How did they celebrate the start of year 2000 in Melbourne, Sydney, all those places?

>How did they celebrate the start of year 2000 in Melbourne, Sydney, all those places?

In Sydney they has some gorgeous fireworks on the harbour bridge, in Melbourne they had some choir on the banks of the Yarra river. I only know what I saw on TV the next day, there would have been loads of other stuff.

I'm from Adelaide and we got pissed in a pub and there was a big, but ultimately fairly unimpressive street party. Apparently we had some of the worst fireworks in the world. That's Adelaide for you.

Melbourne celebrated by being jealous of Sydney's harbour , 'cos all we have is a river which is notable for its distinct browness.
We let the Yarra River continue being brown and set things on fire around it.

I dragged the television and all my novelty lighting out on the sundeck, let off pyros in the street, ran around on the roof with sparklers and drank magnums of champagne with mates until the sun was high in the sky. Apparently this was better than what Perth had.

Tits for eyes? That would be ludicrous!
Sock suspenders are the measure of a man with good sense however.

> Apparently we had some of the worst fireworks in the world. That's Adelaide for you.

well, the big thing on the Thames that night was supposed to be the 30 foot "wall of fire" that was going to go down a half mile stretch of specially prepared barges or something.

but it didn't work.

typically british eh? :O)

>> Apparently we had some of the worst fireworks in the world. That's Adelaide for you.
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>well, the big thing on the Thames that night was supposed to be the 30 foot "wall of fire" that was going to go down a half mile stretch of specially prepared barges or something.
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>but it didn't work.
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>typically british eh? :O)

It was better than Adelaide and looked great on the TV. Adelaide's fireworks on TV were "oh look there's one, oh damn, we didn't get the camera in the right spot in time, what do you mean there aren't any more?"

Typical bloody Adelaide. Now do you see why I left?

POLITICAL NOTE:

Blair could have killed the Dome at birth when he took office - but didn't.

[Blair could have killed Dome in 1997]

I've often wondered why not. Was it Business sponsors that said they wanted it? (McDonalds, Ford, BA et al) who ultimately are to blame for it's pappy, pleb pleasing content? ("Musn't upset or alienate anyone with anything controversial or confusing - they'll stop buying our products if we do!"))

Blair & Co thinking there'd be backlash from the general public who he mistakenly thought wanted a Big Tent [tm] if he scrapped it?

Cost of cancelling contracts and re-imbursing them?

So many people have always said it would be crap. And, for once, The Great British Public, plebs and all, were right.

>[Blair could have killed Dome in 1997]
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>I've often wondered why not. Was it Business sponsors that said they wanted it? (McDonalds, Ford, BA et al) who ultimately are to blame for it's pappy, pleb pleasing content? ("Musn't upset or alienate anyone with anything controversial or confusing - they'll stop buying our products if we do!"))
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>Blair & Co thinking there'd be backlash from the general public who he mistakenly thought wanted a Big Tent [tm] if he scrapped it?
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>Cost of cancelling contracts and re-imbursing them?
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>So many people have always said it would be crap. And, for once, The Great British Public, plebs and all, were right.

Or not. The vast majority of people I've spoken to who've been have been enjoyed at least one or two things about the dome. Most had a good time. I think it's a terrific landmark - a very striking design. I don't know how good or bad it is inside, but I think the papers killed it before it had even opened.

Well, for me, the lasting legacy of the Dome will be that, for all it's faults, it was still a better use of Lottery money than the Opera house or a new rugby pitch for Eton.

Isn't it one of, if not, the biggest attractions in Britain? I believe i heard that somewhere. Probably from a compulsive liar

It's true!

See?

I agree with Al, it's a great landmark.

you can see it from most of the east end (well, its towers anyway).

You just have to look at the opening sequence to The World Is Not Enough to see how great it looks.

just a pity it wasn't thought out better inside.