It's a boy! Crikey!

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 07/10/2019 at 09:22 • Filed to: None

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Because just getting announcements printed is so old fashioned, this guy decided to destroy his car instead.  

pip bip - choose Corrour > ttyymmnn 07/10/2019 at 09:30

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fuckwit got what he deserved!

Tripper > ttyymmnn 07/10/2019 at 09:30

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I commented on this on the FP yesterday to the effect of “Gender reveal/parties/stunts etc are like parking your corvette across six spots in the back of home depot. You can do it, but you should really go fuck yourself instead.

bob and john > ttyymmnn 07/10/2019 at 09:32

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jesus you guys are violent on this subject O.O 

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 07/10/2019 at 09:40

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We did colored filling inside cupcakes, and that was about the most hassle I could have possibly wanted in trying to get everyone together for something they really don’t care much about. I’m very sensitive about wasting people’s time.

For the other kid, we did color-coded Christmas ornaments hidden inside boxes, since the reveal was near Christmas. Then at least they got a souvenir.

Why do we still call these “gender reveal?” Not because of PC, but psychology and physiology. It should be “sex reveal parties” but that’s probably already taken by the Swinger crowd. Ew.

ttyymmnn > Tripper 07/10/2019 at 09:42

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That’s a good take. Just when I think humanity has reached peak narcissism, somebody comes along and proves me wrong. 

jimz > Tripper 07/10/2019 at 09:44

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no, don’t you get it?  nobody on the planet earth has ever had a baby before they did!

Nibby > ttyymmnn 07/10/2019 at 09:44

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ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 07/10/2019 at 09:45

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We waited to find out until our kids were born. Our first and our twins were all delivered by scheduled  C-section, so we wanted at least a little mystery in the process. We knew they were boys, though. The doctor and nurses were really good about hiding the sex during our sonogram visits. I asked one of the nurses early on how she could tell, she said, “It looks like either a turtle or a taco.”

Tripper > ttyymmnn 07/10/2019 at 09:46

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Right! like that idiot that started a forest fire with the “thermite” gender reveal. That guy should do time, even if just a little.

ttyymmnn > Nibby 07/10/2019 at 09:47

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ttyymmnn > Tripper 07/10/2019 at 09:48

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Or at least pick up the tab for the fire department. 

Tripper > jimz 07/10/2019 at 09:48

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Oh man, sorry. I thought babies were a regular thing, how ignorant of me.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 07/10/2019 at 09:48

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TURTLE OR TACO?!?!

Join Tim and I for our big gender reveal party at the Best Buy parking lot Saturday at 10pm. There will be Mustangs and some fun burnouts for the kids!

Tripper > Ash78, voting early and often 07/10/2019 at 09:50

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That sounds perfect, and I bet you didn’t put it on the internet either! I went to one just like that. Knocked back a few cupcakes, a few beers, congratulated my pal and skated. In and out in an hour.

Tripper > ttyymmnn 07/10/2019 at 09:51

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Definitely that.

BigBlock440 > ttyymmnn 07/10/2019 at 09:57

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He did get a bill IIRC.  Or maybe that was another guy that started a fire with a gender revel explosion.  I’m not sure which one specifically we’re talking about, but I’m sure there are more than one.

Ash78, voting early and often > Tripper 07/10/2019 at 10:02

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I’m right at the cusp of “protect your privacy online at all costs” and “share your entire life online for validation”

There was only a couple years between these and I’m firmly in the former group. Privacy aside, I just can’t be arsed to maintain yet another fake persona/brand apart from the one I’m already living :)

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > ttyymmnn 07/10/2019 at 10:08

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My co-worker at the lab I used to work for did one of those “add clear liquid to other clear liquid to make a color appear” reactions for the reveal .

The color was purple.

His mom was pissed.

It probably didn’t help when he said he’d try it again, he added the clear liquid to the clear liquid, added ice and a bit of lime juice and said “We’re having a gin and tonic!”

Tripper > Ash78, voting early and often 07/10/2019 at 10:09

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Oppo is as sharey as I get. Of course I can’t stop my wife/mother/mother in law from posting pics of our daughter, but I’m extra private with the little one. When she was born, I had to send out an email to the family saying, “ anyone who posts a picture of our new child on social media without asking will be barred from seeing said child in the future:)“

Ash78, voting early and often > Tripper 07/10/2019 at 10:12

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Same here, this place is the extent of my “social media” and the only place I’ve ever posted pics of my kids or myself. We have a semi-anonymous Facebook account, but only because after years of being “out of the loop” on community, church, and school stuff, we finally bit the bullet. Now we’re keenly aware of a two-class societal system and have magically learned a TON about our friends and neighbors that they’ve never actually shared in person. It’s a little odd, but most people seem very willing to share things online that they don’t want to discuss verbally .

Most people talk about privacy concerns in terms of data mining, marketing, identity theft, and so on. For us it’s more about avoiding social interaction with people we knew 20 years ago and might not want to keep in touch with. Facebook almost ensures that every person you’ve ever met can find you easily and make for an awkward period of ignoring them.

DipodomysDeserti > Tripper 07/10/2019 at 10:14

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That guy was a Border Patrol agent too. He got five years probation and has  to pay $8.1 mil in restitution.

DipodomysDeserti > BigBlock440 07/10/2019 at 10:18

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The Border Patrol agent that started the forest fire with tannerite does have to pay out $8.1 mil in restitution. Also got five months probation.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 07/10/2019 at 10:21

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You have just described me and my family to a tee. Oppo is my only social media, which I suppose it is. I have never had a FB account, and I do not Twit. My wife joined FB so she could see stuff for our son’s HS band, and she made the mistake of friending just one person. Now she is inundated with crap about people she doesn’t know who are only tangentially related (and probably 15 times removed) from the person she friended. And yes, there are plenty of people from my past I don’t want to reconnect with. I’ve never gone to a HS reunion either. 

ttyymmnn > BigBlock440 07/10/2019 at 10:23

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Tripper > Ash78, voting early and often 07/10/2019 at 10:23

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“Most people talk about privacy concerns in terms of data mining, marketing, identity theft, and so on. For us it’s more about avoiding social interaction with people we knew 20 years ago and might not want to keep in touch with. Facebook almost ensures that every person you’ve ever met can find you easily and make for an awkward period of ignoring them.”

BOOM all of this. I’m of the belief that if someone really wants my personal information, they’ll get it. I can accept that as the reality that we live in. What I can’t accept is some joker I barely k new in high school coming out of left field with the latest pyramid scheme. Or someone looking to “meet up or grab a beer” like that won’t be horribly awkward and probably just another “ business development” opportunity for them.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Nibby 07/10/2019 at 10:33

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>entertainment pack 1-4

YUS

McMike > ttyymmnn 07/10/2019 at 10:49

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I helped out with a gender reveal this weekend. One of the inlaws wanted fireworks, so the parents recruited me.

I told them what to buy - one 12 shot arieal repeater, and two smoke bombs. They didn’t have the results yet so they said they would buy a set of each. I even texted him the item numbers while he was at the store.

I got the envelope and the fireworks. Mortar reports are sometimes hard to read, so I wanted some smoke on the ground too. They were having a party and there were going to be people watching.

Damn, they didn’t get the smoke. He got a big single-shot shell and the repeater.

So I improvised.

I bought some chalk powder and was going to put it in the shell. BOOM! As the exit charge went out, it would poof out a cloud of smoke, and then we could watch the mortar report in the air.

Test didn’t go well with only 8oz of powder. It was too much resistance and the tube separated while leaving the mortar to go off on the ground. No bueno.

Ended up using 1/4 tsp in each of the smaller tubes, and one Tbsp in the big tube. It was enough.

ttyymmnn > McMike 07/10/2019 at 11:09

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Would have been a lot easier, but maybe not as much fun. Fuente makes good cigars, too. 

Discerning > Ash78, voting early and often 07/10/2019 at 11:12

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At least the cupcakes meant you get a free cupcake.

But I guess the spectators got to see something interesting in this case. So there's that

McMike > ttyymmnn 07/10/2019 at 11:27

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T he fireworks weren’t my call.   I just worked with what they gave me.

BigBlock440 > BigBlock440 07/10/2019 at 12:01

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* reveal

DipodomysDeserti > McMike 07/10/2019 at 13:38

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I would have just got a Roman Candle and fired it straight at the future dad’s nuts.