# Happy New Year: it's 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 31, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610 "2014-12-31T13:01:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/1 "2014-12-31T13:01:16Z")
And the fireworks are very noisy! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/2 "2014-12-31T13:12:17Z")
Yes they are. I’m getting too old for this kind of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/3 "2014-12-31T13:14:23Z")
Some New Year trivia: in just under three hours’ time around 25% of the world’s population will begin 2015 as the clocks tick over midnight in China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Western Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/4 "2014-12-31T13:21:26Z")
I think you guys jumped the gun a bit…new year’s isn’t for another 16 hours. I don’t know what this “rest of the world” you’re talking about, but in America it’s still 2014. Get with the program…jeez… ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/5 "2014-12-31T13:24:18Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > …in America it’s still 2014. That is your punishment. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/6 "2014-12-31T13:26:02Z")
On this side of the globe, the sun is up on the last day of 2014. It’s a sub-freezing morning in my little part of the east coast of the US. We will greet the new year as we have for the last couple of decades - we’ll watch some TV tonight, then go to bed early. We are most definitely not party animals in this house. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/7 "2014-12-31T13:32:59Z")
Interesting display here of illegal fireworks. Hope to hell they have not caused any fires (apparently we are heading into severe fire danger) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/8 "2014-12-31T14:00:10Z")
Are fireworks common for New Year’s in many places? It’s too cold here usually for people to want to be out watching them. I don’t recall ever seeing fireworks at New Year. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/9 "2014-12-31T14:23:28Z")
This is from last year, but it makes the point clearly. **['murica!](http://imgur.com/Ya0ITUJ)** ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/10 "2014-12-31T14:33:10Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Are fireworks common for New Year’s in many places? It’s too cold here usually for people to want to be out watching them. I don’t recall ever seeing fireworks at New Year. Here in Kansas you’ll hear a few, but it’s not like the 4th of July. They aren’t sold now, but folks will save a few from summer purchases. Now, NYE of 1999, it was a war zone. I was at my sister’s and it’s all residential, normally very quiet. Whoa! There wasn’t hardly a house that wasn’t lit up. Even we set of a long string of firecrackers. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/11 "2014-12-31T16:00:31Z")
Well, it’s now 2015 here in China. 新年快乐！ ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/12 "2014-12-31T21:29:30Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Are fireworks common for New Year’s in many places? It’s too cold here usually for people to want to be out watching them. I don’t recall ever seeing fireworks at New Year. They’re very common in Australia where it’s summer. New Zealand too. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/13 "2014-12-31T23:40:01Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Well, it’s now 2015 here in China. And, [in Shanghai](http://news.yahoo.com/least-35-dead-42-injured-shanghai-years-stampede-212956687.html), it’s not a happy one. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/14 "2015-01-01T00:12:35Z")
La Crosse has had fireworks for many years Happy 2015 (UTC)! Brian ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/15 "2015-01-01T00:50:43Z")
We were promised flying cars. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/16 "2015-01-01T01:39:40Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > This is from last year, but it makes the point clearly. > > **['murica!](http://imgur.com/Ya0ITUJ)** Damn straight. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/17 "2015-01-01T04:32:12Z")
I don’t mind fireworks, but here in Dixie, some pinheads celebrate by going outside and shooting off a few rounds. At nothing. ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/18 "2015-01-01T04:38:08Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > And the fireworks are very noisy! Here too. Every few minutes there is a huge boom out front that cannot be a gun, probably a cannon! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/19 "2015-01-01T05:09:07Z")
2015 has arrived on the East Coast of North America (and a good chunk of the Midwest as well), and this part of it’s pretty damn noisy right now. It’ll die down after awhile. Just think: this year is the ‘future’ of the second _Back to the Future_ movie. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-its-2015/708610/20 "2015-01-01T05:14:29Z")
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