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Your thoughts on Valentine's day?
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I'll tell you a story about valentines day
I've never had a valentine, and I've never seen the good in the day (honestly shouldn't every day be valentines day if you look at valentines day for what it is)
when I was a kid,, a member of my family asked me- do you want a valentines card so you don't feel so left out?
I mean how embarrassing. actually being asked, do you want a valentine
I've never had a valentine, and I've never seen the good in the day (honestly shouldn't every day be valentines day if you look at valentines day for what it is)
when I was a kid,, a member of my family asked me- do you want a valentines card so you don't feel so left out?
I mean how embarrassing. actually being asked, do you want a valentine
lol it's a great day to get laid and brag 😋
I didn't see that in the poll choices
What movie?
Valentine's Day (Saint), "Be My Valentine"
( Note: my asking Dok for this entry sent him off on a sermon about how we insist on celebrating fictional holidays and about how there are half a dozen St. Valentines. I told him to shut up and write it down. He did. -Deep )
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia there are three martyrs whose feast day is 14 February. Additionally, the various Orthodox Churches list up to seven saints with that name, two of which have feast days in July. Just as there are several dates for Christmas, everything from 6 December to various dates in January, when Christ was most likely born in the spring.
We owe what we consider as the romantic 'holiday' to Geoffrey Chaucer's poem The Parliament of Fowls:
Today the holiday is perpetuated by the manufacturers of various gift items who build up the expectations of women who then coerce their male friends into giving them ever more spectacular (and expensive) gifts on the day, and if they do not, there is hell to pay. Much as it is in the best interests of various outfits to ramp up the expectations of children for gifts on that day in December.
So, exactly what does "be my Valentine" mean? From the historical documentation on individuals by that name celebrated on that day, it must mean the person who says that wants you to either build them a church, or to die for them in a most unpleasant way. Romantic, no?
As to what all this has to do with cut out paper Hearts, who knows? See: Romance, Love, Flirt, Courting, Heart, and related. For a similar 'holiday' see: Sweetest Day.
( Note: my asking Dok for this entry sent him off on a sermon about how we insist on celebrating fictional holidays and about how there are half a dozen St. Valentines. I told him to shut up and write it down. He did. -Deep )
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia there are three martyrs whose feast day is 14 February. Additionally, the various Orthodox Churches list up to seven saints with that name, two of which have feast days in July. Just as there are several dates for Christmas, everything from 6 December to various dates in January, when Christ was most likely born in the spring.
We owe what we consider as the romantic 'holiday' to Geoffrey Chaucer's poem The Parliament of Fowls:
Before Chaucer (1340? - 1400) there was no such association between romance and the fourteenth of February.
Today the holiday is perpetuated by the manufacturers of various gift items who build up the expectations of women who then coerce their male friends into giving them ever more spectacular (and expensive) gifts on the day, and if they do not, there is hell to pay. Much as it is in the best interests of various outfits to ramp up the expectations of children for gifts on that day in December.
So, exactly what does "be my Valentine" mean? From the historical documentation on individuals by that name celebrated on that day, it must mean the person who says that wants you to either build them a church, or to die for them in a most unpleasant way. Romantic, no?
As to what all this has to do with cut out paper Hearts, who knows? See: Romance, Love, Flirt, Courting, Heart, and related. For a similar 'holiday' see: Sweetest Day.
Valentine's Day.
That looks like such a good movie! So many great actors & actresses; I love Hector Elizondo! Have you seen "Tortilla Soup"?
He is great! No, I haven't.
Several years ago a woman I was working with was going on about what she expected her boyfriend to buy her for Valentine's day.
During a break in the torrent of chatter, I asked her what she was going to buy for him.
Both of the women in the discussion looked at me like I had just beamed down from the mother ship.
The one with the boyfriend asked me why she would do that because it was a "woman's holiday".
I said, "I thought romance worked both ways."
They laughed.
During a break in the torrent of chatter, I asked her what she was going to buy for him.
Both of the women in the discussion looked at me like I had just beamed down from the mother ship.
The one with the boyfriend asked me why she would do that because it was a "woman's holiday".
I said, "I thought romance worked both ways."
They laughed.
lol some women won't buy but what they will do is reward their lover with sex on the holiday if he gets them what they want.
I've been given valentines day gifts from women in the past, back when I dated them.
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