More Awesome Than You!

These are nice, I can't wait to recolor some of them.
I Art Heart (http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/object_detail.php?asset_id=232)
Sergeant Cuddles (http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/object_detail.php?asset_id=233)
Heart Glasses (http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/sim_detail.php?asset_id=504636&asset_type=sim&user_id=72683)
Female Heart Intimate Wear (http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/sim_detail.php?asset_id=504638&asset_type=sim&user_id=72683)
Heart Hair Mesh For Females (http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/sim_detail.php?asset_id=504635&asset_type=sim&user_id=72683)
Bah! Maxis made this for males on the afro mesh! :-X
Kürt Rogiers (http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/sim_detail.php?asset_id=504438&asset_type=sim&user_id=72683) Can anyone download this? The images and file are missing for me. :-\

Bah, how useless. Sooner or later I'll do a real proper Valentine's day that *TRULY* commemorates the spirit of the day.
(http://www.mysterynet.com/images/mn/massacre.photo.jpg)

Yüch. How... sweet.

The Kürt Rogiers file is not on the server (size = 0MB)

But it must have been if 48 people really did manage to download it!  I couldn't even get the pic to show up!

What a bag of crap! Those undies are disgusting :o

I've downloaded the teddy though, I thought it might look nice for little sim girls' bedrooms.

Is that the St Valentines Day massacre Pescado? They could've done with your fight club mod...guns are for Wusses!

Good gods, that's all hideous. The description on the stupid 'art' one just screams 'bitter and whiny about being single'.

Me neither - hopefully they'll sort it out later and then we can go over and revile it in peace.

That only shows how many people clicked on the button, now how many people got it in the game.

The teddy bear thing is beginning to scare me. First the bear that came with the game, a download of it in a bunny suit, that weird huge one that comes with OFB and now this one. It's like they're multiplying! :o

Well, a lot of them did work on Toy Story!

God, the heart hair looks like something little kids wore back in the 70's and early 80's!  I remember my niece having some when she was about 4!

Maybe Maxoid Monkey should take a course at a decent hairdressing school!

They did? :o No wonder the sims have such cartoonie looks. :D

That's what Heather Castello of simFreaks told me - and she's met a lot of them.  It also explains the doll house looking furniture compared to the more realistic sims 1 - which mayn't have been 3Dm but most of it was far more attractive!

Valentine's Day is a woman's "holiday" created by women who create cards for other special female occasions.
Thank you Hallmark for giving us this special day.

Valentine's Day is a Saint's Day which commemorates the very unpleasant martyrdom of Saint Valentine!

It has merely been hijacked by the greetings card trade!

Yes and men created the festival of Lupercalia on Feb 15...now there is an interesting tradition...

I believe that's what I had previously stated, in a more roundabout and somewhat offensive way.

And isn't it interesting then that Valentine's Day was born from Lupercalia?

 ;D  Well, Christmas  has very strong links with Saturnalia!

Which would contradict the fact that it was women who created Valentines day wouldnt it? To also note that in fact it was a man that sent out the first "valentines" to his wife expressing his love for her while he was imprisioned...guess he didnt want her to forget about him during the Lupercalia festival...heh.

Richard Lovelace?  ("I could not love thee dear so much, loved I not honour more!")

Oh, and the Twelve Days of Christmas and the whole medieval Lord of Misrule came from Saturnalia too!  since the ordinary laws, such as they were, did not apply at that time, rape was the order of the day - I somehow think that idea was created by men too!

I find the "I Heart Art" object rather amusing.  The Japanese style of the artwork suggests to me it would go VERY well your downtown Nihon where store owners make a killing merchandising on holidays that the citizens just don't 'get' except that it's another reason to buy someone a gift and thus rope that someone into owing them a gift in return.

I always think of japanese art as something delicate and beautiful!  I wouldn't call that ART!

Then if you prefer it, Japanese non-art.  (http://www.springhole.net/smileys/tongue.gif)

I think I prefer that!  By the way, I've just created a family using your dark blue skin - it really looks superb in my game!  They have red eyes from The Real Sim and various red-streaked custom hair - very dramatic!

Thanks, Zephyr.  I'm glad you like it.  :)

Didn't dare use it in my previous set of game files, as I'd already got a load of custom skins, so this historical set has been the first opportunity  (did I say historical?  Since it's Veronaville, add fantasy!) So I now have some pale blue elves (Starrats at TSZ), some dark blue elves and some paleskinned elves!  Can't wait to see what happens if they intermarry!  (Just wish if you mixed a blue skin with an alien one you could get turquoise babies!)  But at least, since they are elves, they don't have to keep having the same set of victorian longjohns! 

I did a search on Lupercalia and came up with this tidbit.  Any guess on why the "new" custom never did catch on ?

Wow, that last bit sounds like FUN!   Oh, how times have changed, I guess today's youth would need a lottery based on Pop Idols or Football heroes, and then try to emulate them!

In line with what you've posted, did you know that the church had so much difficulty persuading the norsemen to accept the idea that Christ rose from the dead they actually (secretly) rewrote some of the sagas!

Considering that they sort of "took over" previously pagan holidays and built their churches right on top of sites where the pagans would worship I'm not surprised. It gives the appearance that the church was a bit desperate for followers.

Maybe they were desperate, but appropriating the culture and religion of the people one was trying to take over wasn't without precedent - it worked quite well with the Romans. They pretty much took Greek culture wholesale, rubbed out some details and painted them over with their own, and there they were! The Aztecs did something similar with the Toltecs, although I think with them it was just intermarrying until the Toltecs were mostly Aztec.

What's even more interesting is if you go a bit further back in history on how the festival began and why, one of the things that I found interesting is that in earlier times before the lottery came is that on February 15, the Luperci, so named the brothers of the wolf (who were Romulus and Remus, which in itself is yet another intriguing story - side note I have several ancient coins from a dig featuring the brothers from this era), dressed in only goatskin and during Lupercalia, a dog and two male goats were sacrificed as an act of purification as they were then anointed with the blood and it was wiped off with the wool from the goat that was dipped in its milk, then they donned the skins of the sacrificed goat. (Which is rather interesting if you look into some of the Jewish customs about not mixing blood and milk and all that, because this was considered a pagan ritual and thus you should have no part of it in any form) Anyway they ran around this area where the festival took place with straps of leather from the skins, which were called Februa, and women would line up along the way to be hit by these guys with the straps because it was thought to ensure fertility by purifying them. Thus, is where the month of February gets its name, which the root of February means to purify.

So valentines day was really something quite different than what it is today. I don't quite get the connection of the lottery to the original festival, but like many festivals, customs were borrowed from various practices and I suppose that is how it came to be, a conjoining of customs...and then the Roman Christians took over and decided that these customs were a bit too pagan but they didn't want to alienate everyone so that took pieces of it and added on to it to try to put a religious spin on it and give it an accepted spiritual purpose.

Now of course it is far removed from what it was and means very little.

No, but it brings the argument closer to a state of reductio ad absurdum.

Regardless of who "started" the "holiday", who is more likely to expect a gift on Valentine's Day, a man or a woman?

I was merely commenting on the above bolded part. And I wouldnt know, I have never been in a relationship on valentines day, I or life always finds a way to make sure I am single, usually during the entire month of February. Not that I care, but it is annoying having to deal with all the women in my office who gush over the fact that someone "cares enough to send the very best".

bleh.

That depends on the country and culture one is from, doesn't it?

I guess among Americans, the 'typical' woman expects candy and/or flowers, and the 'typical' man expects to recieve blowjobs and/or vaginal sex... both of them expect something, so what's the beef?  ;)

I don't know. I think whining over it is dumb. I think it'd be great if everyone would take V day as an excuse to spread some love around regardless of one's relationship status - volunteer at a soup kitchen or an animal shelter or a school or anything to get one's mind off of the self-pity train.

My boyfriend bought us a sidecar for his motorcycle, so I can ride with him without freaking out (I'm  huge wimp, I'm sorry).  This is the first Valentine's day I've been attached, but I was never a bitter single girl choosing instead to look forward to the post Valentine's Day sell on chocolate. 

All this talk about holidays and Christians stealing bits from the pagans and whatnot reminds me of a very funny comedian named Eddie Izzard who riffs a bit on the topic. 

Well, the teddy is kind of cute, the painting not so bad.  The glasses and hairdo is horrible :/  

Personally I think the women give out more gifts, or like to.  Men tend to get a lil lazy when buying gifts imo.

Last year was my first Valentine's day with a boyfriend, and we splurged on gifts.  This year we're going to make each other something.   :D

I downloaded the glasses, and I'm thinking about downloading the teddy...can never have too many teddys... :P  The pj's are atrocious.   :-\

My guy and I go away for V-day weekend every year instead of doing gifts. I love it! For the first 3 V-days we went to a gorgeous restaurant in an old historic house on the lake but then they closed down. That restaurant has since re-opened as a B&B but we decided not to go since it is in a city we know like the backs of our hands. One year we went and stayed at a mountain top hotel and it snowed and it was beautiful. We can never go back there because it couldn't possibly be as good as that again. So each year we go somewhere new. It's kind of exciting.

We aren't married but on our first Valentines together I kissed him for the very first time. It was not our first date and we went to the afore mentioned gorgeous retaurant. He swept me off my feet I guess. So anyway it is the closest thing we have to an anniversary and we go all out.

Thanks Simsbaby. i woulda missed them.

I think the glasses are cute, but most of it's horrid.  I wouldn't mind the hairstyle, but not for 10 megs.  Maybe later...much later.

Now the Kürt Rogiers (http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/sim_detail.php?asset_id=504438&asset_type=sim&user_id=72683) file is hidden, did anyone save the download link? I want to see what it is.

Wow..that stuff sucks.

What a bunch of useless crap!  The only thing that looked even slightly interesting was the teddy bear, and that's just a recolor of the existing object, isn't it? 

The antenna hair is just stupid, in my opinion.  We're all hoping for more variety in hair meshes, and this is what they give us?  Yuck.  Let's hope the meshes in OFB are a lot better than that.

Karen

Hey, at least someone can easily modify it to give aliens antennae.

That's a thought!!!  But of course they should then be BALD with antennae.

Nope, the one that comes with the game has only pants, this one has pants and a shirt. :P

Uhh the hairstyle is horrible-I put it in my game, and deleted it....even my sims aren't that tacky!
The undies look a lot better in game than the picture shows, there are a few colour options with them...but they have sandals on! Kinda spoils them. The glasses are hideous, and don't look right with any face shape really, they cut into the cheeks! The wall art is horrible too....honestly the best thing is the teddy, and even that is just a recolour of the original teddy with a t-shirt added on! I've said it before and I'll say it again...bag of crap...

I've got far nicer teddies from elsewhere!

Me too Zeph! I love the dolls that someone on MTS2 made too...can't remember who it was though.

Aw, I sorta like the antennae (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) but I wish they were an accessory rather than hair. I had some like that when I was little, but mine were gold glitter stars :D I think they're kind of cute. I forgot to look at them in the game, are they available for kids?

OO I don't know Jen, they would look cute with the fairy costume!

I bet they're not...

BTW they are called Deely Boppers-they were all the rage in the 1980's  :D

Yup, that's when I had mine! We called them Bee Boppers though :) ooh and they WOULD be cute with the fairy outfit! :-*

They were called something else in the UK, maybe Ancient sim or Inge can remember what it was?  As I said earlier, I remember my niece having some, around the time she was crazy about Adam and the Ants!  They looked really cute with ra-ra skirts!

I'll have to take a look at those dolls!  But the teddy I really like is a tatty and obviously well-loved one, but I can't remember where it came from!

I wonder why they didn't make the antenae as an accessory? Surely they could have learned how by now from the modders out there. lol.
They would have actually been usefull then.

The antennae look really cute on the toddlers.

I don't see myself using them on anyone teen or older, though.

I thought they were called Bloody Stupid in the UK but I'll take your word for it. 

If you find the dolls, please would you post the link (or PM to me).

Thanks

They were called Deely Boppers! I am from the UK....I remember rara skirts too! I had a lovely denim one, and thought I looked the bees knees in it! I was only about 12-13 then :P

maxon (and anyone else who wants them) here are the links to the dolls I have...the first link is the mesh by Natrobo, but download Numenor's fixed mesh. It is on page 3 (I might have linked to numenors post) The second link are to some gorgeous recolours by tiggerypum :)

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?p=528042#post528042
http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=68586

Probably this mesh by Natrobo:

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=59807

(with and without the hat)

Natrobo's got a ton of good children's stuff and his whole page is worth looking at :)

and recolors by tiggerypum

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=68586

If not, well I have those and I think they're great :) There's also a set on TSR that's only decorative but they have a chair and a baby bed and a doll shelf that go with them and they're really cute.

Edit: oh, oops, I'm sorry. I shoulda read before I posted :(

Which part of the UK are you from, Emma?  They were definitely called something different in my part of the country!  Just wish I could remember what it was!

I've never heard of any of these festivities Luper-whatchamacallit or any of the others (except "the 12 days of Christmas," which I never understood since we really only get one). What are they, and what is this mysterious Saturnalia thing everyone is talking about?

I think people who are bitter on Valentine's day would be bitter anyway. My friends and I have been giving each other chocolate and teddybears. I think it is good to have holidays to remember the people we care about, whether they were originally stupid and meaningless or not. On that note, I like the tacky glasses and pajamas. They are amusing.

Emma, I think I was in primary school when those 'antennas' came out.  That's what we called them, although I have vague memories of them making a return when I hit my teens.  Then I think we called them "zebedees" after the character in 'The Magic Roundabout".  Most things were called 'thingy' back then - as in "you know, that thingy that so-and-so's got".  We were very  articulate in my neighbourhood, obviously.  I think those 'wibbledees'  (as in the wibbledee wobbledee thingys) hit the shops after a big campaign for Smash, the processed dried mashed potatoes..mmm yum  :-\.

"Zebedees"!  Of course!

Ellatrue, Saturnalia was a Roman Midwinter Festival in honour of the god Saturn, and never really completely died out (obviously in those dark winter days, especially in this "sceptred isle" people needed some relief from the winter darkness!) and in the Middle Ages became the festival of the "Lord of Misrule" when all laws were suspended.  I believe that in the end, because obviously things got very out of hand, and the Church no doubt heartily disapproved, they simply invented the Twelve Days of Christmas to turn the whole thing into a Christian celebration.

Haha Zebedees, that would make sense! No, we didn't call them that though...I am from the midlands  :)

Well, my niece is originally from Croydon - no doubt that's where I heard that.

I live in the Midlands too, but Stoke-on-Trent, and I have a feeling the kids I was teaching back then used yet another name!

Haha we are nearly neighbours! ;D I am further south than you though. I am a *shh* Brummie

Brummie?

I said *shh* :D

It's a big place!  Must be hundreds of Emmas there!

LOL  ;D

But maybe none except you with a green skin?

Haha...yep. What you can't see in that pic is all the wrinkles too :D

 ;) We all get them!

For those of you who were hoping, as I was, for an edible box of chocolates as part of this Valentine's download....check out this from Echo:

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?p=1050234

Karen

Great, thanks!  Yet another Sims 1 goodie that I missed!  That and the bouquets and jewelry with which to win your sweetheart and get her to marry you!

That's nice and thanks for posting but, is it me or are there too few chocs in that box?  What did they do - eat some of them first?

Wouldn't surprise me! LOL

I thnk they should also have a special bag of flaming poo for the bitter sims out there who HATE valentines day because IT so TOTALLY SUCKS and is STUPID

It's because they have to be based on pizza slices. There's only so many slices so you can only have so many chocolates. Since chocolates are smaller than pizza slices, it looks like there's less stuff in the box.

It does look like too few. Oh well.