It is now.

It’s so gross.

I also hate it when they call the u.s. “the greatest country in the world”. No it’s not, and I’m American.

The rational is that customers will think they are lazy and just sitting around, which is dumb. You can still tell if they are working, even if they are sitting.

Hahahahaha, but what if you are convinced that your country is the most countriest of all countries in the world?

All you need is a respect for your neighbors.... and for everyone to mind their own business. If I want to paint my door red instead of white who cares? Maybe it's to find my own house in the vast blandness of suburbia. Karen needs a hobby.

Normally the manager does take care of it. I never worked a job where I had to take care of it myself. But low-paying jobs often don't have sick days or sick leave, so that would probably be where that would happen.

Maybe if we start calling them sex celebration parties, they will die off

Cue big explosion of beige smoke: Yay, we’re having a human child!

I hate the USA celebrations leaking over to the UK and replacing our own traditions. Used to be that you would celebrate the birth of a baby with a christening. Nowadays people are doing gender reveals and baby showers.

yes, they are becoming a thing in Spain too, also baby showers. Why?

Wait. You don't think it would be amazing to be able to tell people how a massive forest was destroyed thanks to a party your parents had to celebrate your genitalia?

Yes, many of us also find them absurd and frankly stupid. I can't believe it's still a thing that people do unironically.

This!!! My parents made all 3 of our baby showers purple-themed. Purple is what you get when you mix pink and blue together, and it also is considered a color of love. My dad says they did this to show that it didn't matter if we were boys or girls, they love us anyway no matter what.

Also. Should be called Sex Reveal. Gender is different. In theory, they’ll die out in a generation or two. Name reveals are swooping in instead. (Vomits)

One more occasion for merchants to exploit to sell c**p to consumers.

If it's really a gender reveal party, you better have a brand spanking new gender to show me. I already know about the others that are already out there.

I hate this too, it's unnecessary and is just an opportunity for the prospective parents to get stuff.

Gender reveal parties should be thrown into the pit of hades - I already go to a baby shower!

You gotta love the phrase "we're expecting" when talking about pregnancy. It makes it sound like there's more than one outcome: "Yeah, we're expecting a baby but it's possible it could be a Polar Bear cub or a 60 inch TV!."

When my family started hounding me about what my babies were (2 pregnancies, both boys), I told them flat out that we weren't gonna find out until the delivery room and to stop pestering and pressuring me to find out ahead of time. After about the fifth time the same family member asked, I told them "If you're gonna pay the $15000 for an amniocentesis, I'll find out, cuz my insurance WON'T pay for it. Otherwise, back the hell off my case about it!" (First pregnancy, fall of 99, that procedure was still considered experimental, so it was STUPID expensive!) It shut down the questioning quick, and they all sent gender neutral stuff for the baby shower.

All it is is another way to con your friends and family for more presents. Apparently baby showers aren't enough these days.

Yes!

They're actually a lot of fun but the ones you see online are waaaay overdone. A cake and some family are all you need :)

So stupid. I would never have one of these. A baby shower is enough and I want to know my baby's gender on my own terms by myself

I had one for my son, and I kind of wish I hadn’t. Now looking back, they are quite stupid 🫤!

The old fashioned gender-reveal was birth!! GR parties are only a thing since we can know the gender earlier. Have you noticed you can hardly find gender-neutral clothes for infants? It’s because people know before the birth and you don’t have to guess!

I've never been to one. I didn't want to know the sex of my first born who ended up being a boy but I did find out the sex of my twins because I needed to prepare....I was already in shock that I was having twins. When I found out I was having two girls I just told everyone....no party involved.

Wow. Harsh!! I think they are lame too and simply called people to tell them what I was having but....I DO give a f**k what my friends and family are having and I feel like they gave a f**ck what I was having too.

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If people want to have a gender reveal party, they can have a gender reveal party. Stop being cynical chronic whiners.

In the Netherlands you get 16 weeks paid leave and can get more partial paid or unpaid leave if you want and I am already jealous of the people in Scandinavia...

Tye s****y thing is if you protest this in the US, and you don't tip, it only hurts your server, and not the establishment that employs them.

Most of these people couldn't tell the difference. A comedian hit up a MAGA rally recently and started pitching ideas from Marx's Das Capital, without using the words, communism, socialism, or capitalism and found some very enthusiastic supporters in red hats.

Sex and bodies all perfectly natural bit hey let's not show/talk about it but violence, shootings yeah let's promote death and misery

I know - here (Aust) it's illegal to not include GST (sales tax) in the retail price.

Many of us here agree with this too.

More the having to pre-commit to a party despite the rotation of candidates. The 'undecided' voter thing. Shouldn't that be everyone, each election?

I’d say the weirdest thing is how many side effects that are listed with them

I like that the picture is from Breaking Bad. Another commenter in another thread pointed out that this show’s premise probably could not have existed in another country, and I can’t forget that

If I remember correctly it had something to do with reducing the number of fatalities from teens driving drunk. The statistics were pretty high. I could start drinking legally at the age of 18, but a few years later they changed the age to 19, then 21. My poor sister kept missing the boat.

When I was in 5th grade there was a student who refused to pledge allegiance to the flag. He was made to stand in the hallway every morning because of it and was rumored to have detention once a week because of it, too. From what I remember, he never gave in.

The opposite of democracy but the Republicans love it because Otherwise they would always lose.

This!. First thing I did in a Paris airport was hit the restroom to take a dump. Loved the privacy.

Average UK tax paying person: 'Oh look, new financial year'. Carries on with their day knowing that the tax office will tell them if they've been paying too much or too little tax.

And Maga churches 🤮

Oral Roberts was an evangelist from the '60's and '70's. My grandma sent him over ten thousand dollars. He sent her a Bible with our Lord Jesus Christ's words in red-- and Oral Roberts' name embossed in gold. Other than Roberts' name, I could have gotten Grandma the same Bible for less than ten bucks.