[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?

Organise friends, food and drink - have a party at home next time.

Just put delicate valuables away.

Happy on my own, in my own company this year. Mrs's has stayed up North, just supped my last 2015 pint at my fave pub on this little planet of ours and settled for the rest of the year.

HNY you lot.

😀

I think the Millennium thing killed it for me and lots of people my age - it was the most over blown, over hyped, profiteered bag of bollocks I've ever suffered - on one hand it was a 'big one', there was a great sense of optimism at that time, we'd been through a nasty recession - harder than this recent one, but much shorter of course. Living in Wales and Cardiff especially it was a positive time - the dirty derelict docks had been pulled down, the bay was thriving, we'd just hosted the Rugby World Cup on the other hand there was actually a real thought in the back of our minds that Y2K would happen and somehow we'd all die of it - we were all going to party like it was our last day on earth.

In the end, it was the same as every other NYE, it was cold, wet, people drank too much, punched and kicked each other, threw up and generally acted the arse - it was £50 to get a ticket to a club, £50 for a taxi home and double for drinks etc - forget hotels or restaurants!

It was shit, the anti-climax of the anti-climax that was NYE.

The year after I was in Sydney, which was a great night out, big party on a roof garden, just after the Olympics. The biggest differences is the weather, middle of summer, warm evenings with cool breezes infinitely better than shivering in the drizzle at home.

I've never paid to get into a pub, ever.

Not been out for a few years due to work and kids but I do enjoy it.

Where are these amateur drinkers you're talking about?

Not gone out on xmas or new years eve for many years now. Just stay in with some beers and junk food, happy enough with that.

Over visiting parents this year so not out with the group. But will go out to see a band etc tomorrow night and it will still be the new year.

Quiet night in with mrs_d and the cat.
Had some fun nights out back in the day but really CBA with it these days. And as for Jools Holland's thing...

€0.89 per bottle of the local brew

costs nothing to go outside and dodge the fireworks

no point being a boring sod and going to bed early, when the fireworks have been going off every few seconds since dinner time, and WW3 is about to break out any time soon

happy new year!

so much for avoiding Jools 🙄

Why should it bother you what anyone else does? You are free to make of it what you want aren't you?

Bike ride, film, friends or bedtime. No need to witness the shitness.

Radisson Blu Palace in Spa after a lovely toodle past Spa Francorchamps and around Malmedy and Stavelot today in the Audi with the roof down. Lovely. Meal in Le Baron in Coo as most of Spa is either closed or booked for NYE.

Had a ride up the ascenseur to Les Thermes this morning.

Overrated? Not at all! A lovely chance for a trip away.

Back to client hunting tomorrow though. Really need a client in early 2016 or things will go bad!
<removes tongue from cheek>

Ran into one of the locals/brewers from our local last night and got invited to their nye thing, pubs been closed all week so paid get into the local food festival hardly paid for a drink all night, hell of a good night with some great people loved it

Currently working, enjoy the electricity...

Happy New Year you miserable misanthropes 😛

Oh and really these posts just read like the mail, people do things I do think understand....

The thing that has made every nye years for me is the people of matter where you are or what faces you if you are with good people it's all good.

Gotta watch out for them antimatter peoples though, isn't it?

Load of nonsense fuss over an arbitrary date.

Not really that bothered about going out new year. Too many Coke snorting knob heads trying to be nice at 23.50 till 00.30 and then they are kicking off because their bird glanced in the direction of another bloke.
However I do enjoy cracking open a few beers slapping some Old School Trance on and chilling out with the missus. However this time i was up to my elbows in bedpans.

On the plus side it's my 30th birthday on the 2nd so a nice meal and a few drinks.

I prefer it to Christmas, no looong build up filled with shit music, no being bombarded with advertising for crap you don't want for months before the event, non of the religious nonsense that nobody actually believes or follows,
Just one night, boom! Get hammered/stoned/wasted/whatever you want, then done, over, finito for another year..

Gotta watch out for them antimatter peoples though, isn't it

Sounds like you had a quality evening Mike 😀

Amazingly we were allowed to finish our shift on time at 11pm, so home to celebrate what was left of my birthday with wife and youngest, a nice red, bit of jooles and a Peter Kay vid. Best nye in a while

Waste of time, it's just another day. The only good thing about New Years is the fact I get paid extra for being in work today.
Not really arsed about the having to pay to get into a pub that's packed full of people who never go out as I'm one of those people, I only go out maybe twice a year and every time I do I wonder why I bothered!

Christ! Right little rays of sunshine, you lot, aren't you?

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Just back from Luib Connel bothy, which was a good way of avoiding the national embarrassment of the Bay City Rollers.

Had a good time meself. Honeyblood were decent, Idlewild remembered they're supposed to be a rock band, Biffy were fantastic as ever, good crowd, lots of happy people, lots of chat with randoms. Very good fireworks too. Does feel a bit weird when suddenly at 1am "Ladies and gentlemen, Edinburgh is now closed, go home" but still, pretty ace night out. If you don't like your new year, change it.