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While it doesn't drive me up the wall to quite the same degree as your hatred for miniature golf does I do have a huge annoyance with A.D./B.C. and have had it since I learnt what they stood for.
"Anno Domini" is a neat sounding phrase in latin. Few may mean what it actually stands for, "in the year of our lord", but most everyone know it signifies year >0. On the other hand "before Christ" is just plain English.
Why mix languages? Latin does have the term A.C., "ante Christum", to mirror A.D. but it doesn't see any use and there's no English "after Christ" term that's ever seen use as far as I know.
This weird mishmash of languages is stupid and I hate it.
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The modern usage is CE (Common Era) and BCE (Before Common Era) with CS starting at the same point as AD did.
It's been in limited use since the 17th Century, but is gaining traction in the modern Woke / Inclusive society we are (slowly) transitioning to: The Origin & History of the BCE/CE Dating System - World History Encyclopedia[^]
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Does CE/BCE recognize the number zero? Or does 1 follow immediately after -1 on the number line?
As far as I can see from easily accessible sources, it appears as if the 'pagan' CE/BCE notation still does not recognize zero. So it is nothing but a relabeling of the Christian, religion based, calendar - not, as Wikipedia claims, "BCE and CE are religiously neutral terms".
Astronomers are scientists. They seem to be able to cope with the number 0: Astronomical year numbering[^]. If we are to replace AC/DC with anything non-religious, this would be a far better choice (considering that Unix epoch doesn't span the entire time range that we want to cover  )
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trønderen wrote: If we are to replace AC/DC with anything
In the beginning ... 
A much better system.
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In the beginning there was the Big Bang. After 10E-33 seconds were the Age of Inflation. And so on.
And so on. I guess that we should shift to a coarser time scale if we want to get through it before the Gnab Gib.
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Of course, according to the AC/DC time scale "In the beginning" was in 1955.
Because man didn't know about a rock'n'roll show.
And all that jive.
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"Year zero" doesn't exist in CE/BCE - it follows the numbering convention of BC/AD exactly because that is common usage, and way too much confusion would result if you had to change "2023" to "2022" to fit in a year zero! And if it change the BCE numbers, that would cause confusion as well because all the textbooks would be a digit out as well.
Personally, I'd adopt the Federation Stardate system (if I understood it, which I don't) 
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OriginalGriff wrote: if you had to change "2023" to "2022" to fit in a year zero
Astronomers never suggested that. They treat 1 BC as year 0 by their scale, and BC 4, say, as their year 3.
Very few of our everyday time stamps refer to years BC with single-year precision, and are unaffected by the adjustment of n BC being adjusted to n-1 BC. There are not very many textbooks making exact time references 2000 years back in time. Probably the most significant ones are those contradicting the religious scriptures, e.g. pointing out that Herod died 4 BC - it doesn't matter if we call that year -3 - they don't fit the Jesus myths anyway.
On the other side of the line: Quirinius became a Legate of Syria AD 6, but that was before Jesus was born. So Jesus was born both (at least) 4 year BC (or year -3), but also at least 6 years into the AD era. I know that this does not affect believers, but to me it just strengthens the idea that the birth of one specific religious preacher should not control our calendar, especially when it provably couldn't have had happened the suggested time.
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Imagine the outcry if there was a push to change the date system to something from another religion.
I like the Japanese system of counting an era with the new Emperor. Fans talk about Showa-era Godzilla movies, or Heisei Super-Sentai. I want to see a Sengoku Mothra movie, or Meiji Kamen Rider. 
Oddly, nobody seems to date anime or manga after the era.
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Lately, some morning news shows are turning into the Home Shopping Network toward the end of the show. And the hosts, who are usually very experienced news anchors, have to feign wonder and interest in all the 'fantastic' products - which are all 1/2 off!!
Incredibly annoying!
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Well, I'll have to think hard about that. Living in Texas (and prior to that, Mexico City) I have a lot of logical pet peeves...so much so that I have found many kindred spirits among the Germans.
At the moment I can only think of airports. I know they're necessary for trans-oceanic commute and maybe some transcontinental routes (Houston to Vancouver as an example), but I'll avoid the hours and frustrations of security at all costs if I can find a train or drive to my destination.
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My favorite bit is the 18th hole abduction pearl clutching. I don't hate mini golf, but I did always have a sort of  about that whole take my ball thing too.
I have not always been so zen but thinking on this topic, I'm more monk-like than I would have guessed.
These little things? I have near no capacity to care for even when totally reasonable.
I was buying something and dealing with a salesman on a call and he could hear the ticking of my very old oven clock. He said it would drive him nuts.
In the distant past I had considered cleaving the internals apart until I could excise anything clock like in the hopes of leaving any heating bits in tact.
For years though, I hadn't much noticed it or thought of it until he said something.
But I have thought of what is definitely my most absurd pet peeve. People with narrow eating preferences and a stubborn reluctance to try anything new.
It's absurd. Why should I care what they want?
It's an annoyance borne of frustrated love really. You just want to share with someone "hey this stuff is easy to love huh?"
Maybe it isn't so absurd. Stuffing something in your mouth is just so easy. It's almost literally all we do for like our whole second year of life.
The annoyance, I think, is the implicit "no, if it risks connecting with you on any sort of level I will not consume even a bite of anything you deem tasty". This hasn't crossed their mind, generally... probably. Somewhere deep in the folds it was rolling around my dome though.
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Humans that obey the automated any system even when it is clearly wrong, broken, unusable.
At a new doctor's office, speaking face-to-face with admin assistant:
Asst: "I can't set up a personalized account for you. You need to call our help desk"
Me: "for some reason your office phone system has my number listed as an advertising site and won't allow it to continue."
Asst: "Oh then just go call on your home phone and you can set it up from there."
Me: "Are they in the same building? Can I just go see them in person?"
Asst: "They're on the next floor. But they go home at 3:00 so they're not there."
Me: [ looking dumbfounded at the sincerely eager-to-help person in front of me who hadn't connected the dots, and realizing that she only had the job because there were no better applicants. ]
Um, I'll try tomorrow.
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