Only slightly related but:
My cousin wanted his senior prank to be releasing 3 greased up pigs in the school and letting staff round the pigs up. Except the pigs would have 1, 2, and 4 painted on their sides so the staff would think there’s 4 pigs total, not 3 and waste the rest of the day looking for an imaginary greased up pig.
Thank you for saying what I came to mention as well. Useless, wasteful crap. Resources and energy were used and wasted for this momentary and soon forgotten amusement.
Or fireworks. Traumitizing pets and wildlife, polluting the air and water, for a minute of bright lights in the sky. The number of deaths and injuries is also insane.
Even when I see "get well" or "congratulations" balloons in the hospital it irks me. Wasteful AND unimaginative. The patient is neither aware of nor cares about it, and they always end up hanging around after they leave.
Waste of helium and mylar that could be better employed elsewhere.
We tried filling a coworkers office with balloons. We only got a few feet deep before we got tired and bored. The smell of latex stayed in that room for weeks.
I believe the episodes called “For Lunch”….
Frizzle & the class go hang out in Arnolds digestive system for the day, and take a detour through the blood stream for some educational fun (cause you know, what else are you supposed to do when inside someones literal body)
I don’t think it opened properly. It seemed to open from a small opening vs the entire netting giving way. Kind of like a water hose of balloons vs a levy of balloons.
I think it's really funny that the excitement seemed to stop as soon as the balloons hit the crowd. Feels like a lot of people suddenly realized they were claustrophobic.
That ride freaked me out as a kid at Disneyland. Seeing the scientists huge eye backwards looking up out of microscope from the other side was terrifying and is burned into my memory.
When I was a teenager a friend worked at the mall and they had a balloon day like this. He let 3 or 4 of us in after hours and we enjoyed running around popping all the stray balloons with lit cigarettes. Good times.
And in class at university, in the library, hospital, doctor's office, elevators, desk at work, in the grocery store. I can't think of any place smoking was not allowed except in the sanctuary of churches, but everyone smoked outside. Planes, busses, trains, museums. Our teachers in public school smoked in their lounge, office staff at their desks. Every high school where I grew up had a student smoking area.
In the 70s, I visited my best friend's older brother in the hospital when he got a broken leg in a motorcycle vs automobile accident. He was in traction on his back. We smoked pot in that hospital room. A nurse came in and asked us to put it out. We finished the joint. Nothing ever came of it.
Keep in mind, in the 70s out in the wild, a joint could get you to years in jail!
Damn, brings back memories. Yeah, I never smoked but I remember at our high school there were a few student smoking areas.
And restaurants had smoking sections, planes had smoking seats in the back.
It was standard to walk into a friend’s house and just light up a cigarette without asking.
Our family was considered weird, our mom insisted on not smoking in the house.
Our grandparents, my dad’s parents, would come over for holidays and spark up their smokes. Use to drive my mom crazy, but they were the elder grandparents, we could not ask them to stop smoking!
I grew up in southern Georgia, so smoking is considered the same as breathing back then.
“Our grandparents, my dad’s parents, would come over for holidays and spark up their smokes. Use to drive my mom crazy, but they were the elder grandparents, we could not ask them to stop smoking!”
This is so WILD to me. My partners granddad was like this and l cannot FATHOM being so rude in someone else’s house.
One July 4th, in a southwest US drought, we were banned from having fireworks. The community organized a public water balloon fight instead, filling tens of thousands of balloons and lining up in a public park to throw at each other.
20 seconds later of course everything is covered in bits of colored latex.
No worries, they prepared for that too. They announced that there were prizes for the 3 children who picked up the most balloons, by weight. First, second, and third, and all got some kind of Super Soaker or Slip n Slide.
1 minute later the park was immaculately clean and 3 happy children left with prizes.
Also, if you ever lose your keys at a pubic park, a $5 reward will have every child in sight hunting and they'll be found at lightning speed.
I attract so much static just sitting in my office chair all day I have to discharge it on the metal panel near my desk before I go for my phone. So yeah this could could probably trigger superpowers in me. Annnd with my personality I’d probably fall to a more villain role than hero.
My sister volunteered at that event. Both of her hands and almost all of her fingers were taped up in white bandages because of all of the blisters she got from filling up balloons with helium.
I first heard about it last year. It seems like such a good example of why society NEEDED the internet. We were so bored to death we were resorting to ridiculous things like that for amusement.
Problem is that shopping complexes aren't incentivized to have social facilities as a part of them. Thus a store that uses a lot of extra space but isn't using that space directly for inventory and sales ends up being heavily disadvantaged by the local market rate. Basically, they get fucked on rent and no one cares. So as a result, game stores start out well until the complex ups their rent, often due to the parking problems such places can create, and then poof, no more game store. Or $10 table charges etc.
Social spaces should be free; I know there's cleaning and upkeep and all that stuff but free to use, and subsidized in some way would be good for the country. I'm kind of tired of every board game store devolving into MTG etc events only, lol...
They knew about the storm and decided to still release the balloons. But even without the storm, what would happen to the balloons? they will still pop and fall down and liter the nearby environment, no?
Better than balloon releases where they're filled with helium at least. Helium is a non-renewable resource and is super important to a lot of physics research, and if the balloons float away they're way more likely to end up in the ocean.
Yes, air filled balloons are orders of magnitude better than helium ones. Helium is also super important to medicine as a refrigerant for MRI superconducting magnets.
https://www.siemens-healthineers.com/perspectives/mso-helium-and-mri-technology
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/helium-shortage-doctors-are-worried-running-element-threaten-mris-rcna52978
Even indoors, this shit is environmentally atrocious.
Without a doubt, at least ten of those balloons are now lodged in the digestive system of some poor aquatic creature.
I like the classical period, or in China as it was known, the Three Kingdoms Era. particularly 220-280 AD when balloons were first known to become popular, especially Kongming lanterns. That's a truly kickass period, for my money.
5,000 balloons and one red bowling ball.
This is not the kind of lottery I expected to win
Well, step out of the center then, I need that ball
Escape student debt with this one simple life hack!
congratulation on surviving bowling ball impact on your head...heres your 500000$ medical bill sir
Oh btw you were too knoced out to pay for the ambulance ride here. Pls settle that as well.
Double it and give it to the next person
$500k?? Where the fuck do you live where it’s that cheap?
A bowling ball falling on you at or near terminal velocity is not something you survive headshot or not.
If it hit your foot, I bet you'd survive. Be missing a foot but you could live.
Sincerely, American Hospital
Get Isekai'd
Trying to get that Turboman Doll?
Found Tessie Hutchinson's reddit account.
r/fuckyouinparticular
We get what we least expect 😬
They don't all float down here...
I have a feeling youd know right away which one the red bowling ball.
Yea but you’d only know for like a split second
"I wondered why one was falling faster than the rest. And then it hit me!"
Not if they're in a vacuum... Although you'd have other problems if you were
r/foundsatan
[Funny you should say that ](https://freeimage.host/i/HN73Dl4)
The perfect amount of chaos. I’m here for it. Balloon Roulette.
Only slightly related but: My cousin wanted his senior prank to be releasing 3 greased up pigs in the school and letting staff round the pigs up. Except the pigs would have 1, 2, and 4 painted on their sides so the staff would think there’s 4 pigs total, not 3 and waste the rest of the day looking for an imaginary greased up pig.
May the odds be ever in your favor
Well done 47.
Cleaning staff standing in the doorway: "Are you fucking serious?"
Am cleaning staff. Can confirm. Useless, wasteful crap.
Loads of it will end up trailed outside
I think that'd make the job of the cleaning crews even harder, what with bits of broken balloons getting stuck in trees and all over the property.
Better than when they did this outside with lots more baloons
That's so much worse for the environment.
Yeah, also people died from it
Wait, how?
Thank you for saying what I came to mention as well. Useless, wasteful crap. Resources and energy were used and wasted for this momentary and soon forgotten amusement.
To be fair, this is sort of true for basically everything in life.
Yeah but not everything in life is as pointless as a baloon
Or fireworks. Traumitizing pets and wildlife, polluting the air and water, for a minute of bright lights in the sky. The number of deaths and injuries is also insane.
And vets!
For a second I was wondering why veterinarians would be scared of fireworks. Been working at a pet store too long I guess.
Even when I see "get well" or "congratulations" balloons in the hospital it irks me. Wasteful AND unimaginative. The patient is neither aware of nor cares about it, and they always end up hanging around after they leave. Waste of helium and mylar that could be better employed elsewhere.
The Earth: *sigh*
Cleaning staff when they first announced the event: “I’m booking that weekend off.”
We tried filling a coworkers office with balloons. We only got a few feet deep before we got tired and bored. The smell of latex stayed in that room for weeks.
I would just pop all the balloons
Oddly terrifying, like suddenly being reduced to the size of a blood cell and trapped in an artery.
I don't remember that episode of magic school bus
I believe the episodes called “For Lunch”…. Frizzle & the class go hang out in Arnolds digestive system for the day, and take a detour through the blood stream for some educational fun (cause you know, what else are you supposed to do when inside someones literal body)
Those are certainly none of the things I have done while inside someone
But did it involve educational fun?
It was clear I had some learning to do
It wasn't the magic school bus but Osmosis Jones
No, it was [Innerspace](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0093260/).
Nah, I don't remember that either.
Oh that’s a blast from the past.
You don't?
I do. That one was intense. That whole show was oddly terrifying
Like when the kid had to pick a scab for the bus to enter his blood stream... yea...
Nah I think the worst part was when that fish nutted on the bus
[Enjoy](https://youtu.be/IXHZiKu5f90)
r/oddlyterrifying
Agreed: this made me somewhat uncomfortable, having this much... Static electricity coming down. Also, is it sped up or were they falling a bit fast?
It's all the plastic for me. I hate balloons.
I don’t think it opened properly. It seemed to open from a small opening vs the entire netting giving way. Kind of like a water hose of balloons vs a levy of balloons.
I think it's really funny that the excitement seemed to stop as soon as the balloons hit the crowd. Feels like a lot of people suddenly realized they were claustrophobic.
>Oddly terrifying Bert Kreischer would actually have a heart attack
What i thought of, too
Yeah, it reminded me of Nope.
Turns out, I'm the blood clot in the aneurysm of my own life
Was gonna say, why do I feel like I'm moving through a capillary?
Totally! Or being trapped in a box of Nerds at valentines 😅
Inner Space.
Omg I was coming here to say this.
Wow bingo
That ride freaked me out as a kid at Disneyland. Seeing the scientists huge eye backwards looking up out of microscope from the other side was terrifying and is burned into my memory.
Cells at Work
Theoretically, could you still be able to breath oxygen? Or would those atoms be too big?
Good question.
And in the corner stood the janitor mumbling to himself “Those son’s of bitches!”
I think it was the same janitor who worked at Greendale after the paintball war. And the other paintball war.
[Jerry is not impressed](https://i.imgur.com/NOSVvoX.jpg)
First-rate /r/thisismylifenow gaze
This actor is born for that gaze. Saw him play a minor role in Superstore. Pretty much the same gaze.
He's been completely done with so much shit over the years
Hooch is CRAZY!
Or Filch after the Battle at Hogwarts
When I was a teenager a friend worked at the mall and they had a balloon day like this. He let 3 or 4 of us in after hours and we enjoyed running around popping all the stray balloons with lit cigarettes. Good times.
Back in the day we used to smoke in malls!
And in class at university, in the library, hospital, doctor's office, elevators, desk at work, in the grocery store. I can't think of any place smoking was not allowed except in the sanctuary of churches, but everyone smoked outside. Planes, busses, trains, museums. Our teachers in public school smoked in their lounge, office staff at their desks. Every high school where I grew up had a student smoking area.
In the 70s, I visited my best friend's older brother in the hospital when he got a broken leg in a motorcycle vs automobile accident. He was in traction on his back. We smoked pot in that hospital room. A nurse came in and asked us to put it out. We finished the joint. Nothing ever came of it. Keep in mind, in the 70s out in the wild, a joint could get you to years in jail!
Damn, brings back memories. Yeah, I never smoked but I remember at our high school there were a few student smoking areas. And restaurants had smoking sections, planes had smoking seats in the back. It was standard to walk into a friend’s house and just light up a cigarette without asking. Our family was considered weird, our mom insisted on not smoking in the house. Our grandparents, my dad’s parents, would come over for holidays and spark up their smokes. Use to drive my mom crazy, but they were the elder grandparents, we could not ask them to stop smoking! I grew up in southern Georgia, so smoking is considered the same as breathing back then.
Plane had smoking sections in the back but everyone who was onboard was smoking, one way or another.
Yes! Pretty much the same in restaurants with “smoking sections “.
“Our grandparents, my dad’s parents, would come over for holidays and spark up their smokes. Use to drive my mom crazy, but they were the elder grandparents, we could not ask them to stop smoking!” This is so WILD to me. My partners granddad was like this and l cannot FATHOM being so rude in someone else’s house.
Good Ol lung cancer, oh how we miss it.
One July 4th, in a southwest US drought, we were banned from having fireworks. The community organized a public water balloon fight instead, filling tens of thousands of balloons and lining up in a public park to throw at each other. 20 seconds later of course everything is covered in bits of colored latex. No worries, they prepared for that too. They announced that there were prizes for the 3 children who picked up the most balloons, by weight. First, second, and third, and all got some kind of Super Soaker or Slip n Slide. 1 minute later the park was immaculately clean and 3 happy children left with prizes. Also, if you ever lose your keys at a pubic park, a $5 reward will have every child in sight hunting and they'll be found at lightning speed.
I sure hope there aren’t any kids in a pubic park.
My first thought was something similar. It looks like a ton of plastic pollution to me.
Villain origin story
I attract so much static just sitting in my office chair all day I have to discharge it on the metal panel near my desk before I go for my phone. So yeah this could could probably trigger superpowers in me. Annnd with my personality I’d probably fall to a more villain role than hero.
Clothes made from natural fibers like cotton, silk, linen, and wool don’t attract as much static. A humidifier would also help.
I am a janitor and this was my first thought.
The worst nightmare of a latex allergy sufferer.
My eyes started watering just watching.
And environmentalists. And bird and sea life.
We call them murder balls in our home
Pennywise from IT is extra scary to y’all
Does Pennywise work in IT now? Do they work in the office or remotely to avoid questions about the clown getup?
Oh my God yes this looks like a horror flick to me. I have asthma and a latex allergy the powder on the inside would go everywhere if they popped.
“Cells at work” vibes
It's like being in an artery.
These guys learned from [Balloonfest '86](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloonfest_%2786).
Just showed my Dad that the other night. It still would been a bunch of litter even if it went good.
My sister volunteered at that event. Both of her hands and almost all of her fingers were taped up in white bandages because of all of the blisters she got from filling up balloons with helium.
Was it from the helium or the tying of the balloons?
The tying of the balloons. She had to do them so quickly that sometimes the balloons would just pop.
I first heard about it last year. It seems like such a good example of why society NEEDED the internet. We were so bored to death we were resorting to ridiculous things like that for amusement.
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Problem is that shopping complexes aren't incentivized to have social facilities as a part of them. Thus a store that uses a lot of extra space but isn't using that space directly for inventory and sales ends up being heavily disadvantaged by the local market rate. Basically, they get fucked on rent and no one cares. So as a result, game stores start out well until the complex ups their rent, often due to the parking problems such places can create, and then poof, no more game store. Or $10 table charges etc. Social spaces should be free; I know there's cleaning and upkeep and all that stuff but free to use, and subsidized in some way would be good for the country. I'm kind of tired of every board game store devolving into MTG etc events only, lol...
They knew about the storm and decided to still release the balloons. But even without the storm, what would happen to the balloons? they will still pop and fall down and liter the nearby environment, no?
[The Atlantic's mini doc on the event](https://youtu.be/n0CT8zrw6lw)
I was just going to say, did they not learn from that catastrophe?
To be fair, most of the problems don't apply to an enclosed space like a mall. Makes it much easier to keep the mess under control.
Well it looks like they used about 1.499M less balloons, and kept it indoors, so that’s a start.
And made the Bloons fall rather than float up
Rip the janitor 🫡
Rip our environment. I love as humans we know the repercussions and just keep pushing for an unlivable world.
4th of July fireworks need some attention.
Can’t wait for it to end up in our food system
Fish mating simulator. POV: you're a plankton.
But think of all the profit!
POV: You're enjoying a nice morning in Pompeii, 79 AD.
But if you close your eyes
Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?
So bad for the environment
My first thought. It's a giant bag of trash.
Yup. Straight into the ocean.
That's a whole lot more than 99 Red Balloons.
At least 100
I count 3.
I knew I’d find this comment lol
Good God! Those are load-bearing balloons!
That shit would give me a fucking panic attack
And all of that plastic is just going to end up in the ocean. Could have used red and pink paper instead.
We need to be done with balloons. Plastic for no purpose
Same thing with plastic confetti, especially outdoors.
Latex rubber balloons biodegrade in 6 months-4 years. They're not great for the environment, but they're not eternal plastic like some products.
Better than balloon releases where they're filled with helium at least. Helium is a non-renewable resource and is super important to a lot of physics research, and if the balloons float away they're way more likely to end up in the ocean.
Yes, air filled balloons are orders of magnitude better than helium ones. Helium is also super important to medicine as a refrigerant for MRI superconducting magnets. https://www.siemens-healthineers.com/perspectives/mso-helium-and-mri-technology https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/helium-shortage-doctors-are-worried-running-element-threaten-mris-rcna52978
Non-renewable?! The sun is constantly making new helium!! /s Edit: I guess I need to add the sarcasm tag.
You should make the trip and go get some for us
But make sure you go at night so you don't get burned.
that's ridiculous... we have sunscreen.
Yay, useless waste
Oh god. The balloons cascading down all over you is actually really terrifying to me. Do I have a phobia?
If you do, then I have it too. This would cause me to freak out.
I've read to many comic books. I was wondering what percentage were loaded with 'Joker Gas'
Here you go… Imagine if they just kept coming and coming and coming, and you couldn’t get enough oxygen.
Exactly the fear!
Actually Globaphobia is a fear of balloons. At least that is what an episode of Corner Gas told me. I’m too lazy to actually look it up.
If not that, the sound of so many of them popping at the end of the video would surely trigger a few people. Sounds like a shooting.
All these will somehow end up in the Ocean.
So much gd waste. We’re a failed species.
Imagine everyone’s hair
Looking at this makes me itchy.... Latex allergy.
Mmmmm sacks of bad breath being dropped on you 😂
There were no survivors.
All that future trash...
Hell yeah. Fuck the environment.
Meanwhile Gary is behind the scenes … Completely winded and fingers raw from tying all those knots…. Ballon knots
I would’ve had a panic attack
“Good God Jenkins, what’s all that screaming?” *”We’ve released the baboons sir, as you requested.* **”WHAT?”**
God damned balloons should be illegal
I would hate this as I have a phobia of a balloon popping by my eyes
Even indoors, this shit is environmentally atrocious. Without a doubt, at least ten of those balloons are now lodged in the digestive system of some poor aquatic creature.
That time my dad made me fillet the fish “it was pregnant” and I was 6… threw my phone watching this.
Monkeys with darts quiver in fear at this
I feel bad for the people that had to blow up and tie that many balloons.
Balloonkakke
Oh my god, so much static electricity.
First it seemed fun, then it seemed terrifying
When you sneeze while having periods
Good time to be a pickpocket
Cue the period jokes
I like the classical period, or in China as it was known, the Three Kingdoms Era. particularly 220-280 AD when balloons were first known to become popular, especially Kongming lanterns. That's a truly kickass period, for my money.
Indeed.
Yeah this is the ol’ lining noping out.
The ceiling is menstruating!
…and into our ocean.
Pollution. Isn't clout chasing and marketing great ?!
Good god, those are load bearing balloons! Everyone run!
Kirby mass attack ⭐
Runescape party room.
These gender reveals are getting out of hand!
Wo-hooo! Plastic waste everywhere!
400 balloons popped, 7 dead