I present to you a new series of things that annoy me. A list of pet peeves if you like. That is to say, certain things of no real consequence that evoke a disproportionate amount of dissatisfaction on my part. There exist a great many wrongs of significance that urk me but these do not rank among them. This I will grudgingly admit.
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When people with birthdays that land on leap years say they're only 1/4 of their age, e.g. "I'm only 5 years old." This is retarded. Regardless of the infrequent occurrance of the day of February the 29th, another cycle of 365 days has passed since your birth. People born on leap days merely have their birthdays fall on March 1st in common years, if they so choose. They can properly say, "I've only had 5 birthdays" perhaps, but they better have forfeited those intervening common year celebrations to earn this privilege. The absence of a 4/29 date on which to celebrate does not magically keep your age in stasis. Celebrate it or not, you've gotten older, punk.
I sadly don't know anyone who's birthday falls on the 29th of February. I'd like to think that they do it as a joke that got old, fast. Like you said, regardless of what they think, a full year has passed since, and as such, they are a year older. Until they begin aging at the rate they claim, it will remain this way.
ReplyDeleteHaven't met any of those.. I'd actually find it pretty funny. Especially if it suits their mental age, which isn't too uncommon.
ReplyDeleteI've always wondered about that, but I don't know of anyone legitimately born on that day either.
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