[Closed] Doe anybody else think NYE is an overated bag of biz?

Anyone who disagrees with you will already be in the pub. 😀

Never been to the local pub, it's a night for house or street parties ime... Tonight I'm just off into Edinburgh to see a band I love though, so it's not going to be that "special" I suppose. But I like it. If you don't like new year the way you do it, why not do it different?

Generally yes over-rated. I never pay to get in anywhere on principal for NYE. Dinner and drinks at home with friends are best. I would add that as a lover of fireworks NYE in Verbier is exceptional as people spend the equivalent of the GDP of a small country on fireworks and NYE in the mountains is cool

I * love you derek_starship you miserable *

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Well you never know when the zombie apocalypse will happen

FYI

If you sleep through New years you gain a extra year of life

You've never spent NYE off your tits on pills with 3 thousand other people until 4am have you? I lament my 20s 🙁

Pay to get into a pub?

You're doing it wrong mate.

Sydney was pretty awesome. Kinda ruins all nye's after

If the whole Pub thing doesn't float your boat, why not pop round to your lovely neighbours with a bottle or two?

Oh.

If you sleep through New years you gain a extra year of life

Sweet, I'm going to get really old.

I'm not an Xmas type but some of my best ever nights were on nye and I still love it now .

ou've never spent NYE off your tits on pills with 3 thousand other people until 4am have you? I lament my 20s

Hugs, pulls stupid face, forgets what going on, dances briefly, bimbles off to talk bllx at someone.

I used to love the whole party atmosphere, going out & getting wasted one way or another, most of my 20s were spent that way.
Now I'm approaching 40 I just can't be bothered with it. I'll be having fish & chips for tea & a few glasses of wine watching The Man in the High Castle. Once my wife gets home from work at 10 we'll go to bed.
Part of me wishes I was still cool, but it's only a tiny part of me & will be easy to ignore. Plus I get quiet roads to ride on in the morning while everyone else is in bed hungover!

blwyddyn newydd dda!

It's the annual scrabble match-up with Mrs SR and Jools Holland's Hootenany on in the background. All in all, not a bad evening.

Never really got to the whole drink yourself silly on NYE thing.

I wrote this on the grumpy Christmas thread too, but New Year was always a bigger celebration than Xmas in Scotland.

My youngests B'day tomorrow so will be have some Jammy Red Roo and a cracking takeaway in a bit before chilling out with a movie.
Had some cracking ones in the past from the "usual" to sitting in the crater of a volcano watching an uninterrupted sky, beach campfires to slightly illegal climbs to top of previously mentioned volcano.
Now I really can't be f.... with the pretentiousness of it all - as with xmas, its a load of commercial bollocks.
I'll be up nice and early, fresh for a run out then round to see her and then go out for mahoosive triple decker cakes and top notch coffee.
I'll try not to wake you when I take the baffles out of the 14's exhausts 😆

why not pop round to your lovely neighbours with a bottle or two?

Great idea Breggers!

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Can I just take this opportunity to point out that Jools Holland Hootanany is recorded in July.
I'm staying in, wouldn't queue in a pub it doesnt compute.

Have a good ny though whatever you miserable lot do.

I used to think that in my more misanthropic days. Now it barely registers on the radar. Just another night in with the Mrs and kids.

I used to think that in my more misanthropic days.

I'm not misanthropic, I just can't be doing with the huge shower of bellends that live in my town.

I call them the shitterati 🙂

Can I just take this opportunity to point out that Jools Holland Hootanany is recorded in July

I thought it was October, but anyway- Im sure the people 4 doors up will wake up all the many children in the street with their pissed up midnight fireworks, and maybe the woman will get punched in the face again for having a strop after my neighbor complained.

Fireworks and alcohol. Classic combo. What could possibly transpire?

Like letting a sixteen year old son take the controls of an A310...

that sounds like a great party whats the post code 😀
btw you missed the u

I'm not a celebrator of it to be honest.

Good job as well as Mrs Danny is working tonight so I'm in looking after babybgoode and likely to be in bed will before midnight - never know what time he'll be up tomorrow...

We got cheesed off with the usual pub/bar/club nonsense years ago - had some great times in my early years but you can't carry that on for long before your body starts to give in. In recent years as the kids are older, we've just been going round to friends houses and having a house party which is nice as we can involve the kids - all the kids head upstairs, 'adults' downstairs. It's all about who you're with and not where you are - with a bit of dad dancing thrown in for entertainment value.

Anyway, wherever you may be all the best for 2016.

IMO, exclusively the most overrated night of the year, echoing the above sentiments.

Early night and earlyish start to get into London for NYD daytime clubbing to hard house, trance and all its various sub-genres was awesome though, many great memories of good times shared and was the default for pretty much all of the 90's.

Unlikely to be repeated, but never say never 😀

I 100% thought it was last night (just assumed the fireworks did'nt wake me up for 3 hours).....so now I'm going to have to ignore the outside world again tonight.

[quote=hammyuk] Now I really can't be f.... with the pretentiousness of it all - as with xmas, its a load of commercial bollocks.
Yep, we've had to swap over the Xmas tree for the New Years Eve tree, complete with New Years Eve decorations. All the New Years Eve presents have been wrapped in their New Years Eve wrapping paper and distributed accordingly. The New Years Eve singers were round earlier singing New Years Eve songs and demanding payment.

I hate New Year for a lot of the reasons above.

I think i hate the countdown the most.

I really like the rest of the 12 days though.

I hate that 'pretend were friends' Scotch / Gaylic song the most.

30 years ago when I wanted to get legless and have a grubby fumble with a girl called Karen I cared about NYE more than anything in the world.

However. Now I am married with kids and in my late 40s I really couldn't give a shit.

Whacked some old mixes on my HiFi (that I couldn't have afforded in my 20s) and got in to the mood for a party.

Then I realised I was getting all hyped up for a 2005 Cyantific drum and bass mix and I'd probably not enjoy any of that new fangled stuff anyway.

Maybe when the nipper will sleep through a storm I'll have a decent house party.

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I hate that 'pretend were friends' Scotch / Gaylic song the most.

But they're not scottish, they're from bradford!

Also, fireworks at half past six, what's that about?

Regulars only in our local on NYE. So no amateur drinkers fighting at 9pm or 5 deep at the bar. Should be a belter of a night!

Happy new year you lot! Even the miserable sods like Derek! 😀

Just cus you've given up smoking Binners doesn't mean you can come in here all chirpy
OH - and take that stupid hat OFF!!

It gets better. Mrs Binners is DJing and I've just been informed that means we're not paying for drinks tonight!

BOOM!!! Pint of vodka and orange please!! 😀

I think it's great people enjoying it, but I can't be bothered. Was Ok when I was younger, now I'm more concerned about getting an early night so I am in a fit state to actually do something on New Years Day rather than waste it feeling ill/sorry for myself and feeling that I've wasted the first day of the rest of my life.

The more time I spend out and about, the more the Winter Solstice seems like the turn of the year to me anyway.

It's possible to enjoy it without getting hammered 🙂

At my age, it's the lack of sleep as much as any alcohol.... 😐

i'm with derek_starship, I love christmas but hate New Years.

I'm staying in might walk up to rivy pike to watch the firework...

You've never spent NYE off your tits on pills with [s]3 thousand other people until 4am [/s]500 hundred people after haveing dodged under a rollershutter door and found all the fire exits bolted shut only to emerge at 10.00 the next morning with floor paint/sweat/Rizla/beer/water/speed/ coke/pills all over your face have you?