Gender Reveal Parties

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  1. Larry Sura

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    A friend just posted one of FB. It's terrible. One person is filming and five family members are watching them. They're in the backyard, he's holding pink balloons, she's holding blue. The family has those confetti popper things. They didn't know what color was inside. They pulled them at the same time as the release. They count to three. He releases his balloons, leaving her with the blue. OMG IT'S A BOY!!!! The name even sucks; Peyton Hollis.

    This 12 second video caused me way more angst than it should have.
     
  2. TLAU

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    I thought you defriended all of your married friends. This one definitely deserves a defriend snapchat
     
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  3. OZ

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    The nice thing about living half way across the country was I was able to miss my future sister-in-laws.

    The bad news, we had to Skype in and watch the reveal of throwing darts at the balloons. None of the women hit the balloons.
     
  4. Larry Sura

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    I'm friends with the guy, don't think I was ever friends with his wife. I expect a healthy snapchat defriending season coming soon, though. Just you wait.
     
  5. BiMaleStripper

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    I thought you celebrated if you know you were having a boy and mourn if you are having a girl
     
  6. TC

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    Xer?
     
  7. Kirk Fogg

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    Have a colleague that is a former OB/GYN. She has shared some pretty ridiculous things she / her staff were asked to do when it comes to keeping gender a secret, particularly for these parties. She's pretty anti these types of parties, partly because she thinks they are dumb, but mainly because the gender is usually found out pretty early in a pregnancy (like not even halfway through) and so much can go wrong during pregnancy that having a high (like a party) followed by a crushing low (like a miscarriage, stillbirth, etc.) can be traumatic for mother and father.

    Some of her highlighgts though:
    • My colleague was invited to a party, just to announce what the gender was, she declined to the mother's dismay
    • Nurses asked to call the bakery directly with the results so that neither the father / mother would be tempted to look at the envelope ahead of time
    • A girlfriend tasked with planning the party got irate at staff when they wouldn't divulge the gender without the patient's consent, in front of patients in the waiting room. Building security had to get involved.
    • Mothers accusing fathers, and subsequently breaking down in the exam room, of finding out ahead of time so they could spoil the surprise and therefore not have the party
    • Mothers accusing my colleague of spoiling the surprise
    • Mothers asking my colleague / her staff for tips on how to plan the party so they could one up their friends instead of actual questions about the health of the mother, the baby, etc.
     
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  8. Larry Sura

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    I like Xyr.
     
  9. TC

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    When I have a kid I'm gonna reveal the gender like a man. In an internet message board spoiler
    pokemon
     
  10. Larry Sura

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    This reminds me, I accidentally deleted the best one I ever had. It ruined my day. Thanks for bringing it up.
     
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  11. Baron

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    engagement parties are definitely worse than these
     
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  12. jaygabriel

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    What in the fuck did I just watch?

    In all seriousness, what does it mean to respect someone's pronoun?
     
  13. dukebuckeye

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    My wife and I revealed the sex of our baby by posting an ultrasound pic of his giant dong on Facebook.

    It's a boy.
     
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  14. DUCKMOUTH

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    3 children and not one done with ours. Thank god me and my wife both agree these things suck
     
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  15. Daddy Rabbit

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    I had one. Mostly family and friends of my wife. I got drunk. We knew before the party. They all bought gifts and shit at some point. I dont think I had a friend there.

    i have no friends :tebow:
     
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  16. DUCKMOUTH

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    I don't mind one engagement party per couple and they are most certainly not worse.


    However I was in a wedding party one time and they had 6. My friend could only keep apologizing to us and saying please don't come if you don't want to.
     
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  17. Larry Sura

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    Except your bestfrand.
     
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  18. Larry Sura

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    My friend had his bachelor party mothers day weekend (his died so I couldn't complain), but he picked Miami and a pretty expensive house. Said we had to pay even if we didn't come. Then his wedding was memorial day weekend. They had activities planned for Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Needless to say, I'm usually "busy" when he comes back in town.
     
  19. DUCKMOUTH

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    Your friend sounds like he sucks
     
  20. Larry Sura

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    He does, but his wife and her family suck more. I got obscenely drunk at his wedding and pissed them off.
     
  21. DUCKMOUTH

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    Only right thing to do in that situation
     
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  22. 941Gator

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    did people that didn't show up actually pay?
     
  23. DUCKMOUTH

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    Yeah.

    Friend: look I know you couldn't commit and never did to the Miami trip, but we still need your 1500.00 for the house

    Me: :yaoface:
     
  24. MODEVIL

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    Two kids and zero gender reveal parties. One of my friends did one. It was pretty much as TLAU described. Corky Bucek can you start a thread on co-ed wedding showers. Those suck. Invited to one on October 29 for two dudes

    Congrats Shocker
     
  25. Larry Sura

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    I think he's still trying to get money from one person. That person is my best friend who actually introduced me and the sucker. He avoids him more than I do. I agreed to come down for three days instead of the planned four and got a discount.

    This is the same guy that bailed on a camping trip after one night because his wife wasn't feeling well. So I stayed on the island by myself, which I loved and now camp alone when I can. He told me to come stay at their house when I got back on land and hang out. There was a 0% chance I was going to hang out with his sick wife, who hates my guts. He was homeschooled most his life...shocker.
     
  26. TLAU

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    They're almost identical, just one has presents and another has some kind of 3-5 minute spectacle that results in pink or blue being revealed. Actually the shower could have the full monty present opening that can last 15-20 goddamn minutes where you have to fake paying attention or stop doing whatever you're doing.
     
  27. DUCKMOUTH

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    Disagree l. Usually we are younger in life and not as tied down etc when these engagement parties go down. Plus 90% are usually just open bar get together a with food.

    Not saying they are ideal, but certainly better parties
     
  28. TLAU

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    lots of variables. either way if there's good food and lots of booze and I get to see my married friends get out of the house and drink with the guys I'm calling it a W and not complaining about the parties.
     
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  29. Emmy Rossum

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    That's China
     
  30. wolfpck

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  31. War Grundle

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    Wife and I despise them so we didn't have one. Thankfully we have never had to go to one.
     
  32. Doc Louis

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    Need color coordinated tannerite
     
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  33. Futureman

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    No gender reveal party and our baby shower is a couples shower with a keg and fine Kentucky Bourbon. Because If i'm going to celebrate having a girl its going to include alcohol with my friends there to console me.
     
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  34. juice

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    Went to one for one of my friends a couple months ago. They gathered everyone out in their front yard. Video cameras, grandiose speeches, giddy old women... They had a piñata that his woman took several attempts to pop which exploded with pink confetti.

    I wanted to kill myself.
     
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  35. Joshuam2107

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    Watching this guy unfriend ho's on facebook is one of life's simple pleasures right now.
     
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  36. zeberdee

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    really happy I was able to convince my wife to not find out the gender prior to the birth.
     
  37. dahldennsull

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    Just did one with the wife a couple of weeks ago. Was just for family and a couple close friends. She was WAY more into it than me obviously, but if it makes the wife happy, and she isn't crazy like some of the absolute nut jobs posted above, it can be fun.

    We provided some snacks and alcohol, so friends could pound a couple beers while we chatted, then lit a couple smoke bombs to find out we were having a boy. Whole thing took less than an hour, friends got beer, wife got happy, and I got a couple gifts for the kid already
     
  38. devine

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    What's the big surprise it's either a boy or a girl

    Just find out ahead of time so people know what kind of gifts to get you
     
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  39. blind dog

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    Our gender reveal party was so lit. My wife mailed our moms envelopes filled with pink shit and then they called her when they got them. Was crazy af.
     
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  40. zeberdee

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    it's probably the biggest surprise I can think of at this point in my life.

    and gender neutral gifts are generally more useful than a bunch of dumb pink or blue things.
     
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  41. Larry Sura

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    Sometimes I think I'm being mean and sexist, but it's posts like these that keep me going.
     
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  42. DUCKMOUTH

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    We wouldn't even let people host baby showers for us. We don't like to go to that shit so why do one for us.
     
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  43. TLAU

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    some dreary ass motherfuckers on this board

     
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  44. DUCKMOUTH

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    Problem is there is damn holiday or party for every little fucking thing now. It's just too damn much these days.
     
  45. TC

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    Is this a part of getting married now? You have to systematically go through your contacts and social media and remove the hoes? T'would be a sad day
     
  46. Joshuam2107

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    Somebody made a housewife out of them hos, and now he is deleting them because of it. Sorry for the confusion.
     
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  47. Frank Martin

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    These parties are bullshit because you have no idea what gender the child will actually identify.

    All you fuckers having these better beware when your child's psychiatrist blames you for all the angst you caused your child by having these without his or her consent.
     
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  49. Daddy Rabbit

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    Im drunk 365, so party on!
     
  50. Duval

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    This seems like you're projecting.

    Is there something you need to get off your chest?