3d ago

Eight month birthday

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It's kind of normal for families to celebrate month-birthdays of babies.
- That's stupid and makes no sense.
  I celebrate every occasion that the child's age doubles, starting from the first second.
  
  Curiosity triggered. Ignoring leap years because it only changes the days a little at the end:
  Second doublings (6): 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s, 32s
  Minute doublings (6): 1:04, 2:08, 4:16, 8:32, 17:04, 34:08
  Hour doublings (5): 1:08:16, 2:16:32, 4:33:04, 9:06:08, 18:12:16
  Day doublings (8):
  1d 12:24:32
  3d 00:49:04
  6d 01:38:08
  12d 03:16:16
  24d 06:32:32
  48d 13:05:04
  97d 02:10:08
  194d 04:20:16
  ⬆️ 27 celebrations in first year of life | up to 7 celebrations past first year ⬇️
  1y 23d 08:40:32
  2y 46d 17:21:04
  4y 93d 10:42:08
  8y 186d 21:24:16
  17y 8d 18:48:32
  34y 17d 13:37:04
  68y 35d 03:14:08
  definitely dead
  136y 70d 06:28:16
  
  See? Much more sensible. You get loads of front-loaded precious moments, and then some very relevant milestones later on in life, only requiring about one third of the overall celebrations!
  
  Honestly? Yeah. I feel slightly bad for some of the earlier childhood years (under 13 or so) that don't get one. Otherwise, 100% agreement.
  My wife, who tends to try to milk her entire "birthday month", would disagree. A "birthday month" is whichever is most convenient from: the month leading up to, calendar month of, or month leading after her actual birthday.
  
  Those actually line up surprisingly well with real life milestones. I think an argument could be made to celebrate half-doublings after 8y..., but that would lose some of the elegance of this system. Although I guess you just have to calculate the first one (roughly 12y 280d 7h) and then just double those as well (so the others would be 25y 195d 14h, 51y 26d 4h, 102y 52d 8h).
  
  Found the programmer.
  
  To be fair, I wasn't trying to hide.
  
  I celebrate every prime number.
  
  I'll allow it.
- Yeah but I didn't call my son's 8 months his "birthday" for exactly this reason
- Its not a birthday if its not the day you were born. I can see celebrating it though.
- 1 month old, 6 months old, 3 or 9 months old, maybe.. but eight? nah, mate. that ain't a thing.
  take your every-month picture for the scrapbook. but 'celebrate' or party or to whore-out on social for fake likes? nope.
- Look, I know you've been given enough downvotes so I won't add to them but this is just not true.
  I have what most people would consider a metric fuck tonne of kids and I love the ever loving shit out of every one of them but never once have we celebrated their 8th month of existence.
  None of my friends or family have ever done anything so utterly weird either.
  It's just weird. So weird that I question the validity of the original post.
- Yeah, we took photos of the kids in the same chair each month in the first year. It wasn't like we had parties, but this is normal new baby stuff. Plenty of legitimate reasons to hate the Trumps. Dogpiling on them for shit like this is petty and reinforces the right-wing narrative that the attacks are personal.
  
  The attacks are personal, the whole family are evil fucking Nazis.
  
  Sure but we don't hate the Nazis because they played card games.
  
  Yes, which is a good reason to hate them. Posting baby pictures is not a good reason to hate them.
  
  Did you ever say “happy birthday” to them on those months?
  I honestly don't remember, but it's entirely possible we said "Happy 8 month birthday!" I didn't tweet about it, but I didn't tweet at all.
  Otherwise, I agree with you completely, I just think when we're sending American children to death camps, the first (third?) family's social media habits aren't on the list of hills to die upon.
  
  That's true regardless, but when they say "Look how absurd the left is being," it's better when they don't have examples like this to point at.
  
  I got plenty of personal attacks for them.
  If I speak up too loudly my wife and son have to flee the country.
  How's that? Have I earned it? DO YOU MFERS HEAR ME
  
  That's a valid reason to attack them. Like, physically. Not that I'm suggesting or condoning violence, but they are coming for our freedom. They aren't doing it in tweets of baby pictures.

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