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Thread #140487 Message #3232303
Posted By: Mrrzy
01-Oct-11 - 04:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Years 'BC' or 'AD' offensive?
Subject: RE: BS: Years 'BC' or 'AD' offensive?
Bert, I got it, and was reading down to say LOL, realizing that I was the only person... oh well, I am also amused by those who spend time posting about why not to post here, unless it's TIC.
Anyway, the basic diff is that BCE and CE are inclusive, and AD and BC exclude the non-Christian 2/3 of the world that still has to use those dates to use Microsoft, basically. That's why I just consider 2011 to be short for 1402011, which to me is a fair estimate of the age of the planet.
There is a permathread on html. Click List of all permathreads to find out a lot of shitstuff.