Valentine's Day (2 Viewers)

[Pantone247]

im looking forward to it this year.
im going to go out for a meal by myself, get pissed, convince myself to come back to my place and then take advantage of myself.

HAPPY ST PORNO-TINES DAY!!!

 

[maims bond]

Oh I don't know. There's nothing good about getting ripped off on flowers, cards and shitty restaurants. It is nice to take the opportunity to make an effort with each other. My girlfriend and I celebrated the day last Saturday. I cooked a nice meal and we drank champagne. What's wrong with that?

Precisely, nothing wrong with it. The fact that you did it last Saturday kinda goes to prove the point that you don't need a prescribed day to show affection.

 

[ernesto]

This year you get to do it on a Thursday though.

HAPPY ST PORNO-TINES DAY!!!

i wish it was everyday..........

 

[Pantone247]

i wish it was everyday..........

oh it can be! when you have no one to answer too and no where impotant to go, everyday can be A Special Occasion!



EDIT:

and yes I am single.... bizzare isn't it?!?!

 

[The Schnapper]

what a load of bollox!

The only real suckers on Valentines day are the fella who think there girlfriends don't care about valentines "oh we're mega modern and liberal, we don't go in for that hallmark junk" "we don't need a special day to be romantic, I can buy her flowers any day (he never does)" etc, etc, etc...

5 months later when she loses her shit at you leaving your Radiohead t-shirt on the floor Sopranos boxet DVDs out all over the coffee table what she means is "you could've sprung for flowers you lousy shitting prick!"

 

[Squiggle]

A few years ago, when I first moved to Dublin but was still working in Carlow the then boyfriend sent me a huge arrangement of roses by Interflora. I was furious with him. It was about 3 feet tall and about 2 wide. Must have cost a fortune, we were living together and he was always broke. Anyway, struggled to get them onto the packed bus, had to travel the whole way with them on my knee and then had to carry them the 20 minute walk to the apartment.

The looks I was getting! And the number of furious slaps I saw being administered by girlfriends who just seconds earlier had been happily gazing at their single long-stemmed rose.

I made him promise never to do that to me again. He didn't keep that promise.

Edit: They were beautiful though, and secretly I was dead chuffed.

 

[Jill Hives]

I made him promise never to do that to me again. He didn't keep that promise.

I would have killed him. Flowers at work, nice in theory but getting them home is a pain in the ass. Plus you get comments all day from people who then feel they can pry into your life. I know I sound cynical and grumpy but this 'holiday' drives me mad more so than Christmas.

 

[The Schnapper]

Wan for the boyaz

http://www.steakandbjday.com/

 

[ernesto]

EDIT:

and yes I am single.... bizzare isn't it?!?!

a/s/l?

 

[jane]

Precisely, nothing wrong with it. The fact that you did it last Saturday kinda goes to prove the point that you don't need a prescribed day to show affection.

What maims said.

And anyway, yiz are kinda always sweet with each other, so it's not like you're doing anything to buy into the jacked up prices and everything. Using it as an excuse to cook a meal you might not otherwise have made, that's just a nice thing to do.

 

[Wobbler]

I know I sound cynical and grumpy but this 'holiday' drives me mad more so than Christmas.

It depends on what you make of it in both cases. It's not a simple choice of buying into the Hallmark bullshit or ignoring it all together. You can celebrate Valentines Day (or indeed Christmas) in whatever way you like.

 

[Pantone247]

what a load of bollox!

you'll learn

 

[The Schnapper]

you'll learn

Never fell back on me before..... CHIEF.

I was out for dinner 4 times in the last two weeks and tend to be nice to people I care about so really wouldn't have time for anyone getting their knickers in a twist over this.

 

[Squiggle]

I would have killed him. Flowers at work, nice in theory but getting them home is a pain in the ass. Plus you get comments all day from people who then feel they can pry into your life. I know I sound cynical and grumpy but this 'holiday' drives me mad more so than Christmas.

It was made worse by the fact that, for the first time in the 15 years they'd been together the husband of one of the other girls in the office had promised her flowers. Her eyes lit up with the huge arrangement of roses arrived and then she was all disappointed. And we all had to make a really big deal when the mixed bouquet her husband sent her finally arrived. I felt really crappy about it. I really wanted to kill him when I got home. But he'd a bath and a glass of wine waiting for me and was in the middle of cooking me dinner so I relented.

Actually, why did I break up with him again?

 

[Pantone247]

Never fell back on me before..... CHIEF.

I was out for dinner 4 times in the last two weeks and tend to be nice to people I care about so really wouldn't have time for anyone getting their knickers in a twist over this.

give it time

 

[TenRabbits]

I made this crazy origami valentines card for my girlie the first year we were going out (this was partly because I had been reading up on origami and had an idea - it opened up to a big pop out heart made from her name, with a arrow through it) and since then have had to come up with (increasingly difficult) original cards ever since.. this year was the hardest yet, but I've just finished it and am actually now very chuffed and looking forward to giving it to her.
Just like I'm hoping she'll be looking forward to giving it to me after receiving it.

 

[maims bond]

Just like I'm hoping she'll be looking forward to giving it to me after receiving it.

She's gonna give the card right back to you? That's shit...oh wait...you mean yous are gonna ride....like rabbits.

 

[cpr]

i dont go in for it at all and i told mr cpr this when we met but have no problem with people who love it,celebrate it etc. horses for courses.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

unfortunately for my bird, St Valentines Day is clashing
with Thor's Day this year, so St Valentine isn't getting
much of a look in.

 

[cpr]

unfortunately for my bird, St Valentines Day is clashing
with Thor's Day this year, so St Valentine isn't getting
much of a look in.

Now Thor's Day-there is a holiday I wanna celebrate!