[OT] New Year's--Who gives a crap?

[pogre]

Re: Re: [OT] New Year's--Who gives a crap?

God bless her, year in an' year out, good ol' Mary is always up for a feel.


Wulf

Hey, you made me choke on my Chex Mix. You are brutal Wulf.

 

[WayneLigon]

You're holding a party for time, people, don't you see this? This "holiday" is just another of the many many excuses throughout the year to drink and feel Mary. Like you need another one. ...Am I a just a crazy old loon or does anyone else feel this way?

Yep, you're pretty much nuts. Any excuse for a holiday is a good one. You may not need another one, but there are plenty of other people that do.

 

[Elf Witch]

I love New Years it is a chance to be with friends and let off some steam from the stress of the holidays.

I don't always go out and party sometimes I have a few close friends over and we watch videos or play games. To me it is a chance to celebrate being alive.

 

[National Acrobat]

Ball Drop? Dick Clark? What are those?

My 2 young 'uns have my wife and I so tired that on nights like New Years, we are so far gone and asleep before the events even get started that we miss them totally. At least I get the actual day off from work and it is a holiday where I don't have to entertain my in-laws. That makes it all worthwhile.

 

[Umbran]

Re: Re: [OT] New Year's--Who gives a crap?

Umbran's right about ceremony and tradition, although some people (like me) don't believe in them much. I don't celebrate New Year's (or birthdays, anniversaries, etc.) because it is just a random chronological convention, but mainly because I'm celebrating every day and enjoying myself so much that I'd feel silly to try to make one day special.

Understandable, but then, you are perhaps missing a bit of the point of the regular ceremony?

Celebrating by yourself is good. I'm all for enjoying life. But the collective holliday is for celebrating with others. It's for forming linkages with your fellow man. You just can't do that on your own everyday. Most folk are busy with day to day life, and aren't into celebrating with you.

 

[Zappo]

It's a shameless excuse to party wildly, get drunk, and possibly laid; it has no real significance except what was artificially built over it; it doesn't celebrate anything except what is ultimately a random date which someone in the middle ages decreed to be the start of the year.

Really, what more could you want? We'd need more fests like that!

 

[shilsen]

Understandable, but then, you are perhaps missing a bit of the point of the regular ceremony?

Celebrating by yourself is good. I'm all for enjoying life. But the collective holliday is for celebrating with others. It's for forming linkages with your fellow man. You just can't do that on your own everyday. Most folk are busy with day to day life, and aren't into celebrating with you.

No, I do get the point of the regular ceremony. I understand why it does exist and think it serves its purposes very well. I just don't care that much for forming linkages with my fellow man, woman or child. And I enjoy myself way more being alone than with other people. What can I say - this man is an island!

 

[Airwolf]

Here is the theme song for all those of you out there that don't like the holiday season.

Author: Dr. Seuss
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
You really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
You're as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch.


You're a bad banana
With a greasy black peel.


You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart's an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders,
You've got garlic in your soul.
Mr. Grinch.


I wouldn't touch you, with a
thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole.


You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch.
You have termites in your smile.
You have all the tender sweetness
Of a seasick crocodile.
Mr. Grinch.


Given the choice between the two of you
I'd take the seasick crockodile.


You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch.
You're a nasty, wasty skunk.
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
Your soul is full of gunk.
Mr. Grinch.


The three words that best describe you,
are, and I quote: "Stink. Stank. Stunk."


You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch.
You're the king of sinful sots.
Your heart's a dead tomato splot
With moldy purple spots,
Mr. Grinch.


Your soul is an apalling dump heap overflowing
with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable
rubbish imaginable,
Mangled up in tangled up knots.


You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch.
With a nauseaus super-naus.
You're a crooked jerky jockey
And you drive a crooked horse.
Mr. Grinch.


You're a three decker saurkraut and toadstool
sandwich
With arsenic sauce.


Copyright © 1957, Dr. Seuss.

 

[Buttercup]

I'm one of those people who doesn't care all that much about new year's eve. I love the winter solstice, which also happens to be our wedding anniversary, and I like christmas. But I just can't get that worked up about new year's.

Usually, we are in bed at the usual time, unless we have been invited to a party. But since we're both morning people, staying up 'til midnight is hard work for us. And given all the drunks out on the road that night, staying home on New Year's eve seems like good sense to me. But maybe I'm just a fuddy-duddy.

 

[Dinkeldog]

I like all of the winter holidays from solstice to Christmas to New Years to Epiphany to Candlemas. They all have their purpose.

Friendly advice: make any New Years resolution be about something you want to add to your life. It'll be easier.