[Drinking] New Year's Eve

[Berty23]

Can’t stand NYE and all the crap that goes with it. I think it was when pubs decided to start charging a fortune for entry that ruined it for me.

I’ll watch the racing from Newbury before catching the Seagulls Travel coach to the Amex. Grab a take away on the way back home before going to bed, hopefully not to be disturbed at midnight by people letting off fireworks because they have forgotten it is not 5th November.

Same here re pubs. I am in my 40s now but it must have been about 15 years ago when I pub I drank in regularly asked us for tickets or payment. No thanks. Usually have a couple of mates over but now the kids are a bit older we will just do board games as a family after the football (although can’t go because of shit kick off time and can’t do it from Warwick).

NYE in the 90s was great. Grew up in south Devon and Dartmouth was a great street party on NYE. We used to have a great time trying to find some posh girls who were down (not as much fun as regatta week but close).

 

[BBassic]

Load of old bollocks.

Still, I'll be watching Jools with a glass or two of red.

 

[Solid at the back]

Do people still celebrate this 'event'?

 

[OzMike]

It is a mates birthday on NYE and we are going to Fremantle to celebrate with him.
He is having a 70's themed dress up disco party at his house.
We will be stopping over for the night too, so it will get messy.
Last time we went there we didn't go to bed till 6am.

 

[OzMike]

I am very much a New Year person and think very little of the Christmas commercial chaos crap, everyone expecting a present or got their hand out, turning into Christians for a day.
Totally hypocritical.
Nice that the family get together, but we tend to do that on birthdays etc through the year anyway.
It's time to celebrate what good, if any, that happened in '22 and looking forward to '23.
No religious bollocks and no one expecting anything other than a 'best wishes' and a hand shake.
Proper celebration and I will enjoy it.

 

[Swansman]

I'll go on a rave in some old abandoned factory in Malmö. Looking forward to it.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Arguably the most overrated night of the year, when local pubs the length and breadth of the nation rewards punters for their 51 weeks patronage by charging them to use their local for one specific night

Thankfully a number of local landlords appear to have bucked the trend in recent years

 

[Carlos BC]

I will be in bed for about 10.30pm I reckon. Wife is off to Goa on a holiday for 2 weeks with her family and youngest son for 2 weeks from NYE so will be home alone for a fortnight. Not a miserable git about going on holiday, just too busy the first two weeks of the year and being self employed and all that. But definitely a bit grumpy about NYE staying up late, Christmas has worn me out by then

 

[crodonilson]

What a load of old killjoys.

If you can't go out and let your hair down and enjoy yourself on New Years when can you. Should be an absolute hoot.

 

[Live by the sea]

NYE Party at Soho house not the one here but Dean street , Soho . Been invited by a couple of friends .

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Off to the Amex to see some liquid football – and from the Gunners...
But 2022 can completely get tae fack IMO – it's been a shocker for the Bobkins.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

What a load of old killjoys.

If you can't go out and let your hair down and enjoy yourself on New Years when can you. Should be an absolute hoot.

Literally ANY other day or night of the year

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

NYE Party at Soho house not the one here but Dean street , Soho . Been invited by a couple of friends .

Translates as ‘staying in and having a lamb shank’ (yes that is rhyming slang)

 

[Guinness Boy]

Translates as ‘staying in and having a lamb shank’ (yes that is rhyming slang)

I hope it's true. Means most of the south east's lamb shankers will all be together in one room away from everyone else.

 

[Bodian]

What a load of old killjoys.

If you can't go out and let your hair down and enjoy yourself on New Years when can you. Should be an absolute hoot.

Not enough hair to let down anymore....

 

[Bakero]

NYE holds no attraction or significance for me whatsoever. One day it's Dec 31st, next day it's Jan 1st, whoop-de-bloody-do

Sadly, Mrs P bloody loves it, so I'm obliged to go out to a party, which also means missing bloody football thanks to the kick off being moved to 17:30

Can't you watch the match then head to the party? The game finishes early enough for you to be there a few hours before turning into a pumpkin.

 

[METALMICKY]

NYE holds no attraction or significance for me whatsoever. One day it's Dec 31st, next day it's Jan 1st, whoop-de-bloody-do

Sadly, Mrs P bloody loves it, so I'm obliged to go out to a party, which also means missing bloody football thanks to the kick off being moved to 17:30

Man up and tell her to go on her own!

 

[brighton terra]

It’s completely overhyped and barely any different to any other day of the year, as far as I’m concerned.

After the Arsenal game we’ll head home, watch a bit of Netflix and probably go to bed before midnight!

 

[Live by the sea]

Why is that funny !

 

[Easy 10]

I just cannot face throwing myself on the public transport nightmare for the Arsenal game, so I'm donning my BAD FAN cap and watching it down the local. I'll mince straight back to my armchair after the game and order a curry. The doris will be back from work by about 8.30, so we'll tuck in to the takeout, and channel-hop the rest of the night way in the warm, with some grog, in a pleasantly pickled stupour smugly remembering how f***ing relieved I'm not battling my arse back from the game.