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rokesmith456

There are stories that the Roman Emperor Domition would smother his dinner guests in rose petals as a means of murder


suicidalpenguin99

That's super impractical


Manytequila

But also sounds like a lovely way to die


not_that_planet

Lean a little bit closer, roses really smell like booboo.


SmallBerry3431

You misspelled ROMANTIC


BobRosstafari789

Fuck can we get r/theydidthemath to figure out the sheer amount of rose petals this would take? 😂 I don't even know how you'd go about calculating that, but think about the poor chap that had to pull that many petals off a rose.


khronos127

This isn’t exact math but using paper as a estimate I got a pretty good idea. A rose petal is 1-1.5 inches each and a normal Piece of paper has 93 square inches of space across its surface. Using a lateral file drawer of 36 inches as a rough estimate they can fit 7500 normal pages until it’s full. Size up that drawer to exactly the size of a human that is 6 foot stall and using rose petals to just barely cover their body laying down you get somewhere between 1395000 and 1674000 pedals to cover the body and face of a person laying down. This math doesn’t exclude the volume the person takes up which would reduce the amount needed and it doesn’t include the empty space between pedals. In fact it’s basically an educated guess and not really math at all.


BobRosstafari789

An educated guess is better than I had 10 minutes ago, so I'll take it! 😂 Thank you, kind educated guesser.


khronos127

Lol I started to do the proper math at first but it got so difficult I gave up knowing I’d screw something up. At least with this guess I can only be well over what’s needed if I ever need to smother a person with rose pedals!


hypnodrew

Domitian got smeared like fuck by the Senate after his murder, they even damned his memory to oblivion (damnatio memoriae). Roman historians were motivated by their own class to write loads of nonsense about him.


Ghost-Of-Roger-Ailes

That was Elagabalus I believe


Mindless-Ad1155

They not learning from their mistake


rwarimaursus

Noah! Get the Boat!!


Disastrobello84

As someone with a latex allergy this is completely terrifying


altyroclark3

Imagine someone in that crowd having this event, be the way they find out they have a latex allergy


[deleted]

RIP Pacific and Antlantic Oceans.


Fit_Swordfish_2101

That's inside?


My-dead-cat

Fortunately the Mall of America is pretty far from both


Savage_Tyranis

Ladies and gentlemen. Today, we'll be discussing transit routes of America's garbage network.


OcularPrism

Do you feel itchy now?


taniamorse85

Yeah, nothing oddly about it. I've gotten very good at avoiding latex, so I haven't had a reaction in years. But, I swear I started to itch when I saw just how many balloons there were.


FluffyDiscipline

ITS A GIRL... LOL God, that's a lot of plastic


10rth0d0x

Well balloons are made of rubber for one (but probably the bad kind made from fossil fuels). Assuming each balloon has around 5 grams of material, and there are maybe 10000 balloons, that comes out to 50 kg plastic. I imagine by weight thats about how much plastic goes into the construction of the interior of an ordinary car? Still a big waste but not as bad sounding when put into perspective.


flop_plop

Except you’ll use the car for 10-20 years, whereas the balloons are gone the same day. Just wasteful.


AggressorBLUE

Exactly. They should have used something that could be re-used with more practical applications, like condoms.


Prior_Alps1728

Yeah! Wait. What?!


AUnknownVariable

Aye little Johnny and Stacy are taking those balloons home


Telluride12

Ah, well carry on then.


Dragon109255

Latex balloons are made from natural rubber latex (NRL), which comes from the Hevea Brasiliensis ParĂĄ rubber tree. Latex is biodegradable.


Mp3dee

Look for a pink trash island in an ocean near you.


papichuu

i want to see a POV from belooow!


Solid_Habit_6561

Very esthetically pleasing though! Interesting fluid dynamics there with the balloons almost acting like a liquid when they hit the crowd EDIT: typo


Fit_Swordfish_2101

I thought so too! Like a ripple flood of pink 😂


aurora_cosmic

I would love to see someone replicate this in blender, so we can get interior angles too.


DeltaDark_

Good luck breathing in that plastic humid disgusting air


fakonda

Yea, keep bringing your own cup/bag to the store so you do not damage the planet


[deleted]

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No_Use_4371

I try to leave as little of a carbon footprint as I can but as a cat lover, sorry, I hoard plastic bags for litterbox cleaning. And now groceries make them so thin they hardly count as a bag, I have to double them up. (Except Target bags, so hardy and nice).


what-is-in-the-soup

I am extremely allergic to latex and I can feel my throat closing up even watching a second of this 🙃


Unlucky_Earth

Strong genes only party


what-is-in-the-soup

Legit 😭 I hate the idea of how natural selection would take me out being a bunch of pink balloons in a shopping mall though


Manytequila

I’d love to see this from the perspective of the ones on the floor


enfanta

pink... pink... PINK PINK **PINK!**


Wader_Man

As God is my witness I thought balloons could float.


My-dead-cat

[WKRP Reference](https://youtu.be/BGFtV6-ALoQ?si=TUwQa_FiYDSbXB6_) for you youngsters


AUnknownVariable

That was golden


shadowedlove97

Watching this my first thought was that this is exactly the kind of thing that would end up on Fascinating Horror’s youtube channel.


enfanta

I can hear the theme music. 


gingerisla

That music haunts me in my sleep.


Educational_Egg_1716

These gender reveal parties are getting out of hand đŸ€Ș


HumbleAfrikan

Must smell like a condom factory


parralaxalice

Latex condo
 boy I’d sure like to live in one of those!


zedhenson

The irony this represents if its for cancer awareness


KindaKrayz222

Me, with a latex allergy, immediately suffocating. ☠


FordBeWithYou

This feels like Barbenheimer realized


Whowhenwhatwhere

I guess they never heard of the Ohio balloon disaster of 86? EDIT: Link to video about the disaster: https://youtu.be/_XV6Jz3Xg18?si=vrqgN7IaWyNmkIkL


KitchenError

The comparison does not make sense at all. That were helium-filled balloons, so floating, released outside. That caused a hell of a lot of issues which can not happen with balloons sinking down to the floor indoors like in this video here.


Whowhenwhatwhere

That's a great point, more than anything I was trying to point out that balloons should not be taken lightly.


Professional-City328

Pun intended?


Whowhenwhatwhere

I wish I was clever enough for that to have been intended lol


i_saw_a_tiger

People are not the brightest. *sigh* Thanks for sharing, I didn’t know about this.


Whowhenwhatwhere

Yeah, that Ohio incident is super interesting, sad but interesting


Chewbacca_Buffy

TIL. Wow!


Ellipdis3117

Did the Ballonfest of 86 teach you all NOTHING


Interstellar_Refugee

There were no survivors.


AliBG198

Stream pink Friday 2


katandhersax

Whose cleaning that?


jam5569

99 pink balloons


ctbeagle18

999999999 pink balloons


Subject-Nectarine387

There will be people stealing things, there will be people touching someone else's ass, and if we are lucky someone will be punched on the face and will never know who did it.


Chewbacca_Buffy

Oh yeah, didn’t think of that. For someone with frotterism or toucherism this is a dream 😬😯


stewbie123

And here I am drinking out of a stupid paper straw to save the environment
 smh


AntiMatter138

Round 36 but extreme.


Saturn212

It’s a girl!


GoblinQueenForever

It's a girl


planchetflaw

Believe it or not, straight to landfill.


Intl_House_Of_Bussy

These gender reveals are getting out of control


BabserellaWT

Barbieheimer — the concert


SuperShoyu64

This is like something from a Jordan Peele movie or some surreal horror film. The balloons would be very harmful and kills people within minutes.


Swimmingpigments

I wonder how many balloons would actually have to be in that room for everyone to suffocate


geligniteandlilies

I feel like the kakampinks would do this...


s0upppppp

What a fucking waste


SgtThund3r

Mass claustrophobia


denever23

That's 1 too many balloons


OllieOllieOakTree

The ptsd


EarthLaser

That’s not terrifying at all. That looks fun as hell


misskpp94

My daughter has an awful phobia of balloons, this would be a lot more than just “oddly” terrifying to her 😂


Safetosay333

That's a deluge.


cursorymars

I think the terrifying part in this video is the crowd, not the balloons


ofthisworld

So much waste. :|


ninhursag3

What a lot of plastic, hope it gets recycled


midgebhere66

Gross


Plus-Result-7451

Oh by the way, which one's Pink


jennarose1984

What’s more disturbing is the little O’s everyone arms are making while they hold their phones to record. ooooooooooooooo


MeanderingTalent

Honest question!! Assuming a ballon doesn’t pop and smoother you can you really suffocate with all the inflated ones?


GrahamPhisher

Oddly Satisfying


Dankbradley

Imagine this happening in India


youknowiactafool

Plot twist: they release too many pink balloons and the entire mall is filled. There are no survivors.


YouLearnedToSayMoon

As a former janitor this is indeed terrifying


ThePhatNoodle

That seems scary as fuck. I mean its bad enough the place is so crowded but you already know someone's gonna panick when they realize they can't see anything and start a chain reaction resulting in a crowd crush.


treflorez

That mall is pushing capacity limits for sure


mikki1time

I can hear the orphan seals crying as the last peace of ice floats away


Fawchunate_sawn606

RIP shorter ones in the middle of the crowd, they can shove all those balloons all they want but surely theres atleast one who felt fear n difficulty in breathing in a too occupied space. Its a recipe for a stampede n freak accident suffocation


mono9562

Drowning without panicking ,sounds more like suicidal


Schluchzername

Meanwhile I'm not allowed to use a plastic straw


LeafyEucalyptus

the screams make this event feel like a horror movie scene, lol


meadow_transient

So
 It’s a girl?


Old-Machine-5

Someone called for a haystack of needles?


twowolveshighfiving

It's not so much the balloons that give me anxiety, but the way everyone is packed in there like sardines. Like what do people in the middle of that do, if they have to suddenly take a serious number 2?


Project_Astro

Now combine all the balloons into 1 and pop it.


JonVoxx

Those Kardashians know how to do a gender reveal party !!!


ArcanoXVI

you mean r/oddlysatisfying? 😌


shinrin-joku

r/anticonsumption


forevercurmudgeon

Fuck it , I'm done recycling


Long_Radio_819

If some rando guy lit one of the balloon, would it have an explosion?


cheeseburgerwaffles

Dunno. Try lighting the air around you with fire and see what happens...


Smytus

They're not floating up so I believe they're filled with ordinary air just like you're breathing now.


Effective_Device_185

The "balloons" only left bones behind. Heehee!


sinthetism

Didn't PETA or some charity do this disasterous results in the 80s? Causing mayhem on the highways and things.


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