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NkThrasher
2009-12-31 09:25:31 PM
So much for the quint-fecta.
 
AlwaysRightBoy [TotalFark]
2009-12-31 09:27:17 PM
Being that I'll be sleeping by 12 pm.

Happy Farking New Year
 
AlwaysRightBoy [TotalFark]
2009-12-31 09:31:57 PM
Throw me a lai!!!!
 
PPL_Wannabe
2009-12-31 09:37:22 PM
I visit there every year.
 
pseudowho [TotalFark]
2009-12-31 10:00:29 PM
Huh? New Year isn't for for almost 7 hours here yet...
 
johnny_vegas
2009-12-31 10:36:36 PM
pseudowho: Huh? New Year isn't for for almost 7 hours here yet...

I bet the fireworks have started already though
 
acanuck [TotalFark]
2009-12-31 10:42:13 PM
I didn't realize "Puna Kihapai" meant "Spring Field" in Hawaiian
 
pseudowho [TotalFark]
2009-12-31 10:58:07 PM
johnny_vegas: I bet the fireworks have started already though

Amazingly, barely any so far. Due to the drought and ongoing wildfires, the county (I think, or maybe the state?) has requested that personal fireworks be kept to between 9pm and 1am, something I think is a reasonable thing to request every year.

New Year's Eve has become one of my least favorite days of the year since moving out here thanks to the local obsession with fireworks

/most years they're pretty much continuous from about 2pm to about 2AM with sporadic explosions even later. The smoke gets so dense (on top of the constant vog problem) that it's like driving through dense fog and my place fills with smoke even with all the windows and doors shut
//I am not exaggerating
 
shivashakti
2009-12-31 11:31:36 PM
Or as we like to call it...."Kenya".
 
schief2 [TotalFark]
2009-12-31 11:37:03 PM
Hmm...I tried anagramming this one to see if I could get Springfield that way, and all I could come up with was "Jeremy's Iron".
 
Somacandra [TotalFark]
2009-12-31 11:47:45 PM
upload.wikimedia.org

Oh I get it now. Its the last place in the U.S. to enter the new year.
 
Brettster808 [TotalFark]
2010-01-01 12:59:57 AM
Here is Aiea (Oahu) it sounds like a war zone. BOOM! BOOM!
 
farkityfarker
2010-01-01 05:03:32 AM
It's still 2009 in Samoa.
 
omgwtfetc
2010-01-01 05:05:56 AM
Puna Kihahpai? That just sounds made up. It's not a real American name like Upirngaq Piruqsivik, Alaska.
 
pseudowho [TotalFark]
2010-01-01 05:06:58 AM
Happy New Year, from Hawaii...

/going back outside for the fireworks
 
farkityfarker
2010-01-01 05:08:51 AM
AlwaysRightBoy: Being that I'll be sleeping by 12 pm.

Happy Farking New Year

You're going to be asleep at noon?
 
omgwtfetc
2010-01-01 05:12:17 AM
farkityfarker: AlwaysRightBoy: Being that I'll be sleeping by 12 pm.

Happy Farking New Year

You're going to be asleep at noon?

It's New Year's day. If you won't be asleep at noon there's something wrong with you.
 
mrbumpy
2010-01-01 05:13:18 AM
commodore-64-games.com
 
ScreamingHangover
2010-01-01 05:16:08 AM
Brettster808: Here is Aiea (Oahu) it sounds like a war zone. BOOM! BOOM!

Pretty friggin' awesome, Ain't it?
 
MokiTheGecko
2010-01-01 05:22:52 AM
Brettster808: Here is Aiea (Oahu) it sounds like a war zone. BOOM! BOOM!

Right there with ya brah!
 
relaxitsjustme
2010-01-01 05:35:45 AM
Hau'oli Makahiki Hou to you Hawaii farkers!!

I love how the city just starts to rumble and the noise keeps building and building. Never been anywhere that does New Years the way Hawaii does.

/remember 2000? You could tell the gods honest truth and people on the Mainland still look at you like you're bullshaiting them.
 
ramen_for_all
2010-01-01 06:06:48 AM
acanuck: I didn't realize "Puna Kihapai" meant "Spring Field" in Hawaiian

*tiny fist*
 
Roquefort
2010-01-01 06:11:03 AM
Is Limbaugh Dead?

Now that would be a Happy New Year

/Palin can fall into Mt. Kilauea for an extra special New Years
 
musashi1600
2010-01-01 06:46:10 AM
Brettster808: Here is Aiea (Oahu) it sounds like a war zone. BOOM! BOOM!

I'm pretty sure the whole island sounded like that from about 6 in the evening. It's been mostly quiet for the past half-hour or so, though.
 
valeran
2010-01-01 07:18:50 AM
Oh please, if you think the fireworks were a problem now, you should have seen the place before they started to crack down on illegal fireworks and firecrackers. Driving down the H-1 on the morning of Jan 1st was like driving through the I-5 to Fresno on a winter morning. No see shiat

I still haven't gotten used to the relatively quiet New Years here on the mainland. I mean, what do people do all night if not light firecrackers? Drink?

And you think its bad now? There is still Chinese New Year...
 
PsychoLaurie
2010-01-01 07:20:26 AM
Hau'oli Makahiki Hou from Honolulu!!!

I love how we haven't had a really good rain in forever out here. Today, however, was overcast & rainy all day. I think the rain gods did that on purpose to keep Oahu from going up in flames!

Still a heavy cloud of smoke & vog outside, which isn't going anywhere because we have Kona winds. In other words: One more week until everyone has bronchitis ... again!

Lucky I live Hawaii now and am not ass deep in snow, suckas!!
 
KYLYKaHYT
2010-01-01 08:31:55 AM
pseudowho: johnny_vegas: I bet the fireworks have started already though

Amazingly, barely any so far. Due to the drought and ongoing wildfires, the county (I think, or maybe the state?) has requested that personal fireworks be kept to between 9pm and 1am, something I think is a reasonable thing to request every year.

New Year's Eve has become one of my least favorite days of the year since moving out here thanks to the local obsession with fireworks

/most years they're pretty much continuous from about 2pm to about 2AM with sporadic explosions even later. The smoke gets so dense (on top of the constant vog problem) that it's like driving through dense fog and my place fills with smoke even with all the windows and doors shut
//I am not exaggerating

Whoa, chill, dude! Me (and my fireworks) are like totally getting off your lawn.
 
niroth
2010-01-01 09:20:06 AM
cdn.sheknows.com

"Merry Christmas movie house!"
 
SophT
2010-01-01 09:28:48 AM
AlwaysRightBoy: Throw me a lai!!!!

umm.. ok
upload.wikimedia.org
lai, also known as huapalaoa 'ele 'ele, or Scomberoides lysan.

I believe the word you wanted was lei, but hau'oli makahiki hou anyways!

/born and raised
//currently living in China
///being cold sucks
////first slashies of the new year!
 
Chicken Terminator
2010-01-01 10:15:57 AM
relaxitsjustme: Hau'oli Makahiki Hou to you Hawaii farkers!!

I love how the city just starts to rumble and the noise keeps building and building. Never been anywhere that does New Years the way Hawaii does.

/remember 2000? You could tell the gods honest truth and people on the Mainland still look at you like you're bullshaiting them.

No kidding! The house filled with smoke by 8pm. The dog glued himself to my leg like I should do something. They were already going so hard that I couldn't actually tell a difference at midnight from the hours before. It wasn't physically possible to increase for THE moment. I swear to this day if the house catches fire the dog won't bother to alert anyone because I was ok when it filling with smoke yrs ago.
 
Syphilis_Smile
2010-01-01 10:54:43 AM
pseudowho: johnny_vegas: I bet the fireworks have started already though

Amazingly, barely any so far. Due to the drought and ongoing wildfires, the county (I think, or maybe the state?) has requested that personal fireworks be kept to between 9pm and 1am, something I think is a reasonable thing to request every year.

New Year's Eve has become one of my least favorite days of the year since moving out here thanks to the local obsession with fireworks

/most years they're pretty much continuous from about 2pm to about 2AM with sporadic explosions even later. The smoke gets so dense (on top of the constant vog problem) that it's like driving through dense fog and my place fills with smoke even with all the windows and doors shut
//I am not exaggerating

You sound fat.
 
jrtinker
2010-01-01 11:00:23 AM
Hou 'oli makahiki hau
 
YankeeAirPirate
2010-01-01 11:19:16 AM
Hau'oli Makahiki Hou
 
Campaigner444
2010-01-01 11:31:39 AM
Mekaleka-hi, Meka-hiney-ho!
 
tuffsnake
2010-01-01 03:17:20 PM
Hapa New Year!

/Howlee
 
Keystone Copout
2010-01-01 04:55:12 PM
pseudowho: johnny_vegas: I bet the fireworks have started already though

Amazingly, barely any so far. Due to the drought and ongoing wildfires, the county (I think, or maybe the state?) has requested that personal fireworks be kept to between 9pm and 1am, something I think is a reasonable thing to request every year.

New Year's Eve has become one of my least favorite days of the year since moving out here thanks to the local obsession with fireworks

/most years they're pretty much continuous from about 2pm to about 2AM with sporadic explosions even later. The smoke gets so dense (on top of the constant vog problem) that it's like driving through dense fog and my place fills with smoke even with all the windows and doors shut
//I am not exaggerating

Have you checked your yard for a volcano?
 
hoopy22
2010-01-01 06:37:50 PM
Roquefort: Is Limbaugh Dead?

Now that would be a Happy New Year

/Palin can fall into Mt. Kilauea for an extra special New Years

Maybe the cool kids will let you sit at their table now.
 
Fireproof
2010-01-01 06:45:14 PM
Somacandra: last place

I live in American Samoa, so I am really getting a kick out of some of these replies.

/Where's my thread?
 
skaya
2010-01-01 10:27:43 PM
so much for the western Aleutian Islands
 
GeneralJim
2010-01-02 01:40:33 AM
Fireproof:
Somacandra: last place

I live in American Samoa, so I am really getting a kick out of some of these replies.

/Where's my thread?

Eh, brah, Samoa not da state kine.

skaya:
so much for the western Aleutian Islands
You're the same time zone as Hawaii, brah. UTC-10. They're not listing every town.
 
pseudowho [TotalFark]
2010-01-02 09:24:15 PM
I don't have a problem with people having fun with fireworks; I just have a problem being forced to breathe 80% smoke for several hours. We have a constant vog problem where I live because the combination of the trade winds and the mountains trap it, so on the average day it's like living in Los Angeles in the 1970s.

When you add in 12-14 hours of continuous fireworks, mostly the cheap & super-smokey type, it really gets bad and I end up with a headache & stinging eyes & throat, even with every window & door sealed. It's not really very fun. You may think I'm exaggerating, but I've had family visiting from the mainland over New Years before and they couldn't believe how dense the smoke was.

This year we had a nice breeze that kept the air pretty clear, and one of my makai neighbors was actually setting off cool fireworks (you know, the ones that make a colorful display in the sky, as opposed to most of them which make a lot of noise and smoke but aren't that fun to watch).

Had a good time watching the display around midnight.
 
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