Anyone out there hate New years Eve too?

[dave50]

Dont you find it sickly when everyone links arms and sings 'Auld Lang Syne' (what ever that means) and 'You'll never walk alone' (scousers think it's their song) at the end of the night? Makes me want to vomit. Then afterwards have to wait hours for an over priced taxi to be able to get home.

[ichkeria]

That's "'gainst who?" surely??

[Slapshot]

Yeah...mostly cos I'll be working!!

[sidkid]

My in-laws who are from Greenwich (or Grinitch according to them) call it old years night not NYE. Anyone else call it that?

[MarkRae]

Indeed. I don't know any Scots people who say "New Year's Eve" - it's always been "Old Year's Night". I've also never heard a Scots person say "Hogmanay" either, apart from Andy Stewart on those awful TV shows...

[China Doll]

Nope... I don't particularly celebrate and I don't know what the fuss is all about, I would never go out to a pub that night... but I love it because I go to my friends house (have done for years) and she makes lovely food and we have lots of wine and chat rubbish and then have a fry up for breakfast... what's not to enjoy?!

[MarkRae]

^^ You could do that any night of the year, though, CD...:-)

[China Doll]

I don't get three courses any other night of the year I go round :c)

[missprim]

I was put off New Years Eve when I was a child and my two drunken uncles would give me a kiss. Nothing untoward but just hated it. Now I think it's the only night of the year when I'm actually in bed before midnight.

[sidkid]

Space-Cadet, well that's a little spooky - that's my birthday........!

[rowanwitch]

We will be having second christmas with my family on the sunday.......so it will be a quiet evening apart from maybe going out to see the fireworks at midnight

But to me it is a time to wish people a year that is maybe better than this one... and I know my wishes mean nothing in the great scheme of things but they are meant ...

[sidkid]

no

[maggiebee]

When my children were young we used to have New Year parties at various friends' houses every Saturday night - sometimes we were into Feb before we got round everyone. It was open door with everyone made welcome. We played silly games, sang silly songs like going through the alphabet, the music man etc. Sadly as the years have gone on many of the crowd are no longer with us, the children are grown up and have moved from the area. I'm going to a more formal party night at a hotel this year with friends but it won't be
quite the same as those magical times - even the time when a friend's cold water tank burst and we had to use pails of water to flush the toilet or when there was an electricity cut an hour before our party - we started off by candlelight.

[craft1948]

I don't like New Years Eve now I'm on my own.............

[jd_here]

New year's eve for us will be a black tie dinner with our best friends, just the 4 of us, and about 12.30 we'll all be in bed.....not together I hasten to add!

And Dave50, not ALL scousers claim that song from Carousel as theirs, makes me gag to even say the words!

[craft1948]

Thanks SC...........that's you off the Xmas list :-(