Why Celebrate The New Year By Getting Drunk?

[garbage 0]

Every year is the same right as the new year ends the new one begins and its the same thing everyone drunk, uncluding myself.well why is it this way is it because i like to party and just get drunk so there for i pretty much end up drinking all year long.what is it.why do i like drinking so much.

[Watermonkey 0]

So your thread is you asking yourself a rhetorical question? I don't understand what you are attempting to gain from this. What would you have your audience say? Do you want our support for your intoxication that comes every year on new year's eve, like millions of others around the world? Do you want us to condemn you for it? I'd just tell you to moderate your drinking a little so you're sure to remember your party and not act the fool any more than anyone else there. Otherwise, I don't see the problem. Go. Have fun. Drink, laugh, carry on and bring in the new year in cheer! Or feel guilty about it. I guess the choice is yours, isn't it?

[cangor 0]

Yeah, watermonkey's right. I mean, try to lay off the drinking so you actually remember your night, but it's really your decision, so do what you want. If you don't want to be so addicted to drinking, then seek some help about it.

[jlhaslip 4]

I do not recommend drinking to Excess and {Drinking and Driving} is a definite NO_NO...Plan your transportation needs BEFORE you go any place. Budget for a Cab, call a friend, walk (or crawl) if you must, just don't drink and drive.Most Parents will come and pick you up, a decent friend will, too. Find a ride anyway you can, but DO NOT drink and drive.Equally important, DO NOT ride with a driver who has been drinking, either... the life you save might be your own...(You might spill your drink... then we would have to kill you... )

[strange-garden 0]

I have never gotten drunk on new years. I don't know what it is, but I really hate drunk people, and idiots who get drunk and make a lot of noises.

[Maou_Tsaou 0]

I have never gotten drunk on new years. I don't know what it is, but I really hate drunk people, and idiots who get drunk and make a lot of noises.

Then don't come by my place.

I make my own wine.

"Everything to excess! Moderation is for monks."
R.A.H. as L.L.

Your some kind of damed on either side of this one, and smack in the middle is so vanila that it must be that "luke warm" that gets spat out.

Dan Fogelberg left us not long ago.
For the yanks here 'Same Auld Lang Signe' will be especially poingient this year.

[sheepdog 10]

I do not recommend drinking to Excess and {Drinking and Driving} is a definite NO_NO...
Plan your transportation needs BEFORE you go any place. Budget for a Cab, call a friend, walk (or crawl) if you must, just don't drink and drive.

Most Parents will come and pick you up, a decent friend will, too. Find a ride anyway you can, but DO NOT drink and drive.

Equally important, DO NOT ride with a driver who has been drinking, either... the life you save might be your own...

(You might spill your drink... then we would have to kill you... )

Oh man, I absolutly, 1,000% agree with you on all of the above! Drunk driving is the dumbest thing a person can do. Even if you don't kill yourself or somebody else, if you get caught, that can mess up your life pretty much forever. Higher insurance, credit, everything is made more difficult if you have a drunk driving charge on your record.

[Bluebear 0]

Why do people celebrate new year with getting drunk? Well, I think that is probably because some people wants to have a good time, they want to party... nothing wrong with that. Many people needs or think that they have to drink to have a great time. If people don't want to drink, they don't drink. It is their chooise. I am not old enough to drink alcohol, but many of my friends does. (They are as old as me) They are some fools, but lets not go off-topic to much.If people don't want to get drunk on that night, it is their chooise, cause they don't have to do it. It is their problem if they want to act like fools. They could have a really nice time, even if they are not drinking.You did maybe understand that I hate alcohol.

[cangor 0]

Haha... well, in any case, tonight is new year's (I think. ) so everyone have a safe evening, and jlhaslip is absolutely right- if you're drinking, don't drive!Cheers!

[djstarskream 1]

Every year is the same right as the new year ends the new one begins and its the same thing everyone drunk, uncluding myself.well why is it this way is it because i like to party and just get drunk so there for i pretty much end up drinking all year long.

what is it.

why do i like drinking so much.

well although i dont share your thaught of the useual drunleness over the new year i on the outher hand finde it rather usefull to have fun by getting alittle drunk (not obsesivly)
in the new year as i do think it would be and is a good way to socialise if you dont no the people who you are drinking with.

though it can cause a disaproved behaveoral pattern in whats known as binge drinking it does also providing you drink wisely cause a kindly atmosfear around freinds and outhers around.

now i dont get absolutly bladderd but i do like to drink a little on newyear as in a scene its like drowning the past althogh not a ofective way of removing your past mistakes but it works for me.

outher peoples reasons must shurly consist of manny a reasons. so to shorten the answer.

i get drunk on new years eve because its a good way to let go.

[Bluebear 0]

i do think it would be and is a good way to socialise if you dont no the people who you are drinking with.

A good way to socialise? I think it is never a good way to get to know the people that you are hanging out with. When people get drunk they change, they are not the same as they would be a normal day. Yes, some are not that "shy" when they are drunk, but should not people get to know the real you? I just don't understand why people wants to get drunk, but that is just my opinion.

[Misanthrope 0]

The rituals involved with New Year's Eve are ancient ones, but the practice of celebrating per the Gregorian calendar seems to me arbitrary, at best. Consider the fact our calendar wasn't adopted until around 1700 by Britain and her colonies, and that depending on the country, faith and culture, New Year's eve can fall anywhere between September and April. January 1st holds no astrological or timely significance for me. Though the Bahai seem to have the right idea by celebrating the day March 21, which just happens to be the Vernal (Spring) equinox. Doesn't that make more sense? January 1st falls during the dark of winter, when nature dies back into the night in preperation for it's rebirth in Spring. That alone heightens the insignificance of Jan 1. Further, many traditions spread the jubilation over a course of several days. Chinese New Year, for example, lasts some 15 days. But leave it to the industrialized West to dehumanize the tradition, whittling it down to one, pitiful evening I fondly refer to as "amateur night."

 

And why do I use that term? Take a protestant nation like America, a relatively young culture which still has a puritanical attitude toward alcohol. It wasn't that long ago when folks were running moonshine to evade prohibition and jail time. Now couple these provincial attitudes with New Year's Eve, and you've a recipe for disaster. What you have, in large part, is nation of people who never learned how to drink in a civilized fashion due to the ridiculous taboo associated with alcohol. When people view use of a particular substance as immoral/illegal, then the tendency toward abuse of that substance increases dramatically. In France, a Catholic country, alcohol consumption is considered a normal, everyday part of life. I visited Paris during Bastille Day (French independence), and the streets were crawling with drinking revelers - yet people remained civilized. Contrast the same scenario in the United States, and you couldn't pay me enough to attend. All the amateurs who never learned how to drink would raise hell. And that's exactly what they do every New Year's eve.

 

That said, who says you necessarily have to go anywhere and act in any particular fashion just because it happens to be December 30? I'm very much the contrarian when it comes to holidays, especially New Year's eve, and keeping a low profile when the masses are out and about acting like fools is always a wise choice.

 

So, gentle topic-starter, do what you would normally do any other night of the week. If that entails enjoying a few cocktails, more power to you. It is, after all, a free country, at least for now. That is, unless, the Nannie State decides to declare another prohibition against alcohol. They've done it before, and I can see them doing it again as the dumbed-downed masses are now highly vulnerable to anti-drinking propaganda. When that happens, I'll be packing my bags for France. Until then, I'll be spending New Year's Eve the way I do every other night: sharing the evening with a shot (or two) of Johny Walker Red.....at home.

[bishoujo 0]

Hmm were you drunk went you made this thread? lol Personally, I think it rather pointless to get drunk, for anything, not just New Year. It's just so meaningless to waste time slumping into semi-conscious mode when you could have used the time to have fun with your friends and loved ones. Frankly, I do not see the attraction of alcohol. True, it does help you to loosen up, but if you start talking nonsense, or you can't remember your conversations the next day, then it's just a whole night wasted. Drinking is fine, if you have a high tolerance level for alcohol, but getting drunk is just silly.

[etycto 0]

well some people get drunk just to enjoy themselves and do stuff that they would not normally do when they have their consence, but i dont have a personal aponion of this and there's mostly be affensive to anyone who do likes to get drunk. but why do people get drunk for the new how does that make it special, i think drinking is a bad and nasty habit and going into the new with that nasty habit is bad. yet in another light of it all me and my family like going into the new year at church some people like doing it alone other like being with friends i guess the way you go into the new year kinda has to do with your attitude and beleive i so. i guess since you like to party and get drunk, unless you where trying to turn over a new leaf, i guess it would only make sence that you'd party and get drunk for the new year.

[kasm 0]

Every year is the same right as the new year ends the new one begins and its the same thing everyone drunk, uncluding myself.

well why is it this way is it because i like to party and just get drunk so there for i pretty much end up drinking all year long. what is it. why do i like drinking so much.

1. I don't know why we celebrate new year. In fact it is indicator that we lost one year from our life.

 

2. May be we celebrate it in hope that we will alive until next year and wouldn't depature as people we lost during the past year.

 

3. But it is good as a day of gathering and pleasure.

 

4. Some people get drunk just to do things that they would not normally do when they have their consence.

 

5. But some people spend all the night in church praying and singing and end with early mass. They affirms their pretending and hope to be good for while or forever. They promise new beginning. Their churches organise that to protect people from drinking and fellow the stream outside.

 

6. Since we celebrate it, I say HAPPY NEW YEAR