Smile and look around at all the people who want to celebrate you, and muse on how fortunate you are to have them in your life.
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What are you, some kind of normie?
Yeah, or you can even just smile and fake it.
For anyone out there who has problems with things like this, remember, you can always just observe what other people do in the same situation, and then do the same thing when it happens to you. This is basically what other people intuitively do, but not everyone has the same sort of intuition.
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Join in the singing but replace the word "you" with the word "me".
This is the actual correct answer, no?
Masturbate furiously. The goal is to finish when the song ends.
Like your style
The cake needed a little more icing anyway.
I could never last that long.
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Smile and wave boys, smile and wave
Run?
No idea, but once I was feeling extra awkward and started singing along with the rest of them.
Slap on a grateful expression, stare into the candles, and conjure up a wish worthy of the magic they're casting with this ancient chant.
Move your hands like you are conducting the symphony.
This is the best answer.
It stops you feeling awkward. It's gets a chuckle from everyone involved, and it makes you feel a lot more confident (fake it till you make it type effect).
Extra qudos if you finish by pointing your mock baton at the friend you know is going to go "hip hip".
Bathe in the adulation, absorb their hymn of worship like the shining golden god you are. To thine own self be true! Happy Birthday = Hail Satan
Grin and bear it
scream in pain and agony until its quiet, then say "thank you everyone, let's enjoy the cake"
Immediately blow the candles out and get them to stop singing so it’s no longer awkward for everyone involved.
That is so much more awkward. I love it.
I did it a few years back, just in the spur of the moment wondering if it would stop the song; it did and they’ve stopped singing to me since then, so I consider it a double win.
absolute power move, that's awesome
Hand out cigars
Twerk
When I was little, I always did a weird cringey little dance. As an adult I started doing it again. It makes an awkward situation (for me), fun.
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I usually just screech loudly until it's over or the restaurant staff come over to intervene
unzip
This is the greatest comment section ever
Join in but replace every instance of "you" with "me."
You're supposed to sit there awkwardly looking deeply embarrassed.
Find the exit.
Think about how you're slowly creeping towards death.
The older I get, the more quickly it creeps.
Class warfare
Grab your cat and prop them up like they're being marionetted and make them do a little dance
Panic.
Sing with them.
Sigh loudly, roll eyes, scowl judgementally,
...just like Mom.
Stare at everyone with disdain except for one person. Pure contempt for that person. After the singing has concluded. I point at that one person and say “Execute them”. Damn it feels good to be good to be a benevolent dictator.
Sit and grin?
Cry.
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