Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

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  • John Smith
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2009
    • 48681

    Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

    I stopped doing so some years ago. Eventually my family did too.
    "Banning books in spite of the 1st amendment, but refusing to regulate guns in spite of "well regulated militia' being in the 2nd amendment makes no sense. Can't think of anyone ever shot by a book
  • Nicholas Scheuer
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2006
    • 13579

    #2
    Re: Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

    No way, hosay.

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    • Gerarddm
      #RESIST
      • Feb 2010
      • 32453

      #3
      Re: Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

      It's a political construct, New Year's Day.

      We should all be celebrating the Winter Solstice, the only reality of this time of year.
      Gerard>
      Albuquerque, NM

      Next election, vote against EVERY Republican, for EVERY office, at EVERY level. Be patriotic, save the country.

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      • leikec
        Senior Member
        • Dec 2009
        • 10993

        #4
        Re: Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

        I still do. Habit.

        Jeff C
        Don’t expect much, and you won’t be disappointed…

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        • birlinn
          Isle of Mull, Scotland
          • Jul 2011
          • 10883

          #5
          Re: Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

          These days, I can drop the odd ball without staying up.
          Happy New Year, hopefully, for you all.

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          • birlinn
            Isle of Mull, Scotland
            • Jul 2011
            • 10883

            #6
            Re: Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

            These days, I can drop the odd ball without staying up.
            Happy New Year, hopefully, for you all.

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            • Peerie Maa
              Old Grey Inquisitive One
              • Oct 2008
              • 62422

              #7
              Re: Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

              ^ And that makes two

              We watch Jools Holland's music prog.
              Who is performing on Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny 2022?

              Helping Jools Holland to ring in the New Year on the Hootenanny tonight will be:
              • George Ezra
              • Self Esteem
              • Cat Burns
              • Andy Fairweather Low
              • Roland Gift
              • Gabrielle
              • The Real Thing
              • Rachael and Vilray
              • Ruby Turner
              • Pipes and Drums of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards
              It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.

              The power of the web: Anyone can post anything on the web
              The weakness of the web: Anyone can post anything on the web.

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              • Joe (SoCal)
                Banned
                • Feb 2002
                • 46431

                #8
                Re: Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

                Why do we start a new year, with promises to improve?
                Who began this tradition of never-ending pressure?
                I say, the end of a year, should be filled with congratulation, for all we survived.
                And I say a new year should start with promises to be kinder to ourselves, to understand better just how much we bear, as humans on this exhausting treadmill of life.

                And if we are to promise more, let’s pledge to rest, before our bodies force us.
                Let’s pledge to stop, and drink in life as it happens.
                Let’s pledge to strip away a layer of perfection to reveal the flawed and wondrous humanity we truly are inside.

                Why start another year, gifted to us on this earth, with demands on our already over-strained humanity.
                When we could be learning to accept, that we were always supposed to be imperfect.
                And that is where the beauty lives, actually.
                And if we can only find that beauty, we would also find peace.

                I wish you peace in 2023.
                Everything else is all just a part of it.
                Let it be so.

                Donna Ashworth

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                • Hugh MacD
                  Senior Member
                  • Apr 2015
                  • 5557

                  #9
                  Re: Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

                  We did our celebration on the Solstice, as is right and proper. That said, "New Year's" is a fine excuse for a get-together so we're doing so with a bunch of friends for a potluck, a planning meeting for an upcoming event, possibly a game of darts and, for those willing to stay up late enough (not us) perhaps a glo-stick lighted archery shoot (weather permitting).

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                  • Jim Bow
                    Normcore
                    • Jul 2008
                    • 23985

                    #10
                    Re: Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

                    I’m going to watch the Seattle celebration on TV. They’re going to have one of those choreographed drone displays, which I find fascinating.
                    “Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles and see the world is moving" - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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                    • webishop14
                      Senior Member
                      • Aug 2015
                      • 3534

                      #11
                      Re: Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

                      I too am more mindful of the solstices. But I must admit, the shotguns and automatic weapons fire does wake me up in time to welcome in the new year.
                      “Aren’t you supposed to be the gentlemen who lie for the good of their country?”
                      “That’s diplomats. We’re not gentlemen.”
                      “So you lie to save your hides.”
                      That’s politicians. Different game entirely.”

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                      • wizbang 13
                        Senior Member
                        • Oct 2009
                        • 24799

                        #12
                        Re: Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

                        I wakeup when I hear the noise and come up on deck with a fire x er.

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                        • David W Pratt
                          Senior Member
                          • May 2005
                          • 12324

                          #13
                          Re: Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

                          We celebrate, in solidarity with the good people of Iceland, so in bed by 10pm EST.
                          It is also our anniversary, so a real time to celebrate.

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                          • epoxyboy
                            Senior Member
                            • Sep 2005
                            • 6213

                            #14
                            Re: Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

                            We did, first time in a few years. I now have a slightly sore head and a missing set of keys to prove it!

                            Pete
                            The Ignore feature, lowering blood pressure since 1862. Ahhhhhhh.

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                            • John Meachen
                              Senior Member
                              • Jan 2004
                              • 10482

                              #15
                              Re: Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?

                              There is little point in trying to retire before about 12.30 as one of the houses a few hundred yards away lets off a firework extravaganza at midnight.Like Nick,I expect Jools Holland will be occupying the corner of the room,even if I have heard of very few of the acts.

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