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Post by Faceless on Feb 7, 2022 14:06:23 GMT
Bce = before common era. CE= common era (replaces AD). It's been in use for a good while, 99% of people don't care but those that do care quite a lot. So I was wrong? Looks like you're one of the 1% |
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Post by Tuffers on Feb 7, 2022 14:14:39 GMT
Benefit Crystallisation Event
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Post by Sheep2 on Feb 7, 2022 14:14:55 GMT
Bce = before common era. CE= common era (replaces AD). It's been in use for a good while, 99% of people don't care but those that do care quite a lot. So I was wrong? Yes. |
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Post by Felice Landry on Feb 7, 2022 14:16:15 GMT
No shade but I'd rather hear that from Scamander |
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Post by Sheep2 on Feb 7, 2022 14:24:57 GMT
It is slightly odd that BCE has replaced BC as the two abbreviations are obviously closely related.
I'm sure it was something I knew about at school when studying ancient history*.
* to be fair that was so long ago it was just history then
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Post by Sheep2 on Feb 7, 2022 14:26:07 GMT
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Post by Felice Landry on Feb 7, 2022 14:28:13 GMT
I can see why you have 1.5K more posts than anyone else. |
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Post by Shenguin on Feb 7, 2022 14:31:20 GMT
Pretty sure I used BCE and CE when studying for my A-levels, and it was unusual enough to raise eyebrows. I think by the time I left University it was much more common.
For context, I am considerably younger than Sheep.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Feb 7, 2022 14:36:36 GMT
Can anyone fact-check Shenguin's claims to have popularised 'BCE' through his use of the term in A-level and university essays? |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Feb 7, 2022 14:37:57 GMT
I remember it being something that became more usual in the 1990s, so the chronology stacks up.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Feb 7, 2022 14:38:33 GMT
(The 1990s CE, I mean, I am also younger than Sheep).
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Post by Tuffers on Feb 7, 2022 14:42:35 GMT
Christ was just another common garden bloodsucking, mind controlling, reptilian humanoid who invaded Earth from his base on the space station, which we call the moon.
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Post by Felice Landry on Feb 7, 2022 14:45:07 GMT
I'm pretty sure I'm older than Sheep, do I win a prize?
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Post by Shenguin on Feb 7, 2022 14:46:36 GMT
I remember it being something that became more usual in the 1990s, so the chronology stacks up. This is yet more evidence that my A-Level essays were very influential. |
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Feb 7, 2022 14:46:39 GMT
Benefit Crystallisation Event This is the correct answer. Cashing in your pension (or transferring it overseas) is more important than Before Christ or whatever. |
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Post by Shenguin on Feb 7, 2022 14:47:21 GMT
I'm pretty sure I'm older than Sheep, do I win a prize? Bus pass? |
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Post by Sheep2 on Feb 7, 2022 14:49:18 GMT
(The 1990s CE, I mean, I am also younger than Sheep). I resent it when people treat things I have a memory of as if they are historical events rather then something modern. Also yesterday Nottingham Forest had a player whose dad used to play for them. I don't mind that, but his dad was younger than you. |
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Post by Felice Landry on Feb 7, 2022 14:49:59 GMT
I'm pretty sure I'm older than Sheep, do I win a prize? Bus pass? You're replies are so similar to Sheep's, I wonder why that is. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Feb 7, 2022 14:50:23 GMT
I'm pretty sure I'm older than Sheep, do I win a prize? A vase, possibly an urn. The first date on it is almost certainly BCE. |
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Post by Tuffers on Feb 7, 2022 14:50:39 GMT
Anno Domini. The year pizza delivery was invented. FACT.
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Post by Sheep2 on Feb 7, 2022 14:53:23 GMT
You're replies are so similar to Sheep's, I wonder why that is. I taught Shenguin everything he knows (except possibly the use of BCE/CE). But not everything I know. Everything he knows. |
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Post by Felice Landry on Feb 7, 2022 15:10:40 GMT
You're replies are so similar to Sheep's, I wonder why that is. I taught Shenguin everything he knows (except possibly the use of BCE/CE). But not everything I know. Everything he knows. Did you call him "Grasshopper"? |
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Post by Shenguin on Feb 7, 2022 15:21:28 GMT
You're replies are so similar to Sheep's, I wonder why that is. Your. I strongly suspect you did that deliberately to tempt one or both of us into this reply. |
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Feb 7, 2022 15:22:59 GMT
Wordle 233 4/6
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Not my best effort.
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Feb 7, 2022 15:27:27 GMT
Benefit Crystallisation Event Back Compatibility Exercise. |
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