# I just had a square birthday

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-square-birthday/1022735>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 4, 2025, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-square-birthday/1022735 "2025-09-04T04:28:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-square-birthday/1022735/21 "2025-09-04T19:37:08Z")

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That’s why I have a browser extension that only lets looping animated images run once and then forces them to stop. Very handy. Once in awhile I need to disable it to watch some animation on wiki that takes a few iterations to understand. But otherwise, once-only is my default setting.

For Chrome or Edge:

> **[Animation Policy - Chrome Web Store](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/animation-policy/ncigbofjfbodhkaffojakplpmnleeoee?pli=1)**
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> Run animations only once, or disable animation completely.

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**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-square-birthday/1022735/22 "2025-09-04T19:45:56Z")

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Well dang, I turned 45 back in March, but I didn’t realize there was anything special about that, mathematically speaking.

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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-square-birthday/1022735/23 "2025-09-04T19:57:43Z")

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I recently turned 36. Not for the first time; I’ve been doing this for square number of years. Today, I did have a very merry unbirthday, which seems as good a reason to eat cake as any.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-square-birthday/1022735/24 "2025-09-05T00:29:33Z")

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> [@74westy](#):
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> This makes me special.

I was born in 1969, which means I can legitimately put 69 in my passwords without it being for juvenile reasons.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-square-birthday/1022735/25 "2025-09-05T00:37:41Z")

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Was about to say: you’re younger than me? I thought I knew all the younger dopers.

This is the only place online I feel remotely young. Everywhere else, everyone assumes I’m 10 years younger than I am, and still thinks of me as one of the more mature older ones.

And I don’t know how in the world I missed that Matt Parker video! Love that guy.

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