The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

A girl made me chocolate for valentines day. Which was....disturbing.

Anyway. This is the best time of year to not have a girlfriend.
In the west anyway. Its next month I have to be careful about in Japan. Especially since things are looking iffy on the single front these days.

[Admiral Yi]

In Japan Valentine's is the day girls are supposed to give gifts to guys.  They have another one called White Day when you're supposed to give to the chicks.

[PDH]

Giving it to the Japanese chicks is the dream of several posters here.

[Ed Anger]

Giving it to the Japanese chicks is the dream of several posters here.

I want to do it while dressed as Pappy Boyington.

[PDH]

Whistling Death takes on a whole new meaning.

[CountDeMoney]

Try telling her that.

Or don't. Just walk away.

I did.  IN 1999.

That's a long walk.

Pretty fucking tough with this limp, too.

[Sheilbh]

Yesterday a kid pointed at me and said 'Look Mummy!  It's Johnny English!'

I am livid.

[garbon]

[jimmy olsen]

I will be spending valentines alone in my crystal fortress. I did send the questing beast her obligatory message, however.

What does this even mean!?

[garbon]

I will be spending valentines alone in my crystal fortress. I did send the questing beast her obligatory message, however.

What does this even mean!?

As the drummer boy go ba-rom-pop-pom-pom

[Eddie Teach]

I will be spending valentines alone in my crystal fortress. I did send the questing beast her obligatory message, however.

What does this even mean!?

He'll be spending Valentine's Day alone but he sent a card to a gal he's sweet on, presumably one well out of his league.

[Ideologue]

I will be spending valentines alone in my crystal fortress. I did send the questing beast her obligatory message, however.

What does this even mean!?

Wait, the questing beast is a fucking person?

LETTOW77 HAS A FUCKBUDDY?

That's it.  It's firearms and pipe bombs from here on in.

[Lettow77]

 What? Don't misunderstand in the least. Also, well out of my league? Goodness! The questing beast is rather homely, and sickly; she announces she is "independent" while independently living in her parents' house, cannot hold a job, does not know the grace of bangs, wasn't kissed until she was over 18, adores trashy vampire "literature", and has nothing interesting to say or do. Moreover, she contains slavic blood.

If she had sexual desire in me, i'd be mortified; I have rejected 3D women's impure advances, after all.

All of this said, the Questing Beast exists to be pursued without any reason, and she is the Questing Beast, so she will receive epistles of praise and letters of longing for as long as we both endure- assuming she remains an undefiled virgin as pure as the driven snow, that is. She is in this respect at least pleasant- her numerous failings have served to keep her isolated from contamination.

[Eddie Teach]

The questing beast is rather <> sickly;

I thought you dug that.

Also this:

wasn't kissed until she was over 18

[Lettow77]

 Truth be told, I sort of do 
It isn't an endearing sickliness that saps her energy and leaves her perpetually melancholy out on the veranda or draped upon a chaise longue- rather, she takes a cocktail of pills for garden variety illnesses and mental problems, and likely will have more serious problems as she ages. The sort of thing that cuts into lifespan, creates chemical dependency, and whispers of expensive medical bills to come.

Not the romantic image of the consumptive lady, no.   

edit: and yes, her chaste nature is her greatest virtue. Still, she's far removed from my notion of attractive. The odds of her greeting her weary husband's arrival home in an apron and bringing delicious tea are vanishingly remote.

Edit: It's been a year and a day single, now! I feel fairly optimistic about the day. I blame it entirely on soft music- it's shocking how much influence the right song at the right time can have. How soon until I can prepare morning tea without waking my wonderful roommate, I wonder?