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Mind. Blown.

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chunkyjumper · 14/12/2018 12:39

Lighthearted Post for fun!

Was having a conversation with my teenager yesterday who was talking about his friend who's birthday is 31st December.

He says it's weird as he can never say his birthday would be 'next year' as it would always be 'this year' and on the day itself it would be 'today'.

It has actually blown my mind and I can't stop thinking about it.

Promise I'll start getting out more 🤣

Does anyone have other similar things/stories that they can't get their head around?!

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ThumbWitchesAbroad · 14/12/2018 13:20

Took me a few moments, but yeah, that is weird! Never thought about it before but of course the day after his birthday is already next year, so his next birthday will always be "this year".

nornironrock · 14/12/2018 13:34

I like that one!!

I also really enjoyed that on last NYE, everyone legally allowed to drink (ie over 18, I know there are exceptions) in the UK was born in the last century, and everyone not allowed was born in this century....

user1473878824 · 14/12/2018 13:34

So confused as to why so many people seem to be taking this thread as some sort of personal slight Grin it’s just a wow! weird! lighthearted observation that is quite cool when you think about it.

Geekster1963 · 14/12/2018 13:42

I’m doing a 10k race next year, exactly 52 weeks after this years (the ‘same’ Sunday), but I will be the same age running it!

Alfie190 · 14/12/2018 13:43

I do not understand what he means. Of course he can have a birthday this year and next year. Confused

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chunkyjumper · 14/12/2018 13:48

@Geekster1963 that is so cool but weird at the same time!

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Swipetounlock · 14/12/2018 13:51

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"
No it doesn't because the second to last person can't see to poke the last person's 2nd eye out.

PuppyMonkey · 14/12/2018 13:52

I understand exactly what OP means but I don’t quite understand why it’s mindblowing.Grin

user1473878824 · 14/12/2018 13:55

@Alfie190 of course he can?! Buuuut:

He has a birthday every year.

On the last day of the year.

His birthday is always today or this year because as soon as it is no longer his birthday it is already the next year he has a birthday in.

Skinnydecafflatte · 14/12/2018 14:16

One that got me earlier this week was when someone asked would you get a baby a bauble that had the year of their birth or the year of their first Christmas. I immediately thought they’d be the same but for those children born in the last 6 days of the year then of course it wouldn’t be. Totally threw me! 🙈 doesn’t take much 🙄...

LadyPasserine · 14/12/2018 14:18

My grandfather's birthday was 29 February. He fought in the Somme. Survived and went on to raise a family of mainly orphans and died early evening on 28 February 1972 - also a Leap Year.

Justwanttotravel · 14/12/2018 14:25

Don’t get how it’s the same for Jan 01st? Surely it’s the same as having a birthday on, for example March 04th? (And other days) It’s either next year or today...

mumsastudent · 14/12/2018 14:27

my grandma was born on the 29 feb so even when she died she was only in her twenties!

user1473878824 · 14/12/2018 14:29

@Justwanttotravel it’s really not.

Say he’s 20. If he says “my birthday next year”, that would be his 22nd.
Unless it was his birthday, then it would be today.

If you were born on the 4th of March your next birthday would always be the next year, until the 1st of January when it would be this year.

There is no time between his birthday and the next year for his birthday to be next year.

user1473878824 · 14/12/2018 14:31

@Justwanttotravel if you were born on 1st January your birthday would always be today or next year. Never this year.

cragfastsheep · 14/12/2018 14:34

But right now he can say, next year I'll be XXX (which would be a year older than what he is on the 31st). I've confused myself now

user1473878824 · 14/12/2018 14:37

Of course he can say it! But his NEXT birthday will always be THIS year. Don’t over think it! Grin

I’m tearing my hair out.

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chunkyjumper · 14/12/2018 14:50

Haha user! Thanks for your investment in the thread! You’re right though, if you overthink it you try your brain!

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user1473878824 · 14/12/2018 15:02

I’m so overly invested in this now.

pinkdelight · 14/12/2018 15:20

"if you were born on 1st January your birthday would always be today or next year. Never this year."

But today is this year. I don't see what the mind blowing aspect is at all.

MrsGollach · 14/12/2018 15:35

Truly mind-blowing

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TimeIhadaNameChange · 14/12/2018 15:36

The +2 reminds me of NYD a few years ago. There's just over 10 years between my sister and I - she's December, I'm Jan. I'd realised that, speaking to her as the New Year started I could legitimately tell her that she would be 40 next year, despite her only just turning 38. I knew she was dreading being 40 so wasn't going to point this out to her. However, my mother decided to say that I had something to to tell her, so I had to spit it out. She tried to retaliate by pointing out that I'd be 30, but I wouldn't be - I had another year to go as it were, despite my birthday being the month following hers.

It amused me. Her, less so!

wheneverythinggoestitsup · 14/12/2018 16:01

@pinkdelight
But you would never say this year would you. You would say today. Never 'this year'

Some people need to lighten up

pinkdelight · 14/12/2018 16:08

Sure, you'd never say 'this year' in any circumstance if the answer is 'today'. Don't see what lightening up has to do with it.

wheneverythinggoestitsup · 14/12/2018 16:11

@pinkdelight
The point is they wouldn't EVER say 'this year' not just on their actual birthday like people born on any other day of the year. Hmm
It's a lighthearted thread about something me and many others hadn't ever realised.

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