Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 09, 2018

When did Teresa get into the FAKE NEWS business?

Some people react to info like this to do actual harm to themselves.

Hold Your Hit…

And don’t snort the condoms.

There are better uses.

He he…balloon on a string.

Balloonatics have taken over the as-helium

Bonnie, go lay across the ocean…Bonnie, go lie over the sea…bring back, bring back, that dern Bonnie to meeeeee…messages in a balloon.

I can see a lot of time and effort went into that sock puppet.

Probably the friendliest Reaper I’ve ever seen.

In my best Mickey Mouse voice, I would say: “Only you can prevent barotrauma and air embolism.”

If you inhale party balloons, your lungs may get clogged a bit with the rubber but Helium is a noble gas – it’s inert and doesn’t react with anything. So good trick if you can inhale FROM a balloon and have it replace oxygen in your blood. It can DISplace oxygen AND nitrogen and everything else that’s part of the air we normally breathe and it is used occasionally for suicide but straight nitrogen would do the same thing the same way: by crowding out the oxygen so there’s none in your lungs.

I had a friend who committed suicide via helium. She rented a tank, saying she needed it for party balloons, put a plastic bag over her head, rigged a spigot for the gas & taped everything down around her neck & laid on her bed. Her boyfriend got suspicious when she didn’t answer her door when he went to pick her up for Easter brunch.

Apropos of nothing…

http://lafinlarry.net/faas/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=16&p=4299#p4299

A lung full of any gas probably won’t kill you.

The problem comes when you do it over and over and don’t get enough oxygen.

People would breath in Nitrous Oxide with a mask on to get high, but the nitrous will displace the oxygen and gradually you become oxygen deficient.

I have friends in high places.

Hmm. Good PSA to start a Monday morning.

I don’t do balloons-full of helium. If I ever balloon, I use my own good old Hot Air to fill it.

Yup! I’m full of it!

Too much of anything will kill you, even water or air. Hyperventilation can be life threatening. Hyperventilation is also a technique for achieving altered states of conciousness and exploring different realities, used by many cultures around the world. So, what then, are the signs and symptoms of too much Frog Applause? Would you know it if it happened, would you care? Frankly, or maybe I should say Frogily, I don’t care, so it must be too late for me.

Trying to understand Frog Applause often makes me hyperventilate.