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The birthday thread got me thinking, which birthdate is more made of suck, mid-summer birthday or late December birthday?

If you have a summer birthday you don't get a real celebration at school, where you eat cupcakes and the class sings to you and sometimes even presents and everyone kinda has to be nice to you all day. Instead you get that 'end of the year multi-birthday celebration with the other two losers and you know it's bullshit because those aren't really Happy Birthday to Me Cupcakes, they're Schools Out and I'm Going to Disneyland and Shit Cupcakes.' And your party is lame because all your friends are at Disneyland and Shit so you're at suck ass Waterworld with your aunts and some cousin you can't figure out how you're related to and your presents are lame things like change from when you were born...like it's that hard to come by 7 year old coins...did you do this on the car ride over? I'm 7, not stupid.

But late December birthdays can end up with the same classroom issue but then they get the dreaded 'double present,' which is bullshit because you know it isn't twice the amount of change from seven years ago...

So what do you think? Which sucks worse? Dispite my obvious issues with summer birthdays when you're an adult they work out better. At the very least you're mildly impressed they managed to come up with so many coins from when you were born...

Late December birthdays FTL, you end up with a double present. :(

Birthdays during the vacation is fun 'cause you don't get to have to spend for a party or for treats for everyone. And if they really want to give you a birthday gift, they will give you one, whether there are classes or not.

Summer birthdays are made of win! You're not stuck in school, so you can actually enjoy the day. There aren't any competing holidays around eating up money, so you can get a Christmas-sized stash of stuff. When you don't invite anyone from your class to the party (if you bother having one), you can tell 'em that you had the party during the family "vacation" a couple of weeks later, and that way it's not so obvious that you just didn't invite them because they're losers.

And, the weather is actually tolerable!

Winter birthdays suck, you're still in school, the gift pile is low, and every fool knows (and will make school-politics and rumors out of) who you invite/didn't invite to your party--a party you're forced to endure whether you like socializing with the other brats your age or not. If you're grade-school aged, you also get stuck with a bunch of "kiddie gifts," you know the junk...stuff like handmade construction-paper crafties and other worthless crap. When you're older, you're spared the total worthless junk, but by then the other kids just don't do gifts at all, since hardly anyone has any money.

Birthdays in Iraq suck. Cause not only do you have to spend your birthday in a third world combat zone, if anyone finds out it's your birthday you get your ass kicked. Also the total lack of spending time, even communicating, with your loved ones. To top it off you don't get any presents.... Unless you count getting jumped by twenty guys a present....

If you have a summer birthday you don't get a real celebration at school, where you eat cupcakes and the class sings to you and sometimes even presents and everyone kinda has to be nice to you all day.

in my school, when it was your birthday you got 'birthday beats', and if you were in the upper years you probably got picked up and thrown in the bushes, too.

still, summer birthday > winter one for two reasons:
a) summer is nicer and warmer
b) you get to celebrate at roughly 6 month intervals, rather than 11 months of the year being barren of celebration

And yes, I like birthdays on vacations. My birthday falls inside the school year, which sucks badly. For the past four years my birthday always falls on a day with terrible horrible exams. So yeah, that accursed date that is my birthday should be wiped off the calendar.

My Birthday is July 15th, and I love it! Even as a kid, I came to the realization that yeah, I don't get a cupcake at school, but I get to NOT GO TO SCHOOL ON MY BIRTHDAY!

Now as an adult, I throw a bar-b-que every year, and invite all of my friends, who don't know its my birthday, and get to enjoy a party without being the center of attention.

The one that falls into the first days of the university exam block.
:rolleyes:

September 11th (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27728) ftl.

I never got all that much fun out of the birthday-at-school bit (do people actually find those a highlight?) although they were okay, but losing those will only occur in a few years of your life. The curse of one less present a year is forever.

September 11th (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27728) ftl.
The late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos was also born on that date.

Also, that was my mom's due date for me. I was too eager to come out, and was born a few days early...

I was born in early January, which is in summer here, I get both kinds of suck.

My birthday is two days after New Years day, and that's the worst. You still get a double present 'cause it's so close to Christmas, plus everybody's all partied out by New Years Eve. And you're usually back at work by then too.

Of course all of my birthdays suck 'cause I don't really know anybody, but that's beside the point...

Feb 3rd, best day, dunno why, maybe it's because people have got money made up since xmas spending, and it's before the exams, and occasionaly it snows!

I was born in early January, which is in summer here, I get both kinds of suck.

That is weird that it's summer. I just got reminded that the southern hemisphere had winter in July with your post.

I was born in mid-January. I never get presents for my birthday, so I don't really care.

That is weird that it's summer. I just got reminded that the southern hemisphere had winter in July with your post.

Our school years and actual years coincide, it makes more sense to me. Also Christmas is great outside.

My birthday is January 22 and I like it. Especially since this year I have a four day weekend right before it, although my birthday itself will be on a school day.

The one that falls into the first days of the university exam block.
:rolleyes:
Yeah, I hear that: there's only so many times you can be told 'no, I can't come out, I have to revise'.

I think I'd rather have a winter birthday than a summer one, because I hate summer, but like cold weather.

My Birthday is July 15th, and I love it! ........ and get to enjoy a party without being the center of attention.

FANTASTIC! That's just perfection.

My birthday is January 22 and I like it. Especially since this year I have a four day weekend right before it, although my birthday itself will be on a school day.

My birthday is MLK day '08 in the USA. No school for me.

January 29,

That day is pretty bad to have a birthday, for several reasons:

1. I have to wait 10 months till Christmas
2. The present count is way down
3. It is after the Winter Break, and school has just started

But...

1. It does occasionaly snow on my birthday
2. It is a month after christmas, so my relatives do have time to get the perfect gift
3. The 29th is usually on a weekend (I have no idea why)

My birthday is MLK day '08 in the USA. No school for me.

Mine is the day afterwards, and we get the Friday before that off, too. :)

24-08 FTW!111!!1! Vacation (though not always), sun and nice weather*:)

*Except the thunderstorm when I was born:D

I have a very close to Christmas birthday, so in addition to never being in school, my birthday celebration was always an afterthought.....

"it's a Christmas party!"
"it's my birthday"
"oh, have a candy cane!"

On my 5th birthday my cake had a gingerbread house and Santa Claus.

My children were both born "mid-summer" and neither of them have had any birthday problems.....but, they don't go to school, so their friends are around year round. They usually have very good attendance to their parties, even if last year the youngest had a "space party" which consisted of playing at the park with the "rocket slide" and shooting diet Pepsi into the air.

I think my birthday sucks more than theirs, because my celebration can be ruined by so many things

1. bad weather
2. people having Christmas party conflicts
3. people forgetting
4. combo presents
5. Christmas themed decorations and wrapping paper
6. all my friends being out of town/state/country (happened this year!)
7. cold/flu season

the list really goes on from there.

My Birthday is July 15th, and I love it!

LOLZ!!! My birthdays the same day!!!

My birthday is two days after New Years day, and that's the worst. You still get a double present 'cause it's so close to Christmas, plus everybody's all partied out by New Years Eve. And you're usually back at work by then too.

Of course all of my birthdays suck 'cause I don't really know anybody, but that's beside the point...

Early January birthdays rock, though I might be a bit biased since mine is on the first. For me, if I end up partying for my birthday, it becomes an extension of the New Years party.

Mid-summer. No school. No wrestling.

If you have a late december birthday and the guys on the wrestling team found out it was your birthday, they would spend the entire day trying to smack you in the balls. You wuld be sore for days. On the other hand, it seemed like a small price to pay on other guys' birthdays. :p

September 11th (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27728) ftl.

I never got all that much fun out of the birthday-at-school bit (do people actually find those a highlight?) although they were okay, but losing those will only occur in a few years of your life. The curse of one less present a year is forever.
I have a friend who has that. It is t eh suck.
My Birthday is July 15th, and I love it! Even as a kid, I came to the realization that yeah, I don't get a cupcake at school, but I get to NOT GO TO SCHOOL ON MY BIRTHDAY!

Now as an adult, I throw a bar-b-que every year, and invite all of my friends, who don't know its my birthday, and get to enjoy a party without being the center of attention.

LOLZ!!! My birthdays the same day!!!
Mines on July 23rd, the same as my grandma. As the oldest grandchild, I was the ultimate birthday present for her. This has made me the prodigal son of the family, I really can do no wrong, and man have I tried. This has sucked most for my brother, whose many much more impressive accomplishments get over shadowed because I tied my shoes or something stupid. I've always felt bad about that.

Most of my family is born in July, my dad, my grandma, my cousins, my nephew, etc. Apparently 'mating season' for our family is in November.

Most of my family is born in July, my dad, my grandma, my cousins, my nephew, etc. Apparently 'mating season' for our family is in November.
Why, whats in November anyway?

Check this out if you like birthdays (Or don't)

Link (http://youtube.com/watch?v=OzXO_5e8oO0)

Speaking as an August-born child, I can say that December would suck more. You usually don't get a school celebration in late December, either (or is everyone in school and college still typing these replies from study hall on Dec. 21st)?

Besides, the whole cupcake thing at school is only slightly less sincere than the daily drone of the Pledge of Allegiance. I'd rather have a small and heartfelt celebration at home than fake amity at school or work. I just remember the kids at school or my co-workers at county government far more interested in the food than in the purported objet de fête.

January 29,

That day is pretty bad to have a birthday, for several reasons:

1. I have to wait 10 months till Christmas
2. The present count is way down
3. It is after the Winter Break, and school has just started

But...

1. It does occasionaly snow on my birthday
2. It is a month after christmas, so my relatives do have time to get the perfect gift
3. The 29th is usually on a weekend (I have no idea why)

So...your calendar has only eleven months in it? End of Jan. to end of Dec. is 11 months where I come from. Which one did you get rid of? February?

I have a friend who has that. It is teh suck.

It only sucks if you let it. Two close friends of mine got married on 9/11 -- they got a ridiculous deal because it was only two years after, and nobody wnated to book that weekend...on the Oregon Coast...in high season...what?

They turned the day into one of celebration and reaffirmation of life in defiance of all the doom and gloom. Besides, the hubby will NEVER forget his anniversary!

So tell your friend to own that day instead of being owned by it. It's really cool if you do it well.

My birthday is in May, the best of all worlds.

My kids were born on Sept 22 and Sept 25, one year apart. They tell me that they felt cheated because they had to share birthday parties - was I wrong? It was just so much easier to combine the parties. Two cakes, two guest lists, one party.

Why, whats in November anyway?

I don't know. Maybe turkey makes my family horny.

I was born on 26th December, and I've never had the "double present" problem (My friends and family know I wouldn't let them get away with it, I guess :p).

My birthday is made of win for the following reason:
Everyone else: "Aww Christmas is over *sad*"
Me: "Woohoo! Presents!" :D

I was born on 26th December, and I've never had the "double present" problem (My friends and family know I wouldn't let them get away with it, I guess :p).

My birthday is made of win for the following reason:
Everyone else: "Aww Christmas is over *sad*"
Me: "Woohoo! Presents!" :D

*jealous*

April 7. Rare snow, always good presents. And Easter occasionally falls around it.

*jealous*

:D

On the downside, a lot of my friends go home for Christmas holidays. I can usually fix that by going out for drinks a week or so early, but it means noones really around on my actual birthday.

I don't know. Maybe turkey makes my family horny.
That's right, turkey makes you horny, not sleepy!

I'd say April 1st would be a pretty poor birthdate.

"It's my birthday today!"

"lol, sure."

My brother's birthday is on December 21st. I think he would agree that late December birthdays stink.

My brother's birthday is on December 21st. I think he would agree that late December birthdays stink.

tell your brother we are birthday twins! and I said happy birthday.

My mother's birthday is December 27th.

OUCH!

late-December and early-January birthdays are made of suck. My birthday is too close to New Year's to be celebrated at school in a sane school district, yet too far away to have enjoy the day in my school district (seriously, what the hell is the point of coming back to school on the Wednesday right after New Year's? retards!). At least my birthday is on a Saturday this year, I'll be 16 on a weekend! yay!

On the other hand, I live in a place that is so far out of the way from everything (an hour bus ride to school every morning! and a twenty-minute drive to freaking Food Lion that would take like 5 minutes!) so nobody knows where my house is or even where to turn from the highway to get to it... but on the other hand, I can go swimming.

Actually, now that I think about it, mid-summer birthdays would be the ultimate suck. It'd be blazig hot, nobody would know where I live, and with my luck there would be a thunderstorm that would always come on July 5 rather than January 5.