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'Please record a happy birthday message for Jane as a 40th surprise!' Please fuck off.

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BlueEyedDash · 20/02/2021 18:47

Of all of the things that have become common this year, surely these recorded good wishes videos are one of the worst?

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RandomDent · 20/02/2021 18:48

Oh no, my friend who lives far away turned 50 and it was lovely to see faces from the past.

BalloonSlayer · 20/02/2021 18:50

I would do it for someone!

Twospaniels · 20/02/2021 18:50

My sister turned 60 and her daughter gathered video messages for her. My sister loved it.

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BarbaraofKent · 20/02/2021 18:50

How miserable!

I'm not really a birthday person at all, but would hate to have a big birthday in 2020/21 and would really appreciate a video like that.

HunkyPunk · 20/02/2021 18:50

Yes, we've got to do one for someone's 30th, which has been heralded as a 'big' Birthday. Is it?

Toorapid · 20/02/2021 18:51

Oh I would hate that, photos of myself are bad enough!

I was recently asked to write a message for a card, I can't do that either, not enough original thought. I drew a picture Grin

CarriesFlower82 · 20/02/2021 18:52

We did this for my dad's 70th birthday. I'd hate to think of people saying things like "fuck off" and being rude about it. We didn't tell everybody this but he has a terminal liver disease and the video we made of family and friends made his day.

Love51 · 20/02/2021 18:53

Someone I know had one last year, it was nice to see. Hardly the world's biggest ask, to just say something nice about someone and Happy Birthday!

LilyE1234 · 20/02/2021 18:53

It’s the ones that ask you to dress in fancy dress and sing/dance along to a section of a certain song that are THE WORST.

BlueEyedDash · 20/02/2021 18:53

Grin It's for the office- there has been a glut of them recently as well. Three birthdays, a wedding, a couple of babies, so many opportunities for me to wish colleagues awkward sentiments while looking like a potato.

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BlueEyedDash · 20/02/2021 18:54

@LilyE1234 Yes- we had to do that for that dreadful Bruno Mars song about a wedding for the colleague getting married. Dreadful dreadful dreadful.

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Illstartexercisingtomorrow · 20/02/2021 18:56

If it’s someone you care about it shouldn’t be hard.

Office/colleague ones are just a major PITA and should not have to be done.

SatsumasOrClementines · 20/02/2021 18:57

@HunkyPunk after 18 and 21, 30 is the start of the ‘big’ something+zero birthdays. It’s obviously not as ‘big’ as 100 but it’s still a milestone.

ShirleyPhallus · 20/02/2021 18:57

What a misery!

FourDecades · 20/02/2021 19:12

Friend sent out a message to all her WhatsApp contacts asking for a message for her DS as he turned 18yrs.

He doesn't have a clue who l am ..so l didn't.

justgivejackie · 20/02/2021 19:14

I've done this for a couple of friends - don't be a misery Confused

PermanentTemporary · 20/02/2021 19:15

Have only done this once, both message and song, and it was fantastic and much appreciated by the recipient. She's having a shitty lockdown and she looked really happy about it.

Toddlerteaplease · 20/02/2021 19:16

We had this for a retirement. We all refused!

Five67Eight · 20/02/2021 19:18

We’ve had to do a couple of these - I do feel awkward doing it, but to be fair they’ve been for people we aren’t that close to (DH’s aunt overseas who was unwell, and a periphery friend’s 50th).

I would feel less cringey doing it for someone I was close to.

cluecu · 20/02/2021 19:21

ConfusedGrin
How on earth can the concept ofspending a few seconds of your time to make someone feel a bit better possibly be one of the worst common things to happen this year? @BlueEyedDash

BlueEyedDash · 20/02/2021 19:23

I think it is maybe that we've done so many of these. It's not for a close friend or relative either.

I also really, really hate having my photo taken, a video is even worse!

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HunkyPunk · 20/02/2021 19:25

[quote SatsumasOrClementines]@HunkyPunk after 18 and 21, 30 is the start of the ‘big’ something+zero birthdays. It’s obviously not as ‘big’ as 100 but it’s still a milestone.[/quote]
That's interesting. I've never thought of 30 as being a big Birthday. I wonder if it's a newish phenomenon? I've always considered the next big Birthday after 21 to be 40. I'm pretty sure I wasn't asked what I was doing for my 30th (nothing, evidently!) in the same way that I remember friends enquiring about my 40th and 50th. Don't remember friends treating their own 30th Birthdays as particularly significant, either, other than bemoaning the fact that we were getting old Grin

OverByYer · 20/02/2021 19:27

I changed department during lockdown and my team who were all working form home did this and it meant the world to me. Done be so miserable and have a think about how it would be received

Lastbonestanding · 20/02/2021 19:27

I think it is a lovely idea. I'd love it.

dontgobaconmyheart · 20/02/2021 19:28

Just don't participate then? Send her a message instead. I'm sure it doesn't really matter.