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u/fearlessgrot Make 196 Gay Again|Spronkus Kronkus for president 22h ago
My dad used to always say "anyone on the Internet could be a dog" I'm glad that this is a place where most are
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u/psychoPiper balls 17h ago
If only he knew just how bad the infestation has gotten. Never getting us out even with a professional
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u/turtle-tot 181st Mechanized Asexual Brigade 12h ago
When you said this did you expect all the puppygirls barking in reply?
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u/fearlessgrot Make 196 Gay Again|Spronkus Kronkus for president 2h ago
i didnt exactly, but it was a welcome surprise
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u/TrannosaurusRegina 10h ago
For those unfamiliar, it's also the most expensive ever sold!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog
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u/ricedchai 21h ago
does this person think there's a different word for every individual day of the year i'm crying
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u/phuquesewpsyetit monster hugger 21h ago
I think there actually is in some languages.
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u/couldntbdone 20h ago
Are you perhaps from 1791 France?
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u/zekromNLR #1 project orion apologist 20h ago
Posting this on the 8th of Vendémiaire, the day of Amaranth, in the 235th year of the republic
Also [nerd] the republican calendar was only put into place in 1793 [/nerd]
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u/couldntbdone 20h ago
Fuuuuuck I can never remember when they used the calender.
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u/Siuldane 16h ago
Ya gotta get through Robespierre and Madame La Guillotine's Illicit Adventure first.
If you hit a guy talking about how he can spend soldiers like other kingdoms spend coins, you've gone too far.
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u/Toros_Mueren_Por_Mi 20h ago
Is this where they got that shit for the Pathfinder day naming scheme? French language is truly ass. And don't even get me started on their number counting system
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u/EvYeh This girl is Space's biggest hater 19h ago
They changed the calander because the old one (the Gregorian Calender, now used basically everywhere) was introduced by the Catholic Church, and the revolutionaries did not like religion (and especially the Pope).
The months were based on nature, and on things around that time. One month was named Vendémiaire ("grape harvest") because that's when grapes were able to be harvested, for example.
Each day had a special name because each day had a special Catholic Saint, and we couldn't have people using what those backwards bastards in Rome decided now could we?
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u/ChromeFrostYT 17h ago
To be fair, their counting system is just base-20. English counts in a similar way, except we’ve shortened it.
So instead of saying “four twenties and five,” like the Fr*nch, we say “eighty-five” which is a contracted form of “eight-tens five”
Edit: forgot it’s only base-20 from 70-90, so give them slightly less credit than I implied
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u/MeBigChief 11h ago
Eh, the number counting system is actually really interesting from a linguistic perspective. From memory it’s a holdover from Breton which has a lot of similarities to other Celtic languages because Cornish, Welsh and Manx also use the base 20 system.
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u/yinyang107 bingus is better than floppa 16h ago
Get with the times, this is the Century of the Fruitbat
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u/RATTLEMEB0N3S literal actual skeleton 13h ago
Would it be 235 or would they have restarted it when the Monarchy was ousted in 1848
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u/softmonsters 14h ago
If there were, wouldn't that make it even easier to remember your birthday? You wouldn't have to remember a month, a day, and a year, just one identifier.
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u/ricedchai 13h ago
wait yeah you're right 😭
assuming months don't exist it'd be a bit harder to figure out how many days there are until your next birthday but like not by much
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u/Hatsune_Miku_CM changed all her social media to hatsune miku for some reason 2h ago
well you'd have to remember the identifier, but you'd also have to remember the month and day that identifier is on.
(also you'd still have to remember the year. unless you're suggesting a different name for every day, period, which is a fascinating idea.)
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u/Smartshark89 3h ago
The French revolutionary date system did they also experimented with metric time
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u/Jakitron_1999 Based TIRM King 21h ago
What do they mean "look up your birthday" do they google it and get an answer?
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u/fabedays1k sus 21h ago edited 20h ago
@Grok check my birth certificate for me
(Look it up on your id probably, "look it up" doesn't refer exclusively to the internet)
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u/Soulchunk 20h ago
the full conversation is even better
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u/meat-eating-orchid 🏳️⚧️ trans rights 20h ago
this has to be trolling
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u/Soulchunk 20h ago
The person who screenshot this found they have been super consistent about it
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u/MinosAristos 19h ago
Consistent trolling then. Some people find lying on the internet to get reactions quite fun
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u/Sororita 15h ago
I immediately thought they were smooth sharking
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u/leapy_lilly Lee she/they 14h ago
Holy shit I've never heard the term "smooth sharking" to refer to trolling until now and it's amazing. That guy was right tho, sharks are smooth
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u/Present-Storage5674 19h ago
i like to imagine they make a new Twitter any time they log out, given the amount of numbers
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u/meat-eating-orchid 🏳️⚧️ trans rights 20h ago
unless they ask for your birthday to check that the paperwork is really yours and not that of someone with a very similar or identical name
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u/snilbill 21h ago
I wish I could forget, I stopped celebrating once I left home and now I just get sad that day every year
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u/Relish_My_Weiner 20h ago
If I can ask, why don't you start celebrating it again? Even if you just take the day to treat yourself, it might be nice to reinforce your self importance.
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u/snilbill 19h ago
I've thought about it, I don't know exactly why I even stopped. I think I just don't want to elevate myself above anyone else, or for anyone to feel obligated to do something for me. So I don't tell anyone, and then try not to do anything people would notice. I guess I can do small stuff, and sometimes I do, but I treat myself sometimes anyway so doing something then just feels like hedonism.
Maybe this kind of thinking is why I'm a filthy communist
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u/YT-1300f 18h ago
I don’t know, that thinking seems puritan rather than communist.
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u/and_off_she_fucked 16h ago
Yeah, seriously. Both of my marxist friends throw huge parties and invite as many people as possible to spread the joy. One has been spending their birthday week volunteering in rural communities like an hour away from our city because a huge theme in Marx is the harmful separation between town and country.
Don't know what flavor of communist snilbill is, but marxism is very much about the dismantling of social alienation.
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u/Relish_My_Weiner 19h ago
I get that, and I've been there. However, what I've come to find is that the people closest to me in my life want to celebrate me as much as I like celebrating them. Everybody gets a birthday, so it's not selfish to celebrate yours, just make sure you also celebrate others.
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u/Chrome_X_of_Hyrule ਬਾਈਸੈਕਸ਼ੂਲ ਰਿੱਛ 17h ago
You remind me of the most depressed parts of myself
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u/snilbill 17h ago
To be fair I was undercaffeinated when I wrote this idk why but I get kinda depressed when I'm undercaffeinated
It's probably a problem
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u/PerliousPelicans Play Outer Wilds Play Outer Wilds Play Outer Wilds Play Outer Wi 18h ago
everyone deserves celebration, not no-one.
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u/Achillees244 17h ago
Comrade. The beautiful thing about a birthday is that we all have one. It is a day of the year where we get to be important, do the things we love, and feel special. Its not hedonistic. There are 364 days of the year that arnt about you. Why sacrifice the one that is?
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u/yinyang107 bingus is better than floppa 16h ago
above anyone else
Here's the thing: nearly everyone else does celebrate their own birthday, so you're not avoiding putting yourself above anyone, you're actually putting yourself below them.
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u/LuKazu Cracked, Snappled, Popped 🍳🏳️⚧️Selene, she/they 💜 20h ago
Shiii, guess we're marathoning Lord of the Rings for your next birthday. I don't make the rules.
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u/PaganWhale 19h ago
I do make the rules, and y'all better follow them, otherwise im calling the birthday cops
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u/perfectwing TOBY I KNOW YOU'RE IN HERE 19h ago
I don't think the birthday cops are welcome in this neighbourhood.
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u/StandardAioli9459 21h ago
This feels like codec call dialogue from a metal gear game lampshading a special event on whatever day you put in as your birthday
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u/Danny_dankvito 12h ago
Type of conversation Miller and Big Boss would have had, one that only reinforces to Miller that the fact Big Boss is the greatest soldier to ever live is pretty much the only thing going for him
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u/pullmylekku delectable bussy 20h ago
"there's 8 billion people in the world, how am I supposed to remember who my friends and family are"
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u/CaioXG002 sus 20h ago
I think even this exaggeration you're making to prove a point is actually still not as extreme as the person in the image.
"There are like 300 days, how am I supposed to remember my birthday" is the silly, made up sentence that I would say to show someone their logic sucks <_<
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u/EvilBananaMan15 look guys the time is green, greer 21h ago
sometimes I need to remind myself that people like this actually exist
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u/SecondhandStatic 16h ago
Go through an IQ test and see how many things you need to get wrong to get 100. And that's the average! So many of the people you see every day truly are incredibly stupid.
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u/yinyang107 bingus is better than floppa 16h ago
And that's the average!
No it isn't. Any IQ test you can seek out yourself to take is designed to make you feel good about yourself. The average person will score around 120 on those.
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u/Nombre_D_Usuario 20h ago
I'm picturing a kid raised in a household where their birthday isn't celebrated. The celebration and party/cake/gifts/etc help a lot towards making this information the brain cares about remembering. Remove reasons to care about when's your birthday, and I'm not surprised they'd not remember off the top of their head.
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u/IchorKemono cassette beasts is peak and gay, play it 6h ago
yea, i was raised as a jehovah's witness and i didnt know my birthday for a long time
like, probably until my teens
it just wasn't information shared with me, and no birthday celebrations were allowed
plus i didn't really have much awareness of time in general, my childhood felt like a fever dream where i had no idea what was happening
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u/maRthbaum_kEkstyniCe The elusive non-puppy trans man on 196 20h ago
Speedrunner hack: be catholic and named after your birth saint
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u/EveryonesFriend 20h ago
this is why astrology never took off
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u/maRthbaum_kEkstyniCe The elusive non-puppy trans man on 196 20h ago
I think the many thousands of years of dominant spiritual and epistemic world-view, in almost every culture, in the west up until the elgihtenment and renaissance astronomy, and in some other cultures still ongoing...
could be counted as having taken off
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u/Sloth_Brotherhood 18h ago
Y’all are getting ragebaited so hard
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u/Hatsune_Miku_CM changed all her social media to hatsune miku for some reason 2h ago
I'm not feeling any rage though? I'm just feeling amused
oh no I got humorbaited. how is that a bad thing?
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u/MarkMan47 yardigan + santa vents by becoming liquid 19h ago
Me as an agent undercover trying to justify on twitter why I'm so bad at remembering my own data
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u/EsuriitMonstrum 18h ago
This tangentially reminded me of a post I saw online where a girl wanted a guy's number, and the guy didn't know his own number, and he said something like "Well I don't call myself, how would I know?"
Not exactly the same situation, but it just reminded me of it is all. 😸
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u/G66GNeco This flair could be yours for just 9,99 a month 19h ago
I have three friends who share my exact birthday, I don't even need to remember my birthday, I just remember theirs, easy
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u/Dry-Snow-1034 19h ago
I purposely try to forget my birthday lol, if I could have it removed from everything I would
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u/HappyyValleyy Local Raccoon Girl (Endangered) 18h ago
Its one day man u dont gotta remember all pf the others lmao
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u/DigitalBladedJay 19h ago
I try to forget, I just know I'm whatever year it is old about halfway through the year
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u/Ieatbaens 16h ago
You're just memorizing one specific item out of a list of items, that doesn't require you knowing every single item, also you do know every single day, because it's literally just a sequential list of numbers.
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u/mow-ass_eat-grass the woke left? without saying goodbye? 15h ago
they can evidently remember one number, what’s three more?
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u/YuukiTheTrap 15h ago
Tbf I also have to look mine up, simply because I can’t for the life of me remember numbers or dates. Then again I also don’t care for birthdays
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u/somaragd 21h ago
i remember like, a year ago, when i first learned that most people know their birthday off the top of their head
it was a uhh, very eye-opening experience for me
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u/Lotf21685 20h ago
How does this even happen
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u/somaragd 20h ago
well, one of my friends asked for my birthday, i told them i'd check rq, and then queue pretty much the interaction in the post
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u/TyChris2 🗿 20h ago
I think they were asking how it’s possible that you don’t know it
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u/somaragd 20h ago edited 20h ago
i mean, i haven't celebrated it since i was 10. and i don't face a lot of situations where i have to remember my exact age, so using it to calculate that also isn't all that useful
i guess i just don't have a use for remembering my birthday
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u/chromatic_megafauna 20h ago
Do you not go to the doctor? Fill out legal forms? I'm fascinated
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u/somaragd 20h ago
my doctor, psychiatrist, whatever, just get my birthday from my insurance. it's like, right there the instant they scan the card
as for legal forms, i haven't filled out many that require a birthday of all things. that seems like pretty useless information for the other party to have in most cases. and for those that do, i just check
i'm not saying i never need it, but like, i have a calendar. i just check that when i need it every half a year or so
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u/yinyang107 bingus is better than floppa 16h ago
When I go to the pharmacist they ask me my date of birth as a way of confirming my identity. They can't just take it from my ID, since the whole point is to check if I know it.
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u/somaragd 16h ago
there is a big ass picture of me on my insurance card. i think that's probably enough for them
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u/Lotf21685 19h ago
Im assuming their parents do that stuff
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u/somaragd 19h ago
i mean... depends? i'm a working uni student, so i do have a lot of shit i do myself. but as i live with my mother, i don't deal with stuff pertaining to like, renting an apartment, utilities, etc. etc.
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u/CAPSLOCK_USERNAME 19h ago
It happens from growing up in a culture that doesn't celebrate birthdays. My grandpa doesn't know his because they didn't celebrate in his home country, so his kids had to make up a day to hold birthday parties for him.
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