Person who harmonizes during a rendition of "Happy Birthday"
 

Your vote in this poll please

It depends on if they do it well.

And please note that it is impossible to harmonize well if the rest of the room is off-key.

We need more choices. I wouldn't call them a douche bag, I'd call them a wierdo. Who is it? An escapee from a barbershop quartet?

Said person is only a douchebag if they can't carry a tune in a bucket.

A showoff ... which I guess is closer to douchebag.

Always willing... make that grateful, to have someone else draw the attention during the sing.

Doesn't faze me one way or the other. I'm used to being around musical people.

A bit full of themselves. But not necessarily a bad person. I can picture Bill Murray doing this in a funny sort of way, and he's a good guy.

Douchebag test: Can you picture Bill Murray doing it? If so, then no.

Sorry folks! That person is likely to be me ...


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If so, then thank you, limey.:D

This is why I asked, because I generally do that, but I don't want to be a douchbag!! I had no idea some people don't like it.

I have a followup question: how often do you, as an adult with no children, have the opportunity to sing Happy Birthday to someone? I have to do it at kids' parties all the time, but other than that, I cannot think of a time since high school that I've sung it. I used to work at one place that was small enough to celebrate employees' birthdays, but they had this weird tradition where this little windup toy would play the song and everyone would just shout the person's name at the appropriate moment.

Maybe like once every three years. People get big deal birthdays sometimes, like ages that end in a zero.

Ah! I take it back. We sang at Mr. Clod's grandmother's 100th birthday. And harmonizing would have been perfectly fine then, because they're big on singing in their family. On the other hand, at a kids' party, most parents are only half-heartedly singing because they have to, in which case harmonizing would probably be frowned upon.

At least twice a year and sometimes more. I have two nieces. For the rest of the family it's a special birthday thing.

sometimes I sing it during sex.


what?

Well, then that's a completely different story. Since you're a musician, you'd have a better chance of carrying it off. I bet you can even carry a tune!

If the person harmonizing is someone I like then it's harmless fun. If the person harmonizing is a douchebag, then it is douchebaggery.

The tyranny of the mediocre. It's rampant in the US.

I think holding back because others won't or can't is dumb. I also won't dumb-down my conversation at parties. Small talk bores me.

Nice party....


:: rocks back on heels:::

Try the punch?

My Mom always sang the harmony, I do it when I feel like it. I sing a lot of HB in school and we always sing it for adults in both Pete's and my families

Yeah, its just fun. I sometimes do it, but mostly i just carry the tune cause not too many in my family can sing.

I think i probably sing the song once a month or more, usually while carrying a cake i have made. :)

My answer was somewhat flippant. Truth is, it's not something I've really come across much. Except maybe as a joke.