Finally -- a decade with a name

M.T. Cranium

One thing I missed about the 90's was that the decade had a name.

I don't have any clue what we should call the years 2000 to 2009. Then for 2010 to 2019, I heard something like the oughts, or was that 2000 to 2009?

From what I experienced, it should have been the ought nots.

Wonder if these will be the Roaring Twenties, or something completely different?

And would appreciate any answer, what formal name can we give to the past two decades?

FAMLEE

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

One thing I missed about the 90's was that the decade had a name.

I don't have any clue what we should call the years 2000 to 2009. Then for 2010 to 2019, I heard something like the oughts, or was that 2000 to 2009?

From what I experienced, it should have been the ought nots.

Wonder if these will be the Roaring Twenties, or something completely different?

And would appreciate any answer, what formal name can we give to the past two decades?

The naughties & the 10's?

BuboBubo

The noughties.
The 10's.

That's all I ever called them anyway.

ILoveYourVibes

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

One thing I missed about the 90's was that the decade had a name.

I don't have any clue what we should call the years 2000 to 2009. Then for 2010 to 2019, I heard something like the oughts, or was that 2000 to 2009?

From what I experienced, it should have been the ought nots.

Wonder if these will be the Roaring Twenties, or something completely different?

And would appreciate any answer, what formal name can we give to the past two decades?

The 00s were the called the zeros ..the 10s were called the teens ...well by me ..it never took off though. To me it seemed obv though.

An Ri rua

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

One thing I missed about the 90's was that the decade had a name.

I don't have any clue what we should call the years 2000 to 2009. Then for 2010 to 2019, I heard something like the oughts, or was that 2000 to 2009?

From what I experienced, it should have been the ought nots.

Wonder if these will be the Roaring Twenties, or something completely different?

And would appreciate any answer, what formal name can we give to the past two decades?

Firstly, thanks for what you do re forecasts. I'm a daily avid reader.
I suggest the Plenty Twenties as it's deja vu in the West.
The last 2 decades? Drawing blanks here I'm afraid.

PonchoMcHoncho

I'm with you OP. Saying stuff like the 10's and the naughties was just uncomfortable. Thank **** it's the twenties!

Bobblehats

PonchoMcHoncho wrote: »

I'm with you OP. Saying stuff like the 10's and the naughties was just uncomfortable. Thank **** it's the twenties!

They’ll be remembered as the onesies. When the naughties learned to dress?

We really were starting out again from scratch here. Not sure this latest ‘20s will be as refined as the last but carry on

realitykeeper

I am apprehensive about the coming decade for so many reasons. Certainly climate change is a concern but it is 3rd on in my list. Economic implosion and consequent war are greater concerns.

freshpopcorn

All I can think of is this!

Ipso

That’s 2020 vision for you.

Always Tired

I really hope the roaring 20s thing doesnt stick. We had 100 years to think of a name for the next 20s and we just go and reuse the same one, how lame.

Also, if the Great Gatsby is anything to go by, it wasn't a time we should emulate. The flapper girls with the short hair were hot though. Showing all that ankle.

igCorcaigh

realitykeeper wrote: »

I am apprehensive about the coming decade for so many reasons. Certainly climate change is a concern but it is 3rd on in my list. Economic implosion and consequent war are greater concerns.

I think it will be the Turbulent Twenties.

Gynoid

Re the "Turbulent Twenties"....
I know every generation likes to think they live in significant times, but I cannot see the reason for any dread of these years. There is growing antinatalism because of the climate change hysteria, I think it is terribly sad to see a younger generation so disillusioned and cleaving towards such death loving philosophies.

I think there have been much worse times and that now things are reasonably steady. Though there is vast room for improvement...

In the previous roaring twenties the world had just come through the Great War where 40 million died, followed swiftly by another 50 million from the flu. In the 30s there was a truly Great Depression and the setting of the scene for World War 2 which in the 40s saw over 80 milion die and afterwards the terrible division of Europe and the Iron curtain regimes.
The 50s were a decade of shellshock and rebuilding from the ashes, plus there was the Korean war, which saw 5 million die. In the 60s while it appeared the culture war was being won by liberals and everything was groovy, there was a lot of nuclear weapon tension, there was the Vietnam war, where up to 4 million died, and at the beginning of that decade Mao Zedong had just finished killing off about 30 million people.
The 70s in fairness had reasonably good music, but bad hairstyles, continuing cold war, nuclear tension, continuing Vietnam war, oil crises, Cambodian war which cost 3 million people their lives, and discontent in the Middle East that saw the beginning of the fundamentalist orientation in Islam which blights that religion and many of the countries under the sway of strict mullahs to this day.
The 80s brought a proper recession in Ireland, not even vaguely comparable to the last recession that felled the tiger, there was also the beginnings of wild warnings re peak oil, global warming, imminent ice ages, acid rain, (climate "change" solves the language and forecasting problem in our times), continuing nuclear apocalypse fears, the Chernobyl disaster among other things.
The 90s saw us feeling a bit more comfortable, and yet Europe managed to have a very nasty war in that decade with Yugoslavia disintegrating and 150000 dying and the spectre of concentration camps re-emerging on the continent which was quite a shock in such supposedly civilised times. It also saw the US intervene in earnest in the Middle East, which eventually led to 2 gulf wars where shock and awe techniques have resulted in so much civilian death and suffering in Iraq, some say up to 3/4s of a million deaths attributable through the 00 decade, the 90s also had the Rwandan genocide where up to 1 million were slaughtered.
By the time we get to the 10s, death tolls are not mounting to anywhere like such unimaginable numbers. Though there are continuing awful events like Yemen, etc. Still I fail to see how as we go into the 20s, we are in such dire circumstances as a species, that it requires widespread pessimism and woe. We live like emperors here in our materially plentiful havens.
If anything we should be optimistic that with human innovation, intelligence and generosity we will be able to further reduce warfare and spread the gains in health care, useful inventions, and dignified living standards to other parts of the world. It would be best for this purpose if younger generations, who will be the brains and heart of any future, were positive, buoyant, and highly motivated, rather than shackled to paralysing and pessimistic philosophies.

Fann Linn

The Renaissance.

topper75

The decade that came after the 90s, call it what you will, was pretty nondescript in terms of music and fashion. It produced no nameable movements or styles. And the decade just gone has much the same problem. The 90s had grunge and britpop at least.

MarkR

The whoring 20's. Let's make it happen.

Badly Drunk Boy

Gynoid wrote: »

Re the "Turbulent Twenties"....
I know every generation likes to think they live in significant times, but I cannot see the reason for any dread of these years.

Ian Hislop said in a recent interview that his mother-in-law had just said to him that the current times were really scaring her and she hadn't experienced anything like it before.

He responded to her by saying "Seriously? You were a teenager in 1939!!".

"Oh yeah, I suppose..." was all she could answer.

Gynoid

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Ian Hislop said in a recent interview that his mother-in-law had just said to him that the current times were really scaring her and she hadn't experienced anything like it before.

He responded to her by saying "Seriously? You were a teenager in 1939!!".

"Oh yeah, I suppose..." was all she could answer.

haha

Andrewf20

The global warming twenties.

Thelonious Monk

Why was 2019 afraid of 2020?
Because they had a fight and 2021

Church on Tuesday

I just hope people drop the habit of saying "two thousand and --" to name a year.

Always seemed like an unnecessary mouthful once we entered the 2010s.

SEPT 23 1989

The Terrible Twos

The Tetrarch

202's

o1s1n

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

I just hope people drop the habit of saying "two thousand and --" to name a year.

Always seemed like an unnecessary mouthful once we entered the 2010s.

I think this year will finally make a proper break from that alright. Although I've been hearing it less and less since 2010.

The term 'two thousand' had massive usage in the run up to the year 2000 and for a few years after, it was everywhere. Stuck in peoples minds.

Has to make you wonder if any of the kids today will reference to 'two thousand and one' as 'twenty Oh one'.

ChippingSodbury

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

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Wonder if these will be the Roaring Twenties, or something completely different?

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I'd hazard a guess that it'll be the Screaming Twenties. Everyone has to be offended (whether they like it or not) so we all have to scream at each other.

In fact, if you're not offended by this post, I'll become apoplectic that you're not offended. Some other posters may also become offended on your behalf...

Better Than Christ

The Boring Twenties.

With any luck.

uch

I hope it's the decade where all youngones stop using the word Like 22 times in a 40 word sentence, oh and youngones from Clare or Leitrim, or anwhere really can talk in their native accents and not try sound like some annoying whining cúnts from somewhere in the uSA,
Fúcks sake all lads love a youngone with a Killarney or edenderry accent, or any jaysus accent once yer yourself and not some spanner on a bus saying, like, I really like James but he's like sort of Like you know like.................. Aaaaaahhhh if I was religious, the fúcking devil has arrived already

topper75

topper75 wrote: »

The decade that came after the 90s, call it what you will, was pretty nondescript in terms of music and fashion. It produced no nameable movements or styles. And the decade just gone has much the same problem. The 90s had grunge and britpop at least.

That's not a symptom of some lack of music or style in those years; It's downloading / streaming and generally less worry about fashion and conforming to a style.

There won't be another decade like the 90s where you could be an oasis or a blur fan. Everyone follows their own music now. I could wear bell bottoms tomorrow and noone would care.

We don't all watch the same TV. We don't all listen to the same music. We don't all dress the same. Conversation in work isn't about what happened on Coronation Street last night.

An Ri rua

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Ian Hislop said in a recent interview that his mother-in-law had just said to him that the current times were really scaring her and she hadn't experienced anything like it before.

He responded to her by saying "Seriously? You were a teenager in 1939!!".

"Oh yeah, I suppose..." was all she could answer.

She must be his Muse...

joeguevara

Post going around Facebook warning people about using 20 when signing and dating documents. For example if dating 03/01/20 they said to use the full year as it could be forged from 20 to 2019 etc. No idea why anyone would do it...but going viral.

joeguevara

joeguevara wrote: »

No idea why anyone would do it..

It probably won't be abused but you lack imagination if you can't think of why people or companies would do it.

joeguevara

Deleted User wrote: »

It probably won't be abused but you lack imagination if you can't think of why people of companies would do it.

I meant I couldn't see where it would work. To change the date from 2020 to 2019, for example means predating a document you are signing.

Anyway, I never sign anything without a copy so that would be the best defense.

joeguevara

joeguevara wrote: »

I meant I couldn't see where it would work. To change the date from 2020 to 2019, for example means predating a document you are signing.

Anyway, I never sign anything without a copy so that would be the best defense.

Then we get into the meta of removing years from your photocopy so 2022 becomes 20.

I just find the whole signature and year thing kind of bizarre. It's so trust based yet so necessary.

smilerf

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

I just hope people drop the habit of saying "two thousand and --" to name a year.

Always seemed like an unnecessary mouthful once we entered the 2010s.

This happened because in the noughties you had no choice but to say two thousand and so I guess it just stuck

joeguevara

smilerf wrote: »

This happened because in the noughties you had no choice but to say two thousand and so I guess it just stuck

But we kind of always did it. For example when talking about the Easter Rebellion, it's always described as the 1916 rising rather than the 16 rising. Dropping the 19 was only when talking about modern times, so it was a new thing. But it's always awkward saying 20 rather.

smilerf

joeguevara wrote: »

But we kind of always did it. For example when talking about the Easter Rebellion, it's always described as the 1916 rising rather than the 16 rising. Dropping the 19 was only when talking about modern times, so it was a new thing. But it's always awkward saying 20 rather.

But it is 20 with 20 years
Nobody dropped the 19 because the 19s are gone

joeguevara

smilerf wrote: »

But it is 20 with 20 years
Nobody dropped the 19 because the 19s are gone

It was in reply to a post hoping we would drop the two thousand and.... I was saying it wasn't done universally in the 19's.

NSAman

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