# The Anti-Valentine's Day Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2001, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645 "2001-02-01T01:46:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/41 "2001-02-05T05:31:36Z")
_Falcon_ ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/42 "2001-02-05T05:42:23Z")
Romance is highly overrated. My suggestion: on the 14th, do something nice for yourself instead of sitting around crying in your beer. You’ll feel better the next day. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/43 "2001-02-05T07:39:57Z")
_JBirdman12_ And I’ll go one better. Want a drink? Great. Everyone here is on my tab. Relax. Go nuts. Tell the bartender Jay’s paying. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/44 "2001-02-05T12:15:13Z")
Well, I don’t know about you guys, but _I’m_ spending V-day with a bunch of good friends. You guys are just a bunch of sore losers. I’m hanging out with Sammy, Bud, Miller, Jack (and his old Granddad), “Yukon” Jack, John the guy in the kilt, and Jim with his pet wild turkey. Tripler One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer. ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/45 "2001-02-05T13:23:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by anya marie \* > \*\*Damn the Man! Damn Valentines Day!! A curse on cards and candy in red and pnk wrappers!! Another curse on roses in any color!! And the biggest curse of all on jewelry stores for airing retarded ads thatt make women look like diamond crazed whores!!! \*\* Say yeah! My SO & I have decided it’s a silly manipulative holiday, so we ignore it. _Carina_ ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/46 "2001-02-06T03:40:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Geobabe \* > \*\*Romance is highly overrated. My suggestion: on the 14th, do something nice for yourself instead of sitting around crying in your beer. You’ll feel better the next day. \*\* More importantly, your beer will taste better! ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/47 "2001-02-06T19:02:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tripler \* > \*\*I’m hanging out with Sammy, Bud, Miller, Jack (and his old Granddad), “Yukon” Jack, John the guy in the kilt, and Jim with his pet wild turkey. > Tripler > One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer. \*\* My next payday falls on the friday after valentines. i think i shall blow my check on toys for me or something. Or i could just get drunk… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/48 "2001-02-06T21:27:01Z")
_Sunspace_ Sign me up on the Anti-Valentines-Day petition. 14 Feb? It’ll be Wednesday. I’ll be at work. :yawn: Unless I get lucky\*. \*Win the lottery or get a new job, of course. What did you think? ---
**Author:** ![Adolph\_Peewee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Adolph\_Peewee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adolph_Peewee)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2001, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/49 "2001-02-07T05:19:57Z")
YAY…other people in this world agree! it’s getting like everything now. Christmas and easter are just WAY too commercialised! as for V-Day. Why wait a whole year to but someone mushy flowers or chocolates,or profess your love for someone, when you can do it any old day, and save yourself a bucket of money. Any other time of the year, roses cost me about $10 a dozen. Come V-day…the price jumps up to about $45/dozen. \*\* I smell a conspiracy\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2001, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/50 "2001-02-07T06:28:12Z")
Even if I was involved with somebody right now, I’d tell her, “The way to my heart is through my liver. You’ll make me a lot happier with something from the liquor store than with anything bearing a Hallmark logo.” After all, it’s the thought that counts, right? Anyway, I’m thinking a row of southern hurricanes would be just dandy. The bottom line is, I’m not just a bitter anti-romantic, but I’m also an alcoholic at heart. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2001, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/51 "2001-02-07T06:49:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Screw Hallmark. Screw pink and red. Screw Russel Stover and Whitman’s. Screw Hershey’s and Brach’s. Screw them all for capitalizing off of an emotion that so many people don’t have the gift of sharing. \*\* Who doesn’t have love to share? Marc ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2001, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/52 "2001-02-07T17:14:39Z")
I have plenty of love to share. Unfortunately, no one wants to share it with me! And JBird…what’s a southern hurricane? ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/53 "2001-02-08T02:56:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Falcon \* > \*\*JBird…what’s a southern hurricane? \*\* It is, without question, my favorite mixed drink. Part Southern Comfort, part Grenadine, part 7up. When my latest gal friday shows me the doormat, this is what I order when I pony up to the bar (usually the Stone Cellar in Ellicott City, where my band Static Automatic has become a weekly fixture lately). ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/54 "2001-02-08T04:49:41Z")
_Duke_ As part of my own celebration Anti-Valentine’s Day, I’m going along with my parents this coming weekend to visit relatives, including my two cousins (and good friends) Shelli and Sheri. Shelli’s husband left her last year. Sheri’s husband left her last year. My wife left me last year. February 14 is going to be real fun in our family this year. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/55 "2001-02-08T04:58:08Z")
Adults can simply ignore it. I do. No need to piss and fulminate, just disengage. For my wife & me it’s as though it doesn’t exist. No harm, no foul. We’re happier that way. BUT . . . **FairyChatMom** hit the nail on the head. Kids in school don’t have the luxury of ignoring it. They’re dragooned into it willy-nilly. Who cares if they’re non-Christian? Cough up the cards, you brats, or suffer eternal social damnation! Why do they have to put kids through this? We’re not Christian, all right? Don’t make my kids celebrate a feastday off of the Church calendar. In a public school! What’s next, St. Lucy’s day? Everybody bring eyeballs on a plate? ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/56 "2001-02-08T05:03:57Z")
Just A Girl… will you marry me this coming Valentines Day!!! Would you do me… ahh… the honor?? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_A\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@Just\_A\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_A_Girl)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/57 "2001-02-08T22:38:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MGibson \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\* > > Screw Hallmark. Screw pink and red. Screw Russel Stover and Whitman’s. Screw Hershey’s and Brach’s. Screw them all for capitalizing off of an emotion that so many people don’t have the gift of sharing. > > \*\* > > Who doesn’t have love to share? > > Marc \*\* Ok, perhaps I should’ve specified. The gift of “romantic love.” i.e. those who do not have an S.O. Because frankly, I don’t think Valentine’s Day was created to share with your dad or something. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_A\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@Just\_A\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_A_Girl)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/58 "2001-02-08T22:46:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Whammo \* > \*\*Just A Girl… will you marry me this coming Valentines Day!!! Would you do me… ahh… the honor?? \*\* I never imagined my marriage proposal to contain a masked sexual proposition. Woo hoo! 😃 However that would completely go against my anti-valentine’s Day sentiments. Come back February 15th and we’ll talk. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![OneDollarWilliam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/fbc32d/32.png) [@OneDollarWilliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneDollarWilliam)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2001, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/59 "2001-02-09T20:04:56Z")
Ok, so since 1. I feel the strange compulsion to post to every single forum I read, and 2.Valentine’s Day has been brought to my direct attention (instead of merely passing me by per usuall). I am going to endavor to create Un’V-Day cards. Like: Roses are red Violets are blue But, I didn’t get none so leave me alone. PS- If you want it to rhyme write your own damn card. Or, On this VERY SPECIAL DAY I think to Myself of all the people who are so SPECIAL to me. Thank you [www.nastysluts.com](http://www.nastysluts.com) for all the SPECIAL times we’ve had. Or, To my LOVE, I thought perhaps that we’d spend this day having a picnic, or eating a romantic dinner. But instead, I’ll be serving out my multiple life sentences. Ah well, maybe next year. LOVE, Your Stalker Was that last one a little over the top? OneDollarWilliam ---
**Author:** ![Intriguing\_Question\_Mark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ee59a6/32.png) [@Intriguing\_Question\_Mark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intriguing_Question_Mark)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645/60 "2001-02-10T19:38:34Z")
Hey Just A Girl, call me! I can’t find your number, but I know I’m in your cell phone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-valentines-day-thread/52645.md?page=4)