New Year's Eve In A Pandemic: Plans & Solace

Heading over to a friend's house for an early distanced indoor thing (a member of each couple is a health care worker who gets tested all the time, and the other member basically doesn't leave the house). Then the possibilities are limitless...Trivial Pursuit, an early bedtime???

Love to all the Joggers and dog walkers! Cheers to the people who reliably won't really care if you're taking drugs in the park

We have unspeakable amounts of booze, so this should be fun.

Happy New Year to the Brits btw. And anyone else who's already made it past the midnight hurdle.

Already posted this in another thread but Charles Dodge nailed it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYvSfCvXhNM

I'm not doing owt different to usual cos years are just made up bollox.

I absolutely agree with this, am a big proponent of time being an arbitrary piece of bullshit that humans inflict on themselves, and I know 2021 is going to be shit too, but still...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu3k2PJumfI

Happy new year you ppl! 🍾🥂

Emily otm

Happy New Year to the Brits btw. And anyone else who's already made it past the midnight hurdle.

Right, better set up "Thread connections 2011"

is greenland in europe

happy new year, SVALBARD

Watched mank and the was thoroughly underwhelmed by jools

Happy new year James Redd and the Blecchs everyone else can fuck off

busted open the doritos, posting pingu gifs in the nts chat. bit pissed tbh

Fuck off, I’m going to bed,,, but blessings to ilxors trying to ring in this thing in future time zones

<3 Nick. I know we didn't hang out *all* that much in the South, but I still miss it. Yr the best.

Europe’s most westernmost country tyvm!

It’s afternoon in Australia tbf

(nearly)

aw emil.y i miss you too and hope that things are going better for you oop there in thee east midlands! seriously!

cooking bolognese sauce for lasagna dinner
& listening to Nick Cave

i think we might be watching Godfather pt3 w the new ending tonight

i have a weird pain in my eye

hate u 2020

am not welcoming 2021 until such time as I see some kind of discernible improvement on current state of affairs

Love a good bolognese.

Just finished doing my round of hogmanay WhatsApp messages to my people back in Scotland.

I bought my wife a couple of bottles of pet-nat. Going to watch king of the hill, play some backgammon. We might end up doing some sort of video chat thing or watching a stream, although that wouldn't be my preference. I dont mind a quiet new year's eve and have had many disastrous nights out in the past. I remember ending up a party where the host was very against drugs and spending the evening in the kitchen hiding lines of cocaine under the toaster.

Last new year's eve we ended up not going out as the party we were going to got cancelled last minute, so we got high on acid and watched movies and listened to records at home. That was quite enjoyable.

wallowing in heartbreak this week, familial and not...

tying one on at home alone and wishing every last one of you a happy and much improved new year

happy new year to all itt <3

Alistair Cooke's America

Ah, yes! I remember this series, by that well-known expert on America. Why, he actually knew several real Americans and had bearded several others in their lairs, which was qualification enough back then. It was shown here in the US, too, because Americans always are eager to hear what foreigners think of their exceptional nation, so long as the ratio of compliments to mild criticisms is roughly 5:1.

Happy New Year’s everybody although it still 3 hours away here. Will report back later.

xp

I'm not saying it is good but I do have an inexplicable affection for it from the years of listening to his R4 bulletins in the 90's despite his politics being just as bad as yours and tbf I think he probably lived there just as long as you in the end!

happy new year ilx, and thank you for helping me get through the last one

xx etc

despite his politics being just as bad as yours

hmmm. remind me which bad policies I've advocated for and which bad politicians I backed. I can't improve until I know what needs improvement.

found a goth club DJ in Toronto taking video requests on Mixcloud while testing the Optimo stream-to-TV for later, 🖤🖤🖤🦇🦇🦇⚰️⚰️⚰️

happy new year aps! hope all is well with you! :) xps

xxp

just search posts by display name Aimless on I love Everything board from the last decade, no probs.

iow, you have no idea. it's just a vague impression based on nothing you can describe. thought so.

here comes the discourse zzz zzzz, but unfortunately I'm going to bed now. I'll try and have a lucid dream about how to make a post to viscerally describe my hatred of tedious bullshit supercilious American libs, it probably won't rival the next perry anderson essay but I'm sure you'll be waiting with baited breath.

Watched the phantom menace with the kids, now having a beer by the window

here comes the discourse zzz zzzz

you're the one who decided it would be fun to jab me in the ribs with your elbow. don't be surprised if I feel an urge to jab back. happy new year, calz.

soz i'm a bit pissed

(dw, I think most ppl itt would read Aimless as getting your back up first by snarking at the very idea of your NYE listening.)

well yeah, let's not that first strike go completely unnoticed! ffs there are better ways of expressing *strong* opinions - even though I've been just as bad myself in the past! But you are an old bastard, you should know better!

Spending the night at home with my wife as I have every night for the last 9+ months. Ordered fancy pizza, watched an episode of The Great British Bake-Off, and played a game of chess (yes, we are one of the legions who bought a chess set after watching The Queen's Gambit). Now eating ice cream and listening to some tunes with the cat in my lap.

Happy New Year, all.

Happy New Years, folks! My prediction appears to be accurate: definitely not making it to midnight.

Happy new year to all, but esp my B-brook brethren

Happy New Year, everyone! Got triggered by fireworks just outside my trailer, had a long and moving chat with someone on FB, and I'm now slurping down ciders, plotting out my New Year's post on FB, and waiting for the ball to get ready to drop.

lol the world already spent most of 2020 dropping the ball. Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Hope it won't be a case of out of the frying pan and into the dumpster fire....

So I rewatched After the Thin Man, and my Jimmy Fucking Stewart allergy is worse if anything. I'm particularly bewildered by modern-day film fans who think he was hot.

An hour to midnight where I am, and the idea of drinking out the rest of this year is strangely grim. Hope everyone else is having a better NYE.

Gummy worm binge

happy new year, ILXors! I'm listening to Yagya and staring at the fire.

lol I made a joke about the bangs outside being gunshots, and my wife responded casually from the other room where she's busy doing a puzzle, "very funny, they're just Fourth of July fireworks."

most ppl itt would read Aimless as getting your back up first by snarking at the very idea of your NYE listening

Sorry, I forgot my ilx etiquette, sic.

if there's one thing we never do around here, it's snark at movies, music, or any other form of entertainment for which another ilxor has expressed their approval. By snarking about Alastair Cooke, by extension I attacked calzino's integrity. I don't know how I messed up so badly. mea maxima culpa.

Happy new year everyone!

I'm kinda peripheral and my posting tends to be governed by the vagaries of my job and family life but I read most days and get a huge amount from this place - solace, ludicrous amounts of good music and literature, my opinions are challenged, thought processes. It's a sane quadrant of the internet and I value it hugely. Happy new year to everyone.

I spent 6 hours the day before making posole rojo and served my building/neighbors a rooftop dinner from my slow-cooker!! That goddamned roof has been a sanity-saver and makes it feel almost like the before-times since I never went anywhere anyway.

We wrapped up in blankets to drink wine, froze, took a warm-up break, and came back out for the countdown and screaming. My roommate made a little paper effigy of el año viejo and burned it--a fun tradition I never knew about. We all jumped over it and yelled at 2020.

The posole was well received by people who know better, so I'm taking the win!

I was home by 12:03 p.m. The Lyft vehicle with me in it rounded the corner at midnight.

I'm not at a computer much and feel a bit distanced from ilx lately but thank you all for keeping this place going. Here's to all the real people behind the keyboards, let's have massive faps in 2021.

safer than massive FAPs in 2021, to be sure

Okay fine that was optimistic, it was too depressing to say "in 2022" in the literal "Happy 2021 let's find solace in something" thread.

I like both ideas tbf.

steady

went to a nice little gathering of 4 other people one I'd known since I came to town, an ex of mine , somebody I knew through her and somebody I hadn't met before.
So it was quite nice, an interesting night really, better than staying in again.
Had to walk across town to get there and interesting to see that on a big night be so empty. MOst of the people I saw were around Xi An a Chinese street food place I stopped in along the way. MIssed a bus into town and had to wait ages for another one. THought they might have stopped running early for a while.
Then got on the 2nd bus home in the morning which was really handy.