So apart from balloons, what do people use helium for?

[KittenKong]

On my usual walk home, I have just realised that quite frequently I see a helium canister left next the bins of a block of flats I pass (the large bins are left on a blocked off front door step and larger items are left alongside. About the size of a basketball - and it’s not the same one - and sometimes there is two. Maybe twice a week.

It can’t be balloons can it? 🎈

The occupant of one of the flats works from home as a sex chat line operator who caters to those with a fetish for high-pitched, squeaky voiced filth.

It's the only plausible explanation.

Balloon business!

We had one of those. Our autistic son loves balloons so, a couple of years ago before all the scarcity fears we got a helium canister from Asda and balloons from eBay so that he could have a few months of a constant supply of balloons

@DoncasterHombre

The occupant of one of the flats works from home as a sex chat line operator who caters to those with a fetish for high-pitched, squeaky voiced filth.

It's the only plausible explanation.

I think you might have something there...

I thought that the helium used in balloons was a low grade almost bi product of the liquid helium used in MRI machines?

Byproduct!

Helium for medical purposes has to be 99.9 percent purity. Balloon gas tends to be 92 to 98 percent. Its bulked out with nitrogen, oxygen, CO2 Argon etc

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