We started this drinking game last year and it proved to be such a success, we’re rolling it out again. Clear your calendar, pick your poison (we’re partial to a spot of champagne, although Jam is fiercely advocating for tequila) and play along.
It works whether you’re single, taken, unsure, unhappily taken, currently surrounded by 17 cats – WE DO NOT DISCRIMINATE WITH OUR ANTI-VALENTINES DAY SMUG-ERY.
We just want you ALL to get merrily tipsy.
DISCLAIMER: Although Mamamia does not purport to be a credible provider of advice when it comes to drinking, we very much encourage you to drink responsibly (unless your chosen beverage is green tea in which case, knock yourself out).
1. Drink if Channel 7 is playing one or more of the following movies tonight: Notting Hill, When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle or The Notebook.
2. Drink if you watch any of these four movies alone. (Disclaimer: Don’t. Just don’t).
3. Drink whenever you feel yourself wanting to justify your lack of roses and balloons by complaining that “Valentine’s Day is just a meaningless Hallmark excuse for a holiday that is just commercial exploitation”.
4. Drink whenever flowers arrive at the office and you think they’re for you. But they’re not.
5. Double drink if the person in your office who receives the flowers takes a photo and uploads it to Facebook/Instagram/Twitter. Triple drink if they upload it to all three (Grrr).
6. If someone wriggles their eyebrows at you and asks “so… any special plans for tonight?” Drink.
7. Drink whenever you feel the temptation to listen to one of the following songs: Adele’s Someone Like You, Celine Dion’s All By Myself, Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares 2 U.
Actually just avoid all Adele songs. No winners there.
8. Drink if you’re recently single and you find yourself wandering onto your ex’s Facebook page… just to see if, you know, they’re up to anything special… Then STOP AND DELETE THEM AS A FRIEND YOU IDIOT.
9. Drink if you’re disappointed with what your partner gets you. Double drink if he/she gets you nothing.
10. Skull everything you can find if anyone invites you to do something tonight because “Oh I just assumed you wouldn’t have plans and might need cheering up.”
Editor’s note: Please take this post in the spirit (or should that be with the spirits) it was intended, which is to have a little fun. Alcoholism is of course a very serious issue for some Australians and Mamamia definitely doesn’t mean for our readers to actually play the game in keeping with all ten rules – that could be, really, very dangerous. Happy Valentines Day!
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Top Comments
Played it...didn't die and it's only 7.46pm on Valentine's day. I'm here on this site because it's the closest I could find to female company
- Ian
Drink if you promise yourself that the next time you have a partner on Valentine's Day that you won't pull the same sh*t you've pulled on all the other partnered up Feb 14s you've gone through. Instead of saying, 'Oh, we don't need to do anything special, let's just go out for dinner,' say, 'I would like one year where we both go totally and utterly over the top. While mutually agreeing that Valentine's Day is simply a chance for retailers to make money, we both agree that from the moment we wake up to the moment we later fall asleep, the day will be filled with an utter bombardment of hearts and chocolates and love notes in surprising places and flowers sent to the office and lots of jewellery and dinner reservations and then a picnic and champagne and more jewellery and public displays of affection and more 'I love yous' than you can poke a stick at. And it's all going on Facebook.'
Hahahaa this would be hilarious to do! I believe VD falls on a Saturday next year so I could get our faces on t-shirts, walk around the shops holding bouquets and chocolates, staring into each others eyes and giggling at every sentence we say to each other.