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Your complaints about the holiday go here.

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"That Light has bestowed upon me the greatest black magic!"

I'm upset that I missed Purity Day.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

I'm not upset josh missed purity day.

This post has been edited by Gabe on 14th February 2005 17:11

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And have you found your joy, in this near dead world of ours?

Even though I'm in a steady relationship, I still don't care much for Valentine's Day. I don't really need a special day to remember to love my girlfriend, and it just ends up being another excuse to exchange gifts, which I (as a college student) hate. I'm wicked glad that my girlfriend feels the same way, so we agree to just spend the day together, which to me is a gift enough in itself.

Charming weather today, by the way. Way to set the mood, God.

I ChooChooChoose to sit at home imbittered. Thank you valentines day.
I missed purity day and a chance to renew my warnings

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If you've been mod-o-fied,
It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
~Frank Zappa

Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way

um... what's purity day??? and i'm not choosing to but i'm staying home.... single.... without a life..... i'm such a loser....

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~ A Hero Is Someone Who Stands When Their Legs Are Gone~

I never understood Valentine's day. I gave up on that a while ago when I got tired of asking girls out (and for some reason, I'm happier, but it just doesn't fill in that void) but yeah, it's pointless to me. I'm not that bad looking... Who couldn't love the quiet pasty white kid with glasses who'd rather read than play sports???

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Dang. And here I was hoping the next big thing in hip hop would be, y'know, silence. ~Djibriel

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Although I'm technically single right now, I am in love, and Valentine's day has been my excuse to get a little more tender with her.

But I'll always hate Valentine's day because of what it stands for. A celebration of love? F... you. Nobody needs to be reminded just how lonely they feel when they don't have someone to love. Having hundreds of TV ads, banners, posters, and people reminding you just how empty you feel is terrible. Sorry, but life isn't perfect; an eery amount of people are alone on valentine's day, and it outright hurts having a "celebration" driving the point home so vehemently.

God it feels good to rant.


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"Judge not a man by his thoughts and words, but by
the quality and quantity of liquor in his possession
and the likelyhood of him sharing."

Valentines day for me has never been about romantic love because I've never really had a romantic love. I would have liked to have gotten my mom a card and a present this year but my funds did not allow me to. So, instead, we just enjoyed a heart-shaped pepperoni pizza from Papa Murphy's.

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Elena Indurain

Currently Playing: Suikoden II

VD, well it has sucked every year of my life including this one. The only relationship I had during VD was terrible. Now it's just an aggravation to keep my spirits up during it.

(VD- get it.... joke...)

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Get me off this Disciplinary Committee so I can play any FF except for FF8!!!

I never celebrated Valentine's Day even when I had someone to celebrate it with. Just seems like another filler holiday for companies to cash in on. I don't particularly hate it, I just don't really notice it anymore. As forgetful, cheap, and single as I am, that suits me just fine. Yay, you're in love. Go you. Nice to have a day to remind you of that apparently small detail.

And things ain't looking up when you start getting V-Day cards from your lecherous mailman. I'm so not going outside before noon from now on...

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If something can go wrong, it will.

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. - Murphy’s Law

Boing! Zoom! - Mr. Saturn

Silverlance: THAT's a rant?! It's one paragraph and five lines long. You obviously haven't observed my ranting on this board, or haven't remembered it.

SilverFork: "...lecherous mailman"... "Don't let a certain lecherous young king near you!" "LOCKE!!!" (Sorry..., that was just irresistible. )

Anyways, my thoughts on Valentine's Day.

Valentine's Day, pre 2001: blah.
Valentine's Day, 2001: Spent either looking at (if it was an 'A' school day) the first girl I ever took a liking to, or thinking about her (it it was a 'B' day), without knowing what that feeling was.
Valentine's Day, 2002: occured during a week in which the Monday of that week saw that same guy who the previous year had gone out with the first girl I like arrogantly confirming to the entire AP psych class that he was dating the second girl I liked. Didn't send a V-day singing gram to anyone, even though I could and could have found purpose for it.
Valentine's Day, 2003: That 'second girl' I referred to above broke up with that arrogant guy a while back, and then subsequently dated (more accurately 'got dated by') then broke up with another arrogant arsehole more recently. I decide to try my luck, buying her a V-day singing gram. No, she doesn't like me, she likes some not-well-known 11th grader. (This is my and her senior year in high school.)
Valentine's Day, 2004: spent continuing observation trying to find who at my college would be a great companion and girlfriend. Still slowly discovering my tastes.
Valentine's Day, 2005: Wrote my first genuinely written V-day letter to a girl. The word 'love' was not used; the closest I came was 'companionship'. (Of course--this is pretty much a given--out of moral principle, etiquette, and sensibility, nothing even remotely sexual was mentioned.) I stated in the letter that intentionally refused to give flowers or candy, saying that they were too short-lived to represent true companionship. I instead gave three Canadian 5-cent pieces (because they bore the likeness of the beaver, our school's mascot) and an mp3 of 'Wind Man', track 10 of the Rockman Promo Disc (you can find this on http://www.protoman.com/ ). I'll just wait and see how this turns out; I'll most likely run into this person later today in class.

To me, Valentine's Day is a time where people express opposite-sex-attraction-type love. Of course, everything that can be capitalized on is marketed to, so it doesn't come as a surprise that numerous sales and 'special offers' etc. have changed the occasion. However, I personally try to stay away from cookie-cutter/stereotypical behaviors like sending cards or showing up at the girl's door in a tux holding flowers and/or chocolate. (If I were a girl, i wouldn't want to be treated that way either.) I also, if need be, make a point of V-day as being a day to celebrate love, not sex.

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I've never liked this holiday either, but fortunately my girlfriend agrees with me. She chose to come over to my apartment and watch college basketball with me rather than go anywhere or exchange presents. *sniff* I think I've found "the one"

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"Yeah, where I'ma start it at, look I'ma part of that
Downtown Philly where it's realer than a heart attack
It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack
Now it's a body caught every night on the Almanac"

"Game Theory"
The Roots

Ugh...my gf likes to SAY she doesn't care about V-day, but I know better. She always expects something, so I ended up throwing down $40 on flowers and dinner. Yeah..blah.

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

VD.... What does it stand for?

There isn't anything to celebrate that day. The only thing that I find different from others is that I receive some Easter Chocolate (Yay 2 easter days each year ) And watch guys and girls kissing each other in public more then ever...

A good way to steal your money
A date that you can express your feelings? What's the difference if you do it un August? or even October???

Conclude by yourself

This post has been edited by Zodiac on 15th February 2005 23:57

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Sayonara

I never paid it any mind. It's no fun having nobody to celebrate with, so I ended up spending Valentines Day working on my mediocre Japanese skills and playing Fire Emblem.

This post has been edited by Kilakandra_DiMenia on 21st February 2005 16:49

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"No matter what happens, I will always be with you... forever." ---- Pocahontas, Pocahontas

"Only those who are already at the top are rewarded without trying."----- Delita Hyral, Final Fantasy Tactics

http://www.ffshrine.org/fft/fft-midi/1-42-back_fire01.mid ---- My favorite FFT battle song

I'm moot on the subject. While I don't usually give gifts, V-Day does me no harm, and it's nice to see some little events in the local coffee shop and such. This year, all I did was buy a friend a chocolate bar. Jokingly.

Mimic got some action though. When the day comes, the ladies can't resist the Master of the Simulacrum.

Yeah, all right, my mum bought me a danish pastry.

On V-Day, I had a maths test. Yes, a maths test.

But I can't complain, managing to score the highest grade in the class

Now, for V-Day itself... I didn't do much. Nope. I was really too busy with schoolwork to pay it any heed. I don't usually pay attention to it, mainly because I'm too busy studying to be trying (in vain) to attract the opposite sex. So no, V-Day isn't very significant for me.

Edit

200th Post. In a year. Ph33r my slowness.

This post has been edited by MarquisElmdor on 21st February 2005 19:05

Hmmm... Thinking Deep here, I find Valentine's day a bit of a greeting card holiday. Plus it's cruel to those who have no one. Also too many people use it as an excuse to show tenderness, and then ignore their significant other afterwards.

Now, being shallow here, I got Chocolatte and a kickin' necklace from my very devoted boyfriend, so I'm really not complaining about this year.

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I didn't even know it was Valentine's Day until my Mom came home and was like, "Hey, I got you chocolate, what did you get me?"

Oops. =P

Valentine's Day can kiss my peanut butter butt. I never liked it.

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I had a post but it was a long one that went on and on so instead I'll give you the summery. I'm not a romantic person myself so I forgot about Valentines day entirely. I was reminded by somebody else but I didn't really care. It would've passed by entirely unnoticed if it hadn't have been for that reminder which had absolutly no impact on my day. That's it unless you want the long, long version of this which I don't think you do.

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Role reversal at its finest.

I've been single all my life so I've never done anything on Valentine's Day

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