Valentines Day Sucks

[lupin]

We all know... <lead up> <some historical fact> <transition sentence>

<pseudo emo/depressing statements> <contradictory statements to keep from appearing one sided> <site some personal experience> <site another persons experience> <transition sentence>

<wild conspiracy theory involving pigs> <justification statement> <recap> and that is why Valentines Day Sucks.

[magunwarrior]

How can you argue with that? :p

[magunwarrior]

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/070212.jpg
Those are some hawt Valentines Day cards though.

[comhcinc]

a little cut and paste.


At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna (modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century and to have been buried on the Flaminian Way, but at different distances from the city. In William of Malmesbury's time what was known to the ancients as the Flaminian Gate of Rome and is now the Porta del Popolo, was called the Gate of St. Valentine. The name seems to have been taken from a small church dedicated to the saint which was in the immediate neighborhood. Of both these St. Valentines some sort of Acta are preserved but they are of relatively late date and of no historical value. Of the third Saint Valentine, who suffered in Africa with a number of companions, nothing further is known.

Saint Valentine's Day

The popular customs associated with Saint Valentine's Day undoubtedly had their origin in a conventional belief generally received in England and France during the Middle Ages, that on 14 February, i.e. half way through the second month of the year, the birds began to pair. Thus in Chaucer's Parliament of Foules we read:

For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne's day
Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate.

For this reason the day was looked upon as specially consecrated to lovers and as a proper occasion for writing love letters and sending lovers' tokens. Both the French and English literatures of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries contain allusions to the practice. Perhaps the earliest to be found is in the 34th and 35th Ballades of the bilingual poet, John Gower, written in French; but Lydgate and Clauvowe supply other examples. Those who chose each other under these circumstances seem to have been called by each other their Valentines. In the Paston Letters, Dame Elizabeth Brews writes thus about a match she hopes to make for her daughter (we modernize the spelling), addressing the favoured suitor:

And, cousin mine, upon Monday is Saint Valentine's Day and every bird chooses himself a mate, and if it like you to come on Thursday night, and make provision that you may abide till then, I trust to God that ye shall speak to my husband and I shall pray that we may bring the matter to a conclusion.

Shortly after the young lady herself wrote a letter to the same man addressing it "Unto my rightwell beloved Valentine, John Paston Esquire". The custom of choosing and sending valentines has of late years fallen into comparative desuetude.

[ariastar]

Saint Valentine's Day

The popular customs associated with Saint Valentine's Day undoubtedly had their origin in a conventional belief generally received in England and France during the Middle Ages, that on 14 February, i.e. half way through the second month of the year, the birds began to pair. Thus in Chaucer's Parliament of Foules we read:

For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne's day
Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate.

For this reason the day was looked upon as specially consecrated to lovers and as a proper occasion for writing love letters and sending lovers' tokens.


So it's kind of a day to hookup and have wild sex. :p Well, I'm not one to disappoint.... ;)


In the Paston Letters, Dame Elizabeth Brews writes thus about a match she hopes to make for her daughter (we modernize the spelling), addressing the favoured suitor:

And, cousin mine, upon Monday is Saint Valentine's Day and every bird chooses himself a mate, and if it like you to come on Thursday night, and make provision that you may abide till then, I trust to God that ye shall speak to my husband and I shall pray that we may bring the matter to a conclusion.


Cousin? Anyone else squeamish? Ick...!

[lupin]

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/070212.jpg
Those are some hawt Valentines Day cards though.

VG Cats FTW almost better then Penny Arcade imho if not.

[comhcinc]

So it's kind of a day to hookup and have wild sex. :p Well, I'm not one to disappoint.... ;) lol this article came off a catholic site




Cousin? Anyone else squeamish? Ick...!

that is the reason the royals are the way they are now. shallow gene pools.

[magunwarrior]

VG Cats FTW almost better then Penny Arcade imho if not.

I prefer Penny-Arcade over VG cats only because they update more frequently, although they haven't been very funny lately.

[ericjosepi]

I would bone Miyamoto

[lsman11]

just got home from work, so this vday, im going to spend playing xbox360, get back into ff12, and watch diggnation latest episode. boom.

[starscream80]

Valentine sucks if you don't have a girlfriend or date.

[ericjosepi]

Valentine sucks if you don't have a girlfriend or date.

It sucks more in a long distance relationship.

[starscream80]

It sucks more in a long distance relationship.

Long distance relationships rarely seem to work.

[ariastar]

Long distance relationships rarely seem to work.

Been there, done that, wouldn't go there again.

[ericjosepi]

Been there, done that, wouldn't go there again.

Am there, working on it, hoping it doesn't go down the shitter.

[ariastar]

Am there, working on it, hoping it doesn't go down the shitter.

How far apart?

[ericjosepi]

Um... 1800 miles and one international border...

No it's not a purely online thing. We met in high school (her dad moves a lot because of his job) and we've been in a relationship since we graduated. It's... interesting.

[ariastar]

Um... 1800 miles and one international border...

No it's not a purely online thing. We met in high school (her dad moves a lot because of his job) and we've been in a relationship since we graduated. It's... interesting.

Ick. A semi-friend of mine (we're losing touch) met his girl online. He is here in California, she is in...Australia. They met in person about three weeks after meeting online. She flew here. It's been two months and they're heading toward marrying.

[ericjosepi]

Ick. A semi-friend of mine (we're losing touch) met his girl online. He is here in California, she is in...Australia. They met in person about three weeks after meeting online. She flew here. It's been two months and they're heading toward marrying.

I suddenly don't feel so bad. At least my girl and I are living in the same day let alone time zone!