How could they know about Rubik's Cubes
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colinTheBarSteward — 14 years ago(March 12, 2012 10:10 AM)
well, if you want full-on pedantry, i feel it's my duty to tell you that the counting system for years starts with the year 1, not the year 0.. so actually the 70s, like any decade, actually ended at the end of the tenth year, starting the count at 1 - so it ended on dec 31st 1980
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colinTheBarSteward — 14 years ago(March 15, 2012 05:44 PM)
from that page:
'Wikipedia resolves this problem by only having "9" years in the first "decade".'
well, yes i refute that resolution and i'm not alone - you'll find quite a few bright people with a little imagination (and a strong enough mind not to accept blithely what wikipedia tells us) could easily accept nov 24th 1980 as being part of the seventies the same people who insisted the millenium be celebrated on the night of 31st december 2001. Just 'cos wiki says it, doesn't make it right, and to give a link to a page which gives wikipedia on hearsay, hmmm
if you follow the thread, i was actually defending someone who was attacked for getting something wrong, i was explaining how in one way of thinking they are not wrong
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colinTheBarSteward — 14 years ago(March 19, 2012 04:01 PM)
not really sure what you're getting at - the gregorian calendar was implemented retrospectively - people alive in what we call the year 1 didn't call it the year 1 did they? Curious to see how you plan on demonstrating 1970 didn't exist.
I am merely refuting whoever decided to write on wiki that they'll just arbitrarily change the definition of a decade for one instance - it's that that seems silly to me.
"Yeah? Well, you know that's just like, uh your opinion, man"