Valentines Day - what a load of rubbish!

Caveat -

No, St Patrick's Day isn't the next "card-fest", Mother's Day is 14th March!!

Can I say "bah humbug" to Valentine's Day as well as to Christmas?!
 
Hate Valentines - if anyone asks me I'm telling them that I'm celebrating the Chinese New Year instead
 
And then he wonders why you have grown up disfunctional and anti social ?
 
My wife got me a set of battery jump leads and some other car related stuff for valentines day a few years ago. She's the petrol head in the family. Her explanation was that because I do a lot of driving for work, if I broke down, she wanted me to have everything I need to get me home to her. I thought it was sweet. Obviously I still take the mickey out of her for it though......
 
ney001 said:
I don't get him anything, never did..........well nothing directly for him but he definitely benefits!
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Something sad about both of your posts. I'm sure that he would appreciate even a flower past it's best............
 
Grizzly said:
Something sad about both of your posts. I'm sure that he would appreciate even a flower past it's best............
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Well by him benefiting - I meant I buy myself a good book and that gives him an hours peace - don't know what you were thinking?????

As for something sad about the posts - in my humble opinion anybody above the age of 21 who does the whole forced valentine thing is just a little bit sad themselves. The whole point for me and my relationship is that we try to be kind and romantic with each other all year long - that said, romance for me certainly isn't about flowers and crap teddies and all that stuff - I just love the little things that he does every week that only he would know that I like and vice versa! . And I can tell you now - if I gave him him a flower past it's best or indeed a flower in full bloom, those little nice things he does would stop for at least a week!
 
Yorrick said:
And then he wonders why you have grown up disfunctional and anti social ?
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I don't think you have any right to make this judgement about me. Practically all the other posters are anti - Valentine's Day also.
 
For all the Valentine experts out there, please answer me this one.

Up to about a year ago, 12 red roses cost anywhere between €20 and €50.

Now you can get 12 for €4.

How come?
 
RMCF said:
For all the Valentine experts out there, please answer me this one.

Up to about a year ago, 12 red roses cost anywhere between €20 and €50.

Now you can get 12 for €4.

How come?
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Deflation.
 
mathepac said:
They're the same roses?
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I'd be a bit worried where they're coming from & how much producers have paid. I worked in Kenya& producers get a tiny tiny fraction of the end price. (are they getting even less?).

There are differnet kinds of roses too with some types costing much more.
 
I'm not expecting to get the same quality of roses for €4 that you used to buy for €40, but the difference is massive. Can there really be that much of a difference in quality to justify that price?

I'm guessing its more to do with the fact that Irish people were silly with their money up until last year, and would thought nothing of spending silly money on silly things. Now we live in a different Ireland.

And good to see too.
 

Bad news, RCMF........as a new dad, you'll have to seriously go to town on a Valentine's Day bunch of flowers for Mrs. RMCF!.............

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But Lex, Mrs RMCF has told me she doesn't want flowers for Vals Day.

Is this a bluff to see if I buy her any I wonder? Mmm, what to do ! Don't want to end up in the bad books.
 
RMCF said:
But Lex, Mrs RMCF has told me she doesn't want flowers for Vals Day.

Is this a bluff to see if I buy her any I wonder? Mmm, what to do ! Don't want to end up in the bad books.
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Buy her some flowers (or maybe perfume) . . not because you had to but because you didn't have to but wanted to.
 
michaelm said:
Buy her some flowers (or maybe perfume) . . not because you had to but because you didn't have to but wanted to.
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I'm guessing michaelm is a happily married man, because that is just about the perfect way to a woman's heart, even if she has said she doesn't want anything for Valentines.
 
michaelm said:
Buy her some flowers (or maybe perfume) . . not because you had to but because you didn't have to but wanted to.
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But don't wait until Valentines day to do it....... kind of takes away from the spontaneous gesture!.
 
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