This afternoon I will be finding a flower shop to get a long stem Rose.
I was gonna get chocolate from Godiva but it seemed like she wasn’t so into that when we waltzed past a Godiva shop, so I’m gonna jacta get a bit more creative....
This is why I make my own flowers via Origami or kirie {I don't know the English word only the French which I forgot how to spell and the Japanese one}
This way you have something you put effort into to show you care and to get a look that you may not be able to buy {They like as an example Snapdragons}
I don't particularly like getting flowers myself, but I like getting flowers for other people, which is kind of a bummer since most of my girlfriends have never really liked getting flowers either.
One day, I'll find that flower-loving girl in my life...
If I ever received a bouquet of flowers I would immediately throw them out the nearest window because nobody ever sends me flowers. Obviously it was from an assassin and there would be a little tube that would emit a nerve agent or possibly a small, remotely operated gun hidden behind the amaryllis.
If I ever received a bouquet of flowers I would immediately throw them out the nearest window because nobody ever sends me flowers. Obviously it was from an assassin and there would be a little tube that would emit a nerve agent or possibly a small, remotely operated gun hidden behind the amaryllis.
Okay but what if it's a really CUTE assassin who would be really really happy if their clever flower ruse was sucessful at poisoning you?
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
If I ever received a bouquet of flowers I would immediately throw them out the nearest window because nobody ever sends me flowers. Obviously it was from an assassin and there would be a little tube that would emit a nerve agent or possibly a small, remotely operated gun hidden behind the amaryllis.
Okay but what if it's a really CUTE assassin who would be really really happy if their clever flower ruse was sucessful at poisoning you?
I'm a fan of any non-cliche gift. Don't give me a box of chocolates, give me a fruit pastry. Don't give me roses, give me some lillies. Don't get me a teddy bear, find a dog I can pet and I am yours.
If I ever received a bouquet of flowers I would immediately throw them out the nearest window because nobody ever sends me flowers. Obviously it was from an assassin and there would be a little tube that would emit a nerve agent or possibly a small, remotely operated gun hidden behind the amaryllis.
Okay but what if it's a really CUTE assassin who would be really really happy if their clever flower ruse was sucessful at poisoning you?
I'm a fan of any non-cliche gift. Don't give me a box of chocolates, give me a fruit pastry. Don't give me roses, give me some lilies. Don't get me a teddy bear, find a dog I can pet and I am yours.
Tiger lilies I am with you on. If I got an unsolicited bouquet of funeral-ass white lilies, I would probably go into hiding.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I am very into old school flower meanings and I will immediately be looking up any flowers I don't know if someone gives me flowers
Luckily there are very few wrong answers because most of the negative ones just mean dishonesty and that seems like a fair criticism
"here's something you're going to water for a day, get annoyed at watering, and will die in about 4 days anyways, this represents how I feel about you!"
One time I took an ex out to a nice hibachi steakhouse place on a tuesday as an alternative and she was like "why are we going out to eat in the middle of the week"
"I just felt like doing something nice for you but didn't want it to be flowers"
and I guess that wasn't the right answer because we got in a fight about that and then I stopped doing random nice things
...that kind of went a little dour there didn't it
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I wouldn’t give flowers unless I consulted with Liiya to find something specific to say via the flowers.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
"here's something you're going to water for a day, get annoyed at watering, and will die in about 4 days anyways, this represents how I feel about you!"
One time I took an ex out to a nice hibachi steakhouse place on a tuesday as an alternative and she was like "why are we going out to eat in the middle of the week"
"I just felt like doing something nice for you but didn't want it to be flowers"
and I guess that wasn't the right answer because we got in a fight about that and then I stopped doing random nice things
...that kind of went a little dour there didn't it
you fucked up by saying that flowers were ever on the table.
the cheat on
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
"here's something you're going to water for a day, get annoyed at watering, and will die in about 4 days anyways, this represents how I feel about you!"
One time I took an ex out to a nice hibachi steakhouse place on a tuesday as an alternative and she was like "why are we going out to eat in the middle of the week"
"I just felt like doing something nice for you but didn't want it to be flowers"
and I guess that wasn't the right answer because we got in a fight about that and then I stopped doing random nice things
...that kind of went a little dour there didn't it
you fucked up by saying that flowers were ever on the table.
well fuck
but why the fighting?!
dating sucks
just gonna live as a hermit and get dogs or something
crazy old dog man
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
This seems like the most appropriate thread to ask right now since it’s about gift-giving:
A lady on my street helped me shovel snow this morning. I was going to send over a thank you note and some cookies my kids made, but would a gift card be better?
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
I have gotten flowers but like.. I really feel uncomfortable with it. I'd rather have a potted plant or something because I know cut flowers are going to die and it makes me feel terrible, and then when they do die I have a hard time getting rid of them for about six different reasons. So I just have dead flowers around for a month and then cry when they have to go.
Honestly I'd rather have like a $5 violet in one of the self-watering pots with the string than a huge bouquet of roses. The roses are beautiful and I love them but I am somehow emotionally incapable of handling them.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
This seems like the most appropriate thread to ask right now since it’s about gift-giving:
A lady on my street helped me shovel snow this morning. I was going to send over a thank you note and some cookies my kids made, but would a gift card be better?
Nah, a thank you note and cookies is personal and thoughtful, a gift card can feel kind of generic. Plus she was being a good neighbor, and cookies say "I'm also a good neighbor" way more than a gift card.
I dislike cut flowers because they die. I also dislike potted plants because they die (I am so bag about keeping them alive...)
Everything is just death.
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I have gotten flowers but like.. I really feel uncomfortable with it. I'd rather have a potted plant or something because I know cut flowers are going to die and it makes me feel terrible, and then when they do die I have a hard time getting rid of them for about six different reasons. So I just have dead flowers around for a month and then cry when they have to go.
Honestly I'd rather have like a $5 violet in one of the self-watering pots with the string than a huge bouquet of roses. The roses are beautiful and I love them but I am somehow emotionally incapable of handling them.
This is why I hand out flowers I built via pepakura or origami or a combo of them as I said it does show you care and you don't really have to care for them as you do with real flowers
But there is still the awkwardness of handing them out
About gift giving
I know I have talked about the questionable thing I did when I was interested in the woman I gave these to and I kind of still feel the doubt and the fallout from it I had from then still, Part of me is still wary to just give out gifts to women I do have an interest in it's why I thought I could do flowers but stopped myself from doing it partly because I did not have the time
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
If you're interested, by the way, the two main sources I use for floriography stuff are this and a physical copy of this (mine is a lot newer looking than the one they scanned though).
Those two will frequently disagree with each other, so it's all a fuckin' toss up, and I have a couple of my own things that I learned separately that I will generally prefer over them (my dad taught me rose stuff when I was a lad, for instance, and I still skew towards some of his meanings).
"here's something you're going to water for a day, get annoyed at watering, and will die in about 4 days anyways, this represents how I feel about you!"
One time I took an ex out to a nice hibachi steakhouse place on a tuesday as an alternative and she was like "why are we going out to eat in the middle of the week"
"I just felt like doing something nice for you but didn't want it to be flowers"
and I guess that wasn't the right answer because we got in a fight about that and then I stopped doing random nice things
...that kind of went a little dour there didn't it
Flowers have been symbolic rather than practical for good Goddamned long time, and that’s not likely to change any time soon. The impermanence of the thing is indeed central in many respects to its beauty, depending on which school of aesthetics you’re approaching it from.
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. We eat, drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them. We wed and christen with flowers. We dare not die without them. We have worshipped with the lily, we have meditated with the lotus, we have charged in battle array with the rose and the chrysanthemum. We have even attempted to speak in the language of flowers. How could we live without them? It frightens one to conceive of a world bereft of their presence. What solace do they not bring to the bedside of the sick, what a light of bliss to the darkness of weary spirits? Their serene tenderness restores to us our waning confidence in the universe even as the intent gaze of a beautiful child recalls our lost hopes. When we are laid low in the dust it is they who linger in sorrow over our graves.
Sad as it is, we cannot conceal the fact that in spite of our companionship with flowers we have not risen very far above the brute. Scratch the sheepskin and the wolf within us will soon show his teeth. It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal. Perhaps he becomes a criminal because he has never ceased to be an animal. Nothing is real to us but hunger, nothing sacred except our own desires. Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar is forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol, --ourselves. Our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him. We boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is Matter that has enslaved us. What atrocities do we not perpetrate in the name of culture and refinement!
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However, let us not be too sentimental. Let us be less luxurious but more magnificent. Said Laotse: "Heaven and earth are pitiless." Said Kobodaishi: "Flow, flow, flow, flow, the current of life is ever onward. Die, die, die, die, death comes to all." Destruction faces us wherever we turn. Destruction below and above, destruction behind and before. Change is the only Eternal,--why not as welcome Death as Life? They are but counterparts one of the other, --The Night and Day of Brahma. Through the disintegration of the old, re-creation becomes possible. We have worshipped Death, the relentless goddess of mercy, under many different names. It was the shadow of the All-devouring that the Gheburs greeted in the fire. It is the icy purism of the sword-soul before which Shinto-Japan prostrates herself even to-day. The mystic fire consumes our weakness, the sacred sword cleaves the bondage of desire. From our ashes springs the phoenix of celestial hope, out of the freedom comes a higher realisation of manhood.
Why not destroy flowers if thereby we can evolve new forms ennobling the world idea? We only ask them to join in our sacrifice to the beautiful. We shall atone for the deed by consecrating ourselves to Purity and Simplicity. Thus reasoned the tea-masters when they established the Cult of Flowers.”
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I was gonna get chocolate from Godiva but it seemed like she wasn’t so into that when we waltzed past a Godiva shop, so I’m gonna jacta get a bit more creative....
This is why I make my own flowers via Origami or kirie {I don't know the English word only the French which I forgot how to spell and the Japanese one}
This way you have something you put effort into to show you care and to get a look that you may not be able to buy {They like as an example Snapdragons}
The cutest post I've ever seen you make man
That's really cool
One day, I'll find that flower-loving girl in my life...
Okay but what if it's a really CUTE assassin who would be really really happy if their clever flower ruse was sucessful at poisoning you?
Yes but they spell bouquet all wrong...
Stop reading my dream journal
Murder me, senpai.
Tiger lilies I am with you on. If I got an unsolicited bouquet of funeral-ass white lilies, I would probably go into hiding.
Luckily there are very few wrong answers because most of the negative ones just mean dishonesty and that seems like a fair criticism
"here's something you're going to water for a day, get annoyed at watering, and will die in about 4 days anyways, this represents how I feel about you!"
One time I took an ex out to a nice hibachi steakhouse place on a tuesday as an alternative and she was like "why are we going out to eat in the middle of the week"
"I just felt like doing something nice for you but didn't want it to be flowers"
and I guess that wasn't the right answer because we got in a fight about that and then I stopped doing random nice things
...that kind of went a little dour there didn't it
you fucked up by saying that flowers were ever on the table.
Those sassy flowers from Alice in Wonderland have ruined you.
well fuck
but why the fighting?!
dating sucks
just gonna live as a hermit and get dogs or something
crazy old dog man
A lady on my street helped me shovel snow this morning. I was going to send over a thank you note and some cookies my kids made, but would a gift card be better?
Yarrow for war, nasturtium for conquest in battle, sweet williams for gallantry, and dandelion for devotion
Maybe throw in some hemlock for "you will be the death of me" if you're not optimistic of your abilities
Hell yes also what's a nasturtium
I should've given hemlock to every woman I've ever met
Honestly I'd rather have like a $5 violet in one of the self-watering pots with the string than a huge bouquet of roses. The roses are beautiful and I love them but I am somehow emotionally incapable of handling them.
Nah, a thank you note and cookies is personal and thoughtful, a gift card can feel kind of generic. Plus she was being a good neighbor, and cookies say "I'm also a good neighbor" way more than a gift card.
Everything is just death.
Not much, what's a nasturtium with you?
It’s the room where you nasturbate.
I am not a lawyer, but you may wish to quote the post you were responding to here.
you have to tell me
But there is still the awkwardness of handing them out
About gift giving
Are you Internal Affairs?
This is important.
I've done it once or twice pressed in a book for occasions when I've had a flower in my hair for an event or two that I wanted to remember
It's a nice way to keep the memory when it comes to cut flowers, I suppose
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Those two will frequently disagree with each other, so it's all a fuckin' toss up, and I have a couple of my own things that I learned separately that I will generally prefer over them (my dad taught me rose stuff when I was a lad, for instance, and I still skew towards some of his meanings).
Flowers have been symbolic rather than practical for good Goddamned long time, and that’s not likely to change any time soon. The impermanence of the thing is indeed central in many respects to its beauty, depending on which school of aesthetics you’re approaching it from.
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