MR

Rant:
Um, why does every Valentines Day card from a guy read like some kind of half-apology?
Most of them start out with

"I know we never..."
"Sometimes I don't..."


I think it's obvious those are written by women. Honestly, every year I go looking for a VDCard, I have to wade through the 100s of Apologetic Cards to reach ONE halfway decent card that's not something about how I don't make the grade.

It's either this or it's those cards that have like, 6 pages of the hokiest bs...

I think I will start making my own with color crayons....

By the way, Happy Valentines Day to those that celebrate it.

VD = Valentines Day! Of Course! I don't know why my mind went straight for Venereal Disease!

Valentine's Day is yet another scam for companies like Hallmark and Russell Stover to rake in the cash. All those gay cards are so fucking syrupy that I save my $5.00 and buy my wife a couple of gallons of gas for the SUV


By the way, just so I can get it on the record...No "VD" here!

I find funny cards all the time. No apologetic crap.

brywool wrote:"I know we never..."
"Sometimes I don't..."

Maybe Friga can use one of those instead of tripe about faded wedding photographs!

If your wedding photograph is faded either scan it in to Photoshop and adjust or simply print out another! Job done.

I hate this manufactured holiday, too. But I have to play along.

Valentine's Day is loosely based on a fertility ceremony....and its a wonder most children are born 40 weeks later....

Enigma869 wrote:Valentine's Day is yet another scam for companies like Hallmark and Russell Stover to rake in the cash. All those gay cards are so fucking syrupy that I save my $5.00 and buy my wife a couple of gallons of gas for the SUV


By the way, just so I can get it on the record...No "VD" here!

Well, sure there's that angle, but I think it's okay to have a day for peeps in love. Got no problem with it. EVERY card holiday is really one of those, but hey, it's cool. I dig my wife, so I've got no problem with it. But still, let's apologize guys!- NOT.

finalfight wrote:I don't know why my mind went straight for Venereal Disease!

Sometimes that's what Valentine's Day feels like though. Its there, you have to deal with it, you hope you make it through with as little pain as possible, and that it goes away fast.

(Now THERE'S a V-day card for ya... "Happy Valentine's Day... at least its not the other kind of VD!")

StocktontoMalone wrote:Valentine's Day is loosely based on a fertility ceremony....

Really? Omg. Tomorrow is gonna be a long day.

bluejeangirl76 wrote:

StocktontoMalone wrote:Valentine's Day is loosely based on a fertility ceremony....

Really? Omg. Tomorrow is gonna be a long day.

I don't get it....

brywool wrote:Well, sure there's that angle, but I think it's okay to have a day for peeps in love.

We already have one...It's called our anniversary I have the greatest wife in the world and wouldn't trade her for ANYONE. Luckily for me, she finds Valentine's Day every bit as dopey as I do, so we skip the gay cards and the industrial size box of chocolates. I told her that we should just have sex, as it's far less expensive (unless you're in the wrong neighborhood)

brywool wrote:

Enigma869 wrote:Valentine's Day is yet another scam for companies like Hallmark and Russell Stover to rake in the cash. All those gay cards are so fucking syrupy that I save my $5.00 and buy my wife a couple of gallons of gas for the SUV


By the way, just so I can get it on the record...No "VD" here!

Well, sure there's that angle, but I think it's okay to have a day for peeps in love. Got no problem with it. EVERY card holiday is really one of those, but hey, it's cool. I dig my wife, so I've got no problem with it. But still, let's apologize guys!- NOT.

Beautiful couple!!! Hey, the crayon thing is not a bad idea and would
probably be much appreciated!!!

It's not about buying people shit, ya'll... it's about taking time out to remind those you love how special they are to you. Which the logical person would say, "You should do that everyday." Well, guess what... people get busy and distracted and forget. Plus, for those attached it's pretty much guaranteed "cookie" day.

See nothing wrong with a fabricated day to focus on loving someone. Play it right...and I might even get lucky.

Anniversary and Valentine's Day...two day's where my chances improve immensely. Fortunately they are spread out by 6 months so I always have something to look forward to!

hoagiepete wrote:See nothing wrong with a fabricated day to focus on loving someone. Play it right...and I might even get lucky.

Anniversary and Valentine's Day...two day's where my chances improve immensely. Fortunately they are spread out by 6 months so I always have something to look forward to!

Your odds should be better than that.....
quarterly, AT LEAST!!! Ask her to include the b-day and father's day!!!

Enigma869 wrote:Luckily for me, she finds Valentine's Day every bit as dopey as I do, :

Maybe so, but I guarantee you, you'd score huge points with her for not thinking that way. I dunno. I don't mind it. I DO mind all the adverts for jewelry and all the pressure to buy something expensive. That's just nuts. But hey, go out for dinner together, have a date night or whatever... but Hallmark- quit with the apologetic cards....!

Rhiannon wrote:It's not about buying people shit, ya'll... it's about taking time out to remind those you love how special they are to you.

Exactly. The PROBLEM is, it's advertised as "buy her some shit" day.

How about celebrating it twice a year?

The Japanese celebrate St. Valentine's day in a rather unique fashion. Women give the men gifts of chocolate as well as other gifts.

These gifts of chocolate are divided into two types: giri choco (obligatory chocolate) and honmei choco (chocolate for the man the woman is serious about). Giri choco is given by women to their superiors at work as well as to other male co-workers. It is not unusual for a woman to buy 20 to 30 boxes of this type of chocolate for distribution around the office as well as to men that she has regular contact with.

Needless to say, the approach of Valentine's Day is something that department stores and shops look forward to and promote with zeal because of its potential for increased sales. Large displays featuring chocolate usually with heart-shaped displays start to grace the floors of department stores from mid-January or so.

A woman will normally purchase boxes of giri choco in the several hundred yen range and may purchase an expensive box of honmei choco and another gift such as a necktie for her "special someone".

While all of this may seem quite one-sided, confectioners in Japan - never ones to miss an opportunity to sell more - took advantage of the Japanese feelings of obligation and created "White Day" in 1980 to help assuage the guilt feelings of those poor obligated males who received chocolate on Valentine's Day. On March 14th, exactly one month after Valentine's Day, men who were lucky enough to receive gifts of chocolate have the chance to return the favor by giving the women who gave them gifts of chocolate a more expensive box of chocolate or sweets (for some reason or other, these return gifts seem to be priced slightly higher than those the women purchase). Again, the stores provide plenty of reminders of the approach of this day so that even the most forgetful man cannot say that it slipped his mind. The gifts of chocolate that men buy are in white boxes (after all, it is "White Day") and come with separate shopping bags to put them in.

Rhiannon wrote: Plus, for those attached it's pretty much guaranteed "cookie" day.

Which is a nice segue into my next bitch about VD...why the hell do they have cards to give to your freakin' grandparents????? My grandmother was the most amazing human being I have ever met and I'm proud to say that I never once bought her a Valentine's Day card!

I think a good rule to follow is...If you're not bumping uglies, then don't acknowledge the day. Even if you are playing hide the salami, it's a forgettably embarrassing day. Any of you yahoos wearing red to "celebrate the day" need a slap. Okay...rant over

Rhiannon wrote:It's not about buying people shit, ya'll... it's about taking time out to remind those you love how special they are to you.

You're 100% right. I was never that into the whole thing, and what I didn't like about it was it seems so forced... then again, I was with the wrong person, so... when you get all the lovey shit and stuffed animals once a year, and you don't get shown that much appreciation the rest of the time, it makes it easy to roll your eyes at Vday. You know that since they never do that stuff anyway, that they're only doing it on 2/14 because they (feel that they) "have" to.

For me, Vday doesn't even need to exist. (Not that I don't like getting flowers and cards and whatever... lol!)...

My thing is this: you're either gonna get the expressed love and apprciation the rest of the year or you aren't. For me, after year one... maybe year two... it was usually a feeling of... "oh great, he's doing it because its Vday and he feels forced, otherwise he thinks I'll get mad". I'd have almost rather he just didn't do anything than try to b.s. me.

Its guys like THAT ^ who need to be buying the apology cards. Not that one day and a pink greeting card makes up for being an insensative dick the rest of the year... But still.

So let that be a lesson, boys... treat her nice all year, show her you love her, and Febuary 14th shouldn't be an issue. And if it is... maybe she's the one who needs to think about what it really means and not you.

Enigma869 wrote:

Rhiannon wrote: Plus, for those attached it's pretty much guaranteed "cookie" day.

Which is a nice segue into my next bitch about VD...why the hell do they have cards to give to your freakin' grandparents????? My grandmother was the most amazing human being I have ever met and I'm proud to say that I never once bought her a Valentine's Day card!

I think a good rule to follow is...If you're not bumping uglies, then don't acknowledge the day. Even if you are playing hide the salami, it's a forgettably embarrassing day. Any of you yahoos wearing red to "celebrate the day" need a slap. Okay...rant over

Just like you wear green, and drink green beer on Paddy's day.....fess up, John....

StocktontoMalone wrote:

Enigma869 wrote: Any of you yahoos wearing red to "celebrate the day" need a slap. Okay...rant over

Just like you wear green, and drink green beer on Paddy's day.....fess up, John....

Yeah but St. Pat's day is decidedly different! That's the beer-drinking holiday!!
That's the corned beef-eating holiday!! There is REASON to celebrate!

Enigma869 wrote:I think a good rule to follow is...If you're not bumping uglies, then don't acknowledge the day. Even if you are playing hide the salami, it's a forgettably embarrassing day. Any of you yahoos wearing red to "celebrate the day" need a slap. Okay...rant over

I totally agree with your rule! If there's no hump & grunt, don't make a big deal out of it.
However, as a female, the attention itself is nice.

And for the record, I have on earth tones today... the girl in the building next door down had on a big gay heart sweater. I tried to hit her with my car.

The Japanese celebrate St. Valentine's day in a rather unique fashion. Women give the men gifts of chocolate as well as other gifts.

My guy is getting a homemade strawberry swirled cheesecake and other gifts as well. (snerk)

A homemade card would be lovely in my opinion. We usually do the funny cards instead.

Rhiannon wrote:

Enigma869 wrote:Any of you yahoos wearing red to "celebrate the day" need a slap. Okay...rant over

And for the record, I have on earth tones today... the girl in the building next door down had on a big gay heart sweater. I tried to hit her with my car.

Ok, but today isn't Vday, so those wearing red or big gay hearts for that reason need an extra slap. Today is Friday the 13th! Wear something blood-stained and ripped!! (and blood is red so kill 2 birds with one stone)

Rhiannon wrote: the girl in the building next door down had on a big gay heart sweater. I tried to hit her with my car.

Just one more reason you're one of the few "southern" folks I can find any common ground with

Enigma869 wrote:

Rhiannon wrote: the girl in the building next door down had on a big gay heart sweater. I tried to hit her with my car.

Just one more reason you're one of the few "southern" folks I can find any common ground with

See my question in the other thread... you just totally answered it. *High Five*

StocktontoMalone wrote:Just like you wear green, and drink green beer on Paddy's day.....fess up, John....

Definitely NOT! I also don't dress up like someone I'm not on Halloween. As you probably already know STM, the city of Boston has more Irish folks than Dublin Ireland has, so it's quite the big deal in this city. I'm simply not someone who partakes in the activities. The only cause for me to celebrate in mid-March is that the Red Sox season is almost here and soon my pool will be visible under the 8 feet of snow

A Valentine wish from Jason.....