Obligation Chocolate Day

February 14th, 2008
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Happy Valentine’s Day! Even if you have a general philosophical disdain for this holiday, like me, you can still enjoy the different kinds of chocolate you may receive. Anybody out there getting any giri-choco (義理チョコ), tomo-choco (友チョコ), or kanshya-choco (感謝チョコ)? Anyone know of any variations on the obligation chocolate side of things that I missed? (The real romantic kind of chocolate has only one variety that I’m aware of, so it bores me. The stratification on the obligation side is far more fascinating.) Anyhoo – hope your day isn’t too incredibly awkward. Later!

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  • Hey - no hard feelings. Those links caused giggling, and reflection upon the fact that buying yourself chocolate is not the saddest point to which your life can sink. Yikes. Ha ha ha. :-) Just gotta keep it family friendly.
  • Whoa! My bad! Sorry about that.

    lost in ube's last blog post: Six Things February 10, 2008
  • If I'm buying them for myself for the sake of appearances (especially in front of others) I guess it could be 架空友チョコ (kankuutomo-choco). It's a made-up compound, I know.

    For the record, I did receive chocolate from a real person. My life isn't THAT sad.

    [Removed royally NSFW links since my family reads this!! -Deas]

    lost in ube's last blog post: Six Things February 10, 2008
  • My coworker said she'd call it 見栄チョコ (mie-choco) instead. Awesome. Vanity chocolate.
  • Lost in Ube - aaaaaw. It'll be ok. Ha ha ha. You cracked me up when I found this. 10 points.

    I'll also add 2 more kinds of chocolate. The kind LiU just bought would be 自己憐憫チョコ (jikorenbin-choco), and the kind that you'd buy for someone else could be 同情チョコ (doujyou-choco). Ha ha ha. I made them up, but yeah. Any other ideas?
  • I bought myself some chocolate the other day and left it on my pillow this morning so that when I got home today I'd find it sitting there waiting for me.

    Later tonight I will cry myself to sleep.

    lost in ube's last blog post: Six Things February 10, 2008
  • I love it! Wairo-choco. Beautiful. And girigiri-choco, is that just given at the last possible moment? Ha ha. That's fun too.
  • got "ぎりぎりチョコ" this morning.

    claytonian's last blog post: Open ID comes to blogger
  • 賄賂チョコ...which is...umm...I guess you'd use it, you know, to close business deals and get out of sticky situations.

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