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

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

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

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:

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.

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)

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 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?

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.

I was working in a hotel, the managers had be telling us how it was going to be the busiest night ever and we'd all be working till 3-4am. Come 11.30pm they realised nobody was coming and sent us all home, a few of us rushed to the local pub (usually packed every night), walked in and there were 5 other people there.
It was too late to go anywhere else so we sat in the corner, had 1 or 2 drinks and went home.

I was in the worst nightclub in co. Tipp!!!

Epic fail.

o1s1n wrote: »

....I was woken up about 11pm by his parents who had just come in....

His parents missed the whole thing then!?!
Soft.

Was at the harbour bridge in sydney watching the biggest fcuking fireworks display the world had ever seen.....probably was the start of the greatest year of my life.