Since we are approaching the end of a decade, how would you rate it?

[JVS]

Poll question: Since we are approaching the end of a decade, how would you rate it?

[Inchworm]

1. Bush brought me down

But.. divorce, freedom, love, grandson, and daughter rocking brought me back up to a 5.

:hi:

[Broken_Hero]

2. A big fricken 5 from me nt

[kentauros]

3. And here I thought the end of the decade

was 12/31/10 ;)

[Kutjara]

4. I suppose every year is the end of a decade.

And a century. And a millennium. Just depends where you start counting. ;)

[kentauros]

6. I'm just going by the fact that our present year-counting system

did not start with a -0- ;)

[JVS]

7. hold on, the 1800's ended on 1/1/1900. This decade is the naughts, not the first decade

nobody claims that the forties ended in 1951

[kentauros]

8. No they don't.

At the same time, no one is mentioning that somewhere along the line we had a 9-year "decade" in order to get off like this ;)

[JVS]

9. Are you trying to get a rise out of me?

[kentauros]

10. No;

does it seem like I am? :P

I'll continue to go with Arthur C. Clarke's reckoning on when the decades begin and end ;)

[JVS]

14. So did the nineteen forties end at the end of 12/31/1950?

Mind you that I'm saying forties and not the 195th decade AD.

[Systematic Chaos]

18. As far as I'm concerned they did.

And the 50s on 12/31/60.
And the 60s on 12/31/70.
And the 70s on 12/31/80.
And the 80s on 12/31/90.
And the 90s (and the millennium) on 12/31/00.
And so the 00s will end on 12/31/10.

Just as the first decade AD ended on 12/31/10AD.
If it ended on 12/31/9AD then that would have had to mean that either:

The first decade had only 9 years, or
there was in fact a year 0. And there wasn't.

It's not hard if you know how to count. :eyes:

[kentauros]

22. That's exactly how I see it.

Because it's either that, or we really do have a "decade" out there somewhere that's only 9 years long :P

[Systematic Chaos]

12. +1

Someone else who knows how to count. Yay us.

[Capn Sunshine]

5. Bush destroyed everything

3/4 of my business just conflagrated.

The only upside was taking things back from the brink with Obama's election

[baldguy]

11. +1

It'll take more than a few months to recover from the Bush disaster. More like a century.

Call me in 2110.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. Has there ever been another time when it was so OK to be stupid?

Gotta give it a "1" for my hypertension alone.

[begin_within]

15. I would unrecommend this decade.

[azmouse]

16. Personally the decade was great. I give it a 7.

Politically it was one of the worst. I give it a 1.

[GoCubsGo]

17. "1" is too high, IMO

Granted, it could be worse. I'm not living in the streets. Yet.

[mvd]

19. I'd say 3

We had the worst President ever for 8 years. The decade wasn't very productive for me and I lost my grandfather who I was very close to in 2006. There is hope with the Obama administration, but changes are likely to come slower than I would like.

[mvd]

20. Another thing on the bright side is..

getting my Goldendoodle Gordon.

[Amaya]

21. this decade-

got divorced, got married, had a baby, went back to college, discovered what i don't want to do, became aware of what i do want to do, went to my first protest, became politically and socially aware, met the worst kinds of people, made true friends, stopped caring what others thought and just did it anyway.

this decade was the most enlightening yet.

[AlienGirl]

23. Worse than shitting watermelons. In the 90's I did the equivalent of shitting watermelons

That wasn't so bad, really, and was part of what was awesome in the 90's.

This decade? Fuck it right in the ear!

Tucker