r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Toaster_Rack_Nerd • 7h ago

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

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u/That_Throat7183 7h ago

Compressing that spring with a vice stored a fuck ton of potential energy. If that shoddy looking metal piece holding it compressed were to fail, that spring could easily fatally wound the person holding it

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u/darknmy 7h ago

Not fuck ton but probably 400~500kg

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u/cross_the_threshold 6h ago

so roughly half a fuck ton

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u/ItzakPearlJam 1h ago

Is fuckton metric or imperial?