[ SECRET POST #2354 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2354 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Kodomo no Jikan]


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03.
[figure skating/Brian Joubert]


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04.
[Stargate: Atlantis/ Sesame Street]


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[K project]


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[Teen Wolf]


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07.
[Married...With Children]


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[Homestuck]


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[One Piece]


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[Game of Thrones]


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[Pokémon Black & White]


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[Phantom of the Opera 2004]


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[Iron Man 3]


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[Neverwinter Nights 2]


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[Almost Human/Total Recall 2077]


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[Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer]


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[Fire Emblem: Awakening]


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[A Bag of Hammers]


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[Without a Trace]


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[Big Bang Theory]


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[The Three Investigators]


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[Team Fortress 2]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 043 secrets from Secret Submission Post #336.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - personal attack ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

No, I think they're upset because people completely blew off their birthday. At what age does a person's birthday stop mattering, exactly?

I'm guessing OP included that line because otherwise F!S would have blown up at them for being such a monster to begrudge their nephew his birthday and blame him for the family's assholery. And given the reaction this secret has gotten, it wasn't a misplaced concern.

[(Anonymous)]

That's the reaction you should expect when you make a secret that's only peripherally about fandom and mostly about your being jealous of a 3 year old.

[greenvelvetcake]

Twenty-one. I mean, at that age, you throw your own party and don't sulk about it. OP's a grown-ass man, his brother and sister-in-law have a three-year-old. They have their hands full.

[(Anonymous)]

I doubt OP was expecting their brother and sister-in-law to throw them a birthday party. But they may have been expecting said brother and sister-in-law not to think, "Hey, let's have our son's birthday party on THIS day, since there's obviously nothing else important about that day that we'll be eclipsing!"

And seriously, twenty-one is the cutoff? I guess I should stop baking my mother a cake and singing to her every year, then. She stopped having birthdays before I was even born.

[(Anonymous)]

People aren't always complete sticklers for celebrating on the exact day when they throw a birthday party--they pick a day that's convenient for hosts and guests. It's bizarre that this day should be off-limits because it happens to be the OP's birthday.

And you can throw a birthday party for someone you love no matter how old they are. But 21 is definitely the cutoff date for being disgruntled that nobody is making a big deal out of your birthday.

[(Anonymous)]

DA. Agreed. After that point you should throw the party yourself, if you absolutely want to have one. Of course you can throw a birthday party for other people, but you can't really demand them to do anything for yours when you are an adult.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not "bizarre" to find it in poor taste to pick someone else's birthday for your celebration that doesn't have to be on any specific day, since that would trample all over the other person's birthday. If it's a matter of wanting to hold the party on a weekend because the kid's birthday is midweek, pick the weekend on the other side of the birthday.

I think you need to realize that your whole "adult birthdays don't matter" thing is not a universal cultural standard and that people who don't adhere to it are not objectively wrong for not doing so. Wanting someone to acknowledge or care about your birthday does not make you a child or a whiner.

[insanenoodlyguy]

It does when you are thirty fucking five years old and the birthday boy is THREE.

OP, just accept that we aren't that sympathetic.

[(Anonymous)]

I figured somebody would assume that, but I didn't think it would be you, Noodles. (On the other hand, I probably should have.) No, I'm not the OP. My birthday isn't for another couple of months, and I have no siblings.

[insanenoodlyguy]

So in other words, you don't even understand how this sort of family dynamic works.

[(Anonymous)]

You're being both a child and a whiner all over this thread, which kind of proves everyone's point.

[(Anonymous)]

How does my thinking that you could stand to acknowledge that different people have different cultural standards (a) make me a child or a whiner, or (b) prove anyone's point about anything? Especially since I'm not the one throwing around personal insults? Do enlighten me.

[(Anonymous)]

"Child" and "whiner" are fairly reasonable descriptions of you in this thread, considering your ridiculously overblown descriptions of the slight the brother and sister-in-law supposedly inflicted on the OP. "Shitty"? "Assholes"? For "trampling" on OP's birthday? Really? Sounds childish and whiny to me--nearly as childish and whiny as the OP.

da

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, because flinging petty insults at someone and then trying to spork them with semantics is just so mature and adult

you and noodle totally have the high road here!!

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

MTE

You're ALL argueing over this thing after all. Especially noodlyguy is all over this thread, lol! Talk about being mature. How about just letting go of a petty discussion?

Re: da

[insanenoodlyguy]

You can't tell us to drop a subject without a similar replacement.

[greenvelvetcake]

Again, three-year-old versus thirty-five-year-old. Did OP never learn to share? He's a grown ass adult.

And yes, you should. I'm the birthday commissioner, I have the final say on these things. Stop it right now.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe OP never learned to share because when they had their birthday parties, the adults didn't acknowledge that anyone else had the birthday on the same day. :p

[insanenoodlyguy]

Pretty sure there's only one asshole in the family. And his brother was nice and invited him to a family event.

[(Anonymous)]

You should be able to relate to that the most ;)

[insanenoodlyguy]

[(Anonymous)]

This. How hard would it have been for the family to even just MENTION that it was OP's birthday?

[greenvelvetcake]

Uh, they probably did. OP mentioned they were an "afterthought," not that it was entirely ignored. Whoa, the thirty-five-year-old had to take a backseat to the three-year-old? NO WAY.

[(Anonymous)]

IDK about you but "no one else at the get together being told it was my actual day of birth" is pretty clear to me. They were ignored. And that's rude. It doesn't take any effort to at least wish someone a happy birthday.