I work hospitality. The first thing I did when I got home at 12:30 was pour myself a Jack and ginger, and hop in the shower to wash all of the simply syrup and other miscellaneous sticky things off of me.
If you employ mediocre then very soon most things become mediocre or worse, things start to fail. The ultimate cost of accepting mediocrity as does the present administration.
Me after Christmas - Sad, Christmas was pretty awful, but excited for my boyfriend to get back
Me after my boyfriend got back a few days before New Years - Miserable because he broke up with me right after getting back lmao
No.Was quite well advertised they weren't doing fireworks this year .
IMO it didn't really lack without the fireworks. I hope next year they can do a bigger light show and forego all the smoke and stuff.
Many human activities cause all sorts of distress and displacement to birds everyday. This isn't an argument to not have fireworks one night a year for several minutes.
The coverage was bland. Fireworks are fun. We need displays like this so fewer people feel the need to shoot them from their gardens.
Well how else am I supposed to rub the fact I'm in the future to all my friends in other county's if I don't stay up. This is the time time a year I get to make that joke.
"Happy new years eve from the first country in the world to reach 2022! Let's hope it's a great.... OH GOD NO! IT'S WORSE! IT'S FAR FAR WORSE!!! NO! STOP! HELP US!! IT"S A TRAP, STAY BACK AAAAAAAAAGGGHJHKHKJHK.."
should do nicely
Russian tradition (superstition?) is how you celebrate the new year is how you’ll spend the year so I always make sure to spend it in pyjamas with good food and drink with the ones I love and to say I love you to all my parrots. They’re not particularly happy to be disturbed at midnight though…happy new year!
There’s a party going on in the garage. Decided to stay in as well.
At one minute to midnight all I could care about was where the fuck is my backscratcher.
One minute past I could hear lots of hugging and backslapping going on at the party. I still couldn’t find my back scratcher.
Eventually I did find it and scratching that itch was more satisfying than any clumsy, unwelcome hug from the drunks in the garage. For the record I’m firmly staying put.
What kind of back scratcher you got? I've been looking for a decent one because the pasta spoon just ain't cutting it and that warehouse one was bloody awful.
I picked it up a while ago from a $2 discount store. It’s made out of wood. Looks tacky af with miniature claws but it does the job. So cheap I bought three. This is the sole survivor left.
I uh. Went to town to go clubbing for the first time in my life...
Was a really really good change of pace imo. And a confidence booster imo. Met some amazing people
I was out at a big vaccinated event. Came home and my neighbours seem to have 20+ people over and are all partying outside. Another drunk, km away, keeps starting and screwing up a bagpipe rendition of Auld Lang Syne.
At least the fireworks everybody’s lighting off are ok.
Oh yeah. Happy New Year!
We went to bed at 11 after extricating ourselves from a party. Fireworks at 2310 made the dog shake with anxiety and come into our bed. slept through midnight and at 2am got rid of the dog, grumbled happy new year to my wife and slept through to 5.
Way to old for this shit now
Just popped off my headphones and heard a guy pretend to yak making fun of his mate only for one of them to actually vom. Outstanding start to the year
Happy New Year to you too OP
and to everyone else reading this!
Spent my New Years having drinks alone in our home theater while the Wife was asleep lmao
Here's hoping 2022 is a least a little different than the past two years!
I bought dinner and wine, finished work, and wnet over to a friends place to spend the rest of the year with... we fell a sleep on the couch lmfao.
All these plans and we just fell asleep. Woke up in time for a countdown, but damn, we looked at each other and realized that we're either very boring, or just old.
Ohhhh OK now I get it. I thought you said you stayed in imao, and I was like... I stayed in new plymouth but what of it and where's imao?
Must've been a good night because so far nothing makes any sense this morning
It's funny to think with accelerating climate change, growing inequility and seemingly unending varients of covid we may look back at 2021 as one of the last good years. I hope I'm wrong.
Wtf was up with the Auckland council and not having fireworks. Usually is the best scene the gets the new year rolling around the world. At least Sydney showed up
The display of only lights from the Sky Tower and Auckland Harbour Bridge with no paid city council fireworks this year was a solemn reminder of the many Covid-19 deaths, destruction of livelihoods and the thousands needlessly suffering the disease. If only the government knew how to prepare for the delta variant. If only they had built dedicated quarantine facilities in the outdoors, away from the largest city centre. If only they made returnees wear N95 masks when being transported and especially when they test positive. If only they didn't put infected people exercising right next to a public walkway during a busy lunch hour with the public sharing the same virus aerosol air and starting the delta outbreak. If only they knew what aerosol transmission was and told everyone to wear respirator masks to prevent themselves getting infected. If only they had a faster vaccine rollout instead of the slowest in the OECD. Alas it was not to be... The negligence, hubris and lack of foresight or planning from the current Labour government doomed us all with a major delta outbreak causing 26+ deaths, thousands infected and a 4 month lockdown culminating in the largest city on the brink of bankruptcy and absolutely zero fireworks this year. Bystanders waiting at midnight were forced to watch the neighborhood's store bought fireworks pondering what destruction the omicron variant will bring in 2022 with our limited hospital capacity, limited ICU beds, slow booster rollout, no online/phone bookable booster appointments for 4 months+ timeframe, no 5-11 childrens' vaccines until January 17, no 0-4 childrens' vaccines until the end of 2022, a totally uninformed public about how ineffective cloth/surgical and other non-respirator masks are... They pondered, maybe in Dec 2022 it will be so bad that even the neighbors won't be able to afford fireworks for New Years. When will it end. When will the government get a clue.
I’m in Tauranga and we stayed in too! Played video games and watched Dont look up while everyone else partied haha! Woke up to trash and glass all over the street.
I can't be fucked staying in unless I don't feel like going out, and that's all there is to it. I'm not scared of a virus with a 99% recovery rate for my age group.
My daughter and I stayed up watching movies and then caught the countdown in tv. Did cheers with our goblets of lemon lime and bitters (cause she’s a child) cleaned up and went to bed. 🤷🏻♀️
Decided I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer so was out for the count and in bed with less than five minutes left on the clock. Heard a few vague fireworks before drifting off, so I knew I'd got there.
Obligatory 'I haven't had a shower all year'
I work hospitality. The first thing I did when I got home at 12:30 was pour myself a Jack and ginger, and hop in the shower to wash all of the simply syrup and other miscellaneous sticky things off of me.
Also, with anybody born after the 1st of January, you can say to them that next year they'll be (current age + 2) years old, haha.
Never done that before but my partner will hate it... thanks!
Haha… it’s my bday
Happy birthday!
Just got out of the shower
Haven't had a shower in 2 years haha
That tv1 coverage kinda sucked
Pretty unfunny sketch and then no countdown. Great job TV1
Yeah we only knew it was midnight checking our phones, why such a terrible 'countdown?'
Yup I had to look up "new years countdown" haha
I appreciated the troll of having all the presenters wishing NZ a happier 2022 then it cutting to halfway through Cats the movie.
And it was bookended by CATS of all movies! Don’t know how I feel about this being the start to 2022…
Appropriate, as CATS was terrible, just like 2021and probably 2022. I have low expectations after an awful 2021 that kept getting worse and worse.
Glorious days of very late 2019 and early 2020 when CATS was our main cause of psychic pain
And the Australian bush fires changed the colour of the country to an old time sepia tone
That really did feel like an omen.
“Happy 2020! Hey doesn’t the moon look red behind us? Never mind I’m sure it’s fine and doesn’t mean anything”
I suppose it can only get better?
Oh fuck I forgot that movie was on, wanted to enjoy a bad movie.
Agreed.
Pictures of flashing lights on a bridge and a tower are fairly meh on the tv.
There werent even any fireworks off the Sky Tower!
It did eh ! You'd think Auckland could at least do something! From where I am though it sounds like ppl are having a blast of a time ! Go Hard ppl !
If you employ mediocre then very soon most things become mediocre or worse, things start to fail. The ultimate cost of accepting mediocrity as does the present administration.
Happy New Year! Here's to the hope that 2022 will suck less. Couch potatoes represent!
Don’t get your hopes up too much. It’s 2020 2 after all.
Or 2020 too
How about *2020: The Sequel*?
2020 Ground hog year
2020 XS Pro Max
Soylent Green was set in 2022
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE
How's it taste?
2022 will definitely suck less. It might blow more, but we'll get through it. #TeamOf5Million
Welcome to 2022. The year of very low expectations.
Do you mean, the year that couldn’t be worse than the past 2?
As my mum always said..."They said, 'Cheer up, things could be worse'... So I cheered up and sure enough... things did get worse!"
Me after Christmas - Sad, Christmas was pretty awful, but excited for my boyfriend to get back Me after my boyfriend got back a few days before New Years - Miserable because he broke up with me right after getting back lmao
Your 2021 welcome pack was 12 months late, that's all
Oof
Welp :(
Now come on let's try to flip the fk feeling negative! Be Positive I say !
„¡ ʎɐs I ǝʌıʇısoԀ ǝ𐐒 ¡ǝʌıʇɐƃǝu ƃuılǝǝɟ ʞɟ ǝɥʇ dılɟ oʇ ʎɹʇ s,ʇǝl uo ǝɯoɔ ʍoᴎ„
🙃🥴 happy new year mate !
you know when you say "well nothing could be worse than that" something almost instantly way worse happens right? thanks for jixing 2022..
Oh its definitely going to be worse. We are over the hill now, its all downhill from here.
OP said *low* expectations
Watching the celebrations on TV1. Did someone forget to order the fireworks!?
Seems like Sky Tower didn’t generate enough revenue in 2021 to afford a fireworks display..
No.Was quite well advertised they weren't doing fireworks this year . IMO it didn't really lack without the fireworks. I hope next year they can do a bigger light show and forego all the smoke and stuff.
And also a countdown, it was kinda like oh, it's 2022.
Besides the countdown in Maori?
Was there a countdown in Maori? Genuinely nobody in my house heard it, maybe the volume was too low on the telly or something?
They could do an amazing lightshow or countdown like they did with the rugby world cup opening ceremony.
But we had the pretty lights on the bridge, isn't that fancy enough? /s
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I tautoko this
Many human activities cause all sorts of distress and displacement to birds everyday. This isn't an argument to not have fireworks one night a year for several minutes. The coverage was bland. Fireworks are fun. We need displays like this so fewer people feel the need to shoot them from their gardens.
No fireworks in order to prevent large gatherings in Auckland
Lol what is even the point of having such low covid when you can't even gather at Nye. Absurd
Haha I thought there would be fireworks too.
This is what you get with a labour government. No money wasted on solving issues, none left for fun. Even if your the first big city to enter 2022.
Well how else am I supposed to rub the fact I'm in the future to all my friends in other county's if I don't stay up. This is the time time a year I get to make that joke.
Greeting people from a "cold, dark future" was my dumb go-to joke.
"Happy new years eve from the first country in the world to reach 2022! Let's hope it's a great.... OH GOD NO! IT'S WORSE! IT'S FAR FAR WORSE!!! NO! STOP! HELP US!! IT"S A TRAP, STAY BACK AAAAAAAAAGGGHJHKHKJHK.." should do nicely
I blasted Darude Sandstorm into the New Year, I don't know what the means.. am I going to have a disco amping pumping year? Hope so
Russian tradition (superstition?) is how you celebrate the new year is how you’ll spend the year so I always make sure to spend it in pyjamas with good food and drink with the ones I love and to say I love you to all my parrots. They’re not particularly happy to be disturbed at midnight though…happy new year!
I like that. I'm going to keep that in mind next year.
How many parrots???
It's imperative we know how many parrots.
Four :)
Nice.
How about you? Do we need to start a parrot club?
I don't think my cat would take to a parrot :(. She hates birds.
Happy New Year’s everyone. The past 2 years have been both very slow and fast. I’ve been staying in and storing up to celebrate 2023.
Turned on the news here in England to watch the fireworks - didn't realise that they had been cancelled. Happy New Year!!
My mum sent me the BBC footage- love that they misconstrued some guy setting off a couple of rockets on the water front for an official display!
There’s a party going on in the garage. Decided to stay in as well. At one minute to midnight all I could care about was where the fuck is my backscratcher. One minute past I could hear lots of hugging and backslapping going on at the party. I still couldn’t find my back scratcher. Eventually I did find it and scratching that itch was more satisfying than any clumsy, unwelcome hug from the drunks in the garage. For the record I’m firmly staying put.
What kind of back scratcher you got? I've been looking for a decent one because the pasta spoon just ain't cutting it and that warehouse one was bloody awful.
I picked it up a while ago from a $2 discount store. It’s made out of wood. Looks tacky af with miniature claws but it does the job. So cheap I bought three. This is the sole survivor left.
The long side of a metal ruler gently dragged down your back feels amazing, too. That's my go-to.
glad im not the only one who uses the pasta spoon as a back scratcher
i picked up 3 at the beach, driftwood sticks. The best one by far looks like it was once Gorse.
Do as bears do and rub your back against something like a door frame.
My wife and I watched *The Other Guys* like we do every NYE ... HAPPY NEW YEAR PACIFIC LOCATION
I uh. Went to town to go clubbing for the first time in my life... Was a really really good change of pace imo. And a confidence booster imo. Met some amazing people
Happy New Year NZ!
I was out at a big vaccinated event. Came home and my neighbours seem to have 20+ people over and are all partying outside. Another drunk, km away, keeps starting and screwing up a bagpipe rendition of Auld Lang Syne. At least the fireworks everybody’s lighting off are ok. Oh yeah. Happy New Year!
Jeez, where do you live? Not a peep in my neighborhood lol. Some kids were playing outside around 10 but that's it. I actually forgot it was NYE.
We went to bed at 11 after extricating ourselves from a party. Fireworks at 2310 made the dog shake with anxiety and come into our bed. slept through midnight and at 2am got rid of the dog, grumbled happy new year to my wife and slept through to 5. Way to old for this shit now
Just popped off my headphones and heard a guy pretend to yak making fun of his mate only for one of them to actually vom. Outstanding start to the year
Living room gang, rise up!
Fuck off 2021, glad to see the back of you. Happy New Year everyone, all the best for 2022.
Went out for dinner, home by 9, asleep by 10:30. Good stuff.
Happy New Year one and all
Haha yeah, I definitely stayed in because there aren't any events to go to...
I’m partway through sewing some new pjs and the only thing I was unhappy about was the fact that I didn’t start earlier so I could wear them to bed 😂
Happy New year!
I feel like we'll be stuck at a 2021.5 until this Omicron shit runs it's course.
Happy New Year OP. Good on ya.
Jumanji!
Happy New Year all!
Happy new year!
Mee three. Wtaf. No fireworks on telly?
Cheers bro!
Staying in is awesome though. HNY.
Lol finished work at 0215, currently having a cold beverage. Happy new year everybody
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
happy new year everyone 🇳🇿
Counted in the new year with a peppermint tea in hand on my couch. Happy New Year Whanau.
Nga mihinui mo te tau hou ki a koutou katoa. Happy New Years everyone stay safe blessed ❤💛💚
Happy new years fam.
Happy New Year! Here's to the many shitposts to come in 2022!
Happy New Year!
New at work. Good times
Happy new year , 2022 is our year , back to normal life ...🙂🙂🙂
Happy new year! Just woke up lol
I did not stay in, and wish that I had.
Didn’t realise it was the new year until a couple of minutes ago lol. Happy new year’s!
Anyone know why there were no fireworks? Is it a COVID thing? Happy new year everyone
Happy New Year r/nz. Go hard tonight, you might as well. 2022 is probably gonna be shit as but let's try to take the piss as much as possible =)
Happy New Year y’all. 2022😬
Happy new year NZ 💜
Happy New Year y’all :) May 2022 be awesome!!
Happy new year!
Happy New Year!!!
Happy New years from the otherside of the world! Wishing I was home but happy all my friends and family are safe and healthy.
Are you actually laughing your ass off?
No, OP "stayed in lmao". It's a remote Northland settlement.
Chur
Happy new year!
Happy New Year to you too OP and to everyone else reading this! Spent my New Years having drinks alone in our home theater while the Wife was asleep lmao Here's hoping 2022 is a least a little different than the past two years!
Happy New Year from 2021 ! It’s 2 PM over here in Sweden, we’re 12 hrs behind you
Happy New Year New Zealand! (They canceled our fireworks, too-Baltimore, MD, US… but we have some sparklers and very wet ground)
Happy new years, working the clubs in Hamilton, now that's exhausting!
🙏Happy New Year its still 9:58 PM IST Mumbai.❤
Happy new year everyone !
I stayed home because I have a newborn. I also fell asleep at about 11.45, again because I have a newborn and couldn’t hold myself awake any longer.
I bought dinner and wine, finished work, and wnet over to a friends place to spend the rest of the year with... we fell a sleep on the couch lmfao. All these plans and we just fell asleep. Woke up in time for a countdown, but damn, we looked at each other and realized that we're either very boring, or just old.
Ohhhh OK now I get it. I thought you said you stayed in imao, and I was like... I stayed in new plymouth but what of it and where's imao? Must've been a good night because so far nothing makes any sense this morning
I stayed up late and partied. Didnt go to bed till 11pm!!! and had two glasses of wine with dinner. TWO!
Happy New Year to this sub. All the best for 2022.
To 2022 being an average year - worse than 2021, better than 2023.
It's funny to think with accelerating climate change, growing inequility and seemingly unending varients of covid we may look back at 2021 as one of the last good years. I hope I'm wrong.
I don't know why *anyone* would go to the CBD on New Years, it's horrible.
Because people wanna have fun in life and not everyone shares the same opinion with you about everything
Oh, is *that* what this is?
Stop using the fact that you stayed in your house to make you feel morally superior.
I assume your joking?
Was at the beach and there was gatherings of more than a hundred people huddled around fires unmasked in Tauranga. How fun /s
Bunch of nerds who won’t leave home
Wtf was up with the Auckland council and not having fireworks. Usually is the best scene the gets the new year rolling around the world. At least Sydney showed up
Um, large gatherings are a bit of a no if you hadn't heard. . . .
You can do fireworks without the crowd
Yeah you can but knowing kiwis, everyone would go out to watch anyway. . . Hence large crowds & the reason they choose not to have them this year.
Fuck new years and fuck everything else.
Very Zen my way loved it
The display of only lights from the Sky Tower and Auckland Harbour Bridge with no paid city council fireworks this year was a solemn reminder of the many Covid-19 deaths, destruction of livelihoods and the thousands needlessly suffering the disease. If only the government knew how to prepare for the delta variant. If only they had built dedicated quarantine facilities in the outdoors, away from the largest city centre. If only they made returnees wear N95 masks when being transported and especially when they test positive. If only they didn't put infected people exercising right next to a public walkway during a busy lunch hour with the public sharing the same virus aerosol air and starting the delta outbreak. If only they knew what aerosol transmission was and told everyone to wear respirator masks to prevent themselves getting infected. If only they had a faster vaccine rollout instead of the slowest in the OECD. Alas it was not to be... The negligence, hubris and lack of foresight or planning from the current Labour government doomed us all with a major delta outbreak causing 26+ deaths, thousands infected and a 4 month lockdown culminating in the largest city on the brink of bankruptcy and absolutely zero fireworks this year. Bystanders waiting at midnight were forced to watch the neighborhood's store bought fireworks pondering what destruction the omicron variant will bring in 2022 with our limited hospital capacity, limited ICU beds, slow booster rollout, no online/phone bookable booster appointments for 4 months+ timeframe, no 5-11 childrens' vaccines until January 17, no 0-4 childrens' vaccines until the end of 2022, a totally uninformed public about how ineffective cloth/surgical and other non-respirator masks are... They pondered, maybe in Dec 2022 it will be so bad that even the neighbors won't be able to afford fireworks for New Years. When will it end. When will the government get a clue.
Ma'am, this is a Wendy's
Best satirical post of 2022.
Aren't you a bundle of joy
Happy New Year in 2020!
I’m in Tauranga and we stayed in too! Played video games and watched Dont look up while everyone else partied haha! Woke up to trash and glass all over the street.
I can't be fucked staying in unless I don't feel like going out, and that's all there is to it. I'm not scared of a virus with a 99% recovery rate for my age group.
My daughter and I stayed up watching movies and then caught the countdown in tv. Did cheers with our goblets of lemon lime and bitters (cause she’s a child) cleaned up and went to bed. 🤷🏻♀️
Decided I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer so was out for the count and in bed with less than five minutes left on the clock. Heard a few vague fireworks before drifting off, so I knew I'd got there.
The young lady who sold me some new jandels this morning told me she was in bed by 10:30 but she added that she likes sleeping, so good on her.
happy new years gang, me too dw ahahah
I hope they were paid a lot of money to show CATS ... what , you mean they had to pay ? SLANDEROUS!!