[Mika]

Well, I have always wondered why I'm supposed to take flowers to a woman, in my eyes, it has always been a cold murder of a plant's offspring for no good reason at all. Killing plants to eat them, now that's an understandable reason 

[SpardaSon21]

Women like to have flowers around, most likely because they look nice and smell pretty.

[Mika]

Yes, but in actuality, it is more like looking into a corpse - or a terminal patient. With the difference that flowers just happen to smell nice.

Though, this all supposing that I don't buy a potted plant, which tends to be a sort of no-no.

[Dragon]

Not to mention you don't have to kill them. A flower can survive for quite a bit without it's roots, provided it's properly cared for. Or, if you're not going for a bouquet (or have access to a wicker basket), you can always use a potted plant.

Though, this all supposing that I don't buy a potted plant, which tends to be a sort of no-no.

Put several flowers into a single pot, then put the whole thing into a well-fitting wicker basket. If you do it right, the result can be much better (though somewhat less classy, but on the other hand, more original) than a traditional bouquet.

[Phantom Hoover]

Well, I have always wondered why I'm supposed to take flowers to a woman, in my eyes, it has always been a cold murder of a plant's offspring for no good reason at all. Killing plants to eat them, now that's an understandable reason 

you're actually tearing off the plant's reproductive organs and displaying them as a trophy

[Mika]

Yes, I don't have to kill them, but they tend to die nevertheless in this process. While flower can survive without its roots, there is going to be a lack of necessary minerals to keep it alive long term unless the care keeper is really, and I mean REALLY good. Hence the comment on terminal patient, taking a flower without its roots is pretty much equivalent to having a terminal patient in your living room. It's alive, but there's no turning back and I have inferred in the natural life cycle of a plant, possibly killing it before it could reach any kind of maturity without any sort of reason.

For some reason, women don't prefer potted plants on the dates - when given a chance, I prefer to take them to gardens, there the plants are at least alive and tend to remain so.

I'm a born romantic, aren't I? 

EDIT:

you're actually tearing off the plant's reproductive organs and displaying them as a trophy

EDIT^2:
Actually, it is part reproductive organ, and partially required for photosynthesis, without it, the plant will die as well. So it's not only a reproductive organ.
Haha! Never thought it that way, but that's usually true as well! Let me try to put that in more understandable terms: the root is not sufficient for sustained plant life, leaves are the key for the photosynthesis and that is a required condition for sustained plant life. So it is not only a reproductive organ that you are decorating your living room with.

[Lorric]

Fake flowers ftw.

I don't understand why they're not the norm with how good and realistic they are these days. They stay pretty, they can be whatever you want them to be, and they're cheap. They also require zero maintenence and won't spill soil or water if dropped. They'll save you a lot of money as well on replacements.

And it's nice that I now see some comments about not having to kill them. I left it out as I don't want Dead Is The Beast 2.0, but yes, that's my top reason. Keeping flowers so you can watch them slowly dying seems perverse to me.

Pot plants, go right ahead. Get as many pot plants as you want. Then you can watch the cycle of life and rebirth in all it's glory, not decay and death.

[Phantom Hoover]

EDIT:

you're actually tearing off the plant's reproductive organs and displaying them as a trophy

EDIT^2:
Actually, it is part reproductive organ, and partially required for photosynthesis, without it, the plant will die as well. So it's not only a reproductive organ.
Haha! Never thought it that way, but that's usually true as well!

most flowering plants that i know of have plenty of leaves that you wouldn't bother cutting off to get the flowers

[Suongadon]

You're putting far too much thought into this in all of the wrong ways. Flowers = nice. Consider how the colors will go with your tie/shirt/eyes while you are holding them. That is all.

[Phantom Hoover]

wait are you seriously meant to colour-coördinate flowers with yourself

[Lorric]

You're putting far too much thought into this in all of the wrong ways. Flowers = nice. Consider how the colors will go with your tie/shirt/eyes while you are holding them. That is all.

We (men) don't really wear pretty-flower colours though. I've never heard of matching flowers up with clothing or eyes before.

[Suongadon]

Uhm. Yes? 

And even if not yes, if you're going to over think it, might as well over think in a useful direction. Terminal patient metaphors and flowers-as-castration-trophies are not useful directions.

[Lorric]

Useful direction = fake flowers 

[NGTM-1R]

Consider how the colors will go with your tie/shirt/eyes while you are holding them.

If you consider this at all, you should probably consider it in relation to the person who's going to have the flowers longest.

[Lorric]

A quick google yielded a couple of interesting articles on fake flowers:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/374943/Fake-flowers-are-making-a-comeback

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/12/cemetery-ban-for-fake-flowers

Fake flowers at the grave is an interesting topic.

[Mika]

We (men) don't really wear pretty-flower colours though. I've never heard of matching flowers up with clothing or eyes before.

I suppose he was just hinting on improving your odds in the process of getting laid.

What? I call 'em as I see 'em!

That video really should also include physicists.

[Lorric]

We (men) don't really wear pretty-flower colours though. I've never heard of matching flowers up with clothing or eyes before.

I suppose he was just hinting on improving your odds in the process of getting laid.

What? I call 'em as I see 'em!

That video really should also include physicists.

I think Suongadon is a she. The profile says so anyway.

[Suongadon]

Consider how the colors will go with your tie/shirt/eyes while you are holding them.

If you consider this at all, you should probably consider it in relation to the person who's going to have the flowers longest.

Now, I love me some impossible dating standards like all members of the Great and Most Holy Gynocracy must, but how are you supposed to match flowers to someone's clothes when you don't know what they are wearing?

also: KFC-> flowers. How and why?

[SpardaSon21]

We should probably listen to Suongadon's opinions about women and flowers because Suongadon happens to be a woman and would therefore happen to know more about that subject than us.

[An4ximandros]

 How about a painting?