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Your thoughts on Valentine's day?

How do you feel about Valentine's day?

  • It's overcommercialized

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • I get all sorts of fun stuff for/from my sweetie

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • I don't have a valentine, therefore it sucks

    Votes: 2 25.0%
  • It's a great time to tell people you love them

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • It's just another day/ dont' care

    Votes: 4 50.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    8

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How do you feel about Valentine's day?
 
Just another day
 
Same here. I don't see the point of it is. Yes you show love on the day but don't people show love eyeryday?
 
It's just another day/ dont' care
 
Just another day, I don't remember the date in any case...
 
Just another day. Thankfully, this year it coincides with carnaval (think Dutch Mardi Gras with more focus on booze), so the bad holidays will be over just that bit sooner.
 
It's just another day--that I get a present.
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Actually, due to the economy and conflicting work schedules (he works nights, I work days) we won't even be together for most of valentine's day) So this year, sadly, it's just another day.....
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Two of my friends and I put a curse on Valentine's Day today.
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We just said that we cursed it.
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We were all three dumped days before V-day...I was dumped yesterday (Saturday), one of them was dumped Friday, and the other was dumped Wednesday or Thursday (I don't remember)
 
When it was, eh, 'invented', it has some meaning, which has now been lost and overcommercialised.
 
One of my friends got married on valentines day this year! Which is kinda sweet I suppose
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Just another day. It means nothing to me, especially as I don't 'do' love.
 
Too commercialized; most years, the Valentine's Day stuff is out immediately after Christmas.... :eek:
 
You should love your partner equally all year round, so to me, Valentine's Day is just another day and one way for businesses to just make an extra buck.
 
Meh :fish:
 
I'll tell you a story about valentines day

I've never had a valentine, and I've never seen the good in the day (honestly shouldn't every day be valentines day if you look at valentines day for what it is)

when I was a kid,, a member of my family asked me- do you want a valentines card so you don't feel so left out?

I mean how embarrassing. actually being asked, do you want a valentine
 
Valentine's Day (Saint), "Be My Valentine"
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Note: my asking Dok for this entry sent him off on a sermon about how we insist on celebrating fictional holidays and about how there are half a dozen St. Valentines. I told him to shut up and write it down. He did. -Deep )
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia there are three martyrs whose feast day is 14 February. Additionally, the various Orthodox Churches list up to seven saints with that name, two of which have feast days in July. Just as there are several dates for Christmas, everything from 6 December to various dates in January, when Christ was most likely born in the spring.
We owe what we consider as the romantic 'holiday' to Geoffrey Chaucer's poem The Parliament of Fowls:
"And there was not any bird that is created through procreation that was not ready in her presence to hear her and receive her judgment. For this was Saint Valentine's day, when every bird of every kind that men can imagine comes to this place to choose his mate."
Before Chaucer (1340? - 1400) there was no such association between romance and the fourteenth of February.
Today the holiday is perpetuated by the manufacturers of various gift items who build up the expectations of women who then coerce their male friends into giving them ever more spectacular (and expensive) gifts on the day, and if they do not, there is hell to pay. Much as it is in the best interests of various outfits to ramp up the expectations of children for gifts on that day in December.
So, exactly what does "be my Valentine" mean? From the historical documentation on individuals by that name celebrated on that day, it must mean the person who says that wants you to either build them a church, or to die for them in a most unpleasant way. Romantic, no?
As to what all this has to do with cut out paper Hearts, who knows? See: Romance, Love, Flirt, Courting, Heart, and related. For a similar 'holiday' see: Sweetest Day.

 
:LOL: Valentine's Day.


That looks like such a good movie! So many great actors & actresses; I love Hector Elizondo! Have you seen "Tortilla Soup"?
 
That looks like such a good movie! So many great actors & actresses; I love Hector Elizondo! Have you seen "Tortilla Soup"?

He is great! No, I haven't.
 
Several years ago a woman I was working with was going on about what she expected her boyfriend to buy her for Valentine's day.

During a break in the torrent of chatter, I asked her what she was going to buy for him.

Both of the women in the discussion looked at me like I had just beamed down from the mother ship.

The one with the boyfriend asked me why she would do that because it was a "woman's holiday".

I said, "I thought romance worked both ways."

They laughed.
 
Several years ago a woman I was working with was going on about what she expected her boyfriend to buy her for Valentine's day.

During a break in the torrent of chatter, I asked her what she was going to buy for him.

Both of the women in the discussion looked at me like I had just beamed down from the mother ship.

The one with the boyfriend asked me why she would do that because it was a "woman's holiday".

I said, "I thought romance worked both ways."

They laughed.
lol some women won't buy but what they will do is reward their lover with sex on the holiday if he gets them what they want.
 
Several years ago a woman I was working with was going on about what she expected her boyfriend to buy her for Valentine's day.

During a break in the torrent of chatter, I asked her what she was going to buy for him.

Both of the women in the discussion looked at me like I had just beamed down from the mother ship.

The one with the boyfriend asked me why she would do that because it was a "woman's holiday".

I said, "I thought romance worked both ways."

They laughed.

I've been given valentines day gifts from women in the past, back when I dated them. :p
 
Valentines day is the worst day of the year if you feel like going out to a restaurant. They are all jam packed!
 

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