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by **Hawknc** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:44 am UTC

For no other reason than I'm bored, let's all post our birthdays so they can be celebrated accordingly! (In the interests of not confusing everyone, let's also post them in an unambiguous format, e.g. 1st Oct rather than 10/1 or the far superior 1/10.)

Post taken over by mod rule. Mu ha ha!

The main list that stays updated is here

January
The Annoyance, Jadestone - 1st
arcticfox.sq - 2nd
Vandole - 6th
svk1325 - 9th
EstLladon - 10th
Matt_B - 16th
solarchem - 19th
no-genius (RIP) - 21st
Fluff - 26th
blind visionary - 31st

February
mrcheesypants - 2nd
mindless_drivel - 4th
Nyarlathotep - 5th
Nonbaka - 7th
aldimond - 24th
Zach - 29th

March
Nonthought - 1st
PS_Mouse - 2nd
peter - 12th
Dark Ragnarok - 16th
spacermase - 18th
AnonyMouse - 19th
tendays - 21st
parkaboy - 24th
lanicita - 25th
une see - 29th

April
LE4dGOLEM -1st
3.14159265 - 5th
Kira - 10th
SoNick - 16th
Felstaff - 23rd-25th (I celebrate over three days - Like Jesus!)
Berge - 26th

May
deadly penguin - 4th
Rat - 6th
stuck - 8th
Peshmerga - 12th
thomasjmacoll, Squeak - 14th
Mother Superior - 16th
Narsil -18th
Azquelt - 21st
lani - 28th
Spag - 29th

June
william, The Mighty Thesaurus - 1st
Somnia - 2nd
Solt - June 12th
P.L.I.N.G. - 21st
ivnja - 22nd
Judas Maccabeus, Arturion - 23rd
Belial, Aoeniac, Jauss - 30th

July
Marten (the great), vrek, Argyl3 - 1st
Gordon, VannA - 2nd
shadebug, The LuigiManiac - 4th
warriorness, Phenriz - 6th
Kawa - 9th
Teaspoon, DonChubby - 15th
Gelsamel - 16th
TheTankengine - 17th
joeframbach - 19th
Vortigen - 23rd
German Sausage, thefiddler, Fat Kat - 26th
Barbie - 28th
Rodan, xooll - 29th
anotherangel - 30th

August
VTHodge, crazyjimbo, bavardage -1st
Anmorata, davef -3rd
Marbas - 4th
Jesster - 17th
singing about potatoes - 20th
Verysillyman - 24th

September
SpitValve - 1st
Hawknc - 4th
PatrickRsGhost - 6th
rachel - 8th
Johnthemage - 17th
SilverWolfe - 18th
Alisto - 19th
Ren - 22nd
Babbler - 30th

October
Tractor, TigerX - 1st
Silverbolt, Darth Eru - 2nd
ZeroSum - 3rd
bbctol, Awezing - 8th
Toeofdoom, saxmaniac1987 - 9th
Sandry - 10th
SoapyHobo - 12th
xkcd, Mairead - 17th
pebbles - 19th
Azrael - 30th

November
bookishbunny - 3rd
Lenale - 12th
Fjafjan - 17th
The Sleeping Tyrant, Messiah - 24th
OmnipotentEntity - 26th

December
HYPERiON - 1st
hermaj - 9th
theRat - 12th
Twasbrillig - 23rd
Scigatt - 25th
Air Gear - 28th
Thunderbird4!, EradicateIV - 31st

by **Gordon** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:48 am UTC

Gordon - July 2nd

*edit
everyone look at the post below this one

by **Rat** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:48 am UTC

if you do some research you can find out :wink:

(may 6, 1988)

youll never look at this post again will you XP

by **ivnja** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:23 am UTC

22nd June
Is there an easy way to catalogue these?

I was also wondering yesterday whether it would be possible to set up some sort of map of where users are? Someone set up the ISP map - I would give credit to whomever it was if I weren't too lazy at the moment to go find that thread in the comics section - but can we also set up a world map sort of thing? It would then have to break down into like an Oceania map, a Europe map, and a North America map (do we have anyone in other places?) in order to have any amount of accuracy, and hopefully people would also be able to change locations as they move (university students, for example, move a couple times a year as they go from home to school and back). But yeah, that would be pretty cool, in my opinion. If I had any idea how to make such a thing I would, but I've never taken any variety of programming class

by **Toeofdoom** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:24 am UTC

oct 9... yay, so far away.

by **Alisto** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:24 am UTC

Sep. 19

by **Hawknc** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:37 am UTC

ivnja, good idea. I'll go make another thread with the map in it.

by **German Sausage** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:04 pm UTC

26th july

by **Belial** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:13 pm UTC

30 june.

by **thomasjmaccoll** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:26 pm UTC

my birthday is may 14th, and if i recall correctly, so is squeak's... we've had this thread before, somewhere in the depths...

Website · by **shadebug** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:39 pm UTC

4th of july and doesn't the forum software have an ability to track birthdays and announce them?

by **Hawknc** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:01 pm UTC

From memory I don't think it's part of the standard setup, but it'd be a simple enough addition.

Website · by **shadebug** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:32 pm UTC

hmm, the forum I'm thinking of uses ivb, not phpbb, still, as you say, can't be too tricky to add, not that it's within my capabilities

by **hyperion** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:37 pm UTC

1 Dec.

so far away

by **Jesse** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:39 pm UTC

17th August. I expect presents.

by **Lani** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:45 pm UTC

We have already had this discussion, with a poll on birthday months and all, as I recall.

May 28.

by **Hawknc** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:46 pm UTC

Whoops.

Website · by **thefiddler** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:17 pm UTC

German Sausage wrote:26th july

Well, we share a birthday.

by **no-genius** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:30 pm UTC

21st January... you missed it

Website · by **thefiddler** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:31 pm UTC

no-genius wrote:21st January... you missed it

Happy belated birthday!

I have no idea how old you are, or I would include that bit, too.

by **no-genius** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:43 pm UTC

thefiddler wrote:
no-genius wrote:21st January... you missed it

Happy belated birthday!

I have no idea how old you are, or I would include that bit, too.

im 20!

(it sucks ><)

Website · by **thefiddler** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:45 pm UTC

no-genius wrote:
thefiddler wrote:
no-genius wrote:21st January... you missed it

Happy belated birthday!

I have no idea how old you are, or I would include that bit, too.

im 20! (it sucks ><)

20 sounds like an awkward age, in the same way that 14 , 17, and 19 are awkward ages. Nothing to do, nothing new. They're just... there... kind of in between while you wait for the next birthday... well, at least for me. Living in the U.S. and all. Legal at 18. Alcohol at 21. You know how it goes.

by **no-genius** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:48 pm UTC

thefiddler wrote:
no-genius wrote:
thefiddler wrote:
no-genius wrote:21st January... you missed it

Happy belated birthday!

I have no idea how old you are, or I would include that bit, too.

im 20! (it sucks ><)

20 sounds like an awkward age, in the same way that 14 , 17, and 19 are awkward ages. Nothing to do, nothing new. They're just... there... kind of in between while you wait for the next birthday... well, at least for me. Living in the U.S. and all. Legal at 18. Alcohol at 21. You know how it goes.

How do they expect you to have sex without alcohol? :shock:

Website · by **thefiddler** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:49 pm UTC

no-genius wrote:
thefiddler wrote:
no-genius wrote:
thefiddler wrote:
no-genius wrote:21st January... you missed it

Happy belated birthday!

I have no idea how old you are, or I would include that bit, too.

im 20! (it sucks ><)

20 sounds like an awkward age, in the same way that 14 , 17, and 19 are awkward ages. Nothing to do, nothing new. They're just... there... kind of in between while you wait for the next birthday... well, at least for me. Living in the U.S. and all. Legal at 18. Alcohol at 21. You know how it goes.

How do they expect you to have sex without alcohol?

Very carefully? You don't need alcohol to have fun! It just... helps... sometimes...

by **The Sleeping Tyrant** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:50 pm UTC

24th Nov

thefiddler wrote:20 sounds like an awkward age, in the same way that 14 , 17, and 19 are awkward ages. Nothing to do, nothing new. They're just... there... kind of in between while you wait for the next birthday... well, at least for me. Living in the U.S. and all. Legal at 18. Alcohol at 21. You know how it goes.

In my province, sex is legal at 14 (booze at 19 ;D). 13, 15, and 17 are the aqkward ages here. 13, too young for sex. 15, can't drive yet but almost. 17, too young for porn stores.

by **Grincement** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:42 pm UTC

I'm pro-abortion and my birthday is May 14th :lol:

by **TheTankengine** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:39 pm UTC

I'm not pro-abortion, but i'm pro-choice on virtually everything. You want to have an abortion? Well, you have to live with it, not me. You want to have guns? Drugs? Sodomize a cactus? Go right ahead just be careful with that last one and try not to bother me too much.

July 17. Will be my 21st!

Birthdays + Abortion discussion = I love the xkcd fora!

by **warriorness** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:03 pm UTC

TheTankengine wrote:I'm not pro-abortion, but i'm pro-choice on virtually everything. You want to have an abortion? Well, you have to live with it, not me. You want to have guns? Drugs? Sodomize a cactus? Go right ahead just be careful with that last one and try not to bother me too much.

Same here, except I've no problem with abortion itself (as opposed to choice).

At the risk of inciting a political discussion, let me say it kind of amazes me how people can be opposed to other people making their own choices. "Gay marriage should be illegal because it violates the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman"? Please. Why do you care - because God said so? Whatever happened to separation of church and state?

EDIT: Shit, forgot. 6th July.

by **Peshmerga** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:03 pm UTC

05/12/89

or how you crazy Euros do it

12/05/89

by **no-genius** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:10 pm UTC

Peshmerga wrote:05/12/89

or how you crazy Euros do it

12/05/89

it goes D/M/Y

because D<M<Y

craaaaaaaazy, huh?

(taking D=dd, M=mm, Y=yy or yyyy)

by **warriorness** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:13 pm UTC

no-genius wrote:
Peshmerga wrote:05/12/89

or how you crazy Euros do it

12/05/89

it goes D/M/Y

because D<M<Y

craaaaaaaazy, huh?

(taking D=dd, M=mm, Y=yy or yyyy)

Likewise, the current year is 7002 because 1<10<100<1000, right?

YYYYMMDD makes much more sense.

by **Teaspoon** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:20 pm UTC

Using the date format that I've recently declared to be the most useful, my birthdate is 1983-07-15. I've decided this one's best because it means that dates in chronological order will also be in alphabetical order. This is particularly handy in things like naming files that have time-based information in them, because you can name the file after the day it discusses and sort by name instead of sorting by creation date and hoping that you created all the files in the right order.

Some time in the next seven thousand years we should probably expand it to yyyyy-mm-dd and add a leading zero to all our four-digit years just so that it won't make a mess in the year 10000. That's assuming we don't reset our year counter or completely reorganise our calendar before then, of course.

by **Twasbrillig** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:32 pm UTC

Dec 23rd w00t.

by **Fluff** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:59 pm UTC

Had mine on Friday just gone, 26th Jan.

Website · by **thefiddler** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:01 am UTC

Twasbrillig wrote:Dec 23rd w00t.

Fluff wrote:Had mine on Friday just gone, 26th Jan.

Happy belated birthday to both of you!

by **aldimond** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:18 am UTC

Teaspoon wrote:Using the date format that I've recently declared to be the most useful, my birthdate is 1983-07-15. I've decided this one's best because it means that dates in chronological order will also be in alphabetical order. This is particularly handy in things like naming files that have time-based information in them, because you can name the file after the day it discusses and sort by name instead of sorting by creation date and hoping that you created all the files in the right order.

Some time in the next seven thousand years we should probably expand it to yyyyy-mm-dd and add a leading zero to all our four-digit years just so that it won't make a mess in the year 10000. That's assuming we don't reset our year counter or completely reorganise our calendar before then, of course.

Word. 1984-02-24.

by **Judas Maccabeus** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:52 am UTC

My birthday is 23d June.

by **Nonmus** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:06 am UTC

7th Feb.

You're all going to give me something next week, right?

by **lanicita** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:02 am UTC

Skipping the abortion discussion (*cough pro-choice especially since reading The Cider House Rules cough*)... I'll be 20 soon. It'll be a sad, sad day. I like being a teenager. Being able to be stupid, and blaming it on my age. Can't do that when I'm 20.

by **Toeofdoom** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:04 am UTC

Awesome!

Irresponsible, nerdy teenagers :p

So, does anyone actually have a birthday coming up soon?

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