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[rideme]

So I'm throwing in with all the holiday chatter flying around. Partly, because, I don't get it.

Why's there one day where you have to be all sappy and crap? You just supposed to save up all the ... courting until today or what?

'Cause I'm gonna take a hard pass this year. And last year. So consider the Iron Bull back on the...

[He was going to say he was back on the market. But then he happened across a gift someone left.]

... crap. Forget that last bit.

[There's an awkward pause.]

Summary. Explain the reasoning with this "holiday", and is candy is still cheap tomorrow? I uh.

Made an oversight.

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[missleadingquestions]

[Maya has the most amused face right now. You can probably hear it in how she speaks, really.]

There's extra ingredients for chocolate cake in you guys's cupboard still, if you need any.

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[rideme]

Thank fuck.

... I sounded like a real asshole just then, didn't I?

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[trouvaille]

It'll be cheaper tomorrow because they'll be trying to shift all the stock slack men failed to buy their partners beforehand.

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[rideme]

Hey, cheap is cheap.

... why's it just on the guys to buy that stuff? What about people who don't like men?

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[catchacold]

Back on the couch?

[Look, Len's been there, possibly is currently getting there.]

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[rideme]

Hah! Nah... I don't fit.

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[h2no]

Candy's gonna be cheap for tomorrow, yeah. Gonna load up. I've never had half the stuff they have here!

[not that archie is majorly a candy person, but he's kind of at that "eat candy while laying on bed and watching tv" stage in accepting he's a fuck up.]

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[rideme]

That's a shame.

Grab all you can -- apparently? It just gets cheaper as time goes by.

[ Video ]

[ghoulking]

The day comes a pagan festival related to fertility and then Christianity took over and kind of stole all pagan holidays, so they turned it into Saint Valentine's day. Anyway, the association with love came much latter and in turn it became very commercial. [ history lesson ]

Candy will be cheaper, actually because they'll try to sell the Valentine's themed candy. [ which don't make sense once Valentine's is over, naturally ]

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[rideme]

The hell is "Christianity"? That like Cincinnati? Saw that in an atlas.

[Because of course he did. Either that or google earth.]

Great. I'm getting all of it.

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[outofthepast]

Ahh, Valentine's Day. The day when couples feel culturally obligated to show each other all the appreciation and respect they should be showing the other 364 days of the year anyway.

[He's allowed to crack wise about it. It's his day, after all!]

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[rideme]

Hah! Good one.

That's what I'm thinking. If you've got someone like that, why's it just the one day? Makes no sense.

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[marriedmedium]

Discount candy is nice, I suppose. It's a pity they don't discount chocolate liqueur as well.

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[rideme]

-- they don't?

Why the hell not?

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[mischiefsmith]

Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day was originally a feast day honoring a saint...well one saint or many saints, there was more that one named Valentinus.

There are a number of muddy legends surrounding this Day, one talks about a Saint that became a martyr after his religious percecution. There have been embellishments to the legend including how married men made for poor soldiers so he would marry couples in secret so that the husbands would not have to go to war.

Oooooh romantic.

And Valentine's Day cards supposedly come from this idea that when this saint was imprisoned for not wishing to practice a pagan religion he healed his jailer's blind daughter with naught but prayers. He left the miraculously healed girl a note on his execution day signed "your Valentine."

Sweet.

Or this whole Valentine's thing could be a way for one religion to supersede another religion and the flowers, chocolate, and cards bit is just another way to fill someone's pockets with money. Money talks, as they say.

To make a long story even longer. If you love someone [he might just be gagging a bit, tiny bit] love them every day...and make your own chocolate strawberries. They are cheaper and they taste better.

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[rideme]

... and the Qunari think people worshiping Andraste are fucked up.

[That's. Like way beyond burning your god avatar at the stake right there. You're supposed to have a romance day because of all that crap?]

[Suddenly the Qun sounds fucking normal.]

Hey, you don't gotta tell me twice about the everyday thing. When you ride the Bull? You're the most important thing in the room. Whenever you walk in.

[You can just hear the wink there.]

Wait -- chocolate strawberries? You guys have those here?

[aggressiveapathy]

For couples trapped in a dead-end to at least get shiny things from it.

And maybe a hand job.

[rideme]

Whoa...

Now it's just depressing.

[heroforhobby]

I can't explain any holiday, really, but the candy only gets cheaper till it's gone!

[He is totes excited by that fact.]

[rideme]

... You're shitting me.

Really?

[That makes two of them.]

[Video]

[helladoomed]

An excuse to buy your girlfriend something fancy and probably get laid for it.

Also, candy.

[Video]

[rideme]

Eh, never had one of those.

[Not technically. Not a ~relationship~ with one. Just good times.]

Hell yeah, I'm in for the candy.

[devoutish]

Mm, yeah. This is no way to keep a woman, is it.

[rideme]

Wouldn't know.

Never tried that before.

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[song_of_ice]

It is a bit beyond me as well. A specific day alone seems a bit...lazy.

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[rideme]

Yeah, tell me about it. You're supposed to be all about your partner. All days.

Or else what's the point of being with one person, eh?

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[jalan]

Excuse me, and if you'll forgive the diversion--

[ Daenerys has no idea who Valentine is, nor what chocolate has to do with it, but she recognises that distinct baritone rumble of a voice. ]

Were you the man who-- you were there, that day, when Drogon landed in Nonah.

[ A beat, and then to clarify; ]

Drogon is a dragon.

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[rideme]

[Oh, hell yeah. He perks up immediately at the word "dragon". And the grin on his face is probably audible.]

You bet I was. You saw it?

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[pushtheboundaries]

[Have a little bit of good-natured laughing. POOR BULL..]

It'll be cheap from when the holiday's over to when they run out, you've got some time.

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[rideme]

[YEAH YEAH LAUGH IT UP OLD MAN.]

Great. Good to know they don't set it all on fire or some crap.