It’s that time of year again
Here’s a lesson to anyone who thinks that Valentine’s Day gestures are ‘a good idea’:
http://failblog.org/?s=proposal
Call us cynics... But frankly, Valentine’s Day just isn’t what it used to be. The vast majority of people fall into at least one of the following categories:
1. Single people, who would rather have a root canal than spend the day watching friends celebrate the fact that they can no longer have a night on the tiles without checking with ‘my other half’.
2. Buyers of overpriced Valentine’s Day gifts, who had to remortgage their house in order to get some dog-eared roses and a bottle of pink cava delivered by breakfast.
3. Recipients of aforementioned tat. You shouldn’t have. Seriously, you shouldn’t have.
It used be an innocent time, when single people would excitedly for the postman to arrive, hoping desperately that he’d be bearing a message from their secret crush... now it’s all about couples lavishing each other with cheap chocolates and crap poetry. Ugh.
Thankfully, an anti-Valentine voice is finally being heard. Leading matchmaking website mysinglefriend.com has taken a stand – by kidnapping the cuddly teddy bear, the saccharin face of Valentine’s Day...
www.thebeargetsit.com
Log on to the campaign website, and put your name to a petition that states: until Valentine’s Day is returned to its rightful owners – single people – the bear stays behind bars. You can also have a look at the Cemetery of Schmaltz, dedicated to all the horrible Valentine paraphernalia that will put you off passion forever...