Valentines Day

Bullshit, the fookin lot of it.

Why the people around me disagree i'll never know.

ASDA's got a good aisle on it.

so looks like i'll be forced to get me arse down there on the 13th. God dammit.

Well no. obviously.

But i'm just sick and tired of hearing about it.

I agree, load of crap, see earlier thread.

Crap indeed but getting and sending one to a special someone (he'll know who he is if he ever gets to read this post, that is )

Sweet !!

http://www.surfnewquay.co.uk/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/217/limit/recent

Tesco do a good line in cards

(hopefully the link worked)

Liam is also a big lover of chrimbo btw.

Missy Jem wrote: I agree, load of crap, see earlier thread.

FFS... they kept my desposit when I phoned up just there now to cancel the weekend in monte carlo I'd booked for us.

Shoulda taken someone else instead.

Maya, there's a postal strike on here honey, it'll never get to me. ;)

Steve Campbell wrote: Maya, there's a postal strike on here honey, it'll never get to me. ;)

Nice try, Stevs!

Off for Cobra then Guinness, see yer tomorrow

Complete load of crap and just an excuse for the florists etc to put up the price of flowers. Why people need to feel obliged to spend money on cards and stuff on one particular day is a load of old shite. If you love someone it probably means more to show them on another day when the advertising industry are not forcing people to expect such things.

It also means that people who don't have partner or have just lost someone close to feel even more upset.

Rant finished. Now calm. Bah humbug

Lucyjane wrote: Complete load of crap and just an excuse for the florists etc to put up the price of flowers. Why people need to feel obliged to spend money on cards and stuff on one particular day is a load of old shite. If you love someone it probably means more to show them on another day when the advertising industry are not forcing people to expect such things.

It also means that people who don't have partner or have just lost someone close to feel even more upset.

Rant finished. Now calm. Bah humbug

Yes and no.

Yes it's overpriced crap and a scam etc etc etc. But there's nowt wrong with writing her a poem, or just cooking her a nice dinner. And if your partner is the sort who'll strop cos you did that and not spent 7000quid on a couple of red roses...find another partner ;)

My least-favorite holiday ever

But I feel more shut out during St. Patty's Day. I'm not Irish! No matter how drunk I get, I'll never be able to truly enjoy the culture of a land that produced W.B. Yeats, Michael Collins, and Conan O'Brien!

Can't wait for Valentines Day. Ryan Adams gig in Newcastle :)

Snoop...that IS Upon Tyne I hope?

Tabs mate I walked past a pub in leeds a few years ago, on paddy's day and there was a full cross section of Leeds society (SERIOUSLY multicultural place) dressed in green, drinking green beer and shoutin bajaysus and baggorah.

Don't be takin this as racist.... but the O'patels and the McMohameds are not famillies I'm familiar with ;)

Lucyjane wrote: Complete load of crap and just an excuse for the florists etc to put up the price of flowers. Why people need to feel obliged to spend money on cards and stuff on one particular day is a load of old shite. If you love someone it probably means more to show them on another day when the advertising industry are not forcing people to expect such things.

It also means that people who don't have partner or have just lost someone close to feel even more upset.

Rant finished. Now calm. Bah humbug

I agree. But i'm single and i dont sit their and sulk about it. I feel more aggrieved that half the office gets half the fookin day off while i have to do twice as much work.

If you love somebody, you dont need to buy them a card, or take them out to a restaurant. What a load of old shit.

I'm banned from buying flowers, we are making each other cards, and having a home-cooked meal at far more realistic prices! It's become a total commercial rip-off these days, and I don't buy into commercial rip-offs.

Al Jarvis wrote:

Uncle Liam wrote: I agree. But i'm single and i dont sit their and sulk about it. I feel more aggrieved that half the office gets half the fookin day off while i have to do twice as much work.

Is that cos they're all faster workers than you?!

I refer the honourable gentleman to previous blog entries

another bloody hallmark holiday. its not even a public holiday.

although it made a great day for a massacre.

AgentWood wrote: although it made a great day for a massacre.

Snoopy wrote: Can't wait for Valentines Day. Ryan Adams gig in Newcastle :)

If somebody can love you, then the human spirit is alive!

Ryan Adams

Steve Campbell wrote: Don't be takin this as racist.... but the O'patels and the McMohameds are not famillies I'm familiar with ;)

Oh yeah, I'll be alone this Valentine's Day. Same as last year... And the year before... And the year before... And...

Taboo # 7 wrote:

But I feel more shut out during St. Patty's Day. I'm not Irish!

Surely a good excuse to get pissed and celebrate?

Oh, and has there been a gender change mid Atlantic, Patty? Peppermint Guiness anyone?

I work at the Registry Office and we've got ten bleedin weddings that day - what's the bet most of them don't last five years!! Sorry for the cynicism, but I too think the day is a load of crap.

It's much nicer to get a surprise on any old day - then it's a real surprise.

Valentine's Day is too commercialized -- if you must give your beloved something, don't buy a stupid fucking card -- just bake and frost a cake.

And present the cake to your beloved, with you wearing nothing but scraps of Saran Wrap. oh yeah.... it always works!

EmmaPeel wrote:

And present the cake to your beloved, with you wearing nothing but scraps of Saran Wrap. oh yeah.... it always works!

How do you know this works?