[Happy New Decade] Identical Twins Born In Separate Decades

This is the nerdiest ****ing argument I have ever seen on clutchfans.


You should be ashamed of yourselves.

 

I really doubt that.

 

Which is what I find funny. SwoLy is the one normally arguing the non-popular, technically correct minutiae. However, he is conveniently ignoring it this time when he's on the wrong end of ownage.

 

How can you count what can't be measured?

 

Maybe they should have a rap battle to settle their differences.

 

You guys realize that the "year 1" was figured out after it happened, right?


There was virtual zero (in concept) before "year 1" played out and turned into "year 2." They called it "year 1" after the fact. They decided that's what it was after, or Anno Domini, some 525 years AFTER the actual "year."

I know there was no actual "zero year" -that's why I call it a virtual zero.

It went from 1 BC to 1 AD, or 1 BCE to 1 CE.

I see both sides. It's deep on both of 'em.



But whatever. Look up a definition of decade, for the purposes of this thread (not the debate started after the fact), and Swoly is correct.

 

Yes, we realize it was labeled as such afterward. Just like dinosaurs didn't know what the cretaceous period was or cro-magnons didn't know what day of the week it was. What's your point? It's a man-made label. It's not something etched into the heavens. As such, the label is that our calendar starts with Year 1. So the first date for AD is 01/01/01. And yet SwoLy is still, right. gg

 

Regardless of history and what is theoretically correct, there's no way I can think of a decade going from 01 to 10. For example, the idea that 1990 belongs to the 90s and not the 80s is just weird. And sound totally messed up.

Same thing with the whole 2000 not being the new millennium thing. Does it really matter if it's technically wrong when pretty much most everyone thinks otherwise.

 

Move this to the D&D.



Why do we have to refer back to 1 AD to decide when we should start our decades? Those guys obviously didn't know what the **** they were doing, so why perpetuate the mistake?

It is now a new decade.

 

All we have to do is define the first decade as starting on 1BC (or "virtual" year 0), and this whole issue is solved.