Anti - Valentines Day thread.

[judge dreddd]

just another day...

[Devons Daddy]

its true
valentines is for business to make serious money.
im in the catering business.its a huge money spinner.

from flowerists to musicains record companies and resturants. we all mark everythign up and sit back and rake it in.

i like christmas and birthdays. but valentines is truely $$$ based.

[petemaskreplica]

Valentine's Day is clearly consumerist bollox. If you're not prepared to put in the effort the rest of the time, I can't see what the point is in having one day of unimaginative presents, and, as Bou says, lame innuendo and sugary sentimentality.

I'll have no time for this kind of nonsense, as I'll be spending all that weekend in recording sessions with my orchestra (yup, for a real CD! That you can buy in the shops and everything!). And I'll have no complaints from my girlfriend. That's because I've co-opted her into the band. Bow down before my cunning!

[Trout]

St Valentine's Day is terrific.

I'll be buying flowers and a card and a present for my wife.

Ahhhhh... I'm so nice.

- Trout

[Slippery PD]

I suppose its just like everything else.  If you are willing to put in the imagination and the effort, you dont have to spend wads of cash or succumb to the consumerism involved.  Some of the comments remind me of something Andrew Marr said about christmas.
"Its all about consumerism and I wont be parting with my hard earned cash, its just a waste of money."
To which his wife replied
"He will if he still wants a wife."
Needless to say that Mr Marr quickly forgot about his objections......

Most of us cant be bothered with Valentines Day.  However, most of our wives/partners/etc like to be spoiled on that day.  So id rather spoil my wife on that day than spend the next 6 months in the dog house.

Yer Slips
 

[Trout]

Look, it's all about how you manage the situation.

Women need to feel loved and if they're left out on St V's they get upset.

So try to turn it to your advantage. There are relatively simple and cheap ways of doing so.

Offer to cook that night - and do something vaguely fancy and even edible - or get her a box of her favourite chocolates and put on a chick flick.

Flowers are pretty cheap in supermarkets, too.

I understand why it's a bit crap for people who don't have a significant other, but even they can enjoy Valentine's Day.

Try sending an unsigned Valentine to an unpopular person, and watch how it cheers them up.

- Trout

[Wils]

Valentine's Day doesn't have to be the sickening chocolate, flowers and huge quilted cards affair that the shops try to tell us it has to be.

I think, as a couple, you can make it what you want it to be to suit yourselves; whether it's roses, choccy and a swanky restaurant or a chinese takeaway, cans of Stella and DVDs at home.

For obvious reasons, I can't say what I've bought or got planned. :)

[Trout]

Tell us later, then. :-)

I haven't decided yet, but I'm considering having flowers sent to Mrs Trout's workplace, so all her workmates get really jealous.

That always makes a girl happy.

- Trout

[Queen Firey-Bou]

Oy ! sickly pathetic dependant ones get off the thread where happy independant FREEEEEEEE people can be FREEEEEE to be as grossy cynical as they like without being accused of being bitter...

we demand the right to vomit at yous without being judged !

You lot are just bitter cos you are all only other halves, whereas to be FREEEEE & SINGLE is to be a WHOLE person.

whaaaa haaaaa haaaa i laugh at you shackled simpletons !

Ha ! so being single i won't get stupid dumb arsed fluffy presents. HA no change there. If i get cards they'll be from stalking cretins who i will have to kill. the only thing crap about being single is the no sex thing... and that doesnt bother me at all... nyrghhhhhhh grrrrrrrrarghghg  gakk gakkkkkkkghghghg

[Trout]

I never give "stupid dumb arsed fluffy presents," you silly woman.

Hey Warrior Chick, is that blue woad you're wearing a little odd today?

It looks... green...

- The evil one

[Slippery PD]

I neither have bought some fluffy present for my wife.  One year she got a full set of power tools, but thats not the point is it?  All we've said is that there a time and place and a relevance to buying/doing things for your partners.  And I will not get made to feel guilty for doing so by a bunch of single miserable lonely people :)!!!

Yer "grass is always greener" Slips

[Queen Firey-Bou]

No chance ! bugger off ! i could have my pick i tell you ! theyre queing outside... well they would be if it wasnt raining, & i wasnt so horrible to them all,

anywey ive got a date for valentines.. HA HA HA!
on the 14th i shall be away for a thrilling dangerous crazy weekened with a married man, So nyyyyyyur ! And his wife doesnt mind, cos she wouldnt want to do it with him.

Link: http://www.highlandcarclub.co.uk/snow-04.htm" target="_blank">dirty weekend

[Trout]

:-)

That's one wild time you're going to have, Bou!

There's nothing more romantic than the smell of petrol. :-)

Good luck!

- Trout

[Mr C]

St Valentines day:
The one day in the year when the Trout's all consuming evil and hatred recedes like a chief accountants hair line.

Slips- If we can't be bitter, then can we be twisted?

[petemaskreplica]

well, twisted's good, if you've got the right kind of gal... ;)