Valentine's Day
February 14th. There are many observances related to this day, the most famous being “St. Valentine’s Day” (or simply “Valentine’s Day”) and the most infamous being the anniversary of the “Valentine’s Day Massacre (1929)”.
Other observances include “Admittance Day” for Oregon and Arizona (they officially became states on February 14: 1859 for Oregon, 1912 for Arizona), “Ferris Wheel Day”, “National Condom Day (US)” (no joke - you can’t make this stuff up), “Stop the Violence Day (US)”, “National Impotence Day (UK)”, “Congenital Heart Defect Day”, and “Love Sucks Day”. In Norway, it’s “Ballantine’s Day”. There are probably more, but these were some of what I found doing a casual Google search.
“Love Sucks Day” is the ‘flip-side’, if you will, of “Valentine’s Day”. “Valentine’s Day” is essentially a time for couples celebrate the fact that they are couples. “Love Sucks Day” is essentially a time where single, unattached people (those without “significant others”) commiserate the fact that they are single and unattached. Sort of similar to Norway’s “Ballantine’s Day”.
As for me, I’m more of the “Love Sucks Day” celebrant. “Love Sucks Day”, I think, is really a misnomer; more appropriately (I think) would be “Lack of Love Sucks Day”. But then, that doesn’t have the same ring to it. Besides, part of “Love Sucks Day” is making fun of all those nauseating things couples do for “Valentine’s Day”, as well as making fun of the greeting card companies, florists, chocolate factories, etc. (because everyone knows that “Valentine’s Day” is just a made-up ‘holiday’ promoted by these companies and industries to foist their wares upon us).
Not that I really believe that. But then again, as long as I don't have anyone to celebrate “Valentine’s Day” with, I might as well pretend to.
Other observances include “Admittance Day” for Oregon and Arizona (they officially became states on February 14: 1859 for Oregon, 1912 for Arizona), “Ferris Wheel Day”, “National Condom Day (US)” (no joke - you can’t make this stuff up), “Stop the Violence Day (US)”, “National Impotence Day (UK)”, “Congenital Heart Defect Day”, and “Love Sucks Day”. In Norway, it’s “Ballantine’s Day”. There are probably more, but these were some of what I found doing a casual Google search.
“Love Sucks Day” is the ‘flip-side’, if you will, of “Valentine’s Day”. “Valentine’s Day” is essentially a time for couples celebrate the fact that they are couples. “Love Sucks Day” is essentially a time where single, unattached people (those without “significant others”) commiserate the fact that they are single and unattached. Sort of similar to Norway’s “Ballantine’s Day”.
As for me, I’m more of the “Love Sucks Day” celebrant. “Love Sucks Day”, I think, is really a misnomer; more appropriately (I think) would be “Lack of Love Sucks Day”. But then, that doesn’t have the same ring to it. Besides, part of “Love Sucks Day” is making fun of all those nauseating things couples do for “Valentine’s Day”, as well as making fun of the greeting card companies, florists, chocolate factories, etc. (because everyone knows that “Valentine’s Day” is just a made-up ‘holiday’ promoted by these companies and industries to foist their wares upon us).
Not that I really believe that. But then again, as long as I don't have anyone to celebrate “Valentine’s Day” with, I might as well pretend to.
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