“just in case you somehow over looked it, you’re ugly and unloved” day strikes again.
yippee.
will be drinking.
we dont celebrate valentines over here in Austria.
HARRHARRHARRR!!!
dodgy
BornDodgy, 
lucky
Hey, you people are dissing the best holiday of all, Totoro’s Birthday Eve!
I love V-Day because my beautiful kids always make me something 
And I spoil the shit out of them too (and I have a good excuse without people telling me I am overindulgent!!!)
I used to share the same feelings about Valentine’s Day everyone else here has expressed. But this year, my opinion has changed. Being a teenager, I am probably horribly deluded, but finally I believe I have someone to share that special day with me.
When I am single and alone again (which I hope is not soon) I will undoubtably revert back to my original “I hate Valentine’s Day” personality. But for know, I enjoy celebrating love and everything it’s done for my life. Ah, the joys of being a teenager in love!
I quit giving V-day any notice after I got out of elementary school until I had to buy the same cheesy boxed cards for my kid to take to HER elementary school. Neither hubby nor I pay it any mind, and every time one of those inane diamond commercials come on TV, I tell him not to buy me any.
'course, if some chocolates mysteriously appeared, I’d not shun them…
I’m such a whore for chocolate…
Watch it, Dodgy - before you know it, they’ll sneak it in the back door. I’ve seen the writing on the wall here in Germany - florists, jewelers & restaurants in an unholy alliance to either get their paws on our money or at the very least make us feel unloved & ugly. Fight it.
S. Norman
Oh yeah, how’d you like to have your ex parade around his new gifrlfriend for you right around the oh so marvelous Valentine’s Day? Yeah, it’s like having my heart torn out on a daily basis, I think pretty soon I’ll just give up on the idea that I’m worth loving and go crawl into a corner somewhere to cry. Wait, nevermind, I’ve already done that, does abyone have some nice hard liquor they’d like to share with me, please?
Kitty
Just a little something I preformed for my drama class that I thought all of you might like…
Have you ever been in love?
Horrible isn’t it?
It makes you so vulnerable,
It opens up your chest
And it opens your heart,
And it means someone can get inside you
And mess you up.
You build up all this defenses
You build up this armor,
For years, so nothing can hurt you.
And then one day, some stupid person
No different from any other stupid person
Walks into your stupid life.
And you give them a piece of you
They don’t ask for it
They do something dumb one day
Like kiss you, or smile at you
And your life isn’t your own anymore.
Love takes hostages, it gets inside you
And eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness
So that a simple phrase like
“Maybe we should just be friends”
Or “How very perceptive”
Turns into a glass splinter
Working its way into your heart.
It hurts
Not just in the imagination
Not just in the mind
It’s a soul hurt
It’s a body hurt
It’s a deep down gets-inside-you-rips-you-apart pain
I hate love
Kitty
Awww!!! {{{Kitty}}}
HEAR HEAR! Finally, a declaration I can agree with.
To quote a famous band: “Love Stinks”
Tripler
It’s sooo much easier being a cold mechanized logical droid.
I LOVE that monologue Kitty, it is soooo my sentiment.
A holiday for all the people out there who are in love…Why do they get a holiday?? What did they ever do for anyone else?? If they get one, then we should get one on Feb 15th - “Bitter, unloved, and rejected Day” - A day that the ALCOHOL companies can capitalize like HELL off of. Then Feb 16th can be “Hangover Day.” Ahhhh…but alas, that is only in a perfect world. Perhaps I should start a petition…
Count me in. But what would we call it? “Singles Day”?
Tripler
Ooh, wait, “Anti-Couples Day!”
The only thing more pathetic than Valentines Day is people who are genuinely depressed because they are alone on that day. Oh, I forgot. One more item of pathos. Women who are disappointed because their man didn’t do enough for them. After all, it’s Valentines Day. Maybe it should be called Hallmark guilt day.
Oh, I’m SO sorry, kevja. Forgive me for being bitter because out of 25 years, I’ve been alone on V-day for 24 of them. If I wanna feel depressed, I can, dammit. You don’t like it, go read another thread.
Now then. Just a Girl? Sign me up on that petition. Bacardi’s is gonna be REAL happy after me on V-day…
I’m in on this Thread O’ Bitterness!
For reference, please see this thread.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=57870
Here is my Poem O’ Bitterness-
I give you a dish,
of love and acceptance.
You give me a dish,
and tell me it’s the same.
It’s full of hate, and anger and remorse.
My love, you have poisoned me.
To put it plainly- my heart was not broken, but the terms of it’s warranty were violated.
Oh, and Falcon- I have you beat! Looks like it will be 31 for 31 this year.
Damn you, Wonko!!!
shakes fist in air DAMN YOU!!!
I also dislike Valentine’s Day. For the usual reasons.
I will be spending my special holiday time with Sheila. She’s part border collie and part Australian shepherd.
By the way, Fairy Princess Kitty, great poem. You are worthy of being loved – even before you wrote the poem. Don’t cry!
I like “St. Valentine’s Massacre Day,” myself. Have we any other alternate holidays?
Shame on you, kevja.
A petition it is then…
I’m hijacking my own thread (hell, it’s my thread…I’m allowed 
)
I still want everyone to be able to bitch and moan as they please…because, let’s face it, that’s the beauty of an Anti-Valentine’s Day thread…but let’s have the offical Straight Dope Petition for the Anti-Valentine’s Holiday on Feb 15th…
To sign the petition - Just state that and put your name (SD name or real, doesn’t matter) in astricks…like so:
Just A Girl
And hell, while we’re at it…come up with a really creative name for it…after all - it’s our holiday!!