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'New Year'. Do you give a shit?

Perkins : Reborn

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I used to enjoy the piss up / drug up, but it's a bit of a non-event, isn't it?

Ten to eleven days after the solstice, no astronomical events; all just based on Julius Caesar's politics and his obsession with Janus.

Wouldn't you prefer to be celebrating on the 25th of March when the world is coming to life again? It was good for us until 1752. Why can't we bring back a real old British / Irish tradition rather than obsessing over boat people? Or saints that weren't even born when the country existed?

The Scots can keep Hogmanay if they wish.
 
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It often takes me several weeks into a new year, whenever I have to enter the full date anywhere, to remember that the year has changed.

As far as the occasion goes, I enjoy the extra paid day off, but that's about it.

I have not been out on the town to celebrate the new year since Dec 31st 1999. Even that was an anti-climax, the turn of a new millennium and all!

I figured that if even such a momentous occasion as that, as far as the Gregorian? calendar is concerned, couldn't really move me, then trying to manufacture a weird sense of excitement and joyous celebration for less momentous new years is never going to happen.

I'm usually in bed and often asleep by the turn of midnight these days, and get mildly annoyed by fireworks going off from all directions for about an hour. I've never understood the appeal of fireworks, even as a kid, but that's a different topic.

New year, new me? Pffft.....

I like getting a new wall planner and diary though, and marking my annual leave weeks on it, that is always a highlight. Literally.
 
Interesting, natural occurrences such as solstice, easter time, astronomical events etc.. have a natural effect on the world and everything in the world. These things cannot be explained nor do we understand the full effect these mysteries have on the world. There are so many things humans cannot comprehend and so the obvious answer is god. This is often the way humans explain the unexplainable..
 
M!$TER-ED said:
Interesting, natural occurrences such as solstice, easter time, astronomical events etc.. have a natural effect on the world and everything in the world. These things cannot be explained nor do we understand the full effect these mysteries have on the world. There are so many things humans cannot comprehend and so the obvious answer is god. This is often the way humans explain the unexplainable..
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Which is why I don't celebrate 'New Year'.
 
Does anyone know what era this is? You have the Bronze Age, The Industrial Revolution, The Renascence era, etc. Does anyone know what this era is called?
 
Must admit NYE is a bit of a non-event for me these days. Although our daughter’s bf is staying over tonight so we’re planning to celebrate a bit more than usual.

Few drinks, few nibbles, SFC (Shambles’ Fried Chicken) and probably some board games, maybe a lil Switch game or two.

Should be nice!

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Does anyone know what era this is? You have the Bronze Age, The Industrial Revolution, The Renascence era, etc. Does anyone know what this era is called?
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It’s known as the Holocene Era.
 
M!$TER-ED said:
Does anyone know what era this is? You have the Bronze Age, The Industrial Revolution, The Renascence era, etc. Does anyone know what this era is called?
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I think convention dictates we will only have a name for it once posterity dictates one. My bet is on: The Even-Darker Dark Age. Alternatively, we might not merit one.

Technically, though, I think the best I can offer is, nauseatingly, the anthropocene. But that is all-encompassing.
 
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Cheers, m’dears ❤️
 
Well, here we are. Same shit different year!

I was in bed by 9pm last night. Got the daughter and grandson staying over, and the little bugger is so exhausting that as soon as he fell asleep, we all buggered off to bed (after a smoke, of course).

I was also relatively sober, having only consumed a half bottle of vodka and four Karpackies throughout the course of the whole day.

So to answer the OP, no, I don't give a shit these days.

But all the best to those of you that do! <3
 
F.U.B.A.R. said:
Well, here we are. Same shit different year!

I was in bed by 9pm last night. Got the daughter and grandson staying over, and the little bugger is so exhausting that as soon as he fell asleep, we all buggered off to bed (after a smoke, of course).

I was also relatively sober, having only consumed a half bottle of vodka and four Karpackies throughout the course of the whole day.

So to answer the OP, no, I don't give a shit these days.

But all the best to those of you that do! <3
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I will report you to Tesco.
 
Perkins : Reborn said:
I used to enjoy the piss up / drug up, but it's a bit of a non-event, isn't it?

Ten to eleven days after the solstice, no astronomical events; all just based on Julius Caesar's politics and his obsession with Janus.

Wouldn't you prefer to be celebrating on the 25th of March when the world is coming to life again? It was good for us until 1752. Why can't we bring back a real old British / Irish tradition rather than obsessing over boat people? Or saints that weren't even born when the country existed?

The Scots can keep Hogmanay if they wish.
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Tractor parade and the mail-man getting caught in it.

That s about it. Fuck the rest. Live footage.



@Shambles just finishing bit to early
 
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