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04 June 2012

I'm going to defriend this acquaintance in a minute. →[More:]I don't really know her. She works as an usher in the theatre scene in Toronto. I'm not super offended by her tweet, but I think it is, in general, indicative of her stupidity. I'm giving her a few minutes in case she has some cogent response.

post by: typewriter at: 08:32 | 14 comments

Is today a holiday?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 June | 08:54

What the person referred to tweeted before was that her birthday is the anniversary of the Tienanmen Square Massacre.

But as I have mentioned many times, the day I was born, September 30, 1955, was the day James Dean died (for the record, I entered the world hours before he left, so no reincarnation jokes please). There's even a movie about the day, and it was definitely a downer. So what?

posted by oneswellfoop 04 June | 08:57

Oh goodness, I am so dying to say something snarky back to this woman, but I am behaving.

posted by typewriter 04 June | 09:10

Snark away! That's what tweeting is all about!

posted by Hugh Janus 04 June | 09:14

My birthday is both same day (not year) that Jim Morrison died and is the same as Tom Cruse's birthday.

posted by octothorpe 04 June | 09:29

Events happening on my birthday include Chernobyl, Guernica, and several large-scale natural disasters.

posted by initapplette 04 June | 09:41

My friend's kid was born on September 11 (not 2001). NEVER FORGET!

(And I don't.)

posted by Madamina 04 June | 11:24

Jim Morrison and my grandfather's birthday is also the day John Lennon was shot.

If you neither know her that well, nor like her, go ahead and defriend.

posted by brujita 04 June | 11:44

Nothing too note-worthy happened on my birth date.

I can't imagine actually putting so much importance into my birthday that anything related could disturb it. I do realize people like to celebrate their having been brought into the world. I'm just not one of them. Honestly, many years I've forgotten and I often have to think a minute before I remember how old I am.

I would let her go if I had the tweeting. Seems a little too self-important to me.

posted by MonkeyButter 04 June | 12:04

Everyone always had trouble remembering my birthday, until it became the day Michael Jackson died. Now it's easy

posted by Melismata 04 June | 13:53

Shallow and self absorbed isn't your thing? Imagine that! I'd quit following her too if that helps any.

posted by bearwife 04 June | 17:17

This is pretty much what Twitter is for.

posted by arse_hat 04 June | 21:25

MY FIL's birthday is/was September 11 and it, of course, was never an issue. This woman has delusions of grandeur.

posted by deborah 04 June | 23:04

I would let her go too. How awful. I remember the day Tiananmen Square happened. It was horrifying and unreal.

posted by halonine 05 June | 10:46

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