Valentine's Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFQlZht2DU4


I can't see the point but am always amused by the hype...

I'm a bad boyfriend, I refuse to do anything for Valentines day. But equally my girlfriend is a bad girlfriend and hates it as well. Unfortunately for her her mother loves it and wishes we would do stuff on it - pile of nonsense .

Kate P wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFQlZht2DU4


I can't see the point but am always amused by the hype...

go'n outta that, you love it.

tonys wrote:

Kate P wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFQlZht2DU4


I can't see the point but am always amused by the hype...

go'n outta that, you love it.

A Hallmark moment, by tonys.

johnfás wrote:

I'm a bad boyfriend, I refuse to do anything for Valentines day. But equally my girlfriend is a bad girlfriend and hates it as well. Unfortunately for her her mother loves it and wishes we would do stuff on it - pile of nonsense .

Have an Anti-Valentine's Day where you rip up soppy faux-emotional cards, make a mess of bouquets bought from petrol stations and throw a rock in the window of the local Hallmark!

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

johnfás wrote:

I'm a bad boyfriend, I refuse to do anything for Valentines day. But equally my girlfriend is a bad girlfriend and hates it as well. Unfortunately for her her mother loves it and wishes we would do stuff on it - pile of nonsense .

Have an Anti-Valentine's Day where you rip up soppy faux-emotional cards, make a mess of bouquets bought from petrol stations and throw a rock in the window of the local Hallmark!

or
Use it as an excuse to spend a weekend in Paris, now there's value.

tonys wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

johnfás wrote:

I'm a bad boyfriend, I refuse to do anything for Valentines day. But equally my girlfriend is a bad girlfriend and hates it as well. Unfortunately for her her mother loves it and wishes we would do stuff on it - pile of nonsense .

Have an Anti-Valentine's Day where you rip up soppy faux-emotional cards, make a mess of bouquets bought from petrol stations and throw a rock in the window of the local Hallmark!

or
Use it as an excuse to spend a weekend in Paris, now there's value.

Hmm, that works as well.

Well I can't afford a trip to Paris so that is that sorted.

johnfás wrote:

I'm a bad boyfriend, I refuse to do anything for Valentines day. But equally my girlfriend is a bad girlfriend and hates it as well.

Yes, I feel exactly the same about it. Herself tells me she feels the same but I reckon its all a test and she's waiting for the 14th Feb where i send a basket of flowers to her office and take her out for a meal and all that stuff. If so I fail annually.

Away with ye naysayers, me and the missus are going to Galway for a nice meal.

Would it be cheaper to go the day after? If it were, that would be when I would go.

johnfás wrote:

Would it be cheaper to go the day after? If it were, that would be when I would go.

Yes, thats what most men would do, but women think in a fundamentally differnt way about it.

Flowers are always good.

A bunch of roses from a florist this weekend will cost you several hundred per cent more than any other weekend. I'll buy her some next week . She's an arctophile so that tends to determine the purchases.

Why not a pot plant? It will be there for years if looked after. An investment in pleasure.

johnfás wrote:

A bunch of roses from a florist this weekend will cost you several hundred per cent more than any other weekend. I'll buy her some next week . She's an arctophile so that tends to determine the purchases.

Well, for those who feel they have to do something - and being harrangued into feeling you have to do something seems to be the whole point...

It's springtime. M&S are selling nice bunches of Irish daffodils and Tesco are selling small bunches of Irish-packed (???) daffodils. Filling the place with those would be a lovely gesture, imho. And there are even places - bulb farms - where you could spend half a day picking daffodils together, I know there's one outside Tullamore though I can't think of the name of it right now.

What does a dozen roses cost on Valentine's Day? I made the Paris suggestion to someone yesterday too, tonys. It's a little more engaging than handing over the overpriced flowers and the fattening chocolates (I don't know any woman who wants chocolates on Valentine's day) and then fecking off to watch the match.

Squire wrote:

Why not a pot plant? It will be there for years if looked after. An investment in pleasure.

That, I do believe is the moral of the story...

I met this gorgeous Solicitor on the Dole Queue the other week ...


We could start a contemporary version of this story ...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_Dole

Auditor #9 wrote:

I met this gorgeous Solicitor on the Dole Queue the other week ...


We could start a contemporary version of this story ...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_Dole

Go for it man, remember "a faint heart never won fair lady", mind you, it never got embarrassed in the dole office either. Be brave my friend.

Kate P wrote:

Squire wrote:

Why not a pot plant? It will be there for years if looked after. An investment in pleasure.

That, I do believe is the moral of the story...

Paris is full of two way streets, just one of the reasons I like it so much.

tonys wrote:

Auditor #9 wrote:

I met this gorgeous Solicitor on the Dole Queue the other week ...


We could start a contemporary version of this story ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_Dole

Go for it man, remember "a faint heart never won fair lady", mind you, it never got embarrassed in the dole office either. Be brave my friend.

It's not very interesting though, that opening line. Or accurate. How about this:

I couldn't decide which one I liked best out of the 45 solicitors, 80 IT consultants, 30 teachers, 26 mechanics, 277 Polish construction workers and 400 Dell workers I met in the Dole Office last week ...

I'm still waiting around for a couple of bankers to choose from, maybe some nice civil servants ..

Auditor #9 wrote:

tonys wrote:

Auditor #9 wrote:

I met this gorgeous Solicitor on the Dole Queue the other week ...


We could start a contemporary version of this story ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_Dole

Go for it man, remember "a faint heart never won fair lady", mind you, it never got embarrassed in the dole office either. Be brave my friend.

It's not very interesting though, that opening line. Or accurate. How about this:

I couldn't decide which one I liked best out of the 45 solicitors, 80 IT consultants, 30 teachers, 26 mechanics, 277 Polish construction workers and 400 Dell workers I met in the Dole Office last week ...

I'm still waiting around for a couple of bankers to choose from, maybe some nice civil servants ..

You want to write a play?
I thought you were chasing a woman. When you said “we” I thought an answer of 3 would have overshot the mark.

Anyone remember this classic - in which Digoutday dumped his partner because of a Christmas Party slip up ?

http://www.politics.ie/chat/25653-happy-valentines-day-politics-ie-posters.html

cactus flower wrote:

Anyone remember this classic - in which Digoutday dumped his partner because of a Christmas Party slip up ?

http://www.politics.ie/chat/25653-happy-valentines-day-politics-ie-posters.html

Hmm. Something nasty about that particular serving of revenge. Maybe Mrs Digoutday had her reasons for misbehaving at the Christmas party?

cactus flower wrote:

Anyone remember this classic - in which Digoutday dumped his partner because of a Christmas Party slip up ?

http://www.politics.ie/chat/25653-happy-valentines-day-politics-ie-posters.html

Lucky girl, on other hand if she was dumb enough to go out with him in the first place????