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Two Thousand and Fifteen or Twenty Fifteen.

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  • 31-12-2014 11:30am
    #1
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,879 ✭✭✭✭


    I keep hearing more and more people referring to a year as 'Twenty....' as opposed to 'Two Thousand and .....' which is what I still use.
    So in this poll I ask you, What year is it tomorrow?

    What will you call the new year? 38 votes

    Two Thousand And Fifteen
    0%
    Twenty Fifteen
    100%
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    #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,928 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Wheres the poll?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #3
    Zombienosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    Twelveteen


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    #4
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,879 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Twenty Fifteen
    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    Wheres the poll?
    Just added.


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    Vojera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    I didn't say 'one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine' so I won't say 'two thousand and fifteen'.


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    seventeen sheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭seventeen sheep


    I'll say 2015.

    :P


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    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Did you go around saying nineteen thousand and ninety eight?

    If you did, your a gowl, now you're trying to justify your gowliness


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    Riskymove
    Registered Users Posts: 10,887 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    Vojera wrote: »
    I didn't say 'one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine' so I won't say 'two thousand and fifteen'.

    well exactly

    however....the usage of "nineteen ninety nine" comes from a phrase like "17 hundred and 42" or whatever which was the convention for a long time

    I don't think "20 hundred" would work so well!!


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    Riskymove
    Registered Users Posts: 10,887 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »
    Did you go around saying nineteen thousand and ninety eight?

    If you did, your a gowl, now you're trying to justify your gowliness

    Is OP from the distant future?


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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,928 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    What about two fifteen

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,879 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Twenty Fifteen
    Well I certainly don't remember "Twenty Hundred", "Twenty oh One" "Twenty oh Two" being in popular use.


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    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,879 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Twenty Fifteen
    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    What about two fifteen
    The year isn't 215 AD or BC


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    Frankie Lee
    Registered Users Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭Frankie Lee


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    What about two fifteen

    Fuck off Noonan.


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    I vote for OP to be banned.

    All in favour, say yea?

    Yea!


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    #15
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    2k13 + 2 in honour of all my huns and stunnahz xOxOxOx


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    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users Posts: 17,515 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    What about two fifteen

    That's like, soooooo 1800 years ago



    Well, 1799 to be precise


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    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Professional futurologists such as the renowned Zager and Evans tend to use the latter system.



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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,928 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Nicolas Cage wrote: »
    That's like, soooooo 1800 years ago


    Well, 1799 to be precise

    Tell that to The finance minister

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,119 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    What about two fifteen

    Go and stand in the stupid corner with Noonan.

    Or alternatively, you could apply to be our next finance minister.


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    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    Twenty Fifteen.

    I stopped saying Two Thousand and...once we hit 2010.


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    Banjoxed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Banjoxed


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    What about two fifteen

    Tanks a millin for reminding me. Now for a hang sangwidge and a sup of Tay.


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    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Twenty Fifteen
    Two thousand and fifteen sounds more impressive, an achievement if you will in comparison to the peasant terminology.


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    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Twenty Fifteen
    Two thousand and fifteen.

    Either is good though, I don't consider either wrong. I don't care if it was nineteen-oh-one or nineteen-ten. :) This is now, things change, a century is a long ol' time.

    So either is correct to me, I just seem to say the first poll option.


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    DavyD_83
    Registered Users Posts: 1,991 ✭✭✭DavyD_83


    2 words or 4 words?
    Anybody who still uses long version probably doesn't have to say it very often. The hundreds or so times a day my job makes me say it, I'm goin for the half the time and effort option.

    Or occasionally the elusive 3 word option: two thousand twelve.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Anything as long as it's not two fifteen - Michael Noonan please note!


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    #26
    sh1tstirrer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    What about two fifteen

    Noonan still thinks that we are living in the year 214.


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    #27
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 5,148 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Two Fifteen


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    #28
    seventeen sheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭seventeen sheep


    DavyD_83 wrote: »
    2 words or 4 words?
    Anybody who still uses long version probably doesn't have to say it very often. The hundreds or so times a day my job makes me say it, I'm goin for the half the time and effort option.

    Same - I'm constantly saying 2014 or 2015 in work, definitely not gonna recite the long version every time. Actually now that I think about it, most of the time I just say "fourteen" or "fifteen" - in the context of my job (accounts), whoever I'm talking to will know what I'm talking about anyways.


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    #29
    VinLieger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,740 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Its Twenty Fifteen and has been since Twenty Ten, anyone who says it the other way is a dinosaur


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    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    They're both correct just one is longer. Those saying Two Fifteen however can fúck rightly off, I don't care if it's ironic. There's a zero in there you numpties, we're not living in 215.


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    AMKC
    Registered Users Posts: 15,687 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Twenty Fifteen
    flazio wrote: »
    The year isn't 215 AD or BC

    If your name is Micheal Noonan then it probably is lol. He seems to live a thosand years behind the rest of us. Its not that hard really to say twenty fifteen now is it. Maybe he just does not like using twenty for some reason lol.


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