Lurkst Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Been a few years since I went first footing and most of the neighbours seem to have Covid, so I won't be bothering this time either. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oystercatcher Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 I spent the millennium bells in San Diego, it was the best New year I've ever had. Not really into it now and will be up first thing tomorrow and doing a 5k parkrun at 9:30, I've become that khunt. That said, happy New year to everyone on pie and Bovril and I hope you all have a healthy and prosperous 2022 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 2 minutes ago, deegee said: Steak pie was always on our menu and still is, although this year the house (apart from me) is riddled with the COVID, so I’m on my own, watching telly, cancelled the butcher’s steak pie until next weekend and it’s a ribeye steak for one tomorrow with football on the telly. @Honest_Man#1do you really not know what first footing is mate? Back in the day it was traditionally a tall dark haired man would be the first to cross your house front door in the New Year, carrying a piece of coal (replaced once coal fires were less common with an alcoholic drink to toast good health to the host) That sounds absolutely mental. So a stranger just turns up to your house on Hogmanay with some coal? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 3 minutes ago, Lurkst said: Been a few years since I went first footing and most of the neighbours seem to have Covid, so I won't be bothering this time either. That's what they're telling you, anyway... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 20 minutes ago, deegee said: For me, society and families are not as close, in a physical or metaphorical sense. Folk hardly know their neighbours, for many folk under 35-40 their main methods of socialising with “friends” is often online, folk work in places and at home with less contact with colleagues which in turn used to form adult friendships. I think Hogmanay in the traditional sense died off in the 1980s and more so when small details such as more access to alcohol became a thing, women started to socialise with drink which was a rarity until the 70s/ 80s. Very true, also Hogmanay used to be one of the few nights a year people stayed up til midnight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deegee Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Just now, Honest_Man#1 said: That sounds absolutely mental. So a stranger just turns up to your house on Hogmanay with some coal? Bear in mind, in the days of everyone being neighbourly, it was expected to have an open door and you’d have a pot of soup or stew on the go, and drink flowed. Obviously nowadays you’d be off your nut to have an open door as it would be on social media in minutes and house trashed at best. But in my dad’s day (Glasgow tenement) and my mum’s day (mining village), it would be the main party of the year and everyone knew everyone. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamamafegan Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 I spent the millennium bells in San Diego, it was the best New year I've ever had. Not really into it now and will be up first thing tomorrow and doing a 5k parkrun at 9:30, I've become that khunt. That said, happy New year to everyone on pie and Bovril and I hope you all have a healthy and prosperous 2022Enjoy your run, OC. As a side note, there needs to be more bird themed posters on P&B. I could change my own P&B identity but that would go against everything I believe in, so alas it cannot be done. A message to any prospective P&B members - please consider being a bird. Thank you. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deegee Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 2 minutes ago, Lurkst said: Very true, also Hogmanay used to be one of the few nights a year people stayed up til midnight. Even in the late 80s, pubs closed at 10ish and often only opened for a couple hours in afternoon and a few hours at night. Sunday’s often a short day too. You’re bang on that in the day (pre 80s and a more hard working industrial society) folk didn’t stay up late and New Year was a rare exception, where women were also “allowed” a drink too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin.Hood Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 26 minutes ago, Honest_Man#1 said: What the f**k is ‘first footing’? Be first person to knock on someone door. Hi, happy new year. Have some shortbread and have a splendid new year. Is how I remember it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 5 minutes ago, jamamafegan said: Enjoy your run, OC. As a side note, there needs to be more bird themed posters on P&B. I could change my own P&B identity but that would go against everything I believe in, so alas it cannot be done. A message to any prospective P&B members - please consider being a bird. Thank you. @Raven is a regular Dead Pool player 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Supposedly it's bad luck to first foot yourself. But after moving to my own flat and going out for the Bells I realised that was bollocks. Maybe I'd have won the lottery if I hadn't though? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 3 hours ago, ICTChris said: 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 13 minutes ago, Robin.Hood said: Be first person to knock on someone door. Hi, happy new year. Have some shortbread and have a splendid new year. Is how I remember it. Shortbread and black bun. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 4 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said: Nothing worse than being positively civic. Some first footers came to my mum’s door to tell her her dining table was on fire. She’d fine to bed without putting out a candle and it set fire to the table cloth. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 (edited) 31 minutes ago, Honest_Man#1 said: That sounds absolutely mental. So a stranger just turns up to your house on Hogmanay with some coal? Yeah, my Ma used to take me round the houses with coal after we opened the windows to let the old year out and the new year in. We would sometimes stand outside with neighbours listening for the boats horns to go off in the harbour, to signal new year. Edited December 31, 2021 by johnnydun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Despite thinking NY is pish I'll still head to my grandads with some shortie, black bun and whisky tomorrow morning cos I'm nice like that and I'll be legitimately pissed by mid day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 23 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: Some first footers came to my mum’s door to tell her her dining table was on fire. She’d fine to bed without putting out a candle and it set fire to the table cloth. I see where your accident proneness comes from... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Queen of the new year that’s replaced only an excuse actually seems to be making an attempt to be funny. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 2 minutes ago, mizfit said: Queen of the new year that’s replaced only an excuse actually seems to be making an attempt to be funny. But not succeeding. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 2 minutes ago, mizfit said: Queen of the new year that’s replaced only an excuse actually seems to be making an attempt to be funny. It’s not great, but significantly funnier than OAE has been in over a decade. Definitely worth a watch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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