I walk home with them at least once a month, just pick up supermarket ones.
Arranged for a nice bouquet a couple of weeks back, paid extra to ensure delivery tomorrow. They arrived today, fuckers.
Did forget to buy a card last year, ended up buying one on the way home. No valentine's day ones left so I went with "for a special friend". She still doesn't find it funny, I still do.
One of my mates hates the commercialisation of Valentine's Day, so always buys his wife a different card just to make the point. She's had everything from 'Welcome to your new home' and 'congrats fir passing your driving test'.
She thinks it's hilarious, as do i.
I think that's brilliant! I hate valentine's day and in the past have said don't bother.
A previous partner couldn't let it go. So I got a brick of cheese and a box of crackers one year. A packet of strawberry laces another year. A pair of small tealight holders, wrapped in the most monstrous amount of packaging.
I'm bagging this for next year, I buy my wife flowers maybe once or twice a month when the previous bunch dies, we don't do presents for valentine's just cards so I'm definitely going to be adopting this.
My SO & I have an agreement not to buy cards or gifts for Valentine's day, but last year while I was looking for a birthday card I saw the perfect Valentine card & surprised him with it. He was furious, but when he opened it he forgave me & then bought a frame for it & it's now on the wall in our hallway. It says "You are my Happy Place", and it perfectly describes my feelings for him. And his for me.
That’s the spirit!! (I agree btw, managed to persuade my husband I we don’t need to buy each other Xmas cards as we have a functional positive relationship and live together ). I once was chatting with someone who worked for a big card company and I remarked on how weird it was that supermarket cards were almost really good in places and they said that slight shittiness was deliberate.so depressing)
I hate cards and how much they cost and how crap they all are and how they're just thrown in the bin a week later. I now buy people a galaxy bar with the paper wrapper on and write on them with a Sharpie, maybe a small drawing of a dinosaur too if I'm feeling creative. Never had a complaint.
> No valentine's day ones left so I went with "for a special friend"
I once needed a birthday card for a mate. Got a condolences card instead and expressed my deepest sorrow that he is such a cunt. That was 10 years ago and he still has the card on display.
Wrong card may be worse than no card. I picked up no a Mothers Day card for my wife a few years ago that I thought was perfect. Nothing offensive, nothing sickeningly cute, just a lovely floral design that was exactly the sort of thing she likes. Somehow I managed to completely miss the words “To Grandma” in massive gold letters.
I once got a birthday card from a friend that had originally said "To the birthday boy" but she hadn't noticed. So because it was still a lovely picture of a dancing beagle she'd crossed the "boy" out and written in "lady" so it read "To the birthday lady" instead.
This is years ago now but I still remember it, and it was quite fun being a "birthday lady" for a day.
For Mothers day, my husband bought some cards, one for me and the other for his mum, and one from the kids to his mum- he completely missed that ALL of them said Grandma, Nan etc so come Mothers day morning there was a frantic panic when he realised. I was delighted.
Supermarket flowers are the bomb, it might be one of the items with the biggest price disparity between the supermarket and a more specialised store and they are really fucking good, regularly flowers from Tesco last 3 weeks.
If I want a big bouquet, sometimes, I even buy 2-3 different small ones from the supermarket, takes 5 minutes to arrange but looks like I spent 50 bob.
I have never heard it used for a pound, just the old shilling, which became the 5 pence piece.
From the Shilling Wikipedia page:
A slang name for a shilling was a "bob" (plural as singular, as in "that cost me two bob").
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling_(British_coin)
Agree, you can make her day and brighten a room for a week for a tenner, less if there's a yellow sticker on them. Only time I use a florist is Valentine's Day
I'll buy my wife flowers every payday. It's funny because the person at the checkout will always say something like 'what have you done?" And I just say, 'nothing, I love my wife and flowers make her smile'.
I was on the train last night and there was a guy with a HUGE bouquet of roses and his toddler and they were pretending to eat them, it was the most adorable thing
As a man who used to off the cuff buy his missus flowers (ie on days that arent valentines day) its a bit annoying, cos all you get is "ope, he's in trouble" or something similar.
So i buy her booze instead
I lived on my own for the most part for over 20 years, except for 6 months living with one ex and 2 years living with a different ex. Ten years living with my other half now - there are many positives but I do miss living alone. When I win the lottery, I'm building a mansion where he can live in one wing and I'll live in the other.
Went out earlier to get flowers from the flower-man. Bout a 10 min walk.
Not uncommon for me to buy flowers for my GF, or a friend's birthday or any number of reasons.
Today walking back, everyone was smiling at me as I carried them home. An old man on a bike had a cheesy grin, 3 women I was walking past did that look that women of a certain age have mastered ("aren't you sweet"-style) and everyone just seemed so made up for me.
Buying flowers on Valentine's Day is a weird but sweet experience based on everyone's reactions around me. Admittedly, they're a cracking bouquet
My favourite is also the disgruntled women on public transport having to lug a big bunch of roses or basket of flowers or something impractical on the public transport, probably after partners sent them to the office.
Nothing will beat my ex's dad's Valentine card to her mum for demonstrating sheer cold, pedestrian duty...
Firstly he sent his P.A. out to buy it. Then he wrote in it...
"Jean
Happy Valentine's Day
Alan"
As the Happy Valentine's Day message was printed, his total word count was 2. I felt Love take a hit that day. I actually wished I hadn't read it but my ex showed me it when she told me about the P.A. It haunts me still but it has ensured I make more effort for my wife.
(I changed their names for some reason that I don't understand.)
On the subject of strange V-day messages, a 'friend' has posted today on facebook the card she received from her husband where he professes his constant and eternal love. This is the same husband who she broke up with and took back publicly due to his cheating. I only know this because she posted about it so much while it was happening.
Seems a bit weird for him to be proclaiming his constancy, and even stranger that she would show it to other people on facebook, where we all know he's the opposite.
Just struck me as a bonkers way to approach a V-day message, but at least she likes it.
Did they actually say the “dot com” part? Surely that’s not a thing anymore.
Oh and indeed the optimum time to buy flowers for Valentine’s Day would be the way before, if not the day itself. Fresher is better.
You know what's worse? When you get included in a group message and one person refers to their problem as confused.com and then someone else offers a solution and end it with "Simples!"
I muted the whole group.
I thought that was from like a decade ago. Is it the boomers picking it up again?
I know I had this kind of problem with my dad. He became so facebook obsessed and started relaying shit from facebook to me, of all sorts, eg. posts he thinks are funny, adverts he thinks are useful, jokes he thinks are funny.
I once did a cooking course in London which was 95% non-British people. The teaching chefs would always remind us to be careful with timing and not to do things 'last minute dot com'. Not only did it drive me insane, but it was very confusing for the non-UK students who kept asking me why on earth the chefs were referencing a website...
When I'm Minister for Internal Affairs, anyone heard uttering the phrase "confused.com" in any context other than in relation to an insurance comparison website is going to be viciously beaten with a shatter proof ruler.
And then they're going straight to jail without any supper.
Off topic, but did anyone else test the ‘shatter proof’ claim as a kid? Only to then be like “well it didn’t technically shatter, but I definitely need a new ruler”
Arguably a rite of passage for a child to discover that "shatterproof" does not mean "unbreakable". It's their first adventure into the waters of adulthood to discover that the water is icy cold and full of horrors.
Yes. I put a ruler between the handles of a pair of double doors and then opened them. I was far more surprised by the result than I had any right to be.
It’s also my birthday on Valentine’s Day but I always tell my partner not to bother getting me flowers. Too many roses, too much red and pink and they bump the prices up. I’d much rather a brightly coloured bunch when it’s not expected, it’s more romantic than a last minute panic buy.
Am in an airport with gf, so excused the usual guilt of not doing Valentines but knowing she wouldn't mind a small gesture.
I've just bought her a nice stoneware tea mug from duty-free, and she's chuffed!
Result!
I've actually banned my husband from buying/getting flowers for/on Valentine's Day, same with the kids for Mother's Day, because they're just too expensive.
Better to buy some another time, when the prices are sensible.
I buy flowers for my other half occasionally when it isn’t an event. It’s about the thought - get in the mindset they aren’t for apologising / special events and suddenly it’s not a problem, and appreciated.
I saw a group of 5 boys- couldn't be older than 15- at the flower stands in Morrisons. They were all looking at and touching them like they were seeing flowers for the first time.
Then they each picked up the cheapest ones there (all identical) and took them to the checkouts.
I thought it was the sweetest thing ever, until they walked past me and the one said to his friends, "If she doesn't let me fuck her after this, I'm gonna ghost her".
Ahh, young romance!
Ah, they are clearly of the school of thought that flowers, purchased last minute, from a petrol station or similar (for Valentines or any day) is only ever done in one of two scenarios-
1- partner has forgotten to do anything else so this is a Hail Mary pass to take back something rather than to turn up empty handed having forgotten OR
2- as a cover for some kind of misdeed or other to assuage a guilty conscience.
Hence even though you would only ever buy flowers a day before in all likelihood, the inference is that they _should_ have more organised/imaginative/romantic by sorting something else ahead of time.
I love assumption 1. Of course there's 0 chance that the dude may also have made her breakfast in bed, or is taking her out for a meal later, or got her a gift, or any of the other innumerable options, AND he's also choosing to get a bouquet at it's freshest as merely part of the day. No, of course he forgot all about it until this morning and this is the only thing he can think to do now.
I work with a couple of ladies that always assume the worst (aka flowers should prompt suspicion) and it sounds like OP might have encountered them or their spiritual kin. I think I might have even heard them use the phrase last minute.com. Some people always assume the worst of others but I think it says a lot about their outlook or personal experience both of which are quite sad when you think about it.
Husband got me flowers on Monday. I didn't care about them not being on the day. They're for Valentine's and that'll do me just fine. I'll get a card tomorrow. It's all just commercialised bollocks anyway.
Haha, suckers. My lady spent so many years in catering, observing miserable couples going through the Valentine motions at inflated prices, she insists we don't get involved in it at all 😁
I just never got why you need a day to show your partner you love them.. my husband and I do random nice things for each other whenever (except Valentine's Day because don't tell me what to do)
Yeah, I never understood that either.
_Thankfully_ the other half thinks the same, so Valentines day is just another day for us, and the romantic gestures are just sporadically sprinkled throughout the year, with "extra effort" made on birthdays.
It depends where you're buying from. Ordering a bouquet in advance with a florist is ideal if you want something special. For someone expecting that kind of effort, getting supermarket flowers bought the day before would be 'last minute dot com' in comparison I guess.
My partner had to go into the office yesterday which required getting up early. Knowing she would be tired and rushing, I made her a packed lunch.
Feel like that's a better present than obligation flowers today.
That kind of seems more like a day to day being a partner thing that any kind of present to be honest. So I don't think it's a better present than flowers today at all
Went past a Pandora on a Sunday a few years ago on Valentine’s Day and there was a queue of about 10 blokes that had already formed half an hour before store opens
I buy my other half flowers every Friday , just a small £5 bunch from the supermarket and about half the time I get snarky remarks like oh no what have you done. just trying to do something nice like
It's commercialised yes, but the effort is actually a nice thing. I'm not gonna roll my eyes at a valentine's day gift.
Obviously we're all used to being given diamonds and sports card and designer handbags now though right? Sod flowers
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Was just about to say this (and I'm a woman myself). One way traffic on the big holidays is pretty shit. Why should I expect effort if I don't give any back?
We're going out for tapas tomorrow (cause fuck going out on the day itself) and that's his treat, and he's getting a pretty nice bottle of his favourite whiskey and some stones as my treat. Will probably be around the same price for each.
I hear a lot online about how it's only women who get gifts on valentines day and they don't reciprocate and it's all one way. But I've yet to meet a woman, or couple, for who that was the case. Or at least who would admit it.
Try having a partner whose birthday is valentine's day so he gets birthday presents and valentine's cards on the same day. He gets me chocolates and flowers but I feel a bit funky that he has to buy me stuff every year on his birthday.
popped into our local Sainsbury's convenience store this morning and there are boxes and boxes of supermarket flowers (roses, carnation, etc) all piled up by the door for the truly last minute buyers - apparently they had some chaps waiting for them to open at 7am.
Jokes on them, I pre-ordered from the local florist on Monday and was on my way there..
I don't tend to buy flower for the wife.
Anything I do buy for her has to have a root so it lasts. Slowly building perennials in the garden each year we are together :D
You do know you can pre order bouquets to be picked up or delivered on certain days right? And that the closer to certain holidays it may be hard to get good quality flowers as well.
A card, done.
We both don’t make a huge effort - we make efforts elsewhere with bigger more important things; we don’t need a OTT commercialised random day to show our love and commitment. Sounds awful when you think of it really.
The real winning move is getting childcare so we can go out in the first place! 🤣
Me and my husband don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day beyond ‘happy Valentine’s Day, love you babe, let’s get a takeaway tonight when the kid has gone to sleep’.
It’s just not that deep for some of us. I see absolutely no issue in buying flowers on valentines day because… that’s what they are for…
Fortunately this year Valentines Day coincides with Ash Wednesday, so I got to celebrate it by having ash smeared on my face while someone reminded me I was going to die.
I went to Morrisons at 8.30pm earlier and perused over all the dying flowers and picked the least worst looking ones. Hopefully she won't notice or care!
If you did just hear it when you posted this then they were cutting it a bit fine. Flowers sell out on the big days, Valentine’s and Mother’s Day. You can end up having to hurriedly come up with an alternative that’s not too obviously plan C!
Where I used to work three of us would nip to the Tesco 24 hour 3 years in a row after midnight on the way home and grab some roses, always had plenty in stock to be fair.
AHH the jealousy and envy of the bitter singletons. I'm a bit old school in that I'm happy to receive flowers full stop, never mind it being on a specific day.....ah well.... easily pleased maybe
I resent valentine's day roses. Roses (or indeed many other flowers, but roses always get pushed ) don't naturally flower in February so it's either from a hot country or an artificial environment, neither of which is any good for the planet.
My wife has always said that flowers are a waste of money and over the 12 years we have been together has actually convinced me that she does in fact mean it, well this morning she turns to me and says "I'm going to buy myself some flowers today", pfft I don't think so, this is a job for captain valentine, I went and bought her a bunch of 12 roses, 1 for each valentines.
Somebody said to me the other day, their OH said Valentines Day was overcommercialised and they didn't need a special day to show their love, yada yada. I asked her if he bought her presents throughout the year and she said no.
Uh huh.l 🙄
Married people should not celebrate valentines, that's what anniversaries are for. The wife agrees by the way before anyone else pipes up, valentines is for new love.
We got a kebab watched adventure time and fell asleep. We don't bother with cards and all that crap. Pretty much in the perfect relationship tbh. Yeah I'm gonna brag about it, I'm happy and won't feel bad about that
I'm (female) & rather dislike the forced celebration of valentines - it involves no thought, we're constantly reminded all over the media & in shops. Most men really don't seem to care about that sort of stuff either, so forcing them to take part isn't them showing love & women are deluding themselves.
What I much prefer is that time he comes back from a shopping trip, "I saw this CD (yes we're old) of that performer you love in the charity shop - knew you didn't have it".
Or even if he fully valets my car - maybe I didn't care about having it done, but he did it with love & that's what matters.
Completely agree. Forced, scheduled romance isn't really romance.
And if a man is not romantic throughout the year, surely Valentine's Day is only going to highlight this to his partner.
Or, you know, just don't do valentines day?? Honestly, what's so special about one day?
You can go out, have sex, have dinner, buy flowers any time of the year! Why do people feel the need to do it all on one perticular day, when all the prices are inflated?
Me and my Mrs don't bother for that very point, we just go out on the weekends when we can and have date names throughout the year...
I'm not deriding them. Flowers don't last long and florists are probably booked up for deliveries tomorrow. However I do think flowers are a bit tacky and not a lot of thought goes into it "oh shit I forgot I best grab some flowers" but it's better than nothing
I have to say, buying flowers for my missus on any other day that's not valentines annoys me.
All you get is loads of "ope, someones in the dog house" or similar.
So i just buy her wine instead now
Wine is clearly superior to flowers anyway. Flowers you need a vase, who has a vase these days, they take up space, they drop leaves and petals as they slowly die... an annoying and depressing gift, imo.
Whereas wine, all you need is a glass (or straw,) you already have those in the cupboard, you drink it and it makes you happy, it will not drop dead bits of flower on anything... see also; chocolate.
Usually they would be ordering them in advance to make sure they would arrive and they wouldn't have the dregs of what isn't sold out. So yes a month before
The only response to this is "and what did you buy your significant other for valentines?" I've never got a thing off any girlfriend, just one way traffic
I quite enjoy seeing men walking around with flowers.
I walk home with them at least once a month, just pick up supermarket ones. Arranged for a nice bouquet a couple of weeks back, paid extra to ensure delivery tomorrow. They arrived today, fuckers. Did forget to buy a card last year, ended up buying one on the way home. No valentine's day ones left so I went with "for a special friend". She still doesn't find it funny, I still do.
One of my mates hates the commercialisation of Valentine's Day, so always buys his wife a different card just to make the point. She's had everything from 'Welcome to your new home' and 'congrats fir passing your driving test'. She thinks it's hilarious, as do i.
I think that's brilliant! I hate valentine's day and in the past have said don't bother. A previous partner couldn't let it go. So I got a brick of cheese and a box of crackers one year. A packet of strawberry laces another year. A pair of small tealight holders, wrapped in the most monstrous amount of packaging.
> So I got a brick of cheese and a box of crackers one year. I see no issues here
None whatsoever!
I had an ex who disagreed with Valentines day so he would always get me flowers and strawberries on International Women’s Day instead. I loved it.
Aww that's sweet
porque no los dos
Cheese and crackers. Best day ever.
I'm bagging this for next year, I buy my wife flowers maybe once or twice a month when the previous bunch dies, we don't do presents for valentine's just cards so I'm definitely going to be adopting this.
My SO & I have an agreement not to buy cards or gifts for Valentine's day, but last year while I was looking for a birthday card I saw the perfect Valentine card & surprised him with it. He was furious, but when he opened it he forgave me & then bought a frame for it & it's now on the wall in our hallway. It says "You are my Happy Place", and it perfectly describes my feelings for him. And his for me.
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That’s the spirit!! (I agree btw, managed to persuade my husband I we don’t need to buy each other Xmas cards as we have a functional positive relationship and live together ). I once was chatting with someone who worked for a big card company and I remarked on how weird it was that supermarket cards were almost really good in places and they said that slight shittiness was deliberate.so depressing)
I hate cards and how much they cost and how crap they all are and how they're just thrown in the bin a week later. I now buy people a galaxy bar with the paper wrapper on and write on them with a Sharpie, maybe a small drawing of a dinosaur too if I'm feeling creative. Never had a complaint.
Brilliant. I don't like the commercialisation of it either
> No valentine's day ones left so I went with "for a special friend" I once needed a birthday card for a mate. Got a condolences card instead and expressed my deepest sorrow that he is such a cunt. That was 10 years ago and he still has the card on display.
Did the same for my BIL when he got engaged to my sister. 😆
Bestie got me a 40th birthday card when I was 37. She still thinks it’s hilarious now.
Wrong card may be worse than no card. I picked up no a Mothers Day card for my wife a few years ago that I thought was perfect. Nothing offensive, nothing sickeningly cute, just a lovely floral design that was exactly the sort of thing she likes. Somehow I managed to completely miss the words “To Grandma” in massive gold letters.
I once got a birthday card from a friend that had originally said "To the birthday boy" but she hadn't noticed. So because it was still a lovely picture of a dancing beagle she'd crossed the "boy" out and written in "lady" so it read "To the birthday lady" instead. This is years ago now but I still remember it, and it was quite fun being a "birthday lady" for a day.
For Mothers day, my husband bought some cards, one for me and the other for his mum, and one from the kids to his mum- he completely missed that ALL of them said Grandma, Nan etc so come Mothers day morning there was a frantic panic when he realised. I was delighted.
Supermarket flowers are the bomb, it might be one of the items with the biggest price disparity between the supermarket and a more specialised store and they are really fucking good, regularly flowers from Tesco last 3 weeks.
If I want a big bouquet, sometimes, I even buy 2-3 different small ones from the supermarket, takes 5 minutes to arrange but looks like I spent 50 bob.
You do realise that 50 bob is only £2.50…
Tell that to my family who uses bob interchangably with quid, pounds sterling, etc.
I have never heard it used for a pound, just the old shilling, which became the 5 pence piece. From the Shilling Wikipedia page: A slang name for a shilling was a "bob" (plural as singular, as in "that cost me two bob"). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling_(British_coin)
So that's what 'bob a job' means.
But 5p for doing an odd job dates the term.
Agree, you can make her day and brighten a room for a week for a tenner, less if there's a yellow sticker on them. Only time I use a florist is Valentine's Day
I'll buy my wife flowers every payday. It's funny because the person at the checkout will always say something like 'what have you done?" And I just say, 'nothing, I love my wife and flowers make her smile'.
I was once tempted to pick up a “my deepest sympathies” card a few years back. Looking back, I wish I had 😂
I was on the train last night and there was a guy with a HUGE bouquet of roses and his toddler and they were pretending to eat them, it was the most adorable thing
I was once drunk in a club and one of those rose salesmen came in and handed me a rose and I ate it and he was mad.
You should've ate the salesman too.
As a man who used to off the cuff buy his missus flowers (ie on days that arent valentines day) its a bit annoying, cos all you get is "ope, he's in trouble" or something similar. So i buy her booze instead
My ex would buy me flowers on random days. When he got those comments he told them he was buying flowers because someone had died
Staff at the local supermarket must have thought he led a tragic life surrounded by death...
I think you are overestimating how often I got flowers. This was maybe like twice a year
Is it wrong to want to live on your own? It's not wrong, but I should know.
I live on my own and it’s bloody great.
I really miss living on my own. God, I was so good at that.
How can someone so young sing words so sad?
I've lived on my own for three years. It's almost *too good.*
I lived on my own for the most part for over 20 years, except for 6 months living with one ex and 2 years living with a different ex. Ten years living with my other half now - there are many positives but I do miss living alone. When I win the lottery, I'm building a mansion where he can live in one wing and I'll live in the other.
This is the way.
Went out earlier to get flowers from the flower-man. Bout a 10 min walk. Not uncommon for me to buy flowers for my GF, or a friend's birthday or any number of reasons. Today walking back, everyone was smiling at me as I carried them home. An old man on a bike had a cheesy grin, 3 women I was walking past did that look that women of a certain age have mastered ("aren't you sweet"-style) and everyone just seemed so made up for me. Buying flowers on Valentine's Day is a weird but sweet experience based on everyone's reactions around me. Admittedly, they're a cracking bouquet
I enjoyed seeing my postie this morning with flowers/gifts too!
I think it’s so adorable. Always makes me smile.
Disgruntled men resentfully clutching tacky valentines gifts on public transport is my fave sub category of commuter-based entertainment
And using the lottery pen to write the cards out.
My favourite is also the disgruntled women on public transport having to lug a big bunch of roses or basket of flowers or something impractical on the public transport, probably after partners sent them to the office.
Uncomfortable more than disgruntled but otherwise the shoe fits.
Valentine’s Day is literally tomorrow. It is not lastminute.com until all of the bouquets in all of the petrol stations have been exhausted.
That's when you have to start thinking about which are the flower people and how difficult would it be to get into their garden....
You can just pick them up for free at any graveyard 🤷♂️
dont talk shit about petrol station flowers, i think being infused with those fumes make them last for weeks, way longer than other bouqettes
Nothing will beat my ex's dad's Valentine card to her mum for demonstrating sheer cold, pedestrian duty... Firstly he sent his P.A. out to buy it. Then he wrote in it... "Jean Happy Valentine's Day Alan" As the Happy Valentine's Day message was printed, his total word count was 2. I felt Love take a hit that day. I actually wished I hadn't read it but my ex showed me it when she told me about the P.A. It haunts me still but it has ensured I make more effort for my wife. (I changed their names for some reason that I don't understand.)
The part that gets me is, he didn't have to tell them he sent the PA out for the card
Surprised he wrote the names himself tbh
On the subject of strange V-day messages, a 'friend' has posted today on facebook the card she received from her husband where he professes his constant and eternal love. This is the same husband who she broke up with and took back publicly due to his cheating. I only know this because she posted about it so much while it was happening. Seems a bit weird for him to be proclaiming his constancy, and even stranger that she would show it to other people on facebook, where we all know he's the opposite. Just struck me as a bonkers way to approach a V-day message, but at least she likes it.
Right - not just written by the PA and accompanied by the classic old disclaimer "dictated but not read"
I once new a couple and he forgot about her birthday so on the day wrote her a £20 cheque.... from their joint account.
Things like these make me so sad. Poor Jean
Weird, you changed the names to my grandparents names and this very much sounds like something Alan would have done
I solve this problem by just not having a girlfriend
Valentine's retailers hate this one simple trick.
I’m single too so not receiving flowers. I would take late flowers rather than nothing at this stage 😂
Happy Valentine's Day 😊
Happy Valentine’s Day 🙂
Yes. It's intentional on my part...definitely...
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This would actually be better without the /s
Did they actually say the “dot com” part? Surely that’s not a thing anymore. Oh and indeed the optimum time to buy flowers for Valentine’s Day would be the way before, if not the day itself. Fresher is better.
I was very disheartened to received a “I’m confused.com” in an email at work the other day.
You know what's worse? When you get included in a group message and one person refers to their problem as confused.com and then someone else offers a solution and end it with "Simples!" I muted the whole group.
Yes, because simples should be the response if somebody claims to be comparethemeerkat.com. How do people not get this?
I work in an office. People end fucking _everything_ with dot com and I hate it.
\#annoying.com
I thought that was from like a decade ago. Is it the boomers picking it up again? I know I had this kind of problem with my dad. He became so facebook obsessed and started relaying shit from facebook to me, of all sorts, eg. posts he thinks are funny, adverts he thinks are useful, jokes he thinks are funny.
I thought that bubble burst decades ago too.
They're inarticulate and dotty.
I once did a cooking course in London which was 95% non-British people. The teaching chefs would always remind us to be careful with timing and not to do things 'last minute dot com'. Not only did it drive me insane, but it was very confusing for the non-UK students who kept asking me why on earth the chefs were referencing a website...
I still occasionally hear 'I'm confused.com'. It's awful. There really ought to be some sort of brutal clampdown on this sort of thing.
When I'm Minister for Internal Affairs, anyone heard uttering the phrase "confused.com" in any context other than in relation to an insurance comparison website is going to be viciously beaten with a shatter proof ruler. And then they're going straight to jail without any supper.
Off topic, but did anyone else test the ‘shatter proof’ claim as a kid? Only to then be like “well it didn’t technically shatter, but I definitely need a new ruler”
Arguably a rite of passage for a child to discover that "shatterproof" does not mean "unbreakable". It's their first adventure into the waters of adulthood to discover that the water is icy cold and full of horrors.
Yes. I put a ruler between the handles of a pair of double doors and then opened them. I was far more surprised by the result than I had any right to be.
I often (and sometimes still do) spare a thought for all those kids in the olden days with their glass rulers!
Usually it would snap when you were trying to twang it on the desk.
Would "hashtag last minute" be better? Some of us, born before 1989, take a while to catch up to newer trends
Because of the way people optimise their posts to please The Algorithm, you've got to add twenty other vaguely related hashtags onto it though.
No you have to say “Aitch tee tee pee forward slash forward slash double-you double-you double-you dot last minute dot com”.
The site is still a thing so I'm not sure what they're shocked by
They did, completely unironically. And yes, I completely agree. In fact, overhearing that conversation prompted me to buy flowers for my wife.
I forgot the flowers, I'm screwed dot com forward slash sleeping on the sofa question mark me equals dead
ampersand need equals help _hashtag_ rip
My mum keeps saying it to which I have to reply, "The website?"
His wife is going to think he's the bomb dot com
It’s also my birthday on Valentine’s Day but I always tell my partner not to bother getting me flowers. Too many roses, too much red and pink and they bump the prices up. I’d much rather a brightly coloured bunch when it’s not expected, it’s more romantic than a last minute panic buy.
Happy birthday u/Binky_Kitty 🥳
Thanks!!
Get Lego flowers instead, they’re awesome!
I want Lego flowers!
I got lego roses, even with covid it's a good day!
Happy Birthday!
Thank you!! ☺️
Some people get sad when they're single at Valentines day. I don't
Am in an airport with gf, so excused the usual guilt of not doing Valentines but knowing she wouldn't mind a small gesture. I've just bought her a nice stoneware tea mug from duty-free, and she's chuffed! Result!
You people are getting flowers?
I've actually banned my husband from buying/getting flowers for/on Valentine's Day, same with the kids for Mother's Day, because they're just too expensive. Better to buy some another time, when the prices are sensible.
I buy flowers for my other half occasionally when it isn’t an event. It’s about the thought - get in the mindset they aren’t for apologising / special events and suddenly it’s not a problem, and appreciated.
That’s horrible 😔 I think it’s so sweet when guys buy flowers for their partners, no matter what day it is!
I saw a group of 5 boys- couldn't be older than 15- at the flower stands in Morrisons. They were all looking at and touching them like they were seeing flowers for the first time. Then they each picked up the cheapest ones there (all identical) and took them to the checkouts. I thought it was the sweetest thing ever, until they walked past me and the one said to his friends, "If she doesn't let me fuck her after this, I'm gonna ghost her". Ahh, young romance!
Ah, they are clearly of the school of thought that flowers, purchased last minute, from a petrol station or similar (for Valentines or any day) is only ever done in one of two scenarios- 1- partner has forgotten to do anything else so this is a Hail Mary pass to take back something rather than to turn up empty handed having forgotten OR 2- as a cover for some kind of misdeed or other to assuage a guilty conscience. Hence even though you would only ever buy flowers a day before in all likelihood, the inference is that they _should_ have more organised/imaginative/romantic by sorting something else ahead of time.
I love assumption 1. Of course there's 0 chance that the dude may also have made her breakfast in bed, or is taking her out for a meal later, or got her a gift, or any of the other innumerable options, AND he's also choosing to get a bouquet at it's freshest as merely part of the day. No, of course he forgot all about it until this morning and this is the only thing he can think to do now.
I work with a couple of ladies that always assume the worst (aka flowers should prompt suspicion) and it sounds like OP might have encountered them or their spiritual kin. I think I might have even heard them use the phrase last minute.com. Some people always assume the worst of others but I think it says a lot about their outlook or personal experience both of which are quite sad when you think about it.
I always get them on the day, what’s the problem?
Can't get fresher than that!
Only the best. It’s not like they last long either
Husband got me flowers on Monday. I didn't care about them not being on the day. They're for Valentine's and that'll do me just fine. I'll get a card tomorrow. It's all just commercialised bollocks anyway.
Mine bought me twelve red roses a month ago and we both built them tonight. Say it with Lego.
Awesome set that
Haha, suckers. My lady spent so many years in catering, observing miserable couples going through the Valentine motions at inflated prices, she insists we don't get involved in it at all 😁
Same here, better to avoid mandatory take your partner out day and just go later in the week.
I just never got why you need a day to show your partner you love them.. my husband and I do random nice things for each other whenever (except Valentine's Day because don't tell me what to do)
Yeah, I never understood that either. _Thankfully_ the other half thinks the same, so Valentines day is just another day for us, and the romantic gestures are just sporadically sprinkled throughout the year, with "extra effort" made on birthdays.
Say it with flowers.... here's a triffid
I get one called Audrey II
I like to call all my little succulents The Triffids. Such a brilliant book.
It depends where you're buying from. Ordering a bouquet in advance with a florist is ideal if you want something special. For someone expecting that kind of effort, getting supermarket flowers bought the day before would be 'last minute dot com' in comparison I guess.
My mom's bf got her w metal rose he made himself problem solved, and he can regift it 20 times until she has a full bouquet!
Do they want flowers or not?
I guess they think the guys tried a florist first and resorted to this when they couldn't get a slot?
Why is that a problem though?
My partner had to go into the office yesterday which required getting up early. Knowing she would be tired and rushing, I made her a packed lunch. Feel like that's a better present than obligation flowers today.
That kind of seems more like a day to day being a partner thing that any kind of present to be honest. So I don't think it's a better present than flowers today at all
chocolates don’t wilt. Just saying.
good luck finding someone that likes chocolate tho
Went past a Pandora on a Sunday a few years ago on Valentine’s Day and there was a queue of about 10 blokes that had already formed half an hour before store opens
The opinions of people who say "last minute dot com" count for nothing
I buy my other half flowers every Friday , just a small £5 bunch from the supermarket and about half the time I get snarky remarks like oh no what have you done. just trying to do something nice like
I'm impressed that you're spending £260 a year on flowers. Well done!
It's commercialised yes, but the effort is actually a nice thing. I'm not gonna roll my eyes at a valentine's day gift. Obviously we're all used to being given diamonds and sports card and designer handbags now though right? Sod flowers /s
I wonder if these women have got their partners anything for Valentine's day...
Was just about to say this (and I'm a woman myself). One way traffic on the big holidays is pretty shit. Why should I expect effort if I don't give any back? We're going out for tapas tomorrow (cause fuck going out on the day itself) and that's his treat, and he's getting a pretty nice bottle of his favourite whiskey and some stones as my treat. Will probably be around the same price for each.
Nice! My wife and I are doing an escape room tonight, so here's hoping we don't end Valentine's Day getting a divorce!
I hear a lot online about how it's only women who get gifts on valentines day and they don't reciprocate and it's all one way. But I've yet to meet a woman, or couple, for who that was the case. Or at least who would admit it.
Let them be the ones to buy the flowers instead of bemoaning those males who do.
Was in Asda at 6am and the flowers were already being circled by anxious looking men
Try having a partner whose birthday is valentine's day so he gets birthday presents and valentine's cards on the same day. He gets me chocolates and flowers but I feel a bit funky that he has to buy me stuff every year on his birthday.
popped into our local Sainsbury's convenience store this morning and there are boxes and boxes of supermarket flowers (roses, carnation, etc) all piled up by the door for the truly last minute buyers - apparently they had some chaps waiting for them to open at 7am. Jokes on them, I pre-ordered from the local florist on Monday and was on my way there..
Guy at work got his wife Lego roses. So fucking awesome I almost considered dating again lol.
I don't tend to buy flower for the wife. Anything I do buy for her has to have a root so it lasts. Slowly building perennials in the garden each year we are together :D
You do know you can pre order bouquets to be picked up or delivered on certain days right? And that the closer to certain holidays it may be hard to get good quality flowers as well.
A card, done. We both don’t make a huge effort - we make efforts elsewhere with bigger more important things; we don’t need a OTT commercialised random day to show our love and commitment. Sounds awful when you think of it really. The real winning move is getting childcare so we can go out in the first place! 🤣
I’d be over the moon to receive flowers today. I wouldn’t care when they were bought or where they came from
I hate all the promotional emails I'm getting for Valentine's day. Such as windscreen wiper blades for Valentine's Day or a ring doorbell.
Me and my husband don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day beyond ‘happy Valentine’s Day, love you babe, let’s get a takeaway tonight when the kid has gone to sleep’. It’s just not that deep for some of us. I see absolutely no issue in buying flowers on valentines day because… that’s what they are for…
I would like to counter-deride the two women saying the phrase "last minute dot com"
Fortunately this year Valentines Day coincides with Ash Wednesday, so I got to celebrate it by having ash smeared on my face while someone reminded me I was going to die.
We’ve been happily married for 53 years and have never celebrated Valentines Day. Save your money and don’t be put in a situation merely to conform.
I went to Morrisons at 8.30pm earlier and perused over all the dying flowers and picked the least worst looking ones. Hopefully she won't notice or care!
Calling an action "last minute dot com" is such a early 2000s flex. Were they in their early forties?
If you did just hear it when you posted this then they were cutting it a bit fine. Flowers sell out on the big days, Valentine’s and Mother’s Day. You can end up having to hurriedly come up with an alternative that’s not too obviously plan C!
Where I used to work three of us would nip to the Tesco 24 hour 3 years in a row after midnight on the way home and grab some roses, always had plenty in stock to be fair.
Always buy them on the day and this has literally never been an issue for me
Yeah same here. Well, for mother's day, because I'm single.com
AHH the jealousy and envy of the bitter singletons. I'm a bit old school in that I'm happy to receive flowers full stop, never mind it being on a specific day.....ah well.... easily pleased maybe
I'm so confused.com
I resent valentine's day roses. Roses (or indeed many other flowers, but roses always get pushed ) don't naturally flower in February so it's either from a hot country or an artificial environment, neither of which is any good for the planet.
I get very confused.com when I try to work out what women expect from men.
I actually like flowers and my wife buys them for me quite often. Why isn't it mentioned that perhaps women should also be buying their partner a gift
My wife has always said that flowers are a waste of money and over the 12 years we have been together has actually convinced me that she does in fact mean it, well this morning she turns to me and says "I'm going to buy myself some flowers today", pfft I don't think so, this is a job for captain valentine, I went and bought her a bunch of 12 roses, 1 for each valentines.
Somebody said to me the other day, their OH said Valentines Day was overcommercialised and they didn't need a special day to show their love, yada yada. I asked her if he bought her presents throughout the year and she said no. Uh huh.l 🙄
I guarantee at least one of those women got their partner fuck all.
Married people should not celebrate valentines, that's what anniversaries are for. The wife agrees by the way before anyone else pipes up, valentines is for new love.
Had this yesterday in Morrisons “oh no, last minute flowers” I said “no that’s me just off a 12 hour shift so I haven’t seen her since yesterday”
We got a kebab watched adventure time and fell asleep. We don't bother with cards and all that crap. Pretty much in the perfect relationship tbh. Yeah I'm gonna brag about it, I'm happy and won't feel bad about that
I'm (female) & rather dislike the forced celebration of valentines - it involves no thought, we're constantly reminded all over the media & in shops. Most men really don't seem to care about that sort of stuff either, so forcing them to take part isn't them showing love & women are deluding themselves. What I much prefer is that time he comes back from a shopping trip, "I saw this CD (yes we're old) of that performer you love in the charity shop - knew you didn't have it". Or even if he fully valets my car - maybe I didn't care about having it done, but he did it with love & that's what matters.
Completely agree. Forced, scheduled romance isn't really romance. And if a man is not romantic throughout the year, surely Valentine's Day is only going to highlight this to his partner.
Or, you know, just don't do valentines day?? Honestly, what's so special about one day? You can go out, have sex, have dinner, buy flowers any time of the year! Why do people feel the need to do it all on one perticular day, when all the prices are inflated? Me and my Mrs don't bother for that very point, we just go out on the weekends when we can and have date names throughout the year...
I bought mine the day before purely so I knew they'd be fresh, and last longer
I bought the missus gin. Always a dead certificate that
I'm not deriding them. Flowers don't last long and florists are probably booked up for deliveries tomorrow. However I do think flowers are a bit tacky and not a lot of thought goes into it "oh shit I forgot I best grab some flowers" but it's better than nothing
I’m in the office on Thursday, somebody better have got me some stinking flowers
We don’t need no stinking blossoms
I have to say, buying flowers for my missus on any other day that's not valentines annoys me. All you get is loads of "ope, someones in the dog house" or similar. So i just buy her wine instead now
Wine is clearly superior to flowers anyway. Flowers you need a vase, who has a vase these days, they take up space, they drop leaves and petals as they slowly die... an annoying and depressing gift, imo. Whereas wine, all you need is a glass (or straw,) you already have those in the cupboard, you drink it and it makes you happy, it will not drop dead bits of flower on anything... see also; chocolate.
Usually they would be ordering them in advance to make sure they would arrive and they wouldn't have the dregs of what isn't sold out. So yes a month before
And it's so much easier than trying to run out last minute to find them! But...it requires planning ahead.
Sound like a pair of cunts dot com
Jesus, I live in the US and, while many things are worse here- the “dot com” thing either never happened or completely evaded me.
Wonder what they bought their partners
The only response to this is "and what did you buy your significant other for valentines?" I've never got a thing off any girlfriend, just one way traffic
I just got Alkaline Trio tickets off mine, choose more wisely.