Fortunately it’s also COPYRIGHTED and so illegal performances of it could end up in big fines.
Feel free to stop the singers and remind them.
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2024
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True for a long time, but this is no longer the case.
Don’t stop my get-out card with FACTS?!?!?!
My problem with the happy birthday tune is the key. Anyway my family got tired of singing a dirge so we speed it up. Gets it over quicker too.
There should be a birthday song where everyone (including you) sings.
I thought it was a loading screen.
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.
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.
At you
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
You say that like it's easy to be a rational human being
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.
Mandatory? Wow. Yeah, fuck that noise.
Ad blocker is age. When you get old enough this typically stops but like in a sad way
And it's not even an ad for something I want.
I don't think anyone has sang me happy birthday in at least fifteen years, maybe twenty. I guess I've got the adblocker.
Please read this on your birthday: Happy Birthday!!
Not to be read until [your_birthdate]:
Happy birthday!
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
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!
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.
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.
You guys, all, need therapy.
Yes. But what I was describing is also therapy.
Humans suck. I don't want them to sing to me.
Squid on here 20 hours a day, chu talking to yoomans :( you stimulating conversation to train models to replace us?! How could you!
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.
Nice! When is his birthday?
I know an identity theft scam when I see one.
The skip button is located in the face of the singers. You need to push really hard, but only once.
It's a double click.
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