New Years Eve

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

Surely there is someone else out there who cannot stand it? Always too expensive/busy and the crowning turd is your local pub thinking it can charge you for entry. I'm trying something different tonight and going to see The Foals instead.

 

 

*I appreciate that a gig will have more people than my local pub, but that's not the point.

[Jillyanne]

I am staying in om my own, gonna be a blast.

[Thedelldays]

off out for a meal....then god knows where

[Lord Duckhunter]

I have spent far too many NYE's expecting a great night and ending up wandering from pub to pub trying to find the right venue. We used to go to the Lord Nelson on Poole Quay, which was a great night under the old landlord who left 10 years ago, since then we've never really found a replacement venue.

 

We've given up now, and tonight me the kids and Mrs Duck are eating out at an Italian and then going home about 10.I must be getting old, but I'm really looking forward to

[Weston Super Saint]

Off to the pantomime with the little one and the Grand Parents.

 

Then a quiet one in with the Mrs.

 

I hate new year's eve too. Used to enjoy it when I was younger, but can't be arsed these days. The BBC coverage also winds me up, with the presenter constantly banging on about the awesome firework display going on on the Embankment, then they cut to pictures of the crowd gawping and 'ooohhhing' at the fireworks. Just leave a camera - via the red button - on the firework display so we can watch it uninterrupted and get rid of the retarded presenters while it's on!

[Deppo]

off out for a meal....then god knows where

 

If you are a gentleman during the meal, I might invite you back to mine afterwards.

[Truesaint]

Cant stand it! Always used to work given the chance, cause if they wanted to pay me double time for a nothing event all the better. Tonight i shall stay in with the Mrs a takeaway and a good film. Will i stay up to see the new year in . . . .NO!

I just dont get it, the date changes every night woopy do!

[Gingeletiss]

Working! if I wasn't, then I'd stay in....totally overrated, if you were to ask me.

[bridge too far]

Haven't 'celebrated' for years. Yet another overrated non-event IMO.

 

Anyway, we've got my 2 yo granddaughter staying for a couple of days and I'll probably be awake half the night because she doesn't like 'fineworks' as she calls them.

 

We'll catch up on lots of recorded programmes rather than watch the 'entertainment' on offer on TV tonight and enjoy each other's company - who could want more?

[Essruu]

NYE is full of people going out with the expectation of having an amazing night and then miserably failing. I don't care: I will be working through until 6am when the double tariff ends, chuckling as I take their money.

[benjii]

Have had some really good ones but they usually involve some sort of party organised by friends rather than going to a club or pub.

[Seaford Saint]

I am taking the wife to Whitchurch a scene of many new year's eves for me......I am not drinking either.

 

A happy new year to you all

[SuperMikey]

NYE is always sh!t, but meh. I'm going clubbing in Fleet, home to only one club which is always packed, boiling hot and very expensive. Just means i'll have to get trashed before I get to the club...

[dune]

NYE is always sh!t.

 

I didn't think you were old enough to drink let alone be an authority on the subject of NYE's.

[SuperMikey]

I didn't think you were old enough to drink let alone be an authority on the subject of NYE's.

 

I'm 19 Duney, do you want to see some ID?

[dune]

I'm 19 Duney, do you want to see some ID?

 

Can you be more specific? e.g 19 1/4, 19 1/2, 19 3/4 or just 19.

[SuperMikey]

Can you be more specific? e.g 19 1/4, 19 1/2, 19 3/4 or just 19.

 

19 Years, 30 days, 7 hours and 19 minutes.

[rocknrollman no2]

Ive never rated NYE.

The pubs charge you to go in,then they are full of people who never go out any other time of the year and cant handle their drink and unless you have won the lotttery,dont bother trying to get a taxi either.

I always stay home,but the tv is always showing Jools Holland or fireworks in London.

Ah well a dvd it is then.

[Thedelldays]

supa dupa mikey has many years of new years eve experiences to call upon....

 

I expect you will be just having some alone time tonight...? right..?

[sperm_john]

house partys are the way forward nye if anything

[dune]

19 Years, 30 days, 7 hours and 19 minutes.

 

As a fraction please.

[Crab Lungs]

NYE - a load of ********.

[Colinjb]

A night in with Mrs Colinjb will do for us. A chance to finish off the outstanding drinks from Christmas.

[SuperMikey]

supa dupa mikey has many years of new years eve experiences to call upon....

 

I expect you will be just having some alone time tonight...? right..?

 

It's "me" time, and no. I am going out on the taaahn.

 

Guess you're just going to stay in, watch Das Boot and touch yourself then TDD?

[View From The Top]

I met my wife 19 years ago at a NYE party.

 

This NYE we will take the kids out for a meal and then when they are in bed watch a movie and enjoy a decent bottle of wine.

 

Certainly beats being home on your own!

[Thedelldays]

I met my wife 19 years ago at a NYE party.

 

This NYE we will take the kids out for a meal and then when they are in bed watch a movie and enjoy a decent bottle of wine.

 

Certainly beats being home on your own!

whilst in the Andrew..?

[um pahars]

As a fraction please.

 

I make it 19 and 43639/525600

 

OR

 

19.083027

 

HTH

[amsterdam]

NYE here in the Netherlands is quite fun (probably because they don't celebrate Christmas as much as we do) - can already hear the fire-crackers going off - sounds like Beirut in the early 1990's!

 

I've never understood the "paying at the door" that pubs in the UK have - this is quite a recent thing, no?

 

Anyway, Happy New Year to you all and hope that this time next year sees us all (and Saints) healthy, happier and wiser!!

[SuperMikey]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12097984

 

Auckland and Sydney celebrate the New Year.

 

Have to say, I think Fleet even might have better fireworks than Auckland did!

[Lord Duckhunter]

My local when I lived in the States, put the price of the beer up on New Years eve. The American owner didn't understand that we Brits wouldn't stand for it. He soon did when about 30 expats all walked out and went to a bar down the road. He never did that again.

[Smirking_Saint]

NYE is pretty much always a major dissapointment, i have tried the local pub, London, the Opera House in Bournemouth, the working mens club and also a mates house party.

 

House parties are always the best way, a decent night with the mates and a few drinks, everything else i have tried i have either been wandering around trying to find a decent venue or spending far too much cash.

 

Xmas Eve is always a better night out.

[Mao Cap]

No, it's always a big let-down.

 

Not doing any parties this year - just seeing some mates for a quick drink, going round the girlfriend's to meet her parents, having something at my parents, going round the bro's and his girlfriend's to see the new year in and swear at the TV.

[Wurzel]

NYE is full of people going out with the expectation of having an amazing night and then miserably failing. I don't care: I will be working through until 6am when the double tariff ends, chuckling as I take their money.

 

[dune]

I make it 19 and 43639/525600

 

OR

 

19.083027

 

HTH

 

I'd like to take your word for it, but will wait for Super Mikey to confirm if this is correct.

[JRM]

NYE is generally rubbish, what makes me laugh is all the people at work getting excited about asking each other "what are you doing for new years??" .

For a lot of them I thnk it is just a chance to go out for a drink which is rare for them, whereas we do it every weekend at the football so don't need to mark the passing of time with an overrated attempt to "see in the new year"

 

I'm not even entirely sure what people are celebrating?

nothing has actually happened.

[saint_jas]

So far spent the day driving from Plymouth to Nottingham as none of my mates down in Plymouth wanted to go out tonight. Not a bloody thing on the roads was great!

Rest of night in by myself with a few cans, too expensive to go out.

[Turkish]

NYE is always sh!t, but meh. I'm going clubbing in Fleet, home to only one club which is always packed, boiling hot and very expensive. Just means i'll have to get trashed before I get to the club...

 

Is this your first year of not hanging around street corners with a bottle of cider throwing stones at buses?

[SuperMikey]

Is this your first year of not hanging around street corners with a bottle of cider throwing stones at buses?

 

Last year I also went to a club, the 4 years before that I was at house parties.

[Turkish]

Last year I also went to a club, the 4 years before that I was at house parties.

 

Were you invited or was it when where you had to crawl under the fence like Will in Inbetweeners, you remind me a lot of him, any chance of sticking a photo of your mum on here by the way?

[SuperMikey]

Were you invited or was it when where you had to crawl under the fence like Will in Inbetweeners, you remind me a lot of him, any chance of sticking a photo of your mum on here by the way?

 

My Mum is a vampire, she is invisible in photographs.

[Turkish]

NYE is generally rubbish, what makes me laugh is all the people at work getting excited about asking each other "what are you doing for new years??" .

For a lot of them I thnk it is just a chance to go out for a drink which is rare for them, whereas we do it every weekend at the football so don't need to mark the passing of time with an overrated attempt to "see in the new year"

 

I'm not even entirely sure what people are celebrating?

nothing has actually happened.

 

these types are the ones that also get excited about the work xmas party and bang on and on about it for weeks, the twice a yearers that do f*ck all else apart from watch x-factor, come dancing and Big Brother. Every workplace has them, the ones that cant understand why you are not planning what you are wearing, how you are getting to and if you are staying over at the xmas party months in advance, just because it is the highlight in fact, the only light of their social calander doesn't mean it is everyones.

[Turkish]

My Mum is a vampire, she is invisible in photographs.

 

No wonder you need all that me time, must be hell having a mother sucking the blood out of you every five minutes.

[Saintandy666]

I'm off to a party. No price to pay except some cheap **** from the supermarket

[Jonnyboy]

Im dancing on stage with all the girls at For Your Eyes Only

[Whitey Grandad]

Stay at home and see the new year in with a bang!

[hypochondriac]

Stay at home and see the new year in with a bang!

 

Gang bang?

[thefunkygibbons]

Personal record is in bed by 8pm

 

NYE = pointless hype

[Essruu]

 

I'll save my best chuckle for you xx

[Golden Balls]

I always seem to have a great time for NYE. Including house parties and nights in town, it's always good.

[Dr Who?]

Over hyped shower really, where you pay more to go anywhere and more for anything. It is just another night out and another nightreally. Tomorrow is Saturday and football day to me not new years day. 3 points is all I am thinking about.

 

I have 2 kids so for the 9th year in a row will not be going out. Have a couple of friends (the godparents to the kids) coming round for a few cheeky drinks and a bit of guitar hero, mario kart, and other Wii games. Will be nice and will not cost me an arm and a leg!!