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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby Darkobra » 10 Feb 2014, 15:34

And suddenly I feel like celebrating.
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby viscomica » 10 Feb 2014, 16:13

So, what would you guys personally prefer for Valentine's day? :D
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby Darkobra » 10 Feb 2014, 16:19

Just another day! If you need a day to feel forced to tell someone you love them, it's both a terrible holiday and a questionable relationship. You don't stop loving someone the next day. You don't stop buying them gifts on the 15th onwards.

Hell, if anything, it should be recognised with a day off so you can spend the day with the person you love!
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby Prospero101 » 10 Feb 2014, 16:37

One of these days I'm going to write a book about our society's weird obsession with romantic love. It's treated as an endgame, a goal to be achieved, a laurel to be rested on.

Why don't we have Best Friend's Day? Or, for that matter, why do we need a particular day to celebrate those we love?
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby Bebop Man » 10 Feb 2014, 16:38

We have a Friend's Day in Argentina: July 20th. It's way more popular than Valentine's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADa_del_Amigo
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby viscomica » 10 Feb 2014, 16:41

We do: birthdays. It's like saying "thank you for being here, I love you" What could be sweeter than that?

Anywho, I don't feel forced to do anything, but it's nice to use Valentine's day to think outside the box and plan an exciting outing with your significant other. I like celebrating stuff and I like giving homemade chocolates away :) (and I do a lot, really, just a few days ago I made muffins with chocolate chips)

To narrow down the question, ehem: chocolate and orange brioche or chocolates?
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby viscomica » 10 Feb 2014, 16:42

Bebop Man wrote:We have a Friend's Day in Argentina: July 20th. It's way more popular than Valentine's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADa_del_Amigo


Oh!
Yes! We do! It's kind of a cool day too! :D
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby viscomica » 10 Feb 2014, 16:44

Prospero101 wrote:Why don't we have Best Friend's Day?


I personally like to think about my friends as equals, hence I don't have a best friend, I just have friends.
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby Darkobra » 10 Feb 2014, 17:11

I actually gauge my friends on levels of how annoying they are.
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby Prospero101 » 10 Feb 2014, 17:13

I have one friend I can definitively say is my best friend. She is closer to me than my parents.

Darkobra wrote:I actually gauge my friends on levels of how annoying they are.


Sometimes I get a wee bit concerned about how angry you are all the time, Darkobra.
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby viscomica » 10 Feb 2014, 17:26

Darkobra wrote:I actually gauge my friends on levels of how annoying they are.


Ah! The annoyability scale!
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby Bebop Man » 10 Feb 2014, 17:33

Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my my sham friends.
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby viscomica » 10 Feb 2014, 17:34

Well said, Sir.
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby empath » 10 Feb 2014, 17:48

viscomica wrote:By Allentine's Day you mean Valentine's day?


No, not quite, hun. It's a bit of an...obscure custom around here on the LRR fora. Allentine's Day #hope_this_helps
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby viscomica » 10 Feb 2014, 17:56

Ohhh!! I see!
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby Master Gunner » 10 Feb 2014, 19:34

Bebop Man wrote:No, Ballantyne's Day. 50% off on whiskey.

Hmm...I actually have a bottle of Ballantine's Finest around here somewhere. I may have to crack it open on Friday.
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby Duckay » 10 Feb 2014, 19:40

My husband is going out of town on Valentine's Day to see his best friend. I'm planning to use the time he's away to play Magic with my best friend. So, uh... we're good at Valentine's Day, yeah?
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby WickedBoy6 » 10 Feb 2014, 20:50

Personally, I plan on sleeping in on Valentine's Day, then heading out to the store the day after for 50% candy. Same thing I did on Halloween.
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby Bebop Man » 10 Feb 2014, 20:59

Isn't candy supposed to be pricier on Valentine's Day?
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby WickedBoy6 » 10 Feb 2014, 21:36

It usually is, but then the day after, like most candy-infused holidays, the prices drops dramatically. Trust me, it's always a good idea to grab cherry cordials on February 15th.
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby Ptangmatik » 10 Feb 2014, 22:39

Hypothetically, say a white South African family emigrates to the USA and gets citizenship. Are they then African-American?
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Re: The General Chat thread

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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby Ptangmatik » 10 Feb 2014, 22:55

Seems legit. I've never used such a mad term anyway, and not just because I live in the UK. it's always seemed odd that anyone would exclude Caribbean, South Indian, Indonesian, etc etc etc people.
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby Bebop Man » 10 Feb 2014, 23:04

I think most Americans got into the bad habit of saying "African American" because of the history of discrimination associated with the word black and such. But yeah ask any black dude in Brazil, they'll laugh their ass off at the notion.
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Re: The General Chat thread

Postby Darkobra » 11 Feb 2014, 00:40

I remember doing my census. I was in tears of laughter as I saw the term "Black British." It was starting to sound like a Ram Jam song.
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