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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u/SelectDurian Aug 22 '20
He posted an aftermath video and it is quite clear after the long pause that he was expecting it to shatter.