Valentines - Romance or Profiteering?

[odin]

omfg....I didn't know there were flowers in existance that expensive  :-o.

[Vincent]

PMC wrote:
He is said to be in shock at having handed out £50.95...

We don't bother with valentines day at all.  Why should we spend money on each other for a so called "special day" for lovers?

Waste of money if you ask us.  It's not a special day if everybody else does it (no not that... well, okay most often yes that) on that day too?

April 11th is our "anniversary".  That's the only day other than birthday and christmas that we purposely spend some money on each other.

And the best thing is Sioux hates flowers :-D

She's got hayfever and she's got a phobia of bees and wasps.  So anything I get her is great.  Even if it is an album (metal preferrably) or a console game (anything Sega related) or a book (HP Lovecraft) or a DVD (Star Trek, cheap B-movie horrors - absolutely no "womens" or soppy films)... the list goes on.

[PMC]

Oh jeez....

I thought you were all supposed to be making me feel better?

Maybe I ought to cancel the flowers and buy those Easton EA70 bars I had my eye on?  

If I were St Valentine, I'd have come up with a day where we celebrate our love for our significant other by going out with one's peers and drinking, or better still we get the following day off work to recover.  

[Speelgoedmannetje]

PMC wrote:
I thought you were all supposed to be making me feel better?

There's no excuse to spend  £50.95(!!!!) on flowers
Shame on you to waste so much money such a thing!

one could better go out in the field and pick some flowers there.
It's btw more spontaneous than the obligatory 'valentine' thing.

Maybe I ought to cancel the flowers and buy those Easton EA70 bars I had my eye on?

You do not have to spend money

[X-ray]

@ PMC

Have you any idea what Georgina is going to get you?

[blobrana]

Hum,
for that price why go for `Easton`(weights in at 200 + grams) when you can get a 118 Ti ?

- titanium, light, non rust, strong, and its got a but of flex to save your wrists, like a rockshock , and deals with those  sharp vibrations that the rockshocks are too slow to react to....
is this a  Dream?....

[PMC]

@Blob,

I'm going to forward you my g/f's email address...

Those Titecs are mighty fine.

@X-ray

funnily enough I just received this email from Chain Reaction Cycles:

Look good on Valentines Day
 
 
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especially if your still searching for that special someone. No one ever, ever
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Check the site for our massive stock of clothing, you'll be spoilt for choice
and the prices are great.

Don't forget to pop into the florists during the weekend!

ps, you might benefit from the above link, I understand that Titanium looks great on Blob ;-)

[X-ray]

"...ps, you might benefit from the above link, I understand that Titanium looks great on Blob..."

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The funny thing is...if Blobzie asked me to get her those handlebars, I probably would.  :-)


@ Toy Boy and Vince

I hear what you're saying, that love need not have a price tag, but surely Valentine's Day is an opportunity to be a little bit naughty, spring a few surprises and maybe do something a little out of the ordinary (even if it costs nothing)?

[PMC]

X-ray wrote:

The funny thing is...if Blobzie asked me to get her those handlebars, I probably would.  :-)

Aww!  What price romance?

[X-ray]

"...Aww! What price romance?..."
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According to the link, about $120  :-P

[PMC]

X-ray wrote:

According to the link, about $120  :-P

Mate she's got to be worth it, any girl who can fix your bike for you is worth her weight in gold (or titanium).  

I'm sure she's worth the Marzocchis and wheels too.

:lol:

[Vincent]

X-ray wrote:
but surely Valentine's Day is an opportunity to be a little bit naughty

Not with us, we're naughty all year round ;-)

Now... where are those handcuffs...

[Calen]

Now... where are those handcuffs...

Mine arrived this morning, Glad it came with an extra key.

;-)

[bjjones37]

@PMC

The flowers themselves actually have little value, but the confidence they purchase could be priceless. That's a bargain at almost any price!

[cecilia]

Woman Begins To Regret Dating Someone Spontaneous (from the onion)

word to the wise: DON'T DATE, it's a horror show!!!!! :-o  :-o  :-o

While Bird has no immediate plans to break up with Maddox, she said she"sometimes fantasize about what it would be like to date someone less whimsical."    "I still like Jason a lot," Bird said. "But I swear: The next time he starts to juggle, it's over."

:roflmao::roflmao:

[KennyR]

I have a major mystery I don't understand about Valentine's Day.

That's flowers - what's the point? I'm sure the flowers themselves are much happier still attached to the plant. And much as I would like to find a use for them, butchered plant gonads just strike me as a totally pointless gift. I could see the point if the man had to climb a mountain to get them, but paying £50 from Interflora after a 3 minute drive for a handful of greenhouse-raised genetically spliced shrubbery is insane. I mean, if women are so materialistic that they require some kind of sacrifice, why not buy them something USEFUL? Something that's not going to wither and die after three amazing days of not actually doing anything?