Valentine's Day Massacres

[Valmy]

We exchanged cards and hugged and kissed.  V-Day dinner tomorrow.  I thought I was clever but it seems almost as hard to get a dinner reservation the day after V-day as V-day itself 

[Martinus]

Do you avoid mirrors too?

Silly question, of course you do. You're a lawyer.

I don't cast reflection.

Magic Missile?

Feather Fall and Mage Armor. I tend to bump into things a lot.

[CountDeMoney]

On Valentine's Day, the world's Pornhub searches were baffling

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/on-valentines-day-the-worlds-pornhub-searches-were-baffling-10049736.html

[Valmy]

Nothing baffling about increasing interest in cupid porn.

[garbon]

http://kdvr.com/2015/02/16/teen-killed-in-shootout-leaves-behind-three-dead-family-members-mysterious-journey/

Teen killed in shootout leaves behind three dead family members, mysterious journey

It started as a police chase after a teenager allegedly ignored a traffic stop by a Maryland state trooper.

By the time it ended, the 16-year-old suspect was dead in a shootout with officers. During an investigation into the teen's background, police found three bodies at a Kentucky address linked to him.

Authorities in both states are trying to put together a timeline of events that ended with the shootout Saturday.

How did the teen, identified as Jason C. Hendrix of Corbin, Kentucky, get from his hometown to Baltimore County?

Did he kill his mother, father and sister?

If he did so, why? And when?

Could a dispute over computer use have something to do with it, as a newspaper reported?

And why did the teen head to Maryland?

Two states, many questions
It started as a mundane traffic stop on Valentine's Day.

Hendrix, who was driving a Honda Pilot, failed to stop when a state trooper tried to pull him over on Interstate 95, according to the Baltimore County Police Department.

A car chase ensued, and police cornered him after he struck another vehicle at an intersection in Woodlawn, forcing him to stop.

"As officers approached the Honda Pilot, gunfire came from the vehicle, striking an officer," authorities said. "Officers then returned fire on the vehicle."

Hendrix, who was alone in the car, was shot to death. The officer injured in the shootout was treated at a local hospital and released.

"His ballistic vest stopped the round that struck him," police said.

Authorities found a "handgun and other weapons" during a search of the suspect's car.

Report: Parents, sister shot in the head
About 500 miles away from the shootout, a grisly scene awaited.

Baltimore County detectives traced the suspect's car registration to an address in Corbin. They reached out to their counterparts there, who went to the address and found the bodies of Kevin Hendrix, his wife, Sarah, and their daughter, the local Times Tribune reported.

"Corbin police subsequently began a death investigation. ... (T)hat investigation continues at this time," Baltimore County authorities said.

Police are looking at Jason Hendrix as the main suspect in the deaths of his parents and sister, according to the paper, citing a Corbin city police detective.

Corbin Police Chief David Campbell told the Lexington Herald-Leader the teen "was mad at his parents over the usage of his computer. They had taken his computer rights away."

The Corbin Police Department declined to comment, saying it only had limited information.

Campbell told the Lexington newspaper that all three victims had been shot in the head at least twice.

"A pillow was used to try to muffle the gunshot used on all three individuals," he said. "The pillows were still on their faces."

At Union College, where Sarah Hendrix was an associate professor of social work, officials said in a Facebook post that the community was heartbroken.

"We have lost a member of our family, " the post said, "a wonderful educator, colleague, and friend."

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, that was the big news this weekend.  Fucking goofball.

[Martinus]

On Valentine's Day, the world's Pornhub searches were baffling

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/on-valentines-day-the-worlds-pornhub-searches-were-baffling-10049736.html

Crazy theory: single women go on Pornhub on Valentine's Day (which explains some of the "female fantasy" stuff on the list).

[Monoriu]

The best Valentine's day business idea that I have seen is a special set dinner for one person.

[Monoriu]

Japanese revolutionaries plot to 'crush St Valentine's Day'

Group of single Japanese men complain that the schmaltz of Valentine's Day is an attempt by "oppressive chocolate capitalists" to exploit consumers

By Julian Ryall, Tokyo

1:21PM GMT 11 Feb 2015

A group in Japan is planning a protest march in Tokyo on Valentine's Day, complaining that the event is a cynical money-making ploy by "oppressive chocolate capitalists".

The group, known as Kakuhido, which translates roughly as the Revolutionary Alliance of Men that Women find Unattractive, will march for an hour and a half through Tokyo's Shibuya district.

"The blood-soaked conspiracy of Valentine's Day, driven by the oppressive chocolate capitalists, has arrived once again," announced Kakuhido on its website.

"In order to create a brighter future, we call for solidarity among our unloved comrades so that we may demonstrate in resolute opposition to Valentine's Day and the romantic industrial complex", it added.

The group's organisers have provided their footsoldiers with a list of approved chants which include: "Crush St Valentine's Day!", "Do not be fooled by chocolate capitalism" and "Flirting is terrorism - wage war on terrorism!"

But its revolutionary credentials were slightly undermined by another note underneath asking for demonstrators to comply with the instructions of the police and not to do anything dangerous.

Kakuhido was founded in 2006 by Katsuhiro Furusawa, who started reading the Communist manifesto after being dumped by his girlfriend at Christmas - and swiftly concluded that not being popular with the opposite sex is a class issue.

Mr Furusawa, 33, insists on wearing a helmet, dark glasses and a scarf over the lower part of his face whenever he wages class war, a throwback to Japan's extremist left-wing student demonstrations of the 1960s.

"All the mass media does is dehumanise those who are not in love," Mr Furusawa told Aera magazine. "It makes them worthless.

"But the love the mass media is talking about is actually commercial love," he said. "They are using love to turn people into consumers."

Japan is in the middle of a romantic crisis, with men and women too busy or stressed by work to reproduce.

Mr Furusawa and his comrades protest on other occasions that are popular with Japanese couples and marched through Tokyo on December to protest the festivities of Christmas - shouting through megaphones at couples that they should "self-criticise".

This year's St Valentine's demonstration is likely to be the group's largest to date.

It is customary for Japanese women to give chocolates to men on Valentine's day.  Every time when I go to Japan before Valentine's day, entire floors of department stores are devoted to selling chocolates, and all the customers are females.  That is, everybody except me. 

[Syt]

http://rt.com/politics/232035-russia-valentine-boycott-parliament/

Nationalists call to boycott St Valentine's Day, praise Russia's own holiday

The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia is asking businesses to stop using St. Valentine's Day for marketing purposes, opting instead for the Orthodox holiday of St. Peter and Fevronia, which falls on July 8.

MP Aleksey Didenko has addressed the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs with a letter asking them to abstain from referring to Valentine's Day in their advertising campaigns as this leads to "excessive popularization" of the occasion that, in his opinion, is alien to the Russian people.

Didenko noted in his message that celebrating Valentine's Day "was nothing but bowing before the Western mass culture that impoverishes Russia's millennium-long history." He added that the fact that Valentine's was becoming popular among Russian youth was especially worrying.

The lawmaker suggested that businesses pay more attention to the Day of St. Peter and Fevronia, which has been celebrated by the Russian Orthodox Church for centuries on July 8. The date became an official state holiday – though not a day off work - in 2008 as the 'Day of Family, Love and Fidelity'.

In an interview with mass circulation daily Izvestia, Didenko called Valentine's Day "an artificial holiday" and added that typical Valentine-ish behavior was strongly against the Russian traditions as it allegedly allowed romance with many partners.

"It is absolutely wrong to celebrate St. Valentine's Day with three different women. But this is the holiday's tradition – everyone meet, confess their love to unlimited number of people and then just part. This is absolutely unacceptable in our culture, especially considering the fact that we have our own holiday," he said.

Another argument presented by Didenko was Valentine's tendency to deal a blow to everyday people's finances, which are usually in a rather desperate state after lengthy New Year celebrations.

Attacking Valentine's Day for its Western roots and commercial background has already become a staple in Russian politics and the MP acknowledged this fact in the interview.

"Attempts to shield our youth from the corrupting influence of this holiday have been made before and failed. However, we will continue asking businessmen and the heads of educational establishments not to ignore this problem and we will prepare legislative initiatives that will make our culture healthier," he said. "Import replacement must start from ideology and culture."

In contrast, MP Evgeny Sidyakin of the parliamentary majority United Russia party addressed the Justice Minister Aleksandr Konovalov with the suggestion to celebrate St. Valentine's with a 'Night in a Registry Office' event, similar to the popular 'Night of Museums'. Sidyakin holds that lovers must be given an opportunity to register their marriage right after making confessions to their loved ones, and state registry offices must work right through until the morning of February 15.

However, the MP noted that if his initiative was accepted it could also be introduced for St. Peter and Fevronia Day.

[Valmy]

In an interview with mass circulation daily Izvestia, Didenko called Valentine's Day "an artificial holiday" and added that typical Valentine-ish behavior was strongly against the Russian traditions as it allegedly allowed romance with many partners.

LOLWTF?

"It is absolutely wrong to celebrate St. Valentine's Day with three different women. But this is the holiday's tradition – everyone meet, confess their love to unlimited number of people and then just part. This is absolutely unacceptable in our culture, especially considering the fact that we have our own holiday," he said.

Clearly the Russians have different Valentine's Day traditions than the rest of us.

[Ed Anger]

Get drunk, beat the woman and fall asleep outside in the snow.

[Barrister]

So, Mrs B and I have a series of dance lessons on Sunday night.  In order to try and avoid getting two babysitters, we decided to go out for St Valentine's dinner on Sunday night before dance lessons.

However, the regular babysitter cancelled on us the day before, and the other babysitter wasn't available.  So we scrambled and got my gay nephew to come over (and he brought a female friend), but because he isn't used to this we cancelled dinner so all he had to do was put them to bed - we had them all fed, jammies on, teeth brushed.

So the sum total we did for St. Valentine's day is nothing.

[alfred russel]

Clearly the Russians have different Valentine's Day traditions than the rest of us.

Maybe their culture has something to offer after all?

Going back to CdM's search statistics, notice that "teen" is #1 and not included in the categories that increased.

[Admiral Yi]

So, Mrs B and I have a series of dance lessons on Sunday night.  In order to try and avoid getting two babysitters, we decided to go out for St Valentine's dinner on Sunday night before dance lessons.

However, the regular babysitter cancelled on us the day before, and the other babysitter wasn't available.  So we scrambled and got my gay nephew to come over (and he brought a female friend), but because he isn't used to this we cancelled dinner so all he had to do was put them to bed - we had them all fed, jammies on, teeth brushed.

So the sum total we did for St. Valentine's day is nothing.

Surely there must be a ton of laid off oil workers who could handle the job.