Board Thread:Site Problems and Appearance/@comment-8161155-20150307131208

What evidence, exactly, do we have for the series taking place in 2012? I ask this because I've noticed that every time we know a character's age, we put "born c. (year)". So for example, Mabel's not just 12, she's 12 (born c. 1999).

This assumes that the series takes place in 2012, which we don't know. I would say that there is equal amounts of evidence for 2012 and 2013.

2012

 * Everyone talks about an event happening 30 years ago, and McGucket mentions something happening in 1982 (Counternote: These may not have been the same events, or it could have been a series of events, starting with McGucket founding the Blind Eye Society in 1982 and then everything else happening a few months later, in 1983. Or, when characters say 30 years, they are just estimating, it's really 31 years. OR, this event could have happened in the December of 1982, so as of the summer of 2013, it hasn't been 31 years yet.)
 * The calendar in "Summerween" is a 2012 calendar.

2013

 * Stan doing 2012 taxes (Counternote: Even though Trooth Ache was revealed to be a real event, what we saw was still Mabel's retelling, so of course details wouldn't be exact. What would Mabel know about taxes?)
 * The guy from the band yelling "2013!"

My point is, there is enough evidence for either that it's ambiguous. I propose that we remove these year of birth dates from the pages and stop assuming the series takes place in 2012.

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