Somebody Tell Beavereater to Call MeritLine Right Away!!!

[jimmalenko]

I was just saying most people do not start with 0 when counting from 1 to 10.

I start with 1...

... and there are 10 numbers, between 1 & 10 ...

There aren't 10 numbers between 1 & 10, there are 8 numbers between 1 & 10.

True. But when counting from 1 to 10, there are 10 numbers.

[CaZeek]

Right.. I think the key word is from or in the case of the ad during, as opposed to between.

[Guest]

I was thinking about the last phrase. And the traditional Twelve Days of Christmas go from 25 Dec to Jan 6.

I was trying to figure out WTF you were getting at T.the above post is what I was thinkin bout as well. Didnt really irritate me much more than the XMas in July ads.

[Capmaster]

That's one reason why I got such a belly laugh over all the people who celebrated the new millennium on Jan. 1, 2000

If the first year was year 0, New Year's Eve in year 0 is celebrating the end of the first year. So year 1 means 1 year completed, plus some fraction of a year. Therefore year 1999 means 1999 years completed. Therefore at the turn of 1999 -> 2000, it was the end of the millenium.

Now if the first year was year 1, New Year's Eve in year 1 is celebrating the end of the first year. So year 1 means at the end of the year it will be 1 year completed, so year 2 means 1 year completed, plus some fraction of a year. Therefore year 2000 means that at the end of 2000, there will be 1999 years completed. Therefore at the turn of 2000 -> 2001, it was the end of the millenium.

I can see the confusion

It's really not that complicated. The calendar starts with the year 1, not 0, so the first decade is 1 - 10 with ten being the last year of the first decade. In decimal that follows for the first hunderd years, and thousand.

They will always have their last year as a multiple of ten and end in a zero. Count from 1 to 1000 and the number "1000" is included in the thousand, right? So the year 2000 is included in the second thousand years, and is the last year of the second millennium. 2001 is the first year of the third thousand since it ends in a "1". Just like year 1 AD did. All you did was add two thousand to the 1 since you have just completed two thousand years in its entirety.

So celebrating Jan. 1, 2000 means you're celebrating the beginning of the last year of the second millennium, which is absurd

Some of the confusion may be because we refer to decades as "the '70s" or "the '80s" which start in years ending in zero, but in actuality, the year 1960, for example, is the last year of the sixth decade of the 20th century, so by that definition, it's really the last year of the fifties

Confused yet?

[SquirrelDip]

Okay... This thread get's my vote for the Dumbest Thread in VH History!

[jimmalenko]

The calendar starts with the year 1, not 0

That's what causes the confusion

[Guest]

Okay... This thread get's my vote for the Dumbest Thread in VH History!

There are plenty out there worse than this one.

[Capmaster]

The calendar starts with the year 1, not 0

That's what causes the confusion

Okay... This thread get's my vote for the Dumbest Thread in VH History!

Umm ...nyoo That would be the "Do You Masturbate" thread

[jimmalenko]

The calendar starts with the year 1, not 0

That's what causes the confusion

As I pointed out, if the first day of the (what is it called, gregorian calendar ?) was January 1, year 0 then 1999-> 2000 was the end of the millenium. If the first day was January 1, year 1 then 2000-> 2001 was the end of the millenium.

Simple

[bazooka]

My wife said we have way too much time on our hands.

[Grimey]

My wife said we have way too much time on our hands.

I think I agree with your wife

[Heywould3]

My wife said we have way too much time on our hands.

yeah but what is time..? and how did the measurement start? and when did it begin? and if ours is based on 24 hours a day 365 days a year what will happen to us if we moved to marz? or even worse saturn? will we age at the same rate? if so then how many years old will we be when we die in saturn years?

P.S. do you think i can find the perfect a$$ on saturn?

[beavereater]

I just saw this posted...nice...it's going in my folder of F#@$ed up English...I have so many pictures like this.

[freestyler]

This is one of my favorites:



"Chilled Beer"

[gll99]

To get them to making stupid ads like this:

If you are questionning their math then they are correct because Dec 10 to 21 inclusive is 12 days. If you are debating something else about the ad then sorry but I missed it.

jimmalenko wrote

As I pointed out, if the first day of the (what is it called, gregorian
calendar ?) was January 1, year 0 then 1999-> 2000 was the end of the
millenium. If the first day was January 1, year 1 then 2000-> 2001 was the end of the millenium.

The calendar makers had no concept of a year zero notice that there is no
zero in roman numerals.
When counting backwards from what we now call AD to BC (these terms did not exist at the time) we go from 1 AD to 1 BC which counts as one year. There is no year 0. Therefore AD Gregorian starts with Jan 1, 0001 and not Jan 1, 0000. That is why the previous millenium ends at the end of 1000, 2000, 3000 etc... and the new one begins with Jan 1, 1001, Jan1, 2001, Jan 1, 3001 etc..

Just some side notes here
copied text between the=
===============================================
The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BC. It was in common use until the 1500s, when countries started changing to the Gregorian Calendar
The Gregorian Calendar is a revision of the Julian Calendar which was
instituted in a papal bull by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. The reason for the
calendar change was to correct for drift in the dates of signifigant religious
observations (primarily Easter) and to prevent further drift in the dates.
The important effects of the change were:
Drop 10 days from October 1582, to realign the Vernal Equinox with 21
March
Change leap year selection so that not all years ending in "00" are leap
years.
Change the beginning of the year to 1 January from 25 March
===============================================

Interesting last point here:
September is month 9 yet in latin/french etc it begins with the word (sept)
for 7, October is the 10th month yet it starts with OCT for 8 as in octal ( base 8 ) and Nov should be 9 and DEC is a most familiar term as in the decimal system (or the base 10 numbering) yet it is the 12th month. In the Julian calendar those names matched the numerical month but backing the first month to Jan threw that off.

[MrMoody]

Child Bear = what women can do between the ages of 14 and 40. Maybe there's a guy inside who can help you with that.

[MrMoody]

If you are questionning their math then they are correct because Dec 10 to 21 inclusive is 12 days. If you are debating something else about the ad then sorry but I missed it.

Make Sure To Check Back Their Grammar Everyday until you get it.

[jimmalenko]

As I pointed out, if the first day of the (what is it called, gregorian calendar ?) was January 1, year 0 then 1999-> 2000 was the end of the millenium. If the first day was January 1, year 1 then 2000-> 2001 was the end of the millenium.

The calendar makers had no concept of a year zero notice that there is no
zero in roman numerals.
When counting backwards from what we now call AD to BC (these terms did not exist at the time) we go from 1 AD to 1 BC which counts as one year. There is no year 0. Therefore AD Gregorian starts with Jan 1, 0001 and not Jan 1, 0000. That is why the previous millenium ends at the end of 1000, 2000, 3000 etc... and the new one begins with Jan 1, 1001, Jan1, 2001, Jan 1, 3001 etc..

Thanks for clearing that up

[freestyler]

Tommyknocker made a slipup as well:

To get them to making stupid ads like this:"

Seems like an honest mistake from Meritline.

I doubt that they no liking the human being.

[MrMoody]

Meritline are well known for their unably to goodly speak English. I'm sure that was the point.

[Tommyknocker]

Finally, someone on the same page as I am. I was getting really worried.