What are your plans for new year's eve, if any?

[puntingking]

For me, I normally host a big house party of lots of guests such as friends, family and working colleagues. We play music all night till the early hours and sometimes although not every year we set of some fireworks.

Of course this year will be different.
I am away for Christmas and for new year this year anyway at a cottage in Kent.
So my plan is to play some chilled out music with my family to see in the new year but it will most probably be a more a relaxed affair then previous years.

The attention would be to wish for a better year than this year. 
 

How about any of you? What your night will be like? 

[Moby Dick]

I’m not very sociable these days so:

I’m gunna fuck the Tesco trifle whilst me dog rims me. 

Either that or try and have a polite conversation with the mother in law. 

[standardpostage]

no plans. watch telly. read a book. have a beer. go to bed, maybe even before midnight. just another day / night to me.

unless, my other half organises anything.

[threechilliman]

A few zoom calls organised with friends and family. If it all works out it might actually be quite enjoyable as we'll get face to face with more people than we normally would. Might be the way forward, who knows??

[Corus Boy]

A bottle of Port.

A piece of Stilton.

My memories.

Until the current situation arose, I used the AW Reverse Booking function a lot.

I also used to enjoy but not necessarily believing an old adage;

What you are doing at midnight on New Year's Eve sets the tone and pattern for the rest of the year!

So an RB for an overnight booking to include a nice meal and much Champagne for £300 would produce 10-20 bids.

Companion selected I would see the new year in.

I never had a disappointment.

[Adoniron]

Stay home, watch TV, eat and drink.

[george r]

Stay home, watch TV, eat and drink.

Same for me ..

[winkywanky]

I’m not very sociable these days so:

I’m gunna fuck the Tesco trifle whilst me dog rims me. 

Either that or try and have a polite conversation with the mother in law. 

Have you thought about mixing it up a little, fucking your mother in law while you talk to the dog and eat the trifle?

You may be pleasantly surpised 

[Moby Dick]

Have you thought about mixing it up a little, fucking your mother in law while you talk to the dog and eat the trifle?

You may be pleasantly surpised 

You obviously haven’t met me mother in law (almost as ugly as her daughter!)
I’d rather rim the dog.

[winkywanky]

Fair enough! 

[mr.bluesky]

Stay home, watch TV, eat and drink.

Likewise . Probably watch Jools Holland's annual hootenanny show which is usually shown new years eve to see the new year in with some snacks and few drinks. Nothing exciting.

[oldmanking]

Likewise . Probably watch Jools Holland's annual hootenanny show which is usually shown new years eve to see the new year in with some snacks and few drinks. Nothing exciting.

but also often recorded sometime in october or november i heard?  which is why artists are in the audience or show that you just saw on a hot beach in the bahamas in the papers...lol

[mr.bluesky]

but also often recorded sometime in october or november i heard?  which is why artists are in the audience or show that you just saw on a hot beach in the bahamas in the papers...lol

Well that's something I didn't know. I thought about how they would do it this year as it is filmed with a "live" studio audience but come to think about it he is shown talking about the show before it's on so it must be pre- recorded 

[winkywanky]

Yes, it's recorded 'As Live', in other words it's recorded all in one go a few weeks before.

Then they make sure they start playing the recording of the programme at exactly the right time, so as  to make the 'bongs' at the end coincide exactly with midnight (ie they backtime it).

Perhaps they'll do it on Zoom this year? 

I actually don't know whether they managed to make one this year during the break in Lockdown? Let's all check the BBC2 schedules because it could be the only highlight in what will be a thoroughly miserable New Year's  .

[winkywanky]

...come to think about it he is shown talking about the show before it's on so it must be pre- recorded 

Not really, many programmes are recorded this way, they often simply say 'and in the studio this year we'll be having...'

Graham Norton for example, it's done a couple of days before but they'll reference some topical news story to make it appear live. But then one of the guests will cock-up and Norton will hush them up comically, hissing to them this is a live show you know...

[Dickled]

I've got my own private piss-up organized, but somewhat modified to acknowledge present realities.
I will have a drink in the hallway, then have one in the kitchen, then the living room, next the bedroom, etc,......eventually throwing up in my toilet!



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[Hobbit]

I have always hated New Year's Eve, it is the most depressing time of the year. So many people faking it, try to be happy, pretending to be nice to have others, and promising things which they never deliver in the following year.

I will be glad when it's over and everyone goes back to being their normal, predictable selves.

[Blackpool Rock]

Yes, it's recorded 'As Live', in other words it's recorded all in one go a few weeks before.

Then they make sure they start playing the recording of the programme at exactly the right time, so as  to make the 'bongs' at the end coincide exactly with midnight (ie they backtime it).

Perhaps they'll do it on Zoom this year? 

I actually don't know whether they managed to make one this year during the break in Lockdown? Let's all check the BBC2 schedules because it could be the only highlight in what will be a thoroughly miserable New Year's  .

Yes looking on the net it appears it's a few weeks before, someone told me a few years back that it was recorded mid summer but that appears to be incorrect.
Think their comment was after one year a load of guests started to take the piss and kept commenting on how unseasonably warm it was for the time of year while Jools did his best to cover it up 

[Blackpool Rock]

I have always hated New Year's Eve, it is the most depressing time of the year. So many people faking it, try to be happy, pretending to be nice to have others, and promising things which they never deliver in the following year.

I will be glad when it's over and everyone goes back to being their normal, predictable selves.

I have to agree with your comment about people faking it but would extend it to Xmas eve also.

I went for years when I was in my teens through to my 40's wondering why I wasn't having the time of my life when everyone else was saying what a great night it was.
Years later in conversation a mate said he thought it was shite and I pointed out he used to say it was great, apparently he was just going along with it then others also said it wasn't that good too 

These days I stop in on my own with a couple of beers and will probably watch something on the I player as the live TV will all be shite, I do try to stay awake until about 1.00 before going to bed otherwise some cunt wakes you up letting off fireworks 

[Hobbit]

I have to agree with your comment about people faking it but would extend it to Xmas eve also.

I went for years when I was in my teens through to my 40's wondering why I wasn't having the time of my life when everyone else was saying what a great night it was.
Years later in conversation a mate said he thought it was shite and I pointed out he used to say it was great, apparently he was just going along with it then others also said it wasn't that good too 

These days I stop in on my own with a couple of beers and will probably watch something on the I player as the live TV will all be shite, I do try to stay awake until about 1.00 before going to bed otherwise some cunt wakes you up letting off fireworks 

When I was a kid I used to stay up until just after midnight on New Year's Eve, but I also only did it for the novelty and status. Now, I can't be bothered with all that crap. You'll find that in life people are just following other people just for status or out of fear. They fake it all the time. For example, everyone at workplaces fake it. People ask each other "how was your weekend" and people respond by saying things like "it was great" "or it was fantastic". Nobody ever has the balls to say the truth.

[Moby Dick]

......  People ask each other "how was your weekend" and people respond by saying things like "it was great" "or it was fantastic". Nobody ever has the balls to say the truth.

It was OKish
I spent up on three pro$$ies and spent the rest of the weekend with my dick in a trifle.

[mr.bluesky]

It was OKish
I spent up on three pro$$ies and spent the rest of the weekend with my dick in a trifle.

A strange place to put your dick 

[winkywanky]

Best New Year's Eve I ever had: it would have been around 1976, I was in my mid-teens.

A few mates and I went up to Trafalgar Square to hang about with the crowds and get pissed (you could in those days). At about 11pm this big old Rolls Royce pulled up and there were a couple of hot-looking girls in the back, dressed up to the nines. The window wound down and one of them beckoned me forward and gave me a big, sloppy wet kiss with tongues  . For an innocent and impressionable young lad like myself this was quite something and it has always stayed with me.

Of course if I'd had any sense I'd have jumped in the back with them  .

I wonder where they are now? 

[Doc Holliday]

I wonder where they are now? 

They are in rooms on the floor above me in the Home for the Bewildered.

[winkywanky]

They are in rooms on the floor above me in the Home for the Bewildered.

Thank God they're segregating the sexes, who knows what might happen otherwise? 

[Blackpool Rock]

Best New Year's Eve I ever had: it would have been around 1976, I was in my mid-teens.

A few mates and I went up to Trafalgar Square to hang about with the crowds and get pissed (you could in those days). At about 11pm this big old Rolls Royce pulled up and there were a couple of hot-looking girls in the back, dressed up to the nines. The window wound down and one of them beckoned me forward and gave me a big, sloppy wet kiss with tongues  . For an innocent and impressionable young lad like myself this was quite something and it has always stayed with me.

Of course if I'd had any sense I'd have jumped in the back with them  .

I wonder where they are now? 

Well Princess Margaret was known to be a bit of a "Party Girl" 

She wasn't averse to a bit of rough either and had a fling with John Bindon who had London gangster connections, think she used to go and stay on some exotic island during the summer and he got invited somehow then they ended up getting "Close" 
I remember seeing a documentary about it and apparently the royal bodyguards didn't know who he was so did some checking then had a real dilemma on their hands when they found out his dodgy connections 

[Strawberry]

I have had a variety of New Year's Eves, pub, city, alternative night, rock night,club and partying night, romantic and an exotic city.

This year will be quiet which is fine, well it isn't but I will be ok.

Always plenty to do at home.

[notcalledchris]

I'll be trying to get mediocre OWO from the wife. #livingthedream

[winkywanky]

Well Princess Margaret was known to be a bit of a "Party Girl" 

She wasn't averse to a bit of rough either and had a fling with John Bindon who had London gangster connections, think she used to go and stay on some exotic island during the summer and he got invited somehow then they ended up getting "Close" 
I remember seeing a documentary about it and apparently the royal bodyguards didn't know who he was so did some checking then had a real dilemma on their hands when they found out his dodgy connections 

Oi, who are you calling rough! 

These were girls around my own age.

Yes, I think it was the Island of Mustique where Marge got her kicks?

[Blackpool Rock]

I have had a variety of New Year's Eves, pub, city, alternative night, rock night,club and partying night, romantic and an exotic city.

This year will be quiet which is fine, well it isn't but I will be ok.

Always plenty to do at home.

So you got battery or plug in 

[fisherofsouls]

A quiet night in for me, reflecting on a truly awful year.

Struggling to see how life will any better in another 12 months...

Resolution for 2021? "Keep on breathing" is the best I can manage

[willie loman]

Well Princess Margaret was known to be a bit of a "Party Girl" 

She wasn't averse to a bit of rough either and had a fling with John Bindon who had London gangster connections, think she used to go and stay on some exotic island during the summer and he got invited somehow then they ended up getting "Close" 
I remember seeing a documentary about it and apparently the royal bodyguards didn't know who he was so did some checking then had a real dilemma on their hands when they found out his dodgy connections 

Apparently he had a big cock, which he enjoyed showing, her lady in waiting checked it out on the beach in mustique, and drily observed she had seen bigger, all this and more in a book by craig brown.

[willie loman]

i enjoyed new year when there was a realistic chance of a sexual encounter when out on the town, but otherwise ive always found it a ridiculous custom, particularly the absurd practice of first footing, and is there a more unpleasant word in the dictionary than hogmanay?

[Blackpool Rock]

Apparently he had a big cock, which he enjoyed showing, her lady in waiting checked it out on the beach in mustique, and drily observed she had seen bigger, all this and more in a book by craig brown.

I believe one of his party tricks was to stand in the middle of the pub and to put his cock through the handles of the old style "Mug" drinking glasses to show how many he could fit on 

[Skeleton]

I Quit bothering with NYE when pubs you visit regularly started charging £20 just to enter, then pay a shit load for a cab home. Most overhyped night of the year, plus everyone thinks you want to hug them at midnight and becomes a tosser

[Thephoenix]

As a child, my mother would take us down to The River Mersey, so we could hear all the ships horns at midnight. That's when we had miles of docks on both sides of the river.
That still sticks in my memory as the most magical.
Since then I've enjoyed every type of NYE celebration, but as others have said the novelty gradually wears off.
These days it's more of a quiet and reflective affair, although despite it being a long drive now, an occasional trip back to the riverside will conjure up those childhood memories.
It's also a great viewpoint to watch the many firework displays.
A more recent addition to the celebrations has been the releasing of scores of Chinese flying lanterns.
It's magical watching them float across the river, although I suspect the local air traffic controllers aren't too pleased.
I've just watched Michael Caine programme 'My Generation' which concludes with his anecdote...
' Don't look back in anger, but forward in hope'.... That'll do for my 2021 resolution.

[niceguy30!!]

Try to Shag the missus again, I think she's trying to set a new world record, the longest a couple have gone without doing it.

[puntingking]

Stay home, watch TV, eat and drink.

To be honest, I think I'd rather prefer your night than mine 

[puntingking]

Try to Shag the missus again, I think she's trying to set a new world record, the longest a couple have gone without doing it.

 

[Doc Holliday]

As a child, my mother would take us down to The River Mersey, so we could hear all the ships horns at midnight. That's when we had miles of docks on both sides of the river.

Indeed I remember that also. Was pretty loud too. Now we just have fireworks!

[unclepokey]

31st December 1972. Went to a party with my new girlfriend. Delivered her home at around 12.30 and got to bed myself around 12.50.
Caught the first train from Liverpool Lime St the next morning for a new job in London. Was berated for turning up late. (Although the day we joined the Common Market it wasn't a bank holiday in those days.)
I married the said girlfriend and we now do more than exist on the mega pension that new job entailed.

[Jimmyredcab]

This New Years Eve will be very special for me, I will be opening the bottle of champagne that I have had on ice since June 2016. Can’t say any more.   

[NIK]

This New Years Eve will be very special for me, I will be opening the bottle of champagne that I have had on ice since June 2016. Can’t say any more.   

I take it that wasn’t the last time you had a shag, Jim?   

[NIK]

I always hated New Years Eve, but when I was young I went on the razzle as I thought that’s what you did.
Remember walking into a pub just before midnight in 79 and my mate saying it was extra special as it was a new decade. Ironically by the time it was a new century I couldn’t give a monkeys and I stayed in as I did for over ten years before that and every New Year’s Eve since.
Not long after 79 you could no longer be just stroll into a pub before midnight as they began to lock people out unless they weren’t already there hours before.
Remember one year in the early 80’s me and my mates trudging from one pub to another trying in vain to get in somewhere. It was after that I thought fuck this for a game of soldiers and preferred to stay in with my mummy. 

However, my most memorable New Years Eve was undoubtedly 84 when I finally got off with who I thought was going to be THE ONE. 
It had been building up since August and she’d pleaded with me the week before to come to a Xmas Eve function. However Xmas Day was my mother’s birthday and only her second without my dad, so like a dutiful son I stayed in with her.   
However the following week I couldn’t resist the promise of a potential attractive girlfriend and after some heavenly early hours passion on New Years Day began my only proper relationship. 
Had a few brief flings but nothing as substantial and not with anyone I fancied as much.
If I’d only known it was going to be two and a bit years of torment, tears and tantrums (the last 2 mainly from me, the first mainly from her!)
Xmas Eve 86 I left her in a telephone box phoning her dad after our latest fight (no mobiles then). The relationship limped on for another three months before she dumped me very slowly (which was worse than a quick clean break.)
Within less than two years she’d married someone else and I’d turned to becoming an increasingly regular punter.

Ah, the festive season!  I suppose it shaped the rest of my emotional life.

[Blackpool Rock]

This New Years Eve will be very special for me, I will be opening the bottle of champagne that I have had on ice since June 2016. Can’t say any more.   

Sorry to burst your bubble but unless you forked out for a "Vintage" Champagne then it's only recommended to be kept for 3-4 years so will be past the sell by date 

Sour grapes anyone 

[NIK]

Forget to add, in 87, 88 & 89 new year I worked for a mate’s taxis.
They were also memorable New Years Eves in their own way.
From the bloke standing in the middle of the road trying to hold the traffic up bollock naked apart from a Bobby’s helmet - what’s he doing that for? asked one of my passengers    as I swerved past him - to the intimidating inebriated thug who jumped in unbooked and ordered me to take him to his girlfriend’s house so he could beat her up. He wasn’t quite sure which was her house and instructed me to reverse up and down the street as he tried to work out which it was. When he finally got out I dismissed all thoughts of asking for the fare and sped off relieved!

[Murray Mint]

It’ll just be a meal for two and lots to drink this year.

For the last decade or more we’ve held a party for friends I’ve known for over 50 years, so we’re all in our ‘70s. But one of them will be happy as he always cries in his champagne at midnight as he watches Ken Livingstone, Boris Johnson, and lately Sadiq Khan set fire to his council tax at midnight!

[donnybob]

My most memorable one was in the early 80s

At that time my first wife and I lived near Harrogate and she worked at Menwith Hill,  and we got invited to their NYE celebrations on the base

It was as over the top as you could imagine and the food, I could not believe Steaks that size even existed.

The worst was the Millennium  sat there with the lady I had been with for almost 10 years and we both knew it was over, you are far more alone with someone else there, than you ever are being there by yourself

[emraw]

Have a tinder date coming to mine to watch a film and share a bottle of champers.  Fingers crossed the neighbours dont call the police and we're in bed before midnight 

[hullad]

Actually mine will be much as other years,as my wife hates New Year we never have gone out or had parties. She usually to bed before 23:00 and I watch some comedy dvd.

I will be alone as usual a nice bottle of red, a pork pie, a bloody big rocket and I exchange banter with neighbours post midnight with some malt.

All good

Happy New Year