[Misc] Happy New Year

[banjo]

Happy New Year Live!, Happy New Year Live!: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000qr76 via @bbciplayer

 

[crodonilson]

Sadiq Khan has cancelled the London New Year's fireworks for the second year running due to severe concerns over covid. Heads up if anyone wanted to be one of the 100,000+ who usually attend.

 

[Rinkmaster]

Na not me

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Sadiq Khan has cancelled the London New Year's fireworks for the second year running due to severe concerns over covid. Heads up if anyone wanted to be one of the 100,000+ who usually attend.

Tremendous bounce.

But a little too soon, perhaps

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

Tremendous bounce.

Before opening, I assumed somebody had bounced it to gloat that they were right to have said that they wouldn't be having a happy new year at all.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Before opening, I assumed somebody had bounced it to gloat that they were right to have said that they wouldn't be having a happy new year at all.

I thought much the same. Gloating about being right about predicting misery ahead is so very English, don't you find?

 

[Knocky's Nose]

Sadiq Khan has cancelled the London New Year's fireworks for the second year running due to severe concerns over covid. Heads up if anyone wanted to be one of the 100,000+ who usually attend.

I watched the Fireworks from the private balcony a top floor suite overlooking the Thames (opposite the London Eye) at the Royal Horseguards about 5 years ago, supping Champagne with my wife and my 2 kids beside me. Cost me an arm, a leg, and a kidney, and my soul to the Devil, but it was the best New Years Eve I've had in my life - and I'll never forget it as long as I live. It was truly incredible.

I dream about doing it again, but I've only got one kidney and no soul left.

If anyone gets the chance to go when Mr Khan lets us loose I'd recommend it to anyone.

 

[Easy 10]

Every year I watch it on TV, I'm always left with an infinite sense of wellbeing that I can simply sink back into my warm comfortable armchair with a brandy and continue to digest my chicken balti, rather than trying to battle my way back out of the immediate vicinity of London and the Thames with fasands of others at that hour. One year it drizzled incessantly.

Fook dat.

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

I thought much the same. Gloating about being right about predicting misery ahead is so very English, don't you find?

I think it's telling that we use a German word for taking pleasure in other people's suffering, but not for taking pleasure in our own. I'm inclined to suggest it's our natural state of being.

I was going to suggest it's British rather than English, but I think the Scotch take misery from both their own and other's misery.