Fuck Valentine's Day Thread

NCfan
NCfan Posts: 945
edited February 2007 in A Moving Train
I hate this holiday more than any other. Talk about commercialization and making a buck off of people's emotions - it doesn't get much worse than V-day.

If you're into celebrating it then great. But what I hate is that most guys HAVE to participate or else.....

Anyways, thought I'd bitch a bit - please add your thoughts if you have any.
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  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    Amen brother.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    NCfan wrote:
    I hate this holiday more than any other. Talk about commercialization and making a buck off of people's emotions - it doesn't get much worse than V-day.

    If you're into celebrating it then great. But what I hate is that most guys HAVE to participate or else.....

    Anyways, thought I'd bitch a bit - please add your thoughts if you have any.

    I wouldn't mind if it was a holiday, but it isn't. I'm at work. Nothing romantic about being at work.
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    It's not even a real holiday. It was originally a Catholic day to recognize St. Valentine was a a martyr that died during the reign of Emporer Claudius. It wasn't untill centuries later, in England, that the theme of romance was even introduced to the day.
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  • I hate it too and no, I'm not single and bitter!
    I've never bought into it. As has been said, it's total commercialised and should be renamed 'Happy Hallmark Day'.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    It's so cute and colorful! Adds a little sparkle to the drab drab dreary winter. That's probably the best part of it. Just a different attitude of a day until the winter blues are gone. Great day to listen to blues, too. My favorite color is red so I'm partial to this day :)
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  • NCfan
    NCfan Posts: 945
    Seriously, I feel I could tell my girlfriend I love her every day of the year but if I didn't do something nice for her on Valentine's day none of it would matter.

    I can't decide if I should be mad at her for this silliness or feel sorry for her becuase our society tells her that If I don't make V-day a big deal I'm no good.

    I mean, even if we both decide not to celebrate it she will still feel sad when she hears her girlfriends talk about what their boyfriends did for them.

    Just pisses me off.... lose-lose situation!
  • NCfan
    NCfan Posts: 945
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    It's so cute and colorful! Adds a little sparkle to the drab drab dreary winter. That's probably the best part of it. Just a different attitude of a day until the winter blues are gone. Great day to listen to blues, too. My favorite color is red so I'm partial to this day :)

    Well I agree there. I mean it should be a harmless, nice little celebration. But as with almost everything else, our society blows it way the hell out of proportion!
  • chopitdown
    chopitdown Posts: 2,222
    yeah, way back when my wife and i just got together she told me i didn't have to get her anything for v-day.

    don't fall for that one!

    lol...we've all fallen for that one... we all know better but we're just hoping this one means it.
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  • well for once I'm glad I'm single Valentines day - I've seriously had it with men right now... headwreckers, the whole fucking lot of them! More confusing than a James Joyce novel :o

    All you loved up sops today, good luck!
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  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    i feel so cheap.
  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    Happy VD day everybody.

    It's simply an excuse to be romantic if you're in a good relationship. I imagine that most of the pressure is really an image thing for the ladies. They want to know you care about them because it makes them feel sexy and attractive etc and then they can tell thier friends about how wonderful you are. Just doing something nice like a card and their favorite chocolate and maybe cooking thier favorite meal or breakfest in bed are nice and romantic. It by no means needs to be really expensive. If the lady is concerned about the amout or monitary value of the gift she probably sucks anyway and your friends hate her.


    this is a dekronkulous day to be a single guy out on the town. Second most productive to say a wedding, although the odds are better tonight. Go get em guys.
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    You could definitely get some sexy lovin with your partner if you put on the blues. I think that's what Valentine's Day is about, isn't it? Am I missing something, here? The day represents you as chocolate, your partner as peanut butter, and . . . . everything's good.

    So, buy that special someone a blues record, sit back, relax, let nature take it's course. Then you can enjoy it for many days, weeks, months, years after. Basically celebrate Valentine's Day every time you play it.
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  • Pacomc79 wrote:
    Happy VD day everybody.

    It's simply an excuse to be romantic if you're in a good relationship.
    If you're in a good relationship you don't need an excuse... seems to me more of an effort to make money whilst deliberately trying to piss off those who are single and not happy about being single. Doesn't make sense does it? There should be an international singles day or something :o although in saying that Valentines IS one of the best weeks for singles in the pubs :D
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    NCfan wrote:
    I hate this holiday more than any other. Talk about commercialization and making a buck off of people's emotions - it doesn't get much worse than V-day.

    If you're into celebrating it then great. But what I hate is that most guys HAVE to participate or else.....

    Anyways, thought I'd bitch a bit - please add your thoughts if you have any.


    I have never heard of the "or else" part of the day. Is this just an NC kind of thing?
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  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    If you're in a good relationship you don't need an excuse... seems to me more of an effort to make money whilst deliberately trying to piss off those who are single and not happy about being single. Doesn't make sense does it? There should be an international singles day or something :o although in saying that Valentines IS one of the best weeks for singles in the pubs :D

    not to mention Mardi Gras; Chinese New Year; St. Patricks Day and Cinco de Mayo are coming up and I do love to drink. :D

    do not despair single people...good times are literally a weekend away.
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  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    NCfan wrote:
    Seriously, I feel I could tell my girlfriend I love her every day of the year but if I didn't do something nice for her on Valentine's day none of it would matter.

    I can't decide if I should be mad at her for this silliness or feel sorry for her becuase our society tells her that If I don't make V-day a big deal I'm no good.

    I mean, even if we both decide not to celebrate it she will still feel sad when she hears her girlfriends talk about what their boyfriends did for them.

    Just pisses me off.... lose-lose situation!
    Send her one of these. That oughtta do it! ;)

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  • Pacomc79 wrote:
    not to mention Mardi Gras; Chinese New Year; St. Patricks Day and Cinco de Mayo are coming up and I do love to drink. :D

    do not despair single people...good times are literally a weekend away.
    Or a day away :):) or for the many singles who go out on the town tonight, a few hours away :) . I do love this time of the year though (i.e. February) cos it seems to be soooo full of hope of what the spring and the summer are gonna be like
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • miller8966
    miller8966 Posts: 1,450
    NCfan wrote:
    Seriously, I feel I could tell my girlfriend I love her every day of the year but if I didn't do something nice for her on Valentine's day none of it would matter.

    I can't decide if I should be mad at her for this silliness or feel sorry for her becuase our society tells her that If I don't make V-day a big deal I'm no good.

    I mean, even if we both decide not to celebrate it she will still feel sad when she hears her girlfriends talk about what their boyfriends did for them.

    Just pisses me off.... lose-lose situation!

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  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    I don't know if you have this day down in the States yet? But up here we have on March 14, a day named Steak & Blow Job day. It is like a Valentine Day for the men. See, we are all about spoiling both sexes. So I hope it catches on down there so you won't feel so jaded about love and just another day of being alive.
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  • NCfan wrote:
    I hate this holiday more than any other. Talk about commercialization and making a buck off of people's emotions - it doesn't get much worse than V-day.

    If you're into celebrating it then great. But what I hate is that most guys HAVE to participate or else.....

    Anyways, thought I'd bitch a bit - please add your thoughts if you have any.

    I 100% agree with you on this, :) . Plus next thing you hear about, the flowers we're all buying to our loved one, are relate to workers exploitation in some part of the world, damn it.
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