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Does anyone feel the same?
The pointless shopping madness, crowds of peolpe everywhere, drunks, cheap Chinese pyrotechincs, the same vulgar shit on the TV every year...
Is that because people fail to find their own joy in their lives so they need an external trigger to pretend that they are happy for one single day? Even if that pretended happiness often consists only of some additional food and another bottle of vodka?
Or do they believe that a change in date can make a change in life?
I dont know, but it seems like every russian song ever written about "Новый год" is really catchy.
Новый год - ожидание любви!
Новый год мы так ждали!
Ожидание чуда! Это новый год.
Старый год забудем! В новым повезет!
Of course every year starts like this. You suppose this year will be the year you drop 20 pounds, or you work overtime and you boss gives you the big promotion. This you will meet 'The one' or adopt a child from Sudan.
Then 365 days later you did none of it but find yourself making plans for next year.
My only resolution is to break all my resolutions.
Maybe I am not Russian enough spiritually (while biologically I am) :).Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogboy182
Ожидание любви? I have love of whom I love. I don't want any other love.
Забудем старый год? Why? Was it so much bad?
Maybe not everything is really good but I love and respect my life too much to think that I have the right to call it bad.
I noticed that it is common for Russian people to fail finding pleasure in simple things, in everyday life. But life is 90% small and unsignificant things!
Of course it's just a matter of opinions...
ahhhhhhhhhhh a platonic "something".....me overheating .....overheating
"My only resolution is to break all my resolutions." :o
It's my 22-th New Year holiday...supermarkets that looks like it's the end of 1-year hunger in the city...troubles with searching presents...paralized traffic...annual president's speech on TV...and so on...of course, i am sick...nothing changes from year to year...what we are celebrating ?
Americans celebrate New Years and it is a good thing too! It is one of the few real holidays in America where people actually are not expected too work!
хех, толи дело раньше.....кулёк конфет в школе дарили, и пару мандаринок. Чтобы сейчас столько же счастья получить надо по крайней мере Jeep-cherekee купить :)
The earth goes around the sun in a circle. There is no start and there is no end.
The calender is just a man-made timetable broken down into weeks, months, years. It just so happens that we all decided to celebrate the new year on the first day of the month called January. To me, it is just another day.
I'm not going to waste my time refuting that.Quote:
Originally Posted by kwatts59
If anything, it's a good excuse to be with people that you haven't seen in ages (because we're all off school, and can all come back to our home town). Also, its a good way to kiss a pretty girl at midnight :)
Looks like there is another person who says "I iz like totally bored." What's been up, pisces? Now realize the stupidty of the whole life? I do understand you. Really. I ceased celebrating everything very long time ago because every holiday to me seemed shallow and boring. People just follow stupid traditions, and, frankly speaking, I hate following stupid traditions, so I told myself, "Why fuss?", and I answered, "No bloody reason!" Thus, the principle of mine came to be as pathetical "Get a life!" that I still consider to include in my favourtie mottos.
Hey guys, what's wrong with getting drunk with friends and f*cking around inside and outside? Meh. Just another opportunity to have fun.
No work. Nuff said.
I feel the same. I found about 18 fire-works in my yard one year. Annoys me greatly. I'm not so clear why people get drunk either...most of the people I see get drunk on New Years winds up being put into jail for something stupid. Great way to start the new year!
I usually get really drunk and do something stupid on December 18th Day. I haven't celebrated it for three years, luckily, but my insurance still hasn't gone down to under $175 a month!!! :o
-Fantom
December 18'th day? Huh?Quote:
Originally Posted by fantom605
December 18th Day is my made-up holiday when I got a DUI three years ago...! That's why I said I haven't celebrated it in three years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Orpheus
-Fantom
Do they revoke your licence after your first DUI in California?Quote:
Originally Posted by fantom605
I don't know about California, but here in Illinois the first DUI conviction results in at least 1 year loss of driving privledges coupled with community service and potentially a rather large fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
California is one of the worst states to get a DUI in... I lost my license for 3 months, had a work permit for three more months, had to do 80 hours of community service in a ditch on the side of the road, take 6 months of classes (including AA once a week during that time), pay for the classes, and on top of over $3000 in fines (not to mention insurance and SR-22)
I'd say on top of the insurance and fines, including missed wages I could have earned for working instead, it cost me over $15,000. Oh yeah, and I hit a parked car, so I had to pay for that and my own car. Approximately $30,000 total.
DUI = Not Fantom Approved! :evil: :evil:
Which is why I never celebrate that horrible holiday anymore!!!
-Fantom
Well, it taught you a lesson. It served its purpose. DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE! That is to all you kids out there.
It just sucks that in the U.S. you have to drive if you want to go out and have some fun :( I miss Norway!!!
Yeah, a very expensive lesson!
whatever and whenever I celebrate anything I use to reserve some cash for taxi, and to hand my carkeys and papers to a friend and ask him not to give them back to me until next day. Helps 8)Quote:
Originally Posted by fantom605
I used to live in the state of Wyoming. I it a good state ........except for the wind! In Wyoming they are sensble enought to let you drink and drive. It's only unlawful to be legally intoxicated and drive. It was about 35 miles down a bumpy dirt road to get to a paved road in order drive into town. That's where I realized some of those states that don't allow you to dink and drive weren't so stupid because i found that it is very hard to drive on a bumpy road while operating the clutch and changing gears while trying to hold onto a bottle of beer. See? So, drinking and driving do not mix!
Remind me to buy you one of those beer dispensers you can wear on your head. And to never go to Wyoming.
Digression from the topic.
Digression from the digression from the topicQuote:
Originally Posted by Rtyom
There is no topic here! Or maybe it is anything to do with alcohol.
There's the only good thing you can do with alcohol - drink it!
fantom605, they're watching us! :o
http://404.rzn.ru/tmp/dui-drink.jpg
Ooopp...looks like you're at risk of getting caught by police any day soon. Have you got a car, net surfer?
No, but I had one. Maybe they have a hunch that I'll have a car soon?
Who knows??? :?: I'd like to give you some advice: if anyone offers you to buy a car in the future, decline that offer. If you ignore this warning, you might remember my words in a cell.
Nah, I'll take a risk :)
But thanks anyway!
haha, that's good stuff!!!! Da*n you, big brother!!!! Think your shirts are whiter than mine.... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by net surfer
-Fantom
Oh, don't talk to me about New Year and drinking, people. I was in Rome! In Transtevere ristarante where nobody spoke any English. And that was, I believe, the fifth day of our drinking spree. And one very vibrant and quite temperamental Roman lady involved me into the quite authentic folk dance and at the very end she accidentally threw me on the floor - probably very ancient and very much marble... And after than, according to the photos, we went to the Plazzia Navona and rode a horsey! On the merry-go-round! With the balloons!.. My God, that Russians can enjoy themselves.
Gerty, seems you had a great time! :D
:lol: :thumbs:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gerty
Gerty, am I in any of those pictures? I'm still trying to figure out where I was on New Year's Day....!
-Fantom