Interesting Facts about Valentine' s Day

Hi friends … Wish u all a Happy Valentine’s day. Here are some interesting facts about valentine’s day.

 

You know that in the world women are the one who purchase more gifts on this day than the men. Next to Christmas this is the day in which gifts and greeting card sales goes to the peak in USA.

Only in Europe countries its said to be valentines day , but in most asian and other coutry its is said to be lovers day and a day which its meant for  proposing their love and to celebrate.

Saudi Arabia , Iran , Pakistan and Malaysia have warned people for celebrating this day.( OMG…!!!!!! I wont go there )

In some countries they have a dress code to find the love status of the person. The dress code for 2012 valentines day is as follows

• If person wears red dress is said that he/she is already in love

• If in pink or rose that person is free and single.

• If in orange that person is waiting for one for him or her

• If in yellow the person is only ready for friendship

• If blue that person is on the way to propose

• If green that person have accepted the proposal

• If purple that person is not interested in love

• If in white that person says do not disturb me.

• If grey that person love is already broke up

• If black that person says proposal is rejected

FUN FACTS ABOUT LOVE

-Love is one of a human being's strongest needs, surpassed only by food and groin-kicking filthy hippies.

-Love is like an unquenchable thirst, though it can be temporarily sated with fluids other than water.

-The easiest way to tell if someone loves you is to tell them they have a nice ass. If they file a sexual harrassment suit, it's love.

-No, I'm NOT a lawyer. Why do you ask?

-The best way to show someone you love them is by buying them expensive gifts. The poor are simply unworthy of love.

-Michael Moore is, technically, poor.

-Love is full of strange, confusing contradictions, and at times makes no sense whatsoever, yet it should not be confused with the UN, since love rarely involves oil-related scandals.

-Despite what you may have been taught in school, love is more than just a few cigars and a stained blue dress

-Love means never having to say you're sorry, mostly because when you screw up, you will need to make a MUCH longer speech than that.

-For best results, include bended-knee grovelling and a lot of diamonds.

-I *told* you love wasn't for the poor.

-The French are reputed to be experts in love, mostly because it's something they can surrender to.

-You never know when love will strike, which makes it similar to terrorists. If you see love, shoot it, just to be safe.

-Some people will need Viagra for this.

-Some types of love are actually unhealthy. For example, if your love involves handcuffs, ostrich feathers, or spankings, it's fine.

-Love is a many-splendored thing, much like the diamond necklace you'll be buying when you screw up.

-Again - not for the poor.

-Money can't buy happiness, but it CAN buy love. Although I've found that the healthy kind usually costs a little extra.

-Love was originally invented by Microsoft, thus explaining its chronic instability.

-In a fight between love and Aquaman, love would conquer all, and Aquaman would confess his secret longing for King Neptune.

-Long-lasting love can be achieved by filling out the on-line registration form and only using fully licensed

versions. In the long run, pirated love will only bring misery, despite requiring fewer diamonds initially.

-For more information on the ins and outs of love (which only SOUNDS dirty) see the Love Notes category at Bad Example. Those with delicate sensibilities are urged to think twice before choosing to view the comments.

FACTS ABOUT ROMANCE IN OFFICE

When it comes to dating, office romances are a hot subject. Some work out great, some create bigger office problems, and some are banned by company regulations. Here are some fun and interesting facts about office romance:

» The author of the book "The Office Romance" estimates that approximately 8 million people enter into a relationship with a coworker every year.

» A seven year study by a Swedish researcher, Yvonne Aberg, found that coed work environments are dangerous to marriages. Studying 37,000 employees worldwide, the research showed that the divorce rate of couples who work in a coed environment is 70% higher than the divorce rate of couples who work in a same-sex environment. The study also found a "contagious" effect when it comes to divorce. There was a 43% increase of the chance of a married person getting a divorce if 1/3rd of his or her coworkers had recently gotten a divorce.

» More future spouses will meet at work than neighborhood settings, social settings, or school according to a study from the Bureu of National Affairs in the late 1980s.

» Working close to those of the opposite gender affects the potential of an office romance because those you work close with are the ones you share life's information (and confidences with). Over 90% of reported office romances start in the same building versus adjoining offices.

FUN FACTS ABOUT KISSING (DATING)

Kissing is a common and sometimes intimate activity for couples. Yet kissing has also been studiedin-depth, creating some fun and interesting facts. For example, did you know:

» Twice as many people turn their heads to the right when kissing than to the left, according to a visual study by German psychologist Onur Güntürkün of Ruhr-Universität-Bochum. He casually (and discreetly) studied kissing couples in the public and counted them as part of his research as long as they had lip contact, were positioned face to face, and weren't holding any objects. 124 couples qualified in his visual study. As babies (in and out the womb), the majority of humans favor turning their head to the right and most are right handed. This was one of the influencial observations that lead to the study.

» Philematology is the scientific name for "kissing".

» Research indicates that there is a much better chance of you catching a cold from shaking hands with someone who has a cold than kissing them.

» There is a huge debate on how many calories are burned, if any, from kissing. Estimates range from an average of one calorie per kiss to 90 calories for a passionate 30-minute kiss. When Snapple put out its Snapple Facts, under the bottle cover, one fact claimed that a one-minute kiss burns 26 calories.

FACTS ABOUT LAS VEGAS WEDDINGS

LAS VEGAS WEDDINGS

Known as the "Wedding Capitol of the World," Las Vegas is full of some fun and interesting facts. For example, did you know:

» On one day out of the year the Clark County (Las Vegas) Marriage License Bureau is open for a full 24 hours. That day is... February 14.

» There are approximately 120,000 marriages that take place in Las Vegas every year. That averages out to about 328 weddings a day.

» Next to Valentine's Day the busiest day for weddings in Las Vegas is New Year's Eve.

» Las Vegas is home to several drive-thru wedding chapels where you can get married without ever leaving your car! In the entire country of Canada, there is one drive-thru wedding chapel.

The Top 10 Interesting Facts About Dating

"The Top 10 Interesting Facts About Dating," by Susan Dunn, Coach and David M. Buss author of The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating is a professor of psychology at the Univ. of Michigan. He and his colleagues interviewed over 10,000 people of all ages from 37 cultures worldwide, and his book is full of interesting facts. Here are a few.

1. The divorce rate among couples where the woman makes more than the man is 50% higher than among couples in which the husband earns more.

2. There are 25,000 to 35,000 polygynous marriages in the U.S.,mostly in western states.

The more polygynous the mating system the greater the differences between the sexes in terms of mortality.

Polygynous mating selects for males who take risks. Risk-taking traits lead to successful mating at the expense of a long life, i.e., the biggest buck wins the mating-fight, but will have more trouble feeding himself in a lean winter.

3. The #1 cause of divorce worldwide is infidelity.

4. The #2 cause of divorce worldwide is infertility.

5. The #3 cause of divorce worldwide is unkindness.

This can take the form of emotional and/or physical abuse,and may be the result of infidelity and infertility, or it can be a personality characteristic that is stable over time, involving lack of consideration for others, cruelty,selfishness, and irresponsibility.

6. Worldwide, wives who are less than 20 years old are morethan twice as likely as women who are more than 20 to be killed by a husband in a jealous age, regardless of the age of the husband.

7. 33% of women who have extramarital affairs consider their marriages to be happy, while 56% of men do.

8. Worldwide, women prefer to marry men who are older than they are and vice versa.

In Finland, Sweden and Norway the man is 1-2 years older. In Nigeria, 6.5 years older. In Zambia, 7.5 years older. In the US, men in their 30s prefer a woman 5 years younger; in their 50s, a woman 10-20 years younger. In the US, on average in the first marriage, the man is 3 years older; in the second marriage 5 years older; in the third marriage, 8 years older.

9. For the lifetime, men on average would like to have 18 sex partners, and women, 4 or 5.

10. Remarriage after death or divorce? In the US, 76% of women aged 14-19 remarry; 56% of women aged 30-39; 32% of women aged 40-49; and 12% of women aged 50-75.

(c)Susan trains and certifies EQ coaches. Individualized instruction arranged to accommodate your schedule. NO residency. Training worldwide. Susan offers individual coaching, business programs, Internet courses and ebooks.She is the author of Midlife Dating Survival Manual for Women and It's a Jungle Out There internet course with how-tos for dealing with difficult people.

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