Best party balloons for kids according to redditors

There are several different kinds of balloons. There's the long skinny kind that are intended to be filled with normal air and shaped into balloon animals. Then there's the normal general purpose round kind which can be filled with water, or air, or helium. Then there's the metallic ones which are intended to only be filled with helium. (The metallic coating holds the helium inside longer.) There's also the small thin ones which are intended to be filled with water. They're small so that you can throw them easily, they're thin so they will be more likely to break with they hit their target. There's also specialty balloons like the huge ones for use in advertising (Fill it with helium and have it haul a sign into the air.) and weather balloons.

However the balloon in the picture is none of those, it's actually a punching balloon, which is a large thick balloon which is intended to be filled with air and then using a rubber band around your wrist you punch it and it will bounce.

So this is a punching balloon filled with mercury.

I'll list a bunch of the stuff i've gotten from Amazon.

Color Changing Lightbulb with remote

Light Strips for behind TV or Desktop screen with remote

Light Strips for walls with remote

LED Neon Signs (There are a lot of different designs and colors so look around)

Glowing Moon Lamp


Star and Galaxy Emitter, TONS of different light options to choose from this ones a must

LED Charger just cause

Glowing Balloons for trips

Quality Christmas Lights

Powerful Blacklight

Color Changing Fairy Lights

Plasma Ball

Lava Lamp

You can get these from Amazon 2 for $7:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FYP2H6V

BalloonPlay Balloon Animal Kit with Bonus Balloon App with 40+ instructional Balloon Videos 58 quality balloons 4 different types pump markers stickers fun balloon activity kits for all ages https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0796GVV7V/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_-J4gDbAK0KMN9

Hand them out at the gate.

Deep breath. It's easy to get overwhelmed with stuff like this.

First of all: do you need decor? I know that Pinterest paints a very elaborate picture, but if you didn't have a scrap of decor, you would still have a wedding. To be honest, in your situation I would be paying more attention to catering before decor. If you don't have catering you're in a much bigger pickle as compared to not having decor. So settle the catering first.

If you are having the wedding in Ireland, unfortunately I have no good suggestions regarding cheap catering as my knowledge base is in the US. But I'd consider calling around to some local restaurants and asking if they cater. And consider very basic options. I know that people like to offer multiple proteins, for instance, but nobody is going to die if they go to a wedding and they get served baked chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, and a roll. (If you have vegetarians, they are probably going to be in the minority and you can likely work around them reasonably well.) Fewer options keep cost down.

Alternative desserts also keep costs down. Can you have family members bake a variety of cookies, for instance? It's not a three-tiered wedding cake, but homemade cookies are delicious. You can also look into purchasing non-wedding cakes or pies or things like that.

Anyway, I would nail that down first. And booze, if you are serving that.

Once you get that nailed down, then you can certainly turn your eye to decor. I would go non-floral if you are concerned about cost. Table linens don't cost that much to rent and will make a big pop.

I would avoid Pinterest-y details. Pinterest makes it look like everybody is going to have their eyes glued to the minor details but if you want to get the most bang, think big. Like, something like this: https://apracticalwedding.com/no-sew-wedding-backdrop/

Balloons can also do a lot for little money and it doesn't have to look like a child's birthday party. This is from the US version of Amazon, but I am sure you could find something similar: https://www.amazon.com/GuassLee-Balloons-Birthday-Festival-Decorations/dp/B06XX6ZFB8/ref=asc_df_B06XX6ZFB8/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198084865671&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4661775449470940938&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9016826&hvtargid=pla-348137796907&psc=1

Think big.

Good luck!

Punch balloon

Balloons! You can get them here

1. Alcor was guided by the policy exemplified by the maxim primum non nocere or, first, do no harm. Prior to this incident, Alcor's policy in such situations was to counsel the members about the inevitability of autopsy and its implication for his cryopreservation and if applicable to explain that his insurance will not pay and that Alcor will, under no circumstances, cryopreserve him if there is inadequate funding. Indeed, to do otherwise would require a vote of the full Alcor Board. Having done this, it was the policy to end communication with the member, call any family designated or others such as DPAHC in his Alcor paperwork and notify law enforcement.
   
2. Since Alcor at that time operated under the authority of a Medical Director who had ultimate responsibility for Alcor's actions with respect to how they handle such situations (e.g. living members) Alcor was bound under the California “Tarasoff statute”, which requires mandatory reporting of people who are threatening harm to self or others and is one of the few exceptions to the HIPPA act. Jerry Leaf, Steve Harris and I were all cognizant of this fact having had medical training and worked in a hospital environment. As Steve Harris notes in his Usenet exchange, Alcor lost this knowledge and expertise when they “froze out” every person with this knowledge and experience.
   
3. Over a three-week period, non-professional Alcor staff with absolutely no medical, psychological, psychiatric or other training in the management of suicidal patients engaged in an ad hoc and wholly inappropriate dialogue with a deeply depressed and suicidal man who was not terminally ill. During this time, they made medically and legally uninformed decisions about this member's condition and state of mind. Very seriously, they did not note that in addition to being depressed, the member was floridly irrational and consistently lied to Alcor personnel and supplied misleading information about his medical condition, all of which was apparent to the Alcor staff counseling this man at the time it was happening. Such behavior is typically a sign of additional severe mental illness that, apart from major depression, may well have been treatable.
   
   It was not within the scope of Alcor's expertise or capability to diagnose this man's mental illness or to act according to their often-chaotic personal judgment. Indeed, given that this member was consistently lying to them about other illnesses and health matters Alcor should have had every reason to question this member’s self-assessment of the futility of further psychiatric care. In short, they did not know this man, did not know his full medical history and were not in any way qualified to interpret or to act upon it.
   
   

4. Despite having at least two closely involved members who were state-licensed as a psychologist and psychiatrist respectively, and who had provided Alcor with advice in the past at no charge and indicated a willingness to continue to do so, Alcor never consulted with either of them. or with any other qualified professional, and instead spent 3-weeks stumbling around trying to decide what to do.
   
   
5. They allowed cryopreservation treatment, and the values and worldview associated with it, to become a determining factor in the medical management of a living, non-terminal member.
   
   
6. They allowed their personal libertarian philosophy and Thomas Szas-like approach to the management of severe mental illness to govern their decision-making, substituting this for core community standards and the law in the case of a non-terminal illness.
   
   
7. They concluded that it may have all been for the best because, despite the member having put a bullet through his brain and having remained undiscovered for at least a day, noting that the member got cryopreserved and thus has an opportunity to reach a time when his disease can be cured!
   
   
8. Instead of referring this member to individuals or institutions competent and certified to deal with him, they instead put him touch with an Alcor member who was herself diagnosed as severely mentally ill, and who had no medical or other training in dealing with suicidal individuals.
   
   
9. When there was serious criticism of their actions, including from medically qualified Alcor members, they did not change their position or acknowledged that they made a mistake.
   
   
10. They exposed Alcor, and more generally cryonics, to the risk of potential litigation, alienation of the professional medical community and increased public censure and ostracism.
    
    To be clear, suicide is not illegal in the U.S. and in a country swimming in firearms and in no short supply of tall buildings or rope, it is virtually impossible to prevent someone who is intent upon committing suicide from doing so. For those who want a no muss, no fuss and completely painless exit they can order a party helium tank on Amazon for ~$60: https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Ribbon-Balloon-Disposable-Helium/dp/B074SX4BCZ
    
    While not illegal, what suicide is is profoundly non-normative and against the core values of the society we live in. Even most libertarians are well informed of and abide by most norms, which are in effect social imperatives. It is not for instance, illegal to go out in public and to work in your underwear, to go about dressed up as an animal or cartoon character, to lick the anus of your dog or cat in public, to eat feces at lunch in front of your coworkers, or to cover you face in tattoos. Even people with IQs well to the left on the bell curve understand that, while not illegal, if they exhibit these kinds of behavior they will be subject to severe community disapproval, which may well result in ostracism, public, and private ridicule, loss of employment and loss of the ability to interact socially with most others.
    
    To my knowledge, cryonics organizations have had as members and patients one or more people from the following classes: habitual criminals, sex traffickers, pedophiles, murderers, underworld gangsters who have killed and terrorized many people, sociopaths, psychopaths, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, sexual paraphiliacs and drugs abusers (and this is the shortlist). [ And, to quote President Trump, and some “very fine people” as well.] Strangely enough, none of these people, or others like them are ever profiled on the cover or in the pages of any cryonics organizations magazines or newsletters. Instead, people accorded that honor are selected for their wholesome normality and often for their good looks. I raise this issue because it demonstrates that cryonics organizations diligently strive to project an image of “normality” that the community at large can relate to and they do this because they want to attract new members “from the public”. In other words, they have no compunction about creating a desirable public image for promotional purposes even if this is not representative of many of their members.
    
    To have behaved as they did in the “Mr. Daly” case, and then to publish the story in detail, implies (among other possibilities) that they are grossly irresponsible or social morons. With all of the other disgusting behaviors I’ve listed as violations of non-negotiable social norms, you will note that the public response to such behaviors, no matter how outraged, does not include notifying the authorities. By contrast, imminent suicide, while legal, most often does trigger action to prevent it. Indeed, such actions are mandatory for physicians, schools, hospitals and even prisons! It is at this point that we come to an important distinction. It isn’t really suicide that triggers social and legal intervention, but rather the communication of the intent to commit suicide to others. This is the case because such behavior is often a “cry for help”, and in any event, it unwillingly involves others in an issue with profound moral implications and the potential to cause serious distress, or even lasting psychological harm.
    
    People who have fully rationalized their decision to commit suicide do not involve strangers in their decision and if they do, they de facto void their right to take their own lives without triggering interventions to stop them. This is so axiomatic that even children understand it. The point here is that Alcor did not, and there is ample evidence that they continue in this fashion today. The Pilgeram lawsuit is a case in point. Who violates the terms of a member’s cryonics agreement to be cared for as a whole body by arbitrarily converting him to neuro after freezing him as a whole-body patient and then sends his cremated remains to his unsuspecting family? The answer is, “no one with a modicum of social intelligence or common human decency would do such a thing”.

Get one!

Nitrous is legal to possess, but illegal to use as an inebriant (in the US). I'm not sure what it's legal status in Mexico is.

I recommend getting a whipped cream dispenser like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Whipped-Dispenser-Aluminium-Whipper/dp/B01LXOTPEP/

Normally, these are used to make whipped cream at coffee shops or cake stores. You pour cream and sugar into the canister, then "charge" the canister with nitrous oxide. Nitrous chargers look like a CO2 cartridges, except they're filled with nitrous oxide instead of CO2. They typically come in boxes of 24. Once pressurized with nitrous charger, the cream and sugar mixture emerges as a thick cream foam when you pull the trigger.

However, for recreational purposes, you skip the whipped cream, and simply load the dispenser with pure nitrous oxide gas. You can then either suck the gas directly from the canister or blow up balloons with the gas. (If you use balloons, you can rebreathe the nitrous, which extends the experience and conserves on gas.) Punch balloons work well for this purpose:

https://www.amazon.com/Punch-Balloon-Sold-Individually-Colors/dp/B001F5P0OK

Balloons also make it easy to share the nitrous.

This video explains how to use it pretty well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfSqqs5SqZ0

As far as when to use it, I'd say it's good to use any time after you've come up. People tend to like it a lot, so be sure to stock many boxes and boxes of chargers, especially if it's a big party.

It has a very good safety profile. It's used as an anesthetic for children and old people. The main cause of injury is people who get wobbly and fall down. So, best to use in a padded environment, low to the ground. It has a low addiction potential (though I've known some people who got addicted). If you get addicted, the main risk is that you will suffer vitamin B12 depletion, which in turn leads to peripheral neuropathy (constant pain in fingers and toes). But you have to use boxes and boxes over months at a time for that to happen.

Visually, nitrous potentiates the effects of psychdelics/MDMA. Lights seem brighter, you often see tracers, and the whole world is bathed in a warm glow. It's very similar to the slo-mo scenes in the movie Dredd (note, some of the scenes in this clip are pretty violent):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0dyP-S10u0

I'm sure the directors of that movie have had LSD+nitrous.

Emotionally, it feels like you're in a state of bliss. Time slows so that it feels like you can hear every note of a song. All you can remember is being in this moment of bliss, and it feels like you will be in this moment of bliss forever.

As for the photo of the black diamond shape in the sky:

https://www.amazon.com/Square-Diamond-Shape-Balloons-Helium/dp/B071ZV3XXQ

/r/helpmefind or just google around for balloon flashing lights or something.

https://www.amazon.com/Multicolor-Balloon-Standby-Lantern-Decoration/dp/B07FSP3PD7

One of these and a few of these. You'll find them at most head shops.

So like...brutal balloons? https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XP4HK8K

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The mistake they made was thinking in two dimensions instead of three. Instead of running into area 51 like an average human would, they should have thought like an alien: tie yourself to several dozen helium-filled taco balloons and airdrop yourself over area 51.

I did that - for a while!

I filled them with water. Sounds scary, but it's not like a 'regular' balloon.

https://www.amazon.com/Assorted-Punching-Balloons-Rubber-Wedding/dp/B07D3K7ZLL/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1539279993&sr=8-4&keywords=kids+punching+balloon

Punch Balloons work really well for this. I usually do 3-5 chargers at once and they have no problem holding that many.

Hmm... In the movie "Vacation" the airbag that inflates in Chevy Chase's face is just a Hefty garbage bag shot with compressed ait on cue and the sound effect added in post. Depending on your angles, it could work. Another option is a 36" balloon you can tuck behind the wheel or even hit with compressed air to inflate on cue; the latex on those is pretty thick (not like a normal-sized balloon) and you should be able to get a few takes without hurting your actors if you wanted to do that. Or get an inflatable foot stool and just tape it to your steering wheel.

Look, if you can get a spent one from a junkyard, great. But every time I've gone to a junkyard the stuff I was looking for was long gone, so I'm just throwing you some options.

Good luck.

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In the future remove all the unnecessary stuff after the ? in the link. Eg: https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Ribbon-Balloon-Disposable-Helium/dp/B074SX4BCZ

>If you are intent on committing suicide it is obvious on the face of it that you are shooting yourself in the foot instead of in the head by telling (and traumatizing) others. Do you disagree?

In most cases you're probably right. In the case of cryonics it becomes very tricky, and thus advice from knowledgeable people is vital.

I recall trying to commit suicide as a young teen. I told my peers, and it wasn't a cry for help. It was just to see their reaction.

How is this Amazon seller is always #1 for their products when they are just launches, no feedback in most of their new products, etc.

Looks like they are doing Black hat method. They are not even doing Amazon PPC, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/stores/node/18266050011?_encoding=UTF8&field-lbr_brands_browse-bin=JOYIN&ref_=bl_dp_s_web_18266050011

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This is not fair for other legit sellers.

We should report them!

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Put together some viable midrange options based on your needs, enjoy!

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found some "pocket" helium tanks on Amazon but they seem quite expensive

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Ribbon-Balloon-Disposable-Helium/dp/B074SX4BCZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=GEVGL2K1N71Q&keywords=party+helium+tank&qid=1566717646&s=gateway&sprefix=party+hel%2Caps%2C242&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Healva-Europe-Standard-Adjustable-Elastic/dp/B074CWY2P5/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=oxygen+mask&qid=1566717719&s=gateway&sr=8-4