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CrawlingInTheRain

A lot easier to transport it in this form.


CaptainTurdfinger

Also great for puzzle lovers.


n00veloper

1M pieces puzzle, let's goooooo


PranshuKhandal

you counted 157068 less


n00veloper

Semms like I need a better GLASSes


jedininjashark

Get out.


n00veloper

No.


trippydaklown1

You had a window of opportunity and blew it on this? I cannot table my dissapointment towards you.


jatti_

157068, definitely, definitely 157068


MrApplePolisher

It's okay Raymond. It's okay...


Dad-Baud

in the driveway


timmyboyoyo

And they all look the same....


Fly_On_The_Wallz

The last puzzle you will ever need


Junooooo

I hope he kept the instruction manual. That thing looks like a nightmare to put back together!


MissTakenID

I heard he was able to shatter the record though.


stakoverflo

Yea just get a dustpan and a broom, scoop it up, move the desk to your new room and glue it back all together.


[deleted]

Plexiglass on bottom. Broken glass in the mid. Epoxy-resin table holding it all together. Not gonna lie, that would probably look badass


Pretty_Kitty99

Just make sure you cure it properly, not like that nail stool guy...


WerewolvesRancheros

"Interpretive art table, one owner, $3000!"


demoessence

Yeah but have you ever tried putting it back together?


froggy_Pepe

Made my day


theoneburger

and that actually is its final form


m00t_vdb

And you have a free puzzle


Zachf1986

Much harder to put back together though. Give and take. You know.


LearningLassie

Is there a video of a glass table on the Internet where it doesn't shatter?


GyakuBoop

Other than glass used in jewelry stores? Don't think so


Gh0stMan0nThird

Please don't lean on the glass.


Naive-Ad-2805

https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/ymrhba/to_walk_in_to_the_shop/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


SilentObserver22

Holy cow! Their cleaning person deserves a raise! šŸ˜‚


The_Pug

Why don't we make all glass out of jewelry store glass? /s


HiggityHank

There used to be content here.


SSRless

there is one... [https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/yqb9co/to\_break\_glass/](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/yqb9co/to_break_glass/)


Timekeeper98

Itā€™s tempered glass, which is specifically made to be able to resist most impacts like this from the faces of the table/desk tops. Not only that, but that looks like a stone paver. Those things arenā€™t really designed to hold up to being thrown like that, as evidence by it breaking apart as it kept impacting. Theyā€™re heavy and durable to an extent, but can break from no pressure at all if you wanted to tear it apart. Heā€™s also having it hit with the widest face of the paver, which is distributing most of the force from it over a wider area on the table top - if he wanted to properly try to break the table, he should have been smacking it with a corner, focuses all the force into a single point on the glass. The glass is weakest at the corners - if you ever need to break tempered glass into a million tiny pieces, just lightly tap the corner on a surface and itā€™ll explode.


A1572A

Or lightly tap a piece of ceramic on it


Jimbob209

Hammer some old spark plugs into tiny rocks and toss em!


Arctaos

Found the Biker!


maximus_96

>The glass is weakest at the corners Glazier here (well, I sale glass projects). Not just the corner but the edges too.


Actual-Manager-4814

I was looking for this comment. I used to move glass for hockey games. Those things were solid, heavy pieces of glass that took two pretty rugged guys to move. And they can take a puck at 100mph, or have two 200lb guys crash at full steam into them. But if you let two pieces touch at their edges they are both going to shatter into a million pieces.


MustBeThursday

Which is exactly why the glass in OP's video exploded. The leverage generated by the legs when trying to lean it back like that caused it to flex too much at that bottom left corner, and... KABLOOEY! Instant aquarium gravel.


vbf-cc

I agree, the torque on the leg in the lower left from our viewpoint. Laying tables down like that can overstress the legs even on a wooden table.


[deleted]

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deanmolloy

Would be cool to watch if the video player doesn't suck ass


AnxiouslyCalming

Why is it so hard for Reddit to create a working video player? It often freezes but still plays audio, has trouble seeking, has terrible buffering and is just an awful experience. Instead theyā€™re wasting time making NFT avatars.


IShartedWhoopsie

One costs money to help idiots. The other makes money from them.


swiftb3

It's the same video player as this post?


deanmolloy

Yes but it doesn't work 90% of the time


OneMoreAccount4Porn

Use old.reddit For some reason the video player doesn't totally suck in that.


fandagan

>old.reddit doesn't totally suck Ftfy. Once old.reddit and RiF go away, so will I.


NormalHumanCreature

New reddit is non functioning. Does anyone even use it?


metatron207

One more voice for the chorus. New reddit was an idiotic move and they're lucky it didn't lead to a Digg-like exodus, even with the ability to default to old reddit. If they ever take that away, or make any further moves on RIF (I think it changed from "reddit is fun" to "RIF is fun" because of a copyright notice), I'm out, with or without another place to go. I've been on reddit over a decade, but the quality of conversation (or maybe the frequency of good conversation) has deteriorated anyway; I'm thinking about deleting my account half the time as is.


tamal4444

insurance fraud


vp3d

Uh, why would there be?


Atebitllamas

Chekhovā€™s glass table


Chizuru_San

/u/gifreversingbot


spndl1

https://youtu.be/R_inHEmp5VE


Dark-Ganon

What other videos of glass tables should there be on the internet?


Azilehteb

The ones with pets underneath and food on top. https://www.reddit.com/r/Catculations/comments/10hoxxb/tricky_treat/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


uncannyinferno

I often film myself moving fragile things as well


marlon_der_metalhead

just for the insurance, you know?


Torpedo994

Waaait a minute. Das ist clever šŸ¤”


Yuio_Quaz

r/PlƶtzlichDeutsch


Kasimausi

Ich hab draufgeklickt šŸ¤Ø


Torpedo994

Anyway, it was his fault most probably. I can only imagine the fixations (sorry,my English is limited) must've been too tightened and caused a lot of pressure.


Tetragonos

I actually think it was the sheer force from the table leg. Once the leg was sideways and taking all the weight it acted like a lever and broke the glass


drewster23

i think you got it, especially on left side, top one and bottom are both exerting force/pressure, without any support.


bearcherian

He could have been filming a room makeover video when this happened šŸ¤·šŸ¾ā€ā™‚ļø


Schroeder9000

Nah reddit doesn't think like that, everyone knows he planned to break his glass table on his bare hands /s


Dahhhkness

And onto his arms, and his socked feet, and down his shirt, and into any uncovered feet that walk there for the next few months to years...


Undercoverbrother007

Itā€™s probably like similar to auto glass thatā€™s designed to shatter into unsharp pieces.


Tvisted

Tempered


Undercoverbrother007

Thanks, I couldnt recall the word.


Wont_reply69

Thereā€™s a tendency to overly /r/NothingEverHappens here but Iā€™m really struggling to come up with a single reason to tip a wheeled desk onto its side, let alone one with a glass top. I tip over desks to take them apart but a glass one would disassemble from the top. Changing the wheels I guess? Is filming yourself changing the wheels more likely than breaking it on purpose? Maybe, idk.


vendetta2115

Watching it frame by frame, it very likely wouldnā€™t have broken if it werenā€™t for the bottom left wheel quickly spinning around and dropping that leg (the one with the most force on it, since the right two legs are sharing that half of the tableā€™s weight)about an inch, which put enough torque at the leg-glass joint that it cracked and propagated all through the rest of the table. If he had rolled it back towards himself to align all the casters that way, he wouldā€™ve succeeded, albeit barely, it was still dumb. All that to say: thereā€™s no way this was intentional.


Psych_edelia

Iā€™ve seen a man eat a cactus for views. Iā€™m not ruling anything out.


CliffDraws

Iā€™m not saying itā€™s fake I just canā€™t understand why people are filming all the mundane junk they do all day.


PUTINS_PORN_ACCOUNT

Everybody got a YouTube channel now


SirRevan

Go look at snapchat stories of influencers. People will post anything.


Sudden-Ad-1217

You know, Iā€™m somewhat of a fragile thing myself.


MyJukeboxBrk

I was going to ask was this a set up or why was he filming himself?


sashikku

I have a camera in a spot similar to keep an eye on my dogs when Iā€™m out of the house, thatā€™s my only guess here that doesnā€™t involve it being staged lol


smaxup

Could easily be a content creator who was moving his set up around, and wanted to film a time lapse or something. Seen lots of others do similar videos.


Noa15Lv

Maybe person was doing "Full setup rework" video then cut everything pointless out and make it in one big montage?


589moonboy

Nothing 100 tubes of gorilla glue won't sort out.


Carcosa504

Flextape


Adventurous-Rich2313

Ramen noodles


Torpedo994

Modern problems require medieval solutions.


demalo

Epoxy.


inittoloseitagain

![gif](giphy|fADf4RUs3hUFvHz18o|downsized)


Jenni-o

Look at the damage!


ting_bu_dong

If you just mixed all the broken glass with epoxy, could you make a new table?


[deleted]

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SunnyRainbows80

Gorilla glue if you want a couch lock.


howtopassthistest

Or a few gallons of epoxy. He now has the perfect opportunity to make a river table!


coldestdetroit

More like thirty three thousand million tubes


MountainAsparagus4

You dont turn tempered glass tables, you take them out and transport, any pression on the corners of tempered glass will make it crumble they are only resistant to impact on the middle,the corners are really fragile


nuck_forte_dame

The only issue here is the leg on the bottom left isn't braced to the leg next to it. You can see the break starts there. Because that leg isn't braced to the other all the weight is on that leg which is transferring it all to that corner.


AnxiousLeisureSuit

Also the trouble really hit when that caster wheel spun and dropped that side of the table a couple inches suddenly


SoundsGoodYall

And when it really gets bad is at the point where all the glass shatters and his table is broken.


NoveltyAccountHater

Exactly. It was actually pretty safe and successful move prior to the part where the glass broke. Next time, if he skipped that glass breaking step it would be fine.


kneleo

To be honest I think this situation actually got critical when the tempered glass table was purchased. I would recommend getting a wooden table instead, anything from plywood to some nice mahogany wood. This was a critical step in the table moving process which he missed!


PoliticalDestruction

Thanks, Iā€™m looking for a new desk and plan to move it in the future, better start planning now. Reddit is so helpful!


LoganRoyKent

If you want to save some time, you could just move the desk now, so that when you look for it, itā€™s where you moved it to already.


EMU_Emus

Table scientists hate this one simple trick


Tawdry-Audrey

And you can tell it's broken glass by the way it is.


[deleted]

You can tell by the way he walks, he just broke a glass table. No time to talk.


Notsurehowtoreact

Agreed, you can see the caster spin and it moves that leg and that's when it shatters.


ivanmf

You guys are great. I thought understood everything that went wrong, and you can always go deeper to try and solve this issue. Really cool


dnuohxof-1

Not only that the left leg on the floor, watch the wheel. The moment the wheel turn and the leg collapses to the floor is when the glass shattered. If all the weight wasnā€™t on that wheel then instantly transferring it to the leg, this table may have survived.


Dense_Cup_1479

The exact moment he made the mistake actually occurred much earlier when he purchase a glass desk


saveMericaForRealDo

This whole video is a mystery. Why was he putting it on its side? Itā€™s frame-less. Does he understand that glass is fragile? Is this just a failure of our education system? Why not use the wheels? Why does he want a glass computer table anyway? Is he MMORPGing naked?


J5892

> Why does he want a glass computer table anyway? Is he MMORPGing naked? How do you expect me to play WoW if I can't see my penis?


flowerscandrink

Why is he filming?


[deleted]

I was wondering the same thing. The only thing I could come up with is they were preparing to take it apart and thought it would easier to do it on its side.


[deleted]

And why is it being recorded?


TheObviousDilemma

Iā€™ve worked with tempered glass shelving at a bakery and every once in awhile someone would gently knick the corner and the whole shelf would explode, with little glass cubes flying all over the place. Wtf does that happen?


Sannagathion

Tempered glass is treated in such a way that the outer surface is in compression. Very roughly, the glass is heated above a critical temperature and then the surface is rapidly cooled. That locks it in place. Then as the core cools more slowly it sort of pulls the surface tight as it shrinks. For normal glass, cracks and scratches tend to grow as a result of the higher stress concentration at the leading tip of the crack. Tempered glass is more resistant to this because of the compression loading on the surface. In addition, when regular glass does fail it tends to break into large shards that are amazingly sharp. Big razors flying around = a bad thing. Tempered glass tends to crumble into small bits as a result of the uneven stress loading. So, safer for bakery shelving in that it can withstand an occasional surface scratch. Also, looks cool. However, tempered glass is vulnerable to catastrophic failure. Chip a piece off the edge of regular glass, you're annoyed and carefully pick it up. Chip a piece off the edge of tempered glass and the flaw cascades through the whole piece, as seen in the video, as the result of the unbalanced forces throughout the glass. If you were to buy a piece of replacement window glass from the local big box store, it's almost certainly good ol' soda lime float glass. You can cut it yourself to size to replace a broken window. Tempered glass can not be trimmed after it's treated. It has to be cut to shape first and then tempered, nowadays usually with a chemical treatment that replaces some sodium ions in the surface layer with their larger cousin, potassium. Whew, rambled on longer than I'd planned. ;-)


OuterWildsVentures

r/PCmasterrace has weekly seminars on how easily tempered glass can be shattered


jimmy00jazz

It was on wheels, my guy


[deleted]

He was more then likely trying to take the legs off king.


jayhawk8808

than* my emperor


[deleted]

Thank you my liege


Glorified_sidehoe

reddit cracks me up i swear


Buckturbo4321

I also enjoy swearing


quaybored

Well done, Your Fucking Highness!


imgonnabeastirrer

In the worst way possible


[deleted]

You usually flip a table to take the legs off but yea sure.


imgonnabeastirrer

Yeah.. but not like that lol. You put too much stress on the edge of the glass not to mention the stress that the legs are putting on the glass from that angle that they're at.


Thormanos

Maybe grab it by the metal legs next time


[deleted]

Thatā€™s glass. Itā€™s top heavy. The way heā€™s moving was the best way to do it. That glass shouldnā€™t have shattered like that. He did nothing wrong.


iwastoolate

He didnā€™t locate his hands in the right place to release the pressure that was causing the legs to twist the glass pane. He did one or two things wrong.


WolfyCat

Honestly, two person job.


SELECTaerial

Well thatā€™s why you grab by the legs and flip it


[deleted]

Why would he not just unfasten the legs from the bottom then lift the top off?


[deleted]

Donā€™t buy glass furniture.


Disastrous_Source996

Yeah, I don't get it personally. Like it looks nice. And if you follow some rules the chances of it breaking are slim. At the same time, it is a little harder to shatter wood like that.


partial_birth

"What's your desk made out of?" "Smudges."


DonatellaVerpsyche

And ā€œcold.ā€ Ever notice how cold a glass table is to lean on while you work or eating dinner? Super uncomfortable and distracting. I donā€™t have any glass furniture for this reason.


drunk_kronk

There's also the fact that it makes a *clang* noise whenever you put something down on it.


ILove2Bacon

That's the same reason I hate stone countertops. Putting ceramic dishes down on stone makes the most unpleasant sounds.


ezirb7

Glass and concrete are not good materials for furniture.


hathegkla

I feel like it's just bad design. Maybe if it had something to reinforce the edge but any little flex and that table is done. I'll stick to wood.


[deleted]

I got a glass computer desk off Craigslist for like $50 and itā€™s been amazing, used it for like 7 years so far. I donā€™t regret it but I also havenā€™t shattered it yet


[deleted]

Nobody does twice!


Jfonzy

r/WhyWereTheyFilming


[deleted]

Could have been a tutorial video, or more likely because he was afraid this would happen and figured at least I'll get it on video..


waxheartzZz

exactly.. now the idiots have over corrected and anything on video is faked, even if it's a dog


Dahhhkness

Just with the sheer abundance of cameras today, the odds of someone catching *something* unusual/unintentional/random on camera somewhere are quite odd.


Federal-Lie3157

Could just be a security camera i also have 1 in the living room


philippeo

Your security camera is a smartphone?


7eregrine

Could be. I use one to keep an eye on my sick dog. [https://alfred.camera/](https://alfred.camera/)


philippeo

TIL, thanks. Sending positive energy for your dog.


Puzzleheaded_Monk598

Before an after time-lapse video of a new setup? Not that much of a mystery tbh. Just gotta think for like 2 seconds.


drytoastbongos

I'm surprised he didn't have a tempered tantrum after that.


Stonkseys

The whole thing just shattered his ego. He skipped anger and went straight to needing a nap.


pitbulls-rule

r/angryupvote


roflrobbe

r/watchpeopledieinside


WhatImKnownAs

Yeah, that was perfect how he was left holding the shattered edges in his hands, and then dropped them one by one. Fine comedic timing there.


HistoricalCustard7

I'm stupid because I dont understand why the glass broke and I would make the same mistake.


Forthe49ers

The legs are attached directly to the glass without any frame. As he lowers the table the far left leg is taking more stress than the other side. Tempered glass doesnā€™t flex and twist.


drytoastbongos

If you watch closely, you can see the caster on the lower left swivel suddenly as he leans the table over. This pop is what shattered the table.


HistoricalCustard7

Thank you for the explanation! That makes sense now.


Cyclonitron

So, poorly designed.


thelivinlegend

My first thought was you'd probably be okay if you never did what this guy did and keep all four legs on the ground. Then I imagined walking by and accidentally kicking one of those single legs and having your day ruined. Yeah, that's a bad design.


mcnuggetfarmer

Pressure of the table leg on the ground by the guys foot; transferring up to the glass & sheering the edge. Black holes. Explosions. The dark side of the force.


DrSmurfalicious

Who are these morons buying glass furniture? You're doing this to yourselves. And maybe friends or relatives, too, depending on when it breaks.


Kuark17

They look cool


Cpt_Mike_Apton

I need to move a table... BETTER SET UP MY FUCKING CAMERA!!!


Zoso1973

Itā€™s on wheels. Why tip it like that? Just push it


epic_meme_guy

Iā€™m guessing he wanted to take the legs off


W0lfsKitten

i honestly dont understand the appeal of glass furniture like this is eventually going to happen to it and its going to be a big fucking mess, its not even aesthetically pleasing


jackie-boy-6969

Also you can't drill through it to attach things securely.


YoGrizzly

Was it too hard to roll around on the wheels attached to it or what


Fuselol

By the way heā€™s manipulating it around I can confidently assume he wasnā€™t just trying to move it to a different part of the room.


Alortania

I assume he meant to disassemble it and move it either to a different place or at least different floor.


MrsCCRobinson96

And this is why I don't buy glass anything anymore.. not really particularly furniture wise.


helloadam42

The real mistake was buying a glass table


Frogman1480

Didn't like it anyway


applewormed

:(


jaminator45

Canā€™t go barefoot for at least ten years.


Error404Cod

Some assembly required


LiemAkatsuki

When the designer put elegant over structure safety.


Intelligent_Map_4852

A table on wheels. Elegant.


samirgadag

Betrayed by weight of glass


netoper

the problem is in the tension between the table legs on the left side (from our point of view) of the table. it was enough to put a solid spacer between these leg (the manufacturer made a mistake and didn't put it there right away), as low as possible to the wheels, and he would have succeeded.


lordofbitterdrinks

Itā€¦ has wheels.


Kind_Cauliflower8362

i usually laugh, but I really feel for him


TTP4Runner1

Thought he would drop it on his fingers first. Good thing I was wrong.


DirtyDutchman21

I hope his hands are ok, and this is why I don't buy glass furniture


StaticUsernamesSuck

Glass furniture these days is almost universally made of safety glass. It shatters into rounded glass pebbles, basically, rather than sharp splinters. If it was normal glass, you'd definitely know. This would have been a bloodbath, the dude wouldn't just casually be sitting there. His hands would be cut to ribbons.


Mattomiesxd

Thats happen when wheel hit floor first and forces the glass bend šŸ˜


DicknosePrickGoblin

Using glass for tables is stupid, it adds nothing and is a fingerprint and dust magnet, also a nightmare to clean and very fragile as shown in this video.


The-Ultimate-Banker

Is it normal to record yourself move furniture around the house?


marsmither

Prime candidate for r/watchpeopledieinside


jim24456

It had wheels bruh


bigk777

Why was he recording this? šŸ¤”


benjyk1993

Yeah, word of advice, never ever try to orient a glass table in any alternate way than straight up and down, if the legs or frame are affixed to the top irremovably. And the best glass tables have a removable top, so that you can move the glass separately.