#calendar fun

Just a reminder from your friendly neighborhood ancient historian....

2020 is the LAST year in the decade, not the first of the next. Sorry to burst any bubbles! (champagne or otherwise)

Why? Shouldn’t we start the next one with a zero?

That’s just the problem. The zero is (relatively) new in human history. When the modern era began in the west--whether you call it AD or CE--THERE WAS NO YEAR ZERO. The calendar went straight from 1 BCE to 1 CE.

So that’s why--technically--we’re not at the end of the decade until Dec. 31st, 2020. But hey, if you feel like celebrating twice, why not?

Just remember...

But that’s boring. Why can’t we celebrate non-year milestones? For instance, four months after your 8th birthday, congratulations, you’re 100 months old! Or 60 days after your 19th birthday, you’re 1000 weeks old! Four months and change after you turn 27, you’re 10,000 days old. Nearly five months after you turn 11, it’s your 100,000 hour-iversary! Less than 5 days after you turn 19, you’ve been alive for 10,000,000 minutes. And just four months before your 32nd birthday, it’s when you’ve been alive for a billion seconds.

If the Dubbers gave the boys “English” names, what would they be? 

First off, they’re names are glorious, who dares to change them? haha, but I am going to try and make this as English as possible. All of the “normal” sounding English names for me actually are more Indian than actually English. 

Genjo Sanzo = Gordon Sagar 

Goku Son = Gryphin Seaver 

Hakkai Cho = Hans Christensen 

Gojyo Sha = Joseph Smith

Someone has been turned into the opposite gender! Who would handle the change best, and who would handle it the worst? 

Okay, this is probably going to start and finish way from canon, but heavily based in my thoughts on the characters. Also no pictures this time. :( 

The best character who handle being turned into the opposite gender would definitely be Goku, our favorite little monkey. Goku thinks in a rather simplistic way, and its not because he’s dumb, its because being direct works best with him. That really has nothing to do with why I think he would handle the change best but whatever, its out there. If Goku were to change into the opposite gender, he would most likely spend his time figuring out these new things on her chest, shrug and move on. Food is more important anyways. In fact the only thing that might annoy him about this change, is if his companions treat him any differently. He’s still Son Goku, no matter if he has breasts or a penis, and it doesn’t matter to him as long as he can still eat, fight, be with his group, and still continue to do the things he enjoys doing. 

Moving on to the character who would handle the change the worst, out of the Ikkou, I believe that would be Hakkai. Despite his “feminine habits” (there has to be a better word for that) of cooking, cleaning up, and taking care of the group (mama Hakkai, everyone), he’s still very rooted in his masculinity. And a change would completely shock his mentality of who he has made Cho Hakkai be, which would lead to disastrous things. Hakkai may seem stable all the time, but either I’ve noticed from reading the manga or its just a headcannon of mine, that he’s barely keeping up the facade of Cho Hakkai, and Cho Gonnou is still lurking right underneath him because he can’t tear himself apart from either one of them, especially as the journey goes on.