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Don't grow older than 255 or else it will overflow (thelemmy.club)
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A photo of a cake with 8 candles in a row. The first and fifth candle from the right are lit. The caption reads "Happy 17th Birthday"

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[-] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 hours ago

I did this once, but just had holes instead of unlit candles. I only had like 3 or 4 of them, and nobody's got time to go buy candles when everyone's about to sing happy birthday.

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