Valentines Day is disgusting.

It's completely ridiculous that people (who happen to run big companies)have to tell you what ONE day of the year you celebrate your love for someone, that is if you call spending as much money as possible on materialistic things for them a celebration of your love. It's ridiculous, Hallmark can rot in hell, if you have someone you love you should tell them that everyday, are our love lives really so stale that we need a designated day of year to show love? Or if you really need to celebrate valentines day, why not MAKE something instead of buying a cliche card that millions of others bought... make something unique to the person you're giving it to. I don't see how buying mass produced chocolates and some cheesy card is being affectionate... seems to me you care SO LITTLE about that person that all you can do for them is pay Hallmark to tell her/him how you feel. Love is something beautiful we all share, and yet the way Kay makes it look, love can be bought with a five thousand dollar necklace. It just disgusts me how commercialism has become so abundant that it now affects our love, something that should be free and unconditional. On valentines day, a simple, reassuring "I love you" would mean at least five times more to me than a box of chocolates. Love (as an entity) is eternal, where as materialistic goods are forgotten the day after they're bought.

/rant.

I didn't know the Big companies made us do it.

I also didn't know that people only say "I love you" to people on that day.

Well i'm learning a lot.

That wasn't a very creative or original rant. 2/10._Margulis_

For a second, Darth thought he had valentines on his knees.

OT is turning into soft core /b/ with all these brain-dead replies...

I kind of agree with what you say though...it's obviously a corporate holiday.

Its a Hallmark invented holiday.Aidenfury19

Everyone thinks that, but if you actually do some research on the history of valentines day you will find out that hallmark did not invent valentines day.

[QUOTE="Aidenfury19"]Its a Hallmark invented holiday.Film-Guy

Everyone thinks that, but if you actually do some research on the history of valentines day you will find out that hallmark did not invent valentines day.

Its definitely where all the cards came from, which is what a lot of my objection to it is. The entire thing has become meaningless over the years. Here buy your girlfriend some flowers and a card.

Valentines Day is a corporately invented holiday in the same sense that Christmas has come to be one.

thanks to the big companies for making it even easier to have sex with my girlfriend--Bender--

ITs a scam to spend money on their products for people who think spending money is the only thing that makes others happy.

BUt thank god I have a Valentine this week. :) (And i was not really thanking god)