Happy New Year 2010 !!!!

[Alex]

Originally Posted by JWBear

Nice of you to be so rude and dismissive. Fvck you too.

You're too much man for me, being with one so unworthy as me would leave you feeling cheapened and soulless. Besides, you're the one who started the eye rolling and telling other people they were doing it wrong.

BTW... I don't celebrate the "end of the decade". What a silly thing to do.

Good for you. I don't celebrate new years or birthdays, either (though some years I do take advantage of the fact that friends are gathering and I like to spend time with them; but I don't care about the calendar year ending). Attaching great significance to odometer rolls holds no great interest for me either. I was asleep around 11pm, usually remember my birthday when someone else tells me, and roll my eyes at the "significance" given to anniversary dates of significant events (will SF TV stations please shut up about the 1906 earthquake and I'll probably crawl into a hole around 9/11/2011 and just wish everybody's shut up).

Do I win the pissing contest over who is more disinterested in the subject being vociferously debated?

Also, just because some misconceptions are popular doesn't make them any more true.

That is true. And I hardly think anybody around here would believe I'm one to let a technical inaccuracy lie just because it makes people feel fuzzy. For example, I was all in favor of making sure people realized that celebrations on 12/31/2000 were a year early for noting the completion of the second millennium. That, though, had nothing to do with people preferring to party about the end of the 1000s and 1900s and 1990s and 1999. Just so long as they didn't tell me it was the end of the second millennium. Party hearty.

You, however, have yet to point out anybody suffering from a misconception. You have also failed to show any reason your preferred significant decade is better than other people's preferred significant decade, instead claiming that yours is the only significant decade despite the obvious fact that you're wrong.

But insofar as you state strongly positions with which nobody disagrees, you get that glow from being right.