What will the decade 2010 to 2019 be called?

Blisterman · 13-02-2009 07:14PM #1

So, we're coming to the end of a decade, where no satisfactory name has existing (2000's, noughties, etc). This has caused much confusion and unrest, and will result in hard times for the nostalgia industry in 20 years, as they wont have a quick buzzword to market this decade by, as they had with 50s, 60s 70s 80s, etc.

So, we've got another 10 and a half months to agree on a name for the next decade, what will it be?

"The tens", "The Teens" "Twenty Tens"?

What did they call it last time around?

phasers · 13-02-2009 07:14PM

"the Recession"

tman · 13-02-2009 07:16PM

8 and a half months? 10 and a half surely...

Aodan83 · 13-02-2009 07:16PM

phasers wrote: »

"the Recession"

No, can't top that.

aoibhebree · 13-02-2009 07:16PM

Puberty

Dancor · 13-02-2009 07:17PM

What did they do between 1910 and 1919.

dlofnep · 13-02-2009 07:19PM

dancor wrote: »

What did they do between 1910 and 1919.

Fought the Brits.

SoWatchaWant · 13-02-2009 07:19PM

The tens.

You know, there were people who pondered a similar question to yours in 1979.

"What'll we call them? The Eighties? It just sounds wrong..."

dr.bollocko · 13-02-2009 07:20PM

dlofnep wrote: »

We'll never be able to party like it's 1999, ever again.

Good. I shared a Guinness with me dad, watched the hootenanny, made sure my computer wasn't mental and went to bed.

SoWatchaWant · 13-02-2009 07:21PM

dlofnep wrote: »

We'll never be able to party like it's 1999, ever again.

The only time that you can't do that is 1999...

Blisterman · 13-02-2009 07:35PM

tman wrote: »

8 and a half months? 10 and a half surely...

Not if you use a decimal year.

galwayrush · 13-02-2009 07:36PM

The Famine Years:rolleyes:

Dancor · 13-02-2009 07:38PM

dlofnep wrote: »

Fought the Brits.

Only took nine years ay?

jill_valentine · 13-02-2009 07:38PM

The Twenteens?

Call Me Jimmy · 13-02-2009 07:40PM

the grey area

Leprachaun · 13-02-2009 07:42PM

The zombie outbreak years.

dsmythy · 13-02-2009 07:42PM

Probably the tens or twenty tens.

Alternatively, the Great Depression II followed in the twenties by World War III. As a result of this people will be more interested in surviving than what to call the decade they live in. Talk about history repeating itself...

On a side note i hope to god we aren't going to be using two thousand (and) twelve and what not rather than the better sounding twenty twelve.

jill_valentine · 13-02-2009 07:42PM

Twenty ten sounds nice and futurey.

LorraineL · 13-02-2009 07:43PM

The Apocolypse.

PirateShampoo · 13-02-2009 07:47PM

galwayrush wrote: »

The Famine Years:rolleyes:

Which would of been between 1845 and 1852

robby^5 · 13-02-2009 07:47PM

dancor wrote: »

Only took nine years ay?

Ourselves and the Germans kept the Brits occupied before the 20's

galwayrush · 13-02-2009 07:50PM

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Which would of been between 1845 and 1852

OK, The new famine, or the I can't believe it's a famine lite

Biggins · 13-02-2009 08:23PM

Blisterman wrote: »

What will the decade 2010 to 2019 be called?

The "whats really important" wake-up call!

brennaldo · 13-02-2009 08:27PM

the "oh my god just call this what ever ya want" decade

MikeStrutington · 13-02-2009 08:34PM

The tens, I would imagine.

BaconZombie · 13-02-2009 08:35PM

World War Z

Leprachaun wrote: »

The zombie outbreak years.

kincsem · 13-02-2009 08:39PM

The Biffo Empire

Gordon · 13-02-2009 08:44PM

The Tennys.

yoshytoshy · 13-02-2009 09:01PM

The escapade

Gingervitis · 13-02-2009 09:58PM

the tenties? has a nice ring, despite being utterly wrong

Mrmoe · 13-02-2009 09:59PM

The Dark Ages

ShooterSF · 13-02-2009 10:24PM

Well considering this decade doesn't end till midnight 31st December 2010 we have plenty of time to name the next one

Blisterman · 13-02-2009 10:30PM

Wrong ShooterSF.
1990-1999 - The Nineties
2000-2009 - This decade
2010- 2019 - The Tens?

13-02-2009 10:31PM

The Aviva 2010's?

ShooterSF · 13-02-2009 10:31PM

And the first decade was 1-9?

Blisterman · 13-02-2009 10:32PM

Yeah.
It was the second ever and last 9 year decade.
An anomaly, like a 29 day february.

NewApproach · 13-02-2009 10:36PM

...Eighties, Ninties, Noughties, guess what....Tenties!

Gingervitis · 13-02-2009 10:53PM

NewApproach wrote: »

...Eighties, Ninties, Noughties, guess what....Tenties!

godammit, you stole my bit!:p

13-02-2009 10:56PM

Screw that. I'm still deciding whether to say twenty ten or two thousand ten.

MikeStrutington · 13-02-2009 10:58PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Screw that. I'm still deciding whether to say twenty ten or two thousand ten.

Say twenty-ten, we all have to start naming years like that eventually.

NewApproach · 13-02-2009 10:59PM

Gingervitis wrote: »

godammit, you stole my bit!:p

:eek:

Windmill-Wasps · 13-02-2009 11:10PM

tenty1, tenty2,tenty11...

marko91 · 13-02-2009 11:14PM

the tens?

dsmythy · 14-02-2009 12:05AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Screw that. I'm still deciding whether to say twenty ten or two thousand ten.

Presumably you'll be programmed and brainwashed into saying the one that gains popularity.

The London Olympics are being touted as the twenty-twelve olympics so i think we know what the mysterious "they" wish for you to use.

anniehoo · 14-02-2009 12:18AM

1980-1990 The "just a coffee thanks" years
1991-1999 The "coffee/latté in a packet" years
2000-2009 The "latté/espresso/moco loco/sambuca" years
2010 + Aribica caffinese-type style coffee light (Lidl) years