ranger 1,750 #26 Posted January 1, 2023 (edited) I’m still up, watching Queen, live in Rio!🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Happy New Year everybody 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Edited January 1, 2023 by ranger 1 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
D_Mac 8,616 #27 Posted January 1, 2023 (edited) I'll be lucky to make it to 10. Made a nice standing rib roast for dinner. Had a couple of maple bacon bourbons. Hoping 2023 will be better year. Happy New Year folks ! Edited January 1, 2023 by D_Mac 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,850 #28 Posted January 1, 2023 It’s already 10:35 am in Okinawa, where our Marine is stationed. 🎉 We’re fixin’ to go to a little get together in a few minutes. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Daddy Don 905 #29 Posted January 1, 2023 wife says that I have to make it to midnight so I can have my last sip of tea for this year. No mix just tea. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,815 #30 Posted January 1, 2023 6 hours ago, Achto said: Going out for dinner, then to a birthday party, then???. Might make it till midnight maybe. Have a Happy New year everyone Good thing I was the designated driver ... a couple of 'tails woulda put me out after dinner. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AMC RULES 37,130 #31 Posted January 1, 2023 You missed a good one Mike. 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevebo-(Moderator) 8,330 #32 Posted January 1, 2023 I did not make it. My entire family has been dealing with Covid and it makes us tired! Happy new year all! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,471 #33 Posted January 1, 2023 12 minutes ago, stevebo said: I did not make it. My entire family has been dealing with Covid and it makes us tired! Happy new year all! Feel better soon!! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
19richie66 17,500 #34 Posted January 1, 2023 10:15 pm ……. That’s all I had in me. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,471 #35 Posted January 1, 2023 3 minutes ago, 19richie66 said: 10:15 pm ……. That’s all I had in me. Pretty sure we were just after that... 💤 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 38,170 #36 Posted January 1, 2023 I made it....just in time to see Ohio State miss the game winning field goal. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rjg854 11,361 #37 Posted January 1, 2023 I did too, just as the clock struck midnight. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky-(Admin) 21,315 #38 Posted January 1, 2023 I watched Sanford and Son reruns and scrolled RS and FB Marketplace till 11:00…it was a good night 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sjoemie himself 3,068 #39 Posted January 2, 2023 Okay.. I had to look up what "watching the ball drop" was. Can imagine one would not stay up for that. Overhere in the Netherlands it's a tradition that (almost) everyone stays up until past midnight. Even little kids get woken up before midnight sometimes to be awake to celebrate the coming of a new year. Traditionally people get together with friends and family to celebrate, eat a bunch of specialty snacks like oliebollen, kniepertjes, spekdikken and rolletjes with whipped cream along with all kinds of your favorite beverages. Then at 24:00 sharp you wish everyone in the house a happy new year and go outside to light fireworks and also to wish the neighbours and their friends and family a happy new year aswell. Then in small towns atleast there's the custom of going around fellow villagers homes and celebrate and enjoy some alcoholic beverages together with them. This can continue late into the night or early in the morning (we came home at 04:00 in the morning this year). Besides the fireworks and drinking there's a custom called 'slepen' or dragging. That is when youngsters go around and move stuff that people left outside to someplace else.. for example you could end up with the outdoor lounge set of one of your neighbours in your front yard, or a garbage bin or well.. anything really. All in good fun and with the intention not to damage anyones property. Besides the nightly shenannigans during the day people shoot with 'carbid bussen' in other words anything that looks and especially sounds like a cannon! Old steel milk jugs are popular although many DIY creations have seen the light. See movie below (not mine). 1 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 12,217 #40 Posted January 2, 2023 4 hours ago, sjoemie himself said: Besides the nightly shenannigans during the day people shoot with 'carbid bussen' in other words anything that looks and especially sounds like a cannon! Old steel milk jugs are popular although many DIY creations have seen the light. See movie below (not mine). Old soccer balls don’t die, they get shot out of cannons on New Years Day! What fuels these things (I’m guessing its a gas and keeping it in is why so many of the muzzles are covered with plastic). 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 38,170 #41 Posted January 2, 2023 (edited) 48 minutes ago, Handy Don said: What fuels these things Water reacts with calcium carbide to make acetylene gas. Edited January 3, 2023 by Ed Kennell 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,815 #42 Posted January 3, 2023 (edited) Correct you are Ed ... miners lamps old skool. Bit of soot tho. No wonder coal miners got the "black lung". Bit of the traditions over here too @sjoemie himself less the furniture moving but sounds like fun. Someone remind me to do a new year's holiday in the Netherlands... Edited January 3, 2023 by WHX?? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 38,170 #43 Posted January 3, 2023 7 minutes ago, WHX?? said: miners lamps old skool. We had to learn to fill them, clean the orifice and light em.....blindfolded. Before we went in the mine. No batteries or electricity in the hole. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,815 #44 Posted January 3, 2023 Not sorry Ed... you asked for it... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 38,170 #45 Posted January 3, 2023 Thanks Jim. Here's my coal miners daughter. My Granddad came out at lunch time to hold my Mother..circa. 1924. 1 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,815 #46 Posted January 3, 2023 (edited) Wow now that is cool Ed! Little here but yah ... welll . Hrummp ... let's blame it on EB... Edited January 3, 2023 by WHX?? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 38,170 #47 Posted January 3, 2023 13 minutes ago, WHX?? said: let's blame it on EB.. Nah, can't blame this OT on Eric, that calcium carbide bomb video got me started. We used empty paint cans to make our carbide bombs on new Years Eve, 4th of July, and any time we wanted an explosion. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,471 #48 Posted January 3, 2023 29 minutes ago, WHX?? said: blame it on EB... I'll take the fall on this one Ed just because I got to see that awesome pic. Very cool. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rob J. 1,941 #49 Posted January 3, 2023 I just came from Kentucky and not too far from Loretta Lynn’s birthplace. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,815 #50 Posted January 3, 2023 54 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said: Nah, can't blame this OT on Eric, Well as we know EB we can blame him... Every on EB ! Maybe even a few things he has no part of... think that makes you our official scape goat EB... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
