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[TempAcc]

Maybe it wasn't a joke ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Dunamisdeos]

You kids make me happy on Valentines with your tales of mystery romance.

Conversely, if my friends has messed with my crush in that manner, I would crush them, as it were.

[Teneb]

This day always makes me appreciate the irony of a country with a protestant majority celebrating it, while a country with a catholic majority does not.

[TheBiggerFish]

All these people having happy or weird or any Valentines' Day stories, and I have zero.

Really, this is more of a sad than anything else, but I'm here now, not in the Sad Thread.

[itisnotlogical]

I found a face massage that really helps my congestion. I'm not a person for whom massage usually works, I hate being touched and self-administered ones are minor relief at best. Massaging the sides of my nose (just under the bone) in a circular fashion, then the superorbital notch (a bone notch above each of your eyes, under your eyebrows) then blowing my nose will clear my sinuses and/or relieve the pressure for ten to fifteen minutes. I still wish I had medicine but it helps way, way more than I thought it would.

[milo christiansen]

Wait, today is Valentine's day?

Still not as bad as the year (several years actually) where I forgot my birthday...

[Sirus]

All these people having happy or weird or any Valentines' Day stories, and I have zero.

Really, this is more of a sad than anything else, but I'm here now, not in the Sad Thread.

Not having any Valentine's Day stories is, well, kinda normal for me. I don't think I've really celebrated it since grade school.

[TheBiggerFish]

All these people having happy or weird or any Valentines' Day stories, and I have zero.

Really, this is more of a sad than anything else, but I'm here now, not in the Sad Thread.

Not having any Valentine's Day stories is, well, kinda normal for me. I don't think I've really celebrated it since grade school.

Neither have I really?  But I mean, nothing interesting happened even then.

[Sergarr]

All these people having happy or weird or any Valentines' Day stories, and I have zero.

Really, this is more of a sad than anything else, but I'm here now, not in the Sad Thread.

Not having any Valentine's Day stories is, well, kinda normal for me. I don't think I've really celebrated it since grade school.

Wait, is Valentine's Day supposed to be celebrated? I thought that it was just a silly movie invention

[TheBiggerFish]

All these people having happy or weird or any Valentines' Day stories, and I have zero.

Really, this is more of a sad than anything else, but I'm here now, not in the Sad Thread.

Not having any Valentine's Day stories is, well, kinda normal for me. I don't think I've really celebrated it since grade school.

Wait, is Valentine's Day supposed to be celebrated? I thought that it was just a silly movie invention

Some people do.

[overseer05-15]

[unwarrantedopinion]valentines day is a sin[/unwarrantedopinion]

[Baffler]

[unwarrantedopinion]valentines day is a sin[/unwarrantedopinion]

It's a corruption of the feast day of a martyr, but it's also a very old one.

[TempAcc]

Saint Sebastian day is clearly the best day, so nobody cares about valentine, so its ok to use it for a cooler purpose.

[smjjames]

An Oklahoma Republican rep. says that pregnant women are 'hosts'. Wat.....

If an alien were looking at how placental mammal reproduction works, I suppose they'd call it the 'host', but that's only when looking at it in a 100% scientifically logical way that is free of emotion and it certainly describes the function. But still, I really don't agree with that label.

I know it's a feminist article on The Guardian, but the links to the original articles are in there.

[hector13]

An Oklahoma Republican rep. says that pregnant women are 'hosts'. Wat.....

If an alien were looking at how placental mammal reproduction works, I suppose they'd call it the 'host', but that's only when looking at it in a 100% scientifically logical way that is free of emotion and it certainly describes the function. But still, I really don't agree with that label.

I know it's a feminist article on The Guardian, but the links to the original articles are in there.

My favourite was Humphrey's justification, assuming that all unintentional pregnancies result from irresponsibility on the part of the woman:

At first, Humphrey said that the original intention of the bill was to ensure that fathers are involved in supporting a child from conception. “I was wanting fathers to have to pay child support at the beginning,” he said, but that specific language was excised from the bill.

Ultimately, he said, his intent was to let men have a say. “I believe one of the breakdowns in our society is that we have excluded the man out of all of these types of decisions,” he said. “I understand that they feel like that is their body,” he said of women. “I feel like it is a separate — what I call them is, is you’re a ‘host.’ And you know when you enter into a relationship you’re going to be that host and so, you know, if you pre-know that then take all precautions and don’t get pregnant,” he explained. “So that’s where I’m at. I’m like, hey, your body is your body and be responsible with it. But after you’re irresponsible then don’t claim, well, I can just go and do this with another body, when you’re the host and you invited that in.”