The only good thing about January is new beginnings. After that wears off, I'm ready for April when it gets warm. Winter sucks. I like it better when Spring and Summer comes, less clothes to wear, longer days and all I have to do is grab the purse and shades and be out and about.

But I feel you PurpleJedi, I'm going to get back into my gym routine this week but I'm dreading it because all those folks who aren't dedicated with unrealistic expectations will be there hogging the machines and the elipitcals. Come March, they'll won't even be there anymore.

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missfee said:

The only good thing about January is new beginnings. After that wears off, I'm ready for April when it gets warm. Winter sucks. I like it better when Spring and Summer comes, less clothes to wear, longer days and I have to do is grab the purse and shades and be out and about.

But I feel you PurpleJedi, I'm going to get back into my gym routine this week but I'm dreading it because all those folks who aren't dedicated with unrealistic expectations will be there hogging the machines and the elipitcals. Come March, they'll won't even be there anymore.

LOL, no kidding.

Our gym will be back to normal way before March, though!

i January!!!!!!!

its summer here

there is so much to do

school holidays

there r the January sales

out door activities

sydney festivals

day light savings

this year i even have 3 parties to go 2

KoolEaze said:

There´s nothing good about January. Capricorns are boring, it´s raining cats and dogs outside, it´s dark, it´s rainy and cold, the ladies are wearing boring stuff, the day is almost over when I get out of bed.

Fuck January.

Fuck winter.

Fuck Lexus.

Can´t wait for the summertime...hot, sunny and humid weather, half naked ladies running around town, everybody´s horny, folks getting brown in the sunshiiiiine, folks getting down with no taboos, kissing in the park, puffing on some good MJ ...drinking rum....I love summertime.

Fuck winter...twice.

I agree except for this... I am awesome and super interesting.

Oh and yeah, best thing about January is my birthday!

Genesia said:

Don't even get me started on the "Every kiss begins with Kay" bullshit. Unfortunately, Valentine's Day is still hanging out there, so we aren't done with that one yet.

I love these commercials But that's not why January is nice. January is nice because its like a fresh start . Also my Father's (capricorn) birthday is this month. Capricorns are a lot of things (stubborn as hell and opionated come to mind), but boring is not one of them

The not so nice part of January - the weather of course.

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Since I did my best not to shit on any of the NYE threads, I'll let some go here instead.

January doesn't mean anything. January first is no different than December thirty-first.

2011 is no different than 2012.

Time is a man made construct and any value attributed to these changes exists solely in the heads of the people who believe they matter.

If they do something for you, great! Party on. But the meanings people give certain dates or times of the year always leave me perplexed. NYE in particular confuses me as its a time to get stupidly shit faced, make "resolutions" (as if any other time of the year wouldn't be exactly the same), for renewal, for endings, etc etc etc. It's a very contradictory holiday. It's just another day - to me, anyway.

I mean, it doesn't even many any sense that the dead of Winter would be a time of renewal. That should be celebrated in March, at the beginning of Spring.

Cerebus said:

Since I did my best not to shit on any of the NYE threads, I'll let some go here instead.

January doesn't mean anything. January first is no different than December thirty-first.

2011 is no different than 2012.

Time is a man made construct and any value attributed to these changes exists solely in the heads of the people who believe they matter.

If they do something for you, great! Party on. But the meanings people give certain dates or times of the year always leave me perplexed. NYE in particular confuses me as its a time to get stupidly shit faced, make "resolutions" (as if any other time of the year wouldn't be exactly the same), for renewal, for endings, etc etc etc. It's a very contradictory holiday. It's just another day - to me, anyway.

I mean, it doesn't even many any sense that the dead of Winter would be a time of renewal. That should be celebrated in March, at the beginning of Spring.

I understand your position, certainly, it's just a ticking of a number, and one that is only 2012 years old in a 20 billion year old universe.

But there is something to it. I don't know what it is, but there is a huge level of nostalgia, sadness, excitement, reflection, etc associated with this time of year. Maybe it's man made, but it exists (maybe not for you, but for many people) nonetheless.

Maybe one difference between Dec and Jan is simply that life is not going to be interrupted by silly holidays for another few months, and therefore we can focus on our goals again.

As far as the seasons go, it also makes sense to me, because the days have just begun to get longer. So right after the shortest day of the year is the real re-birth, or perhaps more appropriately a conception, of a new life that could come into being by the spring.

NDRU said:

Cerebus said:

Since I did my best not to shit on any of the NYE threads, I'll let some go here instead.

January doesn't mean anything. January first is no different than December thirty-first.

2011 is no different than 2012.

Time is a man made construct and any value attributed to these changes exists solely in the heads of the people who believe they matter.

If they do something for you, great! Party on. But the meanings people give certain dates or times of the year always leave me perplexed. NYE in particular confuses me as its a time to get stupidly shit faced, make "resolutions" (as if any other time of the year wouldn't be exactly the same), for renewal, for endings, etc etc etc. It's a very contradictory holiday. It's just another day - to me, anyway.

I mean, it doesn't even many any sense that the dead of Winter would be a time of renewal. That should be celebrated in March, at the beginning of Spring.

I understand your position, certainly, it's just a ticking of a number, and one that is only 2012 years old in a 20 billion year old universe.

But there is something to it. I don't know what it is, but there is a huge level of nostalgia, sadness, excitement, reflection, etc associated with this time of year. Maybe it's man made, but it exists (maybe not for you, but for many people) nonetheless.

Maybe one difference between Dec and Jan is simply that life is not going to be interrupted by silly holidays for another few months, and therefore we can focus on our goals again.

As far as the seasons go, it also makes sense to me, because the days have just begun to get longer. So right after the shortest day of the year is the real re-birth, or perhaps more appropriately a conception, of a new life that could come into being by the spring.

yeah thank the lord those pesky holidays are out of the way! I'm back at my desk now and I mean BUSINESS

RodeoSchro said:

imago said:

Thank god.

I honestly thought this was going to be about some Night Ranger marathon or something.

It's SUPPOSED to be about how much those Lexus commercials suck, but this thread has taken a turn towards sappiness.

I say, let's get back to criticizing those obnoxious people and that grating song, and all of us swear to not buy a Lexus.

As far as I'm concerned, Lexus is just a more expensive Buick. No one under 65 drives their sedans any more, and only pretentious Yuppies drive their SUV.

I don't watch TV.

But I would never buy a BMW, Mercedes, or Lexus anyways. Even when I was making bling, I wouldn't touch them. It's silly.

And SUV's are.....obnoxious in urban settngs.

The best thing about January is it gets freezing cold and the colder it is, the hotter I get. Also, it gets dark before you can even drive home. The less daylight there is, the hotter I get also.

Deadcake said:

NDRU said:

I understand your position, certainly, it's just a ticking of a number, and one that is only 2012 years old in a 20 billion year old universe.

But there is something to it. I don't know what it is, but there is a huge level of nostalgia, sadness, excitement, reflection, etc associated with this time of year. Maybe it's man made, but it exists (maybe not for you, but for many people) nonetheless.

Maybe one difference between Dec and Jan is simply that life is not going to be interrupted by silly holidays for another few months, and therefore we can focus on our goals again.

As far as the seasons go, it also makes sense to me, because the days have just begun to get longer. So right after the shortest day of the year is the real re-birth, or perhaps more appropriately a conception, of a new life that could come into being by the spring.

yeah thank the lord those pesky holidays are out of the way! I'm back at my desk now and I mean BUSINESS

Shall we take over the world this year, darlin?

NDRU said:

I dunno, January gives me an excuse to eat crunchy granola and eat squash, so yeah I guess it's alright with me, LOL

vainandy said:

The best thing about January is it gets freezing cold and the colder it is, the hotter I get. Also, it gets dark before you can even drive home. The less daylight there is, the hotter I get also.

You only like winter because you hope that people don´t shave their dicks and nutsacks because it is so cold outside and that little bit of fur keeps them warm.

KoolEaze said:

vainandy said:

The best thing about January is it gets freezing cold and the colder it is, the hotter I get. Also, it gets dark before you can even drive home. The less daylight there is, the hotter I get also.

You only like winter because you hope that people don´t shave their dicks and nutsacks because it is so cold outside and that little bit of fur keeps them warm.

Tokyo89 said:

nursev said:

Yep I do...my birthday is in January

mine too!

And me too!

So, a lot of birthday threads to be expected, supporting us in the dark days that nobody feels like celebrating a birthday. Every year the same. Boooo.

And capricorns are not boring

KoolEaze said:

vainandy said:

The best thing about January is it gets freezing cold and the colder it is, the hotter I get. Also, it gets dark before you can even drive home. The less daylight there is, the hotter I get also.

You only like winter because you hope that people don´t shave their dicks and nutsacks because it is so cold outside and that little bit of fur keeps them warm.

Genesia said:

RodeoSchro said:

Kisses are good.

Lexuses are for snob Yuppies and old people.

Kisses are good. Implying that the way to get one is to give the object of your affection a tacky, mass-produced gewgaw is not.

Will you please have a word with my wife!?!?

Cerebus said:

Since I did my best not to shit on any of the NYE threads, I'll let some go here instead.

January doesn't mean anything. January first is no different than December thirty-first.

2011 is no different than 2012.

Time is a man made construct and any value attributed to these changes exists solely in the heads of the people who believe they matter.

If they do something for you, great! Party on. But the meanings people give certain dates or times of the year always leave me perplexed. NYE in particular confuses me as its a time to get stupidly shit faced, make "resolutions" (as if any other time of the year wouldn't be exactly the same), for renewal, for endings, etc etc etc. It's a very contradictory holiday. It's just another day - to me, anyway.

I mean, it doesn't even many any sense that the dead of Winter would be a time of renewal. That should be celebrated in March, at the beginning of Spring.

Well technically that's not true. Given that everything is in constant motion, none of us were at the same place on 1/1/12 that we were 12/31/11. Technically. Of course that's true every day. But then we are celebrating our circumference around the Sun, which we are approximately at the same point we were 1/1/11. Then again that's true everyday. So I guess, technically we should celebrate everyday. Then again in ancient times January and February didn't even exist, so I guess then March would have been the 1st long time ago. Are you sure you're not a reincarnation from way back when? You're Roman aren't you? *all in silliness*

veronikka said:

I would not mind if the rest of January stayed at these temperatures [img:$uid]http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s197/veronikka_bucket/8a4a43ef.jpg[/img:$uid]

Right now I don't know how to act. This makes things so confusing.

morningsong said:

Cerebus said:

Since I did my best not to shit on any of the NYE threads, I'll let some go here instead.

January doesn't mean anything. January first is no different than December thirty-first.

2011 is no different than 2012.

Time is a man made construct and any value attributed to these changes exists solely in the heads of the people who believe they matter.

If they do something for you, great! Party on. But the meanings people give certain dates or times of the year always leave me perplexed. NYE in particular confuses me as its a time to get stupidly shit faced, make "resolutions" (as if any other time of the year wouldn't be exactly the same), for renewal, for endings, etc etc etc. It's a very contradictory holiday. It's just another day - to me, anyway.

I mean, it doesn't even many any sense that the dead of Winter would be a time of renewal. That should be celebrated in March, at the beginning of Spring.

Well technically that's not true. Given that everything is in constant motion, none of us were at the same place on 1/1/12 that we were 12/31/11. Technically. Of course that's true every day. But then we are celebrating our circumference around the Sun, which we are approximately at the same point we were 1/1/11. Then again that's true everyday. So I guess, technically we should celebrate everyday. Then again in ancient times January and February didn't even exist, so I guess then March would have been the 1st long time ago. Are you sure you're not a reincarnation from way back when? You're Roman aren't you? *all in silliness*

A Roman? Maybe. I've definitely got something very old living in the base makeup of my cells, though. I would love to have lived back then, or any number of other times in ancient history.

JoeTyler said:

KoolEaze said:

???

But aren´t you in South Africa at the moment?

currently in Brussels, with my mom's family, like every Xmas

I was there last week. We could have hung out.

Are you still there? You could take a day trip to Amsterdam and visit dJJ when she's back in a few days. She offered me her place while she was away.