On St. Valentine's Day I forgot...

[tye ]

To buy my girl a present

 16/7%

To get a card for my girl

 19/8%

To give my girl flowers

 17/7%

To do something terribly impractical and romantic for my girl

 67/29%

Where I left my partner

 56/24%

How much my boy hates this holiday

 15/6%

To get someone their birthday gift

 41/18%

231 total votes

[BUU]

Wheres the option "To get a girl"?

[Koosemose]

Yes, definetely need an option along the lines of "To Get a Girl" as BUU said... ((heh bloody errr singlist poll *G*))

On the other hand, I voted "Where I left my partner" as a substitute.

[tye]

On the other hand, I voted "Where I left my partner" as a substitute.

Substitute? That was the primary purpose of that choice. A poll on a geek site that doesn't take boys with no girl into account? That's like the primary audience.

"To Get a Girl" ... ((heh bloody errr singlist poll *G*))

What? You don't want to account for girls with no boy? Or perhaps you wanted to strand them in a separate category? I thought I'd be nice and let y'all at least comingle in a category.

[flyingmoose]

substitute?

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south
And now you dare to look me in the eye
Those crocodile tears are what you cry
It's a genuine problem, you won't try
To work it out at all you just pass it by, pass it by

(this has been your irrelevant "The Who" lyric insertion of the day....carry on now...)

[parkprimus]

Ya !!!

[Skeeve]

where is the option: about St. Valentine's Day?

It's an american holiday Germany never had. Just when the florists found out about it, it became publicly known here. And I hate commercial holidays. So I refuse to do anything special on that day.

[valdez]

It's an italian tradition, see Saint Valentine Day Tradition; the commercial speculation is another story...

http://www.bellaumbria.net/Terni/St_Valentine.htm

[Skeeve]

Italian? Couldn't find a proof for that on the page you mentioned. Instead i found:

> But the fame which San Valentine all over the world is due to the legend which originated in the anglo-saxon countries

So not necessarily America, but also (e.g.) England. But to my knowledge Italy is not anglo-saxon ;-)

[allolex]

Ah, busy improving the reputation of German men vis-à-vis romance, I see. ;)

Valentine's day is not an American holiday per se, but I'm sure Americans have influenced how it is celebrated in Germany.

[Skeeve]

Romance? What's that? Do I *have* to know that? Sounds italian to me. But then "vis-à-vis" sounds very french.

Do you know that you're confusing me!?

;-)

[tye]

And your girl let's you get away with that excuse?? Inconceivable!!

[greenFox]

Inconceivable!!

You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

[Skeeve]

She has no choice as we are married in the 9th year now. ;-)

[MADuran]

Strictly Speaking Feb 14 is the Catholic Church Feast day of St Valentine of Rome who was put in prison and died there for performing marrage rituals for solders in the Roman Legons (Against the order of the emperor who felt single men fought better).

It was promoted by the Catholic Church as a clean wholesome subsitute for the Veneralia, a Feast to Venus, which got quite kinky, Or was it the Roman fertility goddess Juno's Feast day, I beleive it is a debated topic.

I really have too much time on my hands

[makar]

I was sitting around playing Gamecube at about 11:30 at night Valentine's Day when I realized it was indeed Valentine's Day. I made a rush call to my significant other.

Fortunately for my person, I've a very understanding girlfriend ^_^.

[Moriarty]

Is there any option for multiple answers? I didn't buy a gift, flowers, a card or do anything impractical or romantic (although we did go out for dinner :-).

[karisma]

There are no options for a girl with a boy who doesn't hate valentine's day!

[tye]

No, there are no options for a girl who remembers how much her boy hates Valentine's Day. You could have forgotten that "how much" is "none". But it really just means that he is a good actor.

Don't make me copy /.'s "Don't complain about lack of options" disclaimer. I hate disclaimers. q-:

[tbone1]

[snowsmann]

i agree that there should deffinitly be an option for getting a girl, as most people in here need that one...but me for one, i sorta have a girl..heh, i gave her a burned cd and visited her at her work even though she hates this day...odd situation, i(the guy) like this holiday, where as my girl hates it, oh well, life is strange...

[BzBeauty]

where's the option that I forgot... that it was Valentine's and went diving

[Anonymous Monk]

see this italian agriturismo in Umbria" for a special place on St. Valentine's Day

[agentv]

...I forgot that love isn't about girls and boys anyway (or about boys and boys).

It's about being related in the spirit. It's about being connected in a way that language can only partially describe.

If you've ever felt that, then you know what I mean. And sometimes observing a ritual can remind us of the magnitude of what we've created in that relatedness. It can jar us into becoming present to our accomplishment.

-- Or, we can just buy some roses out of guilt and declare it all to be a sham.

But get that there is genuinely something to be gained by embracing the sentiment and expressing it fully. And as one of the greatest philosophers of the last century observed, "If you can't be with the one you love, honey love the one you're with!"

...All the world looks like -well- all the world, when your hammer is Perl.
---v

[been42]

...to go home.

They decided to schedule an upgrade of our accounting system for this weekend. I thought my part of it was going to be about a 4 hour job, but I ended up working until 9 p.m. When I got home, I was still answering work-related calls until around 11:30.

Fortunately for me, my wife agreed to "reschedule" Valentine's Day for next weekend, which increases our chances of getting into a nice restaurant (and gives me another week to shop for something good).

[blue_cowdawg]

... all about the blasted holiday! :-)

Seriously, SWMBO and I had two St. Valentines dinners out. Both were her choosing. Both were cheap nights out

But wait until our 30'th anneversary rolls around in 2007..

[DrHyde]

massacred all the fucks who think that making up new holidays just so they can sell tacky cards is a great idea.

Well, I can dream can't I.

This node brought to you by the word "bah" and the letters H, U, M, B, U and G

[Nick Kostirya]

[Anonymous Monk]

Well, my boyfriend spent Valentine's day at the bar with his single friends and then we spent the next day together. We both agreed it was fine. Celebrating love the day after the commercial holiday is fun :).

[feloniousMonk]

[Anonymous Monk]

to get revenge on the ]%*#&% that dumped me

[atcroft]

...how (annoying|depressing) the "dark holiday" can be, especially when (you lack someone to spend it with|plans fall through|the weather sucks|the holiday drags up thoughts of things better left to let time heal), or how annoying polls of almost the same thread can be when they occur at the same time each year (refer to Today, February 14, is... in 2003, Valentine's Day Plans in 2002, My Valentine's Day Planning Includes: in 2001, and I am a M/F/Other... in 2000-although it amused me that the week after the latter the next poll that came out was Do you own a gun? ...how appropriate).

[tye]

*I* didn't mention that person in this poll. Some other god appended the final choice after I posted the poll without even consulting or informing me. So blame them.

[xenchu]

I can't forget to get a birthday present for my daughter(Feb. 14 birthday). It's not allowed.

xenchu

[punchcard_don]

if (we're so concerned about equality that we just have to call men 'boys' to balance calling women 'girls') {

then that should be applied to Valentines Day and the poll's implication that only men needed to do something special for their girls is hyopcritical

}
else {we permit different behaviour from ladies and gentlemen and guys should stop letting themselves be called 'boys'}

[Anonymous Monk]

It's a pity there isn't an option for "to call my bf on the other side of the world"