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Used to go out every NYE, during the mid '80's to the mid '90's and loved it! I especially remember NYE '84 when I drank vodka for the first time, I was not well NYD '85!!
It was always a big thing with us, getting our tickets for the club we went to and looking forward to seeing the New Year in, it was usually a great atmosphere. I missed NYE '99 as I had that really, really bad flu bug that Christmas and had to stay in, couldn't even drink. Now, I don't really bother, might get a bottle of wine to toast the New Year, but as MrKat works NYE, I don't go out, just try to get a text through to him at midnight. I remember the first year I did that, it was NYE '98, on my first PAYG mobile. |
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NYE in London used to be drunk people milling around Trafalgar Square.
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Then they discovered fireworks. the firework display, if I remember, was to celebrate the millennium and it was free. Now there is a display every year, you have to have a ticket and has just lost the plot. It seems now that all it is about is which country throws the most money on having the biggest and best firework display. Then they realised you could charge people to watch them
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It's probably a bit much to ask given that you passed away during the week - but do catch up.
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Been there, done that with drunk people milling around Trafalgar Square. A friend and I went once (neither of us were drunk) and for me it is something that I did once and would not do again.
![]() the firework display, if I remember, was to celebrate the millennium and it was free. Now there is a display every year, you have to have a ticket and has just lost the plot. It seems now that all it is about is which country throws the most money on having the biggest and best firework display. ![]() Just standing outside the tickited area gives exactly the same view! |
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i used to enjoy the "old fashioned" NYE that we did
the evening itself was just the family, no-one would drink before midnight, we would all get dressed up for what was in Scotland known as "the bells". after a seeing in the New Year with a drink at home we would then go first footing around the village. once we had been to a few neighbours houses me and my brother would set off to a friends house who used to have a party every year, stopping a few times on the way and sort of gate-crashing parties, as long as you had your own carry-out and gave the hosts a drink no-one minded. we would eventually get to the party at 3-4am and just be there for the rest of the night, would get a proper fry-up for breakfast there, before we headed home at 8-9am. |
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The 31st December wasn't even called New Year's Eve before 1999. It was just an ordinary day and night, exactly the same as, say, 31 May or 31 August. Most people were in bed by 10pm and no one even thought about any sort of celebration or party.
. of course new years eve was celebrated and called new years eve... 1999 though upped it a notch , from a more quieter celebration to the pyromaniac show its become. nye 1999 was amazing, everywhere lit up with fireworks. this was a lot less common before with only a few. but since its become part of the party... the hype... |
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I missed NYE '99 as I had that really, really bad flu bug that Christmas and had to stay in, couldn't even drink.
We did drink although nothing like the quantity we would have and the fancy wine we had bought for the occasion tasted rubbish. We left the champagne until we felt better a week or so later. |
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erm.... is this a joke or sarcasm?...
of course new years eve was celebrated and called new years eve... 1999 though upped it a notch , from a more quieter celebration to the pyromaniac show its become. nye 1999 was amazing, everywhere lit up with fireworks. this was a lot less common before with only a few. but since its become part of the party... the hype... |
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The Millennium Bug caused mayhem in the human population.
Technology was completely unaffected. |
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1999 was when NYE began plagiarising Bonfire Night, fireworks used to be better when they were once a year, I'm now sick of ****ing fireworks
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Same here. OH went down with it on Christmas Eve and I followed on Christmas Day. OH then had to drive to his family on Boxing Day because he had promised his sister that he would while I stayed with my family. We were still really poorly on NYE and it was a hell of a struggle to stay awake until midnight.
We did drink although nothing like the quantity we would have and the fancy wine we had bought for the occasion tasted rubbish. We left the champagne until we felt better a week or so later. |
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Erm, no it wasn't!
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I'm curious. How did people celebrate New Year before 1999? Was it even celebrated at all? I'm 20, so every New Year's Eve for me has always been hyped up to the max, with everybody determined to have as much fun as possible. I hate it, if I'm honest. I gathered that only really happened after the millennium, or am I wrong?
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you mean someone actually believes it wasnt called 'new years eve' and wasnt celebrated before 1999?... jeez...
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New Years Eve ?? Gosh no , before 2000 ( 16 whole years ago ) we never even knew it was a new year . We lit the stubby candles when it got dark to find the stairs and spent most of the winters under a down eiderdown in bed . Ah yes , the good old days of yore 16 years ago
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For me anyway NYE has gone downhill since 1999, Millenium was massive, Christmas 99 was nothing as all the hype was for NYE, First and last time I have ever seen street parties in my town with hundreds of people young and old out and about celebrating and it had a real feel good party vibe.
But since then NYE has been a bit Meh.. I gave up on it around 2002, nothing lives up to the hype of the millennium. |
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For me anyway NYE has gone downhill since 1999, Millenium was massive, Christmas 99 was nothing as all the hype was for NYE, First and last time I have ever seen street parties in my town with hundreds of people young and old out and about celebrating and it had a real feel good party vibe.
But since then NYE has been a bit Meh.. I gave up on it around 2002, nothing lives up to the hype of the millennium.
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For me anyway NYE has gone downhill since 1999, Millenium was massive, Christmas 99 was nothing as all the hype was for NYE, First and last time I have ever seen street parties in my town with hundreds of people young and old out and about celebrating and it had a real feel good party vibe.
But since then NYE has been a bit Meh.. I gave up on it around 2002, nothing lives up to the hype of the millennium. So I saw the actual cross over from '99 to '00 waiting for the calls but ironically by the time the UK did cross over we'd already fixed the few in Australia and New Zealand when they'd crossed over and issued patches So much of NYD was me just waiting for the support phone to ring and it didn't |
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