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Y2K - Where were you on Dec 31st at 11:59pm in 1999?

  • 30-12-2019 3:55pm
    #1
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I actually don't even remember where I was. I remember some of the hype leading up to Y2K but it fizzled out rather quickly. Anyone got any interesting stories related to this date?

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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  • #2
    PicardWithHair
    Registered Users Posts: 224 ✭✭PicardWithHair


    I was over in some cousins in Meath watching Pat Kenny host some bollix show .... biggest letdown ever ...


  • #3
    Poochie05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    I was in bed with the flu. I was so sick I couldn’t even drag myself out of the bed to join in the countdown.


  • #4
    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    Y2k thread here on AH from 20 years ago:
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=377

    Nothing to get too excited about now :pac:


  • #5
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,427 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    At a house party, was in town earlier in evening around Merrion Square, I think Ronan keating and Brian Kennedy were singing together, probably why I left the area, dreadful stuff.

    Glazers Out!



  • #6
    sunbeam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭sunbeam


    At home sitting in the dark as the influx of tourists to Achill had overloaded the power grid. At least we got good use out of our commemorative millennium candles...


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  • #7
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Working on the main door of Fitzsimmon's nightclub in Templebar, and making a nice few quid for it too.


  • #8
    Letwin_Larry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 615 ✭✭✭Letwin_Larry


    on an extremely cheap late night flight to Spain.
    they were meant to fall out of the sky but heck i couldn't resist the price.


  • #9
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    12 year old me was patiently waiting for the end of mankind and the rise of the machines.


  • #10
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,104 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    I was hammered in a field near kells county meath. That night is a bit of a blur. As was most of the late 90s.


  • #11
    Ger Roe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    I was at home, watching TV and awaiting the expected news reports of total chaos breaking out across the world.

    That was my second disappointment that year.... I had also taken the day off work on September 13th, just in case the moon was blasted out of orbit on that day.... but it didn't. ;)


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  • #12
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    Had flu and rang in NYE with Pat Kenny and Liz Bonin. Pat's dancing to ring in the New year was constipated beyond belief.

    Joe Dolan, rip, was singing from Killarney, I think, earlier on RTE, but his voice was off that eve.


  • #13
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Was in the local lashin' pints all evening, then some joker put his head in the door around 11 o clock and said he had a minibus organized to take people to a local community hall where there was going to be a new years disco. We headed on and discovered the place was practically empty. The drink was warm and served in plastic cups. Got flootered and shifted a young one of 17. Those were the days.

    Oh to be 30 again.


  • #14
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Working on a tech support line for American users


  • #15
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    I was babysitting for a neighbour. They didn't have Sky, so there wasn't much on television. As the clock struck midnight, I was watching a woman firing a ping-pong ball from her vagina on Graham Norton's Y2K special.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzIQTwfo8YQ


  • #16
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    We were in Nevada Smith bar in Limerick city. Was on the tear since 12 noon. Took about 2 hours off. We realise at around 12:30ish that it was the unofficial new millennium. Decided to celebrate then.


  • #17
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,754 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    Had flu and rang in NYE with Pat Kenny and Liz Bonin.

    there's someone I wouldn't mind 'ringing' in the new year...

    I was probably in my bedroom listening to tunes on 2fm, remember they switched over to Pete Tong on BBC, with the bell from Big Ben, then some Beatles song to bring in the Millennium


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I was 14, with 6 Dutch gold, at a house party. Got caught drinking by my parents that night too.


  • #19
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Did Jules Holland have his show then?


  • #20
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,891 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    In a hot tub, in my eldest sister's house in Vancouver Canada, with my middle sister and my sister and her partner sipping champagne about to ring in 2000. :)

    Light dusting of snow on the ground and we watched fireworks going off in the distance. Hard to believe it’s 20 years! :o


  • #21
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,551 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Being disappointed by how **** RTcoverage was before switching to watch London on Sky News


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  • #22
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,986 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Dying sick with the winter vomiting bug. The only thing that rang in the new year that year for me was my arse.


  • #23
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    Arguing with the grown ups that the millennium started in 2001. Ah young teenage shootersf, who thought everyone was like him and just wanted to figure out and debate the truth about things, quite the vocal atheist at the time too :D


  • #24
    gifted
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    Hill Grove hotel in Dingle.....5 of us went down for a few days.......paid over the top entry charge and it was half empty.....was ****e....we stayed half an hour and legged it back down to Walkers pub where we were earlier in the night.....way better crack


  • #25
    ERG89
    Registered Users Posts: 11,611 ✭✭✭✭ERG89


    Watching a Nicolas Cage movie. It was either Conair or The Rock. Those 2 & Face Off were what 10 year old me considered rewatchable :o


  • #26
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    As the clock struck midnight, I was watching a woman firing a ping-pong ball from her vagina on Graham Norton's Y2K special.

    Jesus, but that show was great before the BBC got a hold of it.


  • #27
    [Deleted User]
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    Mist pubs in Dublin closed early that day, I was working till 2pm, then we went to a local bar for a few hours, till it closed.
    At midnight, a good few of us were sitting in an old part of road (they were building the last part of the m50 at the time) a big semi circle shaped empty road, overlooking Dublin, from the foot of tick nock road.
    We had few drinks, stereos were out & we watched fireworks all over Dublin City.
    Was probably my most enjoyable nye ever!


  • #28
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    I asked a friend, apparently I was at some party in Castleknock. I really don't recall. Cellphone cameras were not really a thing back then so I doubt there is any photographic evidence to job the auld memory banks either.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #29
    mr_fegelien
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭mr_fegelien


    Back in ****ty Africa living in poverty. Was about a year and 6 months old.


  • #30
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Paid 20 quid into an overcrowded nightclub (came with crap champagne) to see in the “millennium “.


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  • #31
    ofcork
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    In the only nightclub in cork that was open that night mangans.


  • #32
    mr_edge_to_you
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,146 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    Yahoo chat room. Curious to see if the internet broke down.


  • #33
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Clontarf pier, watching the city fireworks from far far away. No idea why we decided to do that.

    The next day we drove to my fiancee's folks in Donegal and a hen pheasant flew in front of the car, breaking my headlight. But she came off worse.


  • #34
    mfceiling
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    I was in Sydney down at the rocks watching the most amazing fireworks display over the harbour bridge.


  • #35
    pajor
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    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    12 year old me was patiently waiting for the end of mankind and the rise of the machines.

    I was 8 then, but pretty much the same. I may have already been asleep though.


  • #36
    Melania Frump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Melania Frump


    Had a house party. Woke up the next morning with a fella with a guitar asleep on my couch. No idea who he was but by all accounts he was a great entertainer. Happy days :)


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  • #37
    cj maxx
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    Somewhere in NY. Can't really remember. I got a kiss I think :)


  • #38
    Mike Guide 69
    Registered Users Posts: 6,525 ✭✭✭Mike Guide 69


    Hardly exciting but I was back in my parents place ringing in the new year,took some photos of my folks with the kitchen clock in the background ,striking 12, it was a lovely moment ,especially as my dads health has now deteriorated over the years by dementia,i look back on it with fond memories.......


  • #39
    yerwanthere123
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,533 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    I was 8 so can't remember that much. I do remember though my mother got too drunk and started screaming abuse at me and my two older sisters. I also remember there being broken glass and my father coming to the house to rescue us. Thankfully at midnight we were safe at his house and rang in the new year in front of a nice open fire and watching some fireworks outside.


  • #40
    Super-Rush
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    In Roscommon getting majorly in the horrors.


  • #41
    Melania Frump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Melania Frump


    cjmc wrote: »
    Somewhere in NY. Can't really remember. I got a kiss I think :)

    Did she promise you Broadway was waiting for you?


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  • #42
    An Ri rua
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    In this same mortal form, eeking out sustenance. Where were you?


  • #43
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Super-Rush wrote: »
    In Roscommon getting majorly in the horrors.

    So a normal day with the Rossies?


  • #44
    AulWan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,653 ✭✭✭AulWan


    I was in bed with a raging fever due to flu. I remember trying to watch the countdown but I was so out of it with my temperature so high that I was hallucinating.

    21 days, that flu lasted.


  • #45
    _Kaiser_
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    Can't remember if I went out or not. Think so but it obviously wasn't that memorable :p


  • #46
    Ruben James
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭Ruben James


    Sometime after the countdown, my pal and I met a close neighbour on the avenue, out with her millennium candle and she said "we have to wake jack", who was her husband and she was separated from, still living with. Went up to wake Jack and he kind of Ill say politely told us all to fook off. :D went to a house party after that which we also got prematurely kicked out of!!


  • #47
    Edgware
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    Ask your Ma or your 10 year old sister


  • #48
    Ruben James
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭Ruben James


    Edgware wrote: »
    Ask your Ma or your 10 year old sister

    Ask your own


  • #49
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Stuck on a Stena Line ferry in Dublin port.


  • #50
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Ruben James wrote: »
    Ask your own
    No need. She always goes out dogging on New Years Eve


  • #51
    Shefwedfan
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    Spent most of earlier part of day in call centre for IT company waiting for sh*t to hit fan, started to slowly realize it wasn’t and got off

    So met mate, got lift to local in back end of nowhere and drank all night....no recollection of the clock turning 12


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