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

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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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          Then why do we say a pregnancy lasts 9 months?

          I’m really asking. You’re right, it’s closer to 10.

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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.

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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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    Dunno about 9 months before but when I was born ‘No Limit’ by 2Unlimited was #1, and when my wife was born it was the Smurfs’s cover of that song.

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      My name is Walter Hartwell White. I

      live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. This is my confession. If you’re watching this tape, I’m probably dead, murdered by my brother-in-law Hank Schrader. Hank has been building a meth empire for over a year now and using me as his chemist. Shortly after my 50th birthday, Hank came to me with a rather, shocking proposition. He asked that I use my chemistry knowledge to cook methamphetamine, which he would then sell using his connections in the drug world. Connections that he made through his career with the DEA. I was… astounded, I… I always thought that Hank was a very moral man and I was… thrown, confused, but I was also particularly vulnerable at the time, something he knew and took advantage of. I was reeling from a cancer diagnosis that was poised to bankrupt my family. Hank took me on a ride along, and showed me just how much money even a small meth operation could make. And I was weak. I didn’t want my family to go into financial ruin so I agreed. Every day, I think back at that moment with regret. I quickly realized that I was in way over my head, and Hank had a partner, a man named Gustavo Fring, a businessman. Hank essentially sold me into servitude to this man, and when I tried to quit, Fring threatened my family. I didn’t know where to turn. Eventually, Hank and Fring had a falling out. From what I can gather, Hank was always pushing for a greater share of the business, to which Fring flatly refused to give him, and things escalated. Fring was able to arrange, uh I guess I guess you call it a “hit” on my brother-in-law, and failed, but Hank was seriously injured, and I wound up paying his medical bills which amounted to a little over $177,000. Upon recovery, Hank was bent on revenge, working with a man named Hector Salamanca, he plotted to kill Fring, and did so. In fact, the bomb that he used was built by me, and he gave me no option in it. I have often contemplated suicide, but I’m a coward. I wanted to go to the police, but I was frightened. Hank had risen in the ranks to become the head of the Albuquerque DEA, and about that time, to keep me in line, he took my children from me. For 3 months he kept them. My wife, who up until that point, had no idea of my criminal activities, was horrified to learn what I had done, why Hank had taken our children. We were scared. I was in Hell, I hated myself for what I had brought upon my family.

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      Nah, #1 songs usually last a couple weeks. And we’re looking at weeks, not days.