Valentine's Day dread or delight?

monster · 02-09-2008, 10:33 AM

February 15.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-09-2008, 03:32 PM

Cards.

Beest · 02-12-2008, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by monster

February 15.

Whew, that's not for ages, plenty of time.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-12-2008, 11:03 AM

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(CNN) -- Saudi Arabia has asked florists and gift shops to remove all red items until after Valentine's Day, calling the celebration of such a holiday a sin, local media reported Monday.

"As Muslims we shouldn't celebrate a non-Muslim celebration, especially this one that encourages immoral relations between unmarried men and women, " Sheikh Khaled Al-Dossari, a scholar in Islamic studies, told the Saudi Gazette, an English-language newspaper.

Every year, officials with the conservative Muslim kingdom's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice clamp down on shops a few days before February 14, instructing them to remove red roses, red wrapping paper, gift boxes and teddy bears. On the eve of the holiday, they raid stores and seize symbols of love.

The virtue and vice squad is a police force of several thousand charged with, among other things, enforcing dress codes and segregating the sexes. Saudi Arabia, which follows a strict interpretation of Islam called Wahhabism, punishes unrelated women and men who mingle in public.

Ahmed Al-Omran, a university student in Riyadh, told CNN that the government decision will give the international media another reason to make fun of the Saudis "but I think that we got used to that by now."

Yes.

monster · 02-12-2008, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Beest

Whew, that's not for ages, plenty of time.

who's the lucky girl this year, then?

aimeecc · 02-13-2008, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by monster

February 15.

I thought it was the 14th, or is this a ploy by you to make everyone late and get in trouble? lol

monster · 02-13-2008, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by aimeecc

I thought it was the 14th, or is this a ploy by you to make everyone late and get in trouble? lol

It's usually the 14th, but this year is leap year, remember? Blimey!

...Mind you, I only realised it was leap year when my kids got a swim meet scheduled on the 29th.

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