What will we call the 2000-2009 decade?

[Pythagorean]

old people are itt

 

[russ_watters]

But the last decade...wow. It's been a slog. Maybe that was our test...?

If that was our test, we should consider ourselves lucky. It wasn't anywhere close to as rough as the '60s or '70s.

 

[GeorginaS]

I agree, it's been rocky.

I remember talking with a woman who was about my age, just a few weeks before the Y2K "disaster"...she was one of those who was nearly hysterical about it.

I told her I wasn't so worried, every generation gets tested. There was the Great Depression, WWII, the turbulent events of the 60s...but those of us who came of age in the 70s and 80s, we haven't had our test yet. I was confident we'd do just fine.

Well, we all know Y2K was a bust!

But the last decade...wow. It's been a slog. Maybe that was our test...?

Yeah, okay, but who was doing the testing? Because, you know why? I want to have a serious one-on-one discussion with that person. Seriously.

 

[russ_watters]

I think that's a reflection on 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, flare up between Israelis & Palesitinians...

As wars go, they don't stack up real well to the wars of the 20th century.

...the hurricanes (Katrina, Rita, Ike) in US, Typhoon Ingrid (2005) in Australia, other Typhoons between 2001 and 2009 ravaging S.E. Asia and W. Pacific nations, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake & tsunamis (230,000 killed), earthquakes (Gujarat, 2001; Kashmir/N. Pakistan 2005; Sumatran & Saomoa, 2009), 2006 European floods, 2007 Australian floods, 2009 fires in Victoria, Australia (173 fatalities, 414 injured, 1.1 million acres burned, many structures destroyed) and numerous other bushfires in Australia 2001-2009...

Natural disasters? Really? Only one of those is worth mentioning (the tsunami). None of the rest would probably even register on a top 100 list.

the global financial crisis, . . . ..

Almost as bad as the 1970s!

I guess you could say that the 2000s were one of the worst decades since WWII... But since there were only 6, being second or third worst isn't saying all that much. Yeah, it kinda sucked a little, but "decade from hell"? Sensationalism at its worst.