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New Year’s Eve celebrations - fan or no fan?

flyingkiwiDKflyingkiwiDK
edited December 2022 in Not Sports Related
Somewhat overrated in my opinion (it literally happens every year!). Y2K did it for me. The hype around that was ridiculous. 

New Years fireworks, overcrowded pubs, expensive cab rides home. No thanks! It all feels like a bit of a chore in all honesty. 

I’m sure I’m not the only person here thinking the same but I’d love to hear your views on an “ideal” New Years Eve all the same. 




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  • cfgscfgs
    Even as a youngun I was a bit meh about the whole thing, the only night of the year your local was rammed with strangers and you couldn't get served.
  • Rudders22Rudders22
    edited December 2022
    me too. Did a club in my early days. Done it once. Double fares. High entry price. Double price on drinks. No thanks.  If get invited to a party I would attend, but it is the getting home bit is the problem. When i lived in Eltham I could geta free bus from New Eltham near the beehive to home in Eltham green. but now I just drink indoors. Watch shit television. and once you have seen a firework in your life. Whoopee. Had 54 years of it.  Although the lockdown one was poignant for Sir Tom and the nurses 
  • O-Randy-HuntO-Randy-Hunt
    Was just chatting to the Mrs about it. We haven't celebrated it in years. We get a takeaway and are in bed by 11pm.

    As a kid we were always taken to a party every year so don't know if when my little girl gets a bit older we will start celebrating it again but it really doesn't interest me.
  • ChippycafcChippycafc
    Off to bed as up at 6 for work... So not this year... HNY.... 
  • NorthStandUltraNorthStandUltra
    I absolutely hate NYE, always have done, hence spending my evening on here :-)
  • flyingkiwiDKflyingkiwiDK
    Chippycafc said:
    Off to bed as up at 6 for work... So not this year... HNY.... 
    HNY @Chippycafc
  • DizzleDizzle
    ValleyGary said:
    It’s my brothers bday today and mine tomorrow, and I’ve still always hated NYE. Over hyped shite where too many bell ends go out. 
    This

    other than the birthdays part
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  • North Lower NeilNorth Lower Neil
    Nah it's shite.

    Pay for a ticket for a pub that's normally free.
    Queue for longer at the bar.
    Get bored by about 9 but you can't go on anywhere else and have to wait around for midnight.
    Mumble the bit of Auld Lang Syne you can remember.
    Expensive cab home.

    Have only had 3 or 4 decent ones ever and they were mostly house parties. 

    Quiet evening in with a takeaway usually these days but even when I was young, free, and single any other random Friday or Saturday night would be a ton better.
  • cabblescabbles
    I used to enjoy it, but I think as I’ve gotten older, you try and make a night of it, but then realise you’ve got a day’s recovery before you’re back in work.  This year it’s okay because you have 2mo and then Monday if you’re going out, but it’s generally quite a bleak time of year after the build up to Xmas 
  • BedsaddickBedsaddick
    Haven't celebrated the new year for at least 25 years . I was in my twenties the last time i went out on New Years Eve. 

    It used to be fun but pubs started to charge entrance fees and drink prices went up for one night only. Bollocks to them. 

    Plus i had kids and i got older which is probably the main reason. 
  • Fanny FanackapanFanny Fanackapan
    Don't believe I have ever "celebrated " NYE except for the party at Betty Hutchins' daughter's house to see in 2000. 

    I remember going out into the road to watch the fireworks & feeling somewhat tearful that my Dad had missed the turn of the century by a couple of weeks.
  • siblerssiblers
    Not a fan. Wife is babysitting so I opened up the laptop and did a couple of hours of overtime at home to kill a few hours 
  • siblerssiblers
    NorthStandUltra said:
    siblers said:
    Not a fan. Wife is babysitting so I opened up the laptop and did a couple of hours on Pornhub at home to kill a few hours 

    I only need a couple of minutes for that
  • AFKABartramAFKABartram
    Fanny Fanackapan said:
    Don't believe I have ever "celebrated " NYE except for the party at Betty Hutchins' daughter's house to see in 2000. 

    I remember going out into the road to watch the fireworks & feeling somewhat tearful that my Dad had missed the turn of the century by a couple of weeks.
    Fairly sure I went to one at Theresa’s house about 1993. 
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  • Mendonca In AsdasMendonca In Asdas
    These  days it’s an achievement if I can stay awake till midnight!
  • SwisdomSwisdom
    edited January 2023
    Only time I’ve ever done anything of note was when me and wifey (pre kids) went to Las Vegas for New Years Eve party at the top of The Stratosphere.  Spent a fortune and the night was pretty cool but not something I’d bust a gut to redo.
    The following year we went to Disneyworld for a fortnight but both fell asleep watching tv in our hotel room as midnight struck.  We were however woken by some fireworks which practically caused me to shit my pants.

    nowadays I do t even drink but wifey and I raise a glass at midnight and then take ourselves off to bed. #boringbuthappy

    a mate of mine is doing a gig with Eric Clapton tonight as he has done several times before….wouldn’t mind going to that to be honest 
  • SuedeAdidasSuedeAdidas
    Roland Gift is looking a bit rough
  • Addick AddictAddick Addict
    Congratulations bellz2002. Every reason to celebrate!
  • aliwibblealiwibble
    When I was a kid New Year's Eve was a big thing, as my grandparents would host a party at their house, and everyone would pile out onto the street at midnight to sing Auld Lang Syne and wish all the neighbours a happy new year. There were a few smaller but rather more debauched house parties with my uni mates in my early working days, but as the weddings and kids proliferated that rather died a death. The only time I've bothered to go out to see the fireworks rather than watching on telly (where you get a better view and don't have to worry about the availability of loos) was on Millennium night, and that was just watching the display over the dome from the flyover over the Blackwall Tunnel approach road by the Standard.
    These days it's a takeaway, a film, and Hootenanny with a quick diversion to BBC1 for the fireworks. There's no point trying to get an early night, as it's like a warzone round here for about half an hour from midnight, and there's always some git who'll decide to set some more fireworks off at random after that (they've literally just started again 🙄)
  • MartinCAFCMartinCAFC
    Never been one for NYE only really did it as my mates loved going out for it. Not been out for NYE a good number of years now 

    As others have said far happier not paying to get into a packed out pub/ bar paying far more than usual for drinks then getting an expensive cab home really late and only having the next day to recover before going back to work.
  • greenwichred68greenwichred68
    edited January 2023
    Enjoyed a night out in the Woolwich Equitable for new years eve.A good band in there and not too many people.A great night of singing and dancing.
  • palarsehaterpalarsehater
    always been more of a fan of a session New Year’s Day, am usually with the mrs family in Ireland from 29/30th December till 2/3rd jan
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