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VALENTINES DAY IS STUPID

  
  

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All Acting Regiment
20:45 / 13.02.06
IT IS WELL MADE BY TEH MAN11!!23 SHEEPLE, uh,

Yeah so I can't be bothered carrying on in this idiotic veign but you get the general impression now continue.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
20:47 / 13.02.06
Possibly copy some stupid wasitcoat-wearing, pipe-smoking dick in the pub and chuck in something about it originally being a pagan festival about sex majiks or something.
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
20:56 / 13.02.06
You know, I just kind of ignore Valentine's Day. It's just something I don't really care about. But it doesn't bug me or anything...
 
 
Tryphena Absent
21:06 / 13.02.06
It's not a public holiday so it means nothing to me.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
21:07 / 13.02.06
Ah, Vienna!
 
 
Dead Megatron
21:09 / 13.02.06
Isn't all gift-giving modern holiday a rip-off from some old pagan festival (other than Mother's Day, of course)?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
21:13 / 13.02.06
So does anyone actually give a fuck about this?
 
 
Alex's Grandma
21:15 / 13.02.06
I used to feel this way, but now that I've found true love with Ian from section 29 in the Twilight Home For The Criminally Insane, just a few doors down fom mine, I think that all of you people who object to the romance of Valentine's night are just jealous, probably.

It's so often the way though, isn't it?
 
 
Mourne Kransky
21:17 / 13.02.06
He just wants to use you for sex, Grandma. I hope you're charging him by the hour.
 
 
Shrug
22:09 / 13.02.06
Apparently a church in Dublin is host to St. Valentine's actual heart (although another in Europe also lays claim to this). Might go see it on the weekend. I'm sure the relic itself will be decayed, atrophied and gradually rotting.... just

like

my

capacity

for

love.

Bah VAlentine's SheepLe etc!!!!
 
 
Ganesh
22:22 / 13.02.06
I expect you have your books and your poetry to protect you.
 
 
Shrug
22:27 / 13.02.06
And my bayonet. Sweet, sweet bayonet. It never betrays me.
 
 
ibis the being
22:40 / 13.02.06
Come on you guys, don't be so reactionary. What's wrong with Valentine's Day, it's just a lovely holiday on which to give your sweetheart a teddy bear. IS THAT SO WRONG? I mean, people have celebrated Valentine's Day all over the world for thousands of years! Give us a break! Some people like Whitman's chocolate samplers okay? GEEEEZ.
 
 
Ganesh
22:51 / 13.02.06
Sadly, it's not a holiday. S'okay, though. We're off to see Measure For Measure in t'evening.
 
 
matthew.
22:57 / 13.02.06
Valentine's Day is teh who cares?
 
 
Shrug
23:00 / 13.02.06
I assumed from the abstract that this thread was for taking the piss out of anti-Valentine's day miserabilists through use of ironic* commentary which lies contrary to our actual beliefs. Is this not true? Are sarcasm parsers needed?
*like a free ride when I've already paid.
 
 
alas
23:04 / 13.02.06
(maybe it was ironic sarcasm parsing?)

BARBELITH, WILL YOU BE MY VALENTINE?

please?
 
 
Dead Megatron
23:04 / 13.02.06
Bill O'Halley says there's a war on Valentine waged by the secular press!!!!
 
 
Dead Megatron
23:05 / 13.02.06
I mean, Bil O'Rilley
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
23:05 / 13.02.06
Actually, a free ride when you've already paid sounds very romantic to me...
 
 
Shrug
23:08 / 13.02.06
(maybe it was ironic sarcasm parsing?)

Like ten thousand !!1!1!! when all I need is a %?
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
23:14 / 13.02.06
Alas, I will be your valentine.

Ha! I got to her first! Suck it, Barbelith!

Anyway, listen. Valentines Day and all the other capitalist running dog shopfests are perfectly respectable consumerist holidays. If this were Medeival Europe, would you complain that all the holidays were too churchy? If we were Aztecs, would you bitch about the human sacrifice? No, you'd take part in your culture, for the love of Mammon.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
23:25 / 13.02.06
But I don't get a day off.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
23:31 / 13.02.06
Well boo hoo I am crying in my secret beer
 
 
Ganesh
23:59 / 13.02.06
Yeah, it's the lack of day-offness I'm whingeing about, not the secularity/religiosity/Hallmarkery.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
00:29 / 14.02.06
What's wrong with Valentine's Day, it's just a lovely holiday on which to give your sweetheart a teddy bear. IS THAT SO WRONG?
Word.
 
 
astrojax69
02:09 / 14.02.06
ahh, xoc - Ah, Vienna! - will you be my valentine?? i have an unconscious reaction to 'vienna', and to 'this means nothing to me' stretching back to the midge-80's i just can't shake off. we'd be a beautiful couple. we could honeymoon in, austria...


and it's true that xmas is a pagan holiday. i mean, why else would they park mary in a shed if all the rooms weren't filled with pagan revellers??? and cupid is probably the famed pagan william tell, who kissed and telled... hang on, i think there's another thread for this...
 
 
*
02:15 / 14.02.06
I like St. Sebastian better, I think. Can we make it St. Sebastian's Day instead?
 
 
All Acting Regiment
06:46 / 14.02.06
Will someone be my Barbe-valentine? In the manner of a Barbe-crush, obviously.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
06:48 / 14.02.06
No. Saint Sebastian is like an autoerotic pincushion, with extra God.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
08:54 / 14.02.06
Saint Sebastian is like an autoerotic pincushion, with extra God.

And if you're extra lucky, a smidgen of Derek Jarman too.

Since the subject of "Vienna" came up (doo-duhduh, tchah..) can I just <3 the memory of Conny Plank while I'm here? The groovy breakdown in that song is so Cluster - who could but love it?
 
 
lord nuneaton savage
09:07 / 14.02.06
Yeah, I'm going to use this thread to tell all my favourite Krautrock musicians that I love them and ask them if they will be my valentines.

So, Irmin Schmidt; I know lots of people think that you are a slightly dodgy looking grumpy dude with atrocious taste in clothes, but can you love me? Just for today?
 
 
Shrug
11:39 / 14.02.06
St Valentine's day is quite odd if at the early stages of a relationship though. I've ended up tying myself in a myriad of little knots about it. (not a bad thing necessarily).
 
 
lord nuneaton savage
11:45 / 14.02.06
I know what you mean. There's the "how much effort should I put in?" question, especially if there's any kind of suprise involved. I always make sure I know where all the 24 hour garages in the area are. Better safe than sorry.
 
 
A
11:46 / 14.02.06
Bill O'Halley says there's a war on Valentine waged by the secular press!!!!

...and his thesis is capably backed by the O'Comets.
 
  

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