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Getting a head on valentines day!

  • 11-02-2012 11:19am
    #1
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    http://www.independent.ie/and-finally/severed-head-was-valentines-gift-3015751.html
    While most couples celebrate Valentine's Day with flowers, chocolates and candlelit dinners, archivists have unearthed evidence that a less savoury romantic gesture was practised historically - bestowing a severed head on a loved one.
    This left-field approach to love-making, practised by 19th-century Taiwanese aborigines, was discovered in the 150-year-old letters of botanical explorers.
    Taking someone's head after killing them was a ritualistic part of life in the culture until the 1930s and suitors would present severed heads to potential partners to woo them or to brides to celebrate their marriage, according to archive material in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

    Heads you win, tails you lose....


Comments

  • #2
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,340 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Drop the a from the ahead and you have a winner of a thread.


  • #3
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Still practised in Afghanistan.


  • #4
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Are Hallmark selling them?


  • #5
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Finally a use for my AK47 bayonet......


  • #6
    Tazium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Tazium


    How did that evolve into oral sex?


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  • #7
    earpiece
    Closed Accounts Posts: 550 ✭✭✭earpiece


    Tazium wrote: »
    How did that evolve into oral sex?

    Simple... if she rejected you - - - the head becomes your best option!


  • #8
    wilkie2006
    Registered Users Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    wrote:
    While most couples celebrate Valentine's Day with flowers, chocolates and candlelit dinners, archivists have unearthed evidence that a less savoury romantic gesture was practised historically - bestowing a severed head on a loved one.

    Ah, people still get head on Valentine's Day. Nothing's changed...


  • #9
    Feeona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭Feeona


    '......or to brides to celebrate their marriage....'

    With this head I thee wed :eek:


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