I'm going to friends of the family tonight for Pesach (Chag Semeach, Gud Yom Tov, etc etc), and as I was brought up right, I went to get some flowers to take with. However all the prearranged flowers were rubbish (see below). They were too colourful, too many different flowers, too blah. They all looked like motorway services "shit I'm in the dog box" flowers.
So I went inside the florist and in about 3 minutes had got them to do the arrangement above. All the selection was mine. Surely straight guys can't do flowers this well. I have no style or sense in anything else.
I'm wasted being single.
1. matthew
Either you’re wasted being single, you’re actually not straight, or you missed your calling as a master flower-arranger.
I think you are straight though, you love boobs too much to be gay.
Nice arrangement too, remind me to ask your advice for future special occasions that require floral giftitude.
2. graybo
I’ll bet that there was a considerable price differential between the bunches in the two images. Also, I bet that some of my friends at NAFAS would tear apart (in a stylistic sense) your arrangement. Further, I know a number of straight florists. I know a bigger number of non-straight florists. I know a much bigger number of female florists, gay and straight.
Having said all that, I think you made a wise purchase.
3. Adrian
My arrangement was 20% cheaper, than the cheapest prearranged bunch.
Oh I’m sure someone with real style could do better. But I reckon mine is not bad, and way better than the prearranged bunches.
And their was no slight intended on people, gay or straight, florists or otherwise. But I find as a straight guy I do tend to lack any sort of style or design skills that I have found (observationally) that gay men often have. Except picking arrangements of flowers which I reckon I do a damn fine job.
4. graybo
There is a reason for that - most single straight guys don’t bother and those that are attached are happy to leave it to the female in the pair. Fact (he said, categorically, without recourse to research or even Google).
5. Gordon
graybo is right. fact.
Not sure what about though, stands to reason he must be right about something, sometime…
Nice selection, my favourite flower in there too.
6. Adrian
Which one is that (your favourite, that is)
7. Katherine
My colleagues are all very impressed.
8. Gordon
You really don’t pay much attention do you.. I bet half the time you skim read and bung in a comment that makes it sound like you read the post but didn’t… not that I’D EVER do such a thing.. no no…
Ehhh.. what was the question??
Oh yes.
If I’m not mistaken that’s Strelitzia reginae in there (where’s Graybo when you need him…)
9. Adrian
Yes those are Strelitzias.
Don’t confuse me reading your blog with the fact I have a memory entirely dependant on post-it-notes for recall. Two completely different things. Except for the navel gazing metablogging posts. Those I skim. :)
10. Gordon
LOL. From one “memory-challenged” bloke to another, trust me, I ain’t confusing you with.. er… what were we talking about??
11. Alecia
Hate the “shit-I’m-in-the-doghouse” supermarket flowers. If someone bought them for me they would be in the double doghouse.
Are you sure you’re straight?
12. Adrian
Pretty sure.
13. ella
i like blue flowers like the iris and green flowers and i’ve only ever been sent two bunches of flowers - one from a boy i just dumped and friends insisted i called to say thank you even though i hated him, and one from a boyfriend who sent them to me for channukah - we split up new years.
carnations make me think “overpriced-dead-garage-forecourt”