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It's appalling commercialised rubbish, and should be ignored. I'm sure it served a purpose once upon a time, but now it's become (like Mothering Sunday and Christmas) an excuse to con people into parting with their money. How can romance be compulsory on one day of the year? BAH!
Of course you have a point Mary, but the thought (or should that be hope?) that someone who cares about you might want to thrust some flowers into your hand, well, that`s not such a bad thing surely? Of course if they have to be pressganged into it that completely defeats the point. I'd be delighted to receive some flowers today. But I won`t. Said Eyore  |
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« Reply #4741 on: 10:58:04, 14-02-2008 » |
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« Reply #4742 on: 11:03:05, 14-02-2008 » |
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I'd be delighted to receive some flowers today. But I won`t. This morning I received a phone bill, a letter telling me the guarantee on my fridge is about to expire and an advertisement for an obscenely expensive motor vehicle. Where's the love, I'd like to know. |
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« Reply #4744 on: 11:07:06, 14-02-2008 » |
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« Reply #4745 on: 11:20:32, 14-02-2008 » |
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I'd be delighted to receive some flowers today. But I won`t. This morning I received a phone bill, a letter telling me the guarantee on my fridge is about to expire and an advertisement for an obscenely expensive motor vehicle. Where's the love, I'd like to know. The guarantee on my main fridge ran out over a decade ago. A couple of years ago one of the hinges on the door snapped. Luckily I noticed that there was provision to hang the door so it swung open the other way. Just waiting for the hinge on that side to suffer the same trauma now. |
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« Reply #4746 on: 11:28:14, 14-02-2008 » |
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I have never owned a fridge, they are starting to sound like a lot of hassle.
With 1/2 pints and small sample cheese options now in supermarkets, perhaps they are no longer required ?
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« Reply #4747 on: 11:30:18, 14-02-2008 » |
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Here. To everyone, from a sappy, goggle-eyed ingenue who loves you all.  And for Richard,   |
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« Reply #4748 on: 11:42:09, 14-02-2008 » |
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Mwa mwa, mwa Mart!  And one of these as well  |
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« Reply #4749 on: 11:42:59, 14-02-2008 » |
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« Reply #4750 on: 11:43:44, 14-02-2008 » |
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Let us all buy ourselves valentines presents, in shops, with cash, in reality.
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« Reply #4751 on: 11:50:23, 14-02-2008 » |
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I am with you Byron. I think the same way. Now there are cards for every occasion. In my time we had to think what to write.  |
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« Reply #4752 on: 11:51:12, 14-02-2008 » |
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I have got the most unromantic boyfriend on this planet. No valentine arrived so I asked him on Messenger where it is and he said he'd go out to the shop to get one later. I've told him not to bother. If I hadn't asked, he wouldn't have bothered anyway. I don't want anything as an afterthought. After having had such a loving, romantic husband, it would be a miserable day for me now but I have a very large 2' high card from my husband (10 years old now) that I keep behind the piano during the year and bring it out on Valentine's Day. That more than suffices. |
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« Reply #4753 on: 11:53:28, 14-02-2008 » |
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I have never owned a fridge, they are starting to sound like a lot of hassle.
With 1/2 pints and small sample cheese options now in supermarkets, perhaps they are no longer required ?
But they're sooooo much more expensive by volume than standard size items!  And this coming from somebody who's always going on about how poor he is... I wish it were possible in this country to buy a fridge-freezers with a small fridge and large freezer. That's what I would have, given the choice. As it is, my freezer is frustratingly small for the way I prefer to use it (buying and cooking in bulk, then freezing individual cooked portions) whereas my fridge is rarely more than half full. Back to the charade that is Valentine's Day, I have to say it simply passes me by. I have been (voluntarily) single for about 95% of my life, and don't notice it. |
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #4754 on: 12:01:13, 14-02-2008 » |
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Although love affairs usually end in the girls death by tb ( so says opera ) at least you can have some fun on the way, and hey, we all die in the end anyways.
I have access to a fridge in the rented flat i share, so I use it, most motorhomes appear to come with a small fridge, i presume the answer is.... a small fridge.
A fridge is a relatively new luxury, looking back on history.
I save money on the big things in life, like a home,a car, a wife, children etc. etc.
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