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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago

A friend of ours was approaching her 40th birthday. But she only admitted to having a "round" birthday, and even forbade her kids to talk about mommys age, even though we made a big production to learn her age with trick questions and all. And then we told her that if she keeps mum about her age, we'll just guesstimate it.

That's how she got sent loads of cards for her 50th birthday. She was a bit pissed when we arrived for the party. And then we handed her the real cards for her 40th.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

That just sounds dumb on her part

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Migrants from war torn countries unfortunately. In some communities there's a lot of people with birthdays on Jan 1st, because they don't know their birthdates. Quite common for Sudanese refugees (places with child soldiers or where family/parent based killing happened).

It's tough out there in the world.

[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago

People still don't record accurate birthdays here. A registrar goes to a village once every 3-4 months and all the kids born within the previous few months get the same birthday (if registered at all).

And this is a new thing. People older than that from villages have no clue how old they are. Just guess stuff.

[-] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Happy [object Object] birthday!

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

Sorry, I only throw parties for a NaN anniversary

[-] hark@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Can I have an interrobang candle?

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Having a 0 as the condition for a ternary operator seems redundant.

[-] fl42v@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Mb it's a regex trying to match 4 or 04. Idk why make age a string, tho.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

10/10 title

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Some people don't know their real birthday but still celebrate on a day of their choosing. I know an orphaned dreamer who does that.

[-] merari42@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Yay you are unicode encoding error years old!

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago
[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

It's extra-insulting, because they paid more for a ? candle rather than just asking you.

[-] zoostation@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I think they're implying that it can be rude to broadcast someone's age, since some people like to be private about it.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

They you just put 25 and call it good.

[-] Trex202@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago
[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I know a couple people who've been ? years old ever since they turned 30.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I've been 20 years old for a decade, my mother said it's over this year, might switch to that

[-] dan@upvote.au 6 points 2 days ago

Maybe it's for asking questions, like "420?"

[-] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

There comes an age where you stop counting. That's when people start referring to age by "born in year" and not as a number. Never understood my parents why they did that when I was a kid or teenager. I do it myself now, think it started with 35 or so. Hope I'm not a vampire....

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

The "?" candle is obviously for a gender reveal party.

Fight me!

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 points 2 days ago

I can think of one vampire that definitely still counts.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

This is for when your wife/girlfriend turns 40, you use 4? Instead so it looks better.

[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

But that could imply anything upto 49. Better do ?0

[-] superkret@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago
[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Or it implies that she’s 4.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

It's for the cake you bake for your third date.

Spoiler69?

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

I might have turned to vampire at around 21

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

What is meme zar?

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

When you have A joint party with a 2 and a 20 something year old you can break out the regex:

27?

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

My grandmother often gave us birthday cards with the age we had before. At some point she switched to generic cards with a number on it but a question mark would have done too

[-] dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

Women have "??" Birthday after what, 25?

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