A solid 1lb chocolate anatomically correct heart.

The things we find....

http://www.pushindaisies.com/candypress/sc...p?idProduct=224

Oh man... that is totally awesome!! It's kind of like the plushy diseases my fiance got me for this years Valentines day off of ThinkGeek...

HIV.... Syphilis... Gonorrhea... Mono... the Cold... E. coli... and we can't forget rabies

While we are talking about Valetine's...whatcha think, special day or marketing hoax?

And that much chocolate? One word..ick.

I like the disease plushies though...

Marketing. Alll marketing.

Hear, hear...


I got into a huge fight with my ex when I told her the exact the same thing. Of course that caused a hissy fit of giganourmous proportions.


That's heart looks mighty tasty...

i have no problem w/ celebrating valentines day, its Sweetest(?) day i have a serious problem with. i remember my g/f back in highschool bitching at me cause i haden't done anything for her for this random ass holiday. i mostly didn't do anything cause i had never heard of it before... and now i hear it comes like 3-4 times a year!? WTF is that?

sweetest day? WTF is that?

sum's it up for me too.

thats what i said... does anyone else know wtf i'm talking about... cause now i feel kinda stupid

I've noticed that most women not in a steady relationship either don't like valentines day, or do, but only for the candy. Most guys I've talked to don't really think of it much. The ones without girlfriends (myself included) dislike the holiday becaus it merely reminds them of their own loneliness. The ones with girlfriends tolerate because they know that if they buy their gf's candy and flowers, they'll get premium mackage. Both sides strike me as incredibly shallow.

i think the holliday is a sweet idea, taking a night off to spend it with someone you care about, or even just friends and family you love, but i also see alot of the greediness to it.... meh, i guess its fun if it doesnt get turned into a 'have to' do something night rather than a 'want to' do something night.

Oh, I think that if you are in a relationship, you should definetly do something, but so many of the guys I know buy flowers then brag about their make-out sessions the next day.

Shallowness is just relative. Both bf and gf know the expectations and gf's do give you presents as well. Although "premium mackage" is considered primarily a bonus for the guys, that's something girls will actually look forward to as well.

Overblowing a holiday and turning into a commercial excuse is just the way commerce works. Doesn't validate more or less the holiday itself. But yeah, it makes things more tacky that they already are.

i would agree that Valentines is 99% commercial cash-ins on another holiday.

It even transcends to the game worlds, where people gouge you for every last copper for holiday items.

It's unfortunate that is has been so commercialized. The original meaning of the holiday, summed up nicely here, that wonderful font of all knowledge, tells us that the holiday is meant for lovers to exchange love notes.

Now... I completely agree that commercialization isn't necessary, but the idea is great. The Christians named the day after a martyr named Valentine and moved the date to Feb. 14 to try and wash out the old pagan holiday of Lupercalia still being celebrated. Lupercalia, celebrated the founding of Rome, with Romulus and Remus and what not.

Too bad we don't really emphasize the history, just the gifts.

meh, I hates it, all it does is make me miss out on candy and remind me I dont got a girlfriend, stupid capitalism, always making me feel bad

I usually end up buying candy for myself. It's sooooo pathetic, but I need sugar so I can pretend I'm not a total social failure.

yeah, but then you are reminded of that when you eat it and buy it. I just go take a nap until the day is over or post my thoughts on stupid holidays on a forum until the self-pity wears off

Meh, If i could pick up chicks i'd give em dat.

/agreed

I hate how commercial and shallow Valentine's Day is- every year that I've had a boyfriend on Feb. 14th, I won't let him get me a present and I refuse to get him one. I always just spend the day with him, and that's enough for me (and it had better be enough for him, too, otherwise we can't date O.o)
Like today- despite the fact that practically no one in Cincinnati had power, I went over to his house and we sat in front of his fire playing Risk (yes, the board game you perverts). Then the power came back on and we took turns killing Nazis in COD 2- now THAT'S romantic, eh?

EDIT: oh, as to the chocolate heart? That friggin rocks. I am so showing that to my biology teacher, he'll die laughing.

Killing Nazi is ALWAYS romantic by my standards.

mix in busting up little retard-ape-people in GoW, its the perfect way to celebrate love

I hate to ask but,
GoW?

Also, I have found that the most popular things to kill for ramance are (in no order)
Nazis
Terroists
Aliens
Other stuff

gears of war

Learn2abbreviate n00b!

Well, I thought you meant God of War, soo, abbr. only get you so far

well, fine the GoW4xbx360

They aren't apes?
Also Gears is fun.
And also also, They are BUGS DAMMIT, not apes.

well, the wretches look a little apelike with the whole, not standing upright thing

Wretches are more like zombies without spines that explode when thye die.

well, lets leave it at exploding ape zombies, there, that seems fair

in otherwords....YAY FOR CAPITALISM AND CONSUMERISM!!!

and that whole making out, but thats just between me and my beautiful GF

Valentines Day: Take-advantage-of-my-friends day.

I save chocolates from mid-January, then sell them to my friends at Valentine prices. jk

I do give my girl a card that reads as follows, though:

"To my love,

I really wanted to buy you a $500 necklace, but instead I made a car payment.

In the long run you'll like the car more, and if you go make me a sandwich I'll buy you chocolates tomorrow when they're half off like I intend to have your clothing within the next few hours.

I love you,
Don't Kill Me"

True story, I do it every year.

....riiight.....

rofl, it's really just a bunch of inside jokes I have with her.

riiight...

You forgot the three periods in front of the word, like this:

...riiight...

nah thats my thing

Oh, sorry.

Back on topic: I hate V-day everywhere buy WoW.

hmmm i dont really wantto know why...

All I can think of when I see that is, "Somebody had to donate a heart for that to be molded." And that is quickly followed with, "And that is the reason I will never donate my organs."

Well, there are better reasons.

I'd buy that for myself, but I'm not a huge fan of Milk Chocolate. Too sweet.

But I don't like Valentine's Day either, for two reasons.
1) It's a coorporate scam to further indebt people and make the rich people even richer.
2) Why does it only have to be ONE day a year to do something for your sweetie? Spontinaety can make the experience just as heartfelt.

I find it funny that we celebrate a day made famous by a man who died uniting couples in an age that did not allow them to be married, yet the majority of the world doesn't believe in gay marriage.

i agree with Rae Rae why did they have to make a holiday that was started by a card company just to give your sweat heart a gift when i do that almost to often then when valentines day comes along, shesh! i gotta blow more money and in the middle of the week when im broke. oh well 1 thing i do know is that to get rid of Valentines day you would have to reform the whole world and we all know that's not going to happen.

Hey, respect where respect is due, Saint Valentine IS worthy of praise.

Did he shotgun puppies?


On the commercialism of Valentines day, stop complaining why not?

Realistically (aside from Sohmer's annual reminder that it serves as an emotionally easy way out to let the people you love know) there is nothing in this world that isn't commercialised, including death. People watch medical shows, hoping in the deep, shadow part of their soul that the person dies. Because it's a better story.

Aside from that, even, is the fact that every holiday was chosen abitrarily or politically. Christmas on December 25th was chosen because it happened to coincide with a great number of pagan winter festivals, making the transition from paganism to Christianity a lot smoother. After all, who wants to remember a bunch of new holy days? Same thing with Easter, really. Especially since rabbits and eggs, which are traditionally symbols of fertility and life respectively, are only used to represent Jesus in a time when there would have been pagan celebrations for the newly arrived Spring (which brings fertility and life).

So either stop bitching about Valentines or start bitching about the very foundations of symbols of all of the other public holidays because I've had enough of it.

Can I bitch about the inappropiate shape of valentine hearts?

Yes, anatomy is always acceptable.

Ever ripped out a Valentines day heart from someones chest?

Not yet, but I keep trying.