Just seen an '011 car, no.. an eleven ... what's this decade called anyway ?

Rabidlamb · 10-05-2011 03:33PM #1

Doesn't sound right no matter what way you say it.
Last year people used to say "Zero 10", incorrect of course but it sounded OK.
Saying "Zero Eleven" or "O Eleven" sounds wrong but so does someone saying "I drive an eleven".
There is no sensible way of putting it.

In other news, what's the name of this decade ?, The Teens, The 10+ ...

Cavehill Red · 10-05-2011 03:35PM

I call it Padraig, myself.

yeppydeppy · 10-05-2011 03:35PM

I think in the ninteen hundreds the equivelant decade was called the teenies - sounds alright to me.

xoxyx · 10-05-2011 03:36PM

I just saw a new car.

"A new car."

It's not so difficult.

FatherLen · 10-05-2011 03:38PM

i dunno what we're going to call it but it better be less gay than the naughties

BizzyC · 10-05-2011 03:45PM

"twenty-eleven"

Bendihorse · 10-05-2011 03:53PM

I find 'i just saw an 11 D Merc' or 'He has an 11 WX Focus' works grand. It conveys the message better than he has an 11 Focus.

Scanlas The 2nd · 10-05-2011 03:54PM

last decade was called the zeros.

This decade is called the tens. Simple as. Enough with this naughties teensies crap.

Wazdakka · 10-05-2011 03:56PM

I call it the Deca's

Sounds better than that teensies crap..

Phill Ewinn · 10-05-2011 04:01PM

Sh1te. The sh1te decade

Korvanica · 10-05-2011 04:08PM

I call it the Thanks Whore Decade

hatrickpatrick · 10-05-2011 04:13PM

Have to be honest, I still say "oh eleven"
Will probably say "oh twelve" as well, but when it comes to the teens things'll have to change, can't imagine saying "oh seventeen" can you?

Guill · 10-05-2011 04:25PM

The Eleventies - Gonna be right up there with the Seventies brother.

10-05-2011 04:30PM

I've never heard anyone say "zero eleven". How does that even make sense?

It's either twenty eleven, or two thousand and eleven. You don't need to have a cool, hip, totally rad name for each decade. Maybe this decade will become known as the decade when we stopped trying to call decades stupid things. Or maybe we'll realise in general that our insane compulsion to attach a buzz word to absolutely everything in daily life is annoying.

Toby Take a Bow · 10-05-2011 05:22PM

true-or-false wrote: »

Or maybe we'll realise in general that our insane compulsion to attach a buzz word to absolutely everything in daily life is annoying.

Agreed. And sure, when it's 2020 and we start calling it 'The Twenties', won't that get really confusing? Or will we have to say the 21st century twenties? In which case it's all pointless.

Why didn't we think about these problems in the 20th century?

CoolHat · 10-05-2011 05:23PM

I thought it was so retarded to call the last decade 'the naughties' ...

dsmythy · 10-05-2011 06:21PM

Well Time Magazine described the last decade as the decade from hell and judging by how the world is going I'd say this decade will be the decade from hell .... 2

Liam Byrne · 10-05-2011 06:33PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Have to be honest, I still say "oh eleven"
Will probably say "oh twelve" as well, but when it comes to the teens things'll have to change, can't imagine saying "oh seventeen" can you?

20011 ? That's a LONNNNNNG way away!

Did you say "oh 10" ?

Kevin Duffy · 10-05-2011 06:51PM

Next year will be twelvety.

Capt'n Midnight · 10-05-2011 09:03PM

dsmythy wrote: »

Well Time Magazine described the last decade as the decade from hell and judging by how the world is going I'd say this decade will be the decade from hell .... 2

That sounds as accurate as "the caring nineties" that was tried ,but in reality greed is good and all that is what the nineties were about the last decade was pretty OK till the crash in 2008

In the last decade most adults on the planet got a mobile phone

Were Time talking about the sweeping new powers that the patroit act and such like have given their government ? Apart from Congo and US inteventions it wasn't all that bad for wars compared to other decades. Measles was eradicated from the Americas.

theboss80 · 11-05-2011 12:59AM

Two zero one one car

/thread

SeanW · 11-05-2011 02:28AM

I too would just call that "Twenty-Eleven." Might not be strictly correct, but a hell of a lot better than "Zero-Eleven" or "Oh-Eleven" which takes nearly as much effort and is completely, absolutely, totally, balls-to-the-wall WRONG. I had never even heard of it!

Johnny D. Mudd · 11-05-2011 02:31AM

Could we not just refer to it as that crap year when everything went to hell in a handbasket and we all wish we could forget.

Or even better, a onesie.:cool:

Kaneda_ · 11-05-2011 02:36AM

The apocalypse decade

andyseadog · 11-05-2011 03:42AM

i just seen an '11 reg' car
i drive an '11 reg' car

and so on... :pac:

Neonjack · 11-05-2011 04:06AM

What he said ^^^^^

Dravokivich · 11-05-2011 08:23AM

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

Agreed. And sure, when it's 2020 and we start calling it 'The Twenties', won't that get really confusing? Or will we have to say the 21st century twenties? In which case it's all pointless.

Why didn't we think about these problems in the 20th century?

Because the world was meant to end with Y2K!

:pac:

Minstrel27 · 11-05-2011 08:52AM

What did they call the decade 100 years ago?

PrincessLola · 11-05-2011 09:57AM

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

Agreed. And sure, when it's 2020 and we start calling it 'The Twenties', won't that get really confusing? Or will we have to say the 21st century twenties? In which case it's all pointless.

Why didn't we think about these problems in the 20th century?

You do realise there was more then one 20s decade? People in the 1920s didn't get all upset about being confused with th 1820s. Same with 1990s and 1890s.

Toby Take a Bow · 11-05-2011 01:34PM

PrincessLola wrote: »

You do realise there was more then one 20s decade? People in the 1920s didn't get all upset about being confused with th 1820s. Same with 1990s and 1890s.

Oh, I do realise that. I wasn't forgetting about all the centuries gone before. However, it seems that in the 20th century, people became obsessed with labeling the decades 'the 20s', 'the 30s' and so forth. Perhaps this was the case in the 1820s, but I don't see a huge amount of reference in books written in the 19th century to 'the 20s' and so on. I could be wrong about that.

thirtythirty · 11-05-2011 01:41PM

We could always start saying " I saw an Oh-one-one car".

Means the system would be foolproof for the next century or so!

Just seen an '011 car, no.. an eleven ... what's this decade called anyway ?

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