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@gethin76@toot.walesI've always had this mad idea to do an NYE where every hour you serve a drink & a snack from a country where it's just turned midnight.
Start at 1pm UK time with New Zealand & keep going until 8am with west coast USA. There's even a few "half hour" time zones in Oz, India & Iran to think about. Bit of a lull at UK-2h where there's pretty much nothing
Think it's probably a good thing that I only remember this bloody twp, impractical idea on NYE when I don't have time to do anything about it 
Apparently this
daftness should have had the #Tootenanny hashtag on it. But it's too late and I've got no characters left to edit it 
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda / Happy New Year to all
Note: For the lots of non Welsh people who seem to be reading, "twp" = daft / stupid
@gethin76 bloody marvellous idea, mind
@jonmay aye - until you start thinking about the cost, effort and practicality
@gethin76 this is a genius idea!
@beicwrtaff until you look into the practicalities of trying to pull it off 
@gethin76 This sounds perfect!
@antinomy Perfect/messy. One of the two
@antinomy Almost certainly, yes
@gethin76 Something to add to the to-do list for 2023.
@ravensview To be fair it'll take most of 2023 to plan
@gethin76 there’s a typo „to drink about“
@tabtwo I love a good tpyo
@gethin76 don't forget about Australian Central Western Time Zone, observed by a few hundred people in WA. What do they drink?
@gethin76 @bifurcation Neat idea. My kids do a similar thing in that they search YouTube for live fireworks in each time zone in the hours leading up to our midnight.
@martin @bifurcation That's very cool
@gethin76 I have a tradition of finding as many NYE live video feeds as possible. I look for online streams for some; for others, I use a Free-To-Air satellite dish. (I run FTAList.com.)
So far today, I've watched Tokyo, Manilla, and Hanoi. As I type, I'm watching a Kazakhstan music special.
On tap:
India, on the half hour,
Dubai,
Saudi Arabia,
Bucharest (TVRi),
Berlin,
London,
Rio de Janeiro,
Puerto Rico,
NYC,
something Central,
Denver,
and Las Vegas.
@gethin76 Someone somewhere must have done this.
@lemonflavoured Almost certainly - and whoever it was deserves (to quote my late Grandad) a gold medal the size of a dustbin lid.
@gethin76 If you do do this, as an Australian, please don't do Fosters as the Aussie drink. We make it by drinking good beer and pissing it in a Foster's keg. NO ONE drinks it here.
@Shakesfirst Oh Iesu mawr, definitely not. Been to Oz enough times to know there's way better out there.
Would go with wine for Australia probably. If we're doing beer I'd go Little Creatures or I've got a soft spot for Coopers too.
@gethin76 just post some of these ideas under #tootenanny - it's the #Mastoparty for #NYE #NewYearsEve #Hogmanay
@GarethTheBike Ah wish I'd known that. Can't even edit the post as it's *right* on 500 characters
@gethin76 When my daughter was about four or five, my wife and her friends who had kids the same age made up a fictional country called Dakkovia, in a time zone corresponding to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, so midnight would come at 7PM California time, so we could have a party and put the kids to bed. There was even an invented language to do the countdown in. The kids had so much fun that we did it for a couple more years, and it got more elaborate.
@not2b Hah hah - that's absolutely brilliant
19 straight hours of eating and drinking, yea thou are a hearty partier!
@nlarson830 That's why it's always something that *seemed* like a good idea at the time. When you start thinking it through the idea soon seems pretty much a bad idea
Well, if it's possible to pay someone else to prepare and serve it all, it'd be a helluva party!
You've got a year to plan it out!
@nlarson830 You pitching for the catering gig then?
I'd subcontract that straightaway y'all would be sad if I prepared the food!
I see what you mean, just gave a moment's thought to the cost of 19 hours of catering and that'd be quite a wedge!
Perhaps you've a friend who's getting married and you can sell them on this as the theme for the Wedding Dinner Party?
@nlarson830 Heh heh - I think it only works if you have 5 or 6 couples/families that get together to take 4-5 "time zones" each. But yeah it's one hell of an undertaking.
Annoyingly, I've just sold the perfect venue to host it
Well you'll not be tasked with cleaning up afterward nor any repair work. I'd say you're better positioned now. 
YOLO
Sell tickets
Overlap the meals and drinks so at any time there's a choice of 3
Have a bunch of bands/musicians/entertainers, those could even be matched to the food and drink.
This is a Thing, so hire a place and pros to do the hard stuff.
@nlarson830 I've just done 7 years owning and running a hospitality business, the thought of even attempting that at the moment is bringing me out in a cold sweat
The fact you've not done it speaks volumes about the level of difficulty, honestly you're right not to.
It's a fun concept to try to get someone else to do 
Like it's much nicer to have a friend with a boat rather than actually owning one!
@nlarson830 Amen to that brother
@gethin76 Or a progressive barhop in a densely multi-urban neighborhood! Sake to vodka to ouzo to grappa...
@msbellows There's gotta be a few cities in the world where that might actually be doable
@gethin76 As a student we tried to spend the day in the pub keeping up with all the timezones. It made quite a mess of me.
@munchkinstein not surprised mun. Even in my drinking "prime" I think I'd have struggled with 20 hours on it
@gethin76 Getting kicked out the pub for midnight (and failing to remember what the plans for later were) probably saved me. 
To mis-spent youth 
@gethin76 we do something similar but it's just 10 hours of eastern european food
@PavelASamsonov That sounds like a half tidy night to me
@gethin76 I will come to this potluck. What should I bring?
@jmax A new liver for the next day
@gethin76 Excellent! Done. Most people object to my cloning around; glad you don't.
@gethin76 Sounds like it'd be fun! And might be a good way to think about countries that don't get as much attention on the global stage, to boot.
As to how expensive it'd be, that depends more on how many people you have over. 
@Shachihoko These are a few of the reasons that this has stayed a theoretical NYE for well over a decade since I first had the idea
@gethin76 Gonna be eating alot of seafood
@goldwein I can think of worse things to happen