hk blues Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Where I am, they start the countdown from the '...ber months' so September! Most families will start putting up trees in late October-early November but I hold out until 1st Sunday in December. Still to early IMO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moomintroll Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 That is a traditional New Year.Not when I was 10, it wasn't. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Not when I was 10, it wasn't.Snowflake [emoji23] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 2 hours ago, Moomintroll said: 14 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said: That is a traditional New Year. Not when I was 10, it wasn't. Age 10 was Advocaat I think. Vodka wasn’t introduced until about 13. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oleksandr Posted November 24, 2019 Author Share Posted November 24, 2019 2 a day until Christmas day 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 As I grow older, the one that I now have a dislike of is New Year. I really used to like it as a kid. My mum and dad would allow us a cheeky wee Advocaat and lemonade, we could stay up late get to eat wee sausage rolls. The neighbours would come round and my mum would make sure everyone’s ‘glasses were charged’ for the bells. I always liked Hogmanay as a kid. Now I really cannae’ be arsed with the maudlin nature of it all. Only an Excuse, Jackie Bird and Phil Cunninghame & Aly Bain.... I am not one for giving it ‘things were better in the old days’ but in the case of a Scottish Hogmanay, I think it definitely was better back in the day. Just my opinion.In fairness it's an opinion I share, It was better back then. My old man taking his bottle of whisky and us all visiting the neighbors..eating biscuits/sausage rolls and drinking irn bru. Now it's just pish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moomintroll Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Snowflake [emoji23]They weren't invented back then, my older cousins did get me roaringly drunk on whisky when I was 11 though (not on Hogmanay). Thank f**k mobiles were not around then to capture my Elvis & Daniel Boone impersonations. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 2 minutes ago, John Lambies Doos said: 21 hours ago, pozbaird said: As I grow older, the one that I now have a dislike of is New Year. I really used to like it as a kid. My mum and dad would allow us a cheeky wee Advocaat and lemonade, we could stay up late get to eat wee sausage rolls. The neighbours would come round and my mum would make sure everyone’s ‘glasses were charged’ for the bells. I always liked Hogmanay as a kid. Now I really cannae’ be arsed with the maudlin nature of it all. Only an Excuse, Jackie Bird and Phil Cunninghame & Aly Bain.... I am not one for giving it ‘things were better in the old days’ but in the case of a Scottish Hogmanay, I think it definitely was better back in the day. Just my opinion. In fairness it's an opinion I share, It was better back then. My old man taking his bottle of whisky and us all visiting the neighbors..eating biscuits/sausage rolls and drinking irn bru. Now it's just pish. Look, I understand whisky is expensive, but don’t take a bottle of pish to your neighbours, that’s disrespectful. Have a word with yer’sel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Look, I understand whisky is expensive, but don’t take a bottle of pish to your neighbours, that’s disrespectful. Have a word with yer’sel. [emoji3]State of my current neighbours; all they deserve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 1 hour ago, Moomintroll said: 1 hour ago, John Lambies Doos said: Snowflake They weren't invented back then, my older cousins did get me roaringly drunk on whisky when I was 11 though (not on Hogmanay). Thank f**k mobiles were not around then to capture my Elvis & Daniel Boone impersonations. Daniel Boone's reputation has always confused me - wouldn't singing Beautiful Sunday while hunting scare all the animals away? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moomintroll Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Daniel Boone's reputation has always confused me - wouldn't singing Beautiful Sunday while hunting scare all the animals away?It would if I am singing it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 The current Hogmanay celebrations are a facsimile of a traditional Scottish New Year. It’s like we are acting out what people used to do normally, like how the zombies in Dawn of the Dead go to the shopping mall. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moomintroll Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 @Oleksandr, I am shite at singing various Christmas songs too, lest I derail your thread. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oleksandr Posted November 24, 2019 Author Share Posted November 24, 2019 How do you do presents, do you ask for stuff or do you like surprises. Me personally I like surprises even if they're not great you've tried to think outside of the box whereas if you ask for something ita like hm may as well just buy it yourself? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Excuse meIt looks like the house is sloping in that photo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oleksandr Posted November 24, 2019 Author Share Posted November 24, 2019 4 minutes ago, philpy said: On 23/11/2019 at 19:03, Oleksandr said: Excuse me It looks like the house is sloping in that photo. Ah right, what's your favourite Christmas song 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Had to park in Letham today for the fitba. Fucking hell, was like Blackpool already. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oleksandr Posted November 24, 2019 Author Share Posted November 24, 2019 Just now, Snafu said: Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Merry Chrystmeth To some probably the worth thing they have ever heard in their sheltered life but to cultured ears a recommended antidote to the utter pish that is known as Christmas music. Wtf is this shit, gtf out of my thread 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oleksandr Posted November 24, 2019 Author Share Posted November 24, 2019 13 minutes ago, Snafu said: They did a Christmas album. Wanna hear it? There's a cool song called 'Frozen Corpses Stuffed With Christmas Cheer' on it. Blocked 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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