Anyone else that doesn't think New Years is a holiday?

TheGerman

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    #1
    How does this even constitute as a holiday? I mean, you get to change the last digit on the year and you start over on January 1.

    <makes jerking off motion>

    So what? What the fuck are we celebrating? That you managed to fucking survive another year? Hell, they make it fucking hard to die these days as it is. That's like saying, congratulations, you ate food today, lets have a fucking party and fire off some fireworks! Well, I guess that's as reason to if you live in fucking Ethiopia, but you get my point.

    As a kid, it was a small footnote somewhere behind Christmas and before I had to go back to school from a long ass winter break. My parents basically 'celebrated' because as kids you thought you basically had to. As I got older, I realized what a throw away 'holiday' it was; I mean shit, Valentine's Day is more legit than this.

    I actually forgot today was NYE until my wife said something about it in a very unenthusiastic way which also led me to ask, WHY?? I'm basically going to work out for the day (30 mins of 1/1 sprints, bleh) smoke a cigar and play XBOX with my brother in Chicago until like 4am.
     
    #2
    I don't care much for it either.
    Amateur hour on the highway and in the restaurant and bars. Can't get in anywhere if you want to go out to eat and won't have a beer with dinner if we do go out. Just a PITA imo.
    I don't do crowds so it's an evening I avoid.
    I do break down for the pork and sauerkraut though as I like it anyway.
     
    #3
    I think birthdays and most holidays are just another day. Luckily my wife has come around to my way of thinking, saves me from buying stupid shot.
     
    #6
    Bradu said:
    I think birthdays and most holidays are just another day. Luckily my wife has come around to my way of thinking, saves me from buying stupid shot.
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    We have a few bottles of champagne in the beer fridge in the garage that we keep just because, I have a humidor and thats the extent of any NYE bullshit we'd remotely even get into.
     
    #7
    Holidays usually bug me. Now that I have a young kid, it's a lot more fun than in previous years, but it's still a massive PITA for me since most folks I work with that aren't me are out of the office meanwhile I still need them to get shit done.

    That and the extra cops everywhere means I have to pay attention to how fast I'm driving, and all the drunks on the road means I gotta be extra vigilant when approaching intersections, merging, or whatever. I rolled through a few small towns on my way home today and there were multiple officers in each town mostly in turn lanes, spaced a few hundred yards apart running radar, checking tags, and looking for whatever else they might could use as an excuse to get into your pockets. It'd be interesting to know how many people got pulled over today. I saw a dozen or so traffic stops within 100 miles.
     
    #8
    It is important for most human civilizations to have holidays marking the passage of time, and many cultures over the ages have celebrated the start of a new calendar cycle of whenever their yearly calendar rolled around, as a good excuse to enjoy food, friends, family & reflection on the previous year as well as forward thinking for the coming year.

    In western culture, things have been a bit more partied up and wiled up as tastes and entertainment ramped up. Also in specifically the USA, we have so few actual good long holidays off as compared to other countries (unless you happen to be a teacher), that people tend to want to make the most of the limited ones they have.

    But there are others who don't care about dates and every day is just the same boring old day in the line to death as the one before, and they are entitled to their opinion and whatever works best for them.

    I tend to enjoy holidays because I can sleep in, stay at home, not deal with humans, get some writing in & hang out with the hounds.
    Others of my family live for the whole "Energy" thing of tons of people crowded together in some place for some "event" and all being hyper together... they are welcome to it....
     
    #9
    Jesus, diving down a connecting Street with a raised median and some jackass driving down the wrong side. Ain't even time for fireworks yet...
     
    #10
    Like pretty much all other "holidays" it loses it's luster once you become an adult. As a kid and teen it meant getting high and blowing shit up. Nowadays, it's an excuse to sleep.
     
    #14
    It's a big deal to me and the Mrs. as it's the night we met . I was supposed to hook up with a girl at this party who wound up puking in a trash can before nine O'clock . So I said yeah fucke her and just hung out . Wound up at the kitchen table shootin the shit with what I thought was someone elses girl . No agenda strictly music and cars . I played bass and looked like I stepped off the cover of a Hair Band . She was the first girl in years that didn't throw herself at me and that I had no agenda with .
    Now it's Delmonico steaks , shrimp , scallops fried in butter and garlic , fried ravioli , somtimes lobster and some libations . It's the best meal of the year with the only one I would want to share it with .
    Another bonus is all of the amateurs with explosives running around . Alchohol mixed with bomb equals stupid mother fucker on fire with a stump . On occasion someone wins the full Darwin award complete with dirt throwing ceromony . YEY DARWIN !!!!!!!
     
    #15
    TheGerman said:
    What the fuck are we celebrating? That you managed to fucking survive another year?
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    'Scuse my French, but I sure the Fuck am. Besides, I have been spending a lot of my holiday time cleaning, reorganizing and consolidating my reloading/shop area. It's been years since I last did it and I have gotten a shit ton accomplished. Couldn't be happier. Alternative is slogging it, working for a shitty boss. Yeah, I've thoroughly enjoyed the time off and will mourn it's passing.

     
    #16
    it is a new calendar,...that is all. People are deluded if they truly believe that they can only try and improve themselves, have new ideas, or get a fresh start once a year through some new year's resolution. I pity those who think they have to wait until December 31st before they can take more control over their fates. The main reason it is a holiday is because so many people have hangovers that it is safer to just give everyone the day off. In the past 7 years, I have only stayed up till midnight once...mostly because company wanted to stay up late.
     
    #18
    There are only 3 real holidays in my book. July 4th, Thanksgiving and Christmas. I recognize Veterans/Memorial day and Easter. But Easter has been way too commercialized and has become ridiculous. I dont celebrate anything else. New Years, MLK, Valentines, St Patricks, Halloween. All stupid. Im sure im leaving out a few small ones.
     
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