Two Thousand and Ten or Twenty Ten?

Which way will you swing now that the ball has dropped? (Pun intended)

Twenty ten, personally. And still in the first decade of the 21st century!!!

I've been saying two thousand for the past 9 years. Why stop now?

Twenty ten. You never heard of people talking bout the good old One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenties. Why would this millennium be any different.

I don't think Grandpappy was born in One Thousand, Nine hundred and fifteen. Probably more like Nineteen fifteen

Two Oh One Oh is how I'll roll. So stuff it!

"In the Year of the Haggis 01."

H1 for short.

Fits nicely on the date line of your checks.

PTN

The good year of 7DA
Or 011111011010 to the layperson.

I insist that H1 be included in the poll.

Moderator!!! I need a Moderator over here please!!!!!!

It's discrimination, I say! The Lost Tribe gets a vote. Hell, the Muslim Brewmeister is making sausage. I say Haggis (A sausage of sorts) gets it's moment in the calender sun.

PTN

On the good news front, I am down to my last two or three cold beers so I'll be going to bed shortly and you guys can go on with your silly poll without my wailing and gnashing of teeth.

PTN

paulthenurse said:

On the good news front, I am down to my last two or three cold beers so I'll be going to bed shortly

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PTN just started his shift.

My work schedule is hardly the point.

Are you going to add The Year of the Haggis as a voting option or is this going to get ugly?

FYI, I have at least 20 case of wine downstairs, I can keep going all day long.

If you want to be technical, the number should be "two thousand ten"; there should be no "and" in there.

That said, I do my best not to say the year unless absolutely necessary. I've been doing this since 2000, when most people decided that they needed to prepend "the year" to it. If I had to say it, I'd say "two thousand ten".

Picture Lou Farigno with slightly better complexion, a bit of a bay window, a wine glass in hand and a cause. You don't want that.

jpc said:

If you want to be technical, the number should be "two thousand ten"; there should be no "and" in there.

That said, I do my best not to say the year unless absolutely necessary. I've been doing this since 2000, when most people decided that they needed to prepend "the year" to it. If I had to say it, I'd say "two thousand ten".

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You are American, I'm English. You have the right to speak American English, I have the right to speak English English (As the Flying Spaghetti Monster intended) Please don't drag this to the debate forum!

Laughing_Gnome_Invisible said:

You are American, I'm English. You have the right to speak American English, I have the right to speak English English (As the Flying Spaghetti Monster intended) Please don't drag this to the debate forum!

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You're an American now, damnit! Speak American!!! (Damn pinko commie subversive)

kjung said:

You're an American now, damnit! Speak American!!! (Damn pinko commie subversive)

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I'm American enough to eat sugar for breakfast, but I'm still English enough to speak English. It's a buggar being a hybrid!

Oh sure, quibble over diction and patois and ignore the burning issue of the Haggis. Typical Parliamentarian.

PTN

Can you be a typical pinko commie subversive parliamentarian?

That would make you Gordon Brown, right?

OK, I give. I'll stop now.

I say include The Haggis. I also want an option added for "The Eleventh Year of the Third Millenium of the Christian Era." If you don't immediately add this to the poll, you will be cursed to spending the rest of your days endlessly reading posts from the debate forum.

For the record, NOW is 11:07 in the morning of the 4th of January, in the year of the Haggis 1.

Just in case anyone cared. Besides me.

PTN

Whoa up the Nellie.

We seem to be gathering support. Who else is with Pappers and I? Power to the people. Power to the Haggis!

OK, last beer has gone the way of the Haggis. I'm capitulating.


Twenty Ten.

Wicked lame.


PTN

Valliant effort PTN.

Were haggis not such a repulsive, vomit-inducing sack of yuk, you may have garnered more support.

Your prejudice against the Scots is appalling.

arturo7 said:

Valliant effort PTN.

Were haggis not such a repulsive, vomit-inducing sack of yuk, you may have garnered more support.

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Pappers said:

Your prejudice against the Scots is appalling.

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C'mon now...


Did I say Scots were repulsive, vomit inducing sacks of yuk? There's a whole other set of adjectives for that.

Hey, now. If the Haggis gets a shot, then we need to add MMX. The romans had their day and that needs to be recognized, and if modern interests prevail, then anything with an X is cool.

MMX baby.

Git some.

Yes, as a homebrewer, I never limit myself to a single way of doing something.

IMO, 20-10 is another sign of ignorance perpetuated by the media.

Example: it's like "90120"...it's not "nine-OH-two-one-OH", it's "nine-ZERO-two-one-ZERO"......thus "20-10" is really two thousand ten...last year wasn't "20-double-aught"...

But that's just my opinion...

are we still counting years, I thought we were off the roman calendar by now and moving onto some hispanic calendar, at least here in california

Twenty Ten sounds fine. I'm more concerned of how to group together 2000-2009, "well back in the two thousands" seems like the whole century. "Last Decade" will work for a while, but not in 2020. I'm thinking "back in the Aughts" since it was Twenty Aught Nine last year.

I thought last year was double aught nine?

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homebrewer_99 said:

IMO, 20-10 is another sign of ignorance perpetuated by the media.

Example: it's like "90120"...it's not "nine-OH-two-one-OH", it's "nine-ZERO-two-one-ZERO"......thus "20-10" is really two thousand ten...last year wasn't "20-double-aught"...

But that's just my opinion...

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Sign of ignorance huh?
I believe you meant 90210

But I don't see how your example applies. Nobody is saying the Letter O in place of Zeros like your example. 20 and 10 are both numbers...in case you didn't notice.

I have referred to all years as 09 (ott nine). This one will be ten. Just like my grandfather referred to 1909 as ott-nine and 1910 as the year ten.

IrregularPulse said:

Sign of ignorance huh?
I believe you meant 90210

But I don't see how your example applies. Nobody is saying the Letter O in place of Zeros like your example. 20 and 10 are both numbers...in case you didn't notice.

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I only meant it as an example of people using improper terms just because "that's the way the media says it" mentality. Just because they say it doesn't make it right, correct, or proper.

For instance, I can SAY an eight word sentence, using all common English words and I'll bet you that you will never be able to WRITE that sentence using just eight words.

The words are: THERE ARE THREE _______ IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

What no one can do is fill in the blank with the correct word.

I can say (what sounds like) TO's, TOO'S OR TWO'S, but using either one in a written sentence is incorrect. This is not the only sentence like that. There are more.

You are right about the order of the zip code though...dyslexic fingers...