Two thousand and 5, Two Thousand and 9 etc
    In my head, saying "twenty oh nine" is like saying 3 numbers (20, 0, and 9), whereas saying "two thousand and nine" is like saying two (2000, and 9). It's easier, in my mind, to say two numbers than three. I consider the "noughties" to be a blip in an otherwise aesthetically pleasing system: breaking the year into two parts (19-99, 20-10, etc) and saying it as two two-digit numbers.


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  • #102
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Awaits spanking.


    *heads off to type IBTL in every other thread.

    Yeah, but I didn't say who's doing the spanking.

    There's this Gimp down in the After Hours Lonely Heart's celler ya see and on special occasions .. :p


  • #103
    star-pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    well... 1910 was called 19-10
    not one thousand nine hundred and ten

    so one assumes 2010 = 20-10?


  • #104
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Sharpshooter wrote: »
    :D IBTM..

    I'm gonna regret this, I just know it.

    /Clears throat

    What does the M stand for?? :o


  • #105
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Yeah, but I didn't say who's doing the spanking.

    There's this Gimp down in the After Hours Lonely Heart's celler ya see and on special occasions .. :p
    Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet....


  • #106
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Twenty-tens: continuing where Nineteen-ninety-nine left off. :)

    I have to ask though: why call this past decade "the naughties"? It just sounds like a bad, bad pun. I refuse to follow the flock on that one. :mad:


  • #107
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,224 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    [quote=Deleted User;63718924
    I have to ask though: why call this past decade "the naughties"? It just sounds like a bad, bad pun. I refuse to follow the flock on that one. :mad:[/quote]
    Not a fan of it myself

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #108
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    OutlawPete wrote: »

    I'm gonna regret this, I just know it.

    /Clears throat

    What does the M stand for?? :o
    Move/Merge.


  • #109
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Move/Merge.

    Ahhhhh, I see ..

    In Before The Shift ;)


  • #110
    Aard
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I have to ask though: why call this past decade "the naughties"? It just sounds like a bad, bad pun. I refuse to follow the flock on that one. :mad:
    I'd say it did start off as a bad pun. Unfortunately, once people realised that the "two-thousands" had multiple meanings, and with the tennies (*cringe*) looming, we were left with no other choice!


  • #111
    Rud Annamh
    Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭Rud Annamh


    CamperMan wrote: »
    ... Nobody went round saying TWENTY ZERO NINE (2009), it was TWO THOUSAND AND NINE

    Erm.. I did. Well, not 'zero nine' but 'oh nine' i.e. twenty oh nine, just like we would all say nineteen oh nine for 1909. And I said twenty hundred for 2000. Admittedly I was in a minority, but I've stuck with the correct convention for the past ten years. Glad the world is now joining me. :p


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  • #112
    General Zod
    Registered Users Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    I'm waiting to find out what the Rappers that you see on the Top of the Pops use.


  • #113
    basabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭basabe


    So we've had the Noughties - what will be next Decade be called?

    the "Decies"?
    other suggestions........


  • #114
    Reginald P. DuM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭Reginald P. DuM


    The Teenies I would have thought. :p


  • #115
    basabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭basabe


    Reginald P. DuM wrote: »
    The Teenies I would have thought. :p

    I would agree except that the teens do not start for another 3 years?


  • #116
    Reginald P. DuM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭Reginald P. DuM


    basabe wrote: »
    I would agree except that the teens do not start for another 3 years?


    Technically speaking you are correct. But if we are being technical this current decade, the noughties doesn't end til this day next yr, so maybe we should postpone the thread until then. Until I hear a better word I'm still a Teenies man!


  • #117
    basabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭basabe


    Reginald P. DuM wrote: »
    Technically speaking you are correct. But if we are being technical this current decade, the noughties doesn't end til this day next yr, so maybe we should postpone the thread until then. Until I hear a better word I'm still a Teenies man!

    0-9 is a decade - next one starts with 10.

    Leaving technicalities aside just a little worried about the "Teenies" term - too many connotations...........


  • #118
    basabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭basabe


    Dixies?


  • #119
    basabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭basabe


    Could go with the "Tenties" either......


  • #120
    basabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭basabe


    What about "oneties"


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  • #121
    basabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭basabe


    Reginald P. DuM wrote: »
    Technically speaking you are correct. But if we are being technical this current decade, the noughties doesn't end til this day next yr, so maybe we should postpone the thread until then. Until I hear a better word I'm still a Teenies man!

    Following on from your point above again;- if the last decade was the "Noughties" because the tens of years started with a "Zero" - i.e. 00 - 09 - then that decade is now over and a new one where the tens of years starts with a "One" has begun - 10-19....

    So how will it be named...
    Dixies,
    Decies,
    Tenties,
    Oneties,
    Recoveries?
    ..................................??????


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