Gender reveal party sparked new California wildfire raging across 7,000 acres

CNBC ^ | 09/07/2020 | Lauren Feiner

[SpeedyInTexas]

A smoke generating pyrotechnic device used at a gender reveal party was the source of a wildfire in El Dorado, California, that has spread to 7,050 acres as of Sunday, according to California fire officials.

[SpeedyInTexas]

Winning reply goes to: https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1302934900417404928

[Larry Lucido]

Were they dragons revealing their “genders”?

[SpeedyInTexas]

“Instead of blowing up things for a gender reveal party, the parents to be should hand out wallets. If there’s a dollar inside, it’s a boy, if there’s 72 cents, it’s a girl”

https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1302934900417404928

[ronniesgal]

was this for a baby or something switching from Samuel to Samantha?
In either case I do think “gender reveal” parties are tedious.

[dainbramaged]

These gender reveal parties are self centered narcissistic drivel.

[I cannot think of a name]

I realize I’m a bit old and don’t keep up with the latest of all things,

but when did ‘idiot’ become a gender?

[gas_dr]

Another reason why gender reveals are stupid. Nothing more than a narcissistic celebration made for social media event in which snowflakes can get more free sh*t and tell themselves how important they are

Gender reveals are a perfect example of everything that is fubared in our society.

[gas_dr]

Amen. Great minds think alike.

[Deplorable American1776]

How do the parents know if their baby wants to identify as the gender they are born as? 😋

[Gene Eric]

I’ll be sure to return to this thread...

[SpeedyInTexas]

There are like 72 gender options right? Add Idiot and make it 73.

[LouAvul]

Kalifornia in the middle of a heat wave and drought and somebody decides to shoot off pyrotechnics in the forest? Simply to announce the sex of an unborn child?

[higgmeister]

Meh

[Eleutheria5]

Were they socially distancing?/idgaf

[Big Red Badger]

See you then,
This will be Good.

[RetiredScientist]

Yes! All this narcissitic drivel will backfire on the parents who indulge these snowflakes because they will not develop resilience. I read some statistics recently suggesting that adolescents entering college need a lot more counseling than even a decade ago.

[bigbob]

Forget the fire, all that matters is whether this party was following social distancing guidelines and that masks were being worn.

THAT is what could put them in big trouble with the state!

[siberianheat]

I heard it’s a boy. Gonna name him Sparky.

:)

If it was a girl, they were leaning hard toward Ashley.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Not tedious as much as ridiculously spoiled pretentious status-signalling.

Another sign of how decadently spoiled-rotten we are, that we all need to have “sex parties” (which is what they actually are - gender is only for language).

Not to mention since the ‘80s everyone has to have huge birthday parties for babies and toddlers, never mind their school-age years.

It’s all ego-inflating to show everyone how rich and fun we are....(though they’ll deny the former)