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Most people have their share of embarrassing Internet searches hidden somewhere deep in their browser’s history. On special occasions, however, they can be pulled out and be a subject to laugh at.

Yandex Ukraine
released the list of most popular searches that Kyivans made before Valentine’s
Day. The searches go from normal “handmade cards” to things like “how to break
up on Feb.14” and “Valentine’s card for a dog.”

The list of most
popular searches is topped by “Saint Valentine’s Day” and includes boring
searches like “Valentine’s day scenario,” “DIY Valentine cards” and
“Valentine’s Day poems.” However, some individual searches were much more
interesting. 

Surprisingly, some
Ukrainians believe that a Valentine’s Day present must go along with person’s
taste in music. Why else would they wonder what to give to “a girl who listens
to rock music” or to “a guy loving heavy metal?” Yandex also reports that
females looked for Valentine’s gifts ideas 10 times more often than males. Does
it mean that there will be a bunch of unhappy women on the night of Feb. 14?

Well, for some people
the holiday is certainly an upsetting day. Some were looking for “sad Valentine
cards” and even for instructions on “how to break up with a guy on Valentine’s
Day.” The saddest one was, perhaps, “it’s Feb.14 soon and I don’t have a
boyfriend. I shall go and eat something.”

The day would be more
fun with some magic, must have thought that someone from Zaporizhya who was
looking for “Valentine’s Day spells and rituals.”

Some
worrying soul from Donetsk asked Yandex “how to secretly give a Valentine’s
card to a guy.” Let’s hope she succeeded.

While
some feel scared about giving the card, others are nervous about getting one.
“How to behave when you get Valentine’s Day card,” somebody from Rivne was
asking Internet anxiously.

In
Khmelnitsky, someone was curious about Valentine’s Day celebrations in Africa.
We wonder if anybody in Africa had that curiosity about Khmelnitsky.

Kyiv
topped weird Valentine’s Day searches when somebody decided to give a special
message with Valentine’s card. “Valentine card with a threat,” the person typed
in Yandex. Perhaps, pirates’ Black Spot would do for him, if cut in a heart
shape.

With all
the weird searches, there are still people in Ukraine who are not involved in
the holiday fever. They’ve been searching “when is Valentine’s Day” and “what holiday
is Feb. 14.”

Kyiv Post staff writer Olga Rudenko can be
reached at [email protected].