Frequently Asked Questions

  • Really, this is up to your own discretion, but here are our guidelines: If it came up from your stomach, but you swallowed it, it doesn’t count. If you spit it out, it doesn’t count. If it came out, whether you wanted it to or not, it was a reset. If you were choking and the thing in your throat came out, but no stomach contents, then it was not a reset.

  • We’re sorry you aren’t feeling well. Mark today’s date as your most recent reset. Hopefully no more vomiting tomorrow, and you will count your streak from today’s date. If you do not vomit again and make it to today’s date next year, you will celebrate your first barfday that day.

  • This is all for fun. If you don’t remember your current barfday, you can guesstimate and count your streak from there, or just start counting from today.

    We highly discourage inducing vomiting for any unmedically-necessary reason, including knowing your barfday.

  • Bolero is a piece of classical music by French composer Maurice Ravel. It was composed in 1928 and is famous for its repetitive structure. The song begins with a soft snare drum playing a 2-bar rhythm that repeats for the entire song. The melody is repeated 17 times, first played by a lone flute, then a clarinet. More instruments get their turn to solo as the song progresses, culminating in the entire orchestra playing as loud as possible. The song is over 15 minutes long and the repetition must make it very tedious to play for everyone, but the snare drum has it the worst. Having only two measures to repeat over and over, and being relied on for the tempo, it seems like you'd have to be in a super focused trance to be able to do it successfully. That is why 'only the snare finished playing Bolero', he didn't even notice everyone else was vomiting.

    If you want to give it a listen Jon highly recommends this performance on YouTube: BEST OF RAVEL : Bolero - HD

  • The short answer is there must have been a leap year. While your barfday is the date that it is, and you should celebrate on that day, you actually made it 366 days because of February 29th. That's the explanation, Jon's lazy coding.