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Chundles

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Happy 2009 fellow Macrumormongers!

May 2009 be fan-effing-tastic for all of you.
 
First on the block from the Antipodes. This is the master Happy New Year thread, I'll sticky it for 24 hours. Happy New Year to you, Chundles. :)
 
Happy New Year from Melbourne, Australia

I hope you all had a great year, even though times have been tough at the moment, we've managed to pull through it. I Hope you had a great 2008 and have an even better 2009!
 
Good Riddance to 2008, what a horrific year. May 2009 be your best year ever !

Ok, and don’t get too drunk tonight.:cool:


Happy New year from Oregon!
 
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'nuf said ;)
 
Happy new year all :3
About to put Wall-E on with the family. Not seen this film yet either so we're already off to a (apparently) good start!
 
Naples sex strike
over fireworks


New Year's Eve could prove to be
something of a damp squib for some
men in the Italian city of Naples.



Hundreds of Neapolitan women have pledged to go without sex unless their men promise to refrain from setting off dangerous illegal fireworks.

Local authorities are backing the women and have sent out text messages urging the men to "make love, not explosions".

The women say it is the only way to persuade their partners that they are serious about their concerns.

"Setting off illegal fireworks isn't celebrating, it's dangerous," Carolina Staiano, a founder of the campaign, told La Stampa newspaper. She told women that if their man did not understand the dangers they should "take action and make him sleep on the sofa".

''If a sex strike is what it takes in order to get the attention of our men, husbands, partners and sons, then we're ready for it," Mrs Staiano, 44, told Italy's Ansa news agency.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7806367.stm
 
It seems like a simple choice for the men of Naples - if they see the New Year in with a bang they won't be seeing the New Year in with a bang...

LOL somehow I think that their wives might be on the sex strike bandwagon, but their girlfriends may not. :eek: Come on, now, this is Naples we are talking about. If the women of Italy could actually accomplish anything by playing this card, they would have played it to good effect many times by now over the past few millenia. :D

Happy New Years, everyone! I actually had a great, hypomanic, roller coaster of a year, new physical maladies and draining workload aside. I got to meet Timmy and Lee, I got to go on far too many dates, see most of the better parts of Chicago's rock scene, stand a few feet away from Ingrid Michaelson at a concert *swoon* and actually be in more than one (sequential) girlfriend relationship in a single calendar year, which bizarrely may never have happened for me before.

Don't worry, 2009 will pale 2008. :)
 
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