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I thought this thread was gonna be about teens choosing some other gender. (A couple kids at my daughter's high school had them.) I suppose that's fine, but this type of gender reveal is a little less weird.

These are as pointless as 8th grade graduation parties.

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That was a weird thing I learned when I moved here. There is no such thing as an 8th grade graduation and thus no parties either. Great, 8th grade is done now enjoy your summer and move along. Good luck in HS.

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A golf ball turning into smoke is a good visual to show your new child's sex. It also represents the fact that your golfing days are going to be disappearing.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

The best are when a girl lobs a softball to the guy, he swings and misses, and the ball hits the ground to reveal the puff of colored smoke.

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Especially when it's pink.

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Completely agree

My wife and I didn't do a reveal thing, but she found out and gave me a bunch of baby girls Bears, Sox, and Blackhawks stuff as part of my first anniversary gift to tell me.

We just found out about #2 together during the ultrasound.

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Congrats Boyd. Please invite IMU to that gender reveal party where we can have a two for one- the important revelation of your second's gender, and the already obvious revelation of IMU's gender.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

My phrasing wasn't very good...#2 is going to be 2 next month. I don't remember if you were at the last Lakemoorfest when my wife was uber-pregnant (party on Saturday, had the baby on Tuesday)

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Honestly, your friends didn't care either. They may have pretended to care but they really did not. Your family probably didn't either.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I have been in the situation a few times in my life and you were also. I'll say from my experience that it neither increased nor decreased my joy one iota when I learned of the gender and I didn't consider it a remarkable issue.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I'm sure the push present giving generation disagrees with my assessment.

OK, don't push. See how that works for you.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

the only people that really care are all the dudes who don't have a boy yet.

Hah, yeap I was there. I remember two very attentive parents to the baby and was kind of glad I was well past that stage. I forgot about that pregnancy.

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I think I'm still in the dog house from that pregnancy...I broke my foot right before Memorial Day that year...nothing like having to make your 6 month pregnant wife have to do literally everything for a month because you can't put any weight on your foot.

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Once you have kids, you're always in the dog house. It is just a matter of what for-

business trip (left wife home with kids)
night out drinking (woke wife and/or kids up when you came home)
stay late at work (you forgot to text her so she assumes you were with a female co-worker)
play video games (you didn't hear her tell that the dog needs to go out)
watch ball game ("oh baseball again")

Luckily, there are solutions......

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Jewelry?

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More drinking?

See, maybe it's because my wife isn't a stay at home mom, but we have good solutions for most of those...

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No, Mike. The best solution- for the sanity if all involved- is probably to cut back a wee bit on the drinking, and/or staying out, and/or video games directly before and after a business trip.

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T-Bone with a shot across the bow.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

Yeah, that is why I was laughing.

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My solutions have worked. Yours....well that's for another thread!

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Another thread or place altogether to be sure. I just always think to myself how odd it is everyone here assumed I was the only or biggest problem.

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time - gender reveal - weddings take all dam day. literally ruins a saturday
drinking - equal - i've not been to a gender reveal that didn't involve alcohol
food - equal - both involve cake or cupcakes and usually food of some sort.
apparel - gender reveal - i can go to a gender reveal in shorts and a tshirt
cost - gender reveal - i dont' have to bring a present to a gender reveal
guest interaction - gender reveal - you don't usually invite your weird uncle to a gender reveal but are obligated to have him at the wedding.

i can probably keep going but you get the picture.

It was a light shot. I know Frank is determined to get his golf in but from what I have seen with friends and co-workers over the years is that once
your kids start getting into sports and activities, you can kiss a lot of your free time goodbye. My boss' son is 9 and in travel baseball and every single
weekend is spoken for. It starts earlier than that, just using him as an example. Oh you have 2 or 3 kids? Chances get slimmer.

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That is funny you mention that. We were talking to the owner of a smallish family owned golf course on Sunday afternoon before starting nine. The subject was about it being not busy. The guy says you can see the reason why at fields and courts all over the area. Dads with their kids at sports. He said his teammates when he was young didn't even know he had a dad.

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When I started dating after my divorce I purposely didn't date anyone with young kids. I got re-married 3 years ago with one step child turning
18 and moving out of the house and the other one 12 and not athletically inclined. Coincidence? Not exactly.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

yup, you have no clue. weddings are great.

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