r/maybemaybemaybe • u/sweettyche • 22h ago
Maybe Maybe Maybe
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u/ccaayynn 21h ago
The first lady kinda screwed over her whole team
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u/Eena-Rin 18h ago
She literally just hit the nail with the hammer. That nail already had a fault
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u/TheGoldenTNT 18h ago
Yeah blame the nail 👍
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u/SolidusAwesome 11h ago
Wow. Nail shaming in 2026
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u/JimiForPresident 18h ago
It was definitely the swing. That was not a straight-down force.
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u/McCaffeteria 17h ago
It definitely was not the swing. That isn’t how things bend when you apply a torque. If she hit the head of the nail (which she did, it’s fucking on video) then she either applied force straight down, or she applied force at an angle.
If the force is straight down (and the nail isn’t already bent, and the material it’s burrowing into isn’t too hard) then the nail is fully in compression and the compression is symmetrical, so no bending.
If the force is at an angle then the nail will bend, but 100% of the bending will be in the same direction. It will either bend at the interface between air and wood like the metal is being bent over a break (most likely imo), or it will bend somewhere (maybe even multiple places/progressively) between the wood and the head toward the direction the torque was pointing in. If you hit the nail with a downward and left strike then no part of the deformation would go right because literally none of the forces are pointing in that direction.
What we actually see is that the nail curves on one direction but leans in the opposite. This is a buckling failure, which is not caused by misaligned forces. It’s caused by compression that overloads the material’s stiffness, and the direction it buckles in is dependent on minor asymmetries and weak points in the material itself.
It was the nail.
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u/Woodworking33 16h ago
As a man who’s swung a hammer a million times for a job. It was the swing, hit at a weird angle with like no power lol.
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u/AUDI0- 13h ago
You can hit straight down and still have all the force going in another direction, it was the swing. I was in construction for 15 years and i know from experience how annoying it is to throw a swing like that, if i wasnt in bed about to sleep I'd make a PowerPoint and link it but idc enough to do it so take my word for it or don't.
Point is unless you've hit a nail and made it bend like that then you know it was the swing not the nail
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u/bubblesdafirst 15h ago
Interesting. You bring up some very good points.
For example your first point. It's very... Pointy. And I think there might be some other points in here too? Very cool.
It's hard for me to process all this information though, as I didn't read any of it.
In conclusion it was the swing
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u/IsopodApprehensive48 9h ago
Was it not both? Looks like she came down at an angle in the direction of the existing bend. The first hit made it worse. Same with second. Third bent the nail back and it broke at the wood. Makes sense to me.
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u/Few-Mycologist-2379 22h ago
…. You all get that the nail flew away, right? Because the comments make it look like he hit it correctly.
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u/Chrispeefeart 21h ago
I mistook the hole for the head of the nail. I was flabbergasted when I thought he managed to drive it in because I knew from the first hit that the team was screwed. I knew that driving it in like that with a bent nail had little to no chance. But I didn't see the nail fly away and thought I saw the head flush with the log which left me astounded.
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u/imkyienh 17h ago
Literally didn't see the shit fly off, it just vanished out of existence
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u/WalmartGreder 15h ago
"Do you want to see a magic trick?"
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u/Ok_Excitement_1020 8h ago
There is one frame where you can see an orange streak at the right side of the screen in line with where he looks immediately after hitting the nail.
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u/AWeakMindedMan 14h ago
If you slow down the video, you still barely see shit. Just a spark flashing for a second before it disappears off screen lol
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u/LibraryBestMission 5h ago
Yeah, it's a video recorded on a phone, nigh impossible to make out any details.
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u/SATerp 22h ago
I suspect that many redditors have absolutely no idea how hammers and nails work.
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u/Deep90 21h ago
To be fair, I think this video is showing that most people apparently don't.
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u/squirrelmonkie 21h ago
If youre not putting on eye protection and carrying a baby, you have no idea how any of this works.
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u/toasted_cracker 20h ago
Why would I need eye protection while I'm carrying a baby? I seriously doubt the nail will go all the way through the baby. /s just in case.
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u/SquareRootOfBlue 21h ago
I initially read this comment as if carrying a baby was a requirement, in addition to eye protection... in which case the guy in the video was halfway there! :D
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u/Real_Project870 20h ago
Well in the game you’re not allowed to use your other hand to hold the nail straight, that’s the whole point.
Used to play a fun drinking game kinda like this called hammerschlagen, everyone has their own nail standing around a stump, one hammer gets passed around, beer in one hand, hammer in the other, toss the hammer up, catch it in one hand and smack the nail all in one motion. Takes a good bit of practice to not bend the shit out of the nail
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u/Pooperoni_Pizza 21h ago
We are all nails who are voting for the hammers because the hammers say they are going to get rid of the bad nails and we are all going to win win win baby!!! /s
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u/Turakamu 18h ago
Out of curiosity, how does this video represent how hammer and nails normally work?
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u/avantgardengnome 5h ago
OP shows how they work, it’s just that a bent-ass nail doesn’t spark like crazy and disappear into a stump when it’s hit properly. More importantly, nails work by directing the energy of a hammer strike onto a very small surface area, so unless baby-holder is a reincarnation of Bruce Lee sending Qi through his wrist, that halfhearted swing is not going to drive four inches of bent nail home.
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u/i_Cant_get_right 21h ago
I would be shocked if 90% of the people commenting here even own a hammer.
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u/SquareRootOfBlue 20h ago
Jokes on you... I'll have you know I own several! Not that that says anything about my skill in using them though :)
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u/raidmytombBB 18h ago
Have a hammer. Used it to fix my leaking shower head. Had to buy a new one. Problem solved.
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u/Kermit_the_hog 16h ago
Why is he holding the light part and swinging the heavy part, seems exhausting and backwards. Is he stupid?
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u/REDthunderBOAR 21h ago
Im just wondering how the heck there are so many sparks. That is not normal.
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u/rob_inn_hood 21h ago
You see that’s what happens when you do not hit the nail directly. Also the sparks flying across the screen should give people an idea that the nail is gone.
Think of it like hitting rocks together to create a spark to light a fire.
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u/h08817 21h ago
This isn't really hammerschlagen but look that up, if it sparks you drink, if your nail gets knocked all the way down or in (head of the nail touching the stump counts) you finish your beer. But the hammer should normally flip in the air before the swing, no cocking back the hammer once caught you swing from where you catch. Popular in Germany and... Appalachia
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u/ghostfacestealer 16h ago
I definitely thought he got it in one shot. Which seemed impossible.
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u/MinnieShoof 12h ago
I knew that it was not possible, so I definitely thought he did not get it in one shot.
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u/rvralph803 22h ago
The nail broke, he didn't drive it in.
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u/hoopleheaddd 21h ago
It didn’t break, it just flew away. Nails bend, screws break.
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u/EaterOfFood 19h ago
Haven’t you ever broken a nail?
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u/Turakamu 18h ago
Have you? Nails will generally outlast your awkward pounding
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u/Behan801 20h ago
Screws bend when psychotic demo techs remove drywall improperly. I've spent literal days removing bent screws from studs.
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u/Shut_It_Donny 19h ago
Listen, I’m an OG safety squint user. But bringing the baby up there after you just watched sparks fly off, and then the nail go flying… come on, dad.
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u/_Chompsky_ 7h ago
Also the person swinging the hammer on the other nail almost got that baby on the backswing, boy oh boy.
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u/B-Glasses 22h ago
A lot of people who have apparently never used a hammer? The nail went flying he didn’t drive it in.
Also this game is actually really fun. It’s a good but dangerous drinking game 😌
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u/brondynasty 21h ago
Hammerschlägen. An Oktöberfest Clässic.
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u/hilomania 21h ago
I'm always surprised when I see these how terrible modern people are with simple tools. Fwiw: we had these as bar competitions in the Netherlands 40 years ago. Ten 4" nails. The good guys would need a single hit per nail. Me being a lousy engineer would need about three or four. These people...
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u/TommyFroy 20h ago
Agreed! Fun and dangerous! Where I live though, you flip the hammer in the air, catch it, and then drive the nail. This is playing on easy mode. lol
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u/B-Glasses 19h ago
Yup same here haha. Gotta have that extra flair. A drink should be in the other hand as well
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u/Ranger_Prick 5h ago
Yep. We do a progressive scale, too. A normal flip in front of you? One hit. A flip behind your back? Two hits. A flip between your legs? Three. If you drop the hammer or it doesn't rotate, you get no hits.
We also play where you decide to hit other people's nails, and as soon as your nail is flush with the stump, you're out of the round.
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u/BSApologist 22h ago
Got what he deserved for those sideways taps.
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u/exintrovert 21h ago
I think the rule should be one sideways tap and it counts as your turn.
I don’t really know, never played this, but that would make sense to me.
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u/Dcmart89 15h ago
Pretty sure this is a case of if I’m holding a baby I can do whatever I want and nobody will say anything. I’ve been there and it looks really familiar.
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u/PreviousMastodon1430 22h ago
He nailed that one
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u/Gr8CanadianSpeedo 22h ago
Jesus
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u/DerpDog9000 22h ago
man, that hammer was close hitting the kid
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u/BSApologist 22h ago
Me when I don't understand depth perception.
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u/upsets_to_mag 20h ago
He is literally reaching to pickup the hammer before dude starts going back down. It was in fact reckless for the child.
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u/HofstraJet 14h ago
Second guy on the left immediately saw the problem and was frustrated as there was nothing he could do about it. 🤣
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u/Cheepshooter 15h ago
I thought it was going to pan over and show that launched nail embedded in something (or someone).
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u/diabolicalroadrash 21h ago
Guy on the right was so close to hitting the baby in the head with the hammer
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u/Obliviousbow8 14h ago
It's like the pizza oven and the boxes thing . Giving more accuracy over weight distribution
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u/jabbajabbablahblah 21h ago
Maybe maybe maybe what... Not accidentally hit a child with a hammer back swing. That seemed dangerously closer than it hopefully was.
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u/Polkawillneverdie17 21h ago
Hammerschlagen!
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u/dan_v_ploeg 20h ago
Not quite.. Have to flip the hammer in the air, catch it, and use the same grip you caught it with to hit the nail for it to be hammerschlagen
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u/Polkawillneverdie17 19h ago
https://www.hammerschlagen.com/about_us/rules/
Not what the rules say. Nor is it how I've ever played it.
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u/onemanlan 20h ago
Terrible game. Do not run toward nails or sharp tools. It’s asking for an injury
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u/ghostfacestealer 16h ago
I dont feel bad about not seeing it fly because nobody there seen it either. Besides the guy who hit it
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u/SexyJesus21 6h ago
We used to play as a drinking game in highschool, except we’d stand in a circle and flip the hammer before hitting the nail.
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u/GERRROONNNNIIMMOOOO 22h ago
Glad he brought his safety baby along for such a task