4 Ways British and American New Year is Very Different
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- Опубліковано 29 гру 2023
- As we fast approach 2024, I figured now would be the right time to talk about the ways in which British and American New Year celebrations are very different. Here are four such differences.
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Some sources are saying there are eleven timezones for the US and its territories. Our research team has been locked in a cupboard until they apologize.
Have you considered a video comparing British and American folk tales about fairies and such?
These are the times zones that are used by the United States and its territories:
UTC-12: Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
UTC-11: Samoa Standard Time (ST)
UTC-10: Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HAT)
UTC-9: Alaska Standard Time (AKT)
UTC−8: Pacific Standard Time (PT)
UTC−7: Mountain Standard Time (MT)
UTC−6: Central Standard Time (CT)
UTC−5: Eastern Standard Time (ET)
UTC−4: Atlantic Standard Time (AST)
UTC+10: Chamorro Standard Time (ChT)
UTC+12: Wake Island Time Zone (WIT)
Wake Island is the first of these United States and territories to greet the new year as it is 17 hours AHEAD of New York, 18 ahead of Chicago. Thus when Chicago rings in the new year at Midnight Sunday, it is already 6 PM, 1 Jan 24 on Wake Island.
😂I hope you get out of that cupboard before the countdown tonight then! I’ll be flying back to NJ from England and will be back in my apartment a couple of hours before the ball drops.
When the ball drops the fireworks set off and then paper-fetti drops from somewhere above and whichever band sings songs and not long after the crowd disperses and the street cleaners start clearing the mess made from people standing in the crowds since the morning. I was in Times Square for the millennium, great fun when you’re in, I mean when you’re a bit younger 😅😂.
Research team locked in the cupboard, Lawrence? For God's sakes, man. Let the cat out.
Since you want your First Footer to be a tall and dark-haired, I'm wondering, was your evil one a blonde or red-head, perhaps?
As a Yorkshireman living in Pennsylvania - don't forget the First Foot person should be a dark haired man carrying coal and some booze, knocking on the door. Has to be dark-haired because after the Vikings, having some drunk blonde guy banging on your door usually signified bad luck if you didn't want to get pillaged.
Yes that’s right. I remember that one but not why…just the dark bit 😬
Do you eat pork & sauerkraut? Not my thing, but very popular in Central PA...
I have eaten it, but I don't make it a regular thing.
I made the effort to watch the "ball drop" one year, and found myself incredibly underwhelmed. watching your uncle take down christmas lights is more exciting.
At one point, there WAS something being dropped in the nation's capital to mark the new year -- there was a giant replica of the famous "LOVE" stamp that was dropped at the Old Post Office tower in DC. That didn't last long, in part due to a complete lack of coordination with the much more famous ball drop in Times Square -- I remember the last time they did it, most television stations showed the two with a "split screen" view, and the ball & stamp reached the bottom of their drop to trigger NYE celebrations a rather annoying amount of time apart. After that, it went back to the ball in Times Square.
I imagine it's much more fascinating when you're (1) surrounded by ten thousand others cheering wildly, and (2) you're all drunk.
Lol. True!!
@@TheGreatAtariomore like tired from standing for over 12 hours not being allowed to go anywhere to use a toilet cos the police have barricaded you in like sardines and if you go out you won’t get back in again, so when the ball finally drops everyone moves fast to find a bathroom! 😂😂😂🎉🎉 Happy New Year!
I was in Times Square for the millennium and it was definitely better than just watching it on TV. I’ve never been able to watch it on TV ever since, cos it’s just not the same.
Fun fact about Auld Lang Syne: In Japan, when a shop is getting ready to close for the evening, they play Auld Lang Syne in the shop to alert lingering customers to get their items together and make their way to the till.
Black eyed peas being good luck in the south comes from the Civil War. After the Union burned all of the crops, they left black eyed peas because they we're consider fit for human food. They were used for farm animals ( mostly pigs i believe). So that's what they ate and considered lucky thereafter. Happy New Year, y'all ❤
Thank you for this info! Not being from the South, I'd heard of this tradition but had no clue how it became one.
My grandmother (born and raised in WV) would not let anyone in her house on New Year's Day until my stepfather came in first. Supposed to be really good luck if the first person is a dark haired man. I am told the Scots-Irish brought this tradition with them to Appalachia.
Really? Because I grew up in Pittsburgh, and I have never heard of this.
@@colinmontgomery1956 Yes in Scotland the first foot needs to be a dark haired man. There's a piece of coal and black bun involved too!
I am of Scots-Irish stock and live in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I wonder if that tradition made it here, too. I shall ask! Happy New Year!
@@colinmontgomery1956 I never heard this in real life, but I heard it on Pittsburgh local TV news and on "Evening Magazine" on KDKA numerous times back in the 1970's--except that they said it was a German tradition, not a Scots-Irish one. Maybe that's why my family had such bad luck--all the men in my family are redheads!
@@colinmontgomery1956 Do you eat Hoppin' John for New Year's in Pittsburgh--or do you eat pork and sauerkraut?
Laurence, there are parts of the US that are in other time zones.
We celebrated the new year 15 hours ahead of the Eastern time zone 6 times (Saipan in the Mariana Islands) most notably in 2000. We called family on the mainland to assure them that Y2K was nothing to worry about.
Hilarious! That was quite a New Years Eve 😂
A lot of people were worried about Y2K. We had a New Years eve party that year and my husband decided to flip the circuit breaker at midnight for the lights to go out. It was hilarious. Total silence with a few gasps
Ah yes, the 'Y2k Bug', perhaps the greatest nothing of all time. To be fair, the preparations many companies and organizations made quite possibly did head off major problems, but the people hyping it to the heavens were telling us that it was far too little, far too late. But then the big day arrives, and what happens? Not a thing.
I have read quite a few comments online by people who worked in computing in the late 1990s who said that Y2K could have been a huge problem. However, a huge amount of work was done in the 2 or 3 years before 2000 to avert it.
In Seattle Y2K is remembered because of Ressam, the terrorist who was arrested trying to enter the US from Canada in December. He was headed to Seattle and was going to blow up something but we didn't know what, so the authorities assumed it was the New Year's celebration at the Space Needle so they canceled it. His target turned out to be the LAX airport but he never got there.
I love your channel. I became familiar when four months ago I went in for open heart surgery and got 3 months off work for recovery. I could do nothing but sit on the couch and internet surf. I came across you, and consider you and Lewis Grant (reactor to your videos) an integral part of my recovery. I go back to work Tuesday and I feel great Thank you for the entertainment and education . It was a tough year. HAPPY NEW YEAR LAWRENCE!!
I am so happy you are on the road to health. Don't overdo it when you return to work! Happy, HEALTHY New Year!
What "Fanadiana" said!
May 2024 be KIND and HEALTHY for you!!!! 🥂
I hope the year ahead is a much better one for you. Happy Healthy New Year!!!🎉🎉🎉
@@PerspectiveEngineer I subscribed because I like it what better reason than that?
Good luck going back to work. You may get very tired, so rest…!
Having multiple time zones is a true advantage when one is old and just wants to go to bed. 9pm rolls around, "Happy New Year, New York!", go to bed. Perfection! (I remember the days of staying up all night, pub crawling along Rush Street in Chicago, watching Fred Astaire movies on WGN till dawn...ah, but that was 40 years ago and I was so much younger then!)
As you get older, staying up is less appealing. As a 7(to 13)-year-old, it was a treat. "Mom - Can I stay up?" (sure) then you go to sleep at 10:44, but you had permission!!!!
At 60, it's " yawn - happy new year babe" - sleep by 9:00
Hi! I love your channel! A note about the Southern meal: there are three necessary dishes -- black eyed peas are for coins, collard greens are for "greenback," i.e. paper money, and fatback or hog jaw is for health. My sister once asked, "Isn't one of these for luck?" I replied, "When you have money and your health, you don't need luck." Happy New Year!
Same where I come from - North Carolina... & You're right "When you have money and your health, you don't need luck."
Roll Tide!
Sounds Chinese!
I have the black eye peas and collard greens, but will substituting fastback/hog jowls with bacon work??
@@lancekirkwood7922it makes perfectly good sense to use bacon instead as it arguably tastes better. It just happens that the dishes are famous with slaves and poorer families where hog jaws are far more affordable than bacon.
In Canada, we celebrate New Year's before Americans do.
The province of Newfoundland has it's own time zone, which is an hour and a half ahead of the Eastern time zone in the U.S.
So Newfoundlanders ring in the new year 90 minutes before New York does.
There's an Eastern tip of Maine that is in the same time zone. Also, Puerto Rico is a part of the United States, and I believe is an hour ahead of that.
@@micheledeetlefs6041Maine is entirely in the Eastern time zone. You are correct that Puerto Rico is an hour ahead of Eastern time, but it is absolutely still a US territory.
Newfoundland has a time zone unique to Canada. I see you ignored the Atlantic time zone in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Is that because Canada shares it with many islands in the Caribbean, Bermuda, Guyana, Venezuela, Bolivia, and a good chunk of western Brazil? All these places are an hour ahead of New York.
@@micheledeetlefs6041Puerto Rico is a US territory.
@@marydavis5234 I am aware. Unfortunately, I have a very thick southern accent and I made the mistake of trying to use the speech to text function on my Google phone. For reasons I cannot understand, Google cannot comprehend a Southern accent. I just didn't catch that it did the wrong verb tense. Thanks for catching it.
2:20 if you dont know why this is so horribly confusing, Chicago is about a 4 hour drive NORTH of Indianapolis. Indiana said F your timezones we want to be eastern. But then only like part of the state agreed to it so there is a road (31 or 421 i cant remember which) that starting from the southern border you start in central time, driving north you enter eastern time and if you keep going north you go back into central time.
Guy Lombardo said: "When I go, I'm taking New Year's Eve with me." Given the past three years, I wish he had.
This channel is like history that I don't really need, but I quite enjoy.
I totally get that. And I may have chuckled quite a bit seeing this comment because I was so close to an epiphany. Or maybe an awakening. ✌️
When I was a child growing up in east Texas, we never stayed up to watch the ball drop. Instead, we'd gather around my dad's short wave radio, and he'd tune in to a broadcast out of London, and we'd ring in the new year with Big Ben.
For some unaccountable reason, my 9 year old loves your channel. It has nothing to do with me despite the fact that I was the one who subscribed to it and allows him to see the videos.
Hey Lawrence! We need more Arthur. Maybe a vid on how dog or pet ownership is different in the UK and US? I know neutering is more common here, and neuticals rarer here than in the UK and Europe…😁
Also the differences in ears & tails being " altered " . Are we Americans more likely to consider our pets as true ( human )family members - names , day care , clothing , pet-nannies , sharing our beds , etc. ? Some newer homes US have specific " dog wash " areas ( mini shower / bath ) areas in or near the mud room entrance .
🇺🇸Prayers and Best wishes to everyone for a safe and a Happy New Year, on both sides of the pond.
As a Hoosier native, I have always found it quite odd that even though people watch the NYC New Year show all across the country, they play the Theme from New York New York, instead of Auld Lane Syne at the stroke of midnight.
One of the loveliest tunes I ever heard was Auld Lang Syne. It's really pretty without any vocals, but is a very nice friendly song in a crowd. Happy New Years ! 🎉
In Japan, they play "Auld Lang Syne" in the shops to indicate to the patrons that they're getting ready to close for the evening. Why? you may ask. Because in the mid-1800's, Japan had a bunch of educators and professionals come from a number of Western countries to modernize their country. Music education was in the hands of some Americans. They took an American school songbook and gave the songs Japanese lyrics. The lyrics weren't translations of the English words--they were just any Japanese lyrics they could get to fit the tune. The Japanese version of "Auld Lang Syne" has words that mean something like, "It's time to go to bed. It's time to go to sleep." Hence its use as an indicator of business closings.
I never thought I would hear someone mention Indiana in the context of time zones being normal.
Americans look up in the sky to find out the current year. Britons look in the time stream itself but find out too late they’re actually looking in the English Channel
What?
As a child, I remember having ideas about what the ball drop looked like. I imagined it as a giant ball that had the old year on it, then when it hit the ground (at high speed), the numbers changed to the new year. Once I was old enough to watch it, I was greatly disappointed by a ball that went slowly up a stick and slowly came back down. Not exactly a drop, in my opinion, and boring to boot.
Grew up in PA where eating pork and sauerkraut on New Years day was considered a good luck meal. Eating chicken was bad luck as chickens scratch back.
My sister still does that every year. Somehow, I never knew of this tradition.
@@diwi1942 You must've grown up somewhere where there weren't many German-Americans. Either that, or your family kept you real sheltered!
Happy New Year Lawrence, and thank you for all that you do to make sense of the differences and similarities of the UK and US. You’re a hoot.
As a Brit who travels extensively I love watching the ball drop in Times Square whether I am New York, Honolulu or wherever. This year I watched it on CNN over the internet in Tokyo. What I cannot do is watch the tape delayed for this time zone feeds from the networks. Interesting that whilst the UK does not have a tradition of singing an English song on New Years Eve, New York does, recognizing an Englishman who made NY his home who offered a message of hope in his Song Imagine. It is very sad that John Lennon was shot dead in New York City but this adoption on New Years has made it a tradition in New York at New Years and inspires us to look for hope and joy in the New Year.
I miss Guy Lombardo . And I miss Dick Clark's Rocking New Years Eve. And I miss when the ball in Times Square was lowered down manually by men and cables. Now it is computerized.
My family always have pork and sauerkraut on New Years Day. It's an old Germanic tradition brought over to America by the Pennsylvania Dutch. Can't Wait
German, not "Germanic."
@@aLadNamedNathanno, Germanic would be correct as it’s eaten in France by Germanic people too. Alsace and possibly Switzerland too.
@@Cactus_hug No, "Germanic" is very definitely incorrect. "Germanic" refers to a language family; thus, "Germanic" would include all speakers of Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Flemish, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, and Yiddish. I think you can see that the term you're trying to use is far too broad.
Also, the French government has done its best to stamp out the German language in Alsace-Lorraine since the end of WW2.
@@aLadNamedNathan that’s not true as my in laws speak German and live in Alsace. Germanic is a culture and culture includes foods.
@@Cactus_hug Did you even read what I wrote? No, I didn't think so.
You aren't the only one celebrating early. People are popping off fireworks (Illegally by the way, not that it is enforced.) and scaring my cats. I have one that needs to hide behind my bedroom door until about 2 hours after the last boom. All that aside, happy new year to you and yours, and of course to everyone subscribing to your channel.(DO THAT NOW!). Happy new year.
My town sounds like a war zone for the entire week before the 4th of July!
Poor people with PTSD.. fireworks should be banned. They are very bad for people and the environment.
@@LordDomielOfElysiumUntil very recently they were banned in Arizona, and they are still restricted in many ways. Any of the bigger loud ones and ones that go high up still aren't allowed here, and they are only allowed at certain times of year.
People still obtained them and set off loud ones that went high in the sky and were major fire hazards in our very dry climate even when they were totally banned and you couldn't buy them in the state. People would drive to New Mexico or old Mexico and buy them and bring them back. They still probably do to get the ones they use now that still aren't allowed.
At 4th of July the professional ones always start fires (unless it is actively raining heavily, which is possible given it is the start of our rainy season, but unlikely). They now shoot them off over areas protected against fire or over areas that can be flooded with water in the event of a fire. It isn't for lack of skill, it is just that this is after months of no rain and extremely hot temperatures and everything is kindling. One year the fire risk was so high due to droughtbthat the fireworks throughout at least my part of the state were canceled on 4th of July. They did an indoor laser light show instead in Tucson, I don't know about elsewhere.
So, if people still set them off when it was incredibly dangerous to do so and they were illegal, and people would literally call the cops on you, they probably would if you banned them for other reasons than the risk of setting the state on fire.
@@LordDomielOfElysiumI disagree. Most people enjoy fireworks.
@@christineperez7562 Not true at all. Also, look up the affects fireworks have on animals. “Ooo pretty” is not more important then human and environmental health.
New years eve, when all the amateur drinkers are out.
No thank you, A nice quiet evening at home, thank you.
St. Patrick's Day doubles with New Year's Eve as "amateur night."
Here in central Pennsylvania, it's Pork and sauerkraut that is the good luck dish for New Year's.
Central Pennsylvania--and beyond!
Happy New Year, Lawrence and Tara! May 2024 be the best year you've had yet.
Tomorrow, New Year’s Eve, I’m actually participating in a British NYE celebration. What a brilliant idea. We can celebrate a new year at 7p (EST) and call it a day. Go home, go to bed. I’ve never been more excited for a NYE party! 😂 Happy New Year!
Lmao
Britain does something like a ball drop at Big Ben.
Lawrence, just wanted to wish you and yours Happy New Year.
Special wishes for the furbaby Arthur and his first holiday season and an extra scritch for the kitty (so as not to be forgotten).
I was a child in the 60's, living in Lincoln (East Midlands). We did "First Footing." My Dad, tall and dark haired, would "First Foot" at all of our neighbours. (Receiving a drink in payment, only to return around 2 am and tipsy!) My Mum would also put her money out in the back entrance to ensure money coming in throughout the next year.) Not many keep up the tradition there nowadays.
Ooooh Lawrence , your thermostat behind you is mounted on the wall askew !
oh dear
Good eye!
Happy New year!! I’m in my final year of uni in England and from the Southern U.S. Me and my housemates love all your videos ❤
You'll miss it when you go!
I used to live there too! I miss it!
You can wait to watch the celebration-countdown-ball drop until it’s midnight where you are.
But if he watches it live, he can go to bed an hour earlier.
First footing isn’t just the first person over the threshold bringing luck. They should ideally be tall and dark haired AND they should bring whisky so that the household will not face thirst, black bun (a traditional Scottish cake) or shortbread so that the household won’t face hunger and a lump of coal so that they won’t go cold.
Auld Lang Syne was a poem written by Burns that was based on a traditional Hogmanay poem or song and was first put to music (a traditional tune) two years after Burns died, it rarely sung properly in either England or the US and the crossed arms hand holding and bouncing should ONLY happen in the last verse where it says there’s a hand my trusty fiere (friend) and gie’s (give me) a hand o’ thine (yours).
New Year was a more important celebration than Christmas in Scotland for centuries (with Christmas only becoming a public holiday for Scotland in 1958) so there are numerous traditions involved, including having a pot of soup (usually Scotch Broth) on the go at Hogmanay and on New Year’s Day the traditional meal would be steak pie, mashed potato and neeps (what is normally called turnip in Scotland, swede or Swedish turnip in England and Rutabaga in the US). The house being cleaned (including all laundry being done) and aired from top to bottom on Hogmanay to symbolise out with the old and in with the new. Clearing all debts and the removal of all ash from the fireplaces…amongst others.
I've been a long time fan of the channel, watching since 2019. I love learning about the differences in culture and language between different countries. These videos are fascinating and well made, keep it up!
Happy New Year, Laurence. While you were correct citing the many time zones USA is smeared upon, I will point out that the U.S. territorial island of Guam is in Tomorrow. Guam sits a bit the other side of the International Date Line, and their slogan is "Where America's Day Begins."
In Pittsburgh, a city my friends from the UK insist shough be pronounced the same way as the "burgh in Edinburgh, the annual New Year's Eve celebration is called First night. Instead of dropping the ball, they raise it!
Here in America most people call it quits at midnight and go home and sleep, to enjoy a day off. I've been in other countries on New Years Eve, where everybody insists on staying up until sunrise and sleeping all New Years Day. Even when there isn't much going on, they have to stay up until sunrise.
Happy New Year Lawrence! I hope you're enjoying a taste of home. Our weather seems more typical for England right about now.
*Laurence
Happy New Year!!! Thank you for creating wonderful, informative and hilarious content!
A "first footer" should be a tall , dark , handsome man and he should bring COAL, WHISKY, BLACK BUN, SALT.
Coal, to make sure the house is always warm.
Black Bun, a type of cake, to make sure everyone will be fed.
Whisky, to celebrate with.
Growing up, we would eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day at my Grandparents' house.
Proper New Year's food!
Happy New Year Nephew, Nephewette, Kafka and Arthur !
Happy New Year Mr Uncle Toby! And many more.
@@marieroberts5664 Thank you. Happy New Year to you and yours as well.
My favorite British UA-camr & his wife ,😍
In addition to black eyed peas southerners also eat collard greens
One thing you could always count on when watching the ball drop in Times Square was Dick Clark saying that there's a "Lot of people here." Wow, who knew? There was a Guy Lombardo museum in London, Ontario but it went out of business many years ago long after he died. Another thing about him that I think is funny; At the Jones Beach ampitheatre on Long Island, New York which was seperated from the audience by water, they would put on a production of "The Sound of Music." How did they escape the nazis? In Guy Lombardo's boat.
**Lawrence, i absolutely love that you sound completely, totally a little bit sound like David Mitchell! I feel in love with him in "Upstart Crow."
I'm a new subscriber and I've been binge-ing all of the old vids over the past week. I'm a HUGE anglophile and this channel is so very cool.❤ BTW, love the TARDIS on your shelf.
Welcome fellow subscriber.
@aprilpotter. Back when TV first showed a TARDIS they were just like the police box my dad would have still been using. Now they are only seen as something alien on TV.
*Happy new year Lawrence, family and subscribers reading these comments!*
Long before your channel, I have been pointing out the difference between being born and raised in a former British territory, vs England, vs the states wherein I have now lived in a third of my life.
Holidays are definitely a time where you can note the differences in various rituals… in my family we would often have leftover Christmas crackers around and celebrated NYE wearing the paper hat along with that ever present glasses of champagne.
As far as the different time zones… For at least a few of my celebrations, I’ve been able to organize parties that would start… (Start!!)… with ringing in the new year with New Zealand and then each time areas coming to a in Europe… AND then a brief sabbatical to have a bite to eat, and we would start drinking again with the ball drop in New York and then each time zone culminating on the West Coast where I now live. Good times!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Same to you beautiful one …
So basically a party that lasted 21 hours, all in the name of Midnight?
@@jamescurfman3284 yup (hiccup) 🥳
@@IntriguedLioness OMG, that is so unbelievably cool! That means (unless something went horribly wrong this year)
that you are almost through with one right now!
GOD I WISH! Most of us broke asses can't do anything close to that. Lucky you.
I bet you had to take a couple of weeks to get everything set up for each of those parties...
Do you have such parties catered, or how does the food situation work? If I was going to drink for 21 hours straight, I would NEED food to keep me from becoming ill and ruining the party. I am THE lightweight of my family.
@@jamescurfman3284 truth be told I am the lightweight of all of my friends! 20+ hours of drinking does not mean we’re slamming down whiskeys… It might start with mimosas around breakfast, but only enough to feel a slight buzz… The break in between Europe and the east coast gives us time to have a proper meal. And then, of course, we start toasting with New York all over again!
As far as catering, in all honesty, it was always a kind of a BYOB/BYOF situation… Usually some type of pancakes or other absorbent foods, and lots of protein to help fight off the inevitable if ever so slight hangover. Trust me, I am not slaving alone in the kitchen… This is a group effort, usually between six to a dozen people, and I only host this every five or so years… !!
Here in Tennessee, Nashville specifically, a large music note is dropped. Very possible to see this on TV this year too.
Did you know that in Atlanta, GA, a giant peach drops down instead of a ball.
Aaaannnnd I'm picturing a dance floor....😅
Happy New Year!
And yet, they grow more peaches in Alabama!
The parents of a friend of mine were from Scotland, and for them New Year's Eve was a quiet, reflective time rather than one of merriment. (The legacy of the Presbyterian Church, perhaps.) They sang "Auld Lang Syne" not raucously but with a sense of remembering those who had gone before. Happy New Year, Lawrence, health and prosperity to you, your lovely wife, and your doggo!
Black eyed peas was correct except the part that it's collard greens in the south. Much to the dismay of many a child. Actually it's the combination of both that is traditional.
This is something that I am sure is not about to appear dozens of times in your comments section but as of this writing I was at least first.
Happy new year to you!
My dad had us watch Guy Lombardo every year. My favorite song of his was, "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)"
I keep getting distracted by the TARDIS on your bookshelf!
Happy New Year Laurence. Please let the research team out of the cupboard. They meant no harm 😂 🎉
Happy 2024, Laurence! I had to forgo the New Year's Eve game night I was planning on going to because I got hit rather suddenly with the flu, so I'm making up for it by watching my favorite UA-camrs ring in the new year.
In Kansas City, consumer fireworks are very common, but very few to no professional shows. I suspect that is a difference.
I recall being in the UK for New Year's and starting on the 1st of January, every third ad on the telly is for detox cures or debt consolidation.
Happy New Year Laurence & family (even Uncle Toby)! I so look forward to everything that I will learn from you in 2024.
From a fellow Chicagoan, Southside! A Very Happy New Year to you Laurance and Your Family!! 🎉🎈🎊🍾
Guy Lombardo had a radio program sponsored by Robert Burns cigars, so he started incorporating songs based on the poet Burn's works. One New Years Eve he played Auld Lange Syne at midnight, and the next year it was requested hero so again. Thus the U.S. tradition was born.
I’m on the west coast (Pacific Time) so I watch the ball drop in New York at 9pm, carry on with my evening and am in bed between 9:30-10. Then the fireworks go off at midnight and I wake up, have a pee break, and back to bed after, perhaps looking out the window to see if I can see the last of the fireworks. But they are never in my line of sight.
Happy New Year Laurence and Tarah...and Uncle Toby too.
Thank you for the laughs this year. Very Happy New Year to you and your wife. Oh doggie too.
And....Kafka?
@@LindaC616 Perhaps not a fan of cats? Inconceivable, I know. 😁
@cate9540 not a fan of cats!? Leave this room at once!
@@LindaC616 I serve 4 feline overlords myself, so I don't understand it either.
@@cate9540 😆
In Pennsylvania we always eat Pork & Sauerkraut, on New Year's Day for good luck. It comes from the Pennsylvanisch Deitsche (PA Germans). Always pork, because a pig roots forward, and never chicken, because a chicken scratches back.
People from Pennsylvania and the surrounding area might be familiar with eating Pork and Sauerkraut on New Year's Day as an old Pennsylvania Dutch legend has it that doing so brings one good luck.
Happy New Year Laurence 🎉 🍾 🥂
Lawrence ! The black eyed peas is only part of the new years day meal for good luck. It also includes collard greens or ( mustard greens ) w ham hocks ( smoked pork knees or feet ) and salmon patties and of course a side of corn bread 🇺🇸❤️😊 its mostly a southern tradition.
One note: Aul' Rabbie didn't invent Auld Lang Syne. He collected the song from others who had already sung it, and it was originally sung for Burns' Night before being adopted for the New Year.
I sometimes attend a Presbyterian church which has a hymn in their hymnbook set to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne."
It was noticed over a long period of time, that people who ate black eyed peas had improved health, so it was determined - long before research about food nutrition was even a thought - that if black eyed peas were good for your health, then the logical thing to do was feed them to those who entered your home. And, because health is often tied to happiness, that to bless someone a HAPPY New Year, you should treat them a HAPPY New Year by feeding them black eyed peas.
My family has Brisish roots so I guess that's why my mother always wanted a dark-haired man to come to her house on New Years Day. She said it was bad luck if a woman came in first.
It shoul be a 'Brown Eyed Handsome Man'!
My local TV news always said that was a German tradition.
@@grahampaulkendrick7845 Absolutely!
Agreed, that's how I met my now ex wife
Thanks for the laughs as well as the thoughtful analysis Lawrence! Happy New year!
I remember Guy Lombardo playing it as a kid. Yes, I'm that old, 67.
My cousin's son is 36. When he was real small, even he knew of Guy Lombardo...except he called him "Guybo" because he wasn't old enough to speak properly yet.
I celebrated New Years in 1981 at Trafalgar Square. Lots of people from around the world to ring in the NY.
Happy New Year! I hope your channel continues to grow in 2024 and beyond!
Cheers to a very happy new year to you, Laurence, and your wife, pets, and other sundry family members. 🎉
New Year's Eve in Times Square is celebrated like this:
1. People gather in Times Square at like idk -66:00 AM?
2. 20 second hourly countdown begins 6 hours until the new year, the TSQ countdown sound effects (which are a series of ticking, whooshing sounds accompanied by a stock sound effect of people counting down from 10, and then a big ahh gong at 0) are played for the first time in the event. The ball rises.
3. Every hour (to be exact, near the new hour) (at least for NYE 2023 they do this routine), some host or something reads "confetti wishes", which are basically wishes people wrote on "confetti", with a guest.
4. #2 and #3 repeats itself 5 times (except for the ball rise part, of course) until the last 1 hour marker countdown
5. At 11:59 (I'm sorry, I meant like 5-2 seconds near 11:59), some guests press a button shaped like the NYE ball, which probably isn't even functional at all, it was all just for the entertainment of the viewers. IDK if it has been confirmed to be just a piece of art. The 60 second NYE countdown plays with an extended version of the TSQ countdown sound effects (refer to #2 if you STILL don't know what said SFX is).
6. Yay! Happy new year! Some short piece of the 1947 version of Guy Lombardo's Auld Lang Syne plays, then 'New York, New York' plays, and some other music which probably never ends.
BTW if you want to play my replica of TSQ and TSQ ball drop Roblox game (should I call it an "experience"? it's called "Eternal Circle" btw) then GO FIND IT YOURSELF. :D
Guy Lombardo played Auld Lang Syne every New Year cause he played it every show. Usually at the end of the broadcast but played it at Midnight at New Year's for obvious reasons. That's how it became the traditional New Year Song on this side of the Pond.
Happy New Year and may you double your suscribers this year ... your channel certainly deserves them. Would love to see more of your stunningly funny wife and Kafka, well, because he's a cat. Best wishes to all.
It's been a great year on your channel, Lawrence!
Happy New Year!
I’ve never even heard of people eating black eyed peas on New Year’s here in America.
Southern thing
We eat pork and sauerkraut where I live.
@@aLadNamedNathan We consume massive quantities of alcohol where I live.
Black-eyed peas was a Southern thing because of the burning to the sea at the end of the Civil War. The plant that carries the pea was seen as a weed or foder for animals. When people found them when food shortages were very bad after the end of the war it was good luck. You had something to eat. Sounds like good luck to me that people who ravaged the place where you lived didn't recognize something as food. Not that, in the end, the Civil War didn't accomplish a good thing. The beginning of the end of slavery.
Here in Canada, we are divided into 6 time zones, and one of them is 1/2 hour out of sync with it's nearest neighbour.
Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year Larry and your better half! Happy 2024 to your puppy, kitty and to EVERYBODY! 🎇 May you reach a million subscribers...🍾🥂
My NYE tradition was always to babysit and watch Dick Clark. Then on New Year's Day it was ham dinner at one of the relatives' homes.
The ball dropping thing was started in... London. Yup. GMT is based off it. A red ball slowly begins to drop slightly before 12 noon. When it stops at the bottom, it is exactly noon. Ships used to set their clocks by it to know where they were on the ocean. It was used instead of a bell because of the difference in speed of sound vs light. You can see the ball hit bottom at the same time a longer way away as close up. Sound travels much slower, so it would be different far away than at the bell.
This is a fun channel. Always makes me laugh. Guy Lombardo! Happy New Year to you and yours!
I don’t take down my Christmas tree until after new years
One thing that now exists with new year countdowns, with broadcast and livesteam TV delays, we're counting down at least 15 seconds later at home. Can't help but notice it now that we have accurate time one our phones.
That said, this channel has been one of the best things I've discovered in 2023. Happy 2024 to everyone! Cheers! 🎉
Fireworks are a new (relatively) thing in Blighty. When I was a kid fireworks were for Guy Fawkes night and only on that night - though as kids we spent the preceding few days blowing things up with bangers. New Year's Eve was all about Andy Stewart and the White Heather Club.
Growing up in Pennsylvania, we always ate pork and sauerkraut for good luck on New Years.
Yay! First! Happy New Year's Lawrence!
I’ll be there at 12:01 AM sharp Sunday night to bring you luck. I guess I’ll be lucky if you let me in and not call the Police.
I haven't watched the New Years Eve broadcasts since Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians went off the air in 1979. Some classics can't be replaced. 🥲
I always watch the "New Years Eve" episode of Absolutely Fabulous every year on New Years Eve! Even though it was 30 years ago, it's still hilarious to this day.
Sounds like a tradition worth adopting!
I live in the Atlantic time zone in Canada, which is one hour ahead of Eastern. Some folks here like to stay up to 1:00 AM to watch the ball drop in Times Square, which I always found odd.