A Romantic Gesture is identical to a Loving Gesture, except that in order to qualify as "romantic," it needs to be at least somewhat pointless or useless; lacking in practical function or utility.
If you wash the dishes, take out the trash, fart elsewhere, tell her you love her, go to her special events, and buy her tampons, but don't buy her flowers that willdie in just days, you've never performed a single Romantic Gesture. What a dick.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.