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New Year's Day as a holiday?
I wish you all a happy new year. On the other hand, I dislike the idea of New Year's day as a holiday. A lot.
My first reason is that it just seems like another excuse for people to go out , get drunk, and party. Oh, and did I mention post offices and banks? ![]() Secondly, I see nothing festive about ending one year only to have another one start. It should be more like a Day Of Praying That We Don't Get Old ![]() Three: idiotic New Years Resolutions that are broken two days into the new year.
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Whooo-weee! Somebody pinched his finger in the case of his Baroque CD this morning, didn't he?
![]() I love new years. I love making resolutions! I've never actually kept any but this year I'm optimistic! I'm not sure why. In fact, I think I was optimistic last year too, but this year I really mean it. |
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I guess I dislike seemingly useless holidays. And the fact that it comes on the heels of Christmas. They're to close together. We need to move New Year's Day over a couple of months
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Useless holidays? Wow, way to talk about the birth of Jesus, you jerk.
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I didn't say Christmas was one of the useless ones!
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I observed a few years ago that New Year's Day is the only holiday we celebrate in the US that is purely 'calendar-based'. In many ways, the dating of our new year is arbitrary anyway - because it isn't at a solstice, or equinox or anything like that (new moon, etc) which would normally mark a transition like that.
But - I guess we have to reconcile ourselves to it. On the first day of the other eleven months of the year, I've taken to wishing people 'Happy New Month's Day' ![]() ![]() ![]()
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New Year is a bigger deal than Xmas here. We get the 2nd off as well to recover from the 1st. There should be more holidays, not less. ![]() |
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I find that a terribly cute custom. Any idea how it arose?
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Gaffer, in one simple sentence, you have encapsulated the whole of my philosophy. Thank you.
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![]() I agree! I like New Year's Day. I like a time where you can look back on the old year and pick out what you liked and try to keep doing it, and pick out what you didn't like and try to change it. I like the feeling of new beginnings. And it's loads of fun to watch hours of football and eat munchies with friends and family ![]()
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_rabbit Wiki doesn't know.) Definitely. Plus, landing on a Thursday, it only cost me six days to get a whole 2 weeks off work. |
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The night before is much more important than New Year's Day.
And I don't do resolutions. Silly things. I'm perfect, so what would I have to be resolute for? ![]()
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Last year I resolved to lose the extra weight, and I managed to keep to the resolution (lost over 30kgs). Not sure what I'll resolve for this year, if anything. I'm practically perfect the way I am.
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My mum wished me more decisiveness for the coming year, maybe I should have that as my resolution
![]() Wow BoP, 30 kg is so much! That's so great that you managed to get it off and keep it off!!! ![]()
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I made no resolutions this year, because I never kept them in years past. I saw the ball drop and it wasn't all too exciting for me. I'm with Hector on this, it's a bit of a useless day that basically celebrates one new resolution around the Sun at some arbitrary point. We went another 940 million kilometers around the Sun, moving at an orbital velocity of around 30 km/second, at a galactic orbital velocity of 220 km/second, completing a circuit of 7 billion kilometers around the galaxy. Something like that...woohoo...
I think we need a Happy New Decade Day, that occurs when a new Decade begins. Then that day would seem more meaningful in some way. And it would be easier to keep resolutions because you'd only need to keep one for every decade! In a decade we will have traveled 70 billion kilometers through the galaxy! I lost 20kg of weight in about three months - weight I didn't really want to lose. So if anything my resolution would be to gain it back. Anyway, for those who enjoy the idea of a New Year, New Year's is just fine. But I'll stick with celebrating birthdays in the family and other holidays. We have another holiday called Labor Day, which is actually useful - it recognizes the working man in America. However, Labor Day is the day all the pools close, and all the fun summer stuff ends. After that point it's just a slow and depressing march on to the winter dark.
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I often make one or two resolutions, but maybe I should look up the ones I made last year and to see if I actually managed to keep them, before I make new ones...
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