I am one of those annoying optimists IRL. Like my FB is only about rights for all people, loving each other, being kind, and supporting people without judgment.
I wouldn't say I was naive. I have no doubts about people, I just like to try to expect the best in them and believe it's there. It's becoming a struggle and I'm annoyed at this. I'm annoyed that I'm picking up more of the annoyance instead of 'shining through it'. I'm just soooo frustrated with it.
Pssst the correct reply to @Ganymede's compliment was to link to this:
Oh.. um... ^^^^^ That
Pretend I did that.
People who insist that 2020 isn't the start of a new decade.
Being pedantic and obnoxious is one thing; I generally approve of it. Being pedantic and obnoxious and wrong because you learned a pedantic obnoxious fact twenty years ago and are trying to trot it out where it doesn't apply is inexcusable.
@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
People who insist that 2020 isn't the start of a new decade.
Being pedantic and obnoxious is one thing; I generally approve of it. Being pedantic and obnoxious and wrong because you learned a pedantic obnoxious fact twenty years ago and are trying to trot it out where it doesn't apply is inexcusable.
but if they're wrong isn't 2020 the year they should see clearly?
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I feel like these assholes were not nearly so vocal in 2010 as they were in 2000 (oh, my youth) or now. Maybe even numbers empower them, idk.
@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
People who insist that 2020 isn't the start of a new decade.
Every year is the start of a new decade, depending on where you're measuring from.
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@insomniac7809 said in [Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.]> but if they're wrong isn't 2020 the year they should see clearly?
Well played.
@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@insomniac7809
I feel like these assholes were not nearly so vocal in 2010 as they were in 2000 (oh, my youth) or now. Maybe even numbers empower them, idk.
Well, in 2000 they were technically correct (pretend I put the Fururama gif here) in that the twenty-first century goes from 2001-2100.
But as was pointed out,
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Every year is the start of a new decade, depending on where you're measuring from.
And while you could count decades that way, I'd assume that anyone who called 2011-2020 "the two hundred and second decade" instead of "the teens" is a serial killer, and I would be correct. 2020 is the start of the twenties.
@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
2020 is the start of the twenties.
Ah, but is it? Most of the time these decade-based delinations are regarding cultural touchstones, which often don't manifest until partway through the decade and last until partway through the next. The 80s, culturally, has been argued to have been from 1984 to 1994.
So everyone is correct, but in this instance, anyone obnoxious about it is a dick.
ETA: I've written cultural touchstone too many times today, it's starting to get saturated.
@Tinuviel Yes, yes, cultural zeitgeists don't match up perfectly with the tens digit of our arbitrary measurements of time. I'm still not going to dignify "nineteen ninety-one was in the eighties" with a rebuttal.
@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Tinuviel Yes, yes, cultural zeitgeists don't match up perfectly with the tens digit of our arbitrary measurements of time. I'm still not going to dignify "nineteen ninety-one was in the eighties" with a rebuttal.
That's only my career you're talking about. 
No Five Finger Death Punch. NO.
I appreciate you, but do not re-make house of the rising sun
@Tinuviel Fine:
Nineteen ninety-one is in the nineties because there's a fucking ninety in the tens digit.
...and if we are gonna talk about culture, I think we had to be in the 90s by 1993, latest. You had Free Willy, Power Rangers, X-Files, Jurassic Park and Korn.
And anyway, that's the sort of decade-bookend argument you can't really have until it's been over for a while.
@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Nineteen ninety-one is in the nineties because there's a fucking ninety in the tens digit.
Fine. Then 2001 was the start of the zeroth century because there's a zero in the hundreds digit.
For the record, and the audience, neither @insomniac7809 or I are taking this seriously.
He/Him
@Tinuviel It could be the zeroth decade, and that would be only marginally more godawful than the "aughts."
I mean, "the naughties." People suggested that shit with a straight face. We've had almost exactly twenty years and no one's come up with a name for the decade that isn't just shit.
...and between that and "zoomers" I feel like whoever picks these names just stopped giving a shit around the time they figured out GenX.
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
For the record, and the audience, neither @insomniac7809 or I are taking this seriously.
you take everything seriously tho
@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
We've had almost exactly twenty years and no one's come up with a name for the decade that isn't just shit.
My idea was "Wars and Terrorists and Pretty Much The Same As Every Other Decade Only FASTER." But the committee said no.
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
you take everything seriously tho
I have never once taken anything seriously.
He/Him
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My idea was "Wars and Terrorists and Pretty Much The Same As Every Other Decade Only FASTER." But the committee said no.
Bit of a mouthful, I have to say.
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
you take everything seriously tho
I have never once taken anything seriously.
@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My idea was "Wars and Terrorists and Pretty Much The Same As Every Other Decade Only FASTER." But the committee said no.
Bit of a mouthful, I have to say.
I am, but what do you think of my idea for a decade name?
