Valentine's Day thread

#28
#28
kiddiedoc said:
Ah, yes. . .Valentine's Day. The day you are supposed to pick out a lame card with hearts all over it, pay $40 for a $10 dozen of roses, and fight for a table at a restaurant overcrowded with a bunch of people who pretend to like each other since the calendar tells them that they should.

Honestly, we usually fix something nice at home, maybe share a good bottle of wine, and celebrate on a day that actually means something to us.
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Hell, yeah. Valentine's Day is just a lame pseudo holiday mass marketed by the greeting card industry and florists. I hate it.

I wonder what I will get my wife.

Step 1: Cut a hole in the box...
 
#29
#29
Nah, I'm goin' old-school for this one. Taking my girl to the movie theater and doing the old hole in the popcorn bucket trick.
 
#32
#32
vader said:
Which begs the question: is time travel theoretically possible?
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if so, we could apply whatever theory and go back to the good ole days when HVWarrior didn't have that ridiculous avatar prompting us to assume things about his.....ahem.....orientation.
 
#41
#41
Damn, I've turned retarded or something. I forgot the "the" in that last post. O well, it seems he got my point.
 
#44
#44
hvwarrior58 said:
Good point. Dumbfounded by my own man-beauty is probably better fitting.
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Dude...
Hellenistic version

There is an older version than the one related by Ovid in his Metamorphoses, which is a moral tale in which the proud and unfeeling Narcissus is punished by the gods for having spurned all his male suitors (see pederasty in ancient Greece). It is thought to have been intended as a cautionary tale addressed to adolescent boys. Until recently, the only source for this version was a segment in Pausanias (9.31.7), about 150 years after Ovid. A very similar account was discovered among the Oxyrhynchus papyri in 2004, however, an account that predates Ovid's version by at least fifty years.
In this story, Ameinias, a young man, loved Narcissus but was scorned. To tell Ameinias off, Narcissus gave him a sword. Ameinias used the sword to kill himself on Narcissus' doorstep and prayed to Nemesis that Narcissus would one day know the pain of unrequited love. This curse was fulfilled when Narcissus became entranced by his reflection in the pool and tried to seduce the beautiful boy, not realizing it was himself he was looking at. He only realized that it was his reflection after trying to kiss it. Completing the symmetry of the tale, Narcissus took his sword and killed himself from sorrow. His corpse then turned into a flower.
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#46
#46
I think vader is telling of where the word, "narcissistic" originated from.


narcissistic

1. inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.

2. Psychoanalysis. erotic gratification derived from admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development.

Put the rubber coated dumbbells down Don Juan and pick up a book.
 
#48
#48
hvwarrior58 said:
I do plenty of studying. This stud has brawn and brains, thank you.
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Yet you couldn't take the tale of Narcissus and connect it to the word Narcissistic which means one is full of themselves.

What am I saying doing something like that would take ridiclious brain power. Pick up those dumbbells Bruce Banner and get to it.
 
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