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TranscriptA tweet by Ivanka Trump @ivankatrump saying "I cannot believe that Theodore is eight months old today! Happy birthday little teddy bear!" with an admittedly cute picture of a child smiling. It has a reply from @blacknmild saying "this isn't how birthdays work"

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[–] [email protected] 155 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

The entire family is dumb as rocks.
It'd be hilarious if daddy dumb dumb wasnt a cult leader with so much power.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Teddy may have turned 8mo in that meme, but you sir/madam turned 1yo today (on Lemmy). So happy cake day to you!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It surprises me how stupid people seem to get power easily.

Happy cake day btw.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Confidence will get you very far in many fields. Unfortunately, more intelligent people are aware there are things they do not know and rarely have the confidence levels comparable to that of a dimwit.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Gross, they're making more of them.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Maybe due to all of the accomplishments of the Cheeto king's administration life expectancy will be measured in months to hide the fact that our collective life expectancy has been drastically reduced. When you got studies coming out saying that the poorest European lives about as long as the richest American, well you know you got a problem.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

In Dutch, birthday translates to "verjaardag" where "jaar" means "year" and "dag" means day, so the literal meaning of "verjaardag" comes down to "the day you grow one year older". By that logic, the day a baby grows one month older could be named "vermaanddag", where "maand" means month. It's not a real word but it's a good pun and it would get the idea across. Unfortunately it doesn't work in English.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Anniversary comes from annum, which means year, so you could have a monthversary maybe

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

month in latin is mensis (I'm told) so mensiversary

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Maybe this is like Tesla's odometers, but for birthdays?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (3 children)

What are you guys talking about, my birth day is a weekly recurring event. I was born on a Saturday so I'm now 2078 weeks old.

I am very normal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wth? That's a birth week. That's not how normal people celebrate.

I'm coming over tomorrow to show you how to properly do birthdays. Also, do you know a place where I can find 14,000+ candles for your cake?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, that’s not true. A birth week recurs yearly, not weekly.

A birth day is the day on which you were born, say Saturday, and you’ll have one of those every week.

A birth week is the number of the week in which you were born, say week 14, and it takes a year before it’s week 14 again. Same interval as a birth month.

A birth date only occurs once. It’ll never be July 4, 1981 ever again.

This is all very normal and logical. Beep boop.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Never fails to amaze me how out of touch with reality they are.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

and stupid. Don't forget stupid.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Also evil. Mostly evil.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

His name can only be read as Käidjaik, not Kendrick.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What the fuck is Theodore?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ted. People tend to have longer names that then get shortened for everyday use.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

My wife has a one month birthday every month as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Her family is living in the mad hatters tea party

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