Monzanator

Since Year 0 never happened, everything else is simple maths

In 500 years time people will fly to Mars in 10 hours or something and people who lived in the 21st century will be deemed idiots too. I've learned to accept it

Yep, but that that translates from a point in time. We can relate to decades in past, present & future. Obviously nobody can say 1989 was a part of the 90s decade. 1990-1999 is 10 years = a decade. It feels like people need to go back to 2nd grade again.

10 times 10 is still 100 though? Decades start with 0, centuries start with 1, it's really that simple

Columbus sailed to Haiti and thought he was in India. He must have not known a thing about intelligence either? You still have some statues of this schmuck in there?

Another one who can't count from 1 to 10! How about 1 to 1000? @heywoodu posted his Zonderland moment and has settled for the trolling

That's a fine essay. I understand you're an ideallistic teenager willing to fight anyone over anything. Gregorian calendar isn't up for debate though, sorry my friend. Some wiser people have decided that discussion for us long before time - well, in 16th century (plus simple maths and the fact Year 0 never happened). The status of Pluto is up for debate instead. You can talk whether it's a planet or a dwarf planet (I kinda don't care as astronomy is not my thing) and put an opinion forward. I know you can tell a difference between Africa and actual countries but it's the classic stereotype you're following. You don't have to pretend Americans aren't narcisstic enough You elected the biggest narcisstic guy as President after all.

Nope. Fontana was a great track for IndyCar. It's a complete boredom in NASCAR (same with Michigan).

It's not my method I didn't invent the Gregorian calendar Centuries are measured different than decades so actually I agree with the 2010-2019 context but 21st century still started on January 1st, 2001. It could be worse, the Russian communists celebrate the October Revolution on November 7th (bc Russia adopted the Gregorian calendar after it took place ).

SAFER barriers and the deaths of Greg Moore and Dale Earnhardt did more to safety than Dan Wheldon's crash at Las Vegas tbh. Super speedways are a safety hazard for open-wheels cars. Daytona Beach proved this in the 50s and disappeared from the schedule and IndyCar wasn't stupid enough to race at Talladega but they tried to master Las Vegas with tragic consequences. Atlanta was a complete IRL crash fest in the 90s before they got rid of this and it's a small miracle nobody got killed at Texas Motor Speedway yet. The somewhat infamous Simona de Silverstro 2010 fireball at Texas was probably Holmatro team's worst emergency moment ever (she suffered burned hands & forearms).

Back on topic Any motor racing fan remembers this shitshow. The Le Mans movie had the tyre blowout on the last lap, real life had this:

California doesn't strike me as NASCAR county - and surely not a driver from the East Coast Yeah, I know Dale Jr won Most Popular Driver award 167 times in a row but still...

Shall we guess who are you talking about?

Stop pretending to be wiser than an average 2nd grader. USA still follows the Gregorian calendar last time I checked. If you think 21st century started on January 1st, 2000 then you're just spreading lies, period. There is no difference of opinion on Gregorian calendar or a century lasting 100 years instead of 99. Year 0 was NEVER included in this calendar or the Julian one. You picked the wrong battle to fight. Now you're just exposing yourself as an average American who thinks Africa is a country. There is no debate for you to win. You're not changing the Gregorian calendar or putting it up for opinions anytime soon. It's not a statistical data to debate, period. I don't contradict you specifically but I contradict obvious lies you're spreading from time to time (like in Kingdom of Lithuania which was in fact a Grand Duchy).

It doesn't. Neither the Julian nor Gregorian calendar used Year 0 post-factum You're spreading the most common lie in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero

Can you count from 1 to 100? Century is 100 years, not 99. Your common sense is below simple maths from 1st grade

It's been worse when people pretended 20th century ended on Dec. 31st, 1999. It's been a horrible hoopla that thankfully can only happen once in my lifetime

I read who won both the singles events this morning so I'm not gonna spoil the women's winner

It's not about Ledecky's golds but her name being the same as the Czech snowboarder. Missy Franklin got all the media attention despite flaming out very fast.

Well, Americans don't care about anything non-American in sports not named Federer or Bolt Seems like we made the obvious link at the same time

Of course you did. Katie Ledecky is American last time I checked so I thought you Americans would be familiar with the spelling. Obviously I was wrong.

Despite all of that the Americans still can't spell her name right

13th place is probably the worst result for the German women's relay? Talk about going down the drain for the former powerhouse. Herrmann's shooting sucks, Preuss is nowhere and Hinz will never make that elite step. Hildebrand is almost too old fot this shit. Tomasz Sikora said Germany finished 13th once in the now defunct mixed relay back in 1996/97.

Well, can we officially call Klaasen a pervert? Then again, Holland is a pretty liberal country so I don't get what's the fuzz about?

Second sprint win for Dorothea Wierer! @hckosice implied Fialkova's injury was kinda serious but guess it wasn't? Maybe it's time to return to the old avatar?