re: Baby gender reveal party......

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So pretty much my wife is having one or had one and now I have to defend that position.

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I've defended this position long before my wife and I tried for a kid. Nice try.

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seems so simple

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Wait, is this party during a football game? Because if so, frick them and their unborn baby!!!

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Every female in your extended family most certainly cares about baby gender.

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We didn't find out with ours. It's bad ju-ju.

"Hey, It's a boy!!!"....two months later "It's still-born."

But if somebody wants to have a party I'm game.

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The whole attention seeking thing is out of hand. A co-worker has just spent the last 3-4 weeks at work planning her son's first birthday party. It's all she has talked about and each time I have walked up to her desk she has been online party planning for her "circus" birthday party complete with live animals, etc. She was talking about the thousands of dollars she has spent and how she has to keep up with what the other mothers have done recently for their kid's birthday. It's all about the parent egos and nothing to do with the kid.

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If you're a likable person with a kid, I challenge you to go to work every day and refuse to talk about your child and the events in his/her life. Seriously, good luck.

I used to think much like you, but once I had children, that is all anyone wanted to talk about at work. Every time I walk through different departments they want to see pictures and talk about their first words or first steps. If I go a week without posting a picture or two of my children on Facebook, my wife and I get texts from out-of-state family members asking for an update and what not.

If you're a good person, and people actually like you, it is plausible that they're genuinely interested in your happenings and it has absolutely nothing to do with "attention-whoring." In fact, I've found that the people who denounce "attention-whoring" the most are often the least sociable and, dare I say it, the most jealous of the attention they're criticizing.

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We had one for our first born. I didn't give a shite because we tried over 10 years to get pregnant.

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I think the main difference is that one of us appears serious, and it isn't me.

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Classic "I'm looking stupid so duh I was trolling" excuse.

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My son and his wife are having twins. For their gender reveal they had her mother as the only person who knew. She got plastic baseballs with halves that would snap together. She then either put pink or blue powder inside two balls. My son's wife pitched the balls, one at a time to my son. When he hit the ball, it would explode into a cloud of either pink or blue. It was a cool idea and everyone had a good time without being labeled.

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Sounds like the worst time ever and your son and daughter-in-law should be tarred and feathered for forcing their friends and family at gunpoint to mingle.

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Classic "I'm looking stupid so duh I was trolling" excuse.

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Sorry. I'm all about me some late-term abortion. If only your parents had the foresight... Because you are about a stupid bastard in everything you post. A model of consistency. I salute you.

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Yea, I'm the dummy.

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Admitting it is half the battle. Well done.