Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century

[The Mikado]

If you really want to be entertaining, sum the decade up.  But right now, I just want to name it.

[Scam of God]

Bad.

[Keystone Phil]

This has always bothered me. I say "the O's" but that's really stupid. I think we face the same problem in the next decade. "The Twenty Teens?" I mean, do we really say the "Nineteen teens" when talking about 1910-1919?

[frenger]

The Noughties.

[A18]

I think we face the same problem in the next decade. "The Twenty Teens?" I mean, do we really say the "Nineteen teens" when talking about 1910-1919?

The years 2010, 2011, and 2012 don't fit comfortably under a "teens" label.

I think we are in need of a neologism—or two.

[Lief]

The Zeroes or the aughts.

[dialectical fetishist]

This has always bothered me. I say "the O's" but that's really stupid. I think we face the same problem in the next decade. "The Twenty Teens?" I mean, do we really say the "Nineteen teens" when talking about 1910-1919?

I say Nineteen Tens.

[paul718]

This has always bothered me. I say "the O's" but that's really stupid. I think we face the same problem in the next decade. "The Twenty Teens?" I mean, do we really say the "Nineteen teens" when talking about 1910-1919?

I say Nineteen Tens.

Me too.

For 2000-2009, I like "the two-thousands".
For 2009-2010, I like "the twenty-tens". 

[Mint]

The Zeros or '00s.

[Fmr. Emperor PiT]

     The Aughts. Turn of the century should only be used to refer to the late 1890s.

[JohnFKennedy]

Turn of the century should only be used to refer to the late 1890s.

No, fin de siècle should really only be used to refer to the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth-century (because it encompasses a social/cultural movement rather than just a temporal transition), but while the default with 'turn of the century' is nineteenth to twentieth, that doesn't mean it should only be used to refer to that; we don't really talk of 'turn of the century' culture in the same way that we talk of fin de siècle culture.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

If you really want to be entertaining, sum the decade up.  But right now, I just want to name it.

America's Lost Decade.

Lost at the hands of a totalitarian named Bush.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

This has always bothered me. I say "the O's" but that's really stupid. I think we face the same problem in the next decade. "The Twenty Teens?" I mean, do we really say the "Nineteen teens" when talking about 1910-1919?

Everyone calls it the 1910s, if they mention it at all.

[Fmr. Emperor PiT]

This has always bothered me. I say "the O's" but that's really stupid. I think we face the same problem in the next decade. "The Twenty Teens?" I mean, do we really say the "Nineteen teens" when talking about 1910-1919?

Everyone calls it the 1910s, if they mention it at all.

     I just call it the Teens. There's almost a 100% that I'll call the 2010s the Teens as well.

[Mint]

If you really want to be entertaining, sum the decade up.  But right now, I just want to name it.

America's Lost Decade.

Zeroes seems to communicate that bleakness just as well. Although I like the number "0" a lot, ironically.

[Ringorules]

My vote goes to "Purgatory".

[Smid]

The Noughties.

This is what I've heard it called.

[Ghyl Tarvoke]

I've always called it the Noughties.

Which I think appropriately sums up the worth of the decade.

[BushKenya]

2000s.  I'll probably call the next decade the "Twenty-tens".  I will always have a fond memory of this decade.  I came into adulthood in April 2000, voted for the first time in November 2000, graduated high school/entered college in 2001, registered Democrat for the first time in 2006, received my Bachelor's of Science in E-Commerce in 2007, started my current career in 2008.  Plus, Bush wasn't as bad as he is cracked up to be.  After all, he did keep the nation safe for the final seven years of his administration.  He wasn't great by any means.  He went into Afghanistan which was the right move, went into Iraq, which was the right move with wrong motives, but forgot about Afghanistan in his second term.

[dead0man]

The Oughts/Aughts.  Everything else is stupid.

[All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.]

Bad.

[A18]

This is the decade that witnessed the birth of YouTube and Wikipedia, massive online digital libraries, iTunes, podcasting, and the rest. It also gave us American Idol, but I can forgive that.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

This is the decade that witnessed the birth of YouTube and Wikipedia, massive online digital libraries, iTunes, podcasting, and the rest. It also gave us American Idol, but I can forgive that.

It also witnessed the death of MP3.com, the decline of Yahoo!, and further media consolidation.

[N.i.K.]

The 00s.

Does anyone else see a pattern?

We go through a period of War and/or tenseness (10's, 40's, 80's)

Then a period of peace/prosperity (20's, 50's, 90's)

Then a period of hell/corruption/war (30's, 60's, 00's)

And then normal/filler decades (70's, possibly 10's or 20's?)

[President Marokai]

I always refer to it as the 2000's, but as someone else already said, this was our Lost Decade.