er, um. What decade are we in??

[Saboburns]

8 years into and I still don't know what to call it.

I was born in the 60's, a child of the 70's.

A student of the 80's and an adult of the 90's.

Er, um. What about now. I'm a Goddamn Righteous Democrat of the _______.

Lil help please.

[rug]

1. Zeros

[CatholicEdHead]

2. Ohs

We are a century removed from the Aughts.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Aughts...

:D

[yvr girl]

4. It's almost over

I think we need to come up with an era name for it, like they did for the first decade of the 1900's.

[supernova]

5. Naught is the word for Zero, so these are "The Naughties!"

:7

B-)

[Kutjara]

7. Would that they were.

I was looking forward to a naughty decade.

So far, though, this one is best called "the Shitties."

[begin_within]

6. The Decade With No Name

[Saboburns]

8. Personally I was going for the oughts

But I can be persuaded.

[AlCzervik]

9. it's an error really, i'm going to push this decade deep down in the recesses

of my little brain and try never to think about it.

[JVS]

10. the naughty naughts

[JackBeck]

11. Hopefully, history will call this

the decade that dare not speak its name.

[pitohui]

12. i never hear it called anything but the two thousands

those "aughts" and "naughties" just sound like something they put in a newspaper story to me, i never hear anyone say that

but honestly most people say "since 911" or "since the turn of the century" -- just as the 60s did not really begin until the kennedy assassination in nov 1963 (before that it was still the 50s really then you can say the two thousands really started with 911)

what they'll call it looking back once we're into the teens and need a convenient phrase for the previous decade, i dunno, no one seems to have decided on anything yet