This balloon we brought to decorate a 70th birthday party wasn't at all overshadowed by the ones left on display from the previous party.

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• citrusface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Seems to me like you should have just gone out and bought a 7.

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  • Quicky@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unfortunately we rocked up half an hour before the party started, but that would otherwise have been a good idea.

    That or just a piece of paper to the right of it with “+10” written on it.

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• NAXLAB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Overwhelming plastic garbage

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• numberfour002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Congratulations Aunt Trudy! Today is the 60th anniversary of your 10th birthday and we got you this amazing balloon display.

  Is it possible that the 60 balloons are celebrating a 60th wedding anniversary? The ring between the 6 and the 0 make me wonder. Not that a 70th birthday isn’t a big deal, but I think a 60th wedding anniversary is an even more impressive achievement than not dying for the past 70+ years.

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  • Knusper@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, typically, being married for 60 years would also involve not dying for the past 70+ years…

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• Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pop a couple of specific balloons and put yours in the middle.

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• Eggyhead@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just go with the sixty and be all cute about it: “You’re 70??? No way, you can’t be a day over 60!”

  Or turn the 6 into a 9 and come back in 20 years.

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  • dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or go with the “70 is the new 60” line

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• at_an_angle@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dude, if that was my party, I would love these decorations.

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• ares35@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  70 is the 'new' 60

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• Nougat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Peak helium.

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• DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Change the small balloon for an “80” and the average will be correct.

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reminds me of when I went to a baby shower for an incoming baby girl and the decorations were still up from a baby shower for an ungendered baby that were significantly more flashy. Luckily beigh and pink worked, but I bet they’d have rolled with it either way since more balloons is more balloons.

  Plus knowing my grandparents, they’d love to pretend they’re 60, haha.

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• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is such a confusing post. Was the last party 10 years ago? Was there a 60th party in that room before and they didn’t clean up? Why is that infuriating other than you now have to clean up their balloons?

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  • Quicky@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    1. Party venue in pub conference room.
    2. Arrived 30 minutes prior to the start time of our party.
    3. Brought some token decorations to make it look like we’d made some effort.
    4. We brought a single small balloon.
    5. There was obviously a party the night before, celebrating a 60th of some kind.
    6. Pub owners hadn’t removed the decorations from previous party.
    7. We didn’t want to dispose of the original balloons in case their owners wanted to collect them and weren’t able to previously.
    8. The 60 balloons sat there the whole time during our party.
    9. Previous party organisers made us look like the absolute amateurs we are.
    10. MILDLY infuriating.
    11. Bonus extra item: nobody actually cared, just thought it was comical, emphasised by the placement of the 70th balloon, where each set of balloons is in direct proportion to the amount of sentiment held for the celebrant.

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    • rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In my mind if you leave balloons after your party is over, you don’t want them. I would have just popped them all and tossed them in the bin

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