tractakid
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Anyone else on the forum share my sentiment that the changing of a number does not deserve the ridiculous amount of attention it gets at this time of year?
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Bah humbug new year.
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deltic1989
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I'll probably be too trousered to notice any attention to be fair.
Any excuse for a good old fashioned knees up is a good one in my book.
Any excuse for a good old fashioned knees up is a good one in my book.
heart-of-wessex
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Yes, Christmas is a waste of time, hate it like no tomorrow! Agreed for New Year too, just an excuse for people to get p***ed I guess...
Conversation I had with someone:
Person: What you doing for New Years?
Me: Nothing
Person: Don't you do anything New Year's?
Me: No, what's the point?
Person: Well It's a celebration of a new year..
Me: Yeah but we don't celebrate when it's a new day or month do we, you know, happy 24th October etc.
Person:........true....
I don't get it, it's just a new calender, and basically celebrating something that doesn't really exist, like time and days, it's just something to go by so we all know what year it is for reference.
/rant
tractakid
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I like Christmas though!
33056
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Same **** different year 
At least I am on nights this time round so won't get woken up by the fireworks at midnight......
At least I am on nights this time round so won't get woken up by the fireworks at midnight......
I agree with you totally, just an excuse for people to go out and get drunk and make fools of themselves and/or get arrested. Total waste of money and as I am starting work at 0550 hrs on NYD I hope it chucks down with rain all night tonight and it will be quiet with no fireworks at midnight as I will be trying to sleep!
hairyhandedfool
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Same **** different year
I sincerely hope my neighbour is on nights otherwise I'm likely to get about an hour of (probably restless) sleep before my alarm goes off.
Alistair G.
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Couldn't agree more about the new year shambles, complete waste of time and just an excuse for people to drink far too Much. As I'm on nights again this year (5th time in a row, as others like to celebrate it I will quite happily cash in!) I hope it rains terribly and deters people from setting out on all night drinking parties in the town.
On the fireworks, I'm not a fan, but would tolerate it more if I knew it was just done professionals/licences people at clubs or something similar. Instead we sell fireworks too anyway considered old enough (certainly not wise enough some of them!) and just let people set them off wherever, no consideration for what they might do should they take off at a funny angle and perhaps land on top of someone's shed and set fore to it!.
On the fireworks, I'm not a fan, but would tolerate it more if I knew it was just done professionals/licences people at clubs or something similar. Instead we sell fireworks too anyway considered old enough (certainly not wise enough some of them!) and just let people set them off wherever, no consideration for what they might do should they take off at a funny angle and perhaps land on top of someone's shed and set fore to it!.
High Dyke
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It's just another day closer to death. 
NathanPrior
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Spare a thought for me, working in a nightclub on both NYE and NYD is gonna be hell.
David Barrett
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I fail to see the reason for celebrating a night of drunkenness, violence and, in some cases, premature death. Still, good for business so I guess that must make it right in some perverse sort of way.
Harlesden
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Unfortunately, New Year celebrations are worldwide.
However, in respect of Christmas, the number of Christian denominations deciding to take the Christ out of Christmas is increasing.
Nowhere in The Bible is the time of year of the birth even hinted at and nowhere does it say the event should be celebrated. If anyone is interested in why these Christians now believe they have been getting it seriously wrong, Exodus 32:5-7 is the piece of scripture often quoted as evidence that the Christmas celebration is something of a spiritual faux pas.
However, in respect of Christmas, the number of Christian denominations deciding to take the Christ out of Christmas is increasing.
Nowhere in The Bible is the time of year of the birth even hinted at and nowhere does it say the event should be celebrated. If anyone is interested in why these Christians now believe they have been getting it seriously wrong, Exodus 32:5-7 is the piece of scripture often quoted as evidence that the Christmas celebration is something of a spiritual faux pas.
Masboroughlad
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I love Christmas and New Year!
Butts
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Blimey what a load of miserable f**kers on this thread 
Scrooge is alive and well on RailUK Forums !!!
Scrooge is alive and well on RailUK Forums !!!
David Barrett
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It seems, to me at any rate, that Christmas and New Year has become what was demonised in a certian newspaper some years ago as being Leftie P.C. Twaddle - Winterval - for what it's worth that's where we appear to be.
Maybe we should go out at five or six in the morning and let off fireworks to remind the hung over of their pointless noise fest several hours earlier.
If not getting wasted because that's what a lot of others do is being a miserable f***er then I, for one, am pleased to say guilty as charged.
Maybe we should go out at five or six in the morning and let off fireworks to remind the hung over of their pointless noise fest several hours earlier.
If not getting wasted because that's what a lot of others do is being a miserable f***er then I, for one, am pleased to say guilty as charged.
Butts
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As you say you don't need to get plastered to enjoy yourself- I shall see the New Year in playing Scrabble in all probability - the excitement never ends
David Barrett
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Was not the Christmas celebration as we know it some sort of rationalisation of what had been "Pagan" mid-winter events?
Masboroughlad
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Do you play words with friends on line?
Blimey what a load of miserable f**kers on this thread
I don't really do big New Year celebrations, but Scrabble and a coke (with some whiskey to mix - if I can get away it
) is basically fine by me.Seacook
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Up to a point, Lord Copper. The new year is celebrated pretty much everywhere, but when it occurs is variable - different calendars have different new year days. The international convention is to use the Gregorian calendar, but local practices can differ.
I have no interest in celebrating a change in the year number (and I do not drink) so I will try to fit in a decent night's sleep around the fireworks. Now it's been mentioned a game of Scrabble would distract from the noise.
Did New Year for ten years or so when a mate down the road used to have a house party, to be honest it wasn't noisy, we just had a few drinks and played cards for forfeits. Now everyone is married with kids I'll probably just have a few drinks on my own. Not been out in the city centre for about 20 years apart from once and it reminded me why I don't bother. Twice a year drinkers getting legless and fighting over taxis. (Nothing against people not drinking much by the way, just the ones you never normally see crowding out your usual haunts and acting like idiots).
DaveNewcastle
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I detest cold weather, and dislike going to work in the dark and then coming home in the dark. So, when we reach the shortest day, on 21st or 22nd December, I am very pleased to be looking forward to just a little more daylight each day, and eventually, some warmer weather.
At this time of year, I particularly enjoy noticing little buds and shoots appearing at the end of branches, branches which otherwise look lifeless. And this year is no exception. I celebrate the turn of one year into the next by noticing it in as many ways as possible, and I might even be out this afternoon cutting back some hawthorn or pulling out some buddlea and looking out for new shoots and the first bulbs - but I celebrate all this in daylight. And it costs nothing.
At this time of year, I particularly enjoy noticing little buds and shoots appearing at the end of branches, branches which otherwise look lifeless. And this year is no exception. I celebrate the turn of one year into the next by noticing it in as many ways as possible, and I might even be out this afternoon cutting back some hawthorn or pulling out some buddlea and looking out for new shoots and the first bulbs - but I celebrate all this in daylight. And it costs nothing.
Amen to that mate. I totally agree. I never used to be like that when I was a young gloomy metalhead. Ha ha. Used to love the dark. I still like the music but I love watching it slowly change to Spring again now.
tbtc
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I'll be staying up till midnight on 31 March 2014 to celebrate Happy New Network Rail Control Period (but Hogmanay comes a close second)
tractakid
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Yeah. I can sympathise with this viewpoint. It's a very confusing issue. On one hand Christmas is the biggest opportunity to evangelise, yet on the other hand the majority of traditions celebrated have nothing to do with the birth of Christ.
The traditions are great, seeing family is great, the secular celebration is worth celebrating. But they aren't about Jesus.
As for the timing of Christmas- of course it is arbitrary. But there is value in an arbitrary calendar for organisational purposes. Despite the value, I see no point in celebrating the calendar itself, I see it merely as a tool.
The problem I have with the date chosen for Christmas was that it was chosen to try and detract from the celebrations of the older beliefs which took place at that time of the year. Anyway, its all a load of bobbins at the end of the day. Ha ha. All the best.
Like Davenewcastle, I love and appreciate the little signs in nature of the passage of time, and see them every day (and night) of the year. But I also like one fixed point each year when I can take stock of myself, sometimes to congratulate myself on how things are going, sometimes to admit I need to make changes. So I have arbitrarily chosen 31/12 as my point for this. I shall be quietly at home, possibly with a little left-over port and cheese, listening to good music and enjoying my wife's company in my introspective way.
flymo
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New Year here in my little bit of Asia is in a little over 90 minutes away and I am really looking forward to it. I look at New Year as a chance to wipe the slate clean and start again with new and fresh opportunities to have a better and brighter year than that which has just passed. Reading some of the post thus far on this thread it looks like many people are looking forward to absolutely nothing at all this year and will be very happy if they have a dreadful year which is more dreadful than the year just gone by.
What a bunch of miserable so and sos. Lighten up for crying out loud.
What a bunch of miserable so and sos. Lighten up for crying out loud.
DarloRich
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Christ there are some narrow miserable so & so's on this board at times!
That said i am not a big fan of NYE but if people want to celebrate then good luck to them.
That said i am not a big fan of NYE but if people want to celebrate then good luck to them.
pitdiver
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Must agree absolute waste of money both Christmas and new year. I work in retailing and the money spent on food and drink was phenominal.
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