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Like A Satanist Drunk On A Cold Christmas Morning, It Seems You're Alone On St Valentine's Night .

 
 
Alex's Grandma
00:33 / 06.02.04
A forum, I guess, for affirmative action. Or just stupid ideas.

I'm suggesting as follows:

A) Spend some quality time in Victoria's Secret, lurking around in around in a rain-proof mac - Normally, certainly, you wouldn't last five minutes, but at this time of year they can't really be sure - you could just be nervous, that's why you're shaking that way.

B) Book a table for two at a fairly smart restaurant, then show up alone, get drunk and then maudlin, ideally chain-smoking heavy tar cigs. And if anyone says you should think about leaving, be polite but insistent, your date's on their way, it's just that their phone doesn't seem to be on... shuffle off brokenly into the night.

C) Same as above, except hire an escort, who the minute you've left to get cigs or a drink, then loudly explains to the rest of the diners, what he or she's doing there with someone like You. Again, shuffle off brokenly into the night, but at least with this option you won't be alone.

D) Other, what're anyone's thoughts ?
 
 
Char Aina
00:36 / 06.02.04
i like your style.

maybe go to a restaurant with your dad?
 
 
bitchiekittie
00:48 / 06.02.04
you haven't any idea. I'm having a houseful of people to my house during the day, including 5-10 children. at night, I plan on having 7 little girls on a sugar high tearing through my place and tormenting my cats.
 
 
Cat Chant
10:26 / 06.02.04
Oddly, I am getting dressed up and going out to a fairly smart restaurant on my own on 11th Feb (for an anniversary dinner): but Valentine's night itself will be spent drinking wine and watching girl power/feminist killing-spree movies with girls, not including my girlfriend. Hooray!
 
 
caronut
13:24 / 06.02.04
I am waiting for the usual tirade of joke valentine cards from my hysterical mates. I don't know why they bother. It's not like they ever miss a year!
 
 
Alex's Grandma
17:31 / 08.02.04
I know what you mean caronut - years ago now, I was working in an office, and got a Valentine's card from a person unknown. It had two guys on the cover, read " what are you doing later ? ", and then inside, " You. " The thing is, there was a gay guy working in the office, so cue a few days of homosexual paranoia ( sad I know, byut this wasn't exactly a sane working environment, everyone went to the pub every night, no one thinking that clearly, etc, ) before it turned out that had been sent by this girl that I" liked, who was engaged to bve married, as a joke. Gah...
 
 
rizla mission
19:37 / 08.02.04
but Valentine's night itself will be spent drinking wine and watching girl power/feminist killing-spree movies with girls, not including my girlfriend. Hooray!

Now THAT is the best valentines day imaginable.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:34 / 08.02.04
Well I intend to celebrate this most illustrious of dates by, as usual, going to a garage and killing a buncha mobsters who have brought shame on me.

Or wearing mascara.

I always get those words mixed up.
 
 
gotham island fae
22:31 / 08.02.04
If you're alone on Valentine's, I'm throwing a Birthday Party for my Aquarian friend D who needs to meet more lesbians (she herself has qualified 'cute' lesbians). I live in Topeka, KS and the party starts at nine. The second wave (my friend's last performance with the local improv troupe portion-of-the-party) starts at ten-thirty.

There'll be Pin the Pasty on the Jackson games and more taken from Playboy's Party Games, all rendered gender-non-specific. BYOB and please bring snackies.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
00:09 / 09.02.04
Well personally anyway, I'm going to a club. The alone in a restaurant thing, bursting into tears when the waiter suggests that really, yes honestly, you'd better just leave... needs to be done sometime, but as with doing christmas all on your tod... another year, maybe. But thank god it's a Saturday this year - I've never much cared for St Valentine's night - the rest of the time I might be seeing someone, maybe, but on that date, never. You know, the moon could fall, the sun could swallow the earth, but I'd still be single on Feb 14th. It seems to be one of the immutable laws of the universe, or at least, part of the terms and conditions of the contract I signed before I ever got born - the one you never remember actually signing, but pretty clearly, you must have done - that if I found myself with a date on that particular... date, I'd basically vanish in a puff of grey smoke. So it's the week nights that are the killer - I always end up in a pub in the City, tie loosened, half-cut, just after work, listening to Elvis, Sinatra and so on, pondering the follies of the previous year, and wondering why the vending machine doesn't sell any razorblades. But not this year. So off to Lowlife in C London, not sure where it is, but there are lots of people going, so if anyone feels like showing up, then...
 
 
gingerbop
01:29 / 09.02.04
I shall, probably, be going to see a lady friend of mine, who I've never quite got together with. But shall.

And if I get round to it, shall be going out to dinner (probably macdonalds or similar, as havent got round to booking yet) with my gay manfriend. *sigh*
 
 
Bill Posters
10:49 / 09.02.04
IMHO, TV Go Home has the final word on Valentine's Day.
 
  
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