Exilian

On this day of joy, merriment, and untrammelled capitalism, spare a thought for Exilian's patron saints, Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to the Slavs. Unlike Valentine, who may or may not have helped a few people get married before being beaten to death with a club, Cyril and Methodius definitely existed and had the arguably more useful impact of literally inventing an alphabet - the Glagolitic, ancestor of the Cyrillic script used right across eastern Europe to this day. These brothers brought the possibility of effective writing in Slavic languages for the first time, which is really a pretty cool accomplishment. (It should here be noted that they were also missionaries who converted people and wrote quite nasty polemics against varieties of religion they didn't like - not that the 800s were more generally a model era of tolerance, that said).

So, happy day of Cyril and Methodius! If you want to do something to mark this momentous occasion, do some writing for us (http://www.exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=64.0), or maybe donate to an education charity (http://www.roomtoread.org/Welcome) or something. Either of those things might well mean more, be more interesting, and have a more lasting impact than yet another god-damn not-really-heart-shaped balloon.

Good luck with all your literary or romantic endeavours today!

~Jubal, Megadux

Mind if I share something like this on Facebook? ;)

Not at all, I might do so myself later :)

Oh my portugaling armadillobarrells! New smilies! :gollum:

On the topic of the topic, is this then a doubly good day to hit on slavic chicks?

Every day is a good day to hit on slavic chicks.

Then I shall sally forth and pester unfortunate slavic ladies.  I'll let you know how it goes. Look for me on the third dawn  :gandalfgrey:

(Was it the third dawn and was that actually a book thing or just a movie thing?)

It was the fifth day.

Eh, close enough.
Some random dude I don't recognise at all stopped me on the way to lidls to ask if I was ok, that confused and worried me a bit so I have nothing to report on the pestering front. I'll maybe try again later.

Anyhow, I'm going ceilidh-ing with my girlfriend this evening which should be fun :)

What's... ceilidh-ing?

A act of participating in a traditional Scottish dance. :P

Just British really, English ceilidhs are also very much a thing (and have a whole different traditional set of tunes & dances to Scottish ones).  :)