valentine's day sorrow

[vanillagirl85]

I'm probably going to stay home and watch movies. Seriously. The sad thing is, I did have the possibility to go on a date but the guy looked like an ogre. so i declined. but after surfing during work (which i do everday) i found this:

http://www.maximonline.com/slideshows/videos/worstlovescenes.aspx?src=maxim_ed
and i realized that I planned on watching Van Wilder, and that was the least of my problems. does anyone know the scene from Crash with james spader? will you tell me about it? it might make my alone time seem less...i dont knwo...alone?

[speedy king]

Hmmmmm 23 hey.....fancie a toy boy..... :p :

[Quattroporte]

Vanilla you not gonna be the only one spending it alone beleive me! Just get on this site and we'll keep ya company! ;)

[Rollo]

Don't buy into the madness that is this "Holiday"

What a bunch of trite trash it is. Everyone runs around frothing, proclaiming their love and pledging their eternal allegiance to one another. It makes me sick. If someone truly cared about you, I think you'd hear it more often than once a year, presented with a heart shaped cardboard box picked up from Sainsburys at the last minute, filled with cheap chocolates made with oils and lard and a card picked up for £2.95. This will supposedly cover all wrongs and faults in any relationship with one fowl swoop, leaving the giver allieved of all sins committed within the past year. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a single young bloke bent on giving grief to everyone else in this world. I'm a stark realist. I want someone to tell me if I'm loved of their own volition, not because some fabricated greeting card holiday sponsored by Hallmark compels them.

The only St Valentine happens to have the last name of Rossi, and he rides a high-horsepower crotch rocket. Go the 46!

[Erki]

The sad thing is, I did have the possibility to go on a date but the guy looked like an ogre. so i declined.

Thank you. :) :p :

[Hotbikerchic33]

Just to piss you all off, i am going to have a lovely valentines day with my the guy of my dreams ( my boyfriend Mark ) he is taking me out for a romantic Meal tomorrow night in our favourite Restaurant and as a present he has bought me the mobile phone i have been after for ages! :)

[Woodeye]

Just to piss you all off, i am going to have a lovely valentines day with my the guy of my dreams ( my boyfriend Mark ) he is taking me out for a romantic Meal tomorrow night in our favourite Restaurant and as a present he has bought me the mobile phone i have been after for ages! :)

Yack. I got a sugar overdose. :z

[Hotbikerchic33]

Yack. I got a sugar overdose. :z

Oh Bless you ;)
Sorry but love is Grand! :love: :heart: :love:

[millencolin]

pfft... im planning the best valentines day ever

im eating indian takeaway drinking corona watching super troopers by myself...


yay

[Donney]

No plans at all for the 14th but I frankly agree with Rollo. I don't mind people enjoying this day, however it is not made for me.

[Hotbikerchic33]

I think most singles hate valentines day as it reminds them what they are single plus although i love it i do find its pushed down your throat abit to much these days!! its all about the flowers/cards shops making money out of people!! :(


But i do love the day even more so this year as i have someone special to share it with!! ;) :) :D

[LotusElise]

Many single people aren't "looking for anybody", myself included, and merely resent the pressure put on them by others to pair up.

[Daniel]

Making money? Hell no!

The local florists got a call from me because the flowers that they delivered for Caroline were crap. So they had to send someone out to pick up the crap flowers and deliver the new ones. Making money off me? I don't think so :p

I'm not going to buy some stupid card to tell my special one that I love her. We might go out and have a meal but I don't really believe in the silly commercial side of balloons and overpriced and rather tacky roses.

I say live and let live but I don't get how people are pressured to get together. This is only my 3rd Valentines day of actually being with someone and I've never really felt pressured to be with someone because it's Valentines day.

[LotusElise]

It's not just on V-day. And I really do think it's more of a "girl thing".
I try not to read women's magazines, but they are more full than usual of "how to get and keep a man" rubbish at this time of year. Every other advert and spam mail I come across online is for some sort of "dating" (bleurgh!) service.
In the last month alone, two good friends who really should know better have interrogated me about why "I haven't got anyone special in my life" - as if my friends and family who are both special and in my life don't count.
It's as if all the other stuff I DO do doesn't count sometimes. I have a decent job, a growing website and more importantly my university applications to worry about; why would I want to want to waste my time and money on speed dating?
Okay, rant over. Sorry for the length and that, but thanks for giving me the opportunity to vent, Daniel. ;-)

[Gannex]

I'm a romantic kind of a guy, so I'm going to give my wife an extra special day on the 14th: I'm going to beat her only once, gamble less of our weekly income than I normally would, drink just one bottle of whisky, and fart only after dinner. She's going to love me for it!!!

[Hotbikerchic33]

It's not just on V-day. And I really do think it's more of a "girl thing".
I try not to read women's magazines, but they are more full than usual of "how to get and keep a man" rubbish at this time of year. Every other advert and spam mail I come across online is for some sort of "dating" (bleurgh!) service.
In the last month alone, two good friends who really should know better have interrogated me about why "I haven't got anyone special in my life" - as if my friends and family who are both special and in my life don't count.
It's as if all the other stuff I DO do doesn't count sometimes. I have a decent job, a growing website and more importantly my university applications to worry about; why would I want to want to waste my time and money on speed dating?
Okay, rant over. Sorry for the length and that, but thanks for giving me the opportunity to vent, Daniel. ;-)

No its not just a girl thing! my boyfriend Mark loves Valentines day!! ;)

[Daniel]

Has it occurred to you that no one particularly cares about your boyfriend and his opinion on Valentines day? It's people like you who seem intent on rubbing "it" into other people's faces which is what seems to actually get up people's noses and not being who are a little bit more lovey dovey than normal.

[btracer]

To be honest I agree with Rollo, it is over hyped and you do feel pressured to do something. Luckily my girlfriend is more understanding and says she doesn't expect anything. I'm still taking her out but because I want to, not because I feel I have to. Which i think is right :p :

[Daniel]

It's not just on V-day. And I really do think it's more of a "girl thing".
I try not to read women's magazines, but they are more full than usual of "how to get and keep a man" rubbish at this time of year. Every other advert and spam mail I come across online is for some sort of "dating" (bleurgh!) service.
In the last month alone, two good friends who really should know better have interrogated me about why "I haven't got anyone special in my life" - as if my friends and family who are both special and in my life don't count.
It's as if all the other stuff I DO do doesn't count sometimes. I have a decent job, a growing website and more importantly my university applications to worry about; why would I want to want to waste my time and money on speed dating?
Okay, rant over. Sorry for the length and that, but thanks for giving me the opportunity to vent, Daniel. ;-)

Well that's the problem with society these days. It's seen as very important to have someone or in fact anyone. In all this people seem to forget that it's more important to find the right person and stick with them. All too often people take the first person that comes along and stick with them even though they don't like them or keep jumping ship when there's a better offer.

It's people like that which really get on my nerves. That and the girl I work with who keeps going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about her frigging wedding and is stupid enough to be going out on thursday to buy £1000 worth of newspapers so she can win some competition to have her wedding paid for. Perhaps it's the evil Daniel talking but I hope she loses this competition just to teach her a lesson. I've never seen why people go soooooo overboard on a wedding when it's only 1 day of their life together and the money could be spent in so many more exciting and better ways.

My rant's bigger than yours ;)

[LotusElise]

Oooh, don't get me started on wedding bores!
I went through something similar with one of my friends two years ago, although she never went to ridiculous lengths like entering newspaper competitions.
Don't worry, it will pass. If she has any decency she'll be embarrassed about her behaviour afterwards. Thankfully, friend and I laugh about her wedding and hen night tantrums now.
You have my sympathy though.

[Erki]

It's your luck that I don't know how to put my feelings into words, otherwise you would see the mother of all rants...

[Drew]

I shall be drinking my sorrows away :devil:

[Hotbikerchic33]

Has it occurred to you that no one particularly cares about your boyfriend and his opinion on Valentines day? It's people like you who seem intent on rubbing "it" into other people's faces which is what seems to actually get up people's noses and not being who are a little bit more lovey dovey than normal.

No need to get on your high horse Daniel ;)
Just cos your spending tomorrow on your own doesnt mean you have to be nasty to the ones who aren't! :p

[slinkster]

It's hyped... of course, just like everything else trying to drain money out of everyone.. but it doesn't have to be. If people like it fair play to them, if you don't then stop whining about it and treat it like another day like the rest of us.

I won't be doing anything "special"... I think I'm having a meal cooked for me and having a cosy night in together. I've had one valentines day when I was spoilt rotten and it was all very nice.. but I wouldn't expect that every year. It's no big deal.

[Daniel]

No need to get on your high horse Daniel ;)
Just cos your spending tomorrow on your own doesnt mean you have to be nasty to the ones who aren't! :p
:laugh:

No need to get on your high horse hotbikerchic33
;)
Just cos your spending tomorrow in a donkey stable eating chicken and sweet corn soup while juggling salt and pepper wings from the local chinese mean you have to be nasty to the ones who aren't! :p :

Don't make assumptions woman. It makes you look like an ass.

[AndySpeed]

I shall probably go to the college bar for one of those 'traffic light things' where you get a ribbon if you're taken (red), not sure (orange) and single (green).

Should be a good, although it's not going to be a heavy drinking night, just an opportunity to socialise... :D

[Daniel]

Not sure? :laugh:

[Erki]

Not sure? :laugh:

It's college. :)

[Hotbikerchic33]

I wasn't be nasty to you Daniel far from it! :)
its obviously you dont like Valetines day so dont spoil it for those of us who do! ;)

If you have a hatred for Valentines day why post on a thread which is all about it?? :confused:

[Daniel]

I never said I hated Valentines day.

Don't assume. It makes you look like an ass.

[LeonBrooke]

Lucky me :s

I'm spending Valentine's day assessing the health of an older person! I'm bringing my stethoscope to university and preparing some history-taking questions... :dozey:

[Ian McC]

I'm a romantic kind of a guy, so I'm going to give my wife an extra special day on the 14th: I'm going to beat her only once, gamble less of our weekly income than I normally would, drink just one bottle of whisky, and fart only after dinner. She's going to love me for it!!!

:s hock:

Just when I thought you couldn't get any worse you post this! Your padded cell in the Oily Oaf Wing awaits!

[Drew]

I shall probably go to the college bar for one of those 'traffic light things' where you get a ribbon if you're taken (red), not sure (orange) and single (green).

Should be a good, although it's not going to be a heavy drinking night, just an opportunity to socialise... :D

Yes we have that thing here too, although I've never understood whether it was the gay night or not..

[harvick#1]

I'm spending V-day at work for about 10 hours. but I don't celebrate Hallmark holidays

[tinchote]

I think most singles hate valentines day as it reminds them what they are single plus although i love it i do find its pushed down your throat abit to much these days!! its all about the flowers/cards shops making money out of people!! :(



Precisely because of that you mention, is that Valentines is a very silly day. If you love someone, you don't need chain-stores to tell you when to celebrate it.

For the record: I hate Valentines and I think it's the silliest holiday ever.

For the record 2: I'm on the 12th year of the most wonderful romantic relationship anyone could long for. And God providing we'll enjoy it for a few decades more. The celebration is every day, and we don't need silly heart-shaped chocolate; we'd rather spend the same amount of money buying a greater amount of regular chocolate :D


Rollo: :up:

[lilmelvschilton]

am 17 free and still single on valentines day

what has the world come to ?

[jim mcglinchey]

I got her a nice little present for V day, attachments for the hoover for doing down the sides of the settee and for the stairs, cause we lost the originals years ago......and they try to tell you that romance is dead!

[Gannex]

I'm on the 12th year of the most wonderful romantic relationship anyone could long for. And God providing we'll enjoy it for a few decades more.
But what if your wife finds out?

[tinchote]

But what if your wife finds out?

:rotflmao:

[dwf1]

am 17 free and still single on valentines day

what has the world come to ?

and looking on your profile with the pic u shouldnt be single but thaty another thing...:P


anyone having fun today?

[SEATFreak]

I am 30, I have never had a girl, I do not have any particularly great reason to be popular with girls (I am not attractive, wealthy, intelligent, succesfull, tall, fit, tanned, cool, etc.) and I certainly cannot chatup or laugh birds from the trees. And I am not that well endowed either.

Please, people who are in relationships, give me one reason why I shouldn't be upset and angry by the huge forest of heart-shaped baloons, masssive gold embossed £8 V*******e cards as big as your house and big fluffy teddies I am met with every time I go into a shop?

I am not asking for V*******es Day to be axed. Just be a little more discreet to spare sad, lonely singletons like me from feeling that little less depressed about our situation.

[SEATFreak]

am 17 free and still single on valentines day

Are you a girl? If not my hopes are rather dashed.

[SEATFreak]

I am 30, I have never had a girl, I do not have any particularly great reason to be popular with girls (I am not attractive, wealthy, intelligent, succesfull, tall, fit, tanned, cool, etc.) and I certainly cannot chatup or laugh birds from the trees. And I am not that well endowed either. I do not even know how to socialise.

Please, people who are in relationships, give me one reason why I shouldn't be upset and angry by the huge forest of heart-shaped baloons, masssive gold embossed £8 cards as big as your house and big fluffy teddies I am met with every time I go into a shop?

I am not asking for V*******es Day to be axed. Just be a little more discreet to spare sad, lonely singletons like me from feeling that little less depressed about our situation.

[dwf1]

hey mate sorta da same with me i have had a couple of girls but cant chat up girls for the life of me! anyone have any ideas how to?

[LotusElise]

Desperation is the biggest turn-off ever. Forget "chatting girls up" and just get to know them as people. Also, don't take it personally or push the issue when someone doesn't fancy you, be polite and move on.
Relationships for the sake of having a relationship are WAY overrated anyway.

[J4MIE]

Tesco flower deliveries have been very successful today... 90% of them were delivered and the rest are either early or late. Fantastic service :up: :p :

[jso1985]

am 17 free and still single on valentines day

what has the world come to ?

well hello over there, how you doin'? ;)

[RaikkonenRules]

Toady I got a rose from a boy who was tryin to be funny and two cards from 'secret admirarers' :)

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Toady I got a rose from a boy who was tryin to be funny

stop living in denial RR.

[RaikkonenRules]

I could say the same about you :p :

[Brown, Jon Brow]

I could say the same about you :p :

Curses!! I didn't expect that response :dozey:

[harvick#1]

RR was it a mandatory School thing that everyone had to have a Valentine :p :

[LeonBrooke]

Desperation is the biggest turn-off ever. Forget "chatting girls up" and just get to know them as people. Also, don't take it personally or push the issue when someone doesn't fancy you, be polite and move on.
Relationships for the sake of having a relationship are WAY overrated anyway.

Why don't women try to "chat guys up"?

[dwf1]

Why don't women try to "chat guys up"?

Thats a great question which i dont know the answer to....

[Erki]

Why don't women try to "chat guys up"?

Because they have their own boobs. :)

[Azumanga Davo]

Sorry but love is Grand! :love: :heart: :love:

Yes, but how many grand normally? Seems pretty pricy... ;) :D

[SEATFreak]

Why don't women try to "chat guys up"?

Excellent question.

If women are, in this more gender-equality orientated world, more than capable of taking the reins of corporate management with all the ressponsibilities and pressures of it when men are still considered largely the leaders in that field, why can they not take the initiative when it comes to striking up relationships when that too is a field that men are considered the leaders in it?

There is, in my view, absolutely nothing wrong or strange in role reversal.

[Hazell B]

There is, in my view, absolutely nothing wrong or strange in role reversal.

You've obviously never had to try cleaning a toilet seat after a woman's tried peeing whilst standing up :rolleyes:

We do chat men up. You're just either too drunk or too stupid to notice half the time :p :

[Erki]

You've obviously never had to try cleaning a toilet seat after a woman's tried peeing whilst standing up :rolleyes:

Why would anyone want to piss while standing if they can sit down? :confused:


We do chat men up. You're just either too drunk or too stupid to notice half the time :p :

Wait, are you trying to chat me up here? :confused:


So many questions, so few answers. :(

[MrJan]

Spent it on me own watching the football. Not as good as getting some action but it was a pretty bloody good game so made it a close second :D

Bloke at work spent £6 on a rose and £65 on a necklace that wasn't even that fancy. To be honest he could have just taken his girlfriend out for a meal and got her something a bit more personal for less money and more than likely she would have appreciated it more than the hollow gesture of getting the same old overpriced crap on Valentine's day.

[Bebee]

Why don't women try to "chat guys up"?

The weird thing is that there are many more women on the planet than there are blokes. So, theoretically speaking, men should have a huge range to choose from!

Personally, I've found that if I go out looking for someone - I don't find anyone. However, when I'm single, and happy with everything... quite a few guys come up. Weird. :s

SEATFreak, I've found that guys who look "eligible" from the outside are the most boring and utterly useless blokes on the face of the planet.

For the record, I do "chat guys up" who I have a thing for.

[LeonBrooke]

Because they have their own boobs.

Just sometimes, Erki, you really... :o :erm: :uhoh:


We do chat men up. You're just either too drunk or too stupid to notice half the time

Oh darn it. That explains everything! ;)


The weird thing is that there are many more women on the planet than there are blokes. So, theoretically speaking, men should have a huge range to choose from!

Personally, I've found that if I go out looking for someone - I don't find anyone. However, when I'm single, and happy with everything... quite a few guys come up. Weird.

SEATFreak, I've found that guys who look "eligible" from the outside are the most boring and utterly useless blokes on the face of the planet.

For the record, I do "chat guys up" who I have a thing for.

I think there's a huge factor of not wanting what you can get and not being able to get what you want. Whenever I'm talking to a fellow male and I tell them that I'm in a class with about six other guys and about seventy three women, their response is "sweet", but I'm interested in just about every other woman around instead... :confused:

[Bebee]

I think there's a huge factor of not wanting what you can get and not being able to get what you want. Whenever I'm talking to a fellow male and I tell them that I'm in a class with about six other guys and about seventy three women, their response is "sweet", but I'm interested in just about every other woman around instead... :confused:

That's quite true...

[LeonBrooke]

That's quite true...

Why are we humans so flawed??

[SEATFreak]

We do chat men up. You're just either too drunk or too stupid to notice half the time :p :

I like to think the former. I am used to being stupid and as a boring tee-totaller who is not into the cluture of the rave or disco I have always wanted to know what it is like to get drunk and have one of them hangovers. Must be cool when you condider the lifestyle alcoholics lead. Fantastic social life and everyone gets on well with them.

I have no doubt girls can and do chat up blokes. It is just I feel perhaps still not as much as the number of blokes chatting up girls.

A very large part striking up a relationship appears not chatting up but a natural attraction. Beebee seems one from her post. I cannot even get a girl to look my way and smile. What would people recommend I do to get a girl to look my way and get her to smile?

[Bebee]

At first glance, probably positive body language and confidence. That has to come from within yourself. :)

[vanillagirl85]

At first glance, probably positive body language and confidence. That has to come from within yourself. :)

and an amazing body ;)

no but seriously: i ended up eating heart shaped cupcakes and drinking champagne with a few of my female friends, just to let everyone know. we didn't make it to the movies; we were too sloshed by the end of the night. absolutely not sexy time for me :(

[oily oaf]

I like to think the former. I am used to being stupid and as a boring tee-totaller who is not into the cluture of the rave or disco I have always wanted to know what it is like to get drunk and have one of them hangovers. Must be cool when you condider the lifestyle alcoholics lead. Fantastic social life and everyone gets on well with them.

I have no doubt girls can and do chat up blokes. It is just I feel perhaps still not as much as the number of blokes chatting up girls.

A very large part striking up a relationship appears not chatting up but a natural attraction. Beebee seems one from her post. I cannot even get a girl to look my way and smile. What would people recommend I do to get a girl to look my way and get her to smile?

Speaking personally I always revert to that the old tried and trusted ruse of placing a novelty condom on my little soldier and then whenever there is one of those nasty awkward silences I simply whip out the old custard rifle, wave it about a bit and then shout in the young ladiy's face "Ow dya like them onions missus!"
Never fails chief. You'll have 'em eating out of your hand. Trust me.

Thank me later.

Yours faithfully
Marvin Breastimplant
Secure Unit
The Arsebishop Desmond Tutu Maximum Security Chokey For Persistant Sex Beasts.
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[Norwegian Blue]

I was out on the streets on the 14th...and i have just one question...

Guys, do you really think a hot date to KFC on valentines night is gonna make your relationship strong and ever lasting? (and yes there was a huge queue of couples down the street!)

[dwf1]

I was out on the streets on the 14th...and i have just one question...

Guys, do you really think a hot date to KFC on valentines night is gonna make your relationship strong and ever lasting? (and yes there was a huge queue of couples down the street!)

I wouldnt take my date to KFc...id take her top a nice restaurant and treat her like a princess.....i know thats what everyone says ...lol

[Brown, Jon Brow]

KFC is far too expensive. I'd just feed them on spaggetti hoops on toast.