New Year's Eve Cancelled?

[DBCowboy]

Is this where we "thank" the religion of peace?

[Zaphod58]

As of two hours ago Sydney fireworks were still on, and they were urging people to attend. They said police will be out in massive numbers to guard them. Bondi Beach cancelled their events, but Sydney is still on. 

https://news.sky.com/story/massive-numbe...s-13488128

Shibuya (Tokyo) has cancelled their event since covid. 

Paris cancelled a concert that was planned but will still have fireworks.

[RazorV66]

Fear and more fear. We have to be afraid of something, it’s the law. Christmas in the UK has been watered down to a festive dribble, in case we offend a few sand shufflers. Doesn’t matter if it offends the majority, we don’t count. 

New Years Eve cancellations are just more of the same. Instil fear. It’s frankly pathetic now and people should open their eyes and see what’s really going on.  THAT is the really scary thing.

Sand shufflers.

 

[ReturnofBroccoli]

If you think for a second that any government or too big to fail organization/corporation as a whole cares about offending any singular group of people I believe you are mistaken and that its used as a scapegoat for not having to spend your tax dollars on you. If it is not a living entity it does not have the capacity to feel shamed by offending. The world is ran by enormously powerful clandestine organizations and maximizing profits across the board is always the game and thats why it is called the machine. Cold and calculating. Whether it is ran by living entities is irrelevant BECAUSE the ones at the top are there because they put business *the machine* first instead of how anything feels even their own. Nature of the beast.

[fiveandtwo]

I just got up and turned the local news on. Apparently Sydney had the usual fireworks last night (AU time). They were showing it on CBS.

[SteamyAmerican]

It kind of looks like a fear of giving radical terrorist groups a large number of potential victims in one spot. Understandable in a way, but if we all succumb to those fears then the radicals win.

We in Canada don’t really worry too much about the weather, I’ve taken the family out when it’s been -25°C or colder. We just bundle up and ensure we have hot drinks and a warm place to go. Fireworks don’t usually cause a lot of problems when everything is covered in snow!!

It’s unfortunate that it has become such of an issue, especially when New Year’s Eve celebrations are really not seen as religious events, but rather as an occasion for everyone to see the old year out and usher in a new year with the hope and expectation for a more prosperous and stable future….

As usual, my 2 pesos…

Tecate

Wait what?!

it’s almost like the same people that are shoving immigration down the throats of the West demanding you enjoy the the loss of your national sovereignty and then also claim if you bitch about these religious violent extremists harming you or your family makes you a racist…..


are also the same people that are cancelling civilized celebrations because of same religious violent extremists potential to harm you and your family.


How odd.

[ArMaP]

So, were all those events cancelled or was it mostly click bait news again?

[rickymouse]

We don't go out on New Years eve anymore, and even when the wife did go out, we never went to all the fancy fireworks or ball drop stuff.  We used to just go out to the bars until midnight to watch all the drunks.  But that got old, just like us.

We did not go see the fireworks last winter in Negaunee at the Heikki Lunta festival.  That is around the first week of February.  It's just too cold to be out watching fireworks if you are not drinking in February.  We might go to the breakfast and get some Cudighis though at places doing that for the festival.  A lot of people go watch the ball drop in Marquette...sounds kind of boring to me, and too cold...I would rather watch the ball drop on TV....in fact, we are usually just online chatting now in our nice warm home or in bed going to sleep at midnight now.  We are in the over seventy group I guess. 

Seems kind of like some big cities all of a sudden that these big events cause a lot of accidents and fights and attract lots of chaotic people to them.  Maybe it is because the bad people are growing in numbers these days because the police are not enforcing laws to keep people as safe anymore, or the bad people know they won't sit in jail very long anymore so they do what they want to do.

[rickymouse]

Sand shufflers.

 

Last time we had a real Christmas tree I got from on my land was about ten years ago.  I learned to check the christmas tree for hornet nests after that.  The Hornets didn't mind having a short winter though, and we didn't get stung.  I know why they used to have charlie brown trees years ago, it is hard to find a nest in a bushy tree, and it doesn't need to be a big nest to have a few hornets flying around.  Christmas can be an exciting holiday if you have a hornets nest. 

For the last four years all we put up is a little two foot artificial tree on a table.  Big enough to put all the presents under if you give cards with cash in them.

[Zaphod58]

So, were all those events cancelled or was it mostly click bait news again?

Click bait news. They were all either events near the city, or events that had already been cancelled for years.