Extoll your hate of Valentine's Day (was: Extoll the virtues of your love!!)

[Angcuru]

My problem with Valentine's Day is that it's integrity has been shattered by commercialism. ARGH! Aside from this, it's just like any other day.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

How can you forget about the other Saint's Day? What's more processional than wearing green, shouting at balloons filled with hot gas, and then drinking cheap beer with 40-50 strangers?



Amen!

Oh, you mean Occupation Day? (Celebrated on a particular day in March in Massachusetts...) When I was a kid they still had free beer on the common. And I tell you, when you are six years old them Clydesdales are HUGE!

 

[TheAuldGrump]

In the town where I grew up, there was no parade and what celebration there was was combined with Chinese New Year.Any advice on how someone with the social competence of the average gamer could do such a thing?

Doing things other than gaming is a good start. For me it was folk music. Because she doesn't game my fellow gamers believed for years that Jackie didn't exist. I am ashamed to say that she and I encouraged that belief... I have to agree that gamers can be an amazingly ill graced lot. Sadly there was one other person who both games and sings folk music, so the charade fell apart in a rash of Jackie sightings.

The Auld Grump

 

[Stone Angel]

Halmark Holiday!


The Seraph of Earth and Stone

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Money works better!

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker!

 

[Acquana]

Ah, cinicism. It's so EDGY.

So long as you leave your generic rage on the boards, all is well. Otherwise, you're like TRex.

 

[Ralts Bloodthorne]

I can't stand Valentine's Day.

But unlike a lot of people, I don't say it's because of corporate greed, Hallmark, or because I'm lonely...

When I was younger (Read 13-15) I loved Valentine's Day. The romance, the ability to actually show that I cared for another person, the gentleness. Then she happened...

My first wife and I had martial relations for the first time together, and the first time for her, on Valentine's Day. She got pregnant. She later told me that she had lied about being on the pill because she wanted something to prove her love to me. She could have bought me a card. Not that I don't love the kid, but getting pregnant to prove your love is like lighting yourself on fire to prove you've had a good day.

I married her the following Valentine's Day. Deployed that evening, didn't see her for 6 months.

I divorced her third Valentine's Day. I wasn't even invited to the hearing. Thank you Federal Law that lets a spouse divorce a service member stationed overseas without representation.

If I was dating someone, I warned them weeks ahead of time that when Valentine's Day rolled around, don't expect me to act like Cupid just shoved a quiver full of arrows up my butt. Be thankful if they even got a smile.

Oh, yeah, and during Desert Storm I got a letter from my ex-wife containing pictures of our son and a note reading: "I hope you get captured and they torture you for a month before you die. PS-Your son hates you and hopes you die just as much as I do." on Valentine's Day.

I hated the holiday for years, until one year my wife burst into tears when, once again, I had not bought her anything or even told her Happy Valentine's Day. After that, I kept silent of my hatred of Valentine's Day, gritted my teeth, and bought presents.

Now, Valentine's Day has rolled around again, and my current wife has pnuemonia. Great Valentine's Day, huh? Sitting here listening to someone I care about struggle to breathe.

Oh joy. Shall I run out and get her some pollen filled dying botanicals to choke her up? How about some chocolate she can't eat because she keeps puking everything up? I know, a card! I'll leave her side, get her a card, then come back to find her dead because she couldn't find her inhaler.

Yeah, I love Valentine's Day. It's right up there with "Hit Me In The Face With An Axe" Day.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Ah, cinicism. It's so EDGY.

So long as you leave your generic rage on the boards, all is well. Otherwise, you're like TRex.

Heh...that was hilarious:

 

[Teflon Billy]

I have not seen this level of angst since the announcement of 3.5E

Seriously, what is all this kvetching about? As near as I can figure, ,ost of the whiners in this thread simply bristle at someone suggesting they do something.

Is the notion of treating your Signifigant Other to a special night out (or in) that onerous? Is the purchase of flowers or a card or choclates really such slap in the face to your special sense of self?

And don't give me that "every Day is special with us" nonsense.

No it isn't. If every day is special, then no day is special...it is your baseline reading.

What you are doing is taking a personality flaw (being cheap, lazy or uncaring) and trying to give the impression that it is some manner of character strength (being a "Free Thinker", "Sticking it to the man" or any of a dozen other tough-guy stances that no one will beleive)

You gain nothing by refusing to let special peple in your life know they are important to you. Nothing at all.

So get off the couch and take this opportunity to Show your loved one you care.

Not in the same way you do every day.

Do it in a special way. That's what Valentines day is for.

 

[Teflon Billy]

It's Hate Week. My hate is boundless. To quote a former roommate's morning mantra while he shaved, "I hate everything and everything hates me back."

Was that me?