All very well for you pensioner types who can go out and stay out all hours, and can manage it other than having to change your colostomy bag every so often, but rather inconvenient for those of us who to work or have young kids who might have wanted to go.
Also, our work's Christmas party that night. Then again, Work's Christmas Parties are crap these days as everyone has to be on the best behavior as you never know who might grass to HR.