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u/No_Entrance7644 6d ago
That's what you get for buying glass furniture
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u/Icy_Transition1375 6d ago
Just shards
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u/ixianprobe 6d ago
To shards, you say?
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u/semimillennial 6d ago
And his wife’s glass desk?
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u/Sad-Roll-Nat1-2024 6d ago
My thoughts exactly lol. I will never understand why people buy big pieces of glass furniture like this
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u/_Diskreet_ 6d ago
I bought a glass table once. Nothing big or fancy. Lifted it up and lent it against the wall while hoovering.
Finished, and between the split second between standing there and going to move it, it just exploded. I sighed and turned the hoover back on.
Never buy anything like that again.
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u/thejustducky1 6d ago
That's what you get for buying glass furniture
I mean some people prefer glass and they aren't wrong for preferring it ¯_(ツ)_/¯ It doesn't need to be a 'that's what you get' situation when well... 'that's what I meant to get' - ya just go in knowing that glass is breakable and the 1 or 2 times it breaks, it's not that big of a deal.
Fabric also stains irreparably, wood also splinters irreparably, and metal also rusts irreparably, all things that glass doesn't - as long as you treat it like glass.
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u/kataskopo 6d ago
None of those other things explode if their internal structure feels the slightest microscopical discomfort.
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u/Frosty-Age-6643 6d ago
That doesn’t look like bad luck, just a bad idea.
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u/EyeDecay_IDK 6d ago edited 6d ago
Not even putting down a towel or blanket for starters too. Shit probably would have burst on the floor anyways, especially with him handling it uneven like that.
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u/kchairs 6d ago
He should have disassembled it. The legs pointing sideways torque'd the glass
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u/FearLeadsToAnger 6d ago
how would you disassemble it without turning it first. If you left it standing and started removing legs you would quickly end up with a big sheet of glass missing support in large areas.
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u/DILF_MANSERVICE 6d ago
It can survive being unsupported. It can't survive a two foot long lever being bolted to it and torqued.
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u/Gingevere 6d ago
Which is why 99% of glass desks have a complete frame that the glass just sits on top of. Making the glass part of the structure is just asking for trouble. Especially if they've put holes through it to secure the legs.
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u/dmje 6d ago
That glass can be glued back together no problem
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u/dogshelter 6d ago
Load bearing physics has entered the room.
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u/SipoteQuixote 6d ago
Surely the heavy metal legs are powerless to the strength of... -puts on glasses- glass? Who wrote this shit.
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u/bluepepper 6d ago
Yep. Two things at play here.
First, it's putting pivotal stress to the legs attachment points, which it's not designed to sustain. The whole weight of the desk (and glass isn't light) is basically trying to bend the glass.
Second, with the legs horizontal, the wheels are originally pointing down, which is an unstable equilibrium. At some point they flipped up to reach a more stable equilibrium. This caused a sudden drop, which pushed the pivotal stress past the breaking point.
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u/EnforcerMemz 6d ago
You bought a glass table....on wheels.... Wow.
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u/Aguita9x 5d ago
I did the same but no wheels, just normal legs. Those tempered glass tables are the horses of tables. They long for the sweet release of death.
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u/Rollerbladersdoexist 6d ago
Once that bottom right wheel flipped 90 degrees it was lights out.
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u/TheActualDev 6d ago edited 6d ago
I didn’t even notice that until reading your comment. It really was the clincher moment for that table’s end
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u/fap-free90 6d ago
Why was he filming
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u/8bitjer 6d ago
Probably because he knew this would happen. I am forced to question every video I see on the internet as nothing more than someone trying to get views. Unfortunately
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u/Brvcx 6d ago edited 6d ago
And more people should do that. People have slated me on road rage videos where it seems someone just randomly cut them off, brake checked them and then overtook them in order to try and throw their coffee at them. According to the video, nothing happened prior to that. The passenger just decided to start filming with their phone only for all the events to occur right away. So when I said I wondered what happened prior to the video, people got a bit angry, cause that wasn't in the video and we should just make an assessment purely on what we saw without ever thinking about any of it.
Because that's what we all do. We all randomly start filming a randomass road in a randomass city and immediately some randomass car starts trying to hit us off the road. Just like we all randomass decide to cut others off, brake check them and throw our beverage at them.
Edit: I was very calm when I was typing this, if it wasn't for this unyielding rage pent up inside me. Great assumption, though. 😂
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u/BigBananaBerries 6d ago
In gambling it's called hedging your bets. You could be recording so that if something horrible did happen, you have it recorded & it's not a complete loss. I'm not saying all cases are genuine, far from it but it's not out the realms of possibility they realised it was a risky situation.
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u/1individuals 6d ago
Not saying it's legit, but lots of people film themselves doing things like this, for a time-lapse video/vlog/etc
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u/a_real_vampire 6d ago
Ppl here all telling the how. I’m asking the why? As in why were he lying it down?
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u/HiMyNameIsMamba 6d ago
And this, children, is why we never buy glass desks/tabletops.
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u/Aururai 6d ago
Nah, this is why you handle glass with care and don't impart bending forces on it.
You can absolutely flip that table over, but you cannot lay it on its side without holding the glass sheet yourself and not letting the legs take the weight sideways.
Basic knowledge about glass
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u/HiMyNameIsMamba 6d ago
That is true. You are right in that regard. I’m just not a big fan of glass surfaces in general due to things like this. I have pretty bad luck so I can definitely see this happening with me, no matter how carefully I handle the glass. That’s just me though.
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u/Garchompisbestboi 6d ago
I'm sure there have been many self proclaimed glass experts who felt really stupid when their piece of furniture randomly exploded for no reason. It's just not a good material to make tables with.
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u/Holzkohlen 6d ago
I'm not even gonna buy a PC case with a glass side panel. I've seen many photos of those shattered to dust.
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u/TheRemedy187 6d ago
That had literally nothing to do with any form of concept of luck. He did that to himself
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u/jonoghue 6d ago
Glass tables/desks are always a terrible idea and this is a hill I will die on.
They're noisy when you place ANYTHING hard on them.
They are just asking for a mess of shards.
I hate them with a passion.
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u/Alex_Plumwood 6d ago
I will stand by you on this hill and also add how they never stay clean and hurt whenever you bang any part of your body against the edge of them.
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u/RedPillAlphaBigCock 6d ago
Why ever buy glass furniture in the first place ?
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u/jonoghue 6d ago
My dad has glass coffee tables and I hate them so much. You can't set anything down on them without a loud clank. They're heavy as hell. They get ugly fingerprints. And of course this can happen.
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u/carlosos 6d ago
Often cheaper, easier to clean, lighter (not sure why jonoghue says the opposite), you can look through it, and I like how glass furniture looks like. Just don't let something very heavy fall onto it or do what was done in the video.
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u/Charming_Ant_8751 3d ago
More like improper handling than bad luck
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u/EvulOne99 3d ago
Exactly. Had he not let the two lower legs carry the full weight of the table, this wouldn't have happened.
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u/someone_stole_mine 6d ago
Why was he recording himself lowering his desk unless he expected/meant for this to happen?
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u/dmicah44 5d ago
That’s not bad luck! That’s exactly what should happen 9 times out of 10 in this situation.
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u/codynilla 6d ago
I did the same thing with my wooden furniture. Will never try to assemble something solo again
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u/A_spiny_meercat 6d ago
This was 100% inevitable due to the stress from the leg mounts, and it still made me tingle
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u/TransportationNo1 6d ago
Bringing maximum leverage on a glass panel with holes drilled into it must be bad luck, yeah. The holes are the highest points of stress too. Man, what an unlucky guy :/
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u/rageofa1000suns 6d ago
I hate glass anything. I had a glass chopping board literally explode in my kitchen. I came home to glass everywhere...
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u/Reserved_Parking-246 6d ago
Not luck.
Physics fucked him there. He put too much stress on the single leg.
Glass doesn't like twisting.
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u/ich3ckmat3 6d ago
Bad design instead. No supporting structure for the glass. This would happen sooner or later.
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u/bebop1065 6d ago
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think that glass does not belong in interior furnishings. It always looked tacky to me and this proves it is unstable and potentially dangerous.
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u/Fragwolf 6d ago
To hell with glass furniture. It doesn't even look nice in half the locations you see it in, at best it's just there to be used and somehow detracts from the room.
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u/JacobTDC 6d ago edited 6d ago
Not even bad luck. As soon as he turned it sideways, it was all but guaranteed to break. Gravity acting on those legs generates more than enough torque at the attachment point to shatter it.
Imagine trying to hold one of those metal legs horizontally by nothing but the screw on one end between your fingertips. That's the amount of force acting on the glass at that top corner.
Granted, it looks like that's not what caused the shattering here, but it likely would have, had it not shattered because of that lower leg shifting, and it definitely played a part in the overall stress on the glass.
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u/kevinbaer1248 5d ago
The unsupported leg in the top left was putting too much tension on it and gave. This is why I’ll never buy a glass desk
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u/loogilineloom 5d ago
That is not bad luck, but lack of understanding of how things work in real life 🤣🤣
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u/grillboy_mediaman 5d ago
never getting glass anything if it's not a window or a cup. that shit scares me.
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u/pigeonwiggle 4d ago
that's not bad luck - that's bad furniture.
GLASS IS NOT FURNITURE - GLASS IS WINDOWS AND SHIT.
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u/Beeeeeeels 6d ago
Why was it filmed? Like did he think "hey if I fuck it up at least I can score internet points"?
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u/drangred1256 6d ago
That’s not bad luck, that’s stupidity. The desk/glass is not meant to have that much stress put on it with that type of angle.
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u/semimillennial 6d ago edited 6d ago
Dumb question, is there a right way to do that?
Edit: Thank you for the dozens of responses giving the same three good answers. (Remove the legs first, get a second person to help, don’t get a glass desk.) They all seem obvious in retrospect, I knew it was a dumb question.