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I send it to my friend every year on her "birthday" - she's a leap year baby. I'm sure it's totally not old yet, nossir. At least she gets a break this year 
Pet Peeve rants.
- Thread starter Mathias
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I got really sick of explaining what an unbirthday is to people outside of my immediate family.
Well blow the candles out my dear and make your dreams come true. A very merry unbirthday tooooo you!
I understand all too well. It's not just you. This an emotionally draining career.
You don't actually sound crotchety to me, by the way. It's just good to vent now and then. It can be very cathartic.
Speaking as a summer birthday kid, it actually did suck a lot that other kids got to bring in treats and have a special day at school when you never did. Also summer birthday parties can be hard to scare together these days, since people always seem to have their summer weekends booked with fuck knows what all the time. My son tends to share his birthday weekend with Father's Day. Between that and his autism, it was really hard to get kids to come to the two birthday parties we actually tried to have.
Now that Li'l Z is getting older, this is something we have to navigate, since his birthday is the beginning of August. I had heard from a friend with an older child that their teacher used let the kids with the summer birthdays pick a date at the end of the school year to "celebrate" with their classmates. (@Cajungal , I wouldn't mind your 2 cents on that idea.) Since a lot of his classmates have been inviting the whole class (11 kids) to their birthdays, I was thinking of having an end-of-the-year/birthday for Li'l Z so they could all be together one more time.
Cajungal
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That's a great idea. Something similar happened at the beginning of the year. A parent brought cookies for the class in August, and we celebrated all summer birthdays on that day. We sang and had a celebration at lunch. Easy breezy.
We were thinking of running a monthly birthday celebration by the parents. It would be tricky, because they'd have to come to an agreement on what kind of treat they brought. If it ends up not working out, that's fine with us too. It just makes sense to us to consolidate as much as we can for time. We get so many "not enough recess/not enough time to eat their lunch" complaints, and parties make it hard to keep this consistent sometimes.
My birthday always fell on spring break. I didn't like it when I was younger because I wanted to have a party at school. When I got older, I was happy because I didn't like the extra attention.
I never had to go to school on my birthday. Then in my senior year of HS the district decided we needed to go a week earlier for some reason. The first day of school was going to be on my birthday! My mom told me I didn't have to go.
I feel silly as an adult having a big deal of my birthday made at work. This year my staff just wished me a happy birthday in person before they left that day and that was perfect.
Olive pits, and how they remind me "DAMMIT, the space this seed takes could be delicious olive."
but the seeds are used to make more delicious olives!
I know it's been ranted about before, by many a person, but for the love of god people, it's 2016. If you're going to accept resume and cover letter submissions from Indeed.com, please don't just immediately send me an email telling me to submit the same information on your company website, just so I can fill it all out again in your stupid little text boxes.
GasBandit
Staff member
Gagh, I hate that. The rigamarole with redundantly filling out information that is already on the resume they had you upload is one of the things I hate most about looking for a job, and has many a time made me say "fuck it, I don't want this job this bad." A luxury of already having a job, I guess, but there it is.
THIS! That should instant job loss for whoever designed that non-sense.
Especially in olives on pizza or in a hot dish. As an appetizer, okay, I can sort of get rid of the pits. On a pizza, suddenly finding a bloody rock somewhere in a mouthful of salami, hot cheese, tomato sauce and olive? GAH.
Also, can I please check a box that says "I'm not a veteran," instead of having to say that I'm not a disabled veteran, and I'm not a recently separated veteran, and I'm not a veteran of a foreign war, and I'm not a Vietnam veteran, and I'm not a Desert Storm veteran? I'm not a veteran!
The reason that they ask these is because each is a separate protected class under federal law.
https://www.hr.utah.edu/forms/lib/Protected_Veteran.pdf
But yes, they should allow one option for all that says "not a veteran at all" heh. That's bad programming.
I'd think it would look something like this -
Question 1: Are you a veteran?
Yes
No
If you answered No, please continue on to question 3.
Question 2: If you are a veteran, please check all that apply to you.
a
b
c
d
e
Question 3: Are you a litterbug? etc...
Question 1: Are you a veteran?
Yes
No
If you answered No, please continue on to question 3.
Question 2: If you are a veteran, please check all that apply to you.
a
b
c
d
e
Question 3: Are you a litterbug? etc...
It's like you've had some training in methodology and measurement...
Who? Me? Nah. My hobby is taking Facebook quizzes.
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If you answered No, please continue on to question 5.
Question 4: ("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")
Thank you.FTFY
Watch better shows, maybe? Shades of Blue opened up with a cop, mistaking a video game for real gunfire, busting in and killing the player.
(and I still have a crush on J Lo)
...
I have a hard time believing anyone that has heard actual gun fire would mix up the two and assume that it's happening on the other side of a wall.