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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: 847badgerfan on February 11, 2020, 06:42:38 AM
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We have one coming up. These kinds of days make my skin crawl - none more than this one though.
I buy my wife flowers on all but maybe 5 weekends per year. This is one of the 5.
Lots of people will overpay for a set-menu dinner on Friday.
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Not sure what we will do, it seems not to be a big deal up here. Some menu deals are decent, some are not of course.
I think we will be in Marseilles by then. Losing track, ready to be home.
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Still not quite as dumb as Groundhog Day.
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At least groundhog day has some (very) minor entertainment value.
I can think of noting redeeming about 2/14. Nada.
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My wife and a couple of her friends are going to some show that I had no interest in and got a pass. I'll be having dinner and playing poker with the husbands of those friends and probably have a much better time than they do. ;)
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At least groundhog day has some (very) minor entertainment value.
I can think of noting redeeming about 2/14. Nada.
Hell,in Ohio - American Greetings I believe started Sweetest Day.Supposedly celebrated in the Great Lakes Region.At least on Feb 14 we can commemorate the Last of Danny O'Banion's North Side Gang and Bugs Moran's escape - I know I'm a romantic at heart
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Lots of people will overpay for a set-menu dinner on Friday.
This is the biggest offense to me. This is the one absolutely do not go out to dinner weekend.
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:::yawn:::
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Lots of people will overpay for a set-menu dinner on Friday.
This is the biggest offense to me. This is the one absolutely do not go out to dinner weekend.
Damn right.
My wife and I don't buy any gifts for the occasion, but a card is expected. (Don't tell her, but "the puppy" did buy her a little gift lol...)
But the good thing about us both loving to cook is that we absolutely do not EVER go out for dinner for Valentine's Day. We'll do the fancy dinner at a swanky restaurant on our anniversary, but never on Valentine's Day. It's like going to a bar on New Year's Eve.
This year instead of our usual steak (which we had last Friday night and it was wonderful) we decided to do seared scallops over polenta, with bacon-wrapped asparagus on the side. With a nice bottle of white from a little winery near Santa Barbara.
We'll spend far less and end up with a superior meal.
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just hoping everyone in my house is over flu by then. my 6 yo has been 'quarantined' in his room for the last 10-11 days, poor kid. besides feeling miserable, he's getting cabin fever something awful. starting to show signs of recovery, though, so hopefully it's done.
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Hallmark is effin' greedy. It's bad enough spending $6.99 on a piece of cardboard with 17 impersonal words. Flowers and dinner are fine and all, but some of the best gestures a man can do for his wife don't cost a dime.
Want to impress her? Wash and clean out her car. Offer to take the kids out for an afternoon. Cook for her (and clean the kitchen afterwards). Watch a movie with her that *she* wants to watch.
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My husband will be working this Friday, so we will like we always do and wait until his days off to do something together. I usually give him a card on the day and he gives me chocolate covered cherries (my favorite) but we never really go all out on that day. We save our bigger celebrations for our anniversary (32 years this November) or birthdays. I am allergic to flowers, so one year he bought me crystal rose and that sucker has lasted for 15 years, lol.
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Hallmark is effin' greedy. It's bad enough spending $6.99 on a piece of cardboard with 17 impersonal words. Flowers and dinner are fine and all, but some of the best gestures a man can do for his wife don't cost a dime.
Want to impress her? Wash and clean out her car. Offer to take the kids out for an afternoon. Cook for her (and clean the kitchen afterwards). Watch a movie with her that *she* wants to watch.
Well you were fine until you got to that
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My husband will be working this Friday, so we will like we always do and wait until his days off to do something together. I usually give him a card on the day and he gives me chocolate covered cherries (my favorite) but we never really go all out on that day. We save our bigger celebrations for our anniversary (32 years this November) or birthdays. I am allergic to flowers, so one year he bought me crystal rose and that sucker has lasted for 15 years, lol.
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The only redeeming thing about 2/14 is that it's the day before 2/15, which is my birthday.
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Happy Early birthday.
My i s c & a aggie wife and I don't ever do anything for Valentines for all of the above-mentioned reasons. Dinner out is a bad deal and a bad time, flowers are way too expensive at this time (and at Mother's Day) so I skip the flowers and buy them on many other occasions.
However, our kids really like it, so we give them small presents and candy, and help them make or buy cards/gifts for their friends. It's pretty cute how much they get into it, especially given how little we've ever stressed it in our lives. Apparently Hallmark has ways of getting to them, without our interference.
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If you're looking for cheaper greeting cards, go to Trader Joe's. Only 99 cents instead of a lot more. Same for flowers.
I'm firmly in the "don't like Hallmark holiday" camp.
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I feel cards and flowers are a waste
so, please don't send them to me
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I got lucky, my wife doesn't believe in hallmark holidays. No, this isn't a cautionary tale either, she also doesn't like flowers because they just die.
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I feel cards and flowers are a waste
so, please don't send them to me
Too late I sent a card made out of an empty TP roll and a nice combination ragweed & poison ivy planter.Figure you'd recognize them as you're usually hitting out of the rough/woods
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I got lucky, my wife doesn't believe in hallmark holidays. No, this isn't a cautionary tale either, she also doesn't like flowers because they just die.
Even worse, you take a living plant and chop it off from its sustenance just to watch it die. How sadistic is that?
And the same women who want flowers think that sport hunting is disgusting. "What do you mean you're going to shoot that beautiful buck just so you can mount its head on your wall?? I can understand hunting for food, but just for display?"
Sorry lady, you want dead plants just so they look nice on your table for a week and then they go straight in the trash. How about a bowl of fruit, that you can at least eat??
Women who like flowers are just the sport hunters of the plant world.
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That's some deep chit right there.
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Hell,in Ohio - American Greetings I believe started Sweetest Day.Supposedly celebrated in the Great Lakes Region.At least on Feb 14 we can commemorate the Last of Danny O'Banion's North Side Gang and Bugs Moran's escape - I know I'm a romantic at heart
Man, all this time I've been calling it Sweeties Day, and no one had the "heart" to tell me.
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That's some deep chit right there.
If I ever do a stand-up open mic, I think I've got a premise for a joke there lol...
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If I'm going to eat the Buck, (and I always do) she's going to eat the flowers
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If I'm going to eat the Buck, (and I always do) she's going to eat the flowers
And there's my punchline!
Thanks, FF!
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My lawnmower seems to enjoy eating flowers
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Hallmark is effin' greedy. It's bad enough spending $6.99 on a piece of cardboard with 17 impersonal words. Flowers and dinner are fine and all, but some of the best gestures a man can do for his wife don't cost a dime.
Want to impress her? Wash and clean out her car. Offer to take the kids out for an afternoon. Cook for her (and clean the kitchen afterwards). Watch a movie with her that *she* wants to watch.
on the Hallmark channel???
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Is the Holiday really a Hallmark invention? I had always assumed that it was one of those that was rooted in Pagan tradition, what with this Elfin creature flying around casting love spells and such.
As far as the dead flowers, there is a trick where you hang them upside-down overnight. They will still die, but they will be taxidermied. That is that they will remain crisp and hold their natural shape instead of wilting away and falling apart.
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Is the Holiday really a Hallmark invention? I had always assumed that it was one of those that was rooted in Pagan tradition, what with this Elfin creature flying around casting love spells and such.
As far as the dead flowers, there is a trick where you hang them upside-down overnight. They will still die, but they will be taxidermied. That is that they will remain crisp and hold their natural shape instead of wilting away and falling apart.
A fella named Valentinus was martyred in Rome for attempting to convert the Emperor to Christianity in the 3rd century. The association with romantic love wouldn't come for another 1200 years, when Geoffrey Chaucer (him of the Canterbury Tales) mentioned it in a poem. Even then, most suspect this was in association with a different San Valentino, with a feast day of May 3.
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My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who said a clergyman named Valentine secretly married couples while an evil king had outlawed such things. And then was sainted at 31 Flavors last night.
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I guess it's pretty serious.
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I remember hearing a millennial panning that movie recently. Something about the kid (Ferris) being so self-centered and insensitive to Cameron. I thought I was being punk'd at first.