You're consistently fighting a losing battle against time... do you remember... you're getting older... do you remember... death is coming.... do you remember?
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2024
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Do you remember the 21st of September.
I just follow people and whisper “Memento Mori” randomly.
Not a battle, a race!
My fetish is to meet a woman on tinder, take her to a restaurant, and excuse myself. I then go tell the staff it's her birthday so they go sing happy birthday to her while she is alone at the table.
I then leave.
My fetish is to meet a woman on Tinder
My fetish is to meet a woman(optional) on Tinder
My fetish (isn't optional).
I imagine that someone out there shares this desire. Feels like you should (both) put in a support ticket so Tinder can help you meet.
I, too, hate being surrounded by a warm and plentiful gathering of friends and loved ones singing a song of appreciation for me. Every year! Without fail! All of them never forgetting. There are always so many of them! Like, just for once, let me have a birthday alone in a Texas Roadhouse, which I have never done!
Humans suck. I don't want them to sing to me.
On your birthday I’ll take a stand and purposefully NOT sing anything related to flying squids or you. As a gesture that not all humans suck.
Nice! When is his birthday?
I know an identity theft scam when I see one.
Definitely sucks to be remembered. Being forgotten and ignored is a much better way to live life. So much more fulfilling. Especially if you're down to only a few remaining friends. The rest home is going to be awesome.
For real tho.
It's so calm, no pressure, no expectations, no humans, just drifting slowly towards the warm embrace is the abyss. Even if it looks back at me - at least it's not a human.
The skip button is located in the face of the singers. You need to push really hard, but only once.
It's a double click.
I don't think anyone has sang me happy birthday in at least fifteen years, maybe twenty. I guess I've got the adblocker.
Please read this on your birthday: Happy Birthday!!
Not to be read until [your_birthdate]:
Happy birthday!
I'm about to take over as manager of my department. One of the first things I'm abolishing is mandatory singing of the happy birthday song. We're fully remote and it's impossible to sync up so we sound like a chorus of five-year-olds. Fully optional whether or not we sing for you, or even acknowledge your birthday, from now on.
Mandatory? Wow. Yeah, fuck that noise.
At you
I have only had to endure this 5 or 6 times in my life every year people would try to get me into it and i respectfully decline . But sometimes they show up at 12 with cake and shit and i just go along with it because i don't wanna dissapoint them knowing how much effort they put into it.
Aww my relatively new friends who I have a weekly social group with found out it was my birthday the one night we gathered and sang to me and it made me tear up to be that loved in a moment. I loved it. Nobody has sung to me in probably 30 years.
And it's not even an ad for something I want.
Yep, another birthday is soon rolling around for me also. Luckily the friends who wish me happy birthday always call and do it in "opera" voices so it's extra annoyingly loud and obnoxious. One can never be too embarrassed on one's birthday, right?
If, when they start singing, you get up and go to the bathroom, they will probably stop and not follow you. So, like 90% chance it gets better. 10% chance it gets much, much worse.
it's not an add, it's your friends trying to cheer you up, if you don't like it then just tell them not to sing
You say that like it's easy to be a rational human being
I prefer going to karaoke with friends and shout singing this delightful birthday rock song in Engrish by a band from Okinawa. The lyrics are a little hard to hear so I'll put them here:
I like birthday, I'll become old man, and yet I like birthday
I like birthday because you celebrate
Happy happy happy birthday
I'm looking forward to so happy day
What will you present for me?
Please hold on me, I'd like you to do nothing for me
So hold on me
Please give me your love.
repeat 2x
album version: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zh2BA4Sk7HI
I thought it was a loading screen.
There should be a birthday song where everyone (including you) sings.
My problem with the happy birthday tune is the key. Anyway my family got tired of singing a dirge so we speed it up. Gets it over quicker too.