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Should we abolish BC & AD?

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  • #52
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    I use CE and BCE, I remember writing it before in school during a test and getting docked marks and given out to because "that's wrong and this is a Christian school!"

    There was no point in arguing with a teacher so I was just like.. M'kay!

    Hehe :pac:


  • #53
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    Did a history degree,used plenty of books that were decades old on ancient history. They stopped using AD and BC a long time ago. It's merely media taking ages to actually catch up with the standards rather than political correctness. The updated terms were far more logical.


  • #54
    TheGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭TheGlass


    Absolutely pointless.


  • #55
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    Corkfeen wrote: »
    Did a history degree,used plenty of books that were decades old on ancient history. They stopped using AD and BC a long time ago. It's merely media taking ages to actually catch up with the standards rather than political correctness. The updated terms were far more logical.

    Academics. Batsh1t.


  • #56
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Whats the old saying, don't fix whats not broken?
    It's like if Coca Cola changed their name to 'Sweet Soda' because they didnt want people using the term "coke" because of the drug :pac: ... Point being why create confusion.


  • #57
    Little CuChulainn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    Seems a bit odd on the part of the BBC. Surely this would require them to also rename Christmas and Easter.


  • #58
    nuac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,769 ✭✭✭nuac


    c_man wrote: »
    We only use Unix time in my house.

    Who fixes the broken pipes?


  • #59
    Academic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭Academic


    CE and BCE have been around for a very long time. :)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era


  • #60
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    How you ye people find these old threads?


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  • #61
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Academic wrote: »
    CE and BCE have been around for a very long time. :)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era

    So has this thread.


  • #62
    Academic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭Academic


    Leilani Tiny Ware wrote: »
    So has this thread.


    Indeed. But the impulse for boardies to express outrage never gets old. It's eternal. :)


  • #63
    astrofool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,906 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Couldn't really care less what system they use, but I'd love to know what sort of absolute gobshites were offended enough by the use of 'BC/AD' to bring the change about.

    It's a wonder those same clowns aren't demanding that the days of the week and months of the year are renamed... seeing as how virtually all of them are based on religions.

    'zactly, we should be measuring temperature from absolute zero, using the gall-peters map projection (maybe upside down to promote fluffy goodness) and the year should be taken from when the universe or earth began (to nearest '000,000).

    if we're to change it to common era, we should only go back as far as we verifiably know and start from there, but they know they'd never get anyone to change the year it is.


  • #64
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Mod: Well, this thread verifiably goes back to 2014, which is pre-Reasonable Necro Era, so closing this one. Start another one if it's due though.


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