Oct 16, 2009
Bonk,
EUREKA !!
Ha ! Ha ! Ha Ha !! What a COP-OUT!! You have admitted you are COMPLETELY WRONG on the calendar......so you now try to distract by focusing on my grammar and rubbishing me in a way that has nothing to do with the MAIN argument !! It won't work ! That's just the sort of tactic used by politicians . I used capitals to drive the TRUTH into your head . So now you focus on my capitals to distract from the TRUTH!! Pathetic !!
You have said a decade ENDS , 1979, 1989 etc . No it does NOT ! A decade means TEN YEARS .
"the 60s "; " The 70's " ; "the 80's " are not SCIENTIFIC . They are Press invention , in that the Press .........peopled by Arts graduates , or Arts orientated people rather than scientists ,... always like to pigeon-hole the "Sixties " , the "Seventies " etc and differentiate between them , when, in truth , the goings-on of 1968 ,say, were much closer to those of 1971 than to those of 1962...........but that does not suit the waffling Press , because they like to refer to the Sixties as one ENTITY....one lifestyle....... .Then " the Seventies" as another and the Eighties as another, as if when 1960 , 1970 and 1980 arrived .......ALL LIFE CHANGED from the year before !!
In truth that is complete bullshit . What we call the "Sixties " did not really get going until 1963 with the Beatles. What we call the "flower-power" "seventies " started in about 1967 [ in San Francisco , mainly .......drug-induced ] and ended by about 1973 when stark reality , rampant inflation and unemployment took over[ in Britain] .
The flower power was largely a reaction against the Vietnam war .
It was copied by the Beatles etc and spread to the UK from California .
What changed that "way of life" in the UK was not the date on the calendar, but the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and DIFFERENT GOVERNMENT POLICIES.
It was her policies that dictated the "Eighties" in the UK , but they started in 1979. 1979 was pure chance. If her election had been in 1977, things would have changed earlier.
Do you get my point? Decades are discussed widely AS SEPARATE ENTITIES in the Press because the Press like to discuss them to sell papers, ...... and according to the Press , every decade is different from the previous one . In truth, change is more likely to be brought about by the date of a change of government; or emergence of the Beatles ;or the escalation of war bringing a reaction in society etc. than a change in a number on a calendar. But the PRESS love their decades !!
A TRUE DECADE starts with 1981 or 1971 and ENDS on Dec 31st 1990 [ 80s] or Dec 31st 1980[70s] Because TEN is the last year of DECADE , not NINE!!
In other words,, The Eighties , ie 1980 to 1989 inclusive is only Press pigeon-holing , not a scientific entity.
Bonk, You were totally wrong with everything you posted earlier because there was NEVER a year NOUGHT in the first place !!
Now, as you squirm out of admitting you were totally wrong, you make another error.
You say " 12 AM .......12 HOURS BEFORE NOON.....means midnight" !
That is a false statement .
If 12 AM means 12 HOURS BEFORE NOON .........then it follows that 1AM MUST MEAN ONE HOUR BEFORE NOON , and it means no such thing. So you have made a false premise!! 1 AM is ELEVEN HOURS before noon!!
Mathematically , noon should be 12 AM because it comes between 11AM and 1PM .
.....and Midnight should be 12 PM because it comes in between 11PM and 1AM .........and a minute before the latter should be 12.59 PM ..... in other words AFTER MIDNIGHT not in the afternoon !!!
Is that LOGICAL or not ??
The trouble is that innumerate , Arts Graduate types have taken over the planet ......hence the plethora of wind turbines as well!!