Anti-Anti-Valentineism
Today is not Valentines. I have therefore repainted Aquarionics blue in celebration of this fact.
(Seriously, this year the “I hate Valentines” brigade have done more than any other factor in turning the day sour for anyone who would otherwise have enjoyed it, treated it as a bit of fun, whatever. If you feel that strongly about it, pick another day of the year and celebrate “Happy Depressed Singletons” day instead, and stop poisoning other people’s enjoyment of existing traditions.)
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CCA:):
As I’ve already said in LJ, you don’t have read our comments or let it ‘poison’ your enjoyment of the day.
CCA:)
Aquarion:
This is also true, and neither mine yours, but that’s not really the point (I dislike Valentines day for other reasons. I’d be quite happy if the entire concept were sealed in a lead vault for a million years for future historians to laugh at.
What I object to is that every single time I’ve seen someone mention Valentines day – even in the “Oh, That means we’re taking this live on Valentines day” or ”...on Monday, which is Valentines day” sense has had somebody pipe up with a medium-long rant about how stupid an idea it is and how it belittles relationships/depresses people/is commercialised. It’s the inability of these people to let any mention of it slide just once without some sarky comment.
I’d prefer it if they took the “If we ignore it, maybe it’ll go away” route. At least then it’d be quiet.
gilmae:
The problem is that the people who go into that rant tend to be the people who are in the Valentine’s marketing segment; 18-40, sometimes male, sometimes both genders, depending on the client. When you are in that segment, you have the day crammed down your throat until you choke on its fakeness. It’s hard to let it slide in those circumstances.
Oh yeah, anyone 18-40 in Australia who got spammed with Valentine’s Day marketing in the last ten days, sorry. I probably was involved, in that I didn’t quit my job rather than spam you.