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To think the millennium ruined New Years Eve?

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Honeydragon · 31/12/2011 19:40

Why is it still such a big deal? I'm sure it was different before 1999? You might have gone out to your usual haunt,or had a party yourself, whatever. Or you may have stayed in with friends...or even god forbid chilled in front of tv.

People would ask if you were doing anything, you'd answer. End of story. Now you have to make an effort, people have actual opinions about the subject. Shock

Before the Millennium you didn't have to pay to get into every damn pub, club and shithole, nor did you HAVE to be doing SOMETHING.

It doesn't seem to be about friends and family anymore and having a nice time, it's just about doing News Years Eve.

Or have just become a miserable old gimmer in PJs with a laptop?

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SantasCave · 31/12/2011 19:44

Totally agree. We're staying in with a DVD and a bottle of wine Grin

I've only enjoyed one New Year's Eve and that was the Millennium when my boss invited me to a murder mystery dinner party at her house then we sat in the garden and watched the fireworks going off over Cheltenham.

PercyFilth · 31/12/2011 19:47

The paying to get into the pub thing started well before 2000. I hate the whole thing of having to "commit" to one place, we used to drop in and out of out various locals, pop back and forth. sometimes the punters in one pub would suddenly conga through the other ..... now it's all locked down, ticket only, cant' come in after 11pm nonsense. Way to kill the community spirit.

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Honeydragon · 31/12/2011 19:51

I worked the Millennium, local village pub. Some of my London friends came down to avoid the city. It was great, had a few beers, woke up the next day with a clear head and an absolute bomb in tips Wink

Other friends paid £20 just to get into a bloody Wetherspoons Hmm

And since then pubs have continued charging Hmm Hmm

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TommeeTipsy · 31/12/2011 19:52

I hate this paying to get into pubs nonsense. I used to live in Edinburgh inside the zone for the Hogmany street party and it was a nightmare of vomit, litter and piss. The final straw for me was someone leaving their pants on our doorstep on top of a pile of sick.

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Honeydragon · 31/12/2011 19:53

Percy exactly

That's what I miss. Now your locked in in feckin room and charged through the nose too.

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alistron1 · 31/12/2011 19:54

I worked in pubs from 1991 onwards and NYE was always a paid/ticket event.

YABU.

Wongamum · 31/12/2011 19:54

YABU

NYE has always been the way you describe for us. The Millenium made it better. We have house parties every NYE now!

redrubyshoes · 31/12/2011 19:55

I have never liked the 'enforced jollity' of New Year (spoken as a Scot) and we are staying in. The Millenium was a wash out for us with our local charging £30 a ticket and having a black tie do - they had about 25 takers.

I don't miss going out.

gottagetanewcalender · 31/12/2011 19:59

I am in my forties, pups didn't used to have to charge because their was one on every corner and you stuck to your local, so no need too have to try to keep the 'riff raff' out.

In terms of celebration, it's like everything else, people have more disposable income, so everything has got bigger, but it has always ben celebrated, especially when things were more uncertain (pre NHS/welfare state).

gottagetanewcalender · 31/12/2011 20:02

Just to add i can remember it being organised who would "bring the New Year" in, well in advance, to make sure that someone did. Neighbours would volunteer for each other.

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Honeydragon · 31/12/2011 20:03

Maybe it's because I'm in the sticks but it was affordable to go to more than one pub despite tickets. I like house parties.... but they seem to be on the wane, we used to have a sort of street party 2 or 3 open houses and flitted back and forth ...till the council got cross, not about the noise or access, but we hadn't paid for a licence.

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alistron1 · 31/12/2011 20:04

And back in the early 90's I went to lots of NYE parties in houses.

gamerwidow · 31/12/2011 20:05

I remember paying to get into pubs NYE back in the early 90s so the millenium can't be blamed for that I'm afraid.
NYE has always been a bit crap for going out imo. It's always overpriced and too busy and double fare on the cabs means it costs a fortune to get home. The best NYE nights I've had have been at friend's houses or at home watching telly with my family.

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Honeydragon · 31/12/2011 20:08

My favourites have all been house parties or down the "local" where you didn't pay because you were damn well expected to show your face Grin

I'm certain house parties are dying a death, you'd end up going to half a dozen over the evening at times.

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GwendolineMaryLacedwithBrandy · 31/12/2011 20:13

I worked in a pub in the 80s and it was ticket only then. I cant see that anything particular has changed. I'm just too old to bother with it now.

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Honeydragon · 31/12/2011 20:15

oh crap....I'm just a miserable old caaaah then.

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redrubyshoes · 31/12/2011 20:19

Not a miserable old caah! Just getting older like the rest of us. We like a quiet night in and a chat. Saying that my DH is working upstairs in his study Blush and I am on Mumsnet.

Groovee · 31/12/2011 20:22

Hogmanay's always been a big deal in Edinburgh. I remember the days of the street party before they brought in needing passes etc. We were at the Tron for midnight and hit the West End of Princes Street at 4am and had to walk home (30 min walk thankfully) but some places made you pay while others didn't.

That was the one and only year I went out. 2 years later I was with dh and it was ok but in 1999, I was heavily pregnant.

BogChicken · 31/12/2011 20:30

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AmberLeaf · 31/12/2011 21:08

YANBU

It wasnt standard to pay to get into pubs pre millenium, definitely became 'the thing' after 2000.

Ive paid premium ticket prices to get into clubs pre 2000, but it all got a bit silly after 2000.

Im not paying to get into a pub.

AmberLeaf · 31/12/2011 21:10

New years eve 1999/2000 I had a 3 month old baby and a 3 yr old so going out was not on my agenda anyway.

pchick · 31/12/2011 21:13

I remember ticket-only pub events in the late 80s/ early 90's.

My best NYE was 12 years ago, laying In bed watching all the millennium celebrations on tv.

The3Bears · 31/12/2011 21:14

Were watching Jurrassic park with ds Blush we have just had chinese also [grim] but more fun than anything else.

The3Bears · 31/12/2011 21:15

the chinese wasnt grim more like Grin Blush

GentleOtter · 31/12/2011 21:21

I fell and fractured my skull on millennium night. Our visitors assumed that I had been drinking bucketfuls of whisky so ignored the blood/wailing/ear holding and concussion.

Sods.

I had made cheese and pineapple porcupines that night and never got a cube.

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