People who say "I don't recognise the Western Calendar, so why should I party on so-called New Year's Eve?"

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My Mayan friends are really on my case about this one.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 22 December 2002 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

All calendars are arbitrary. Why celebrate any new year at all?

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 23 December 2002 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

a year is a year is a year.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 December 2002 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

People who say "I don't recognise the Western Calendar, so why should I party on so-called New Year's Eve?" - classic or attention seeking cockfarmer?

the type of person who says this is the type of person who also says "I'm not racist, I hate everybody equally." Therefore cockfarmer.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Monday, 23 December 2002 00:25 (twenty-three years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 December 2002 00:26 (twenty-three years ago)

jews do this. jews are cool.

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 23 December 2002 02:06 (twenty-three years ago)

"All calendars are arbitrary. Why celebrate any new year at all?"

Because it's an excuse to drink a lot of alcohol and look at fireworks, and generally have fun? Why not?

― webber (webber), Monday, 23 December 2002 02:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Jews do NOT do that, they just party on both New Year's. At least the ones I know. What kind of cockfarmer passes up an excuse to go to a party? This is the answer that I came up with for the Christmas thread too. It is a party = you want to go.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 23 December 2002 03:21 (twenty-three years ago)

the people who say this always sound like they assume that nobody else knows that the calendar is arbitrary. as if they were the possesors of some arcane knowledge. classic cockfarmer!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 23 December 2002 05:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Even while you were typing the question you knew that the answer had to be classic cockfarmer.

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 23 December 2002 05:43 (twenty-three years ago)

not sure it's attention seeking though.

"I don't celebrate new year, actually."
"right, okay, I'm off to have fun. bye."

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 23 December 2002 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

What kind of cockfarmer passes up an excuse to go to a party?

I don't even like parties, aside from dance parties. If you aren't into getting wasted, most parties are useless.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 23 December 2002 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

the eastern orthodox church doesn't recognize the Western (Gregorian) calendar ... they still use the pre-Gregorian Julian calendar. so Xmas for them will be sometime in early January.

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

new years eve is possibly my favourite holiday of the year. which is why i'm quite upset that i'm not really doing anything for it, due to my friends all being fucking cockfarmers. i don't care what calendar you celebrate. i'd celebrate jewish and chinese and celtic and mayan new years as well if i knew when they all were...

― kate, Tuesday, 24 December 2002 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

new years eve usually sucks

― hard day on the cock farm (doorag), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6835

A US physicist is lobbying for people to adopt his novel calendar in which every date falls on the same day of the week each year.
So Henry designed a calendar that uses 364 days, which breaks down evenly into 52 weeks. In his so called "Calendar-and-Time" (C&T) plan, each month contains 30 or 31 days. He decided on each month's length by forbidding the new calendar to differ from the old one by more than five days and by setting Christmas Day, 25 December, to always fall on a Sunday.
His constraints meant eight months would have different lengths than they do now. March, June, September, and December would each contain 31 days, while the other months would each get 30. To keep the calendar in synchronisation with the seasons, Henry inserted an extra week - which is not part of any month - every five or six years. He named the addition "Newton Week" in honour of his favourite physicist, Isaac Newton.
"If I had my way, everyone would get Newton Week off as a paid vacation and could spend the time doing physics, or other activities of their choice," he says.

― LSD, called the aristocrat (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck that, i don't want my birthday always falling on a Monday or something

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I like it. Christmas = Sunday -> my birthday = Sunday. Classic (pubs are cheaper and quieter on Sundays)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Similar to the new agey "13 Moon Calendar" which has one day a year "outside of time" which is of indeterminate length.

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

What about the people who already do physics 52 weeks a year? What would they do during Newton week?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

REAL physics, instead of that bullshit physics we're always hearing about.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"REAL physics" is drinking, right?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

fuckin' A

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"I don't recognise the Western Calendar, so why should I party on so-called New Year's Eve?"

i think it is phrased in a particularly cockfarming way here. the idea of not partying on NYE, is ok.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Can we reinstate Saturnalia?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

cockseeking attentionfarmer, possibly
(= answer to the 'riginal december 22,2002 question)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

This did not go down well with the geek set.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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