SultanOfSwing

Ah, the iconic performance on The Word. No better way to end a song than screaming 'Roger Taylor' for 45 seconds as loud as you can

I miss Nirvana though, ****ing great band.

Lion in Winter

Is that you down front?

SultanOfSwing

I wish. I was 12 then so I was in me room playing Treasure Island Dizzy or some shit but that's the way it goes sometimes.

spouse of scouse

We were camping with my two teenage boys when we heard Kurt Cobain had died. They went into deep mourning and lost all their fishing skills, we nearly bloody starved.

SultanOfSwing

You didn't have an entire case full of emergency baked beans then?

spouse of scouse

Well yes, but I didn't want to spoil a good story

SultanOfSwing

All's well that ends well.

Lion in Winter

Or oh well, whatever, never mind.

SultanOfSwing

Well played.

zzrmark

Gender reveal parties get right on my tits but this one goes the whole hog!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...c-rss_20191028

spouse of scouse

Gunpowder and metal tubing, what could go wrong

I refuse to go to the bloody things and yes, I'm a grumpy old woman. What's wrong with looking at the bub as it's born, that reveals the gender quite well.

SultanOfSwing

Or even if you want to know beforehand, just tell people when you find out as and when you feel you need to. Don't get me wrong, I love an excuse for cake as much as the next man, but it strikes me as such a stupid thing to have a party for, whether your unborn child has or doesn't have a wang.

spouse of scouse

Just another excuse for a pressie Daughter of a friend had her first baby not long ago. From the time she found out she was pregnant to now, she had:
A baby shower.
A babymoon (yeah, I know)
A gender reveal party
And - she sent a nice little note just before the baby was due, kindly letting everyone know that she'd set up a gift registry at a swish department store 'to help all our wonderful family and friends who are wondering about suitable gifts for our little newborn!'.

Frig off, I gave you a bib at the baby shower, I'm done.

SultanOfSwing

It gets a bit much, doesn't it? I think my wife got two baby showers, but one was thrown for her at work, and the other was organized by her sister. We'd never have turned up our noses at free diapers

scrubbedexpat097

Yep. I know I was pregnant in the days before you could even find out the gender but we didn't even have baby showers. Family and friends waited until the baby arrived before they gave you a gift. And we even only bought the bare minimum baby would need in it's first few weeks of life. Most of the big items like cots, prams or pushchairs ( yeah I'm old school) tended to be traded back and forth between babies born into both our families! Worked well for us.