# Birthday blues

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthday-blues/541851>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 3, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthday-blues/541851 "2010-06-03T23:06:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthday-blues/541851/1 "2010-06-03T23:06:29Z")

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It’s China’s fault.

I just love sharing my birthday with a fucking massacre.

You know how bad it was? Me neither. There is no video footage showing violence in the square itself. All existing video shows violence in the streets around the square. I do remember when the news feed was cut off.

I really grew up that day.

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthday-blues/541851/2 "2010-06-03T23:17:42Z")

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How do you feel about sharing it with [fictional suicides](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc)?

Yes, I know I’ve been pimping that song all day. I have a thing for sultry lady singers.

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthday-blues/541851/3 "2010-06-03T23:47:15Z")

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I’m much more of a Skinny Puppy kinda guy.

[“got to keep the camera alive tell the world, tell the world, whats going on here”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTIq2HyLThA)

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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthday-blues/541851/4 "2010-06-04T01:08:27Z")

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> [@Darth\_Nader](#):
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> It’s China’s fault.
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> I just love sharing my birthday with a fucking massacre…

How about sharing it with quite a big war?\* OK, I don’t belong in the same _year_, (honestly) but 28th June seemed to be the start of some Bad Stuff in Sarajevo.  
Have a happy birthday anyway. 🙂

- Oops, silly me - it was “the war to end all wars”, of course. ☹

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthday-blues/541851/5 "2010-06-04T01:43:43Z")

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Wow, it’s like picking a scab. I know I shouldn’t, but I go there anyways. It’s my understanding that folks in China presently don’t even know about it. And I just get all angry again.

I was an idealistic 17 year old with a real Mao hat my uncle had brought back from Xian. The democracy movement was just fucking AWESOME, and then 3000 kids are dead.

Fuck China.