The Glade 4.0

I like the brevity of twenty ten, but I can't get over the fact that it sounds like it should be the number following twenty nine. :p

And then... what will we call the decade? Twenty tens? Twentens? Twothousand tens?

Lets got to the year Everquest started, 1999.

Did you say nineteen ninety-nine?

Or did you say nineteen hundred ninety nine?

I said the first, and I intend to call this year twenty ten unless someone pays me substantially to call it something else. It is a convenience/comfort thing, not an ethical and moral stand.

At this point it will be called the tens. As of twenty twenty (2020) it will be called the teens.

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"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I say two thousand ten...but that's mostly because since 2000, I've been saying two thousand, two thousand and one, two thousand and two. I mean, think about it. How many of you said twenty oh one, twenty oh two, twenty oh three? Not many, I have to imagine.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

I just write it. How often do you have to verbally state what year it is? I rarely have to state what year it was, even. Any of them.

But seeing how that isn't the point of the thread...I'm gonna have to go with twenty ten. I've waited 10 years to start saying it this way. Before 2010, it would've been too pretentious sounding. Now, I can confidently tell people what year it really is without sounding like a dick.

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Ron Paul 2012

I say two thousand & ten, two thousand & ten = 2010, twenty ten = 20 10, you don't call elven one one right?

Twenty Ten just sounds so much cooler. I was originally saying it the other way but now I see the light.

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Option 3: 2 years before the apocalypse.

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The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

T (TEOTWAWKI) - 2

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"The map is not the territory."

Twenty-ten. Its just more expedient.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Sounds like an advert slogan.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

"Ten" or "twenty-ten."

I'm still frustrated that I have nothing to call the previous decade that satisfies me. The "naughts" or "oughts" sounds pretentious and grandfatherly, respectively, and the "two thousands" is more syllables than I want, while also being inconsistent with the "teens," "twenties," "thirties," etc. nomenclature that will be used.

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

either way, I have said it both ways

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Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

The Ohs is becoming popular for this decade. Techically, this is the last year of the century's first decade.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I've been calling it 20 10 because I am so used to hearing the end of days (lol) referred to as 20 12 for the past 4 years.

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What did you call 1998? If you say nineteen ninety-eight, your post is invalid. It's not 19 98 right?! It's one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight.

Also, it wouldn't be two thousand and ten, it would just be two thousand ten.

You can always be an annoying nerd, like me, and get pissed off at people who think the decade has ended, when we're of course in the final year right now.

When I was a kid, people always said "the 1900s" to refer to the first decade of the 20th century. Sometime in the 90s, however, I found myself confused when I noticed that people were using the phrase to mean the entire freakin' century.

It's two-thousand ten, and we're in the last year of the naughts (heard it on the BBC the other day, liked it). I'm getting old enough, though, that I don't really care, at this point.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

I call it Odyssey Two.

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One thousand nine hundred ninety-eight of course

Actually I just said ninety-eight cause well for one i'm lazy, and two I never said I was much for consitancy

I called 1998, '98 most of the time. Sometimes I said nineteen hundred ninety eight.

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"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

It's two thousand and ten for me, for normal use.

I joke about us living in THE FUTURE now, however, and in those situations twenty ten just seems more fitting. :p All those sci-fi future stories from decades back definitely take place in twenty ten, and not two thousand and ten...

Kinda unusual, that. :p

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Ron Paul 2012

It was worth watching just for the Timex bit at the end. ALOL

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Raell Kromwell

Man I miss Conan when he was still hilarious. Same deal with his episodes of the Simpsons.

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I say twenty-ten, because I want us all to live in the future.

Two thousand ten... The same way I've always said it for 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: The year we make contact.

The future is now!

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Gorse