# To HELL with birthday celebrations.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 7, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100 "2017-05-07T23:45:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/1 "2017-05-07T23:45:44Z")
They are such bullshit. Every person in the whole fucking overpopulated world has a birthday. There’s nothing special. If you want to celebrate a notch up in you age spare the rest of us. Birthday celebrations are some stupid reason for people with sorry lives to feel entitled.
Well loser, we may go along with your need for attention one day a year but the vast majority of us don’t give a flying shit. Feel good for a day. Good for you, you are getting nearer to death. is that something to celebrate? Get drunk or whatever. Don’t make the rest of us feel like we owe you something special. You are not any more special than anybody else on this planet.
If you want to have a party, have a party. Throw it for your friends and pay for it. That’s a good thing. We don’t owe you gifts for being born. It happened to everybody. The world is not about the sorry day you graced us with you presence.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/2 "2017-05-07T23:53:43Z")
Don’t be sad. Maybe your party invitation just got lost in the mail.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/3 "2017-05-08T00:01:11Z")
I haven’t celebrated a birthday since I was 20. For the past 36 years I’ve observed it with black moods, snapping at people, and drinking to excess. I’ll probably hang myself on one eventually.
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### Author:  [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/4 "2017-05-08T00:20:08Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> I haven’t celebrated a birthday since I was 20. For the past 36 years I’ve observed it with black moods, snapping at people, and drinking to excess. I’ll probably hang myself on one eventually.
That’s more like it.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/5 "2017-05-08T00:20:23Z")
Somebody should email **R. P. McMurphy** and let him know that **Machinaforce** has hijacked his account…
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### Author:  [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/6 "2017-05-08T00:22:14Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#):
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> Don’t be sad. Maybe your party invitation just got lost in the mail.
I don’t want no fucking invitation and loathe one when I get one. I’ll buy myself my shit, you buy yourself your shit. If you want to party then throw one, pay for it ,and maybe I’ll show up if it’s convenient.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/7 "2017-05-08T00:25:41Z")
At my workplace, the person whose birthday it is is expected to provide treats. If they’re not going to provide treats, they’re expected to keep quiet about their birthday.
IMHO, that’s a good arrangement.
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### Author:  [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/8 "2017-05-08T00:41:55Z")
For everyone in my company the company treats all of the employees to lunch at a Mongolian BBQ whenever any employee has a birthday.
It’s a very small company.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/9 "2017-05-08T00:54:50Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#):
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> For everyone in my company the company treats all of the employees to lunch at a Mongolian BBQ whenever any employee has a birthday.
People at work who tried to do things for me on my birthday very quickly learned not to do things for me on my birthday.
On the other hand, during my ten years working for a food cooperative, I would steal a few hours of my labor on a birthday, cull unsaleable vegetables from displays, and prepare a vegan meal for my co-workers.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/10 "2017-05-08T01:12:49Z")
> [@R.P.McMurphy](#):
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> They are such bullshit. Every person in the whole fucking overpopulated world has a birthday. There’s nothing special. If you want to celebrate a notch up in you age spare the rest of us. Birthday celebrations are some stupid reason for people with sorry lives to feel entitled.
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> Well loser, we may go along with your need for attention one day a year but the vast majority of us don’t give a flying shit. Feel good for a day. Good for you, you are getting nearer to death. is that something to celebrate? Get drunk or whatever. Don’t make the rest of us feel like we owe you something special. You are not any more special than anybody else on this planet.
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> If you want to have a party, have a party. Throw it for your friends and pay for it. That’s a good thing. We don’t owe you gifts for being born. It happened to everybody. The world is not about the sorry day you graced us with you presence.
Er, what are you yelling about? I wasn’t planning to ask you to celebrate my birthday.
Anyway, my father passed away on my birthday in 2001. Spoiled that one, just a bit.
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### Author:  [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/11 "2017-05-08T04:31:18Z")
I heartily endorse this pitting. I have never endorsed a pitting, let alone _heartily_ endorsed one before.
Young (& presumably wants more), Old (& presumably doesn’t), rich or poor, happy or sad, we all get the same number of them per year. There’s nothing you can do to make them come quicker or slower. You even share “your” special day with roughly 1/365¼ of the world’s population, which ::_does math_:: is a lot of fuckin’ people.
I did, at some point in the past ask Unka Cecil to do a column about _why_ we celebrate birthdays but in hasn’t made enough earth revolutions to make it to the top of the pile yet. Maybe this pitting can do something to resurrect that email from the presumably ¾-empty bag of Cheetos it’s probably buried under.
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### Author:  [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/12 "2017-05-08T04:46:39Z")
My wife wishes me happy birthday each year whether I want her to or not.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/13 "2017-05-08T04:53:50Z")
> [@R.P.McMurphy](#):
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> They are such bullshit. Every person in the whole fucking overpopulated world has a birthday. There’s nothing special. If you want to celebrate a notch up in you age spare the rest of us. Birthday celebrations are some stupid reason for people with sorry lives to feel entitled.
>
> Well loser, we may go along with your need for attention one day a year but the vast majority of us don’t give a flying shit. Feel good for a day. Good for you, you are getting nearer to death. is that something to celebrate? Get drunk or whatever. Don’t make the rest of us feel like we owe you something special. You are not any more special than anybody else on this planet.
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> If you want to have a party, have a party. Throw it for your friends and pay for it. That’s a good thing. We don’t owe you gifts for being born. It happened to everybody. The world is not about the sorry day you graced us with you presence.
So, they forgot your birthday again, eh?
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### Author:  [@dirty\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirty_hippie)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/14 "2017-05-08T05:11:59Z")
I don’t care for birthday celebrations and really don’t care for people wishing me a happy birthday. The only birthday wishes that mean a whole lot to me are from my niece and nephew.
I keep my birthday private on Facebook also. Btw, at what age should one stop having a birthday party or celebration? I recently went to a coworker’s 35th. It was more a get-together than anything else.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/15 "2017-05-08T05:47:23Z")
It’s hard for me to avoid celebrating my birthday, since it’s also my husband’s birthday and our wedding anniversary. One multiple-purpose celebration is the way to go.
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### Author:  [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/16 "2017-05-08T05:50:42Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> So, they forgot your birthday again, eh?
That’s a stupid, asshole comment. I knew someone would say that. I don’t give a shit. I really don’t give a flying fuck about my birthday. I’ve had too many. I wish they would stop.
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### Author:  [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/17 "2017-05-08T05:56:02Z")
> [@R.P.McMurphy](#):
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> That’s a stupid, asshole comment. I knew someone would say that. I don’t give a shit. I really don’t give a flying fuck about my birthday. I’ve had too many. I wish they would stop.
Mum get you socks again, did she?
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### Author:  [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/18 "2017-05-08T06:28:16Z")
> [@Penfeather](#):
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> Mum get you socks again, did she?
What in the fuck does that mean? Are you just being another asshole with a stupid comment? Get lost.
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### Author:  [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/19 "2017-05-08T08:26:13Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> At my workplace, the person whose birthday it is is expected to provide treats. If they’re not going to provide treats, they’re expected to keep quiet about their birthday.
>
> IMHO, that’s a good arrangement.
That’s how the hobbits did things, is it not? **QtM** ’s approval is no surprise…
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-birthday-celebrations/786100/20 "2017-05-08T08:35:41Z")
> [@R.P.McMurphy](#):
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> What in the fuck does that mean? Are you just being another asshole with a stupid comment? Get lost.
I think it means that you should maybe check your back for a ‘kick me’ sign. Just sayin’.
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