Saturday Audience Participation
Last year, we asked the readership: "Are you hungover?" This year, we ask the readership, will you be hungover? What are your plans for tonight? If you're going out, any social pattern you're looking forward to noting? Will you actually watch the TV when the ball drops and that New Year's song plays (last year they barely played any of it before switching to Sinatra's New York, New York)? Do you wish Dick Clark would call it a career or do you ignore his stroke-induced speech and enjoy the legend ushering us into yet another year? Do you get into the spirit of it being a "brand New Year!"? Or is that just for chicks and fat people? Are the people in Times Square just a little too excited? Do you want to punch every single person wearing those year-glasses? What's your favorite part of the New Year's celebration?
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No, I will not be hungover. I plan to drink very moderately and stay away from the kind of stuff that might give me a headache (wine, brandy). I've pretty much lost my taste for booze anyway. Maybe I'll have a few vodkas on ice with a little lime.
This is totally off the subject but tonight there's a thread on a message board I read debating whether a virgin girl is best for marriage, the general consensus seems to be that a virgin will become curious about new and different lovers, and feel bad that she only had one and therefore be more likely to cheat. A more experienced woman, they say, will know what she wants sexually and thus be less likely to stray. Simply amazing. There are a couple people arguing the other side, but not many.
I may have a beer, but that will be the extent of it for me. I don't understand the need or the compulsion to 'get drunk'. Society seems to suggest that this is socially acceptable and reasonable to do, however, I feel no need to destroy the few brain cells I have left. I'm planning on going to hear some live music at a local theater, and then to a local pizza shop for a party, then on to bed by 1am.
@Anon #2:
That's all a bunch of feminist bullshit. Research shows that the fewer sexual partners one has, the less likely it is that they will cheat. Conversely, the more sexual partners one has, the more likely they are to cheat. This correlation is true no matter what the sex of the individual is...
I'm going to celebrate at home, with my husband as the only company, and it will be the first time in years that we will be alone and at home. I'm actually looking forward to wishing the Happy New Year to my neighbours, and then we will visit my inlaws. I'm not planning on getting drunk. We also decided not to buy any fireworks this year. In my country there is a tradition of burning Christmas trees on the New Year Eve, I intend to go and watch the bonfire, and to throw my own tree away tomorrow.
@Van Victus - I think you're right that on average, fewer partners is generally better, but I think there is something to the theory of virgins feeling deprived of their right to sexual experience. I feel like I've seen a ton of posts on sites like Reddit where some guy married his high school sweetheart at 20 and she ends up cheating because she wanted to know what another man was like. This is a product of the Western tradition of plenty of premarital sex. Marrying a virgin is highly abnormal.
As for tonight, I might have a few drinks, but not much more. I can't handle the hangovers anymore.
Speaking of New Year's Eve traditions, maybe someone here can answer this, which some friends and I were pondering this week:
When and how the hell did this whole "kiss somebody (anybody!) at midnight" thing become a staple of the New Year's Eve routine? I don't recall it being a particularly big phenomenon a quarter century ago. Now it's this essential ritual.
Like these over-the-top bachelor and bachelorette parties that have become part of the whole wedding escapade, it seems to correspond to the rise of hookup culture during the past couple of decades. Or did I just miss something somewhere?
When and how the hell did this whole "kiss somebody (anybody!) at midnight" thing become a staple of the New Year's Eve routine? I don't recall it being a particularly big phenomenon a quarter century ago. Now it's this essential ritual.
Like these over-the-top bachelor and bachelorette parties that have become part of the whole wedding escapade, it seems to correspond to the rise of hookup culture during the past couple of decades. Or did I just miss something somewhere?
*shrug*
Where did the popularity of shaving one's pubic hair come from? Where, as you say, did over-the-top bachelor(ette) parties come from? Whence the seeming ubiquity of oral sex (a weird, weird thing to do if there ever was one)? I figure these things always start in New York or California and seep their way into pop media, which transforms culture with lightning rapidity.
As for New Year's, it's a complete artificial "holiday" that I couldn't care less about.
^ Huh? It's one of the least artificial holidays there is.
I don't celebrate New Year's in any capacity. I'm just going to be home and play video games, as usual.
I don't mean to play along with the nihilistic nonesense raping this nation of its soul, but im going to be getting very drunk tonight, and i will laugh and laugh at the feminzed men drinking bud-lites in their designer jeans, and at the winefully liberal "white knighting" that will be occuring at the bar (to think it is all in order to get laid, not for pirinciples, not for blood or country). I hope to troll the town tonight frothing over with spite for all the fools hiding themselves from the reality that we are being softly erased as a ethnic group. i will ask them if they know about "white africans", (the best way to see how indocrinated they are, liberals say, "africans are black". Happy new year everyone!
I will be playing golf on one of the most exclusive private clubs in America, the kind I wouldn't be invited to join even if I had all the money I want. Those hikers' headlamps make night golf very enjoyable.
I went early this evening to a cousin's house to see him off to the Navy early next year. I had a nice visit with relatives I hope not to see again until next spring at the earliest. I am very happy to be home now nursing my first glass of wine, and will probably be snug in bed before I've had enough for a hangover.
I'm in my 40s and have never enjoyed going out on NYE. Unless it's a family thing, I probably never will again.
You know, you and Roach are funny. You don't like American foreign policy, but you accuse anyone opposing it of being a Bin Laden lover. Even if you don't like Ron Paul's tone, shouldn't the way he frames the issue bother you less than the policies of those who needlessly kill and maim thousands of soldiers?
Celebrating a little early, are you, Breeda? (Hint: You're on the wrong thread.)
@ 2nd Anonymous.
I wouldn't trust their thread because for these people their entire outlook is about "sexual enlightment" and the entire hookup culture and it comes as a shock to them that yes, there exist people out there that don't conform to their "liberation" and may even prefer reproductive to recreational sex, not to mention aren't curious about "sexual variety" because that isn't a goal in their lives.
"After six weeks of not speaking, Emma contacts Adam again, who brusquely conveys his lack of interest.Classic Roissy doctrine here - women hate clingy betas and they love aloof, womanizing alphas."
I call this "flipping the script", and it works like a charm for getting women who wanted to keep it casual (or were initially uninterested) fall hard for you. Every single time I did it, I lost interest in them fairly quickly once they started to get clingy.
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