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Solid Snake 02-14-2012 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by BitVyper (Post 1184380)
You're why people put unnecessary captions on everything.

...Are you insinuating that I'm stupid? =/

CelesJessa 02-14-2012 03:52 PM

I've been waiting for the inevitable Valentines Day thread to post my totally awesome homemade Valentines Day cardshttp://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4588/valentineset1.png

Give these to people you admire and they will certainly fall for you.

For Snake: I have a special one for his use only.http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/8953/val6.png

Solid Snake 02-14-2012 03:59 PM

Edgar how are you so suave
Also I'm going to assume that's a direct response to my comment in my earlier message to you and giggle over its implications

BitVyper 02-14-2012 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Solid Snake (Post 1184382)
...Are you insinuating that I'm stupid? =/

I am insinuating this.

Magus 02-14-2012 04:06 PM

Correction: Happy Gay Emperor Babur Day!
 
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Originally Posted by POS Industries (Post 1184326)
What the fuck is this shit and why is it interrupting my celebration of Lupercalia?

I like how Christians replaced a holiday dedicated to spanking naked women in the street in an effort to increase their fertility with a holiday about marital affection.

Such a boner killer.

ANYWAY

The only real way to celebrate Valentine's day is apparently remembering the life and times of Moghul Emperor Babur. Or at least that's what the Uzbekis are saying:

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If you believe the Uzbek government, today is not a day for love and friendship. Nope.

It is a day to celebrate the Moghul emperor Babur, who celebrates his birthday on Feb. 14. Now this hasn't always been case in the Central Asian country. The BBC reports that in years past, lovers celebrated Valentine's Day by listening to the songs of Rayhan, "a popular singer whose music mixes Eastern melodies with Western pop."

But, this year, Rayhan's show has been cancelled and stores across the country are underplaying the holiday. The BBC explains:

"An official from the education ministry's Department for Enlightenment and Promoting Values said it had issued an internal decree 'not to celebrate holidays that are alien to our culture and instead promote Babur's birthday'.

"The official, who wanted to remain anonymous, said the decree had been in place for a while."

An unnamed government official told the AFP that the holiday was described "as an element of Western mass culture" and they were instructed to celebrate Babur's birthday "with poetic festivals."

The AFP sets the scene:

"Unlike last year, private TV channels, radios and papers made no mention of Valentine's Day, but some young people continued to greet each other to mark the day.

"One of the biggest supermarket chains in the capital Tashkent 'Korzinka.uz' placed a red-yellow picture of the heart at the entrances of its shops without any mentioning of Valentine's Day. ...

'Uzbekistan's government is wary of cultural imports both from the the West as an 'excess of liberalism' and from the Middle East as an 'religious fanaticism'."

Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur founded the Timurid Mughal empire in India in 1526, and ironically while he's known for his military prowess he became better known for his poetry.
Ironically, Babur's poetry was pretty romantic.

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We looked around to see if Babur was a romantic.

And there are certainly romantic flashes. Just look at how he's quoted talking about love in the book Babur: The First Moghul In India:

"Could one love truly? Does love change like the seasons? Are butterflies the emblems of passion — truth — purity. Fluttering from one bloom to the other with unslaked appetites, feeding their hungers with the sweet, sweet nectar of many a virgin flowers."
HOWEVER, his true heart's desire was rather, erm, UNEXPECTED:

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But it turns out, his record is mixed. According, to a 2010 Economist piece about Babur, he also wrote lovingly about nature, but he didn't seem to have much luck in the love department.

"Babur was not much interested in women," the Economist reports. "He explains that he had married early, and neglected the girl. He uses that to introduce the subject of his passion for a boy called Baburi whom he sees in the bazaar. Until then, he says, he had 'no inclination for anybody, and no knowledge of love or desire'. His passion for Baburi drives him to distraction. Shyness prevents him from approaching the boy.'"

The Economist says Babur quoted a Persian couplet to describe his feelings for Baburi.

"I am ashamed when I see my friend; My companions look at me; I look the other way," the couplet read.

It's also unclear whether Babur ever made any progress with Baburi.
I expect a glut of Babur/Baburi slashfiction to hit the internet immediately.

Satan's Onion 02-14-2012 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by PyrosNine (Post 1184369)
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Then, the day afterwards Pyros buys a lot of bloody chocolate. Just like every other candy related holiday!

I like the way you think, sir.

Of course, if I absolutely have to celebrate this holiday, I think these express my feelings well enough:
Hodor, hodor, hodor <3 <3 .
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzcgd6oAOR1qb6vjt.jpg

Seil 02-14-2012 04:39 PM


Intern Nin 02-14-2012 05:46 PM

Pfft, Seil please. You don't need a youtube video full of helpful tips to score a date with a lady. You just need to print yourself out one of these babies.
http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/...an-d4pmbnc.jpg
You're welcome.

batgirl 02-14-2012 05:48 PM

So I guess it was inappropriate to post the dinner my boyfriend (we are also long distance and this was our first valentine's together in our 4.5 yr relationship) and I made together since it's rubbing your noses in my happiness. Got it.

I read your entire paragraph, seems to me that you're awful bitter. How about you just ignore those postings and don't read them, just like I don't always read your opus level rants?

Osterbaum 02-14-2012 05:50 PM

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So I guess it was inappropriate to post the dinner my boyfriend (we are also long distance and this was our first valentine's together in our 4.5 yr relationship) and I made together since it's rubbing your noses in my happiness. Got it.
I'm pretty sure nobody was saying that.

e: Let me put it this way: Do you think your happiness would've been any less if it hadn't have been Valentines day? Like if it was just date you guys agreed to meet on at some point and have a nice time together. Would any of us be bitching about any of this if it wasn't valentines day?

And personally I only have a problem with the holiday.


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