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10 reasons I hate Valentine’s day

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10. My local Safeway store looks like someone threw up Pepto-Bismol all over.Pink balloons, Pink Roses, Pink Ribbons - you get the idea !

9. Too much candy and chocolate - like romance, the sugar high lasts for a short while the inevitable crash lasts much longer.

8. Useless gifts - how deluded do you need to be to think that a 4-foot teddy bear holding a red velvet heart is a good gift ?

7.Bouqets that cost $ 79.99! - for that much money I expect an entire rose garden and a muscular gardener - not a bunch of roses in a glass bowl that has 400% markup

6. Dumb costumes ( WARNING: NSFW link)

5. Valentine’s Day viruses - as if we don’t have enough to worry about computer security

4. The insane pressure to buy, buy, buy. One has barely recovered from the holiday season consumerism before V-Day urging to spend, spend, spend begins!

3.The pressure on singles - being single is great - do not let the sappy advertisments fool you. Be happily single or happily hitched - be happy!

2. The Shiv Sena and their insane antics that get unecessary publicity

1.Hallmark cards - not only do they cost upward of $ 7.99 for execrable sentiment such as” Some things are just meant to be… Like you being born… Me finding you…The two of us happy in this crazy, amazing love…” -this is the evil corporation that was responsible for the exploding popularity of this holiday in the first place !

Aw, what the hell - I am old and cynical - don’t listen to me !

Happy Valentine’s day to all our UD readers !

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8 comments for “10 reasons I hate Valentine’s day”

  1. 1: Santosh | February 14, 2008, 12:22 pm | Direct Link

    6. Dumb costumes ( WARNING: NSFW link)

    Yowza!

  2. 2: Lekhni | February 14, 2008, 12:31 pm | Direct Link

    Runa,

    I actually find the whole V-day thing completely hilarious. Everyone knows this is a made-for-spending holiday of course. Not only are the gifts useless, the whole idea that you make an exhibition of your love on a particular day is a strange idea.

    If you want a funny take on V-day gifts, can I plug my blog? (I don’t like to, usually, but maybe this will cheer you up :))

  3. 3: Runa | February 14, 2008, 12:34 pm | Direct Link

    Santosh,

    # 6 I added specially for my male readers :-)

    Lekhni,
    Plug away ! I agree with you that a spa certificate is ALWAYS a good gift :-)

  4. 4: Runa | February 14, 2008, 12:55 pm | Direct Link

    I just found reason # 11 here.
    Maroons!

  5. 5: Lekhni | February 14, 2008, 12:59 pm | Direct Link

    If only I could get spa certificates every month - we need to think of more monthly V-days :) I know, I can go to the spa anyway, but that’s just not the same :(

    #11 is disgusting - these are educated (at least literate) people who should know better.

  6. 6: Santosh | February 14, 2008, 1:29 pm | Direct Link

    Runa,
    I’d blogged about #11 in an older blog of mine. The reason these idiots do it because they want to “be part of history”. I say if you want to be part of history do something worthwhile like invent a cure for cancer, put a human on Mars or engineer world peace.

  7. 7: Runa | February 14, 2008, 1:35 pm | Direct Link

    Santosh,
    Sorry - did not realize you had blogged it earlier. When I see stuff like “Kiran loves Sheela” etc scribbled on monuments the only thing I can think of is what idiot children the couple will produce !

  8. 8: Santosh | February 14, 2008, 1:38 pm | Direct Link

    Sorry - did not realize you had blogged it earlier

    You’re ok. This was not on UD :-)

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