cupid is coming... hide your valuables

there are a number of things i've been meaning to post about for a while now, but i'm not going to. instead, i present you with my thoughts on valentines day.

now, i'm down with the concept of a holiday for romance. a nice excuse to take your significant other out for dinner and whatnot. hell, candy and flowers would be nice, if they hadn't been inflated to like 4 times their normal price just for the occasion. but some of the valentine's crap is just that. here are a few examples, provided by commercials that seem to be running non-stop at this point.

pajama-gram. you can send your lady anything from some sexy lingerie to a nice set of flannels. but how many guys do you really think are buying their wives something as sensible and utilitarian as a nice new set of flannel jammies, as opposed to the number who are plunking down serious cash for an outfit that is uncomfortable and serves no purpose beyond making him horny? that's not a gift for their girl, it's for themselves. guys, save some cash and just fuck her naked.

vermont teddy bears. in the commercial all the girls in an office are oooing and aahing over the "love bandit" teddy bear one of them got. not only is this pretty damned corny, but somewhere not too prominent this commercial will tell you that these bears cost $80. yes, 80 freaking dollars. i don't know about most women, but if some guy ever bought me an $80 teddy bear, i would bash him in the head with something heavy for being such an idiot.

and no, i'm not down on this stuff because i'm single, but because i'm sane. how much more would a little romance from your partner mean if it was "just because" instead of because it was that time of year again.