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Valentines Day

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  • #62
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,393 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    My missus got pissed off at me for what I wrote on her Card :confused:

    What is wrong with,

    “roses are straight,violets are twisted bend over luv you’re about to be fisted”.

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • #63
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,325 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    "I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promotory; this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this mighty o'rehanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire; why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, how like an angel in aprehension, how like a God! The beauty of the world, paragon of animals; and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dusk. Man delights not me, no, nor women neither, nor women neither."
    Withnail quoting Hamlet.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #64
    Gekko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭Gekko


    When all the office girls start leaving work at around 5pm, it'll be interesting to see how many are holding their bunches of flowers in front of them as they walk down the street, in the same manner as Del Boy once did with a Filofax!


  • #65
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    anybody get anythin nice so far?

    barbershop quartet sent to work maybe? ;)


  • #66
    HazDanz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭HazDanz


    I'm single and I'm delighted with my valentine's night plans... I have two 5 aside football matches to play, and then my first love will keep me company after that, the beautiful champions league.


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  • #67
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    MonkieSocks wrote: »
    My missus got pissed off at me for what I wrote on her Card :confused:

    What is wrong with,

    “roses are straight,violets are twisted bend over luv you’re about to be fisted”.
    And yet they say that love is dead.


  • #68
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    No one even sat beside me on the bus today, never mind a valentines card


  • #69
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    No one even sat beside me on the bus today, never mind a valentines card

    I dont blame them not sitting beside you...


    damn pandas taking our jobs :mad:


  • #70
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    davet82 wrote: »
    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    No one even sat beside me on the bus today, never mind a valentines card

    I dont blame them not sitting beside you...


    damn pandas taking our jobs :mad:

    Here I pay my bear taxes! :mad:


  • #71
    The Uninvited Guest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭The Uninvited Guest


    **** towel is goina get a drenching later that's about it


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  • #72
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,189 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I was in asda the other day and spotted a valentines day section, my favorite item of romance was the spaghetti bolognese readymeals for two.

    Pancake day is the superior day, I may not need a day to eat pancakes but it gives me a free hand to eat many more than usual over the entire day.

    A pancake in the shape of a heart?


  • #73
    Jim_Kiy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 482 ✭✭Jim_Kiy


    Rose are Red
    Violets are Blue
    There's always plentyofish
    for tossers like you.


  • #74
    Greentopia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    More crass consumerist BS. If a guy spent €80 (!) of his hard earned cash on me for a bunch of flowers I'd be really disappointed in him tbh.

    Men shouldn't be pressured into showing their love for their partner through how much money they throw at a gift, whatever the occasion. I think most guys only buy roses and chocolates today because it's expected, not because they really want to.
    And where's the thrill in getting flowers or chocs. if you know he's only doing it because it's expected due to social convention?

    I'd much prefer to be surprised with a few wild flowers that I love or something small but meaningful to me as a gift that shows a sign of love or affection on any of the other 364(65 this year) days of the year. And if you really care for someone you should let them know every day in ways that don't involve just putting your hand in your pocket.


  • #75
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    ^^^ I think I've fallen in love! ;)


  • #76
    Fizzlesque
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Fizzlesque


    Doc wrote: »
    We all know it’s a big crock of **** and that it was made up to sell cards, fill restraints and make jewelers money but do any of my fellow singles out there feel worse lonelier on St.Valentines Day?

    No. It's pure rubbish. Even if I was in a relationship, I'd want to have an agreement that we ignore Valentine's Day. No flowers, no cards, none of the nonsense it has become. I used love Valentine's Day when I was a kid, and you'd have no idea who sent you a card. And hope you hadn't been spotted legging it back out of the driveway/garden of whichever boy you'd your eye on after sneaking his (unsigned) card in the letter box of his house.

    Can't stand all its hysteria these days.


  • #77
    kizzykat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭kizzykat


    I'd genuinely forgotten all about it too, until this popped up in my youtube feed:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-nTPAB-AbE&feature=plcp&context=C3bd0712UDOEgsToPDskIeBlTpDeAaE7E-SRN4FNeo

    Now all I can think is... I don't care about Valentine's Day!

    (edit: skip to about 30 secs in)


  • #78
    Cheeky_gal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Cheeky_gal


    One of my best mates who I secretly loved passed away a few weeks ago, he had asked me out on a date a few days before he passed away (the feeling must have been mutual :)) so I'll be sitting in thinking about him :(

    Very depressing day for some people, it actually shouldn't even exist.


  • #79
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Nothing to do with Valentines Day, but I had a great day with someone :D Valentines is a crock of ****, and everyone should ignore it


  • #80
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    It's bollocks but it's also the cause of some really nice sweet stuff - like kids making cards, making a new relationship feel special, etc.
    It's what you make it - I personally see it as a day where people are sweet to anyone they care about, not just their partners if they have one. All the paraphernalia is just a racket but little sincere gestures are nice. :)

    It's just a bit of a laugh too.


  • #81
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    No. Couldnt give a rats ass. Its just a day like any other.

    Yep me too. Don't like valentines day. Money making racket really. Pointless putting in all that effort to celebrate one day like that when you can express yourself in that way 356 days of the year just because one stupid day says so! (add 357 this year!) Leap year or a wedding is better celebrated...

    Its a day on my calender that doesn't exist and its just another day to me.

    I am not as soppy as I once was so grown out of that cac. So yes the whole cards and gifts for v day is all cac.

    Couldn't give a monkeys. When you can share and celebrate other occasions that are more important like birthdays and Christmas. Something everyone can share while valentines day isn't for everyone whether coupled up or single!

    Sentimentality is more important than just giving soppy presents and gifts unless they mean something to the other person. Its the thought that counts not just the gift itself.

    I've never been going out with someone or been with anyone long enough to celebrate such a silly day so the day has meant nothing to me.

    So never have celebrated it since I were a child.

    Cue the bucket...


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  • #82
    treborflynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭treborflynn


    sure its just another day. although no i dont have a date, or a woman, or a bang buddy or and friends BUT I HAVE 6 CATS!!!!!!!!!


  • #83
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    treborflynn wrote: »
    sure its just another day. although no i dont have a date, or a woman, or a bang buddy or and friends BUT I HAVE 6 CATS!!!!!!!!!

    yay for cats!


  • #84
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Its an extremely commercialised day that shouldn't really exist. St Valentine, I don't even know why he called a saint at all, we really don't honour him at all like except exchange gifts and cards and what not. It wasn't all about love.


  • #85
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    What a shower of miserable, scabby gits.


  • #86
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Its a tripe of a day! :p Will it ever end! :/


  • #87
    Greentopia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    Dudess wrote: »
    It's bollocks but it's also the cause of some really nice sweet stuff - like kids making cards, making a new relationship feel special, etc.
    It's what you make it - I personally see it as a day where people are sweet to anyone they care about, not just their partners if they have one. All the paraphernalia is just a racket but little sincere gestures are nice. :)

    If it was just about that 'sweet stuff' you mention then I wouldn't have a problem with it either. I have fond memories of making cards in school and getting my first card from a boy. :)
    Unfortunately like other holidays and days of celebration-Easter, Christmas, -Valentines day has been appropriated by corporate entities out to make a quick buck charging inflated prices for flowers and cards and other gifts. It ruins the spirit of it for many people.


  • #88
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    What a shower of miserable, scabby gits.
    You'll have it tomorrow - not my fault the post got delayed! :mad:


  • #89
    Immaculate Pasta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    My missus booked us a table for the evening

    I don't even like snooker ffs! :mad:


  • #90
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    The Story of St. Valentine
    The Roman Emperor Claudius II was fighting many wars. He wanted a
    strong army, but many men did not want to be soldiers. Claudius thought
    the men wanted to stay home to be with their wives and children instead
    of leaving to fight wars.
    Claudius thought of an awful solution to his problem. He decided to cancel
    all marriages! No one in all of Rome could get married. Claudius thought
    that if the men couldn’t get married, the men would ignore the women
    and want to be soldiers.
    Valentine, who was a priest, believed that people needed to get married.
    He thought that if they were not married, they would be tempted to sin by
    living together without being married. So he secretly and illegally married
    couples anyway! He performed the weddings in secret places, so the
    Roman soldiers would not find out.
    But they did find out. Valentine was arrested and brought before the
    Emperor. The Emperor thought Valentine was a well spoken and wise
    young man, and encouraged him to stop being a Christian and become a
    loyal Roman. Valentine would not deny his beliefs, and he refused. He was
    sent to prison until he could be executed. While he was in prison, he sent
    out letters to his friends and asked to be prayed for by writing Remember
    your Valentine    .
    Valentine was killed on the 14th or the 24th of February in the year 269 or
    270. We celebrate Valentine’s Day on February 14    th in honor of St.
    Valentine.


    believe it if ya like:p


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  • #91
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    I knew valentines day wasn't totally related to the 14th, he was buried I think on that date but born a different date. So chances are he died a different day...or died the 14th and was buried on that date or died the 14th and buried a later date or died a different day and buried on the 14th...


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