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1. Jose is an Absurd Doubles Machine Posted: July 17, 2017 at 03:39 PM (#5494802)-"Promposals"
-elaborate baby gender reveals
Get off my lawn.
I will say, we posted a small gender reveal to Facebook, because well, it's easier to make one post than to call lots of people. We posted our engagement story there as well, because explaining the details of how it went to friends and family also got tiresome after the first few times. It's not about going viral. It's a way to tell lots of people something quickly. "It's a girl, yes we're thrilled, we found out from a cake, it was made by so and so, no we do not have a name yet." (Some of these are certainly about going viral, but some things, you just don't want to spend three hours on the phone)
I just got engaged about 6 weeks ago, and man, you ain't kidding. Unfortunately it's nowhere near tiresome enough to make me want to have a Facebook page.
They're not assuming the baby's gender, they are keeping the gender they previously had.
But why does it have to be "oh my god we cut open a cake and look it's pink!!!" or whatever? Why can't it be "Guinevere and I are excited to announce that our baby girl is due in December."
-"Promposals"
-elaborate baby gender reveals
Get off my lawn.
One thing I admit to irrationally disliking is the wedding hashtag pun, and I'm glad I got married before this was a thing. For those of you who don't know what this is, imagine Jane Smith is getting married to John Blitzer. Everyone who posts photos and videos from the wedding on social media will use a hashtag like #janegetsblitzed. I find this extremely contrived, even by typical social media standards.
I love taking pictures but I don't take them at weddings (unless guests are asked to do so). That's what they hire professional photographers for.
Reason being it is another extremely contrived vanity exercise. Nothing irrational at all about disliking it.
Because I bet his wife isn't named Guinevere, for starters.
I know someone who was adamant about using their chosen pun, which was perplexing until everyone realized that if you reversed the order of the combined names you got a word that's a synonym for diarrhea.
A good friend's wife left him many years ago. Shortly after that but before the divorce had been finalized his girlfriend (now wife #2) got pregnantioe he was still nominally married to wife #1. This led to the greatest question and answer in medical history;
Doctor: Are you guys married?
Girlfriend: I'm not but he is.
She said the doctor definitely kind of stopped for a second to gather himself before continuing the discussion.
I go through life assuming nobody is really interested in what's happening in my life (outside of my parents, because I know the feeling of having adult children and still being concerned about them, so I try to keep them up to data, and also my own children because we rely on each other for support, so it's important for them to know that everything is OK...or not), but otherwise, I'll tell you how I'm doing when you ask, but not before then. So I find all social media self-indulgent, but hey, why would you care about my opinion?
They're revealing the baby's sex, not it's gender since gender is a social construction. However, people don't like using the word "sex" because it's the same word that people use to refer to coitus, so they say "gender." Though it's less accurate of a term, it will turn out to be right 99.7% of the time and sounds nicer. I personally would prefer if people used the more accurate term, but I know what they mean, so whatever.
You're friends with Trot Nixon?
I make a point of calling all my friends' babies "it" for at least 5 years.
It's my little way of taking the pressure off them.
Natasha Dissen and Steve Terry.
Did she teach at the Milford Academy?
Who doesn't like an excuse to eat cake on a Thursday afternoon? I mean, I don't know. Why do we wrap christmas and birthday presents rather than just handing the person what we took off the shelf?
We didn't, thanks to the Facebook post. The engagement, I mean, I wasn't calling my old roommate. But why wouldn't her grandmother, mother, father, and sister want to hear that she's engaged directly from her?
Exactly the same reason we had a baker put colored frosting inside a cake for us. You open the box to see what gift is inside, we cut the cake to see what color the frosting was. What's the difference?
But I left airholes...
Dear God yes. But let's focus on killing off the YMCA during pitching changes first. Priorities.
Stuff like gender reveals typically annoy me, but I also sort of think they aren't a big deal or actually hurting anyone and wonder why I let them annoy me.
But keep the YMCA at Yankee Stadium, it's a daily rebuke to the team's condescension.
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