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The Decade is over! How was it

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  • FubearFubear Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Robman wrote: »
    Fubear wrote: »
    Robman wrote: »
    Ghostbusters
    Back to the Future
    The Safety Dance
    MJ's peak
    Predator
    etc

    Ghostbusters reference in Zombieland
    Back to the Future reference in Family Guy episode parodying The Empire Strikes Back
    Napoleon Dynamite dance
    MJ's merciful (for his career) death
    Predator star stars in this crazy sitcom where he becomes the governor of California
    etc

    All these things are inferior to the real product

    Well, I guess it's settled than

    2000 > 1980 > *
    in degrees of crappiness (°Cr)

    Fubear on
  • RobmanRobman Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Yes sir

    I mean just the album Thriller alone redeems the entire 80s. I can't imagine what it must feel like to reach your unquestionable peak at 24, and know you're going to spend the rest of your life playing catch-up.

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  • JJJJ DailyStormer Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Only thing good that happened this decade was all the sweet ass movies and games. Everything else sucked. Which I guess always holds true that real life blows and it's only the entertainment that makes it bearable.

    JJ on
  • FubearFubear Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    wait!

    what about the OK Go video?

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  • RobmanRobman Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    JJ wrote: »
    Only thing good that happened this decade was all the sweet ass movies and games. Everything else sucked. Which I guess always holds true that real life blows and it's only the entertainment that makes it bearable.

    There was some pretty exciting research done this decade

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  • KastanjKastanj __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2009
    JJ wrote: »
    Only thing good that happened this decade was all the sweet ass movies and games. Everything else sucked. Which I guess always holds true that real life blows and it's only the entertainment that makes it bearable.

    I like ass movies too. I've never bothered with ass games though - that stuff can stay in Japan if you ask me.

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  • FubearFubear Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Robman wrote: »
    Yes sir

    I mean just the album Thriller alone redeems the entire 80s. I can't imagine what it must feel like to reach your unquestionable peak at 24, and know you're going to spend the rest of your life playing catch-up.


    I'd be far too upset about being part of the most successful pop groups of the earlier decade and sleeping six to a bed.

    And every money-grubbing unscrupulous brat trying to get into my money in the next decade.

    But that's beside the point.

    2000s > 1980s > * °Cr

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    What's all this about the internets coming in the '00s? I was rocking the internet in '93 on AOL.

    And then AOL ruined usenet. :(

    MKR on
  • Kipling217Kipling217 Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Thing I hated: The sudden sainthood of Michael Jackson the moment he died.

    Too those people I would like to say:

    "He was still the same guy you made fun of, the day before he died! The only thing that changed was him dying and you gaining a ugly case of necrophilia."

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  • monikermoniker Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    MKR wrote: »
    What's all this about the internets coming in the '00s? I was rocking the internet in '93 on AOL.

    And then AOL ruined usenet. :(

    How much of what you use on the intertrons existed before twenty aught one?

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  • Kipling217Kipling217 Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    MKR wrote: »
    What's all this about the internets coming in the '00s? I was rocking the internet in '93 on AOL.

    And then AOL ruined usenet. :(

    Compuserve, my good man. Been there done that.

    Seeing how corporations handled the internet makes me gratefull for the system we have now. Private corporate nets sucked balls big time.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    moniker wrote: »
    MKR wrote: »
    What's all this about the internets coming in the '00s? I was rocking the internet in '93 on AOL.

    And then AOL ruined usenet. :(

    How much of what you use on the intertrons existed before twenty aught one?

    Video and interactive applications are the onl...oh.
    Kipling217 wrote: »
    MKR wrote: »
    What's all this about the internets coming in the '00s? I was rocking the internet in '93 on AOL.

    And then AOL ruined usenet. :(

    Compuserve, my good man. Been there done that.

    Seeing how corporations handled the internet makes me gratefull for the system we have now. Private corporate nets sucked balls big time.

    We were poor, and AOL kept sending out disks with loads of free hours. :rotate:

    MKR on
  • monikermoniker Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    MKR wrote: »
    moniker wrote: »
    MKR wrote: »
    What's all this about the internets coming in the '00s? I was rocking the internet in '93 on AOL.

    And then AOL ruined usenet. :(

    How much of what you use on the intertrons existed before twenty aught one?

    Video and interactive applications are the onl...oh.
    Kipling217 wrote: »
    MKR wrote: »
    What's all this about the internets coming in the '00s? I was rocking the internet in '93 on AOL.

    And then AOL ruined usenet. :(

    Compuserve, my good man. Been there done that.

    Seeing how corporations handled the internet makes me gratefull for the system we have now. Private corporate nets sucked balls big time.

    We were poor, and AOL kept sending out disks with loads of free hours. :rotate:

    Yeah, we got 7 years of free internet from the various ISP's from calling and getting the free trial extended or swapping and starting over.

    moniker on
  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Kipling217 wrote: »
    MKR wrote: »
    What's all this about the internets coming in the '00s? I was rocking the internet in '93 on AOL.

    And then AOL ruined usenet. :(

    Compuserve, my good man. Been there done that.

    Seeing how corporations handled the internet makes me gratefull for the system we have now. Private corporate nets sucked balls big time.

    Compuserve was awesome.

    Only because of Gemstone...

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  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Obligatory:


    WTF are we supposed to call this decade?


    turn of the century wont work, as monocles and top hats are (sadly) not in fashion

    and turn of the millennium sounds stupid and takes too long to say

    Joolander on
  • monikermoniker Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Joolander wrote: »
    Obligatory:


    WTF are we supposed to call this decade?


    turn of the century wont work, as monocles and top hats are (saldy) not in fassion

    and turn of the milennium sounds stupid and takes too long to say

    aught 1/2/3/4...

    moniker on
  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    "hey guys, remember those silly clothes we wore in the Aughts?"



    :/ no..........

    Joolander on
  • KastanjKastanj __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2009
    Joolander wrote: »
    Obligatory:


    WTF are we supposed to call this decade?


    turn of the century wont work, as monocles and top hats are (sadly) not in fashion

    and turn of the millennium sounds stupid and takes too long to say

    The 9/11's?

    Edit: Oh shit so depressing that wouldn't work.

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  • monikermoniker Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Joolander wrote: »
    "hey guys, remember those silly clothes we wore in the Aughts?"



    :/ no..........

    It works better if you're over 60.

    moniker on
  • TaximesTaximes Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Joolander wrote: »
    "hey guys, remember those silly clothes we wore in the Aughts?"



    :/ no..........

    I have a feeling we'll be stuck with "the 2000s" despite how horribly inconsistent and improper it is.

    Taximes on
  • KastanjKastanj __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2009
    The

    The Zeroes?

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  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    thats kinda depressing, no?

    Joolander on
  • TaximesTaximes Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Were there any good terms for the 1900s besides "turn of the century"?

    I bet people in 1909 were thinking "This sucks, what are we going to call this decade? Oh well. At least we've got a hundred more years to come up with something before it happens again."

    We've let them down, you guys. We've let them all down.
    1900_Men_at_Bookkeeper_Desks_Illinois_Central_Map.jpg

    Taximes on
  • KastanjKastanj __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2009
    Taximes wrote: »
    Were there any terms for the 1900s besides "turn of the century"?

    I bet people in 1909 were thinking "This sucks, what are we going to call this decade? Oh well. At least we've got a hundred more years to come up with something before it happens again."

    We've let them down, you guys. We've let them all down.
    1900_Men_at_Bookkeeper_Desks_Illinois_Central_Map.jpg

    I just saw the 20th episode of Wakfu. I did not need another downer right now man.

    Okay. Okay. We still have eleven days we can do this. There must be some kind of blog that's doing a sweepstake on what would be an appropriate name. Andrew Sullivan, for example - this kind of stuff is exactly his kind of bag. That, and disliking the fuck out of Sarah Palin.

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  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
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  • KastanjKastanj __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2009
    Joolander wrote: »

    "The Dorkade"...

    You didn't have to do that, Cracked. That could have been avoided.

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  • ZephyrZephyr Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    It's not technically over until 2011.

    And it sucked so much cock.

    This was the worst decade since the 40s.

    2000
    2001
    2002
    2003
    2004
    2005
    2006
    2007
    2008
    2009


    count how many that is

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  • JJJJ DailyStormer Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Zephyr wrote: »
    It's not technically over until 2011.

    And it sucked so much cock.

    This was the worst decade since the 40s.

    2000
    2001
    2002
    2003
    2004
    2005
    2006
    2007
    2008
    2009


    count how many that is
    Yes, right, but by the Gregorian calender or some crap the decade doesn't end until the beginning of 2011. Doesn't really matter IMO.

    JJ on
  • ZephyrZephyr Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    the calendar thing only applies to centuries and millennial

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    no, it doesn't.

    2010 is the tenth year of the decade, just like 2000 was the 10th year of the nineties. The ten year period won't be complete until the tenth year is over.

    we're going to have to have this argument every ten years now, aren't we?



    ----

    in other news, the record will show that I made michael jackson jokes on the day he died and continue to do so

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Yeah, but no one thinks that way, we just live with the idea that the first year of the decade 1 BC - 9 AD was 1 BC because whatever.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    2000 wasn't the 10th year of the 90's. It was the start of the new millenium. The 90's took place from 1990-1999, just as the '00's took place from 2000 to 2009.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    the gregorian calendar doesn't start with zero

    anyway this is a dumb argument and I'm abandoning it here

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I don't give a shit about the Gregorian calendar

    I'm using my calendar

    the only one that matters

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  • monikermoniker Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I don't give a shit about the Gregorian calendar

    I'm using my calendar

    the only one that matters

    The French Revolution calendar was better.

    moniker on
  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    in cultural terms (which is really the only reason we have this discussion), the previous decade continues for a year or so into the next one anyway. If you went back in time to 1990 you'd think you were in the 80s.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I'm starting a new calendar that begins today

    today is the start of Year A

    next year is Year B

    the year after is Year C and so on and so forth until we reach Z, and then we will start at Year AA, and then AB, etc. etc.

    there will be no decades or centuries, only Alphabets

    today is Year A, Alphabet A

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    what is your response to the 27th letter crisis, set to occur 26^2 years from now?

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    We will start over, because that is a lot of letters

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  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator mod
    edited December 2009
    moniker wrote: »
    I don't give a shit about the Gregorian calendar

    I'm using my calendar

    the only one that matters

    The French Revolution calendar was better.

    10 months was cool I will grant

    but 36 day months with 10-day weeks is unwieldy.

    Did they take the remainder of the days as, like, free days at the end of the year? I don't really remember.

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