[QUOTE=ScoobyV2;42877496]today was my 21st bday :>[/QUOTE]
did you tell dave to go fuck himself?
I hate having that sung to me.
I just put my fingers in my ears and hide in a corner it is that bad.
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;42877799]I hate having that sung to me.
I just put my fingers in my ears and hide in a corner it is that bad.[/QUOTE]
when i was like 7 my mom took me out to eat and she got the waiters to fucking sing it
ugh
Is that Ari Tenenbaum?
Fucking hell I thought I was the only one who hated having it sung to me, yes I know how lovely and pleasant it is to have friends & family sing it to you, but what do I do.... smile? Look at anyone? The fuck man
sing happy birthday dear me
I haven't had a celebration for my birthday since I was in elementary school.
It's probably better this way. I don't like that song either, nor having everyone focused on me.
I always choose the one with the instruments, pick didgeridoo, cowbell and bagpipe.
Every time, people just start drumming on the table, and look weirdly at my one genuine friend, who is actually trying his best to imitate a didgeridoo. at least try to put some fucking effort into it, if you want to sing happy birthday to me. They're no better than the people who randomly say happy bday on facebook just because the site told them to.
[QUOTE=Dead Madman;42881667]Fucking hell I thought I was the only one who hated having it sung to me, yes I know how lovely and pleasant it is to have friends & family sing it to you, but what do I do.... smile? Look at anyone? The fuck man[/QUOTE]
I use the time to get a head start on the cake. Don't even fuck with utensils if they're doing the royalty-free version though; there's no time.
I don't mind it when family or friends sing it. But goddamn if we go out to a restaurant I remind everyone that if one of the staff even BEGIN to sing, I will murder everyone at the table with the candles.
I was at a western style restaurant when i turned like 12 and they made me stand on a barrel while the whole restaurant sang to me and threw peanut at me and oh god my life was shit
When my cousin had his birthday at Joes Crab Shack they made him put on a coconut bra and a grass skirt.
Needless to say we never went there again.
Yeah last birthday party I ever had gotten sung to was back when I was 8, now my family really doesn't sing it anymore, we just get on to eating the cake right after having something to eat.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;42888167]When my cousin had his birthday at Joes Crab Shack they made him put on a coconut bra and a grass skirt.
Needless to say we never went there again.[/QUOTE]
I was about to come in here to say nothing is worse then having it at Montana's Cookhouse where they bring out that goddamn buffalo hat but holy shit that tops it.
Am I the only one who DOESN'T have a problem with Happy Birthday being sung for/at them?
What's so bad about it?
[editline]17th November 2013[/editline]
Like, it's just people making asses of themselves for you for a few seconds, lighten up people.
Lotta' extroverted peeps in the FP video section today, alright.
Gotta admit though it can be dumb when people finish the song and there's always those one or two people awkwardly singing the added bits and just don't know where to stop as people try and get on with proceedings.
It always happens.
Always
Haha that was really funny
One time when I was younger I tried singing along and changed 'you' to 'me' but oh god there's no way out of this situation.
Apparently, according to my mum, on my first birthday when it was sung I cried.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;42889077]One time when I was younger I tried singing along and changed 'you' to 'me' but oh god there's no way out of this situation.[/QUOTE]
I always just start singing with them anyway, works if you're sure enough of yourself
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;42888108]I was at a western style restaurant when i turned like 12 and they made me stand on a barrel while the whole restaurant sang to me and threw peanut at me and oh god my life was shit[/QUOTE]
i think thats the most american thing ever
Luckily i've only had to deal with the birthday song 7 times. I hate that song with a passion
I was at a restaurant once where it was someone elses birthday in another group, they sung happy birthday really loud and obnoxiously for the whole restaurant to hear. But then I was there because it was mine and a friends birthday, so we also all sung happy birthday two more times after that just to be real dicks to everyone else in the restaurant
[QUOTE=Oddshot;42888394]Am I the only one who DOESN'T have a problem with Happy Birthday being sung for/at them?
What's so bad about it?
[editline]17th November 2013[/editline]
Like, it's just people making asses of themselves for you for a few seconds, lighten up people.[/QUOTE]Maybe you don't want a migraine on your ejection anniversary.
[QUOTE=Dangle;42881603]Is that Ari Tenenbaum?[/QUOTE]
Yeap, it's totally Ari Tenenbaum / Oliver Beene.
On an unrelated note, earlier this year I found a restaurant that I think people only ever went to when it was their birthday. It was this garlic-themed place in LA called the Stinking Rose, and I took my girlfriend there for her birthday, and literally every single person we saw in the restaurant had Happy Birthday sung to them. It's like the place wouldn't have gotten any business if birthdays weren't a thing.
It wasn't that bad, though. She just had to wear a silly giant garlic bulb hat and then we got free garlic-flavored ice cream (which was surprisingly delicious).
My birthday was on the 13th, and my friend's sung it but it was only okay because they were all doing it at different points in the song and in ridiculous voices making it hilarious.
There's just something so strange about it normally, like it makes you feel like a kid in a bad way, or how there's this oddness in the ritual of it all. Makes you feel "I uhh appreciate that you want to celebrate another year of my existence but I think that we can do this a better way than singing a terrible jingle."
[QUOTE=artDecor;42891959]Maybe you don't want a migraine on your ejection anniversary.[/QUOTE]
I suppose if you have some kind of predisposition for migraines, then yeah, fine.
But if that was the case, your family/friends would have to be massive jerks to sing when they know you're likely to get a headache.
[QUOTE=artDecor;42891959]ejection anniversary.[/QUOTE]
Ejection makes it sound like you lost a game show.
"You have been voted out of the Big Mother house, goodbye."
*yank*
If anything, I think being born (especially into a 1st world country) would be for winners.
The only thing I do nowadays that passes for a party is have my grandparents over who always sing this. When we're done, my grandfather stands up and literally screams "ONE MO' TIME!" no matter where we are. It's gotten us some very strange looks in a lot of restaurants. I don't mind though, my earliest memory of a birthday party is him doing that and honestly I think my year would feel incomplete without it.
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