The decade is almost half over. What are we calling it anyway?

Link to Cecil’s column.

Does anyone have a clue?

We’ll probably do what we did last time around. Wait twenty years or so and then start calling it “the turn of the century”.

I call it the “ohs”.

I’m calling it “a piece of crap,” I dunno about you.

I second Eve, though maybe the latter half of the decade will be better.

Here’s to the future :cool:

A Total F@#$ing Train-Wreck, if the news counts for anything.

A guy from my office got called up for Guard duty. He’s on Xmas leave, & showed up here at work in BDUs. He’ll be guarding a polling place in 14 days, over there.

He’s spending time with his grandchild before he leaves.

Yup.
Total F@#$ing Train-Wreck.

Hmmn. Not too catchy, though, is it.

I prefer “The End Of Days”, myself.
Or “the Two Thousands”, which is what I’ve heard mostly.

“ought”

or

“dickety.”

I think “oh-ohs” is more appropriate. :slight_smile:

Bushwhacked

At present, it seems best to refer to this period as “nowadays.”

“The Noughties”. Is that not universal?

The naughty naughties?

Seems to me that we’ve been very carefully not calling it anything.
Next decade, probably more of the same.

Yeah, roll on the Twenties! It’ll have a proper name, plus we can go all art-deco and flapperish.

Trouble is, I’ll be well onto my third mid-life crisis by then…

I’m looking forward five years to the teens, although all the rubbish parties and exam revision will be a bit of a bind.

We can get a clue what the decade’s nickname is by looking at how high school and college students refer to their graduating year. Those who graduated in 1996, for example, might have called themselves the “Class of '96” (pronounced Ninety-Six) and the decade was called the Nineties. So what do students today call their class?

It’s a good suggestion but I don’t think this will work in this case. I think graduates this year call themselves the “Class of '04 (oh-four)” but I don’t think we’re in the “Ohs”.

'0X (oh ex) always sounded less goofy to me than most of the other suggestions. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone use any of the suggestions in this thread, apart from people talking about what to call it.

Everyone knows you only use dickety when the Kaiser steals the digit…