I can see 8 candles, but not 9. Average life expectancy is barely over 7 right now, and the oldest person alive has to survive 14 more years left to get to her 8th candle.

By the way, this is a very good way to save on candles/cakes when celebrating birthdays. when you start lighting 50 candles on a cake, often times the wax will drip on it, ruining the cake, or the entire thing might go up in flames. It's a whole lot easier to just light 1-7 (though you can also just get those stupid candles shaped like your age.

I'm planning to die before 40 so. ;O

How was your party?

/Howler's sig.

1000000=64=7 candles.

Didn't have a party because I don't party. The closest I get to a party is when I invite my friends over and we all line up our computers and play SC/HoN/ect. But this year I wanted to longboard with my few friends who do, and that's what we did. It was nice.

Yes, and if I'm not mistaken 7 is barely over 6, not over 7.
But I can see your point now: You meant barely more than the age that swaps over to 7 candles. I was assuming you meant the full range of 7 candles.

That is ... truly sad ... but I guess that's the way you are. While I do think longboarding must be a lot of fun it can't compete with the mischiefs of a bday party.
I can still remember my 18th bday party very vividly because it was far better than any computer game can ever be.
Hope you don't regret later -- when you don't have the chance anymore -- not having had such fun.

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You didn't have much of an 18th birthday party if you can vividly remember it.

I usually go out for dinner for my birthdays with my family and that's it. Last year I took a flaming shot in front of my entire family (grandpa, 4 aunts/uncles, cousin) of non-drinkers. My dad was thoroughly embarrassed.

I seriously don't understand why threads like these are allowed when other threads of higher caliber have been deleted in the past.

@Nude
I don't drink, smoke, or 'party' in any of the conventional stupid teenager ways. I consider such acts beneath me. Thanks to the many abusers of various substances I've encountered in my life, I grown to hate the slightest use of any drug, as well as the entire party-and-have-meaningless-sex-with-every-slut-you-can-find subculture that seems to be part of most teenage lives at the current moment. I'd sooner be dead than participate.

Because I'm me. Deal with it.

Well for one, it takes a lot of alcohol to induce memory gaps for me and maybe vividly was the wrong word. It's more like all sorts of flashes and what I meant was my friends and I talked a lot about all the things that happened -- some of which I can only barely remember myself but have been told about in detail.
Even years later some people were still referring to certain incidents and asked when I would host another such party.
Point is, party time has been a very precious time for me in my youth and the seriousness in life comes all too soon to skip on that when you don't have to. Ex, I think you don't know what you're missing.
And yes now my birthdays are just chilly family get-togethers like Ex would love it.

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Well for one, it takes a lot of alcohol to induce memory gaps for me

German engineering, gotta love it.

Actually, I think I am. 16, turning 17 next year.

Happy birthday Ex. I admire your drug free-ness.