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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] jesterraiin 24 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Wtf are you talking about? There's only one birthday song.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know two. One in my native tongue, and one in english.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I know 4. Two in my native tongue, one in Danish, and one in English.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The one the restaurants use and the copyrighted one that families use.

Restaurant: “happy happy birthday from all of us to you. We wish it was our birthday so we could party too! Hey!”

Family/copyright: “happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, -name-. Happy birthday to you.”

[–] slazer2au 12 points 2 years ago

Except it is not copyrighted anynore

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You

The music and lyrics are in the public domain in the European Union and the United States. The copyright expired in the European Union on January 1, 2017. A U.S. federal court ruled in 2016 that Warner and Chappell's copyright claim was invalid and there was no other claim to copyright.

[–] jesterraiin 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have no idea what you're talking about.

There's only one brithday song and it goes like this: Awkwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard, ok, can we just, uh, stop? Ok, cool.

[–] Eylrid 4 points 2 years ago

There's also "This is your birthday song. It isn't very long. Hey!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There’s another one used when the copyrighted one was still copyrighted.

“haa-py, happy, happy birthday. Happy birthday to you”

[–] paddirn 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There’s also the “It’s your birthday, it’s your birthday!” chant that people do. Not The Birthday Song, but a birthday song.

Edit: after researching it, I guess it’s 50 Cent, I’d always heard it, but never knew the source:

https://youtu.be/cA4SFSUJXyI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I know three in English so there must be more in other languages

[–] slazer2au 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] jesterraiin -1 points 2 years ago