to clarify, this is an accompanying post along with ravester-hamster's post on flowers vs. toasters. otherwise, this post will appear to be some random unintelligible garble one individual came up with.
the other individual decided that toasters would be a more appropriate gift for a girl rather than flowers. his explanation; toasters is more functional as a gift rather than flowers. personally, i think the art of flower giving stems from the old ages, back where flowers are harder to come by than now. picture america during the 1700s. acquiring flowers during spring or summer would be easy, but not so during the winter, where hothouses haven't existed yet. it would be almost impossible to obtain flowers, not to mention fresh ones, unless they import some long-living growing plants from a more tropical climate, say mexico. not to mention they have no freely available florists that carry random exotic plants as they do now. us females don't consider toasters (or any other electronic devices, really) as suitable dating gifts because, lets face it, for one thing girls like purdy things. second, giving toaster is more like a housewarming gift, or one that someone close already give. you wouldn't give toasters to random people that you just met once on your first day, as from a rational point of view (kudos to ravester) and the game theory, we shouldn't exert a lot of effort into relationships that would not last into the long term, as such flowers. granted, if we follow the same game-theory principle, should we expect a long term relationship with them, THEN we can invest a lot of resources into the relationship as hopefully (maybe... juuuust maybe) it will last through a long time. you shouldn't screw up a long term relationship ey? and this individual don't know about other girls, but this individual would much prefer flowers as a first date gift rather than a toaster. although this individual agrees with the other individual on the bring-flowers-to-dates convention, as most girls would appreciate flowers than toasters because it's more romantic. as far as jewelry go, it's prettier and more expensive, meaning girls would fawn over it more. AND it's wearable~
TL;DR version; girls like flower more because it shows that you care enough to be bothered to buy something that is (supposedly) hard to get and doesn't last long. the fact that flowers are pretty helps tremendously. we girls also like romantic stuffs, so ravester, please don't buy get toasters for your first date
