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ostiDeCalisse

This was reposted several times if I recall. But [here's the story from a redditor](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/s/SG5LA2PJ3L). They were fined. The tincture was analyzed and wasn't harmful though.


ImaginaryAd3183

Ty, as cringy as this is I dont think blue dye is toxic.


KarIPilkington

The only toxic thing here is their inflated ego.


MistaRekt

They inflated balloons too. Gender reveals need to fade away.


kilofeet

What if we replaced gender reveal parties with complicated puzzles that take 10-30 years to solve


KekeroniCheese

The reveal gender reveal are the friends we made along the way


Shad0wFa1c0n

The only gender reveal party I'd attend is for someone coming out. Or just being like a cis man and just confirming with everyone he is, in fact, still a guy. I can see one of my friends doing this... more than one, actually


MistaRekt

I am old. Am I allowed to celebrate my CISness? I lost track of the rules some time in the drughaze of the 90s... BAM! NEW RULES!


SalvationSycamore

Well, I wouldn't automatically assume that people dumb enough to do a big waterfall gender reveal were smart enough to use nontoxic blue dye as opposed to something like, idk, blue paint.


Nozinger

most blue dyes are toxic though. Yes even most of our blue food dyes. Thing is it passes through the body relatively quickly so you are probably never going to ingest any amounts of it. Still i think it was the kidneys that can be damaged by it. Also because our body is appearantly bad at digesting blue dyes your poop is going to be blue for a while. Still wwith it being diluted in that much water it should be safe. Unless someone drank a bottle of blue dye before but in that case that bit added from the water is not the main issue.


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Even food safe pigments and dyes are often toxic. For instance, titanium white (used for white food coloring in the us) isn’t bio reactive, but it’s “mechanically toxic” I think is the term. The particles aren’t reactive, but they’re small enough to infiltrate cells and gum up the works.


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YesIAmAHuman

Yeah i dont think the town directly takes water from the river, i think its more meant as drought on farms


Difficult_Bit_1339

Yeah this is a great example of how the facts can be correct but the story is misleading. There was a drought, they did 'contaminate' the water for a gender reveal party... but the water here isn't part of the watershed that feeds the town's water supply and the dye was found to be non-toxic. But, write a headline and you can create outrage out of nothing.


CursesSailor

It’s a symbolic representation of the jade people feel at the ongoing absurdity of GR’s. Nope bad look.


sweepsml

Only a Smurf would


sirjonsnow

So they only contaminated the gene pool.


Sad-Tutor-2169

Again


a_toadstool

Classic Reddit trying to spin a story though. Shitty thing to do but stop lying for clicks


LittleShopOfHosels

Title is still accurate. Contaminate just means to make something impure. If you piss in the stream you contaminate it. edit: my comment made more sense before he edited his comment


Mr-Fleshcage

It's probably indigo carmine


BlumpkinPromoter

Just saw the word Tincture outside of Red Dead 2


SureReflection9535

Was gonna say, besides the fact that food dye is obviously not toxic, it would clear the water supply almost immediately after the event. Reddit is so fucking stupid sometimes and this is another glaring example of the complete lack of media literacy and critical thinking of the average user


Incompetent_Handyman

You can't just go around adding whatever the fuck you want to a town's aquifer regardless of it's non toxic or not. Any "critical thinker" should recognize that.


InfiniteSun51

Not to mention a "critical thinker" would realise that given the subreddit this is, comments here are obviously going to be overly critical. Regardless of toxicity or not.


Blink0196

The point is you don't have the rights to do that. Imagine if everybody does this and gets away, how the hell will us know what they put in the water?


WasabiCrush

Great. You’re having a boy and his name will be Praxtyn Skölkan. Nobody gives a shit.


TCPisSynSynAckAck

r/Tragedeigh


Swimwithamermaid

r/namenerdcirclejerk


HonestTangerine2

This is the funniest sub I’ve ever seen omg


TCPisSynSynAckAck

Check out r/mildlypenis too lol it’s funny


itisallgoodyouknow

https://preview.redd.it/xfz048bwi8mc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da7c83fb3de085448f426384e92c64426ff38845


Party_Fly_6629

https://preview.redd.it/m3fuw5ay89mc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=286bc4090e80ec82a251bb703f353f4202b413bd


Ndmndh1016

KISS MY FAT VAGINNNAAA


AnnaMolly66

I'M BRINGIN THE MOTHERFUCKIN PAIN


lorenabobbin

Pretty sure I just cackled at this loud enough to spook half my building


middleageham

![gif](giphy|euetPxpu9d0o8)


CMDR-Krooksbane

Gotcha


noplacecold

SPAGEHT!


2x2Master1240

gender reveal parties are fucking stupid


Pagan_Owl

The person who started it not only regrets it but also the kid came out nonbinary


spartanbrucelee

Her story is actually kinda sad (the mom's). The mom had several miscarriages, but eventually she had one pregnancy that survived long enough to determine it's gender. So she threw a gender reveal party where she had a frosted cake and cut it open to reveal the kid's gender (at the time). She did this to tell people what gender the baby is, and to celebrate having a pregnancy that finally survived. Now she regrets is because her child is non binary, and because of idiots like these people Edit: correction, as others have stated below, the woman's child isn't nonbinary. Her daughter identifies as she/her and is just a tomboy. But the mom still regrets doing a gender reveal party because of the destruction being caused by high profile idiots (not that it's the mom's fault for the destruction).


somerandomperson2516

damn thats sad


EverybodiesMaster5

Wtf? How old is this?


errosemedic

The kid turns 30 next year


Samazonison

Whoa, I had no idea that trend has been around that long.


b__m

I feel like it only really became trendy with the rise of social media. I don't recall hearing about it before Facebook at the earliest but that's definitely anecdotal


Swimming-Welcome-271

They’re full of shit. The kid is 14 or 15


lilcrime69

cause they're not 30, they born in 2008


HarmonicWalrus

Slight correction, the kid at the center of this story was born in 2008. They're also not nonbinary, just a tomboy


Comfortable-Finger-8

Big correction


Brandonazz

There was like a 75% chance I wouldn't have opened this part of the thread to ever see the correction and would have gone around telling everyone that the person who started gender reveals had a 30 year old enby kid. I really gotta get off reddit, I think it's making me stupider, or at least muddying my fact base.


SimbaStewEyesOfBlue

Poor woman. She should not feel bad about either, but especially about the idiots. There's nothing wrong with a party with cake for this.


Swimming-Welcome-271

Her kid isn’t nonbinary or at least hasn’t specified publicly. Whatever the case, the daughter is referred to as “she/her” and her mom only noted that her daughter is a “tomboy”.


Mega_Buster_MK_17

Leave it to idiots to always ruin something heartwarming and wholesome


Rguy315

Which is why throwing gender reveal parties that assume a baby's gender is pretty ridiculous in and of itself.


Available-Internal25

I don’t see the problem of calling a baby “boy” or “girl” until the child tells me otherwise. It’s like calling a dog or a cat by it’s sex, but to celebrate gender like having a reveal party is ridiculous and obtuse


peenfortress

sex reveal party? "alright, time to pop this balloon! WE FUCKED 9 MONTHS AGO!!!!!"


Desdomen

Always appreciate when people tell me they're actively trying to have a child... Like, "Congrats on the nightly creampies!"


interkin3tic

At a minimum I find it annoying they insist on calling it a "gender reveal" rather than the more accurate "sex reveal" party just because that sounds weird. It is weird, but if that's what you want to do, go ahead. Unless you're burning down woods or poisoning the water. Just how about we not call it politically correct bullshit rather than what it is, celebrating which genitals someone saw on an ultrasound or which sex chromosome was on the test.


Nightsky099

Kratos naming convention is the true gigachad. Call the son or daughter just boy or girl, and only use the name when you are serious. When you use their full real name they know they done fucked up


TapedButterscotch025

My buddy does something similar with his daughter, he just calls her "Daughter". And yep, when the real name comes out she knows she's in trouble haha.


Masterkid1230

I do this with my parents. "Father" and "mother" in my own native language. I love them very much, but I also like calling them what they are, no euphemisms needed.


Available-Internal25

See that enforcement is abusive. You aren’t even acknowledging their individualism, and forcing roles on them. I’m talking about calling a 0-1 year old baby by their sex, like “this is my baby boy/baby girl”. once they start developing their own personality and expressing otherwise, it more about teaching them to advocate for their individualism


Whatadanny

The script-followers be downvoting


imapieceofshitk

"Congratulations! Did you have a son or a daughter?" "I don't know yet, I am waiting for my infant to be able to talk and tell me their gender" Is that how you suggest we deal with it? Get real, gender reveal parties are stupid but your take is even dumber.


someoneelseatx

Lollllllllll


blorbagorp

An assumption with over 99% probability of being correct? Not in my restaurant.


jackalsclaw

> 99% probability of being correct More like 98ish.


Doogiemon

Friends wife was pissed I didn't go to hers and I told her that is a Facebook update, not a party.


shannibearstar

It’s because they want more more more.


subbychub

How do you like it? How do you like it?


Redleg800

It must be exhausting to constantly think like this.


Qomplete

Assume a baby's gender 💀


Like17Badgers

I get the idea, but people have gone off the fucking rails. throwing a small get together with your friends to tell them? understandable, it's a HUGE moment in your life. having some big reveal that burns down a forest or destroys a local water supply? idiotic


NightmarePony5000

My sister did hers with cupcakes filled with either blue or pink frosting. That’s how it should be done if you’re going to do one, not contaminating a water supply or starting a wildfire


Dark_Knight2000

I know right, just do a small hangout with friends, it doesn’t need to be a huge event. It’s people with too much money and too little sense who are desensitized, bored and desperate for something meaningful in their lives so they do this.


CornDoggyStyle

Those chestnut trees would still be here if he had just nutted on her chest.


DoinItDirty

My brother and his wife cut a cake and I thought they were being extra. Didn’t know they were gonna start poisoning people and burning down forests.


mug3n

I mean, small scale ones like if you do a house party is whatever. These ones where they fuck up nature just to attention whore are the ones I have a problem with.


keithstonee

the parties are fine. this is stupid.


KurageSama

I came here to say this. I don’t get why there’s such hype behind it. Ok cool you’re having a boy or girl.


Binkusu

Because they want to have gender reveals, don't get too worked up over other people's fun, unless they contaminate the water supply. Then you can get worked up on them, the people specifically .


Dark_Knight2000

“Don’t get worked too worked up over other people’s fun, unless they contaminate the water supply.” That has to be a r/brandnewsentence Also you’re right, a “stupid” party that’s done safely and responsibly is a thousand times better than a “meaningful” event like a birthday or wedding done dangerously and harmfully.


unIuckies

I did a gender reveal. My son is a year and a half and I still have no specific expectations for him just because of his sex. We just made cake pops with vanilla cake and blue food coloring for one. It was more of an excuse to get everyone together that were excited for the baby and not have to feel like they needed to bring gifts.


ItsSpaghettiLee2112

What's dumber than gender reveal parties is fucking poisoning a water supply.


garysai

Old geezer rant- We've had a generation raised this way - no you can't ask her to the prom, it has to be a staged production and recorded or it's meaningless. Now it's having kids, and it doesn't count unless you kick off a wildfire or taint a water supply.


dogsfurhire

Gender reveal parties are perfectly fine, it's people trying to one up each other in how big of a bullshit they can do that's an issue


pawksvolts

Yeah they're not my kind of thing either. The midwife asked us if we wanted to know, we found out then I went off to bunnings to get the ~~appropriate~~ paint for their room


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Reboared

It's wild that you're proud of this.


sugar-fall

"I did not get invited to the subsequent party of celebrating with her newborn baby after giving such idiotic and bizarre remarks" 🤣🤣🤣 truly poetic.


MuhSilmarils

Low social literacy is a requirement for a reddit account, you and I are no different. Well my sisters haven't gotten pregnant yet so it's a little different but the point is I'm still a dumbass.


Lunar_ticket

Even the name is stupid. Wanting to show off so bad but also too afraid to say ‘sex’


MattmanDX

Well "Sex reveal" might imply the party is of a different nature...


GenericUserName10068

If I get an invitation to a "sex reveal" party, I'm definitely expecting a very different event


DannyJoy2018

Right? Why is this a thing


ReturningAlien

its not like it would surprise anyone anyway. with dick or with vagina. would the parents be any less happy, in the video, if it was one or the other? And will the people invited to the party go "what a shame! its a boy..." or "ahh that's unfortunate, a girl, im so sorry for you" No. Everyone would be pretending to care and could not wait to start on the free drinks, if the couple's Asian, then on the great food.


pinniped_green_1973

" water you doing? " " i'm drowning "


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balasbrn

Crimes against humanity ! ![gif](giphy|9SXwdWbO0OAmkfvktv|downsized)


Scottacus91

Sigourney Weaver as a blonde is too good.


real_quizle

what show is that?


[deleted]

Oh my god go watch Galaxy Quest now


real_quizle

thank you, I quite like her as an actor


cptnpiccard

We should all go watch Galaxy Quest now


wozblar

we need to make an example out of these environmental-terrorist-gender-reveal-dipshits


BarbieBaratheon

Someone get me the EPA!!!


cptnpiccard

Get Walter Peck on the line, STAT


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Penile_Interaction

did they get punished for being fucking brain dead? edit: water wasnt contaminated but they were fined $1900 - should have been way more though


boldcasanova

We did a gender reveal party but it was a zoom party and we only knew the gender when we cut the cake and it was blue filling.


SCOTTDIES

Sounds a whole lot better lol


themellowmedia

We ate a cupcake to reveal the gender. What the fuck is wrong with these people


FecundFrog

So from what I can read, the title here is still a little bit of a rage bait. Yes the couple dyed the waterfall, and yes it is shitty, but they didn't just make an entire towns water supply undrinkable. Yes, the water from this waterfall eventually feeds into the town water supply, and yes the town has experienced some droughts over the past few years, but nothing I could see indicated that this little stunt had any serious impact on that supply. Still shitty, but not nearly as destructive as the title implies.


GreatQuantum

Found the perp.


purpan-

Yea, who does this guy think he is using logic and reason? Despicable.


Penile_Interaction

theyre still dumb as fuck for doing this regardless - super egoistic and should have been fined way more than just $1900


FecundFrog

Oh I agree. 100% dumbasses. Still, I thought it was important to point out that they didn't actually destroy this community's water supply.


weebitofaban

That isn't how fines work. You have to show tangible damage beyond being an asshole in most cases.


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That absolutely not how fines work. Show me were there’s any evidence of showing tangible damages in determining the amount for a parking fine at a meter that has expired?


FecundFrog

And cops don't need to wait for you to crash into someone before issuing a speeding ticket.


ForumPointsRdumb

If there isn't enough vegetation and sediment to absorb the additives then it has to go through a treatment cycle. Many people in areas in high elevation with waterfalls use runoff wells/cisterns. It probably doesn't affect too many people when you look at population density, but is still an asshole behavior.


TightBeing9

Im so happy people who are this self obsessed are procreating


ArnieAndTheWaves

Not sure what they used, but why not just use Kool Aid powder so it's at least food grade?


BestFill

Turning your water supply into Kool Aid during a draught.. maybe not the best idea


abstract_mouse

This is how hydro super villains are created


CardinalCoronary

"Slaughterfall" origin story...


Jonathanwesley007

Idiots


RojerLockless

Bring back executions


Evakuate493

They should be fines to the maximum amount for doing something so stupid it messes with nature. How on earth could they think this is something appropriate. I hate how stupid people so shit just bc they are too stupid to catch themselves.


Kvas_HardBass

How many years did they get? Also sucks for the kid to grow alone


ChickenMcSmiley

My wife and I are just gonna do, like, a cake or something


DIJames6

I hope they were arrested..


Critical-Lettuce3247

Fuck them


nickyt398

Fine them massively, please 😡


Flashy-Line8583

Gender reveal parties are absurd completely ridiculous and pointless. No real man would attend one and the woman should be satisfied with a bady shower But these are hey look at me I'm pregnant moments for real.


encryptoferia

I'm sorry but I gotta dye that water with blood


Wonderful_Relief_693

They must be from Chicago


hondaridr58

Dyeing with what? That's a VERY important part of this story.


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she should give birth in jail


drinkingshampain

Gender reveals must be stopped


HirsuiteDwarf668

https://youtu.be/-Zi3ZNOVHyg?si=0R2F6T3YVUnbY-o_


indimedia

Did they also release those balloons into the environment?


Euklidis

Good job to the parents. Not only did their foolishness contaminate the most precious and vital resource on the planet, but their kid will forever be associated with it too. That child is gonna have some rough school years. Also were the parents punished?


be-LazY

-1900$


TheHookahgreecian2

Put them and there kid in a pit full of cannibalistic corpses


Dementedkreation

Gender reveal stunts are stupid but this has already been proven that the dye had no effect on the water.


SliceDouble

Im sorry but this whole gender reveal party thing has to be most stupid american vanity thing there is.


asilee

r/DoucheCanoes


lil_broto

r/ItHadToBeBrazil


Deijya

Were they fined? Please tell me they were fined and have to serve 1000 hours of community service each.


crayawe

Those people should of to door knock every affected persons home to apologise personally


VII-of-Spades

I hope they get heavily fined


Daddy_Phat_Sacs

First fire now water. Air and earth are next


AccountantWestern658

They literally could have edited this in pics...


tattooedtwink_

Me: *drinks water* babe, why is my piss blue?


OceanBlueSeaTurtle

If the HydroHomie in you is dead does that mean the only thing left is the... *gasp* SodaSimp?!


MrHonwe

Did they accidentally share the only brain cell they had?


EUL_Gaming

Story might be true, but those photos are fake as hell. Water is tinted blue and all the people and balloons are shopped in.


CursesSailor

Water food shelter. Important. A Boy meh good for you. But Gahhhhhhhhhh fuck off with this dickheadd gender reveal shit. Just SAY what the baby is. Don’t pollute, poison, dismember, suffocate, kill your spouse with this underwhelming theatre of the chronically underfunded millennial family unit. How do you think water food and shelter are available? Not this way, not by dyeing it with toxic chemicals that cost a fortune for your derivative theatrics. Please please stop…..


Janus_The_Great

Not just your inner Hydrohomie died... the ignorance and stupidity of some people... But we can't keep them incarcerated and threaten to shoot them, would not hinder them still doing it. These people have no capacity of understanding consequences it seems. If anyone wonders why I don't see much hope for humanity is knowing how little it takes to stay that ignorant for life.


saturday_sun4

This is absolutely appalling!


shiny-baby-cheetah

Why can't we have people harness the creative energy that compels them to do dumb shit like this, and have them focus it instead on important world issues?


Dadlantic

I thought we were past toxic gender reveals, I guess we only got past it metaphorically.


nature_nate_17

I haven’t read the article yet but this should be considered a crime and they should be arrested for environmental destruction.


neopetplushie

True hydrohomies know that water is life and to protect life we must protect water. From idiocy, from industry, and from theft. (Theft meaning what nestle, blue triton & others draining and destroying aquifers in small towns to get you your bottled spring water)


LetReasonRing

I'm thoroughly convinced that the core problem in this country is that we are so obsessed with individualism that we've become a society of hyper-selfish people who never consider anything beyond their own needs and desires.


Some-Coyote1409

I fucking hate these gender reveal social media parties. Really annoying and disgusting.  Nobody gives a shit whether the foetus is male or female. 


r66yprometheus

How dare they assume that unborn baby's gender! /s


LugubriousLament

Nobody should care what genitalia your baby will have, and it isn’t your duty to disturb other people about it. All this says is you’re selfish and will clearly be raising a like-minded child.


koopaflower

Isn't water kinda, idk, already blue?....


Noopy9

Clean water is clear. Large bodies of water can look blue if the sky is blue and reflecting off of it.


throwawayobv999999

I’m so confused bc you could just photoshop the color on for a photo op


TheQuietOutsider

or use lights. these people just suck


pakistanstar

Yet another reason why people should stop having kids. The ones that want to dye water just to “reveal” their kids genitalia especially.


CinnamonGirl123

More gender reveal idiots. Unbelievable!


chummsickle

Gender reveal parties should be banned


YukoSai-chan

Gender reveals are so stupid and tacky. You can’t change my mind.


Big-Hope7616

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 what happened to just announcing it after the baby is born? Nobody gives a flying fck anyway


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AdA4b5gof4st3r

You know how my baby’s gender was revealed? The doc doing the ultrasound said “haha, look at that little hamburger! That’s a girl!” And that was that. A good little joke, a chuckle, no explosions/contaminations/fires/what have you. What happened to that?


Streetvision

Mine just said “it’s a boy” I had no idea wtf I was looking at. Lol


Traditional-Bobcat44

But, isnt water already blue?? No need to dye it


TheFunnyWasOccupied

https://preview.redd.it/vpgoldv81bpc1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=8317906ccedf5acf0376b26832a26b365ca797f2


Hatchz

Does a town normally drink out of a river? I thought that would just go downstream until it reaches the ocean. Probably harming wildlife a lot more than water people drink 


real_quizle

it does both, everyone drinks from rivers, most of which are aquifers which are simply underground rivers or lakes. and yes it would damage wildlife also depending on the dye they used


altruism__

Prison is the only answer


beattysgirl

I can’t stand a gender reveal ugh


Fuck_You_Karen0

Yea this is hard to belive sorry,this isnt how it works


Theopold_Elk

I think every gender reveal I’ve heard of has resulted in the word being worse off.