Is valentine's day a real holiday?

For those of you who don't know, Valentine's Day of 2010 happens to coincide with the first day of the Lunar New Year, which is a major holiday for lots of people in Asia.

As such, Valentine's Day is a real holiday... at least for this year. :D

After all that Easter Bunny and Santa Claus bullshit, how can you doubt any holiday? Geez...

Well, I hear in Korea there are 3 days like this

14 February = Valentine Day, where girls give the choco to boys

14 March = White Day, where boys give a present to girls that give him choco in valentine day

14 April = Black Day, where people that still single and get heart-broken grouped together, wearing black clothes, and eating black noodles

too true

Wat es a "ronery thread?"

Prostitution is always an option people. You don't have to spend Valentine Day alone if you don't want to.

Celebrating 19 years without getting laid.

I've heard several times that it was made up by hallmark. If this is true its extremely aggravating because I hate when people do shit like that just for money, but I did some research and several sources claim its been celebrated since the 16th century in england. If it is made up I suggest we boycott greeting cards.

I guess your right there, but what I was getting at is: was valentines day made up solely for the purpose of making money? Christmas and easter and halloween are at least loosely based on real traditions, but are only hyped up because there is money to be made. Whatever I guess they're all just marketing schemes fuck em all.

Saint Valentine (in Latin, Valentinus) is the name of several martyred saints of ancient Rome. The name "Valentine", derived from valens (worthy), was popular in Late Antiquity.[2] Of the Saint Valentine whose feast is on February 14, nothing is known except his name and that he was buried at the Via Flaminia north of Rome on February 14. It is even uncertain whether the feast of that day celebrates only one saint or more saints of the same name.

Legenda Aurea still providing no connections whatsoever with sentimental love, appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single. The Emperor supposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however, secretly performed marriage ceremonies for young men. When Claudius found out about this, he had Valentine arrested and thrown in jail. In an embellishment to The Golden Legend provided by American Greetings, Inc. to History.com and widely repeated, on the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he wrote the first "valentine" himself, addressed to a young girl variously identified as his beloved,[17] as the jailer's daughter whom he had befriended and healed,[18] or both. It was a note that read "From your Valentine."[17]

Soba. I believe that's the only type of noodles I have eaten in Japan which I can think of that would be near black.

Prostitution is always an option people. You don't have to spend Valentine Day alone if you don't want to.