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ThePriceisWrongJay Hathaway
12/29/14 9:34am

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Unfrozen Caveman LawyerJay Hathaway
12/29/14 9:44am
I loathe New Year's Eve. It's a double edged sword and nobody wins. Going to a party sucks because all of the forced merriment and expectation that you're going to have the BEST NIGHT EVER (heads up—you won't). If you decide to say "fuck it" and stay home in sweatpants, you feel like you're missing out on something that you should be taking full advantage of.
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  PyramidHatUnfrozen Caveman Lawyer
  12/29/14 10:28am
  Not sure of your age, but if you're under 30, know that the fear of missing out (FOMO, I'm told), goes away after 30 or so. I used to always have to be out on New Years (or every Friday and Saturday night, for that matter) for fear of feeling that I was some loser if I didn't go (my 20's were rough). At some point - around 1999, to be exact - I saw that it was ridiculous to spend $20 cover so that I could pay $6 for a Heineken and listen to shitty music I didn't like. That's when I started going to house parties. Cheaper, but after a few years of that, I didn't like the feeling of being wrecked for the following couple of days. About 5 years back, I started going up with some friends to visit their parents in the mountains: We'd cook crab for dinner and watch some stupid NYE show (typically, a guy jumping over a thing), then go to bed, so we can hit the snow the next day...after a couple of years of that, we said "screw it, we're going to bed at 10, because watching the run up for the guy to jump over the thing is stupid."*
  
  Belabored Point being: Values change.
  
  *Side story: During the run up to the guy jumping over the thing, there'd always be ads for Trojan condoms. No, yes, we're all adults, but it's still awkward watching condom ads in front of septuagenarians with nice, Midwestern values.
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  BaggyTrousers4PyramidHat
  12/29/14 10:46am
  I've been out of the house on a few NYEs, mostly local bar with friends stuff, and those FOMOs are the worst. They're usually a group who are bar hopping, drunk, realize they're about 10seconds away from midnight and have to be inside SOMEWHERE for the Official Monent. They stumble in, demand the bartender give them 10 drinks to have something to toast with pronto, yell Happy New Year! Then stumble back out.
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thismaynameJay Hathaway
12/29/14 9:33am
People that force the entire party to watch the ball drop are the worst.
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  natradamusthismayname
  12/29/14 12:57pm
  people that steal new years' thunder by having their wedding reception on new years eve are the worst. seriously- 2 of the last 4 years. I love em, love to celebrate with them, but that day is already devoted
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  thismaynamenatradamus
  12/29/14 1:21pm
  Yeah thats a selfish move. Not cool.
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lobstrJay Hathaway
12/29/14 11:27am
Ever since Ryan Seacrest has taken full ownership of Dick Clark's ol' ABC ball-drop coverage, it has become a full-on cavalcade of douchechill television; overt sponsor plugs, shitty bands, and, oh yeah, Ryan fucking Seacrest. (incidentally, this year it's actually FIVE FUCKING HOURS LONG)

Anderson Cooper+Kathy Griffin is pretty much the one thing to look forward to...
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snowJay Hathaway
12/29/14 9:43am
Five Die Hard movies? I'm grudgingly willing to accept four-ish, but I categorically refuse to acknowledge that there ever was a fifth.
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  Belaberysnow
  12/29/14 10:04am
  So it says this video is private?
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twomittensJay Hathaway
12/29/14 9:46am
Oliver-related rant post!

I'm pissed that Michigan made it to the finals for My Country Tis A Dick on the Bugle, and it was a fucking Norwegian that nominated us. I was about to draft an email* and decided "eh, no, we're not a country, fuck it.". ...No, I'm not pissed. We earned it, especially if even Norwegians are calling us out.

* Nominated for "religious right" bullshit that technically means EMTs could refuse to treat a gay person - somehow this came out of gay rights protection legislation that was held up over arguments over whether transsexuals should be included. Amazing. I was going to add attempting to pass a bill that classifies burning tires (amongst other things) as green energy (might be brought back in next year! Literally rewrites our 10% green energy by 2015 bill!); passing a drug testing for welfare recipients bill even though that's been proven to be crap; forbidding our Department of Natural Resources from considering biodiversity in their decisions (look, if you can't fucking snowmobile, what's the point); reducing any responsibility for polluters to clean up their mess, eliminating Right to Farm protection so people have been going to/preparing to go to court about keeping their fucking chickens and urban gardens... I could go on. And it's not like this is a lame duck rush - because even though more than 50% of Michiganders voted for Democrats, fucking gerrymandering means the Republicans have even more solid majorities next year. This is the warmup. Fuuuuuuck.
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  BaggyTrousers4twomittens
  12/29/14 10:47am
  It was nominated but disallowed on the grounds that you have to nominate your own country, so you can do the honors next year.
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  twomittensBaggyTrousers4
  12/29/14 4:16pm
  I'm sadly resigned to the fact that I'll probably have plenty of material.
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lennytwoshoesJay Hathaway
12/29/14 10:04am
This video is private. WTF does that mean?
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PurpleCaneGirlJay Hathaway
12/29/14 10:42am
Why can't we treat New Years like Santa? We go to bed early, and poof, when we wake up we are gifted with an entirely new year...
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theaweseomeladykatieJay Hathaway
12/29/14 11:42am
Try this link instead.

The one you posted says "this video is private".

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Exponential GrapeJay Hathaway
12/29/14 10:05am
My favorite new years was when I was 15 and watched True Lies and Terminator 2 pausing at 12:05 (because we were too busy watching movies to notice the time) to say happy new years.
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