Good. People need to get a grip on these over the top gender reveal parties/events. Social media clout just isn't worth it.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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Right? Like just do a cake or some balloons or something easy. We don't need an entire fireworks display to tell us that you're new baby is a boy or a girl.
Even worse, it was a photoshoot not a live event. They could have taken their static picture without creating any fire, and add in any visual smoke, fire, and sparks edited into the photo without any risk to the environment.
The only winning strategy is to not play the big gender reveal game.
I'm not advocating for gender reveal events. I personally don't see the appeal. However, I recognize that people do all kinds of benign stuff that I don't care about, but which interests them and doesn't hurt anyone so I'm fine with it. They could have done this in a way that didn't hurt anyone and still got the photo result they wanted. Instead they hurt people. That, or the risk of that, is where someone's benign isolated interests become subject to us caring about it.
I hate to be a pedant, but he "pled" guilty.
Saying "pleaded" is like saying that you "shitted" your pants.
I came to pedant about the same thing, here’s a discussion of the two: https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/pled-vs-pleaded-which-one-should-you-use/
TL;DR: style guides like “pleaded”.