Why do we have to keep trying to pair every woman up, even fictional ones? Can’t Elsa just kick ass as a single lady? 

Who are the sillies who believed the rumors?  We’re talking about Disney, here.

Domino’s is light years ahead of competition with their apps. They are very savvy.

I am one of those weird people who actually likes the taste of Papa John’s. But even before we learned he was a racist shitbag we knew he was an anti-worker shitbag who refused to pay the extra 5 cents per pizza needed to offer his employees his health insurance, so I haven’t had a PJ’s in years.

Some Pig. Terrific. Radiant. Humble.

My sister’s a Boomer! (Just barely.)

I am that nerd who checked to see if your mother violated HIPAA to crash your ultrasound. (Verdict: HIPAA was passed in 1996, but privacy compliance wasn’t mandated until 2003.)

I saw this on RM and I was surprised that Maddow and Farrow seemed satisfied with it. It’s such an obvious way of trying to get individual, advance notice of any employee who might bring allegations. Why not just announce that everyone is released from anything in NDAs that might prevent them from reporting sexual…

Have to agree. Either give in or don’t but don’t whine about being “forced”. Your kids don’t force you to do things, you make the choice to do them, whether to avoid a scene or whatever. And yeah, my family didn’t play that either. As the old folks used to say “if you’re mad, you better scratch your ass and get glad”.

Fair enough! Although as I mentioned to another poster, I was more judgey about her oh-poor-me complaining than her decision to indulge them in the first place.

Yep. I was New England-raised (rural Vermont, although we were transplants from Chicago) but later went to grad school in Iowa. I know plenty of people who would think the blow-up-shit stuff was wicked cool.

If it wasn’t this specific gender reveal party, it would have been some other event with some pointless explosion that would have taken out someone from that family.

-New house moving party where they blow up their old house.

Baby showers actually do serve a purpose for a lot of couples, as it often serves as a way to get baby equipment like car seats, diapers, and strollers as gifts without spending the somewhat obscene amounts of money. True, you can just have a baby registry without the need for a party or anything like that, but the…

It’s not like you can’t be original without the use of explosives.

Good point. Fortunately we didn’t get MTV and I was far less aware of those predecessors. ;-)

Instagram amplified attention seeking behavior. But narcissism was rooted in popular culture before social media came along. The over the top sweet sixteens on MTV, CRIBs etc were the ancestors of capitalist displays of wealth. Instagram invites everyone to get in on the excess.

We never found out gender until our babies were born. I genuinely didn’t care and just wanted healthy babies. I also hated being pregnant.

I was just shaking my head over this story on my FB News Feed. Instagram culture has gotten way out of hand. And I would never in a million years think “Hey, what’s a good way to announce whether I’m having a boy or a girl? I know! We’ll shoot off explosives!”

Out: gender reveal parties