If you’ve been around long enough to have carved a Stüssy S into your school desk with the business end of a compass, you’ve no doubt also had the argument over just how in the hell to say the band name Blink-182.
Is it “Blink One Eight Two“? Is it “Blink One Eighty Two“? There’s literally no way to tell.
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For eons the debate has simmered below the surface of the public conscious, but overnight it finally boiled over thanks to the magic of being extremely online.
Ian Karmel, currently one of the head writers on The Late Late Show with James Corden, brought the row back to life by drawing clearly divided lines between the One Eighty Twos (Americans) and the One Eight Twos (everyone else).
https://twitter.com/IanKarmel/status/1064307305267683328
From there, all hell broke loose, with people pointing out that “one eighty two” is not actually a correct phrase (it’s not), but also that “one eight two” is a bit bloody weird (it is).
https://twitter.com/ed_perch/status/1064310596957556736
We invented English. Americans bastardised it. We are right, you are wrong, end of story
— Dom (@dommer14) November 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/jedijared182/status/1064421985424273408
And so on and so forth.
Late Late Show host James Corden even decided to weigh in on the matter, waving the white flag for the British side of the argument while simultaneously (correctly) asserting the Americans are also wrong.
Don’t start this. I admit we are wrong on this. America calls them Blink One eighty two. Which is also wrong. They technically should be called Blink one hundred and eighty two. Don’t take some moral high ground here. https://t.co/zm2Gpb6xtT
— James Corden (@JKCorden) November 19, 2018
Probably the most apt point he’s made since taking control of the show, TBH.
But what of the original source? What of the band themselves? Where were they in this hour of great need to settle the score definitively, once and for all?
Mark Hoppus, rather than do that, scorched everyone’s earth in a much more unexpected fashion.
https://twitter.com/markhoppus/status/1064613547458551808
Jesus christ he’s right.
Now then, the far more pressing debate: 311. Is it three one one or three eleven. Hard to say. No way to tell. Impossible to determine.
