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Eight month birthday (i.postimg.cc)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/facepalm@lemmy.world

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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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 57 points 3 months ago

Gross, they're making more of them.

[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 26 points 3 months ago

It's kind of normal for families to celebrate month-birthdays of babies.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago

That's stupid and makes no sense.

I celebrate every occasion that the child's age doubles, starting from the first second.

[-] kubica@fedia.io 20 points 3 months ago
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

To be fair, I wasn't trying to hide.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago

Curiosity triggered. Ignoring leap years because it only changes the days a little at the end:

  • Second doublings (6): 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s, 32s
  • Minute doublings (6): 1:04, 2:08, 4:16, 8:32, 17:04, 34:08
  • Hour doublings (5): 1:08:16, 2:16:32, 4:33:04, 9:06:08, 18:12:16

Day doublings (8):

  • 1d 12:24:32
  • 3d 00:49:04
  • 6d 01:38:08
  • 12d 03:16:16
  • 24d 06:32:32
  • 48d 13:05:04
  • 97d 02:10:08
  • 194d 04:20:16

⬆️ 27 celebrations in first year of life | up to 7 celebrations past first year ⬇️

  • 1y 23d 08:40:32
  • 2y 46d 17:21:04
  • 4y 93d 10:42:08
  • 8y 186d 21:24:16
  • 17y 8d 18:48:32
  • 34y 17d 13:37:04
  • 68y 35d 03:14:08
  • definitely dead
  • 136y 70d 06:28:16
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

See? Much more sensible. You get loads of front-loaded precious moments, and then some very relevant milestones later on in life, only requiring about one third of the overall celebrations!

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[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

I celebrate every prime number.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I'll allow it.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah but I didn't call my son's 8 months his "birthday" for exactly this reason

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

1 month old, 6 months old, 3 or 9 months old, maybe.. but eight? nah, mate. that ain't a thing.

take your every-month picture for the scrapbook. but 'celebrate' or party or to whore-out on social for fake likes? nope.

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

Its not a birthday if its not the day you were born. I can see celebrating it though.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Yeah, we took photos of the kids in the same chair each month in the first year. It wasn't like we had parties, but this is normal new baby stuff. Plenty of legitimate reasons to hate the Trumps. Dogpiling on them for shit like this is petty and reinforces the right-wing narrative that the attacks are personal.

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The attacks are personal, the whole family are evil fucking Nazis.

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[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I got plenty of personal attacks for them.

If I speak up too loudly my wife and son have to flee the country.

How's that? Have I earned it? DO YOU MFERS HEAR ME

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

That's a valid reason to attack them. Like, physically. Not that I'm suggesting or condoning violence, but they are coming for our freedom. They aren't doing it in tweets of baby pictures.

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Look, I know you've been given enough downvotes so I won't add to them but this is just not true.

I have what most people would consider a metric fuck tonne of kids and I love the ever loving shit out of every one of them but never once have we celebrated their 8th month of existence.

None of my friends or family have ever done anything so utterly weird either.

It's just weird. So weird that I question the validity of the original post.

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 25 points 3 months ago

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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[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

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

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

and stupid. Don't forget stupid.

[-] dellish@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

I think it's rather common around me to throw a tiny celebration each months on the first year. A treat and a small message to the family never hurts 🤷

Plus, 8 months is super round, it's a power of two and 2/3 of a year ☝️🤓

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[-] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It is when your tripping balls off bubby's coke

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Her family is living in the mad hatters tea party

[-] galanthus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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

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