Valentines day?

According to a recent study (don't ask me who) British people are the most romantic people in the world on Valentines day - supposedly in the fact that more valentines are sent in the Uk than any other country.

So being the romantic fool that you are how have you celebrated valentines day today with your spouse?

  Duh i wouldnt be allowed to forget.

Oh why did you put this thread up I only just told Helena that Valentines day is an American Holiday that we don't do over here.  Lets just hope she never looks in here so everyone shhhhhhhh.

Roses, wine, and love.

Oh why did you put this thread up I only just told Helena that Valentines day is an American Holiday that we don't do over here.  Lets just hope she never looks in here so everyone shhhhhhhh.

Just wondering if you are still alive over there.

Did she ever find out? Mr Snupy told me the same thing(and I believed him ), but only because he was planning a surprise fortnight here during V-Day, and he wanted to throw me off!

Well mr Snuppy is obviously the kind of man that makes it difficult for the rest of us bloody do-gooder   .  And yes I am still alive I told her I sponsored a badger in her name at the local badger preserve even printed out fake documents about the badgers name being Helena.

I probably shouldn't of written that last post   now I'm for it.

Wait..you mean you all celebrate Valentine's in the UK :-/--The Badger thing you gave me for my Birthday HUN!! Boy are you going to owe me big when I get there!!  

Well mr Snuppy is obviously the kind of man that makes it difficult for the rest of us bloody do-gooder   .  And yes I am still alive I told her I sponsored a badger in her name at the local badger preserve even printed out fake documents about the badgers name being Helena.

Look, zap42, I'm sorry right, what can I say!  I can only plead mitigating circumstances ~ It was our first Valentines Day!

Anyway, great idea about the badger thing ~ That's sorted out V-Day for Snupy next year! I owe you for that and sorry again about letting the Brit males down! [smiley=uhoh.gif]

Wait..you mean you all celebrate Valentine's in the UK :-/--The Badger thing you gave me for my Birthday HUN!! Boy are you going to owe me big when I get there!!  

I love the way you American ladies believed the us Brit Guys when we said we don't really do V-Day!  After all we created it in Victorian times, I believe, so we were bound to celebrate it!

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Hmmm!  There again we also created football, cricket, badminton, wellington boots, the Sinclair C5 electric car and driving on the left side of the road ~ Where did it all go soooo wrong?  

Actually, Mr Snupy, Valentine's Day goes a lot further back than that - back to the 14th C.  Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls is supposed to have been composed for St Valentine's.  Pepys's  diary mentions it a lot.

Also, driving on the left, according to some experts, was what the Romans did, and quite possibly what early settlers in America did too!  We just saw no reason to muck about with an established custom.

Amongst our inventions you might have mentioned baseball - yes! - baseball!  Jane Austen, for example, mentions it in Northanger Abbey (written in the late 1790s), Chapter I.

Best regards,
Howard the Pedant.

According to this site Valentines Day dates back to Roman times.

http://www.pictureframes.co.uk/pages/saint_valentine.htm

Howard that is fascinating about Northanger Abbey and baseball, I shall go and look that up immediately, you have no idea how useful that is!

Actually, Mr Snupy, Valentine's Day goes a lot further back than that - back to the 14th C.  Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls is supposed to have been composed for St Valentine's.  Pepys's  diary mentions it a lot.
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Amongst our inventions you might have mentioned baseball - yes! - baseball!  Jane Austen, for example, mentions it in Northanger Abbey (written in the late 1790s), Chapter I.

Best regards,
Howard the Pedant.

Thank you Howard,
Was it just the custom of sending a card to a loved one on St Valentine's Day that was started by Victoria sending one to Albert then? Or was that St Hallmark?   I get so confused!  

And Howard that's great, yet another sport WE (the Brits) invented and now aren't any good at!  :'( ~ We should have kept the rules secret and then tweaked them so that we could keep on winning!   (That kinda assumes we actual won at the games when we first invented them! :-/ )

And thinking about it ~ As Eddie Izzard says (Snupy will be so proud of me for quoting him!) "Well done the Americans ~ You've won the World Series EVERY year since it started!" ~ And yes, before you all rush in I have read in the sports section about it being named after the "Chicago World" newspaper! However they said when the paper stopped sponsoring they dropped the "Chicago" bit!  So, they just forgot to drop the "World" bit then ~ How strange!

PS. Also forgot to mention we also created/intented the Computer and the Internet (well the www HTTP bit anyways) ~ And where are they now also, ehh!  

Mr snuppy if you need any other fake gift ideas sorting let me know managed 6 birthdays and 6 christmas's so far and haven't spent a penny   .  It is great what you can mock up on the internet, mind you I am a little worried that when Helena moves here (x fingers) she might try and claim her her rights of Barroness of Greater Manchester then I will be for it again.

Oh no just thought last year I sponsored a dolphin at chester zoo they don't even have dolphins   I wonder if I can pretend it was an otter.

You're quite right, dear Mr Snupy:  the cards started in Victorian times.  According to my source, "Sending special letters probably dates from the mid-18th century, and grew steadily more popular. Special writing paper was available in the 1820s; the commercially produced card appeared around 1840, and by the 1860s was big business." (Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore).

yet another sport WE (the Brits) invented and now aren't any good at!

 Yup!  And don't forget golf and lawn tennis - we're no good at those either!

Thanks for the link, dear Britwife!  I never realized the custom went that far back.