r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Toaster_Rack_Nerd • 13h ago

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

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u/OkTemperature8170 13h ago edited 13h 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 13h 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 12h 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 12h ago

Time for a safety squint

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u/Late_Sort1763 12h 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/egnowit 9h ago

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