Singletons' Valentine's Day commiseration thread

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Who else is staying in and, in the words of Tim Canterbury, having a biiiig wank?

― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

ILX: FAW?

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to try to get a ticket for this collection of monologues downtown, "The Worst Sex I Ever Had."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. I just got roses from one of our suppliers -- strictly business! But still smelly.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

hello

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I was sent a packet of lovehearts by a print company trying to get my "business". I'm not single, so I shouldn't really be posting here. Sorry.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I need to finish an article today, so I won't have time for any Single on Valentine's Day sadness. And Valentine's is not a big thing in Finland anyway, though personally I find it nice. Anyway, I'm hoping ILXors will keep me company today while I struggle with my writing.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

hi everybody!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

We're typing about half these letters with the actual hand we're going to be using tonight, man! Isn't that romantic?

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

It's important to remember (apologies to nice folks in couples) JPS's dictum that Hell Is Other People.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

XP: I don't understand how that makes it different from any other day.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Seven years w/o a relationship! SEVEN FUCKING YEARS. I am going to stab myself in the eyes with heart-shaped lollipops.

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

I've just been invited to the pub by another single friend. She split up with her boyfriend about two weeks ago though, so the wank might've been more fun.

― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

tonight we use the special valentine's day hand (left)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

joe: rebound sex is your friend!!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

It seems that there is some sort of Valentine's Day party later on at my faculty clubhouse, which is right next to this computer class. Maybe I'll visit there. Maybe my singlehood will end tonight!

No, I don't think so either.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ken: we've been friends for ten years, so really not a good idea.

― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

unlucky

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

whenever i've been on a relationship on valentines, i always felt slightly jealous of all the single people drinking away their sorrows and having a whale of a time down the pub rather as opposed to spending a shedload of money on an overpriced and overcrowded dinner.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

It's important to remember (apologies to nice folks in couples) JPS's dictum that Hell Is Other People.
-- Dr Morbius (wjwe...), February 14th, 2006.

haha!

Just the job that.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

i may have reached an all time low, posting on a Singletons' Valentine's Day thread :-(

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

The Sausage and Mash Cafe on Essex Rd is offering a free sausage for singletons. Insert your own "free sausage" joke here.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

whereas those couples who have gone for a not overpriced and overcrowded dinner laugh at both groups.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

and then have passionate sex afterwards

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

erm. not helping am i sorry

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to be out tonight in bars filled with girls that have no one and thanks to the media feel lonely and unattractive and will be grateful for any male attention! Easy pickins howya?

Valentines day, you are designed for bastards!

Or am I?

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

i plan to create many a bastards tonight.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Fertile fist.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh calm down. I plan to go home and watch "The Women" and revel in snappy dialogue, then maybe I'll take myself out for dinner tomorrow, when it's not so crowded.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

single on v-day and i have pink eye. how appropriate!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

cor

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

my wife and i don't celebrate valentines day, why do we need a day to be reminded that we love each other. stupid. i bought her an ipod a few weeks ago though.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

To "singleton" I prefer "person with autonomy."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

whereas those couples who have gone for a not overpriced and overcrowded dinner laugh at both groups.

nah, they're just bickering over who has to do the dishes /sourgrapes

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

they probably have a dish washer too :(((((((((((

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

and she's probably on at him to get the bloody thing fixed because it makes all the glasses all chalky :-))))

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

or maybe it's not chalk, it's something else :-(((((

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ken C you dog!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

ken c you make me roffle

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to say something here, but then ILX went bye-bye.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

have you become un-single since then?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

I think I was just going to post something about how I was either going to go see Transamerica or clean my apartment tonight, depending on how I feel once I get off work. BOR-ING.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to go home anddo not much of anything.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

YSI?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

NO COMMISERATION - I am, no joke, listening to anth0ny robbins Personal p0wer stuff, which a friend dl-ed and burned for me! hahaha, really, at first I laughed, but it's totally good! I'm getting shit done and am going to go swimming soon! I'm not going to say that it wouldn't be nice to be with someone right now, but it's really nice to be doing the things I'm doing, I just happen to be single while doing them. And smiling. There have been waaay worse days - and screw that noise.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to watch last week's Lost, play a bit of age of empires 3, maybe pop down the local for a game of pool, then come home and get some work done.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

swimming will always feel better than romance. ALWAYS.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

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― ENBB, Monday, 14 February 2011 15:02 (fourteen years ago)

could be worse...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356779/Student-dumped-day-Valentines-Day-takes-street-hunt-Mr-Right.html

― not_goodwin, Monday, 14 February 2011 20:15 (fourteen years ago)

i am single.

but i have a really fucking promising date tomorrow with a girl i met at an audition for a play i'm doing.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 14 February 2011 20:16 (fourteen years ago)

Single. Seemingly spent most of the day listening to people who are in relationships saying "oh we don't do anything for Valentine's Day"

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Monday, 14 February 2011 20:19 (fourteen years ago)

happy valentine's day, ilxors :D

― markers, Monday, 14 February 2011 20:20 (fourteen years ago)

yes, boo hiss to all the happy couples

but srsly

<3 all yall

― frankly, mr. cankly (Pillbox), Monday, 14 February 2011 20:22 (fourteen years ago)

dawned on me today that i have been single every valentine's day, unsurprisingly i suppose i don't tend to have relationships which last, and the only thing i've ever got a girl for valentine's day is a toothbrush. girl i'd had a holiday romance with and kept up with for years by email was coming to visit me, coincidentally on valentine's day, and expressly forbade me from getting her a romantic gift, but she texted me from the train saying she'd forgottem to pack a toothbrush.

i'm a lot more unhappy about the fact that that reminiscence has reminded me of that girl, and the fact that we're no longer in contact, than i am about the fact that i'm always single on valentine's day, which tbh doesn't really bother me unduly.

― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Monday, 14 February 2011 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

yep spending it alone too as my wife is at a conference as well in the Couv.

― OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Monday, 14 February 2011 20:35 (fourteen years ago)

this year will be better than last year when I got drunk at home and passed out watching Old Boy on Netflix. It's really dumb that this holiday makes me sad at all. When I was in a relationship, it would make me sad because our Valentine's Days weren't romantic enough or as gratifying as what our coupled friends seemed to have.

― sarahel, Monday, 14 February 2011 20:35 (fourteen years ago)

We have invited a single friend over for dinner and a movie. I think we always feel better doing this than making a silly VD plan. We do remantic things together all the time. Saturday we went to the Silent Film Festival - I think that's turning into our ersatz VD celebration, anyway.

― Le mépris vient de la tête, la haine vient du cœur (Michael White), Monday, 14 February 2011 20:50 (fourteen years ago)

TBH even when I've had bf's I have never been given flowers or taken to dinner or any of that pap. The most I have had is I think once Nick drew me a cute comic version of himself holding a loveheart or something, which was p adorbs.

Actually, not that it's soething I'm into, but I cant think of very many times in my life at all where a guy has standard-style wooed me (flowers/dinner/a letter).

Now I'm depressed.

― Senor DingDong (Trayce), Monday, 14 February 2011 20:54 (fourteen years ago)

yes we celebrated on saturday instead of today.

― OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Monday, 14 February 2011 20:54 (fourteen years ago)

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/182654_10150144333086579_652906578_8106365_3655138_n.jpg

to you all

― ENBB, Monday, 14 February 2011 21:08 (fourteen years ago)

I've got a big night planned; a nice bottle of wine for two for one, watching Happy Together and getting shitfaced.

― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Monday, 14 February 2011 21:30 (fourteen years ago)

Ha, no, never mind, I'm working!

― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Monday, 14 February 2011 22:12 (fourteen years ago)

gonna be the 5th wheel at a German cafe tonight. their potato pancakes make me not care.

― beau jest faux-verdrive (San Te), Monday, 14 February 2011 22:14 (fourteen years ago)

Champagne + lobster ravioli + flowers are gonna be cheap as buttons tomorrow = awesome valentine's day!

― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 01:07 (fourteen years ago)

let me know where you are acquiring this button-priced lobster ravioli please. or better, just pick me up 2 packages.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 01:59 (fourteen years ago)

this is my seventh single valentine's day in a row

people who get all sad on v-day are so gross

THINK ABOUT IT: BEING SINGLE IS AMAZING

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:12 (fourteen years ago)

my date STOOD ME UP

― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:13 (fourteen years ago)

people on this thread should just hook up

i'll play matchmaker

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:14 (fourteen years ago)

i think san te and trayce would make a good couple imo

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:14 (fourteen years ago)

looks like I'm staying in tonight

― blond BBQ teen chipotle while angus bacon movies (crüt), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:17 (fourteen years ago)

I am chilling by my lonesome at a show. Women I have met may show up. Male/female ratio at show is promising. Will move closer to stage, away from bar soon.

― w/no hesitation (mh), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:21 (fourteen years ago)

lol san te and i would just bitch about work all night long and get cranky! =)

― Senor DingDong (Trayce), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:23 (fourteen years ago)

people who get all sad on v-day are so gross

This is otm, I spent last night gettin' my drank on and watching Simpsons DVDs all on my own in my trackpants and I HAD FUN.

― Senor DingDong (Trayce), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:24 (fourteen years ago)

bitching and arguing = passion

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:26 (fourteen years ago)

spent the night alternating between getting emo listening to Sally Shapiro and watching The Wild Bunch full of unfettered masculinity because that's ALL I NEED. Not sure what side won out.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:31 (fourteen years ago)

Ran six miles after work, and now I am going to have a whiskey and watch Cosmos.

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:48 (fourteen years ago)

drinking whiskey, smoking weed, listening to john fahey, contemplating watching a movie, preparing for radio show tomorrow.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:58 (fourteen years ago)

being single is fun for a little while but not as a long-term strategy imo

― pon de river, pon deez nuts (San Te), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 03:26 (fourteen years ago)

Listening to The Walker Brothers and drinking red wine. Might watch a downloaded Blue Valentine tonight. My first valentines being single in many years, and it's not much fun. I didn't think it would be a big deal, but somehow it's getting me down. I wish had recent ex hadn't sent me a casual Happy Valentines email. Maybe I'm being gross, but it's not much fun right now with these silly diamond commercials on television.

― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 03:31 (fourteen years ago)

i was gonna listen to the Beach Boys but my good mood was ruined when they closed a stretch of road on my long drive home which forced me into a 15 minute detour so now I'm back to listening to gangbanging music and I don't care who in this condo complex doesn't like it CUZ IT'S FUCKING HAPPENING...RIGHT....NOW!

― pon de river, pon deez nuts (San Te), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 03:33 (fourteen years ago)

There's no lessons in life, just streams of desire and lust and empathy and occasional moments of tenderness.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, February 15, 2006 1:49 AM (4 years ago)

finnish cowboy wisdom

― symsymsym, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 03:43 (fourteen years ago)

just can't quit tuom

― pon de river, pon deez nuts (San Te), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 03:47 (fourteen years ago)

listening to does not suffice by joanna newsom and ready to slit my wrists

― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 03:48 (fourteen years ago)

that's a metaphor for killing yourself

― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 03:48 (fourteen years ago)

― ENBB, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 04:10 (fourteen years ago)

you know the one good thing about valentine's day? it ends! 50 mins and I've endured another

― pon de river, pon deez nuts (San Te), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 04:10 (fourteen years ago)

― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 04:11 (fourteen years ago)

i'm eating pringles out of a pringles tube w/ a fork

― markers, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 04:26 (fourteen years ago)

what flavor, this is important

― ciderpress, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 04:30 (fourteen years ago)

~original~

― markers, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 04:30 (fourteen years ago)

[via 311]

― markers, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 04:30 (fourteen years ago)

"I'm eating pringles out of a pringles tube w/ a fork" LOL

― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 04:39 (fourteen years ago)

you stick a fork in the tube, slip the pringle between two prongs, and then left it out and eat it!!!!

― markers, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 04:43 (fourteen years ago)

or lift

― markers, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 04:43 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.avclub.com/articles/shock-the-bitch-b-ghostface-killahs-tips-for-valen%2C51832/

― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 08:18 (fourteen years ago)

i had forgotten it was valentine's day when I started listening to the Magnetic Fields at work. Was still listening to it (on shuffle) on the train home when I was looking around and wondering why there were so many couples canoodling around me. I remembered the date and then "When You're Old And Lonely" came on and I laughed out loud.

― Gukbe, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 08:27 (fourteen years ago)

I got better!

― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 14:12 (fourteen years ago)

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