valentines day, a day which seems to me is about couples throwing money at each other and making single people feel bad, my question to you is, why do we celebrate it?

Well, I used to hate it, but I met this really cool girl and it's nice to have an excuse to buy her things. =)

this is kind of my point, when you were single, naturally you hated it, also why on earth should couples need an excuse to be nice to each other? i mean unless ive missed the point of relationships entirely, you dont need an excuse to show each other affection, you should do it all the time anyway?

Why not? I buy her stuff anyway and do all these nice things for her. Tbh, I think it's more of a girl thing (correct me if I'm wrong) but there's nothing wrong with having a holiday where you give gifts, etc to your loved one. I guess it's just for fun. ^_^

then we should also have "Singles" day, thats the only way to be fair

Feel free to make that a holiday... That seems kind of depressing to me though; would you buy gifts for yourself? o_O

yeah sure, wed also have massive sections on all national news and special sections for our gifts in shops, just to shove it in the face of everyone that some of us our single, if couples get to do it, why shouldnt single people

Thats exactly what I've said to several people regarding the day.

Eh, my love life really isn't in bad shape right now though. I guess I'll feel only a tiny bit bitter this year.

High five to the bitter single people! We rock.