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Celebrating The New Year: Welcome To 2006

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19:25 / 27.12.05

Hey everybody. Christmas has once again come and gone, and it was an enjoyable romp, (for me at least).

And now comes the New Year.

How is everyone celebrating it?

List your drinks, your home-brewed cocktails, whether or not you will buy fireworks, what movies you will watch, which songs you will listen to...Name the resolutions, and revolutions you will be a part of this year.

I was somewhat inspired when I ran into this article. I plan on making a few of these to bring in 2006.

I'm 17, dammit, and I want to be a classy drinker.

Pour me up a Mister Six...

19:51 / 27.12.05

I don´t know if I´ll be celebrating it. The amount of fireworks is insane, people toss it everywhere, in the subway for example. That stuff is incredibly loud, and the city stinks for days. So, I don´t really want to be outside from 5 pm - 7 am.
Last year I was visiting Nuremberg, and just a couple of minutes after midnight I couldn´t see the skyline (or the fireworks) anymore, because of all the smoke from the fireworks.

And what is it with the drinking? Who wants to start the new year with a splitting hangover?

I´ll probably visit friends and leave, when it´s safe to venture outside.

Brigade du jour

20:26 / 27.12.05

Almost exactly the same here, Mistoffelees. Except we're going to compete to see who wears the worst jumper.

23:19 / 27.12.05

I shall be spending it back in Valencia visiting a few friends. Some drink will be drunk. Maybe we'll go clubbing. I hope to eat a shed load of food over the 5 days that I'm there. The traditional thing to do at midnight in Spain, is to eat 12 grapes. Don't ask me why.

I'm making the same resolution as last year which worked out really well for me. It was "Me me me", and I recommend it to everyone.

Happy new year.

03:20 / 28.12.05

My friends and I will be getting quite drunk at one of our many locals as town (phantom capital t) is too far away and everyone we know and haven't seen for sega will be there. Socialable and easily crawlable back.

Does anyone else find transport the biggest factor in figuring out where you're going to be getting pissed over the holidays?

elpis eutropius

06:14 / 28.12.05

Ach, I hate New Year's Eve even more than Christmas. Such a forced celebration, and for one reason or another I'm always really down around this time of year.

The good news is, for the first time ever I am in a social circle of people who feel the same way, so we're going to have an anti new year's celebration. What exactly this entails I don't know yet, but I'm hoping we might go back to 2004. And probably also have a drink or few.

22:19 / 28.12.05

I used to hate New Year's Eve but am slowly coming around to having a good time... having a steady friend who has steadily good parties every Dec.31st has helped I think.

For the third (or fifth?) year running, I'll be at his place with five or six dozen others, some good friends, and a bottle each of vodka and gin.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:13 / 28.12.05

For the first time in about five years, I won't be working a night-shift on NYE. I'm actually quite tempted to have a quiet night in, and luxuriate in the whole not-being-at-work-ness of it all.

I'll probably end up going out and getting pissed, though.

23:34 / 28.12.05

I like going out and drinking generally but New Years is more recently spent briefly attending some gathering, drinking little and then slipping away just after midnight. From my own personal experience I find nothing worse than staring into the gaping maw off a new year with stultifying brainache and all the physical strength and mental resolve of a decayed insect. It tends to make me over-maudlin.
Private Parties are definitely the way to go though, greater atmosphere, intimate warm buzz come the countdown and all that.

15:39 / 31.12.05

Just wanted to wish everyone here a wonderful and blessed 2006 - may it bring tremendous happiness and success, health and growth for all Barbelithers!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:57 / 31.12.05

Yeah, and from me too.
Happy New Year, (albeit a few hours early) all you Barbe-fuckers.

(My attempts to not get too hammered have been hampered slightly by going to the pub for a New Year's Eve drink with Anna, thus putting me a couple of pints ahead already...)

Mon Oncle Ignatius

16:51 / 31.12.05

Let us not forget "Ace of Spades" at midnight - a tradition as fine as any in existence, after all. So wherever you are at the stroke of the midnight hour, do hum a few bars if you cannot play the whole thing at maximum volume, and raise perhaps a glass in toast to Sir Lemmy of Kilminster, the mighty rocker-barbarian king of Mettallll.

Der der der derrr derrr: You know it makes sense.

16:58 / 31.12.05

I have dinner and a party lined up. And not reading stupid gun threads from my embarrassing fellow Americans.

Happy '06, all.

17:00 / 31.12.05

Will be partying at Duckie, courtesy of the very lovely Readers Wifes. May indulge in some kiltiness. Tomorrow's hangover will be leavened by Brokeback Mountain in the afternoon. Tragic homo cowboy comedown-a-go-go!

paranoidwriter waves hello

17:13 / 31.12.05

The last time I went out for New Year was when I walked to Blackfriars Bridge in London for Millennium Eve -- and what a fucking let down that was, eh? "River of Fire", my arse.

I will, therefore, be staying in, getting wrecked and thinking-in the New Year. At midnight, I will turn off the lights, open my curtains, watch the London skyline light up (then fog up), and quietly hum The Ace of Spades.

Happy New Everyone. May Lady Luck smile favourably upon us all in 2006.

17:18 / 31.12.05

Er, admittedly the river of fire was a tad anticlimatic, but, fuck me, thems were by far the best fireworks I have ever seen in my life EVAR.

You disagree?

paranoidwriter waves hello

17:30 / 31.12.05

Sort of. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed them, but my imagination had played up the "River of Fire" thing to a maximum so I couldn't help feeling disappointed.

Maybe it was a view-point type of thing. Where did you see them from? (Oh, and feel free to PM me if you think we may be rotting this thread.)

17:42 / 31.12.05

No, this is all good New Year fodder.

We were really, really lucky with our spot. I was with a group of maybe twenty people and somehow we managed to find a completely empty space along the embankment. We were never fighting for a vantage point and we sure as shit weren't getting crushed - it was as if we were in an impenetrable bubble. Bizzarre really.

Perhaps we were smelly.

paranoidwriter waves hello

17:55 / 31.12.05

Yep, sounds better than my vantage point. I was about five rows from the railing, bang in the middle of Blackfriars Bridge, and, although it wasn't "rammed", I could barely see the Thames or much else of the City. Also, somebody I happened to be with that night severely depressed me by throwing an ignited flair over hir shoulder at the stroke of midnight, in the WRONG direction. Fuck knows where the incredibly hot thing landed. *Shiver*

Yeah, come to think of it, I had a pretty shit night that night so I'm probably not in an objective enough position to judge the firework display...

So,... That smell was you, eh?

20:19 / 31.12.05

Im in a youth hostel in Derry due to unfortunate circumstance. on my own with a chinese takeaway for 1, with three middle(ish) aged men playing the acoustic guitars downstairs (i suspect them of being in some kind of sex cult.

20:30 / 31.12.05

I am once again going to be attending a party at the same people's house who have hosted New Years for the past 3. We can't very well skip it when all of our friends are going to be there and we would like to be with our friends... but the hosts are just the kind of people who do not really know how to throw a good party. For some reason we're always stuck outside on the deck. The first year it was because they wanted to show off their new deck. Last year they had to show off their new little fire thingy they bought for the deck. Now I've seen the deck 10 times and I'd just really like to party somewhere it's ABOVE FREEZING on New Years, like for example inside someone's house. Maybe next year....

00:55 / 01.01.06

I refuse to engage with any new years event that involves paying extra to go to a place that you go to at other times of the year for less money. The Extra charge presumably being for the 'privilige' of being jammed in with even more people and proportionately fewer bar staff and the added bonus of some bogus dress code.

Fuck 'em.

01:52 / 01.01.06

Happy Nerw Year Oddman! Happy Nerw Year Barbeloids (even the ones who piss me off). I have welcomed the new year in, crushed by the Duckie crowd, gyrating to some fabulous music, dancing on the (tiny) stage and making a spectacle of our ass-wiggling selves. Golden Years, Golden Years, pah pah pah...

02:27 / 01.01.06

*hic*

Brigade du jour

06:29 / 01.01.06

haec

Mon Oncle Ignatius

07:34 / 01.01.06

Hock?

Sic transit gloria MMV.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

07:40 / 01.01.06

Oh, and Happy New Year all!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:19 / 01.01.06

Them fireworks looked dead cool on telly. Although, as is traditional, everyone got very pissed off with my yelling of lines from Nam movies all the way through.

What's that?
Arclight.
What's that?
B-52 strike. Every time I hear it something BAD happens.

15:29 / 01.01.06

It started snowing last night and I thought we might escape banishment to the deck... then as we were driving down the thought struck me, "They'll have a canopy." And what do you know - a big green canopy covered the deck, with fire thingy and booze luge stationed outside. Happily for me, the party remained indoors for once and it was actually fun.

Unhappily for me, I totally barfed out the car door on the ride home and feel like ass this morning. When I woke up at 8 to walk my dog I was still drunk, and after having my morning coffee I just yakked it all up. I drank the same amount I always do with no ill effects, so I'm forced to conclude it was the goddamn bubbly (about 6 oz of the stuff) that did me in.

All Acting Regiment

16:07 / 01.01.06

HNY all of you.

Well I had quite a good-un. Party, jelly with vodka and cider in it instead of water, then me with vodka and cider in me instead of water. Had a good jam on the skins and strings with a few pals. Catherine wheels (the fiery ones) in the garden at 11:55, then fun with the BBC at 12:00 itself. Then kebabs. Then more jelly. Not the best idea, but you know, your innards need a good expulsion every now and then, and up, in this case, was better than down.

Spent the moring in the dark unable to sleep and reading a copy of The Golden Bough I found, using only my mobile phone for a light source. Heard strange flutes play in the background somewhere and kept thinking of those fucking hurdy-gurdy kids from Lost Hearts. Shudder.

I'd chosen a spot near a grandfather clock and at four was woken by another guest's drunken battering on the clock's wooden cabinet.

"I'm gurrnaa...open this fucker...yeah...YEAH...gonna go to Narnia..."

Then with a cry of despair he slumped off saying that he couldn't go to Narnia because "the gypsies had stolen it".

16:17 / 01.01.06

Tryphena Absent

17:25 / 01.01.06

Despite having consumed no alcohol last night I have just discovered a small burn next to my right elbow. Probably from a cigarette. Hmmm. It appears I have lost the ability to feel pain. Clearly this is the year in which my mutant abilities appear.

All Acting Regiment

17:57 / 01.01.06

I know, Shrug. This was a different party. Well, not much but not the same one.

15:59 / 02.01.06

I loves fireworks, so I did this!

solid~liquid onwards

16:21 / 02.01.06

I defended a castle under seige. really.

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