Who makes a big deal out of New Year's Eve?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-12-31 02:41am

With New Year's Eve coming up, I thought the question should be asked: do any of you make a big deal out of it? Watch the specials? Go to bars? Hold parties?

Personally, I couldn't care less. It comes too soon on the heels of Christmas, and its only significance to me is a calendar change.

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2003-12-31 02:43am

Well, to me it's usually an excuse to drink with friends, but this year I'm working so no dice...

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-12-31 02:43am

I used to care, as my parents would let me stay up until midnight (oh boy!). But now... eh, so what? Just not a big deal for me.

AnimeJet · Post by **AnimeJet** » 2003-12-31 02:44am

Meh.. I just stay at home and stay up till 12AM, wish my parents a happy new year, and then go to bed. Last year I spent my new years with the animals in my Animal Crossing town

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TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-12-31 02:44am

I have not cared since I was a teen. It is supposed to rain tomorrow, so I plan to stay home watch a little tv and wrap myself in a blanket.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-12-31 02:44am

Since I don't have any friends, I usually sit on my but, perhaps watch some New Year's Eve special on TV. The only time I actually went out for New Year's Eve is was for 2000.

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-12-31 02:44am

I'm personally throwing a private party, with just a few friends coming along, as well as junk food, cider(were all under 21, so non-alcoholic for us), and lots of movies and games.

Basically, its just a reason to party or to bring about hope about the future or making a promise you probably won't keep.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2003-12-31 02:47am

We're having a party, mainly so my dad can show his new stuff off.

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2003-12-31 02:54am

Personally I don't really give a damn about New Year's. I can understand why some people do however. For one thing, it is seen as a chance to make a new start. However, it probably also has something to do with the fact that it's the last holiday of the season. After this, you've got four months until Easter. For people who have survived Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanuka(sp?) and whatever else people celebrate it's an end to what is usually a very stressful time.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-12-31 03:05am

Not I.

When I was a kid we used to go over to the neighbors or vice versa and play board games (Risk, Life, Monopoly etc...) until midnight or a little after. That was fun.

As an adult I really can care less. More often than not I work New Years Eve so I get to wait at the hospital to see what all the boneheads have done to jack themselves up. Hopefully there won't be any drunken shooting into the air accidents this year.

The last time I was actually off for New Years Eve I think I was in bed by 9pm.

It is also not one of my favorite "holidays" because it always reminds me that one of my Navy buddies hung himself in one of our divisional spaces on the ship sometime on New Years Eve or very early on New Years day.

Besides, I've been around enough drunks while in the Navy and now in the hospital (patients) that I really tend to despise holidays that seem to solely exist so people can get loaded. New Years Eve and the American celebration of Cinco de Mayo are the two prime ones in the boozefest for fucking idiots category.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-12-31 03:08am

I tune in a few minutes before the ball drops in Times Square and count down to the new year. Then I either go back on the computer or go to sleep.

LadyAmanda · Post by **LadyAmanda** » 2003-12-31 03:09am

usually a little like a glass of wine and a movie. this year nothing. depends on how much money there is to spend LOL

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-12-31 04:40am

I don't really give a shit about New Year's. I used to be kind of into it, back when I was like 10-11. I think it was just cool because I got to stay up late.

But then, when I was about 13, I was down in a shitty motel in shitty Santa Barbara for my uncle's funeral, and I was lying on my motel bed watching the ball drop. I woke my dad up for the ten-second countdown, and then he went back to sleep. At first I was disappointed, but then I realized that there's simply nothing special about New Year's; it just means you have to go back to school soon.

Some of my friends were looking forward to New Year's, and when I asked them why, they told me that it was an excuse to get drunk. But that doesn't seem like the kind of thing you need an excuse for, to me.

So, this New Year's, I'll put in an eight hour day with holiday double-pay, get together with some friends just as the year changes over, maybe have a bit of high society, and then we'll probably watch a movie or something.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-12-31 04:44am

I'll probably light off a firework or two, have a beer, watch the ball drop on TV. I might go to a party, but I doubt it.

Means nothing to me.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-12-31 04:49am

Oh yeah, I forgot about fireworks. I don't have any.

Maybe I'll just fire a pistol wildly into the air; that would be the socially responsible thing to do.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2003-12-31 05:10am

Well, I'm quite bored with all those rave parties so tonight Inge and I will watch the Mardi Gras festival at Cilandak Town Square (yes, we're friends again).

Besides, I stop rave partying some months ago. See, our favorite club, Retro, is located in the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Since the bombing of Marriot hotel (Jakarta), not to mention Bali's bombing at 2002, I don't think it's safe to go clubbing anymore.

Despite moronic claims by Indonesian government, Al-Qaeda is here, right under their nose. Fuck Osama!

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2003-12-31 05:16am

Darth Wong wrote:With New Year's Eve coming up, I thought the question should be asked: do any of you make a big deal out of it? Watch the specials? Go to bars? Hold parties?

I wish I'm NOT living in Jakarta, so I can watch the specials, hold parties, and go to bars/clubs without worrying some terrorist blowing up the place.

Remember Bali.....

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-12-31 05:33am

Generally I just watch some fireworks on TV; I'd be up anyway. Though this year I am going to something of a party, though the fact that its new years will have no bearing on the events. I doubt where even going to notice the clock.

otter · Post by **otter** » 2003-12-31 06:24am

I like it just as a reason for getting together with close friends and celebrating all we accomplished for the past year and reminising good times and bad.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-12-31 07:26am

We usually go out for new year's eve. nothing too extravagant, although we did fly down to Ft. Lauderdale to visit friends and go clubbing for 2000. This year i have to help a friend move from Providence to Boston on new years day so i may just go to bed early.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-12-31 07:43am

It's fun to pretend it means something if you've got friends around. But if you don't it's not a big deal.

~ver

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-12-31 07:50am

Any excuse for a bash, really, although we do do first footing, coal, salt and bread etc, that comes from the scottish side of things I think, or at least some very obscure english ones.

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2003-12-31 07:51am

For me, its not big deal, just another night.
As to what I do on new years..this time around for the past couple of hours {Its 1.05AM as I type this} I have been veiwing SD.Net.

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2003-12-31 07:58am

Jesus cares! New Year's Eve is the day Jesus invented breakdancing!

Jesus Christ · Post by **Jesus Christ** » 2003-12-31 08:07am

Bob McDob wrote:Jesus cares! New Year's Eve is the day Jesus invented breakdancing!

Thou art correct my son..that was also the day that dad inspired the proffesion of pysiotherapy.

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