Talk:Singles Awareness Day

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Does this really warrant its own article separate from the one for Valentine's Day? Is it actually a holiday celebrated in its own right rather than just being a sarcastic nickname for Valentine's Day? Has anybody ever actually said "Happy SAD!"? Schizombie 05:56, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Well yes, single people do actually get together on this day to celebrate their singleness. The VDay article doesn't say anything about SAD. And '"Happy SAD" Single Awareness Day' does actually give 13,500 results on Google, so yes, people actually say it. My friends and I are also anecdotal evidence for saying it in real life. Dracil 21:48, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
And of course there's the obvious joke concerning its acronym... The Trashman 06:39, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] february 15th

somehow this came up in my SAD search singlesawareness.com I don't know how to edit so i'm not going to add what it says about the revised date for single's awareness day but it is a notable addition.

Then that's three different dates I've seen. The very original article had the 13th, from what I understand, it's the 14th, and obviously the singlesawareness.com site has their own idea as well. Actually, even the spelling of the "Singles" part has discrepancies. There's "single's," "singles" and "singles'" and the site you mentioned has used both "singles" and "singles'". It's possible the discrepancies exists because it's relatively new (I imagine maybe less than a decade?). Personally I'd say it is the 14th, as people have claimed it is an alternative name for VDay as well (and Vday is certainly not celebrated on the 13th or 15th, although like that SA.com site says, some people may actually celebrate it on a different day to get away from the commercialism). Dracil 02:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Singlesawareness.com

I'd like to note that just because someone registered a domain for a holiday, does not suddenly make them the official spokesperson for a holiday that probably had its origin from more than one person. Instead, what he says there is essentially his opinion of what the date should be. *Most* references I've seen for the date IS actually the 14th. It is often referred to as an *alternative name* for Valentine's Day. Last I checked, Valentine's Day was not on the 15th. Most people I know celebrate it on the 14th, not the 15th. This is the same with the spelling of the S part of Singles Awareness Day. Even that site can't agree to which version to be used, and uses "Single's," "Singles," and "Singles'"

Heck, the site even says this: "One of the most preferred activities among singles is getting together with friends for dinner and a movie. Why not schedule something like this for February 14 too? Your single friends will appreciate the time out, and so will you." Dracil 17:40, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology?

uh... "scarism"? "obscenary"?128.240.229.67 16:38, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

This article says nothing about when this "holiday" came into existence. It seems like an excuse for Valentine's Day haters to make up an internet meme. I wouldn't mind this entry if it cited information about its origin. Otherwise, I would consider this a neologism. --shiosai

[edit] Adding the D back in SAD, or Moving the page back to Singles Awareness Day

The original page was called Singles Awareness Day, then it was moved to Singles Awareness by someone to include some stuff on East Asian versions of the celebration. As the origins of celebrations are different, and it seemed that English was not the person's first language, they probably did not realize that by doing so, it removed an important piece of the phrase's history/meaning, in that "Singles Awareness Day" reduces to the acronym "SAD," an intentionally ironic point which was also mentioned in the article.

I have already restructured the page so that it fits both celebrations. Aside from this, there is also the consideration that the new additions probably do not even belong on this page, but should actually have their own entries (and in fact, one of the additions about the Korean version, "Unit Solo" is already discussed on Black Day, which is also linked on the page).

Unless there are objections, I am requesting a move over at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_moves#Uncontroversial_proposals Dracil 13:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)