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goldongoldon Member Posts: 8,997
The dark origins of Valentine's Day.


Do you need to know more.....?

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  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 8,997
    The Good bit.....hic!


  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 8,997
    The Bad Bit....... hic!

    The dark origins of Valentine's Day
    UPDATED FEBRUARY 14, 20227:49 AM ET

    Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate romance and love and kissy-face fealty. But the origins of this festival of candy and cupids are actually dark, **** — and a bit muddled.

    Though no one has pinpointed the exact origin of the holiday, one place to start is ancient Rome.

    The Romans' celebrations were violent

    A drawing depicts the death of St. Valentine — one of them, anyway. The Romans executed two men by that name on Feb. 14 of different years in the third century.
    Hulton Archive/Getty Images
    From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain.

    The Roman romantics "were drunk. They were naked," Noel Lenski, now a religious studies professor at Yale University, told NPR in 2011. Young women would line up for the men to hit them, Lenski said. They believed this would make them fertile.
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    Wouldn't get away with that now ...........animal rights ...... hic!
  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 8,997
    The Good Bit....... hic!





  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 8,997
    How many Girlfriends they got..........


  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 8,997
    And then there is ............... !


  • DoublemeDoubleme Member Posts: 2,068
    So I got my girlfriend flowers for some reason this made her happy which was what I expected.

    But then I wondered why, why do girls like flowers why do flowers make girls happy?

    their just flowers I dont get it.

    also I had a dream about nuclear war but I will make a separate thread about that later.
  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 8,997
    You need to drop the Bomb Shell ......... she will say Yes. !
  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,842
  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 8,997
    Trust you to (lower) the tone.......she needs protection.
    John Wayne Bobbitt says when he woke up to discover that his then-wife Lorena Bobbitt had cut off his **** with a kitchen knife, he tried to remain calm and stop the bleeding.
    serves him right for not sending her flowers............ hic!
  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,842
  • pompeynicpompeynic Member Posts: 2,834
    Thought this was a tribute page to the late great Mr Doonican
  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,842
    pompeynic said:

    Thought this was a tribute page to the late great Mr Doonican


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