Dammit people, it's been ten years. You have to start saying "twenty" instead of "two-thousand" It's official now. No excuses. Twenty-ten. Twenty-eleven. Twenty-twelve. Practice with me.
Tune in tomorrow!
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Dammit people, it's been ten years. You have to start saying "twenty" instead of "two-thousand" It's official now. No excuses. Twenty-ten. Twenty-eleven. Twenty-twelve. Practice with me.
Tune in tomorrow!
This is why girls can't be engineers.
But I like saying two-thousand ten.
Wait, what? Why?
Two zero one zero
I'm with Allie. "Two thousand" has too many syllables.
You sound just like Huxley right now. He rants about the same thing. XD
I just say Two Thousand Ten out of habit. Twenty-Ten does sound nicer though.
You've opened my eyes to the inconsistency, from now on I shall refer to years before the millenia as one thousand and etc
Twenty is just laziness. The number itself IS two thousand (and) ten
I say 20, so you're not alone, rubah.
I think the problem might be derived from numbers usage itself. Frequently numbers between 1000 and 2000 get used that way in just everyday life. Fifteen hundred boxes of tampons. But nobody says twenty hundred balloons
I do sometimes say the year is twenty ten, but more frequently I use that when referencing future dates. I think that means my mind is being controlled by my future self. Apparently in 2015 I have conformed
Edit: On that note, I don't find it odd to say twenty-one hundred. Just something about twenty itself sometimes. So I don't think the next century will have this problem, if that helps
I love two-thousand and ten. Such a great year.
In the back of the car,
on the way to the bar,
I've got you on my lips (I've got you on my lips)
At the foot of the stairs, with my fingers in your hair,
baby, this is it.
She won't ever get enough
once she gets a little touch
if i had it my way,
you know that I'd make her say
"oo-oooo-oo-oo-oooh~
oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh~"
Um
These are not the droids you are looking for?
traditionally, the french have said "one thousand, ninehundred XX', but in recent decades, they have taken over the english usage of "nineteen xx"
Hanks Fine Furniture has been persistent in maintaining the "twenty-xx" method as of many years ago (and it bugged the crap out of me then xD)
I say two O one O because it reminds me of Beverly Hills 90210.
Meh I say both..We're all going to go kaput on 2012 any way .... :roll:
I've been saying Twenty-ten for a while, and most of the people I know also do it.
I agree with you completely Allie; fortunately most people seem to be using the correct terminology by this point.
Twenty-whatever sounds childish and American to me :(
I think I say twenty 10 ;( It feels wrong, but I still do it. Maybe if I say it enough it'll feel right :(
I refer to Steve Sutton as the authoritative figure on the subject,.
I say 2010. So smurf you Allies.
Two-zero-one-zero?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peegee
that makes absolutely no sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by gyrus
Well of course you wouldn't understand, infantile yankee!Quote:
Originally Posted by rubahthat makes absolutely no sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by gyrus
Typical asians.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShoebertoWell of course you wouldn't understand, infantile yankee!Quote:
Originally Posted by rubahthat makes absolutely no sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by gyrus
@Stu - I say 2010. Sheesh.
This 'Twenty ten' appeals to my lazier side, but the side of me that has been saying 'Two thousand and ten' and all the other digits 1-9 for the past ten years say smurf that you're wrong.
I say "two thousand and ten".
I might start saying "twenty ten" now, though xD
Peeg: Can you type out what you say for 2010 phonetically, using letters rather than numbers?
gyrus: So did you call 1999 "one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine"?
I see the light and I am cleansed. Twenty-ten, it shall be.
Two thousand and eleven will be an awful mouthful. I think most people will make the transition to 'twenty' next year.
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Originally Posted by Loony BoB
I say 1999 'nineteen ninety nine'
I say 2010 like 2,010 :mad2:
Who gives a :bou::bou::bou::bou:?
Not me; that's why I said I pronounce it 2010Quote:
Originally Posted by Goldenboko
Swedes say either or - they're roughly the same length and rolls of the tongue equally well. Tvåtusentio (literally "two thousand ten") or Tjugohundratio (literally "twenty hundred ten").
In English, I'd probably pronounce it twenty ten.
Oh no! Those Mayans are so mean! What did I do? :( .......... :bigsmile:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rodarian
I've been saying 2,010, I never thought about the twenty-ten pronunciation although I've heard it pronounced that way. I'll go with the twenty-ten pronunciation from now on.
You were saying "nineteen" for about a decade before that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Unbreakable Rocco
Anyways, today's rant:
I had a song stuck in my head this morning that I didn't know the name of, or actually anything about it other than like a short five second burst, and there's no smurfing telling what song it is, because it could be any of the 2000 dance/electronic songs I have on my laptop (THANKS STU) and now I've gone and forgotten what it sounded like, so I don't have a snowball's chance :cry:
I hate not being able to find songs. That's probably the thing keeping me away from underground artists the most, not being able to find lyrics for them and look up their names!
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Originally Posted by rubah
You listen to lots of dance/electronic? I like you.
Dude, I've said this since twenty o' one. I agree with you, though.
rubah, I use this: Bored.com - Tap the rhythm of the song's melody to find music - it only works about half the time, but that's better than nothing. I also call Mum on occasion, she's brilliant at that kind of stuff. When we lived together, Mum and I used to play the first one or two seconds of a song to each other and see if the other person could guess what song it was and we usually got it right, too.
twenty - ten
twentieth century, tenth year
then again, it IS the twenty-first century.
I've already forgotten what it sounded like xD I remember playing that listen to the first second game with you on y!m, too
I usually do not recommend apple products but maybe you might want to get one of those doofangled iPhone dealies because it has that app that tells you what song is playing ^_^
Oh come now, I couldn't have given you any more than 1,000 tracks of dance music. That's child's play.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
You suck stu I have easily over 2000 electronica songs. I demand you return the asian card I gave you :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ShoebertoOh come now, I couldn't have given you any more than 1,000 tracks of dance music. That's child's play.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
ps: I managed to wait nearly 5 years to find a particular song. I had no bloody idea what it was until my friend played it at a party. I was going nuts :D
I do that all the bloody time and it annoys the hell out of me; but not so much with the dance/electronic. :cool:
I've had to wait, too, peegies. I heard a song in 2003 that I could never find the lyrics to, and on a long car trip with stu's family, a random Missouri radio station played it!
fffuuuuuuuQuote:
Originally Posted by rubah
Today's rant:
It's really hard to get Dr. Pepper in Atlanta.
If you'll read on Arkansan dr. pepper bottles or cans, it says 'bottled under authority of the coca cola bottling plant, atlanta, ga' or something, but when you're actually here, Coke is like "Lol, this my home turf now. You're drinking Mr. PIBB"
and while on the surface they are similar, moreso than pepsi and coke perhaps, (are there pepsi vending machines? I've never seen one), it's just off somehow... It's less noticeable when drinking fountain drinks, but bottled it's all :(
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Apparently if you press the buttons in a certain order you can get into debug mode and get free pop. I hate pop so I'm just going to test this for educational purposes.
I usually say two-thousand, not twenty. And I like it that way! :radred:
For the rest of this thread, people are going to make 2010 comments because they don't read past the OP.
Android phones should have that too. :mad2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peegee
There is a dance song that my mom always plays in her car and I MUST know the name of it. It goes doo doo doo doo with xylophones. :shiny:
It also has a guy reciting poetry randomly towards the end of it.
Ask your mum?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shiny
She doesn't know anything. She's a midget.
j/k (Sort of) I asked her and she doesn't know because the DJ that gave her the mix didn't list the tracks.
If you get an app like Soundhound you can play/hum/speak a song into it and it should tell you what that song is. It really comes in handy about...once a year.
It's a pretty common app across the block, there are even phonelines that can do it. I wouldn't be surprised if there is an Android app for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by NorthernChaosGodAndroid phones should have that too. :mad2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peegee
Is it Around The World? Not the Daft Punk one, the one from the late '90s when they're like "lalalalala"Quote:
Originally Posted by Shiny
by ATC. That one doesn't have any poetry though
I alway pronouce it as Two O One O!!! :kaoclove:
I reckon I am the special one!!! :bigsmile:
Today's rant:
goddamn my car! the battery died (should've seen that coming- it was 7 years old easily). $150 to get it replaced :(
Awww..but now you can get a new battery ^_^Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
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Batteries dying is bullcrap. I've had it happen as I've pulled into my driveway before. Sorrrrz.
Oh, that is so annoying! My starter went a few months ago. AT A GAS STATION. I was pissed. Cars are frustrating.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
yeah, this was the second problem in less than a month!
I got it resolved though-- for $150 ://///
That reminds me. I should get my transmission fixed before my car explodes. I'm not sure when it was checked last.
Hm.
I will comply with this proposition when people start pronouncing the word Southern properly. "South-ern" not "Su-thern". It's right there. In the letters. None of the other directions, East, West, or North are mangled in such a way.
Unacceptable. Absolutely infuriating.
Suthem? WHAT?Quote:
Originally Posted by Manny
This is silly. Phonology and orthography are completely different and it's not like you can change pronunciation like that o.o. I suspect it loses the diphthong because it would make the syllable too heavy with it, but I'm not too sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manny
The dalmasca estersand?
I dunno, I pronounce southern as "suh-thern" since it sounds about right to me, even though I say south with the proper "ou" sound.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manny
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Originally Posted by rubah
All of you should get a horse like me! You need not pay for any petrol nor silly batteries and its poo can be used to fertilize the plants! :bigsmile:
LOCALIZED PRONOUNCIATIONS MEAN EVERYBODY SPEAKS THE SAME LANGUAGE DIFFERENTLY! USA = INDIA?Quote:
Originally Posted by Blues AgentI dunno, I pronounce southern as "suh-thern" since it sounds about right to me, even though I say south with the proper "ou" sound.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manny
I have to pay for hay. And a lot more motels since I can't get anywhere fast ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ChristmasQuote:
Originally Posted by rubah
All of you should get a horse like me! You need not pay for any petrol nor silly batteries and its poo can be used to fertilize the plants! :bigsmile:
TODAY'S RANT:
I GOT LIKE EIGHT FRIGGIN' MOSQUITO BITES YESTERDAY WHILE WAITING FOR THE TROLLEY TO TAKE ME AWAY TO THE FUTUR>>> TRIVIA NIGHT.
<Roogle> A Friggin' Mosquito appears!
Seriously, for some reason, I am like theirbella swanheroin. I remember one famous summer I counted well around 50 bites on my body!
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Originally Posted by rubahI have to pay for hay. And a lot more motels since I can't get anywhere fast ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ChristmasQuote:
Originally Posted by rubah
All of you should get a horse like me! You need not pay for any petrol nor silly batteries and its poo can be used to fertilize the plants! :bigsmile:
TODAY'S RANT:
I GOT LIKE EIGHT FRIGGIN' MOSQUITO BITES YESTERDAY WHILE WAITING FOR THE TROLLEY TO TAKE ME AWAY TO THE FUTUR>>> TRIVIA NIGHT.
<Roogle> A Friggin' Mosquito appears!
Seriously, for some reason, I am like theirbella swanheroin. I remember one famous summer I counted well around 50 bites on my body!
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Asians the allies watashi wa 欲求不満の no desu deska masu.
Fine
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I didn't know you were of the equine family, Christmas! Maybe you should be chatting with Melissaur's uncle!Quote:
Originally Posted by Christmas
you will never survive Karachi during the mosquito season :P
You can try to have a frog on your head alway to eat all those mosqutioes that get near you like me! :bigsmile:
Otherwise you can have something like this to scare the mosqutioes away!! :bigsmile:
But beware of Quina though! :bigsmile:
Today's rant:
I was out of town and when I came back, rubah hadn't updated her thread. I really wanted this thread to stay alive because I thought it was an awesome idea. More rage, please, god.
Yesterday's rant would've probably been about the lack of good parking at Little Five Points on weekends.
Today's rant is about my bathroom always smelling like piss. I'm pretty sure I don't piss on the floor, and I don't know where innocent water would come from, and it really smells like piss in there, but I just can't bring myself to believe that my third roommate somehow pisses on the floor.
Lack of parking only irks me if it's actually in a downtown area that's really crowded that doesn't have a specified parking lot. Freaking stupid. Otherwise, if I just can't find a spot when there are spots available usually... eh, I can walk.
Make sure your roommate is well-hydrated! Maybe their pee is too potent. And yes, a piss-bathroom is very rant-worthy. :choc2:
There were plenty of specified lots-- several of them were full, however *_*
Today's rant is about how worthless I am as a researcher. Seriously! Very worthless! I'll tear up if I go on any further about it. dammit.
DAT SAMPLE BIAS
POKEMON RESARCHERS ARE AWESOME THEY'RE LIEK ASL PIKACHU ^_^ AND THEN THEY TAKE THEIR TEMPERATURE IN KELVINS (-5 KELVIN IS HEALTHY_) AND THEN THEY WRITE NUMBERS IN A PAPER UNTIL THEY GET THE NOBLE PRIEZ FOR CHARMANDER!Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
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I keep hearing people say "010 (oh ten)" here. It makes me hate everything.
smurf research. That's all I'm saying. Hate hate it. Not saying I suck at it, I just really don't freaking care enough to do it, usually. :|
My research subject is pretty terrible. :(
He like to eat his own poo and lick his own butt. :(
Feed him doggy treats if he is a good boy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Christmas
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xD
Yesterday's rant:
ARGH HUMIDITY
Today's rant:
I have a mouth sore :( I keep biting it too ;.; owwwwww
I heard a kiss from a handsome prince can cure the sore immediately! :bigsmile:
how long is 2200 miles on shining white steed, again?
NOT FAR WHEN YOU HAVE THIS BABY!
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Originally Posted by Christmas
If by "cure" you mean "spread." rubah obviously has mouth herpes.
blownQuote:
Originally Posted by rubah
carry on.
:aimkiss:
I went to a water park today and there were so many damn people! The wave pool was especially crowded, and I'm surprised I didn't DIE while trying to stay aloft with people in tubes just surfing into me>:[
also all the lines were really long, but we had a lot of games to play to waste the time.
and the concrete was really hot :(
Welcome to my life.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
at least you get a chair :(
today's rant:
I hate it when I invite people to Monte Carlo and they don't show up!!!