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In need of a fresh perspective- remote inflation and release of balloons
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james_s:
Aren't most balloons latex? It seems like a reasonable material to use, it certainly breaks down readily after a few years. I found a latex glove I had left in the sun for a few months and it turned to dust when I tried to pick it up.

Packaging is definitely an issue, I get annoyed not just at the types of packaging used but the excessive quantity I often encounter.
Zero999:

--- Quote from: james_s on May 05, 2019, 06:53:53 pm ---Aren't most balloons latex? It seems like a reasonable material to use, it certainly breaks down readily after a few years. I found a latex glove I had left in the sun for a few months and it turned to dust when I tried to pick it up.

Packaging is definitely an issue, I get annoyed not just at the types of packaging used but the excessive quantity I often encounter.

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Yes, balloons are traditionally latex, but plastic has become more common in recent years.
james_s:
That's annoying, I'm all for sticking to latex then, I was not aware of the change. Not that I use many balloons.
soldar:

--- Quote from: james_s on May 01, 2019, 11:39:34 pm ---Lawn darts were great, we played with them all the time when I was a kid. I find it rather sad that they were banned over a very small number of accidents involving improper use. I know I probably sound like an old geezer lamenting the state of the world but it really seems like we have become obsessed with protecting everybody from everything, thus bypassing natural selection and creating a generation of even more idiotic idiots. People who are shielded and protected from every threat the world has to offer never really grow up and never learn to deal with failure. Some of the most educational events in my life that left the most lasting impressions have been the occasional spectacular failures and times I had close brushes with death or serious injury. A bunch of my friends have kids and it's crazy the stuff I see, it makes the most neurotic and paranoid overprotective parents I ever encountered in my childhood look almost reckless.

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It's just a kid! It's not like you can't replace them! You can always make more!
james_s:

--- Quote from: soldar on May 06, 2019, 11:43:03 pm ---It's just a kid! It's not like you can't replace them! You can always make more!

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Well, my point is you can't protect everyone from every possible danger, and banning every object that could possibly hurt somebody is not a solution. When I was a kid we had lawn darts, there were jungle gyms and big swings and climbing ropes and sides and whatnot on the playground. When it snowed we were allowed to have snowball fights, and my friends and I spent our days during the summer roaming the neighborhood on our bikes and doing kid stuff, we'd come home when it was time for dinner. We got scuffs and scrapes, a few times someone got a broken bone but nobody I knew ever died.

Now there is so much fun stuff that kids aren't allowed to do anymore because everyone is paranoid about someone getting hurt but people end up being harmed in other ways. Sedentary lifestyles lead to obesity and other health problems, isolation and overprotective parents lead to mental health problems. A kid who has never been weened off parental protection is ill equipped to enter into the real world and take care of themselves. The world is full of dangers and a person needs to be capable of dealing with them. It's things like helicopter parenting, telling everyone that they're special, not letting anyone fail that lead to things like the incident of the kid shooting up their school after being rejected by a girl. He couldn't deal with rejection or failure.
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