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Ask Slashdot: What Is Your New Years Eve Tradition?

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skade88 writes "What does the Slashdot community do to celebrate New Years Eve? Does your city do something cool and unique to celebrate? Do you celebrate with fireworks in front of your house, or in your favorite MMO (WoW, Minecraft, etc.)?"

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  1. BEING AWESORME by For+a+Free+Internet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Slashdort: Today is a great day for all the readers of Slashdort, because we will make linquini and boil a Linurx in a stew of Windors. Hooraye! COMMUNISM NOW!

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  2. The same thing we do every New Years by unreadepitaph · · Score: 5, Funny

    Get uncontrollably drunk and yell at fireworks.

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  3. A vow of celibacy by erroneus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Each new year I take a vow of celibacy as my father before me and his father before him. It's a long standing family tradition.

  4. Pet owner by kthreadd · · Score: 5, Funny

    I spend most of the evening looking over a very scared dog.

    It would be highly appreciated if those of you using fireworks waited until midnight.

  5. being older and wiser... by jddeluxe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...I stay home to avoid the drunks and police...

  6. Two things... by jordonwii · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1. I play BZFlag. Don't know why, but it's become a tradition for me.

    2. Use a handheld spotlight I have to signal a house on one of the hills around me, ever since about 4 years ago, I randomly shined my light up there, and they signaled back.

  7. I call it "Monday Night" by RyoShin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Today is Monday, tomorrow is Tuesday. Tonight marks one complete rotation (roughly) of our planet around our sun.

    I have no idea what my community is doing, but I plan to treat it as any other night, with the exception that I get tomorrow off. As I've grown older (27, for reference) and gotten out and lived on my own I find that annual celebrations hold little meaning to me, including my own birthday. If I'm going to celebrate, it's going to be for a relevant, contemporary event. If I'm going to make changes to my life, it's going to be when I realize those changes need to be made, not some arbitrary date. If I want to get together with loved ones, I'll do it when the urge strikes (at least, in so far as those I want to spend time with are also available.)

    (Of course, I've no friends, no close relatives, and am anti-social, so my view could be skewed.)

  8. Commit my code by Darinbob · · Score: 5, Funny

    I commit all my outstanding code. Then I wait until the next year to fix the build.

  9. Re:My Dad shot rifles into the air on New Years... by arth1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So if you want to celebrate your 2nd amendment rights, do a Cheney and aim at someone, rather than doing an afghan and shooting in the air?

    Well, as my old drill sergeant said, "Do not ever pull the trigger unless you are aiming it at a target. Ever."
    What about warning shots, one of the guys asked. He was told that this applied to warning shots too - you aim and fire at the ground, and better not miss.
    The same rule held for blanks, "full family" setting, suppressive fire and empty chambers. Woe be unto any poor sod who pulled the trigger without aiming.

    I think it was a very good rule.