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(13,781 posts)I admit, I don't quite get the year 2016 animus - aren't the Gregorian years (or any other years, for that matter) just an artificial construct?
How does it matter if somone dies on December 31, 2016 or January 1, 2017?
It sounds like you were expecting me to make a cogent response to your assertion.
Honestly, I'm surprised at this stage I could remember the word 'cogent'...
sl8
(13,781 posts)I'll pose that question to some poor sucker on New Years Eve.
Feel free to abandon your cogency.
Aristus
(66,380 posts)BlueSpot
(855 posts)Got anything better? If you want to measure something, you need a unit. The unit we have is a year and it ends on December 31. You can try and change that if you want, I guess.
The most recent period in the current unit of measure has sucked in many ways. If you don't get that, I guess I don't get you.
Time is also a construct. What time do you eat lunch? If somebody wants to make you wait until 3 pm, are you indifferent to that as well or do you get hangry?
But what I really want to know is what caused the shift from vodka to wine?
sl8
(13,781 posts)as a measure of our solar orbits.
I still see no advantage in assigning any significance to celebrity deaths between January 1 and December 31 in any particular calendar year. Do you?
TexasTowelie
(112,213 posts)I made a trip to the store today to pick some up since I was running low. I also have plenty of grapefruit juice on hand and will think about getting something sweeter (either cherry/passion fruit or tangerine/passion fruit) tomorrow.
Aristus
(66,380 posts)But, as usual, Mrs. Aristus is between me and the fridge where I keep it. She's seen me drinking the wine. Any more moves in that direction will get a disapproving look at best...