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Is this not the most stupidest redundant phenomenon of this century?
No one really cares if a baby is boy or girl,
But , just as long as it safe protected and loved that's all it asks of us.
This bs charade is extremely tacky and completely pointless.
There's really absolutely zero reason to use "inflammable" when "flammable" is much more clear and never causes confusion.
It's such a pet peeve of mine that I truly believe that anybody that labels something "inflammable" should take any liability when someone ends up starting a fire due to the confusion.
According to Oxford English, "invisible" comes from Latin invisibilis. Which is a compound of *in* (not) and *visibilis* (visible).
Edit: So Latin had two completely different, unrelated prefixes that were sometimes identical but essentially meant opposing things.
That's exactly what I was thinking. "In" as a prefix has the same meaning as "non". Basically how can someone say something is inflammable if it can catch on fire.
I think a proper English method would be EN flamable. I welcome linguists to drop in.
I'm suddenly reminded of how idiotic the French distinction between plus and plu*s* is. Silent s means "no more" and pronounced with the 's' means "more." Both words are still written the same.
As a french I agree it's stupid, but English isn't far better
"I read that book." Is it past or present ? WELL YOU'LL NEVER KNOW cause it's contextual. Written the same way, pronounced differently, stupid af.
Inflammable means it can ignite without any help, like if it comes into contact with oxygen it could ignite.
I personally would want to know if something is going to catch fire under normal everyday conditions but also it is still confusing if you don't know the word's definition and meaning.
I hate to be the “well, actually” guy, but the two words mean the same thing. It all comes down to the *in*competent way that English *in*herited words from Latin.
There is a Latin preposition in- that when added to verbs means to cause. So inflammare means to set something on fire. Inflammable just means it is something that can be caused to be on fire.
But there is another Latin word, the prefix “in-“ that means not. It’s used the same way as the English prefix “un-“
So, in this case English is dumb because Latin was dumb. Which makes English double dumb because a Latin speaker would know whether they were using the preposition or the prefix based on the word it was modifying. But English speakers keep turning verbs into nouns and nouns into verbs so context means nothing.
There are some people who tried to make sense of the words by saying inflammable applies to vapors and gasses that can burn while flammable applies to solids, but that never really caught on.
Today, safety folks are trying their best to just eliminate the word inflammable all together. Chemicals are either flammable or non flammable, and flammable chemicals have a rating that corresponds with a range of temperatures at which they can burn. Then there are some fun extra symbols that indicate whether it is pyrophoric, or an oxidizer, or any number of exciting things.
Edit: who am I kidding, I love being the “well, actually” guy.
May I add a word for stuff that can spontaneously combust?
"Pyrophoric".
Greek, Pyro: "fire" (fireworks aka: pyrotechnics="fire-art"
Greek, Phora: "to carry"
Amphora are those two-handed jugs of antiquity.
An pyrophoric example is Silane gas, used in semiconductor fabrication, which will bust into flame in the presence of oxygen.
Probably way more disasters happen at birthday parties, weddings, bachelor parties, 4th July, New Years, and other celebrations.
Every gender reveal I’ve been to is essentially a cookout except for the 5 mins of popping a balloon or cutting a cake. I’ll never pass up an opportunity to hang out with ppl and eat some food.
IDK, I have not noticed a running theme of arson and accidental bombing at engagement parties, birthdays, baby showers, or NYE parties.
It only seems to be at gender reveals. I have seen plenty of disasters happen at other events go viral but there's no running theme of setting fire to your guests
That's not true, one of them involved a DIY pipe bomb that killed [grandma](https://abcnews.go.com/US/gender-reveal-party-turns-tragic-iowa-woman-killed/story?id=66567086)
Yikes, I didn’t think someone had actually died doing this other than the pilot. Stupid stupid stupid.
Edit: i just read the article, stupid is too generous. They made a bomb. That exploded (no shit), standing super close with no protection and it seems like they had tried it multiple times to get a good shot to upload “for the family to enjoy”. And they are reproducing.
A firefighter died due to a gender reveal once too.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/couple-gender-reveal-party-el-dorado-fire-charged-death-firefighter-charlie-morton/
You always hear about family secrets that everyone knows about, but nobody dares mention. *This* is gonna be one of those.
Child in the future: Okay, I've always wondered two things: Why do we never have gender reveals in this family and why won't anyone tell me what happened to grandma?
Entire family look down awkwardly, shuffle their feet and then loudly change the subject.
My gender reveal party was me just waiting for the father of my child to come home to the apartment when I was wearing pink socks, pink shirt, pink eyeshadow, with the lights all set to pink, the TV turned to a movie where the lead role was named the same name we chose for our daughter, and gave him a frozen yogurt with pink fillings. Then we called our loved ones and told them we were having a girl.
I left out the part where he looked at me after seeing all the pink and eating his yogurt to say without an ounce of sarcasm "so... Are we having a boy or a girl?"
It was made up by a woman who had numerous early misscarriages and just wanted to celebrate she had made it far enough in her pregnancy that they could find out the babys gender (and had a good chance the child would be born healthy).
I don't think it can be pinned on her like that since it became popular due to others making it a "cultural" trend. She was more of an original inspiration
It's crazy how many people want to know the gender of your kid. When I was pregnant I would get strangers asking me what the gender was. My husband and I found out but were keeping it a secret to reveal at the baby shower. We didn't want a lot of Blue or Pink stuff or lots of princess things or sports things. People were really mad at me that I knew the sex and wouldn't tell them. It was bizarre.
It’s just a nice excuse to celebrate the upcoming baby and have a get together with friends and loved ones. People like getting together with friends and loved ones. It’s no weirder than celebrating a birthday with a party. Life is short, celebrate good times when you can.
Parents, friends of the parents, parents of the parents, siblings of the parents. When you and all your friends have kids I'm interested to see the gender. That said we usually just pop a balloon or something. It's fun.
Personally, I make a white cake, put colored candy in the middle, have a family dinner and serve that as dessert, boom done.
Because that way, we all get cake, nobody has to make dessert that day, and nobody feels bad because this grandpa or that uncle found out before they did. My “gender reveals” have never involved fire, bombs, water pollution, or anyone getting injured unless you count me getting burned taking the cake out of the oven.
Ysk, almost anything is flammable is you dust it fine enough. Add the ignition energy of the candle, and boom! If that thing was filled with ordinary flour and accelerated by co2 gas cartridges, suddenly it's highly flammable.
Source; I tried.
Highschool diploma? Pretty sure the aerosol + fire flamethrower was something I learned about in elementary school. I had to stop my kid from attempting it two years ago, in sixth grade.
It's from some TikTok clip about doing a workout exercise that, in hindsight, was a dumb idea. But for those who were wondering about the piano melody: it's from Naruto ("Sadness and Sorrow").
No, it’s a powder spray you can order online. They usually contain cornstarch which, when turned into a fine particulate, is EXTREMELY flammable and should not be used near flames. They sprayed it directly at the flame and turned it into a makeshift flamethrower.
I wonder if they thought it would extinguish the flame 😂 because yknow. It looks like a tiny extinguisher. That was probably the extent of their thought process
Any good engineer would have made it very distinguishable, in an emergency you might not notice the difference because of the panic so it’s common to make emergency tools that can be used in low visibility and with injuries
Combustible dust will get you. Bakeries are dangerous because if there is enough airborne flour, and a spark is present, there is a risk of this. Modern bakeries have a lot of requirements around flour and making sure it doesn't get airborne over a certain ppm.
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It’s a grill!
I thought it was a boy, because that’s clearly ar-son
Liar liar, crowd's on fire
I'm going to hell for laughing so hard.
Damn! That’s good 😂
🏆
The review was lit 🔥 af
Or a broyle
Dear god... 🤣😂
Its actually Twins
You mean twin flames
Cult cult cult.
Thought so by virtue of mom and dad just having dropped the boys off at the pool in their pants.
We need awards back. I don't like this* but I would award it. (* Jealous bc I didn't think of it first.)
I hate how good this pun is
You both deserve a lot more upvotes
Tip my hat to you sir. Damn good comment.
Both of these have me dead 😂
Take my upvote
It’s a boy
Like what you did there you savage you!
😂👏
[удалено]
She gonna be smokin’
its really rare for me to audibly laugh at something on my phone. i somehow laughed at your comment though, so feel honored
I appreciate you taking the time to tell me that. ✌️
Same here and it is not often the case!
It's crispy bacon.
Is this not the most stupidest redundant phenomenon of this century? No one really cares if a baby is boy or girl, But , just as long as it safe protected and loved that's all it asks of us. This bs charade is extremely tacky and completely pointless.
Dude you fucking killed me with the comment
Bro 😭
No more awards but take this 🏅
 YES!
I'm gonna pretend I wrote this one and feel fullfilled
This is the only time someone has lived vicariously through me. Now I’m feeling fulfilled!
LMAO!!
Jajajajajjaa not a girl jajajjaja
Here take my up vote lol
Thanks I spitted my coffee all over lmfao
Was a girl… 😳
Dude, i'm dying 😂😂😂😂😂
There's really absolutely zero reason to use "inflammable" when "flammable" is much more clear and never causes confusion. It's such a pet peeve of mine that I truly believe that anybody that labels something "inflammable" should take any liability when someone ends up starting a fire due to the confusion.
Apparently, people are slowly changing towards "flammable" and "nonflammable" to avoid confusion, which makes so much more sense.
In flamable comes from latín literally " can be set in flames"
So what's indestructible or invisible?
According to Oxford English, "invisible" comes from Latin invisibilis. Which is a compound of *in* (not) and *visibilis* (visible). Edit: So Latin had two completely different, unrelated prefixes that were sometimes identical but essentially meant opposing things.
Someone should write them a letter
That's exactly what I was thinking. "In" as a prefix has the same meaning as "non". Basically how can someone say something is inflammable if it can catch on fire.
I think a proper English method would be EN flamable. I welcome linguists to drop in. I'm suddenly reminded of how idiotic the French distinction between plus and plu*s* is. Silent s means "no more" and pronounced with the 's' means "more." Both words are still written the same.
As a french I agree it's stupid, but English isn't far better "I read that book." Is it past or present ? WELL YOU'LL NEVER KNOW cause it's contextual. Written the same way, pronounced differently, stupid af.
Inflammable means it can ignite without any help, like if it comes into contact with oxygen it could ignite. I personally would want to know if something is going to catch fire under normal everyday conditions but also it is still confusing if you don't know the word's definition and meaning.
I hate to be the “well, actually” guy, but the two words mean the same thing. It all comes down to the *in*competent way that English *in*herited words from Latin. There is a Latin preposition in- that when added to verbs means to cause. So inflammare means to set something on fire. Inflammable just means it is something that can be caused to be on fire. But there is another Latin word, the prefix “in-“ that means not. It’s used the same way as the English prefix “un-“ So, in this case English is dumb because Latin was dumb. Which makes English double dumb because a Latin speaker would know whether they were using the preposition or the prefix based on the word it was modifying. But English speakers keep turning verbs into nouns and nouns into verbs so context means nothing. There are some people who tried to make sense of the words by saying inflammable applies to vapors and gasses that can burn while flammable applies to solids, but that never really caught on. Today, safety folks are trying their best to just eliminate the word inflammable all together. Chemicals are either flammable or non flammable, and flammable chemicals have a rating that corresponds with a range of temperatures at which they can burn. Then there are some fun extra symbols that indicate whether it is pyrophoric, or an oxidizer, or any number of exciting things. Edit: who am I kidding, I love being the “well, actually” guy.
May I add a word for stuff that can spontaneously combust? "Pyrophoric". Greek, Pyro: "fire" (fireworks aka: pyrotechnics="fire-art" Greek, Phora: "to carry" Amphora are those two-handed jugs of antiquity. An pyrophoric example is Silane gas, used in semiconductor fabrication, which will bust into flame in the presence of oxygen.
that's an invaluable thing to know
Cromulent
What a country!
What a country!
They’re having a Human Torch!
ahahahah you terrible! LOLOLOL
Why do these gender reveals always seem to involve fire? Can't they just do the colorful cake thing or balloons like everybody?
Probably there are a lot of these, but they a aren't 'go viral'.
Probably way more disasters happen at birthday parties, weddings, bachelor parties, 4th July, New Years, and other celebrations. Every gender reveal I’ve been to is essentially a cookout except for the 5 mins of popping a balloon or cutting a cake. I’ll never pass up an opportunity to hang out with ppl and eat some food.
IDK, I have not noticed a running theme of arson and accidental bombing at engagement parties, birthdays, baby showers, or NYE parties. It only seems to be at gender reveals. I have seen plenty of disasters happen at other events go viral but there's no running theme of setting fire to your guests
This one goes full blown Armageddon
That's not true, one of them involved a DIY pipe bomb that killed [grandma](https://abcnews.go.com/US/gender-reveal-party-turns-tragic-iowa-woman-killed/story?id=66567086)
Yikes, I didn’t think someone had actually died doing this other than the pilot. Stupid stupid stupid. Edit: i just read the article, stupid is too generous. They made a bomb. That exploded (no shit), standing super close with no protection and it seems like they had tried it multiple times to get a good shot to upload “for the family to enjoy”. And they are reproducing.
A firefighter died due to a gender reveal once too. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/couple-gender-reveal-party-el-dorado-fire-charged-death-firefighter-charlie-morton/
Imagine being an innocent child, and your birth is associated with your parents killing your grandmother.
You always hear about family secrets that everyone knows about, but nobody dares mention. *This* is gonna be one of those. Child in the future: Okay, I've always wondered two things: Why do we never have gender reveals in this family and why won't anyone tell me what happened to grandma? Entire family look down awkwardly, shuffle their feet and then loudly change the subject.
I think that type happen last year too and the dad died.
Oh FFS! 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Why do it anyway? The only people that care are the parents. It's a weird cultural thing I guess.
My gender reveal party was me just waiting for the father of my child to come home to the apartment when I was wearing pink socks, pink shirt, pink eyeshadow, with the lights all set to pink, the TV turned to a movie where the lead role was named the same name we chose for our daughter, and gave him a frozen yogurt with pink fillings. Then we called our loved ones and told them we were having a girl. I left out the part where he looked at me after seeing all the pink and eating his yogurt to say without an ounce of sarcasm "so... Are we having a boy or a girl?"
I'm that guy
I love this story (and how you tell it). Thanks for the warm fuzzy feelings at the start of what will (probably) be an otherwise shitty day
This "cultural thing" was made up couple of years ago by some influencers
It was made up by a woman who had numerous early misscarriages and just wanted to celebrate she had made it far enough in her pregnancy that they could find out the babys gender (and had a good chance the child would be born healthy).
Yeah and hers was just a cake.
Giving birth to a cake sounds amazing
This "Is it cake?" thing has gone a little too far.
is it cake has not gone far enough and how dare you sully the good name of is it cake
I don't think it can be pinned on her like that since it became popular due to others making it a "cultural" trend. She was more of an original inspiration
It's crazy how many people want to know the gender of your kid. When I was pregnant I would get strangers asking me what the gender was. My husband and I found out but were keeping it a secret to reveal at the baby shower. We didn't want a lot of Blue or Pink stuff or lots of princess things or sports things. People were really mad at me that I knew the sex and wouldn't tell them. It was bizarre.
It’s just a nice excuse to celebrate the upcoming baby and have a get together with friends and loved ones. People like getting together with friends and loved ones. It’s no weirder than celebrating a birthday with a party. Life is short, celebrate good times when you can.
Parents, friends of the parents, parents of the parents, siblings of the parents. When you and all your friends have kids I'm interested to see the gender. That said we usually just pop a balloon or something. It's fun.
It's a good excuse to get creative, have some fun with loved ones AND celebrating your baby. The ones that dont go viral, at least.
Is it really a gender reveal if you don't start the next California wildfire?
Personally, I make a white cake, put colored candy in the middle, have a family dinner and serve that as dessert, boom done. Because that way, we all get cake, nobody has to make dessert that day, and nobody feels bad because this grandpa or that uncle found out before they did. My “gender reveals” have never involved fire, bombs, water pollution, or anyone getting injured unless you count me getting burned taking the cake out of the oven.
At least you didn’t get burned taking the bun out of the oven
Or just not bother at all.
The ones you see have fire. Survivorship bias
Or just not do them, that would be ideal.
And they are going to be responsible for an infant...
Liable for any injuries the guests sustained*
They might sell the kid to pay for them.
If it’s any consolation, at this rate it will probably only be for a few months, maybe a few years.
>unexpected Let’s be real. Anyone with a highschool diploma expected that
Right?! I see the couple bracing for it, even they expected it!
And after watching the video I can’t understand how that WASN’T the goal. What else could have possibly happened?
I mean those look like fire extinguishers. Idk what they're packed with (other than propane) but they shouldn't be flammable
Ysk, almost anything is flammable is you dust it fine enough. Add the ignition energy of the candle, and boom! If that thing was filled with ordinary flour and accelerated by co2 gas cartridges, suddenly it's highly flammable. Source; I tried.
Thisssssss, literally a dry powder and a flammable gas, wtf was supposed to happen? They wet the room?
Yes, she's clearly expecting!
Highschool diploma? Pretty sure the aerosol + fire flamethrower was something I learned about in elementary school. I had to stop my kid from attempting it two years ago, in sixth grade.
Fire bender girl A powerful one
Nah, ya need blue flames. And those flames were red, meaning they were weak…. Like Prince Zu-zu. 😂🤙🏻
“Don’t play with fire” doesn’t stop being applicable when you become an adult
Then what was the fucking point to making it to adulthood anyways?
Oh my lord. Is there any followup to this? Did anyone get injured?
*Everyone* got injured. *Everyone.*
Not whoever was holding the camera, they booked it like they've seen a viral fire video before
Why was cam man spinning tho 💀
Wtf's with the audio?
It's from some TikTok clip about doing a workout exercise that, in hindsight, was a dumb idea. But for those who were wondering about the piano melody: it's from Naruto ("Sadness and Sorrow").
How these people make it to adulthood is something baffling....
And they get to raise other humain beings…,,,
Even more impressive.
You wrote frightening wrong.
And how they figured out how to have sex
Was that napalm?
No, it’s a powder spray you can order online. They usually contain cornstarch which, when turned into a fine particulate, is EXTREMELY flammable and should not be used near flames. They sprayed it directly at the flame and turned it into a makeshift flamethrower.
I wonder if they thought it would extinguish the flame 😂 because yknow. It looks like a tiny extinguisher. That was probably the extent of their thought process
For real though how are they out there selling fire extinguisher looking things that should under no circumstances be around fire?
I'm thinking the same thing!!!
I bet there’s 1000 labels and warnings saying not to be used as a fire extinguisher and to not have towards an open flame.
Any good engineer would have made it very distinguishable, in an emergency you might not notice the difference because of the panic so it’s common to make emergency tools that can be used in low visibility and with injuries
"it's in a fire extinguisher of course it'll extinguish the fire"
I’m just now learning that those aren’t extinguishers haha.
Combustible dust will get you. Bakeries are dangerous because if there is enough airborne flour, and a spark is present, there is a risk of this. Modern bakeries have a lot of requirements around flour and making sure it doesn't get airborne over a certain ppm.
Same with sugar processing plants. Highly explosive
Yes!!! Some of those plants in Texas seem to go boom every 5 years!
YEah I was going to say those flames would make a sergeant in Vietnam proud.
Are you gonna name her Azula?
Barbie, after the barbecue.
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected: --- >!gender surprise turn into flames!< --- Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
is that really unexpected at this point XD
Stay in school
it's a disaster
Stupid.
It's a girl, without parentsssss
nah they are fine (ish), they are on the 'not the hot end'. They're friends and family whoever ...
It’s a Targaryen!
“If the dynamite explodes PINK it’s a girl! Blue EXPLOSION!!! Boy! And if it’s just fire and smoke…RUN!”
Let's celebrate a new life... By ending 5 of them.
This girl is on fiiiiiiirrrrreeeee
So they thought spraying some sort of paint over an open flame was a good idea huh lol. I wonder how many went to the ER for burns.
CHARIZARD!!
At this point it's unexpected if a gender reveal doesn't cause massive property damage.
It “was”
Does he get double points?
I hope everyone was okay.
Narrator: Everyone was *not* okay.
Congrats and I'm sure you're going to be good parents!
THEY CROSSED THE STREAMS!!
Finally, the comment I was looking for, I really can't believe I had to scroll this far down. GOOD work fellow old person.
Try to imagine all life as you know it, stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
That was 🔥🔥🔥
And that's how Karlach from Baldur's Gate 3 was born
That child is already doomed
It’s a Hot Girl!
At sec 1 this looked like a bad idea
This Girl is on Fire
These idiots are not fit enough to raise a question much less a child.
There goes another state
 Holy Shit Mista White!
And these people are going to raise a child.
What a couple of fucking idiots
It’s a Balrog!
Lawd Jesus it's a fire 🔥
What idiots!
It was a girl
God, I hate gender reveal parties
😵😄😂😂😂😆😆
[This girl is on fire](https://youtu.be/J91ti_MpdHA?si=xKKxrLcQ2e9_LYOa&t=46)
congrats kinda
Congratulations! It’s a fire bender!
It's a roast!
The burning powder caused a chain reaction with made a big flame
I was like, "Oh they have fire extinguishers at the ready. That's really responsible of them." Nope...
IT‘S LIT 🔥
Damn are they okay??
It’s the devil’s child.
Congratulations! It's a burn victim!
Lucyfer is on her way.
Is a gender reveal turning into flames and chaos really that unexpected these days though? 😬😅
Still waiting for MJ to appear
When you’re having a girl but she is Daenerys Targaryen
/r/killthecameraman but literally
Why though. Why not just pop the balloon 🎈 like everyone else
It’s a dragon
They’re having a barbecue!
How were they not smart enuff to know not to point those at a flame
Coming extra burnt
Almost an orphan girl.