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| Thread ID: 123198 | 2012-02-09 22:34:00 | You're Not Really Going To Buy Anything For "Your Valentine" Are You? | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1258387 | 2012-02-09 22:34:00 | Where did the idea of Valentine Day come from? It's a crappy idea so it must have come from America. Where else would such a sentimental soppy idea originate? Actually, the Americans did not think up the idea but they certainly turned it into the soppy day that it is today. Why would you want to buy a helium filled balloon shaped like a heart to give to "your valentine." Or chocolates? Or flowers? Or a card (a Valentine) with a poorly written message? Do you only love and show "your valentine" that you love him/her one day a year? What about the other 364? Apart from being sick and perverse, the only people that really benefit from St Valentine's Day are the retailers who sell all the Valentine "gifts." The Christian bashers, at least, should have nothing to do with the day as it honours the early Christian martyr, St Valentine. Or will they be as hypocritical as they accuse the Christians to be, and participate anyway? What a load of rubbish!:annoyed: |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1258388 | 2012-02-09 22:37:00 | Wasn't Valentine a Saint back in the day, like 1500 years ago? Think it's originally something to do with Christian martyrs back in Roman times, rather than in America, but not sure on how it became a romantic tradition. These days it's just another commercial money-making thing, rather like Easter and Christmas have become. Pretty sure we will be able to blame the commercialization on the yanks though. :p Edit - did you just add that last bit on your post, or am I going blind? :D |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1258389 | 2012-02-09 22:40:00 | Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day,[1][2][3] is a holiday observed on February 14 honoring one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines").[1][3] The day first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. It was first established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD, and was later deleted from the General Roman Calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI. Can't see anything American in that history. That aside, I may buy something, No skin off my nose if its infested with commercialism or christian poison, Neither delusion factors into my day to day activities. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1258390 | 2012-02-09 22:57:00 | Re: You're Not Really Going To Buy Anything For "Your Valentine" Are You? +1 I never buy anything on Valentines Day, never have, hope to never do.:devil |
PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 1258391 | 2012-02-09 23:02:00 | Why would you want to buy a helium filled balloon shaped like a heart to give to "your valentine." Or chocolates? Or flowers? Or a card (a Valentine) with a poorly written message? The Christian bashers, at least, should have nothing to do with the day as it honours the early Christian martyr, St Valentine. Or will they be as hypocritical as they accuse the Christians to be, and participate anyway? Balloon? No. Chocs? Flowers? For those who like that stuff - yes. WHat has Christians got to do with it. Most holidays started off as a pagan festival and then got hijacked and mutated into some Christian thing. Who cares about that? No Valentines day people think of dead religious people. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1258392 | 2012-02-09 23:04:00 | Got no one to buy for, not now :( | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1258393 | 2012-02-09 23:10:00 | Got no one to buy for, not now :( Best way to be, go and get on the piss |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1258394 | 2012-02-09 23:28:00 | The missus would be on a killing spree if I failed to buy something nice but only because she'd feel left out since all her mates would be asking what did he get ya?? Nothing :( :P . I treat it as a nice little day of which I can return the favors expended on me on my birthday (12th) rather than a commercial venture. | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1258395 | 2012-02-09 23:30:00 | WHat has Christians got to do with it. Most holidays started off as a pagan festival and then got hijacked and mutated into some Christian thing. Who cares about that? No Valentines day people think of dead religious people. Perhaps if you read all of my post you will have noticed that it was originally a holiday to honour the Christian martyr, St Valentine. Can't see anything American in that history. Not in the history of the day, but the Americans have made it the crappy, sentimental, commercial day that it is. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1258396 | 2012-02-09 23:52:00 | Best way to be, go and get on the piss That's not quite what I had in mind... I don't drink :p |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
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