Getting a head on valentines day!

http://www.independent.ie/and-finally/severed-head-was-valentines-gift-3015751.html
While most couples celebrate Valentine's Day with flowers, chocolates and candlelit dinners, archivists have unearthed evidence that a less savoury romantic gesture was practised historically - bestowing a severed head on a loved one.
This left-field approach to love-making, practised by 19th-century Taiwanese aborigines, was discovered in the 150-year-old letters of botanical explorers.
Taking someone's head after killing them was a ritualistic part of life in the culture until the 1930s and suitors would present severed heads to potential partners to woo them or to brides to celebrate their marriage, according to archive material in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

Heads you win, tails you lose....

drunkmonkey

Drop the a from the ahead and you have a winner of a thread.

biko

Still practised in Afghanistan.

Sindri

Are Hallmark selling them?

mattjack

Finally a use for my AK47 bayonet......

Tazium

How did that evolve into oral sex?

earpiece

Tazium wrote: »

How did that evolve into oral sex?

Simple... if she rejected you - - - the head becomes your best option!

wilkie2006

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While most couples celebrate Valentine's Day with flowers, chocolates and candlelit dinners, archivists have unearthed evidence that a less savoury romantic gesture was practised historically - bestowing a severed head on a loved one.

Ah, people still get head on Valentine's Day. Nothing's changed...

Feeona

'......or to brides to celebrate their marriage....'

With this head I thee wed :eek: