SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I'll let my husband know you wish him luck.

SureThing said:

Give him HELL Dani!

It's the biggest crock of shit day ever. An invention designed to remove money from your pockets and put it in the hands of restuaranters, florists and jewellers.

I will never celebrate this day (and never have) as long as my arse points to the ground.

There, i've said my piece.


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[Edited 2/13/07 13:48pm]

bkw said:

I'm going to see Diamanda Galás. If she weren't playing, I'd most likely be doing nothing also.

bkw said:

I feel quite bad for men who have to deal with a sense of entitlement from their girlfriends. It's ridiculous the amount of money men are expected to drop on this day. Just ridiculous. I think it's ridiculous that women expect diamonds for an engagement!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

it just KILLS me that the diamond industry TELLS you how much money you should be spending on an engagement ring! what other industry has that kind of audacity?
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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Dude, seriously, I already know whats gonna go down.

Cuz the other nite, he was teasing me about my present, and I go

"Whatever, I guess you got me one of the stupid ass roses dipped in gold from Murphy Jewlers. AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHH "

And he was like

And I'm like SHUT UP!

He's like I SWEAR I ordered it a week ago.


So now I already know tommorow he's gonna be like, I told them I didn't want the rose, but didn't have time to shop, so you can just go charge something.


I'm gonna charge a pedicure and a one yr membership to the gym.


sp
[Edited 2/13/07 14:02pm]

porn and weed, people. i'm telling you, it's the answer to valentines.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

It's sickening really. Men should test the women they are with and give them nothing but a band. If they bitch, ditch their ass because they clearly are not interested in you but what you can give them.

SureThing said:

Can you charge yourself a new husband?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

i think the idea of diamonds is ridiculous, period.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Lemme check my credit limit!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

We agree!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

SureThing said:

YOU deserve a crown!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I agree, too. When Rachel and I got engaged, we were both in college where we were both paying rent, tuition and books, and barely getting by, and I wasn't prepared to spend tons more money on a rock. I did get her a diamond ring, but it was one of the smaller diamonds that they had, and that was perfectly fine with Rachel. No one needs a rock the size of a marble on their finger when one quite a bit smaller means just as much.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I'm just ridiculously sad that I don't have a Valentine this year.....

abierman said:

WHAT??? No sacktime?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Now, for serious.

I think elaborate or even average wedding are ridiculous. It's months of stress to plan it. It's stuffy and boring. You have to invite a bunch of pricks you don't even like. It's nutts. You can have a nice wedding on an island for a quarter of what you'd spend on a big elaborate wedding.

BUT.


A DIAMOND is FOREVER.

TMPletz said:

.....I know.....it's a bad year sofar.....

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

No I do not go all ridiculous on Valentines Day. If I could eat candy then I would most likely try to find a man so that he could buy me candy for Valentines Day.

Hopefully two people in love let each other know all throughout the year that the other is loved and cherished. My take on Valentine's Day is that it is a bonus day for lovers, a little something extra to make being in love more fun, like the cherry on top of your sundae -- the sundae doesn't need the cherry and doesn't rely on it to be a sundae, but the cherry being there makes the experience as a whole a little more special.

And even if one doesn't have somebody with whom to share Valentine's Day, who says the day is completely exclusive to romantic love? Send your friends cards or a small gift letting them know they are loved, or give a card or a bit of candy to a person whom you think would never, ever expect a card from you, or give one to someone who likely wouldn't get a card at all that day, from anybody.

Valentine's Day is it can be as fun or as miserable as one chooses to make it. Why take the day so seriously - in either direction - that every last drop of fun is wrung from it?

Since I don't have a "Valentine" or even a FWB I guess I'll have to try to ignore most of the talk at my workplace tomorrow, kinda hard since most my work colleagues are female . Even though the store I work in caters to businesses (selling everything from pens up to PCs) and college students (textbooks, writing material etc.), even there we have a bunch of Valentine's related stuff, like all kinds of heart-shaped stuff and some really crappy stuff like a red rose that plays the Celine Dion song from Titanic if you barely touch it

Anyway, this Valentine's thing only really cought on in Iceland about 10 years ago when one particular radio DJ started hyping it up... Up until then, Valentine's Day was just considered some American phenomena you would hear about in American TV shows and movies.

And regarding all that Valentine's stuff that is being sold in my workplace and many other places, I personally wouldn't want to buy that kind of stuff, even if I had a girlfriend... I would prefer to take my GF out for a dinner to a nice restaurant and then go home with her, light some scented candles, give her a good massage and let things develop from there

EDIT: I also forgot to mention that in Iceland we have two seperate days that are nowadays used to give the S.O. flowers and gifts and other kinds of treats, i.e. Husband's Day and Housewife's Day... Husband's Day was on 19th of January this year and Housewife's Day will be next Sunday... The dates vary between each year, since the days are based around the Old Norse calendar, so Husband's Day is the first day of the Þorri month and Housewife's Day is the first day of Góa. So anyway, these two days kinda make it redundant to celebrate Valentine's Day, at least here in Iceland. Nice article about these two days here: http://www.grapevine.is/d...ry&id=1663
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WillyWonka said:

Well said.

TMPletz said:

I agree about the size/cost doesn't matter part, but I just felt the need to say this

I don't like those rings with a tiny little solitaire diamond in them, that you can hardly see. I say diamond, I wouldnt like them no matter the stone. They're really little! I would rather have a ring with a bigger stone, I couldnt care less if its a real diamond or not. At the end of the day, Im the one whos gotta wear it forever! I'd rather have a massive aquamarine or pink topaz than an invisible diamond, for a fraction of the price. Why does it have to be diamond? Or is that the same as we *have* to get married in white? In a church?

But thats just me, and my preference!

WillyWonka said:

Agreed.

And I would add, after years of watching my girlfriends get their feelings hurt:

Why don't you see how your partner feels about Valentines Day. . . REALLY feels, not "hey, I hate Valentines Day and only stoopidheads feel otherwise, how about you?". . . and then take it seriously? Because if you hate the whole thing, but he/she likes it, how hard is it to make sweet a gesture for them, even if you normally do it just 'cause it's Wednesday? So what? Let them have this one. It's EASY. And caring about somebody else's feelings is nice, especially if you claim to love them.

It ain't all about YOU.


(Not you, Sweets, THEM. )