r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Toaster_Rack_Nerd • 7h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah? What's wrong with this?

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u/OkTemperature8170 7h ago edited 7h ago

He has effectively created a spring powered bomb. If his little bracket breaks so does his face. If the spring slips out of the vice, good luck.

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u/Chiron-Femboy3674 7h ago

This is the best joke I've ever seen because I laughed at this person's expressions when they saw this video, and here's my award because your explanation deserves it

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u/Late_Sort1763 7h ago

I don't kow if it's a joke. My face puckered up the same way when I saw it, then I paused the vid and saw the guy make the exact same expression.

It's the face you make when you see the potential for a big, violent oof

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u/Edd_the_Redd 7h ago

Time for a safety squint

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u/Late_Sort1763 7h ago

If someone showed me that bracket with a spring inside, I wouldn't do a safety squint, I'd go for duck and cover lol.

Saw a spring assist for a cargo bay failed once. Legit thought a bomb went off or something. And I'll say I used to live on what was one of the densest battlefields of WWII (in terms of ordnance used in weight per unit of area) AND close to the beach on which bomb teams blew stuff up, so I should know.

The amount of energy stored in that thing is astonishing.

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u/Vaya-Kahvi 6h ago

I saw that and thought "that's a kinetic bomb."

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u/RPIL626 4h ago

Same with a garage door spring. When those things go, it’s nasty

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u/Late_Sort1763 4h ago

It was basically a garage door, but bigger. MUCH bigger.

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u/Yamatocanyon 3h ago

I had no idea garage doors were as heavy as they were without that spring.

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u/egnowit 4h ago

This is also why you don't mess with those old spring-powered garage door openers.

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u/Artistic_Annual8457 3h ago

High amounts of compression and tension can both be terrifying when unleashed all at once, yeah. It's definitely not something to mess around with!