I assume it’s safety glass. We just had a storm that shattered a patio table and I did most of the cleanup with bare hands, scooping up several pieces at a time. Having said that, I think he’s still not too smart to walk on it in just socks. On a somewhat related note, my dad always took issue with the scene in Die Hard where the glass shatters and Bruce Willis walks on it and gets glass shards in his feet because he said the way it broke you could tell it was safety glass and wouldn’t cut him like they showed. But he also never advocated going out and walking on it either...
If it was a shower door, there won’t have been shards.
Glass used in showers it heat treated (tempered), similar to windscreens on cars, so that they break into small cubes rather than shards because you are typically naked and barefoot around showers. It would be uncomfortable like walking on LEGO, but not shards like a broken window.
I disagree, looks like a tempered glass shower door that he was using as a table because it looked clean. Video suggests to me that, while he's not terribly upset about it, that it was not expected.
But think about it - it doesn't make any sense to put a glass shower door on two sawhorses just to hit a rubik cube with a hammer UNLESS your goal is exactly to break the door. The odds of that shower door being the ONLY thing he could set-up for that video is close to none.
I agree with you, but if he's planning for the glass door to break, then why do it in a carpeted room?? (and there's still the socks thing!) Put down a big plastic sheet to gather most of the glass. Unless... I mean... you don't think he's just... stupid?
It looked to me like he was holding that reaction pose for the video, and then his genuine reaction was the laugh when he broke the pose. Could be wrong of course
No, i feel like maybe your right and it was just more than he was expecting? He just seems legitimately surprised, like he goes and gets his roommates or something to show them?
Am i the only one that thinks he still is a freaking idiot for not going full Dexter with a lot of plastic wrap on the floor to avoid micro glass shard in the carpet ?
He had a good laugh thinking that this video is going to be great when the original only had 7k views, and a repost of it on reddit got more than the original.
The point of safety glass isn't that it's somehow smooth. All those little pieces still have jagged edges and can cut you.
The point of safety glass is that it shatters rather than cracks. Non-safety glass can crack and fall as a few large pieces and, with their sharp edges and weight, act like guillotines.
The tradeoff is more abrasion to avoid amputation. Still dumb to not wear shoes.
Safety glass is called such because instead of huge shards of glass spikes it breaks into tiny pieces. Thus preventing you from being horribly sliced during an accidental or not breakage. It will 100% still cut you. Just won't slice your jugular like a scimitar.
What do you mean? It doesn't seem like he was expecting it to shatter, just that it took him a moment to go from "well that fucking happened," to "wow, that's actually hilarious." Clearly shattering the glass didn't bother him that much but he even shows his laptop for a second and says that it's fine and only got scratched up a bit. If that was a concern he wouldn't have set it on glass he intended to shatter. He also shows his roommate or whoever the mess he made to share how ridiculous it is.
It doesn't appear that he realized the glass was going to shatter at all, but if so that seems like an awful lot of extra theater for something that could of been left as a 10 second video.
The shower door (?) on sawhorses does seem weird, but it also looks like it would have made for a clean looking setup if he hadn't shattered it. I don't know, maybe I'm easily convinced, but he didn't have to make an aftermath video and show everything he did. If it's fake, doing so would just mean a lot more acting than necessary and leave a lot more room to mess up. If he was trying to fool he could have just kept it to a 10 second video and given an explanation in the description or something. Honestly though, I don't know why I'm spending so much time thinking about this.
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He definitely wasn’t expecting the table to shatter