I fucking hate christmas
I am the Grinch AICMFP. In your face Jeff
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 16:49, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

UR also me.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 17:12, Reply)

Christmas is shit. Official. As is New Year.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 17:15, Reply)

Jesus, yes
How many New Years have ended up with some sort of shindig that starts too early, such that most people are pissed and being annoying by 11.30, before some gobby shite declares that we'll have to gather round the telly or we'll miss the countdown! OH NOES!!!!. Only for everyone to shamble into the living room and watch another complete non-starter of a ceremony on the BBC before it hits twelve o'clock and everyone in the room awkwardly goes
"Erm...yaaay..."
Before someone opens a cheap bottle of ASDA's finest own brand Cava ("We though we'd push the boat out, as it's New Year...") whilst everyone else is trying to link hands with every other drunken pranny in the room whilst somehow maintaining a grip on a glass of gum-rotting fizzy wine and bawl "AUUUULD LAAARRRRNG ZZZIIIIINE" in a jovial-sounding fashion through a thick haze of alcohol and palpable anticlimax.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 17:25, Reply)

Jools fucking Holland

( Kroney, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 17:26, Reply)

AAARGH
Of course, see in the New Year with some "boogie whoogie" piano, why don't we? I suppose it's more upbeat than the normal funereal dirge everyone sings at one another, but at quarter to twelve on December 31st I want to punt the energetic little bellend into his piano and screw the lid down.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 17:28, Reply)

^this
so much this. Hate New Years. Christmas is alright, but New Years is just maudlin
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 17:28, Reply)

It really is shit isn't it?
Drunken bores, stupid traditions, forced participation in all sorts of things you'd usually run 5 miles from and normally 75% of the people in the room/pub/restaurant are people you would like to stab with a rusty blunt object.

Made worse for me as I'm always shattered from volunteering over Christmas. You'd think that would be a good enough excuse to get out of NY activities wouldn't you? Oh no. Every fucking year, "well it's only one night, you can sleep in on New Year's Day". No I want to sleep now you bunch of wankers. Leave me alone to have a few pints, a nice steak and an early night instead of tolerating your contrived unfunny evening.

Of course, I end up having to go along otherwise my gf refuses to have sex with me for a month. Meh.
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 17:34, Reply)

I don't mind the whole routine of heading over to a house party
I've even quite happily co-hosted one for the last three years. But by the time it gets near midnight, everyone's pissed and/or falling asleep, and all the daft traditions get wheeled out like a fucking military operation for the dampest squib of an anticlimax you've seen all year.

Edit: "The Millennium" being a classic example. All that build up and for fucking what?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 17:37, Reply)

I like new year
I usually go to a fancy dress houseparty with a bunch of friends. One time we booked a whole youth hostel and spent a weekend setting off fireworks, hitting pinatas and playing board games. Was awesome.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 17:43, Reply)

how old were you? 14?

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 17:46, Reply)

um, no
about 27

there was another year with a LAN party, and others with goodies and baddies theme. The important thing is to make sure you only invite cool people and use it as an excuse to arse around for an evening
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 17:47, Reply)

when I mean cool I mean people you like
..also, don't watch the bbc new year thing
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 17:50, Reply)