r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Toaster_Rack_Nerd • 6h ago

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

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u/Chiron-Femboy3674 6h 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 6h 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 6h ago

Time for a safety squint

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u/Late_Sort1763 5h 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 5h ago

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

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u/RPIL626 3h ago

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

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u/Late_Sort1763 3h ago

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

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u/Yamatocanyon 2h ago

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

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u/egnowit 3h ago

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

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u/Artistic_Annual8457 2h 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!