From the always-fascinating Nicole Vandelaar Battjes (previously featured here)…. a gender reveal event that stars a Robinson R44 helicopter.
(I love Nicole so much that I refrained from commenting that the child’s actual gender would not be known until at least 2039 or later.)
Very loosely related, a Hawaiian sunset captured on 6×6 film in the late 1980s…
Incredible how much millennials spend on gender reveals. Still remember when generation X started spending hundreds of thousands on their weddings. It was the next big thing. Gender reveals are the new weddings, but it might be because heterosexual couples having babies are the path less traveled.
Better the millennials spend their own money on these parties rather than the tax payer! This reveal party went way better than a recent one in my state. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/us/el-dorado-fire-gender-reveal-update-trnd/index.html
It goes to show how well-isolated I am from the cultural noise that I had no idea what a “gender reveal” party was until this post. @Toucan: I love the sidebar link: “Woman who popularized the gender reveal party says enough already after latest wildfire.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/us/gender-reveal-parties-overview-trnd/index.html
From her blog (last post was 2015):
“Jenna Karvunidis (KAR-vuh-NEED-us) is a feminist mom of a whole brood of lady babies.”
“You take things too far, Gus!” – Eddie Murphy, “Uncle Gus and Aunt Bunny” – Delirious
Fun fact: gender theory was pioneered in the 1960s by Dr. J Money who used surgery and behaviour modification to “re-assign” the sex of an infant injured by a botched circumcision. He forced the infant and his twin brother to “rehearse sex acts” claiming it was important for a “healthy adult gender identity”. Based on the success of his experiments, Dr. Money wrote several books. However, both twins later committed suicide in the 30s, with their parents claiming “Money’s methodology was responsible for the deaths of both of their sons”.
Yes, great that they didn’t burn anything down with this, and an interesting use of R44 rotor downdraft! Had the engine sucked in all the flowers and stalled, it would have been front page news. Better to not be. 😉
The air intake on an R44 is on the starboard side. They are dumping flowers out of the port side. Either way, I don’t think that the intake vacuum of a piston engine is sufficient to overcome gravity.
The more one loves flying, the more one flies; the more one flies, the more likely one is to die in flight. Should a person welcome dying doing that which ze/she/he/it/they[singular] loves?
her boobs are gonna get so big