It is someone's right to be pissed off by clingy couples as much as it is those couples' right to be pissed off by people moaning about Valentine's Day.
Quite frankly I wish everyone would chill out and just let those who want to take each other out (or moan about it) do so.
Personally I think I should express my love for a girl once a day rather than once a year, but that's just me.
I'm with you on the last statement. I dislike the marketing ploy to make it expected* on that day and the mountains of tat they try to flog you for it.
* Consume consume consume and all that malarky. Its like Christmas. Christmas and the ideas/ideals behind it are great. The crap they'd like you to do/buy "beacuse its Christmas" isn't.
Then just don't fucking do it. It isn't hard. Don't buy a card, don't buy chocolates, don't buy flowers that aren't going to flower for another four fucking months.
Get some balls and change it rather than whining about it.
I don't, I don't, I do anyway and I have thanks. It still means the tacky crap is all over town. I'm not even bitter at the couples, just the marketing and herd mentality that lets it work. Every year I still place value on the fact that during my lifetime, Grandparents day never really took off despite the advertisers emotional blackmail.
Personally, my problem with Valen-time (I invented a new word!) is that it seems a touch fake and corporate these days. Valentine himself is one of those made-up saints that the church invented to boost its numbers. A bit like George. He existed, but no-one's really sure what he did to justify his sainthood.
"The feast of St. Valentine was first decreed in 496 by Pope Gelasius I, who included Valentine- and Saint George- among those "...whose names are justly reverenced among men, but whose acts are known only to God." The creation of the feast for such dimly conceived figures may have been an attempt to supersede the pagan holiday of Lupercalia that was still being celebrated in 5th century Rome, on February 15." (Thanks, Wikipedia!)
Then again, I'm a cynical cunt who doesn't get laid nearly often enough. I also hate Christmas, Easter, Ascension Sunday and orphans.
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Quite frankly I wish everyone would chill out and just let those who want to take each other out (or moan about it) do so.
Personally I think I should express my love for a girl once a day rather than once a year, but that's just me.
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* Consume consume consume and all that malarky. Its like Christmas. Christmas and the ideas/ideals behind it are great. The crap they'd like you to do/buy "beacuse its Christmas" isn't.
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Get some balls and change it rather than whining about it.
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Personally, my problem with Valen-time (I invented a new word!) is that it seems a touch fake and corporate these days. Valentine himself is one of those made-up saints that the church invented to boost its numbers. A bit like George. He existed, but no-one's really sure what he did to justify his sainthood.
"The feast of St. Valentine was first decreed in 496 by Pope Gelasius I, who included Valentine- and Saint George- among those "...whose names are justly reverenced among men, but whose acts are known only to God." The creation of the feast for such dimly conceived figures may have been an attempt to supersede the pagan holiday of Lupercalia that was still being celebrated in 5th century Rome, on February 15." (Thanks, Wikipedia!)
Then again, I'm a cynical cunt who doesn't get laid nearly often enough. I also hate Christmas, Easter, Ascension Sunday and orphans.
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(It's a Valentine thing.)
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