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I don't buy cards. The exceptions I make are only for stupidity, such as buying "Sorry your nan died" as a birthday card. I fought a moral battle over that, humour won, I bought the card and gave it. I gave another girl a "I hear it's a boy, congratulations!" for christmas. I get strange looks, a rumour even started spreading, but it's still great fun.
But I'm finally getting around to doing research about this, and something occured to me.
Do men not buy cards because they're just painful, pointlessly over the top and unfunny, or is it because they don't want to express themselves, even if it IS for humour?
Want some serious answers here, genuinely trying to figure it out. Would you be more inclined to buy a "You f**king ass" birthday-hate-card?
The way I figure it is, people wouldn't just buy "I hate you" cards for the hell of it, maybe as a kinda friendly bored quick laugh thing, but I think the direction for it would be to look at excuses for doing so: I.E. taking birthdays, instead of sending a "happy birthday hope you're well" sending a "I'm going to feed you your spleen" card - encouraging it as part of society, instead of the cheap quick laugh route.
Even if was a valentines card just saying "Yeah, you're ok I guess" instead of this smushy crap. If you love someone that much, you don't want to get down on one knee, sing a ballad and bring them roses - you want to f**k them. Club them on the head and bring them back to your cave. Isn't that what love is all about? Hell, if you don't have to club them, even better.
Now I'm sure men don't sit around never wanting to say -anything-, well I don't. It just seems like a massive problem of communication. We're offered easy routes to say things, but all these things never ever say what we -really- want to say. Even the best efforts are filtered down, watery and uncomfortable.
So actually, as a question, I'd like to ask what you'd like to tell people. What do you really want to say to the girl you've got a crush on? And seriously, not "um.. wanna go out..?", I want to know what you want to do to her.
What would you like to say to your parents, your wife, your workmates?
I've had a bit of an vision about all this, I've been surrounded by too many people who never say what they want to, talk behind people's backs. If you haven't got the entire set of balls to say something to someone's face, I think it'd be great to have another option, even if it's just a start. If it encourages people at all to start saying what the hell they want to, bring out confidence in people, then I'm all for it.
(I'd like to tell Grix to shut up lol)
I don't buy cards. The exceptions I make are only for stupidity, such as buying "Sorry your nan died" as a birthday card. I fought a moral battle over that, humour won, I bought the card and gave it. I gave another girl a "I hear it's a boy, congratulations!" for christmas. I get strange looks, a rumour even started spreading, but it's still great fun.
But I'm finally getting around to doing research about this, and something occured to me.
Do men not buy cards because they're just painful, pointlessly over the top and unfunny, or is it because they don't want to express themselves, even if it IS for humour?
Want some serious answers here, genuinely trying to figure it out. Would you be more inclined to buy a "You f**king ass" birthday-hate-card?
The way I figure it is, people wouldn't just buy "I hate you" cards for the hell of it, maybe as a kinda friendly bored quick laugh thing, but I think the direction for it would be to look at excuses for doing so: I.E. taking birthdays, instead of sending a "happy birthday hope you're well" sending a "I'm going to feed you your spleen" card - encouraging it as part of society, instead of the cheap quick laugh route.
Even if was a valentines card just saying "Yeah, you're ok I guess" instead of this smushy crap. If you love someone that much, you don't want to get down on one knee, sing a ballad and bring them roses - you want to f**k them. Club them on the head and bring them back to your cave. Isn't that what love is all about? Hell, if you don't have to club them, even better.
Now I'm sure men don't sit around never wanting to say -anything-, well I don't. It just seems like a massive problem of communication. We're offered easy routes to say things, but all these things never ever say what we -really- want to say. Even the best efforts are filtered down, watery and uncomfortable.
So actually, as a question, I'd like to ask what you'd like to tell people. What do you really want to say to the girl you've got a crush on? And seriously, not "um.. wanna go out..?", I want to know what you want to do to her.
What would you like to say to your parents, your wife, your workmates?
I've had a bit of an vision about all this, I've been surrounded by too many people who never say what they want to, talk behind people's backs. If you haven't got the entire set of balls to say something to someone's face, I think it'd be great to have another option, even if it's just a start. If it encourages people at all to start saying what the hell they want to, bring out confidence in people, then I'm all for it.
(I'd like to tell Grix to shut up lol)
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That always happens, I get going on an idea and someone does it on tv. Blegh.
Anyone watching the latest HIGNFY would have seen the new cards such as 'NOW YOU'RE DIVORCED!', 'SORRY YOU'RE NOT THE FATHER' and so on.
There should be a card that's totally blank on the outside, just a white piece of folded card. Then on the inside it says "I'm sorry I forgot to get you a real card"
I tend to not care.
Funny that.
Funny that.
Oh right. Then in that case, I'd do the same thing, except making the cow sounds myself.
Oh... no.. I just meant actually written mooo.
I um.. really don't like the speaker cards myself.
I um.. really don't like the speaker cards myself.
Grix Thraves wrote:
> Half of the time I just want to do something really stupid, like a
> card with a picture of a cow on the front, and when you open it up it
> just says "Mooooooo"
>
> I can just imagine people opening and closing it, trying to work it
> out.
Those are great! Whenever I find one I annoy the hell out of everyone else in the room...
> Half of the time I just want to do something really stupid, like a
> card with a picture of a cow on the front, and when you open it up it
> just says "Mooooooo"
>
> I can just imagine people opening and closing it, trying to work it
> out.
Those are great! Whenever I find one I annoy the hell out of everyone else in the room...
In fact that'd be a great valentines/mothers day card.
Half of the time I just want to do something really stupid, like a card with a picture of a cow on the front, and when you open it up it just says "Mooooooo"
I can just imagine people opening and closing it, trying to work it out.
I can just imagine people opening and closing it, trying to work it out.
Grix Thraves wrote:
> Two is celebrations of things you wouldn't normally -
> "Congratulations, you've got AIDS!".. ok, maybe that
> wouldn't sell. But the idea is to challenge things that society kinda
> sweeps under the rug somewhat. Like a valentines card custom made for
> paedophiles. *shakes head* Going to hell going to hell..
And a huge shock to the system that'd be. Imagine the look on someone's face. Like.. you're reading the card in hospital and the mother of the person who's got AIDS sees it.. you can just see that evil stare now. There's no way a mother could take something like that as a joke..
It'd be great to see an idea like this take off though. You don't see them in the shops, no doubt cos people would complain, get sued and whatnot so it's a shame. People are so afraid of honesty.
Maybe Valetine's cards would be easiest [ish?!]. Or just plain relationship sorta cards.
"A little note to be polite,
Thank You for the hump last night.
It wasn't great,
to say the least.
You're only a 'mate',
so stay away, beast."
Or something like that.. :)
Kinda reminds me of the time my co-worker told me she got dumped on Valentine's Day and had a really nasty card sent to her with a poem inside. Can't remember what it said though, but it was great..
> Two is celebrations of things you wouldn't normally -
> "Congratulations, you've got AIDS!".. ok, maybe that
> wouldn't sell. But the idea is to challenge things that society kinda
> sweeps under the rug somewhat. Like a valentines card custom made for
> paedophiles. *shakes head* Going to hell going to hell..
And a huge shock to the system that'd be. Imagine the look on someone's face. Like.. you're reading the card in hospital and the mother of the person who's got AIDS sees it.. you can just see that evil stare now. There's no way a mother could take something like that as a joke..
It'd be great to see an idea like this take off though. You don't see them in the shops, no doubt cos people would complain, get sued and whatnot so it's a shame. People are so afraid of honesty.
Maybe Valetine's cards would be easiest [ish?!]. Or just plain relationship sorta cards.
"A little note to be polite,
Thank You for the hump last night.
It wasn't great,
to say the least.
You're only a 'mate',
so stay away, beast."
Or something like that.. :)
Kinda reminds me of the time my co-worker told me she got dumped on Valentine's Day and had a really nasty card sent to her with a poem inside. Can't remember what it said though, but it was great..
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