• EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    451·
    9 months ago

    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?

  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
    362·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • ivanafterall@kbin.social
    332·
    9 months ago

    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!

      • hansl@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        9 months ago

        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.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          I had a big party my mom threw for my 40th birthday because she has a huge house and lives in the town where I grew up and half the people there never left. Another good percentage of them moved back. Anyway, I mostly ended up only talking to a handful of people who sort of monopolized me, so it was less fun than it could have been. Don’t get me wrong, it was great talking to them since I hadn’t talked to them in ages, but I ended up wishing I had talked to more people. I haven’t had a party since. Next year will be my 47th. Maybe if my mom is still around when I’m 50 she’ll do it again.

    • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        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.

  • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
    25·
    9 months ago

    The skip button is located in the face of the singers. You need to push really hard, but only once.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      17·
      9 months ago

      My mother-in-law and father-in-law (before he died) used to call me on the phone and sing it to me with her singing harmony, while he also played guitar. And while the skill was appreciated… the first couple of times… it got old fast. And taking off my clothes would probably not help in that situation. I mean, obviously I did that anyway, but it didn’t help.

  • doingless@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    I don’t think anyone has sang me happy birthday in at least fifteen years, maybe twenty. I guess I’ve got the adblocker.

  • Stoney_Logica1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • THE MASTERMIND@lemmy.todayEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • tygerprints@kbin.social
    4·
    9 months ago

    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?

  • runeko@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • shalva97@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    9 months ago

    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

  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    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