Australian Birthday Traditions That Shocked America
Do you know in America they do not sing hip hip hooray at the end of happy birthday? Do you know how embarrassing it is? I was at a table of people I didn’t even know that well and they finish happy birthday and I just go hip hip and it’s just silence and they’re all just staring at me and I’m like oh that doesn’t usually happen and one of them goes what’d you do that for? I went, “Oh, in Australia, one person yells out hip hip and then everyone yells hooray and we do that three times.” And they went, “Why do you do that?” And I went, “I don’t know. I didn’t know you weren’t meant to do it. It’s always been there.” It’s really weird when it’s not there. They just finish happy birthday and go happy birthday to you. See, you can’t help yourself, can you? You needed to. You needed to get it out of your system. You do, don’t you? We need to. All right. Hip h. That’s insane. to the rest of the world.
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Maybe the original of the birthday parties had serious booze consumption in those days 😂😊
in my country we do a “tan tararan tan tan tan” while we are saying it we slam the table with each “tan”
Dude Venezuelan birthday song is 3 min long 😅
Netherlands: hiep hiep hoera
Brazilian here. We usually steal the cake earlier and don't sing shit
Seems all of Europe and Asia does this? (At least the places that sings it)
We do in Sweden
We go straight into Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday.
We do it in Nigeria 2 😂 I thought it was a normal thing to add at the end of the happy birthday song 😅
Nah ain't nooooo way in Australia they dont do one for luck
Thank fuck they didn't start doing the jolly good fellow
As an American, I gotta say, you Aussies do happy birthday better. That makes so much more sense. The silent, anticlimactic pause after fading with the seemingly depressing way we say "you" at the end, doesn't feel or sound like a celebration. It feels more like a reminder that we're one year closer to the grave. Nobody likes it.
"Skip around the room, skip around the room. We won't shut-up until you skip around the room!"
We say that in Brazil 😅
Its like in mexico we continue with chquitibum ala binbonba …
It’s “are you one, are you two?
And many more…
In Uruguay we sing it in Spanish first and then mocking other languages. For example: someone says now in Chinese and everyone starts something like “ching Chong ching ching Chong Chong” in the melody of the song. It sounds weird now that I say it but it’s totally normal. It can be in the sounds of animals too like guau for dogs or miau for cats. Once I was walking out of a mall in a holiday trip and I saw a homeless man raping a dog.
He'll lose his 💩 when he finds out about Asia. 😂
AND MANY MORE 🎼🎹🎤
I felt that too whenever it’s someone’s birthday in Mexico there’s like 3 diffrent songs before I swear we used to sing it with a chachacha in between the happy birthdays and suddenly people stoped doing that like what’s up with that I always found the happy birthdays song so boring the hip hip horray makes sence at the end
Isn't that a song by naughty by nature? 😂
I use to wonder why some people would add them dumb shit at the end, glad I'm not British
In Brazil we just add a bunch of random screams and more claps when we finish.
Europe Netherlands as well we say hieperdepiep hoeraaa 3x😂😂😂
We used to sing it in New Zealand. I don't remember when it stopped. Also vaguely remember it was followed by "Why were you born so ugly?, Why were you born at all?, Because you had no say in it,
No say in it at all"
It feels good tho. I like it!
confusing to the rest of the world? hell nah, here in the Netherlands we do it too, feels weird without it
In the south of the USA we always said “and mannyy morreee” after Happy bday
This happens in the UK but only sometimes
Ah yes stay Nation come forward
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I've done hip hip hooray a couple of times up in Canada but not anymore. Just when I was a really young kid I think we did it once or twice somewhere…
In central region of Russia, we sing a song, then waiting for birthday person to blow out the candle and then clapping, sometimes just saying "hooray" without "hip hip"
Not really an American custom but in my local area most people either clap or just go “yaaay” after the song is over
"And many more on channal 4" is acceptable.
Black American here. We sing the chorus of Stevie Wonder's happy birthday song afterward.
Have you seen a Brazilian happy birthday? It can last almost 30 min if you're with the right crowd
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And many more, on channel 4. Duh
Puertorican people have a aong of blessing after the happy birthday song. Lol
In sweden we keep singing and it ends with a song about your d3ath in a wheelborough ☠🤣🤣🤣
And many more?
Im adding "hip hip, hooray" to my bday lyric now
i remember wen i was in elementary in washington state, we would add hip hip hooray
Not for birthdays but I remember as a child people saying hip hip hooray.