Christmas or New Years?

Piste · 26-12-2006 09:08PM #1

Which do you all prefer? Christmas or New Years? I like that Italian phrase "Christmas for family, New years for friends" (probably sounds nicer in Italian too!) Though my family always insist I spend both Christmas and New Years together. While I like Christmas and spending time with people and presents and all te silly traditions we have, New Years just seems so much more meaningful to me because I celebrate it for a reason, that a new year is coming will all sorts of possibilities and it;s also a nice time for reflection on the year gone by. I suppose I celebrate New Years for a reason, whereas Christmas, nice though it is, is a bit meaningless for me.

So what do other people think? Do you prefer Christmas or New Years?

Saruman · 26-12-2006 09:14PM

Different to me. Christmas is for over eating, New years for over drinking

emeraldstar · 26-12-2006 09:15PM

!!!!!!!!!
wow Christmas all the way!! I absolutely love it... New Years..I could take it or leave...moreso leave it. I don't like it much at all in fact

RobertFoster · 26-12-2006 09:25PM

Christmas. I hate New Year.

grimloch · 26-12-2006 09:28PM

Definitely Christmas. New Years, in general, is pretty crappy. It usually involves paying some stupid fee into a nightclub where they jack up the prices and then waiting for hours on end to get a taxi home. Feck that.

rymus · 26-12-2006 09:33PM

theyre both crap really... Ahead by a nose is new years, being only marginally better than Christmas.

Lump · 26-12-2006 09:33PM

Never really go out on New years, saying that I'm a fan of both. Christmas is decent and New years is there if you fancy it. I live close enough to the centre of Kilkenny that I can walk home.

John

Rb · 26-12-2006 09:38PM

Prefer Christmas generally, but this new year is going to be great. Cannot wait to put some things from 2006 behind me and start a fresh new year.

crosstownk · 26-12-2006 09:52PM

I prefer Christmas. New Years is good craic too, but Christmas involves the whole family, even the little kiddies. New Years is more a adult thing - it doesn't have much to offer children.

Ruu_Old · 26-12-2006 10:00PM

Christmas probably, New Years is good too. I don't do the whole going out thing, left that behind. It gives me a chance to stop for a while and think how far and what I have accomplished this year and do what I can to make it better. '06 has been very good to me so I am looking forward to '07.

senordingdong · 26-12-2006 11:40PM

New Years is alot more fun with a house party...from a Dubliners perspective that is.

lilrayosunshine · 26-12-2006 11:44PM

senordingdong wrote:

New Years is alot more fun with a house party...from a Dubliners perspective that is.

definitely.. Going out and trying to get home on NYE is just crap

InFront · 26-12-2006 11:45PM

New Years, christmas means nothing but 'nothing to do' imo. Love the excitement and reflection and socialising associated with New years

PS: Where's the poll dude!!

Kojak · 26-12-2006 11:49PM

New Year's ftw

Avns1s · 26-12-2006 11:51PM

Christmas by far for me, though the build up always seems better than the event itself. New Year (for me) almost seems like the last party of the Christmas period and back to work soon afterwards!

SpitfireIV · 26-12-2006 11:55PM

New years has never really been a big event in my book.....in fact its just another nail been driven in to re-inforce the fact that the whole holiday season is over.........thats it............gone..............for another year

So its Christmas day for me all the way

_Kaiser_ · 27-12-2006 12:00AM

Piste wrote:

Which do you all prefer? Christmas or New Years? I like that Italian phrase "Christmas for family, New years for friends" (probably sounds nicer in Italian too!)

[offtopic]
For some reason I got this far and thought of this quote from Goodfellas

Saturday night was for wives, but Friday night at the Copa was always for the girlfriends.

[/offtopic]

Anyway, back to the question - I'm not that pushed on either I have to say.

Dyr · 27-12-2006 12:14AM

new years is a pile of sh**e, everywhere's overpacked and overpriced and not a bleedin hope of getting a jo at the end of the night. Anyone remember the nonsense of new years eve for the millenium?? Where you were going to have to take out a bleedin mortgage just to get in anywhere??

i stay at home and get merrily hammered.

Piste · 27-12-2006 12:47AM

InFront wrote:

New Years, christmas means nothing but 'nothing to do' imo. Love the excitement and reflection and socialising associated with New years

PS: Where's the poll dude!!

Darn, I'd meant to add a poll but plain forgot, I'll try and add one now.

EDIT: Seemingly I can't ad a poll- whoopsie daisies.

_Kaiser_ · 27-12-2006 12:47AM

Bambi wrote:

new years is a pile of sh**e, everywhere's overpacked and overpriced and not a bleedin hope of getting a jo at the end of the night. Anyone remember the nonsense of new years eve for the millenium?? Where you were going to have to take out a bleedin mortgage just to get in anywhere??

i stay at home and get merrily hammered.

Good point as well, and I'd say is really the reason why business is down so much in pubs (in Dublin). The price of a night out now (between a few drinks, entrance charges and taxi home) is ridiculous.

Better to get a few bottles of wine/drinks in and invite the mates. Everyone is guaranteed a seat too!

Bateman · 27-12-2006 12:56AM

New Years does nothing for me. House parties every year for me. Pubs in town full of the sort of people who only go into town once a year. No way.

Christmas is a great time to spend with your family.

Ruu_Old · 27-12-2006 01:04AM

A bit late but poll added, Pishte.

Thrill · 27-12-2006 01:16AM

I like new years but it doesn't compare with Christmas for me.

All the family get together for Christmas day. On new years, we do our own thing, just like every other day of the year.

abelard · 27-12-2006 01:20AM

Christmas has family......

so I prefer New Years

Piste · 27-12-2006 01:42AM

Ruu wrote:

A bit late but poll added, Pishte.

Yay thanks Ruu ^_^

the Shades · 27-12-2006 02:30AM

New Years is the worst excuse for any kind of celebration. Putting that much of a spotlight on ten seconds of the year it's bound to be the biggest anti-climax and always disappointing. Christmas on the other hand holds the excitement for a few weeks and at least after you get through the day and meal and everything you've had a good long celebration.

Also I've never heard of anyone coming home from abroad for New Year's.

Gonzo · 27-12-2006 02:32AM

Christmas for me, I dont like New Years as it signals the return to work after a week off having fun.

Kinetic^ · 27-12-2006 02:34AM

RobertFoster wrote:

Christmas. I hate New Year.

+1

cozmik · 27-12-2006 03:20AM

Bateman wrote:

Christmas is a great time to spend with your family.

psilocybe · 27-12-2006 03:33AM

Christmas day is for the family. stephans day is for the pub.imho

Schlemm · 27-12-2006 04:26PM

I love Christmas and despise new year's. It's way too forced and everyone's got the post Christmas blues. Hate going out and getting smashed in its honour.

To make matters worse it's me f*****g birthday that day too!

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