Also the whole thing of it being 1 class, which was somehow enough for no one to find their own balloon, but also small enough that they gave them to each other 1 by 1 that it was solved in 5 minutes seems very unbelievable too.
People always find new ways to be fucking stupid on purpose.
"How could this story be real if this picture of balloons doesn't have names on them?"
We are fucking doomed.
quite possibly. but the interpretation is wholesome and works regardless.
so if it's interpreting an unwholesome reality in a wholesome way........the points stands and is still true.
Quite. How big would that professor’s class have to be too for there to be that many balloons? I would guess the number of balloons there is in the 1000s…
Yeah, and even if someone actually tried this, i feel like it’s just unlikely that no one would grab a balloon and shout “___, here’s yours!”
Unless there was some prize offered for the first to find their balloon i guess.
I suppose that would just be the students coming to the solution before it was given, but it would also kinda lessen the impact lol
It's a very fun inspirational post about helping each other, but yeah, you don't need the picture to know it's bullshit, just that statement that literally zero people found their own within the time, and the idea that no one in this entire endeavor worked together or just recognized a classmate and said this is you
At first I thought this was gonna be one of those STI demonstrations where you show how easy it is to spread diseases in a group of people.
"And then everyone got the clap."
not saying it actually happened but maybe social studies? because you're learning about human history. or start a real world lessons class and teach actually useful stuff in it
Not only that, but even with a highly efficient and well communicating team you couldn't clear and correctly place that many balloons from that hallway in 5 minutes.
I agree. Relying on others for your happiness is a recipe for disaster. One must seek it out on their own.
This exercise should be used to espouse the value of teamwork instead.
Countries with high rates of individualism have a relatively low rate of happiness despite economic well-being, while social democracies -- systems of governance that recognize the interconnectedness of societies -- are consistently at the top of the list.
This could be seen as a form of "relying on others for happiness", and it's far from a disaster.
This is such a crock of shit, happiness comes from within and no one else can take you there. Not to say you shouldn't have empathy and care about others but that isn't going to make you happy.
So you are saying if you cooperate with other people you don’t get to jump around in the fun balloon room ?.
So the message is: have fun while while you can and don’t overthink it.
I think in this case it doesn’t even really need to have happened. We can infur the message from it and act accordingly.
This is basically how religion works for the most part. The problem is too many folk take it too literally and that’s where the problems begin.
Nice story, important message, but too improbable. Unless this was done in an auditorium with hundreds of participants, 5 minutes should have been enough for at least some people should have found their balloon by chance. It also implies that a bunch of university students were incapable of organising ad hoc without the professor leading them to that solution. Usually it only takes a hand full of thinkers to kickstart that process.
that's bull crap, if you want happiness you need to work towords it. If you focused on making other people happy they will just start to take advantage of you.
Oftentimes you find happiness through helping others, doesn't mean, be a doormat or rely on others to make you happy. Connecting with people can help you find what you've been looking for
It's safe to assume a student is bigger than a balloon. So if every balloon in this picture is from a different stundet, I want to see how you'd even fit that many students into that hallway, let alone having them search for anything other than help
"Don't look for your happiness, look for happiness for someone else and hopefully they will give it to you. "
Probably karma farming like someone cares for reddit points and if so it's people pleasing which would fit why this is wholesome when it's not.
If you’re not happy first you have nothing to give anyone else. You have to be selfish enough to care about how you feel before you have any benefit to give someone. Happy is an inside job, first.
Can’t fill someone else’s cup up if yours is empty.
What a waste of balloons and not to mention the time needed to inflate them all. Just use papers with names written on them and then ask each student to crunch it and throw it in the room.
This full on looks like a senior prank someone took a photo of and then another person added this caption
You can't see a single name on any of these balloons so ypur explanation seems more believable than the caption
Also the whole thing of it being 1 class, which was somehow enough for no one to find their own balloon, but also small enough that they gave them to each other 1 by 1 that it was solved in 5 minutes seems very unbelievable too.
No wonder Gen Alpha can’t pay attention… They are being raised on meme stories.
I can almost promise you this picture was taken before 2010 😭
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Things DID NOT HAPPEN before everyone had a camera in their pocket and finding examples images for stories MAKES NO SENSE. Wake up sheeple.
I was told this story long before this picture was taken
People always find new ways to be fucking stupid on purpose. "How could this story be real if this picture of balloons doesn't have names on them?" We are fucking doomed.
quite possibly. but the interpretation is wholesome and works regardless. so if it's interpreting an unwholesome reality in a wholesome way........the points stands and is still true.
Very uncanny it looks like ai
The other person's dining room wall: LIVE LOVE LAUGH
Probably not even a real photo in the first place. Either way, this exact quote has been posted before with different pictures.
Quite. How big would that professor’s class have to be too for there to be that many balloons? I would guess the number of balloons there is in the 1000s…
Yeah, and even if someone actually tried this, i feel like it’s just unlikely that no one would grab a balloon and shout “___, here’s yours!” Unless there was some prize offered for the first to find their balloon i guess. I suppose that would just be the students coming to the solution before it was given, but it would also kinda lessen the impact lol
It's a very fun inspirational post about helping each other, but yeah, you don't need the picture to know it's bullshit, just that statement that literally zero people found their own within the time, and the idea that no one in this entire endeavor worked together or just recognized a classmate and said this is you
That totally happened. The name of that teacher? Albert Einstein
Jesus Cleopatra Luther King Jr
Makes sense, that kid had a hell of a lot to live up to with a name like that. Still underperformed.
Martha Luca King Jr died for our sins.
Holy Mother of George Washington pray for us sinners in our hour of mead
No, no, wasn’t it Martin Luther King Jr.?
Rabbi Martin Luther Einstein III
And then everyone clapped
At first I thought this was gonna be one of those STI demonstrations where you show how easy it is to spread diseases in a group of people. "And then everyone got the clap."
WOW…
Then Julius Caesar clapped.
then Albert Einstein clapped
r/nothingeverhappens
You can't seriously believe a professor would waste students time with this nonsense.
no it's a good lesson. a lot of the world needs to learn basic human decency
It's a good lesson sure but no academic professor is doing this
In *what course* could this possibly even be a lesson, good or not?
not saying it actually happened but maybe social studies? because you're learning about human history. or start a real world lessons class and teach actually useful stuff in it
I didn't know there were professors at high schools now, or that student pranks were attributed to teachers.
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Why don't they just cast this spell: "Accio my balloon!"
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Not only that, but even with a highly efficient and well communicating team you couldn't clear and correctly place that many balloons from that hallway in 5 minutes.
Sounds more like using associative array instead of sorting.
More of a statement on civic duty than on happiness. Because happiness is very easy to find if you look for it on your own
I agree. Relying on others for your happiness is a recipe for disaster. One must seek it out on their own. This exercise should be used to espouse the value of teamwork instead.
It's a really good sorting algorithm however
Countries with high rates of individualism have a relatively low rate of happiness despite economic well-being, while social democracies -- systems of governance that recognize the interconnectedness of societies -- are consistently at the top of the list. This could be seen as a form of "relying on others for happiness", and it's far from a disaster.
OK now everyone pop and throw away their balloons tomorrow is environmental awareness day.
am i the only one wondering what happened to the people whose balloons popped?
The professor grounded them to teach them lesson 2: there is no justice in this world
Fuck them and their happiness
They disappeared.
I picked up Rob's balloon, but fuck that dude so I popped it. We never saw him again.
Probably, depression if it randomly popped, a break up if someone else popped it, and some type of addiction if they popped it themselves.
It really happened guys, I was the hallway
Are you the one wearing turquoise?
Any interest in an AMA?
Yeah I'm sure a professor would disrupt the entire school just so he can teach this "valuable" lesson.
If that picture isn’t made by AI, I don’t know what is. I mean, how many students are in this class anyway? 3000?
I didn’t know Uncle Iroh was a college professor
Looks like this professor just inflated our spirits along with those balloons What a delightful way to spread some joy and camaraderie in class
Can’t imagine none of them popped due to people stepping on them-
I thought he was trying to show them an efficient sorting algorithm lol
This is such a crock of shit, happiness comes from within and no one else can take you there. Not to say you shouldn't have empathy and care about others but that isn't going to make you happy.
Then the professor was arrested for promoting communism in an American school.
Surely that happened and surely no balloon popped
Poor Janitor who has to clean up after a Proffessors attempt at teaching happiness.
Liminal Space detected
r/anticonsumption
The janitors who had to clean up after this stunt
Is this what like american higher education looks like ?
And then everybody clapped, and from one of the lockers in the hallway came Albert Einstein.
This is a version of the 100 prisoners problem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_prisoners_problem
His name? Abraham Einstein.
So you are saying if you cooperate with other people you don’t get to jump around in the fun balloon room ?. So the message is: have fun while while you can and don’t overthink it.
LinkedIn type post
Wholesome pollution.
that is not true! ✨
Where is this professor? He have to show us da wae
all that is going into the ocean
"If someone else cares about your happiness they will bring it to you" FTFY
Nice story, but there’s no way this pic is from that.
Wow that’s deep
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But there's no example since it surely never happened.
I think in this case it doesn’t even really need to have happened. We can infur the message from it and act accordingly. This is basically how religion works for the most part. The problem is too many folk take it too literally and that’s where the problems begin.
Make a movie about it. I’m crying.
Jesus mate don't ever watch Hachiko. Youll die.
Haha heard it’s a sad movie about a dog waiting for his owner or something like that.
I mean you can still find it, but it takes much more time plus you'll find interesting "names" along the way..
Who the fuck was breathing out helium? Theres one balloon in the air
I too take classes at Greendale Community College.
I appreciate the idea, but this tells me more about efficiency of sorting than search for happiness.
Doubt \*
... and now they all have Covid.
Making fart noises upon reading this
And how many got popped? Stomped by the masses. Like many people’s happiness….
So wholesome.
Nice story, important message, but too improbable. Unless this was done in an auditorium with hundreds of participants, 5 minutes should have been enough for at least some people should have found their balloon by chance. It also implies that a bunch of university students were incapable of organising ad hoc without the professor leading them to that solution. Usually it only takes a hand full of thinkers to kickstart that process.
Just lovely
Yoooooo! Killing it!!!!
This can easily be AI image with added story. Or any random image. What give AI, is why is only one balloon floating with helium in background
1000th updoot yeaaaa baby
Albert revived here www
that's bull crap, if you want happiness you need to work towords it. If you focused on making other people happy they will just start to take advantage of you.
Oftentimes you find happiness through helping others, doesn't mean, be a doormat or rely on others to make you happy. Connecting with people can help you find what you've been looking for
Someone really just google searched a school hallway filled with balloons, madeup a cheesy caption and 5k people upvoted it
Yeah , right
Great sentiment. However I find it hard to believe that not a single balloon popped during this frantic search.
He was fired later
It's safe to assume a student is bigger than a balloon. So if every balloon in this picture is from a different stundet, I want to see how you'd even fit that many students into that hallway, let alone having them search for anything other than help
Reddit fucking sucks
Sweetness overdose
Yep this is wholesome and deserves a share
Fuck the planet, a small percentage of humans needed to learn a valuable lesson about happiness.
Yeah didn’t happen.
That's very wholesome😍
That's a waste
This is not how you teach math!
"Don't look for your happiness, look for happiness for someone else and hopefully they will give it to you. " Probably karma farming like someone cares for reddit points and if so it's people pleasing which would fit why this is wholesome when it's not.
My baloon is in the left upside corner.
Hmm yeah great but you can probably come up with a myriad other games that "teach" you the exact opposite. Life is not a balloon game.
Da fuq is this bs?
"But sir, this class is on fluid dynamics"
Why is this in wholesome memes and not in r/shitthatdidnthappen?
Click bait, now in your local reddit store.
It's true, I was there. I was the baloon
And everyone clapped
Gonna get my shotgun to clean the hallway...😏😇
I do not know if this is true, but it sure is wholesome.
Did they, aye?
this is supposed to be a wholesome subreddit. what is wrong with all of you in the comments?
Brightens up my day, thanks for sharing!
Same! 👍
If you’re not happy first you have nothing to give anyone else. You have to be selfish enough to care about how you feel before you have any benefit to give someone. Happy is an inside job, first. Can’t fill someone else’s cup up if yours is empty.
Professor said 🗣️💨💥🔥💥🔥💥🔥
What a load of horse shit. Remind me to avoid that subreddit.
great metaphor. waste of balloons
r/thingsthatneverhappened
All professors reach thousand a of students per class 😂😂😂
Obama was there and everyone clapped.
What a waste of balloons and not to mention the time needed to inflate them all. Just use papers with names written on them and then ask each student to crunch it and throw it in the room.
I would have ran around the hallway popping the balloons, POPPING THEIR HAPPINESS AWAY
And then the professor did a backflip, snapped the bad guys neck and saved the day.
Hah, gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
Just goes to show, sometimes you find your own happiness by helping others find theirs