roll on 2010!

no, not the FIFA event, but just the year. it was a tough 9 years of the 0's... the noughties. how hard is it to pronounce the current year we are in? 2009. is that pronounced as:

• two double o nine
• two thousand and nine
• twenty nine

2000 was easy. 1998 was easy. 2001 was hard, and it will stay hard until 2010. twenty ten. easy. done.

but it brings on another problem. what do you call the next decade? remember the 80's (eighties)? cool hair? cooler leg warmers? the noughties is a cool way of remembering the 200x's. but the 201x's? the tens? the tenties? the decade from 2010 to 2019?

i should change this topic to "roll on 2020!"