Happy New Year 2023

[Fred]

I would like to wish all our members and guests a very happy new year for 2023.

A special shout out goes to those members that keep coming back to update their threads, answer others questions and offer support. Though we are mostly a forum about psoriasis it's good to see the members only boards getting used often as it means others are here when needed to welcome our new members, I've seen all sorts of things posted in the off topic board over the years but the huge amount of genuine support offered to others when needed is something you should all be proud of.

I also want to thank our forum helpers Caroline, Jim and Kat for their continued support. They give up their time to help me in the background making sure we keep the place safe for our members and quickly pointing me to the spammers and scammers so you don't have to see them.

The forum isn't used as much these days as it used to be, but In case you missed it I added enough funds to the pot to keep us going to August 2025. That doesn't mean we won't go past 2025, but we will look at that when the time comes.

Thank you all for helping make what Psoriasis Club is, I couldn't do it without you.   

Enjoy your celebrations and have a very happy and healthy new year, I'll see you on the other side. 

Regards.

Fred.

[Kat]

Happy New Year!!!

May 2023 be kind to all of us

[Caroline]

You are early Kat…

Well for some of us it is already 2023.

I still have half an hour to go, but there are fireworks already everywhere around here, it is not fun at all because there is a lot of heavy firework.

But anyway… have a great 2023 !!!!

[Kat]

Yes, I was early as most of you will see the New Year before me.

But I am in the eastern part of the US so won't be the last of our Club members to ring in the new year

[Kat]

I finally made it to a party here.... I'm having fun! 



Hmm seems no one is about... I'll just switch the music over to COUNTRY!     

[Turnedlight]

Happy new year everyone!

[Caroline]

I finally made it to a party here.... I'm having fun! 



Hmm seems no one is about... I'll just switch the music over to COUNTRY!     

Yeah !!!!

Line dancing !!!!

Happy new year everyone!

Happy New Year !

At least over here we survived the fireworks.
They sold for over a 110 million of firework in the past weeks.
It took almost 1,5 hour to get a bit silent again after midnight had arrived.


We have one calamity, a person of 23 years dead, due to an accident with an explosive game. (Carbidschieten)
The hospitals had an old fashioned horrornight with hundreds of people with wounds on eyes and hands.
12 towns had a restraining order for igniting fireworks, …. that was totally ignored.
Several cars got on fire and there was one empty church that got on fire and has totally burnt down.
35 people, only in Rotterdam, were arrested for throwing dangerous heavy firework to officers and firemen.
The roof of a school went on fire.
There is a volunteer fireman living in a house close by, I am friends with his wife, he got  called three times before it was even 12:00 and after 12:00 he had continued duty/work.

It was a great party. 

[Kat]

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At least over here we survived the fireworks.
They sold for over a 110 million of firework in the past weeks.
It took almost 1,5 hour to get a bit silent again after midnight had arrived.


We have one calamity, a person of 23 years dead, due to an accident with an explosive game. (Carbidschieten)
The hospitals had an old fashioned horrornight with hundreds of people with wounds on eyes and hands.
12 towns had a restraining order for igniting fireworks, …. that was totally ignored.
Several cars got on fire and there was one empty church that got on fire and has totally burnt down.
35 people, only in Rotterdam, were arrested for throwing dangerous heavy firework to officers and firemen.
The roof of a school went on fire.
There is a volunteer fireman living in a house close by, I am friends with his wife, he got  called three times before it was even 12:00 and after 12:00 he had continued duty/work.

It was a great party. 

For the first time ever I didn't hear a single firework or gunshot! We have one dog (Rascal, the corgi mix) that hates loud noises so we were happy not to have to deal with him shaking. Some years our closest neighbor literally sets off dynamite I think! We've had our house shake with the "boom!" but either they weren't home this year or didn't celebrate.

So sad you had a death over fireworks. People forget I think that they are dangerous and should be handled cautiously.

[Caroline]

People forget I think that they are dangerous and should be handled cautiously.

That is so important Kat, that they realise that. But I fear that for a number of people it is so that their intelligence is not on a level that they can achieve those thoughts.

[Kat]

People forget I think that they are dangerous and should be handled cautiously.

That is so important Kat, that they realise that. But I fear that for a number of people it is so that their intelligence is not on a level that they can achieve those thoughts.

My guess is that the majority of accidents with fireworks is preventable. There's always those exceptions where something went wrong even with people using caution, but it's usually people doing something they shouldn't that causes it. As you say, there seem to be quite a few lacking intelligence (in my day we were allowed to say "stupid" but it's not politically correct to say that any longer so we'll go with your very polite way of putting it.)