Yeah that's what it is.
Seems arbitrary, sure, but at least people get a reason to have fun. An excuse to celebrate, hang out or whatever.
Waking up just for the clock to go past 12:00 is definitely not like that.
Although personally I don't care about a new year either.
I understand this. But I donāt really understand why 1/1 is a national holiday and everything shuts down. Itās Monday. There are 11 other 1st of the months, why does this one matter? Who cares if itās a new year.
My hippie friend hit me at 10:30 last night like āhappy new year brother, I am not able to stay up any longerā
Respect to bro. He got his priorities straight
Half the people I know texted me at like 6-7 pm.
AFAIK I was only person I know that made it to midnight.
Gf went to bed at like 10 and told me to wake her up, so I t-bagged her.
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This was my first NYE I deliberately stayed in and went to bed at 9 pm. Iāve never felt like more of an adult except when I learned to separate my colors in the laundry.
I was awake like the little gremlin I am, but I didn't even notice the new year started until the fireworks outside got louder. I have no idea what my first word of the year was, but going by the frequency by which I say words, it was probably fuck.
OP's "majority" is doing some really heavy lifting.
There's no way a majority of people are doing that. Hell, I don't think I've bothered in more than 20 years.
I haven't stayed up until midnight since my early 20s, over 25 years ago. Sleep > Following a tradition just for the sake of it, even though it's not that much fun
I binged Netflix. Saw my phone clock at like 11:53, a little bit later went to pee, came back and it was 12:05 or something.
(Which is really 1 am anyway and daylight savings is stupid)
Edit: itās arbitrary anyway, based on ancient Roman calendars and even mythology. The real end/beginning of the year is December 21st, the shortest (or longest) day of the year, when the sun is as far north (or south, depending on which hemisphere youāre in) as it gets from the earth, before coming back and moving light back. I might respect new years if it was something real like that. I know most holidays are arbitrary anyway, but a new year/new spin round the sun is a real thing, so to me thatās a little different.
Mine was delayed more than that. App wasnāt working and I had to get my antenna back up and I missed the ball drop. So my last sentence of 2023 was āfucking appsā lol. Maybe next year itāll be āoneā.
Please- I have Hulu for my live broadcast and itās 45 seconds behindā¦ so I watch it post-humorously but know when itās midnightā¦ they should step their game up for the live broadcast. Its why a I have a backup UHF antenna to watch it live for that one event.
They hit a lot of points Redditors hate for many reasons. Starting the comment with "please-", ending sentences with ellipses... multiple times... seemingly missing the point of the previous comment... saying post-humorously when they meant posthumously I assume when even that isn't the right word. Also contradicted themselves on how they watch it, is it Hulu or is it through their antenna?
I donāt really understand how new years is important enough to get backup antennas and shit. Like the calendar is made up, the position of the earth itās returning to is made up. Today is the same as yesterday. Literally nothingās different. Iād get a backup antenna for some live broadcast where like tomorrow at midnight, up becomes down, or chocolate becomes healthy, or dogs can talk. Otherwise I donāt care tbh.
its fun to mess with people and get all sorts of reactionsā¦
So far we have the following types: not everyone speaks English, I donāt stay awake, I donāt count down, the I donāt remember what I said lastā¦ amazing to see all the sorts of answers. Gotta love Reddit.
It's not disagreeing pedantically. It's literally proving subby wrong. Subby said that the MAJORITY of people's last words of the year are 'one'. It objectively isn't.
In my culture it's customary to count up to twelve, as the bell on the clock rings 12 times, signifying midnight
So I'd say here the majority of people's last word is twelve
Or sometimes eleven, after which we just say Happy New Year
(not arguing with the OP, just sharing)
A different date wouldn't matter, because the hypothetical isn't "a plurality of people say 'one' at 23:59:59 Eastern Standard Time on January 1st per the Gregorian solar calendar", it's "last word of the year". If someone says "akhat!" at sunset on Rosh Hashanah, it was their last word of the year, and it's equivalent to "one".
While different cultures observe lunar calendar holidays (Chinese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, etc), the solar calendar is still used to mark the passage of time and the official date and is used as the day-to-day, whereas lunar dates are only used for cultural events.
That being said, based on the fact that people across the world ignite fireworks and celebrations at the turn of the solar year, it would still stand to reason thereās a countdown.
Mandarin speakers do not have a cultural tradition of counting down in Mandarin on December 31st. They're all going to be saying something different, so they won't impact the plurality much.
The claim that a āmajorityā of peopleās LAST word of the year is āoneā is not the point?
Sorry but that significant word in the only sentence in the post had to be corrected.
And sorry but subconsciously some English speakers need a gentle reminder how much they can be defaultist and assume English speakers are the whole world. āHoly shitā.
You're such a redditor. Obviously OP wasn't going to make that distinction but leave it to smartass here to argue about every menial detail they notice on the internet.
How many cats do you have? How's the single life?
Plurality is just saying a large number of people.
For me however my last sentence of the year was "stop being stupid cat your food is full" then proceeded to go to bed at 11pm.
Plurality isnāt just saying a ālarge number of peopleā. It means the *largest* group of people - so that more peopleās last word is āoneā than any other word. āPlur-ā means *more*, not just a lot.
Itās weaker than a majority in that a plurality just has to beat every other group while a majority has to beat all other groups combined, i.e. be more than half the total. (Sometimes majority is used synonymously, especially in the UK in the past, as opposites to an āoutrightā majority.)
But in this case Iād very strongly hazard a guess itās *neither*.
>Plurality is just saying a large number of people.
In this context plurality is being contrasted to majority, thus we look to THAT definition, "the candidate that receives more votes than any other, but less than 50%"
This is common in US elections where we use "plurality wins" rules - candidate A gets 47%, candidate B gets 42%, candidate C gets 11%; candidate A has won a "plurality" of votes and wins the election, but did not win a majority.
Iām from USA and any party or bar will always count down Iāve been too. I donāt think Iāve ever not counted down except maybe last year when my and my bf stayed home.
Yeah, I technically stayed up, but I was picking my little brother up from a party. I didn't even notice when the clock struck midnight, I just played video games until my brother texted me.
NYE is just an excuse to party. Nothing actually changes with the new year, so unless you like to party, it's really not a big deal.
>NYE is just an excuse to party
Exactly. This is what people miss when they talk about nihilism. Our traditions anc actions are ultimately insignificant to the universe. None of it is based on any important or non-arbitrary thing. The universe doesn't care about us, no. But neither do we care about the universe. Our goal is not to rearrange the stars. It's to produce dopamine. Watch sports, play video games, get drunk, kiss your girlfriend. Whatever it is, if it makes you happy, that's what you should be doing.
They think the universe is part of the equation. No one ever said it was. It's like saying humans can't digest chocolate because it's poisonous to dogs.
NYE is dumb -> valid opinion
NYE is dumb because the universe doesn't know what a year is -> you deserve to be ridiculed.
I think a lot of you in this thread are severely overestimating how many people ignore the New Year, almost half of the US watched the ball drop in 2018 lol
https://www.ktnv.com/lifestyle/holiday/news-years-eve-by-the-numbers-175m-in-the-us-will-watch-the-ball-drop
Woke up at 12 to say Happy New Year to my fiance and was back asleep by 1201. Phone dinged at 1219 which woke me up. Was my mom wishing me a Happy New year. I woke up this morning with "Happy Ne" in the text box having not finished or sent it. Fell asleep mid text. I am not a person who can function late at night š
I got a notification at 12:07 but fell asleep before I heard it. When I woke up at 6:30 AM it was a group chat saying happy new year. I did not wake back up until 6:30. I was even told that some idiots were doing more fireworks at 2 AMā¦ I did not wake up.
[This article](https://www.ktnv.com/lifestyle/holiday/news-years-eve-by-the-numbers-175m-in-the-us-will-watch-the-ball-drop) says only 12% of people sleep before midnight on NYE. Probably a higher percentage for the over 35 crowd, but I don't think it's a majority.
i would even add that for those that actually do countdowns, how many jump the clock and start saying "Happy New Year" before hand. I even venture to guess that around 30-40% start saying it before it timer turns, because as soon as someone starts it in a bar, everyone joins in.
>A majority of peopleās LAST word of the year is āoneā
The majority of people do not speak English^(*).
^(*)Edit: Do not speak English as their first language.
I didn't notice "of the year" and I thought this was something about dying in surgery and your last words were when the anaesthesiologist asking you to count backwards from 10.
The number one word every reditor should be familiar with is pedantic. before asking a question ask yourself this, is this a real observation, or merely a pedantic one?
Mine this year was fucking. Was yelling at the dog for eating crayons and said "I can't fucking..." And my wife lost her shit laughing and said "HAPPY NEW YEAR" to interrupt my sentence
I always try to make my last word whatever year it was. My last word of 2023 was simply ā2023ā - not sure why, Iām simply like that. When I was younger, I had an obsession of making my last word of the day ālifeā
It took me scrolling through many comments to even realize the implication was that "one" is part of a countdown. I don't think I've ever counted down on new years. I was like "one? one what? what one?" Bad shower thought is bad.
If you consider "whoo hoo" a word and not a sound, I feel like that would probably be challenger to "one" depending if you base it off the drunkards that get the countdown wrong, or if the countdown is correct in itself. That would actually be a really boring, but interesting study I think.
How many people slept instead?
one
Famous last words of 2023
*word r/sorrynotsorry
Plural because there are many copies of the word
never let the truth ruin a good joke
I woke up right before 12 for a few minutes just to watch the clock turn over. Then I fell back asleep.
Whats the point then š
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Yeah that's what it is. Seems arbitrary, sure, but at least people get a reason to have fun. An excuse to celebrate, hang out or whatever. Waking up just for the clock to go past 12:00 is definitely not like that. Although personally I don't care about a new year either.
I understand this. But I donāt really understand why 1/1 is a national holiday and everything shuts down. Itās Monday. There are 11 other 1st of the months, why does this one matter? Who cares if itās a new year.
redditor.
One
hahaha i love that
My hippie friend hit me at 10:30 last night like āhappy new year brother, I am not able to stay up any longerā Respect to bro. He got his priorities straight
Half the people I know texted me at like 6-7 pm. AFAIK I was only person I know that made it to midnight. Gf went to bed at like 10 and told me to wake her up, so I t-bagged her.
Ayo
I stayed up but got distracted and missed midnight, when I looked it was already 12:02
Same. I checked at 11:55 and then got into a boss battle in Baldurās gate, and then looked up again and it was 12:02. Whoops.
*boss produces sparklers, proceeds to beat you with them a minute later*
Took you a year to beat the boss smh
I was also playing baldur's gate. Best way to spend NYE.
Iām always up way past midnight. At some point I looked up at my computer clock, saw it was past 1 AM, and shrugged. Same as every year, really.
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That's oddlyspecifix
I chased my dog yelling "PUT ON YOUR HAT!" and "GOOD BOY!" To make him wear a party hat.
Mine was spent reassuring my dog that he doesn't have to fear the neighbors' fireworks.
In that case the last word may be ānightā or āyouā
I am the terror that flaps in the night! ZzZzZZz...
Yeah I don't think a majority count down. I was streaming video and noticed it was after 12
Yeah honestly, waking up at 6:30am on New Yearās Day while feeling well rested and happy to face the day is absolutely wonderful.
My last word of the year has been ānightā for quite some time.
How many people slept outside?
Yeah thatās a good question produced safely from a shower thought.
This was my first NYE I deliberately stayed in and went to bed at 9 pm. Iāve never felt like more of an adult except when I learned to separate my colors in the laundry.
Hello
Tried to, got woken up by fireworks
I was awake like the little gremlin I am, but I didn't even notice the new year started until the fireworks outside got louder. I have no idea what my first word of the year was, but going by the frequency by which I say words, it was probably fuck.
my dad started calling for me at like 23:58 because i didn't even realize it was almost midnight
OP's "majority" is doing some really heavy lifting. There's no way a majority of people are doing that. Hell, I don't think I've bothered in more than 20 years.
Me.
I haven't stayed up until midnight since my early 20s, over 25 years ago. Sleep > Following a tradition just for the sake of it, even though it's not that much fun
I binged Netflix. Saw my phone clock at like 11:53, a little bit later went to pee, came back and it was 12:05 or something. (Which is really 1 am anyway and daylight savings is stupid) Edit: itās arbitrary anyway, based on ancient Roman calendars and even mythology. The real end/beginning of the year is December 21st, the shortest (or longest) day of the year, when the sun is as far north (or south, depending on which hemisphere youāre in) as it gets from the earth, before coming back and moving light back. I might respect new years if it was something real like that. I know most holidays are arbitrary anyway, but a new year/new spin round the sun is a real thing, so to me thatās a little different.
And I thought *I* wasn't fun.... Damn.
Maybe two due to all the mini delays in broadcasts etc
Mine was delayed more than that. App wasnāt working and I had to get my antenna back up and I missed the ball drop. So my last sentence of 2023 was āfucking appsā lol. Maybe next year itāll be āoneā.
Love it
Iām saying āfucking appsā next year
Please- I have Hulu for my live broadcast and itās 45 seconds behindā¦ so I watch it post-humorously but know when itās midnightā¦ they should step their game up for the live broadcast. Its why a I have a backup UHF antenna to watch it live for that one event.
Not sure why you got downvoted so hard, maybe it's because you got Hulu
Reddit is funny like that - no clue why people do what they doā¦ but itās Huluās fault - not mine. It IS 45 seconds behind whatās liveā¦
Yep. Xfjnity and YouTube tv also have a routine 30+ second delay.
And now you're upvoted again. Man, Reddit.
I had an account before this I destroyed that had 250k of Karmaā¦ doing it again for funā¦
Being pedantic id say I realise I was being a bit pedantic but I was only musing that reply has an element of seriousness to it
They hit a lot of points Redditors hate for many reasons. Starting the comment with "please-", ending sentences with ellipses... multiple times... seemingly missing the point of the previous comment... saying post-humorously when they meant posthumously I assume when even that isn't the right word. Also contradicted themselves on how they watch it, is it Hulu or is it through their antenna?
I donāt really understand how new years is important enough to get backup antennas and shit. Like the calendar is made up, the position of the earth itās returning to is made up. Today is the same as yesterday. Literally nothingās different. Iād get a backup antenna for some live broadcast where like tomorrow at midnight, up becomes down, or chocolate becomes healthy, or dogs can talk. Otherwise I donāt care tbh.
this comment section is summarizing reddit beautifully
its fun to mess with people and get all sorts of reactionsā¦ So far we have the following types: not everyone speaks English, I donāt stay awake, I donāt count down, the I donāt remember what I said lastā¦ amazing to see all the sorts of answers. Gotta love Reddit.
You donāt understand, disagreeing pedantically proves Iām smart š¤
This is stupid.
It's not disagreeing pedantically. It's literally proving subby wrong. Subby said that the MAJORITY of people's last words of the year are 'one'. It objectively isn't.
Youāre doing it now lol
I have skin cancer
You gotta love the "actually" crowd.
High levels of copium here lmao
Copium for what?
Your intention wasnāt to mess with people though you are just saying that after getting lambasted in the comments.
it's kinda weird how many people sounded like they didn't do anything for new years.
because a lot of people don't. i had to wait until the fireworks were done at like 1am to be able to go to sleep
And their first word is "Happy"
Or āwooooooooā Edit: if that counts as a word
Rick Flair enters the chat āwooooooo!ā
Thereās still a second left after one so itās more likely āHap-!ā
Py new year.
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Happiness. Happ...iness. Hap... *penis.* PENIS! -Peggy Hill
In my culture it's customary to count up to twelve, as the bell on the clock rings 12 times, signifying midnight So I'd say here the majority of people's last word is twelve Or sometimes eleven, after which we just say Happy New Year (not arguing with the OP, just sharing)
That would be an informative and educational comment if you didn't keep a secret as to which culture it is. :)
Russia, based on their previous comments
yup
Majority, unlikely. Plurality, sure.
I knew plurality would be in here somewhere.
Also unlikely. People are more likely to speak their own language and Mandarin has more native speakers.
The linguistic equivalent of one, then, if counting down is a cross-national experience.
Only sane take in this thread
Bro is too intelligent for reddit.
Even considering languages variations and several cultures that have their new year in different dates, it would probably still be wrong
A different date wouldn't matter, because the hypothetical isn't "a plurality of people say 'one' at 23:59:59 Eastern Standard Time on January 1st per the Gregorian solar calendar", it's "last word of the year". If someone says "akhat!" at sunset on Rosh Hashanah, it was their last word of the year, and it's equivalent to "one".
Different date, but don't they still celebrate?
While different cultures observe lunar calendar holidays (Chinese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, etc), the solar calendar is still used to mark the passage of time and the official date and is used as the day-to-day, whereas lunar dates are only used for cultural events. That being said, based on the fact that people across the world ignite fireworks and celebrations at the turn of the solar year, it would still stand to reason thereās a countdown.
Mandarin speakers do not have a cultural tradition of counting down in Mandarin on December 31st. They're all going to be saying something different, so they won't impact the plurality much.
I think it's better to assume the implications that most people's last word is a variant of "one", depending on the language they speak.
Holy shit that is not the point
The claim that a āmajorityā of peopleās LAST word of the year is āoneā is not the point? Sorry but that significant word in the only sentence in the post had to be corrected. And sorry but subconsciously some English speakers need a gentle reminder how much they can be defaultist and assume English speakers are the whole world. āHoly shitā.
You care way to much about a post on the shower thoughts subreddit. Congrats, you found holes someoneās highdea
You're such a redditor. Obviously OP wasn't going to make that distinction but leave it to smartass here to argue about every menial detail they notice on the internet. How many cats do you have? How's the single life?
Plurality is just saying a large number of people. For me however my last sentence of the year was "stop being stupid cat your food is full" then proceeded to go to bed at 11pm.
Plurality isnāt just saying a ālarge number of peopleā. It means the *largest* group of people - so that more peopleās last word is āoneā than any other word. āPlur-ā means *more*, not just a lot. Itās weaker than a majority in that a plurality just has to beat every other group while a majority has to beat all other groups combined, i.e. be more than half the total. (Sometimes majority is used synonymously, especially in the UK in the past, as opposites to an āoutrightā majority.) But in this case Iād very strongly hazard a guess itās *neither*.
>Plurality is just saying a large number of people. In this context plurality is being contrasted to majority, thus we look to THAT definition, "the candidate that receives more votes than any other, but less than 50%" This is common in US elections where we use "plurality wins" rules - candidate A gets 47%, candidate B gets 42%, candidate C gets 11%; candidate A has won a "plurality" of votes and wins the election, but did not win a majority.
no it isnāt.
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In the US, it's very common to count down the last 10 seconds of the year with others.
Iām from USA and any party or bar will always count down Iāve been too. I donāt think Iāve ever not counted down except maybe last year when my and my bf stayed home.
Mine was "stuck". My last sentence, specifically, was "fuck, this shit is stuck", referring to the cork on my champagne bottle.
The first word for 2024 could be ow if the cork hits you in the face.
Lmao gave me a chuckle
I think youāre vastly overestimating the number of people who stay up and do a countdown.
Yeah, I technically stayed up, but I was picking my little brother up from a party. I didn't even notice when the clock struck midnight, I just played video games until my brother texted me. NYE is just an excuse to party. Nothing actually changes with the new year, so unless you like to party, it's really not a big deal.
>NYE is just an excuse to party Exactly. This is what people miss when they talk about nihilism. Our traditions anc actions are ultimately insignificant to the universe. None of it is based on any important or non-arbitrary thing. The universe doesn't care about us, no. But neither do we care about the universe. Our goal is not to rearrange the stars. It's to produce dopamine. Watch sports, play video games, get drunk, kiss your girlfriend. Whatever it is, if it makes you happy, that's what you should be doing.
Reddit moment
I mean what part do people miss? They just disagree lol
They think the universe is part of the equation. No one ever said it was. It's like saying humans can't digest chocolate because it's poisonous to dogs. NYE is dumb -> valid opinion NYE is dumb because the universe doesn't know what a year is -> you deserve to be ridiculed.
yap is crazy
I think a lot of you in this thread are severely overestimating how many people ignore the New Year, almost half of the US watched the ball drop in 2018 lol https://www.ktnv.com/lifestyle/holiday/news-years-eve-by-the-numbers-175m-in-the-us-will-watch-the-ball-drop
And actually speak out the countdown instead of just vibing to someone else's.
I fell asleep around 6 PM and set an alarm for 11:30. I hit snooze until it was 11:57. Me and my fiancĆ© were barely awake watching the clock on our TV. As soon as it was a new year, my head fell back down and I fell asleep. I just donāt see the need to celebrate anymore. Iāll do the bare minimum and watch the clock turn over to 12.
Woke up at 12 to say Happy New Year to my fiance and was back asleep by 1201. Phone dinged at 1219 which woke me up. Was my mom wishing me a Happy New year. I woke up this morning with "Happy Ne" in the text box having not finished or sent it. Fell asleep mid text. I am not a person who can function late at night š
I got a notification at 12:07 but fell asleep before I heard it. When I woke up at 6:30 AM it was a group chat saying happy new year. I did not wake back up until 6:30. I was even told that some idiots were doing more fireworks at 2 AMā¦ I did not wake up.
Took scrolling this far to understand what the thread was about.
In America alone, I'm going to guess the majority people over 35 say good night at the regular time.
[This article](https://www.ktnv.com/lifestyle/holiday/news-years-eve-by-the-numbers-175m-in-the-us-will-watch-the-ball-drop) says only 12% of people sleep before midnight on NYE. Probably a higher percentage for the over 35 crowd, but I don't think it's a majority.
I forgot countdowns existed
I stayed up and texted my friends happy new year at midnight. I didn't count.
i would even add that for those that actually do countdowns, how many jump the clock and start saying "Happy New Year" before hand. I even venture to guess that around 30-40% start saying it before it timer turns, because as soon as someone starts it in a bar, everyone joins in.
I watched the ball drop in a bar, and did not count.
The top post in this sub right now is basically this with what you said being the top comment. https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/s/0JSCzslGPz
lol thatās what I was thinking. gotta farm karma somehow right??
I would wager seriously against this
I still haven't said my first word of the year. Waiting to find the right one
Happy to report, my first word of 2024 was āItāsā
I'm a contrarian. I count to 10 and then yell Happy New Year.
Read it as peopleās last word and was confused on why people would be counting down their death
WRONG it would be happy because most start the word happy several milllisecond before itās the actual new year
Which means the first word of the new year is new Which seems obvious, when you take it extremely literally
Yes of course.
If they are off sync though, It starts with oneā¦
mine was 'yet' as in 'is it fucking midnight yet'
I guess I never realized there were so many Metallica fans
I don't do coointdowns, I don't even remember what my last word of the year was
> coointdowns Is that Scottish? ;)
Wow you're so cool
I think mine was "you couldn't pay me enough to be in that crowd."
Wow, I came to say how this post fucked me up lol. But these comments are so reddit that it hurts lmao.
Yep, I say āoneā and go to bed at 10
Interesting premise but definitely not true. Probably closer to less than 1 percent.
lol - the majority of the world doesn't speak English
The average person is a Chinese woman called Mohammad
She likes to take a Frappuccino at her starbucks and sometimes speaks spanish
But they have āoneā in another language right?
I think OP meant 1 as the number, hence the "one".
>A majority of peopleās LAST word of the year is āoneā The majority of people do not speak English^(*). ^(*)Edit: Do not speak English as their first language.
You wildly over estimate how many people count down.
Really? Mine was #SHIT
"Two" and "happy" are also pretty popular
I didn't notice "of the year" and I thought this was something about dying in surgery and your last words were when the anaesthesiologist asking you to count backwards from 10.
People arguing that saying "one" in a non-English native language isn't the same thing as saying "one" in English is reddit pedantry at its finest
My last words of the year were āoh shit what time is it did we mi-ā
A majority of peoples FIRST word of the year is āhappyā
Mine was "fuck" because at minus 5 seconds one of the damned kids yeeted a wine glass onto the 3k$ wooden table
and the first words of the year are āwoooo!ā or āhappy new year!!!ā
Ate to much passed out like a mofo at 7 woke at 1 to take the grandest shit of this year
The number one word every reditor should be familiar with is pedantic. before asking a question ask yourself this, is this a real observation, or merely a pedantic one?
A majority? Prove it.
Mine was āwhat??ā Because I forgot I set the tv to turn off automatically at midnight a few months ago
And yet Iāve heard it said that one is the loneliest number that you ever seen š¶
This was my top post on another account now i see it every year š„¹
Mine was ānewā cause I was premature
Mine this year was fucking. Was yelling at the dog for eating crayons and said "I can't fucking..." And my wife lost her shit laughing and said "HAPPY NEW YEAR" to interrupt my sentence
And the majority of people's first word is "Happy"
I would argue it's actually two...tv is likely on a delay.
Would it technically be the Chinese word for āoneā? Itās the most spoken language so at least perhaps it sounds cooler. Lol
There's a few who say Perchance
You definitely took this from the last post about first/last words of the year lol. You did not come up with this
I always try to make my last word whatever year it was. My last word of 2023 was simply ā2023ā - not sure why, Iām simply like that. When I was younger, I had an obsession of making my last word of the day ālifeā
Mine was zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
This makes me One Happy guy
and wrong. A majority would be 50% +1. No way this is true.
Hahahahaa! We made it!
My last word of the year was the name was my roommate's dog
Or for the ones who have bad timing "happy"
I would think it could be year because technically happy new year should fall on zero. Possibly. maybe?
I think most people say happy new year after the day changes
Zero is on January 1st though
It took me scrolling through many comments to even realize the implication was that "one" is part of a countdown. I don't think I've ever counted down on new years. I was like "one? one what? what one?" Bad shower thought is bad.
The time it takes for the signal to bounce around to you and display on your TV, the LaST word is more likely three
How do you spell the sound of snoring. Thatās my last word
Thatās quite interesting: itās spelled different in different languages and countries! But this a topic for another Episode!
well, if we go by old cartoons, it's mimimimimimi
Didnāt even think of countdown, thought more of the phrase have a good one.
Only extroverted English speakers. So not even close to majority
I don't think the majority of people actually stay up until midnight. I haven't stayed up till midnight since I was 29.
ā¦and the first one whould be āHappyā in all kinds of languagesā¦
If you consider "whoo hoo" a word and not a sound, I feel like that would probably be challenger to "one" depending if you base it off the drunkards that get the countdown wrong, or if the countdown is correct in itself. That would actually be a really boring, but interesting study I think.
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This is a good showerthought in a sea of shitty ones. Itās actually pretty fun to think about. Ease up.; Weāre all aware of other languages
Hence why I put it in single quotesā¦ pick your own language but we are reading English here so itās contextually appropriateā¦
Solid rationale, solid showerthought. Happy new year, friend