Mine was “Magic” by Olivia Newton John. Sounds like it set the mood just fine.

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    Mull of Kintyre by Wings

    My parents had 0 interest in any music that was not out of the West End though, so I doubt it was a factor.

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    Is this another one of those data mining tricks? Nice try. I’m not giving a bunch of Internet strangers any hints what month & year I was born. What’s your next post gonna be? Correlate this list of quirky words with each digit of your social security number to find your band name?

    1. Symbiotic
    2. Patriotic
    3. Spasmodic
    4. Rapscallions
    5. Pescatarian
    6. Octogenarians
    7. Scapegoats
    8. Landsharks
    9. Slimeballs

    (zero.) Juggernaut

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      No, that’s why this is an imperfect measure of a song that might have spent weeks at #1.

      I’ve already explained this like 5 times. Doesn’t anyone read comments?

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        Yes I read it every 5 times you explained it. Yes it’s fun and relatively harmless, but I still guarantee there are some autistic people nearby who’d be up to the challenge of narrowing down all the possible birthdates of someone whose answer was “Tina Turner What’s Love GotToDoWithIt.”

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          raises hand Me, I am that autistic person. I once printed out all of the developers for Zelda - Breath of the Wild, and then printed out the shrine names, and then figured out which shrine was named for which developer.

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        I manually typed a zero. Auto-formatting must’ve changed it when I wasn’t looking. It was auto populating each number every time I hit enter, which was super annoying. I will edit it to phonetic zero now.

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          Geht it, autocorrect can be incredibly annoying when you can’t turn it of. Wouldn’t have wondered if someone evidently tiled it like this though.

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      It never was a real tweet. All fake, top to bottom.

      But I couldn’t figure out how to get people to think this was already a shitpost kind of thing without that. Just a screenshot of text? Boring.

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      Yep that was my thought too. I still looked mine up, I’m just not posting it. Funny enough, it’s a song I never cared for, but I know my mom absolutely hates.

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      Specifically chose this to avoid phishing options.

      #1 songs often spend weeks as #1. Mine spent 5 weeks up there. Call my bank and tell them my DOB is a range of 5-6 weeks and see how for you get. Especially since pregnancies are 40 weeks. I even know mine was 41. That’s not 9 months. Lots of rounding here intentionally to protect people.

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        As long as you subtract one full year at the end I guess, yeah, maybe. But not every New Years Day occurs at a clean week break, so. 🤷‍♂️

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      I mean, we’re just getting close. It’s easier to ask people to count by month.

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        I mean, if we’re narrowing it down to the week, I’m assuming the aim is to find out to which song your parents fucked you into existence. What was the vibe.

        So the best bet is to count 40 weeks as that is more accurate than “9 months”. That’s all I’m saying. 😉👍

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          We’re rounding to make counting backwards easy so more people can easily participate.

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            This can’t be so difficult to do with weeks if you really want to be accurate. But if you don’t want to be accurate, of course there’s that option too. I’m only spreading awareness. 👍 I’m not trying to die on this hill or anything…

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              It’s about ease of use.

              I can count on fingers how many months. Tales 10 seconds.

              Count 40 weeks back from your birthday with no help in 10 seconds or less.

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                My guy, my tip is for people who want to be accurate. People like that usually have the means to figure out how to Google “date calculator”.

                I get what you’re saying, but you and I have different target demographics I guess, and that’s fine, but let’s let that be the end of it, shall we? 😆 Like I said, this isn’t such a big deal to be having this deep of a discussion about it.

                Don’t take my tip as a personal criticism against your character. It isn’t one.

                For the record, I figured out which week is 40 weeks ahead of my birthday in about 20 seconds using just my head. It doesn’t have to be difficult.

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                  That’s a lot of words to say you failed the 10 second ask, and that you can’t accept that this is a pointless shitpost.

                  Do your own 40 week and 9 month count, and I ask, are they the same song? Because mine is. That song was a #1 for 5 weeks. It covers both options, and that might well happen for most people.

                  It’s just a fun diversion.