Valentine's Day

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I think you'll find they've been dead 600 years.

In America Valentine's Day usually first shows its ugly head on or around December 26th. Aisles devoted entirely to Valentine's Day start popping up in every grocery store, convenience store, pharmacy and gas station. A few weeks later the TV starts broadcasting countless ads for chocolates and jewelry. It is intrusive whether you like it or not.

I work the day following valentines day, but I have been contemplating going to a bar around 6:00PM alone for a few beers, and see if there are any lonely women there doing the same.

The issue isn't that we're forced to celebrate. Actually, quite the opposite. It's an exclusionary holiday. It's there for the couples and the people in love, and I get sick of all the f*****g couples out there who just flaunt their goddamn happiness in my face. I get sick of it. They should have a bit of empathy, and realize that not everyone is so fortunate, and they should dial it down a bit. Like when something good happens to me, I don't brag about it. When I win an award for a film I've made, or a I win a road race, I say, "That's nice," put the award on the shelf, and move on. Don't post on facebook "I won this, yay!" and all that self indulgent crap. And so I get sick of all these twits who say "Oh I'm so in love. I'm so happy, I've found my soulmate. " yadda yadda, yadda. I wanna tell them to go f**k themselves.

Jealousy is a bad, bad fruit to bite into.

One of the evils of Valentine's day, is that it implies that people who are genuinely in love should celebrate on this particular day. I am in a very fulfilling relationship, and we both scoff at Valentine's day together. We are well aware that it is a commercial holiday, designed to make candy and card manufacturers rich.

Hope you are feeling better, Brianruns.

Yeah, I have tried very hard to plan a good day for myself. But I cannot run away from the reality, that it is not like previous Valentine's Days. If only being single on V Day at 33 was the worst of my problems. But it isnt, Im very sad about a lot of things and no amount of bubble bath can change that.

To answer the original question, I don't know as of yet. I've only just started seeing someone who I met a couple of weeks ago so me and her haven't had time to really anything, not that we'll do anything out of the ordinary as we both agree valentines day is a commercialised piece of crap.

Valentine's Day advertising makes everyone assuming that I want chocolate and flowers. I don't.

I would stop boycotting Valentine's if a guy would bring me a heart filled with a book (that he's put thought into and knows I will enjoy). This is the man I would spend my life with.

Yes, a personalized gift that takes the women into consideration means a lot more to me than commercially made cards and gifts. Last Valentines day, my boyfriend gave me a homemade card and a bar of organic chocolate that he already knew that I liked.

I will be hiding. I just hate that day too. People run around acting worse than they do on the full moon. I also vote for a "f**k You Day" but my niece would hate me for saying that because she met her husband (very likely an Aspie too) on that day. About 10-15 years ago I gave this day the nickname of Bah Humbug Day and have always called it that ever since. Today I did a Google search for the term just to see if by chance anybody else had come up with the same name and found that there was indeed a Bah Humbug Day, but it is on Dec 21.

Believe it or not, back in 1981 or so I managed to nearly start a fist fight on Valentines Day night among a bunch of guys on the island where I lived simply by muttering a quiet comment to myself under my breathe. The funny thing is that it was true. Later that night one guy tried to kick my door down (he did knock it loose enough for the carpenter to have to come repair it the next day) then went down the hall ranting and raving as he slung a beer bottle down the hall leaving glass shards everywhere. Of course that was par for the course on that island that was more like a wild west Dodge City than anything civilized. The same guy got fired a year later for using drugs... a big no-no on a military base.



I just love that way of phrasing it... that is 100% my style.

Shall we rename it Start A Fistfight Day then?

I have just fuelled the multi-milliondollar consumer machine by buying myself a $3 sunflower, plus shower gel, bubble bath, candles and bath salts, also a book. So, tomorrow will be interesting. I wont be going out, I dont think it is good going out and seeing people walking around with flowers etc.

I don't dislike Valentine's Day. It is much like any other day. Here's a proactive article on How to Survive Valentine's Day Solo.

I will be taking the last advice.

I don't know where you live, but I haven't noticed all the extreme advertisement everywhere I go myself. Either I've tuned out anything VD like I've tuned out so many things in my life, or you just see what you want to see.



Neither do I, but I guess it's the thought that counts.

Really annoying when I'm supposed to be impressed by chocolate and flowers just because I'm a girl, though.

i hate valentines day. am i bitter? ya of course ive been freaking single for my entire life! anyway i will be doing my normal routine for that day which is essentially doing nothing.

I think it's just immature to hate or boycott a holiday just because you're considered excluded from it or it has no reference to you. Should I be boycotting Hanukkah because I'm not Jewish? Should I be boycotting MLK Day because I'm not black? You'd be surprised at how advertised those holidays are in my area. The marketing and decor of a holiday only affects you if you seriously let it. I'd be more lenient on those who recently just got dumped and had their VDay plans screwed over. But to hold a grudge against a holiday you're not obligated to celebrate for years? Let it go.

And for the record, I've been single for years.