Where/How did you celebrate the millenium (31st of December, 1999)?

ilovebiology

I was in a nightclub, and at 1 minute to 12 the music the DJ was playing, stopped, and there was no music for the Millenium. It was like something from Fr Ted.
Where was everyone for the Millenium, or how did you celebrate it?

orourkeda

I was in the saddle. (Asleep at 00:00:30)

Fago!

In bed. I was 9.

My turn, why weren't you inside someone at that moment OP?

MonkeyTennis

in my friends house. We had a fancy dress party. It was the beginning of the end of going out on NYE. Brilliant night.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

I seem to miss the countdown every year, I know I missed it then
Planted a couple of Oak trees the day after

4zn76tysfajdxp

I was at home being all stupid and eleven.

ilovebiology

Fago! wrote: »

In bed. I was 9.

My turn, why weren't you inside someone at that moment OP?

I was in a nightclub with my friends hoping for music at 1 minute to 12 which didn't happen

ejmaztec

I was partying like it was 1984.

Closed ac

I was somewhere in Dublin watching the fireworks among the crowds.

stovelid

Nightclub in Belfast.

Slow Show

I can't remember, I was five. I remember the Den were talking about this 'millenium' thing though...

Michellenman

Well considering I was 10/11 at that stage I can safely say I was hammered.

tman

At a rave in the middle of nowhere, absolutely off my chops on god knows what...
Good times!:D

Fago!

Off my chops.... Hahaha

Bog

Christ. I feel old reading this thread.

To answer the question, I was quaffing cheap champagne, puffing on fake cuban cigars and cheerfully awaiting the impending apocalypse.

MonkeyTennis

all the clubs were coming up with absolutely absurd prices for entry and when you factored in getting a taxi home etc it was just madness. Delighted the whole thing backfired on them

Sea Sharp

I was playing Goldeneye on my Nintendo 64 and drinking a bottle of Budweiser.

lynski

drinking champagne, watching fireworks on the roof of our apartment block, center of dublin, at a party we were hosting, looking into the eyes of man who is now my husband and saying 'i love you' for the first time. ahhh

Aridstarling

Nine years old and feeling a little under the weather in a marquee out the back of my neighbours house. All a bit dim at this point really.

ilovebiology

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

all the clubs were coming up with absolutely absurd prices for entry and when you factored in getting a taxi home etc it was just madness. Delighted the whole thing backfired on them

Yep that was the case where I was. Paid a good more more than usual into the niteclub, drinks were nealry twice the price, there was about 30 people there for the night.....and there was no music at midnight.....a night I'll never forget :rolleyes:

livvy

Working in Dublin thinking this is a sh%t thing to tell my grandkids when they ask.

alwaysadub

I was at a house party. Didn't know half the people there,wasn't a great party and couldn't get drunk so went home bout ten past twelve to discover the party in my own house was buzzing!

I also feel old reading this thread :eek:

milomud

I was in New York - Time Square - watching a small crystal ball come down slowly on a pole on top of a tall building with about 2 million other people. It was crap but the party after was pretty good.

Bonito

Was in bed sneakily looking out my window watching the fireworks from a certain factory where I live that do fireworks every new year but went all out for the millenium.

df1985

i was 15 in sandymount watching the fireworks in dublin bay.

WindSock

At a pyarty down the road. Had some crap pills called 007s then went home and saw a fox crossing tho road. Bit of a crap night. I was hoping the world would end or something.

Mike 1972

I was talking shyte on the interweb

WindSock wrote: »

Had some crap pills called 007s then went home and saw a fox crossing tho road.

Was there actually a fox though ?

pappyodaniel

At home, i knew it would be over-inflated and over crowded. And yes, after reading a few moderators comments informing us of their age during the Millenium I now feel old aswell. :eek:

bazmaiden

in my granny's pub but couldn't do anything too mad as all family were there and I was 13

WindSock

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Was there actually a fox though ?

Yes

giggsy664

The millenium ended on 31st December 2000, not 2001.
Did the first millenium begin in the year 0? Nope. It began in the year 1.

friendface

Take a trip back in time with the wonders of boards...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=7&order=desc&page=2184

Hank_Jones

Drinking Dutch Gold on the knack.

Got rightly hammered.

Think I bought a crate, god only knows how much of it I drank.

friendface

giggsy664 wrote: »

The millenium ended on 31st December 2000, not 2001.
Did the first millenium begin in the year 0? Nope. It began in the year 1.

Not this again :rolleyes:

Michellenman

giggsy664 wrote: »

The millenium ended on 31st December 2000, not 2001.
Did the first millenium begin in the year 0? Nope. It began in the year 1.

Quote for wrongness.

Dudess

Bodega, Cork - awfully anti climactic. My dad was working for the council waterworks so I remember he was out on call in case the Y2K bug affected the water supply, but other than that, nothing different to the usual.

And yeah, people here were nine etc...

I was 21.

Mike 1972

giggsy664 wrote: »

Did the first millenium begin in the year 0? Nope. It began in the year 1.

Surely it began at the time of the big bang (15 billion years ago give or take) ?

ilovebiology

Actually, I remember now there was no electricity that day either, wierdest New Years I ever had

alwaysadub

friendface wrote: »

Take a trip back in time with the wonders of boards...

http://m.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=7&order=desc&page=2184

Wasn't exactly a hive of activity really, was it.

Dunjohn

I babysat my cousins while their parents went out with mine. I never celebrate New Years, and I didn't see any big deal then either.

bazmaiden

alwaysadub wrote: »

Wasn't exactly a hive of activity really, was it.

was just thinking that myself must have been the Y2k bug

o1s1n

It's a night I've been trying to forget for years.

I was 15 and around in my mates house watching Lock, Stock and two Smoking barrels that we had rented earlier. This is a fancy enough house that's always nice and clean.

His parents went out so we raided the booze in the shed. To be honest I can't remember how much me drank, but it must have been a lot. The following hours were a complete blur. The only memory I have is me dancing around the kitchen with a sweeping brush

I was woken up about 11pm by his parents who had just come in. They seemed very distraught. I then realized I was lying in a pool of vomit on the couch. There was vomit all over the rest of the house. Kitchen, bedrooms, bathroom. Can remember the remote controls were actually fused together. The next day we even found vomit on the walls. (Few posters had to be chucked)

I don't know what the hell happened in those few hours but it involved mass quantities of projectile vomiting. I still get reminded of it whenever I drop around to say hello (Although I'm surpised they ever let me back into the house)

johnp

Sydney. Just beside the bridge. Ended up dancing with the Hare Krishnas on Bondi Beach.

OPENROAD

It was the first time in a number of years that I actually stayed in and haven't gone out for New Years since. Watched BBC coverage with my parents, perfect imo.

ilovebiology

How was it celebrated in Dublin's city centre, I can't remember myself

OPENROAD

ilovebiology wrote: »

How was it celebrated in Dublin's city centre, I can't remember myself

Was pretty poor from what I can remember, didn't we put a countdown clock in the liffey in 1998/99 but it sank or something?

tony1kenobi

giggsy664 wrote: »

The millenium ended on 31st December 2000, not 2001.
Did the first millenium begin in the year 0? Nope. It began in the year 1.

Were you born on your first birthday?Yea ya weren't.

I remember the millenium distinctly.

I was in a high rise in New York...with about 3 seconds to go I fixed the Y2K bug saving the world.....then I got the filthiest cum gargling blow job off Denise Richards cos she was still hot then.....then I went on the p*ss with Oliver Reed and Dennis Hopper cos they were alive then.....and then I had a bath and went to bed.

Oh,I know Dennis Hopper isn't dead but he will be when you read this.

ilovebiology

OPENROAD wrote: »

Was pretty poor from what I can remember, didn't we put a countdown clock in the liffey in 1998/99 but it sank?

Hahahaha!!!! Can anything be done right in this country, not even a proper countdown for the millenium!!! :P

alwaysadub

OPENROAD wrote: »

Was pretty poor from what I can remember, didn't we put a countdown clock in the liffey in 1998/99 but it sank?

Ah the good ould Time In The Slime. I thought it broke way before New Years so they had to take it out..
Was the millenium the 1st yr of the Skyfest?

Misty Chaos

I was at my grandmothers bar for a while, put my name down as one of those who were there on the last day of 1999 and then we went home. I was at home with the family, my then 3 year old sister was wondering what the hell was going on when midnight came and we all started singing.

Edit: Just remembered there was also fireworks in town earlier in the evening ( about 8 or 9pm ) and people went out to watch them. Only time I can think of that my home town had fireworks ever!

Nothing out of the ordinary really.

And yeah, I remember hearing on the radio how dead it was out in town that night. Granted, from what I remembered, it served them night clubs and taxi crowd right. Either that or people wanted to be with their families in case the Y2K bug was actually real.

Only good thing to come out of the whole Y2K bug is that many people still remember that screw job and as a result, are approaching the growing hype surrounding 2012 with extremely skeptical eyes. Well, I hope so at least.

Piste

I would have been 8 so I didn't do anything too exciting, just spent it with my family, may have watched the countdown on TV then went to bed.