Weirdest gift you ever got for Valentine’s Day

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Are you crazy! I already have to sleep with one eye open. I have to hide the money too, or I'd be a goner.
 

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holy hell! :bwahaha:

Oh that is naaaassty...

Wonder if that's what B&G gave the wife yesterday? A hairy heart-sack?

Speaking of...what did Sas get you for the holiday that y'all don't celebrate?
 
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Oh that is naaaassty...

Wonder if that's what B&G gave the wife yesterday? A hairy heart-sack?

Speaking of...what did Sas get you for the holiday that y'all don't celebrate?
We didn’t exchange gifts or cards, we shared a nice steak dinner at home.
 

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Is it romantic to re-watch the Red Wedding on Valentine's Day? That is what me and the Mrs did.
 

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Ok, this wasn't a Valentines gift, but the weirdest gift I ever got was a birthday present from my mother in law. It was a box cutter and an issue of Sports Illustrated with Tim Tebow on the cover crying after the Gators lost to Alabama in the '09 SEC Championship game. My birthday is in July.

I'm not making this up. My mother in law got me a box cutter and a 6 month old issue of SI.
Maybe she wanted you to use the box cutter to cut the issue?
 

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My husband and I don't buy into the Valentine's hype as it is mostly a manufactured promotion for the financial benefit of card companies, candy makers, florists, and jewelers.

The origins of the "holiday" are scandalous and it is unlikely women today would want to participate in the celebration of this day as it was in ancient Rome. Don't know as the same could be said for some of you boys, though ; )

https://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day

Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate romance and love and kissy-face fealty. But the origins of this festival of candy and cupids are actually dark, bloody — and a bit muddled. The Romans executed two men by that name
on Feb. 14 of different years in the 3rd century A.D. Though no one has pinpointed the exact origin of the holiday, one good place to start is ancient Rome, where men hit on women by, well, hitting them.

Those Wild And Crazy Romans

From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain.

The Roman romantics "were drunk. They were naked," says Noel Lenski, a historian at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Young women would actually line up for the men to hit them, Lenski says. They believed this would make them fertile. The brutal fete included a matchmaking lottery, in which young men drew the names of women from a jar. The couple would then be, um, coupled up for the duration of the festival — or longer, if the match was right.

The ancient Romans may also be responsible for the name of our modern day of love. Emperor Claudius II executed two men — both named Valentine — on Feb. 14 of different years in the 3rd century A.D. Their martyrdom was honored by the Catholic Church with the celebration of St. Valentine's Day.

Later, Pope Gelasius I muddled things in the 5th century by combining St. Valentine's Day with Lupercalia to expel the pagan rituals. But the festival was more of a theatrical interpretation of what it had once been. Lenski adds, "It was a little more of a drunken revel, but the Christians put clothes back on it. That didn't stop it from being a day of fertility and love."

Around the same time, the Normans celebrated Galatin's Day. Galatin meant "lover of women." That was likely confused with St. Valentine's Day at some point, in part because they sound alike.
 

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