Yup

I say I blame it on retail but in fact I am not one for all that sentimentality crap; treat me right all the time instead of a massive bribe/apology a few times a year

Also, Feb 14th is Oregon's statehood day!

I usually host the Everything Inappropriate Alternative Valentine's Day party. We have a finish the limerick contest, contest for most suggestive thing found in nature (like a tree that looks phallic), most inappropriate food contest, and unnecessary censorship (where you find an innocent pic and put a black box over part of it so it looks bad). Then we play Cards Against Humanity. Everyone brings booze and I order prizes from Ship a Bag of Dicks. So much fun!

One more day for businesses to make profit.?

Well, I do. I'll buy my daughter flowers and my wife a card. I'm sorry, but that's one of the few days my wife feels sexually generous.

Kathie loves chocolate covered cherries, vd xmas, new years, thanksgiving, birthday, MLK day, ect. Pretty un-forgiving if I pass up any excuse. Looking forward to election day being made a federal holiday.....but really haven't seen any reason to maintain a religious context....fairly sure they just stole the idea themselves.

what, you don't celebrate gangsters killing other gangsters in 1929?

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Take a lesson from the xians. Repurpose the day to something else. We host our annual wife swap party. WE all look forward to V-Day.

Have fun with it or not.. it’s up to you. I do a little something for my sons, they’re my biggest sweethearts.

I always call it by it's abbreviated title with a sarcastic flavor. . . Happy VD.

VD is not an event I look forward to. Primarily because the local NPR station uses the weeks before VD to promote their "Sweets for you sweet." chocolate truffle fund raising drive where, starting a few days ago, NPR will hammer their (you have a sweetheart so you must give us money) assertion. They may have reduced the sweets for you sweet this year but I will not fire up the radio until a week after VD.

It's a Hallmark holiday. Made up to make someone lots of money.

It is the best day of the year to be a single male without a girlfriend, or be in a relationship where your partner believes as you, that this is a stupid, stupid day. A day set up for men to get it wrong more than we get it right. We already have birthdays, anniversaries, and Christmas, for those who do Christmas, to get it wrong. We don't need the pressure.

I felt I had achieved adulthood when I realized that I didn’t need a holiday to indulge in chocolate - just another promotional holiday to sell stuff

Eh. It's commercial BS but I can still have fun with it.

No way! You're not doing it right.

No worries- I have some great Valentine's Day memes coming your way. Ursi style.

It's only fun if you're in a relationship.

It certainly ups the pressure in a non-organic way! Sadly (perhaps), it feels like any holiday where certain things are "expected" ups the pressure.

I pretty much reject ALL special days set aside for celebrating..

What's Valentine's Day?

*Edit: If you didn't get the joke I was trying to make, I've rejected Valentine's Day so vehemently that I have wiped it away from memory.