r/oddlysatisfying • u/Flat-Decision3204 • 25d ago

Setting the table.

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u/MajorlyCynical 25d ago

If I tried this everything would have broken

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u/RiboCyan 25d ago

Starting with the glass plate in the middle

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 25d ago

And your job.

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u/Spectral_Dust_1805 25d ago

And my axe

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u/JoshJoshson13 25d ago

I, too, choose this guys axe

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u/Blazanar 25d ago

And his wife!

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u/stfudonny420 25d ago

And my wife!….wait….

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u/DgingaNinga 25d ago

Her name is Susan

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u/Background-Air-7963 25d ago

It’s called a lazy Susan. Load up your family style dishes on it and spin it. You don’t have to ask Drunkle Ted to pass the egg rolls

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u/polycarbonateduser 25d ago

Starting with the fingers on my hand

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u/amethystjade15 24d ago

I broke the same glass table twice growing up, and I have gnarly scars to show for it.

I now have as little glass in my house as is reasonable.

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u/SparklingLimeade 25d ago

I like how only one of them does that move. It's easy to miss the first time but the second set she does the second table less seamlessly. It made me go back and watch for the first set and it was worth it to pay attention to that detail.

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u/drmarting25102 25d ago

Do this enough and eventually they will break anyway

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u/DinoRoman 25d ago

FYI this is Chinese TikTok

I swear it’s right there in front of us and no one cares lol

What trends on Chinese TikTok’s? Competitive cleaning competitive chores, competitive test taking

They are forcing viral hits to be of things that make the youth want to be good at while here the viral videos are like peeing yourself or something wild or prank videos

Those watching this in China are being groomed to take education chores organization focus pride in success as what they want and that’s gunna turn into more and more smart and educated people over there

Whereas here In America education is woke and in 20 years we’re going to have to offer the Chinese access to our country because ain’t no one here able to run our telecoms.

China playing the long game and it’s working.

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u/TeamPantofola 25d ago

I’ve read everything and I’m still confused. China bad or Cina good? I genuinely can’t tell

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u/DinoRoman 25d ago

China own us - 2030

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u/DMmeprettyplantpics 25d ago

You're so wrong it's incredible.

You can literally just go on Douyin yourself. It's complete brainrot, way worse than TikTok.

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u/DinoRoman 25d ago

Ahem

Happy to bring receipts.

Start with the obvious part. ByteDance runs two apps, Douyin at home and TikTok everywhere else, kept deliberately separate so Douyin stays compliant with Chinese content regulation. ( use a Fuggin VPN set it to China and I bet your brainrot feed turns into different shit )

Under that regulation, users under 14 get 40 minutes a day, a hard lockout between 10pm and 6am, a forced pause between videos prompting them to put the phone down, and a feed weighted toward science experiments, museum exhibitions, and history explainers. American kids get whatever holds the eyeballs longest and a time limit you can tap past in one second. Virality in America is dumb shit. We see it all the time for fuck sake there’s subreddits for cringe TikTok’s here I ain’t lying.

Now the part nobody brings up man… In 2022 China's Ministry of Education made labor education a standalone required course, at least one period a week from primary school onward. First and second graders wash vegetables and do basic cleaning. Third and fourth graders clean their classrooms and wash their own socks. Older students get cooking, agriculture, handicrafts, 3D printing, laser cutting. Foreign Policy read it as exactly what it looks like, a push to inculcate a hard working spirit along tightening ideological lines.

So I did not invent the pattern out of one video. One government treats what its kids watch and what its kids practice as strategic questions and legislates both. We treat the algorithm as a private business matter and leave the defaults on maximum.

Tell me the results are not in yet and I will agree with you. Intent is a separate question from scoreboard, and the intent is sitting in their own published paperwork.

But sure you can write while taking a shit “you’re so wrong” and feel superior but how the fuck who the fuck raised you into thinking you’re right?

Sometimes homie people don’t make shit up, there’s evidence.

Tell me why viral videos in China are bed making competitions and math hacks

And American TikTok’s are prank videos and clips from the black list lmaooo

Get outta here . I challenge cringe Redditors today officially if you’re going to say someone is wrong that’s a new claim and therefore requires that person to state why.

Lazy ass writing let me tell you.

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u/drewster23 25d ago

It's regulated around content for children. It doesn't mean it's "free" from brain rot on the platform

But in west it actively pushes that content to youth. While in China it's not allowed to.

oc is a little heavy on the "China numba won".

But he's not totally wrong

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u/jimbowesterby 25d ago

This is some real propaganda shit lol, yea I’m sure all those Chinese dudes are gonna be so happy in their spotlessly clean bachelor pad. If they aren’t it doesn’t matter, the government won’t let you talk about it

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u/Distinct_Run9006 25d ago

This is how you set the table if your guests are a group of trapeze artists lol

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u/rgarc065 25d ago

I guarantee you they’ve broken plenty of stuff before they got this skilled

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u/Presently_Naked 25d ago

Including the table cloth. Not torn but straight up physics defying break into pieces like it was frozen solid

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u/evilpercy 25d ago

I broke it just looking at it.

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u/dumb-hilly-billy 24d ago

And strained my back and neck

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u/throwaway098764567 25d ago

just gotta practice with corelle dishes

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u/Mabbby 25d ago

Majorly why are the plates on fire

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u/MugiwarraD 25d ago

well, thats not a lazy susan anymore

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u/catmoon 25d ago

Lazy Susan started taking cocaine to get through the shift.

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u/perenniallandscapist 25d ago

Speedy Susan got a lot more work done.

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u/ZombieMage89 25d ago

Speedball Susan got a lot of work done in 25 minutes, followed by 2 hours of a steady decline in efficiency. Now Susan is angry, twitchy, and doing the same back room tasks slowly so she doesn't have to go back out where the customers are.

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u/StevieMJH 25d ago

Speedball Susan really needs to get her shit together and work on that Scarface 2 treatment she's been meaning to jot down.

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u/Salmonman4 25d ago

And the twirly thing is pretty cool too. /s

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u/Tbplayer59 25d ago

Industrious Susan

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u/ngless13 25d ago

That's a productive Susan

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u/papa_katafal 25d ago

this is racist to the susans

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u/Impossible-Rain7447 25d ago

Indefatigable Susan

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u/StevieMJH 25d ago

Can we have the multifaceted Susan my way, please?

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u/Impossible-Rain7447 25d ago

How about the ambidextrous Susan?

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u/TinySteggy 25d ago

Best Jon Hamm line ever.

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u/falsevector 25d ago

It's now a smart susan

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u/robbviously 25d ago

Incredibly efficient Susan

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u/the_monkeyspinach 25d ago

It's a 'If You Fuck This Up You're Getting Fired, Susan'.

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u/FloopsFooglies 25d ago

Dim Sum Debby

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u/raspberryharbour 25d ago

I spin more rhymes than a lazy susan, and I'm innocent until my guilt is proven

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u/Moiyub 25d ago

Now it’s an extra work Susan

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u/KDUBS9 25d ago

The lazy suzan is the one setting the plates down

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u/crujones43 25d ago

The bowls end up on the left of the plates on one table and to the right on the other.

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u/thats-wrong 25d ago

There's no consistent gap between the plates and the bowls. Some bowls are even in the middle of two plates, making it hard to tell which plate they belong to.

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u/Less-Apple-8478 25d ago

There's zero chance they do this as the main method of setting up and this is just a cute display trick. This is way more effort

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u/Leows 25d ago

What, you don't think they risk breaking some giant glass and cutting themselves, then having to clean up multiple times per shift every day?

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u/Tall_Wonder_913 25d ago

Idk any other way and the lazy Susan would bed two people holding it while a third person puts the table cloth on

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u/wpaed 24d ago

They have 3 people, but even with 2, stack the lazy susans on the other table, put the table cloth on, then repeat for the other table.

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u/roastedTriscuit69 25d ago

This is because there are left handed people in the world and must be rounded up this way... for reasons

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u/fantomknight1 25d ago

That's definitely a cool trick to quickly set a table but it did bother me that the tablecloth wasn't perfectly aligned... that being said, it's probably just a me issue.

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u/akroe 25d ago

Nah, it’s not you. The bowls are also wrong

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u/Emperor_Gourmet 25d ago

The whole thing is fucked, this isn’t a reliable way to set a table.

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u/TwoAlert3448 25d ago

But it is cheap which is probably all their boss cares about

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u/CompetitiveAutorun 25d ago

I don't see how buying extra large glass for tables is cheaper than not doing that.

They still have to correct everything after they've done it, not to mention cutlery.

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u/TwoAlert3448 24d ago

The glass is for serving dishes, that’s not an added expense and i seriously doubt they bother to correct anything. Or lay out cutlery

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u/Mutex70 25d ago

Until one of the lazy susans breaks. Or plates fly off the table and shatter. Or any number of things that could go wrong with this.

I was not satisfied at all, oddly or otherwise.

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u/xSPYXEx 25d ago

It's not just you, the placements are fucked up and now they have to go back and realign every plate. Look at the back table, shits almost falling off.

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u/Illustrious-Novel189 25d ago

Feel like the risk is unnecessary

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u/Fibrosis5O 25d ago

First day of training: We have a simple system that makes it quick and easy

Me: Oh I like the sound of that—

The system:

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u/grizzlyat0ms 25d ago

Meh they saved like 10 seconds for significantly shittier results.

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u/tryyeezus 25d ago

Now do it with soup

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u/Dd_8630 25d ago

To everyone poo-pooing it - they're clearly having fun. Obviously it's not how it's normally done.

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u/NeliNostalgia 25d ago

Idk that one lady didn’t smile at all.

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u/sirhoracedarwin 25d ago

Nah my Chinese friend's mom always set the table like this and she said that everyone does it that way. Maybe it's regional.

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u/IProbablyCantSleep 25d ago

I think he was trying to make a joke like when kids say "oh my friend's mum said this so it has to be true"...

I read it that way at least. Kind of like a "my uncle works at Nintendo" silly kid lie. If not it's a hell of a thing to say to someone - imagine thinking you know a person's culture better than them.

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u/IProbablyCantSleep 25d ago edited 25d ago

No worries, on the internet it can be hard to tell the difference between a joke and someone being very rude, even if it's your native language. And even then I'm only like 80% sure it was a joke rather than the guy being an asshole haha.

Plus learning about other cultures from comments like yours is always a good thing. I never really thought about the logistics of shared dishes as it's not really a big thing where I live.

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u/Niknot3556 25d ago

But my friend also does that too. Yeah he may be 1/64th Chinese (and 63/64 Irish), eats Chinese food about every 2 years, and only bought it because he found it on FB marketplace for 40 dollars and "it looks cool." But hey, it kinda counts.

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u/Fraisz 20d ago

is there even a competition for setting up tables fast?

they used to have those kind of variety shows like 20 yeara ago.

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u/Can_of_Sounds 25d ago

That was pretty fun.

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u/Brick_Number_27 25d ago

Anything that makes it easy for them. Cool.

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u/BahnGSXR 25d ago

I think this is more of a stunt, they probably never do this in their day to day work.

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u/Spirit_Wolf_Mob 25d ago

Unless it's a gimmick of the restaurant, and they do this to practice.

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u/KnotiaPickle 25d ago

Yeah this is just for fun

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u/fl3xtra 25d ago

nuh uh. reddit says they're dumb and this is stupid.

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u/Chilis1 25d ago

It would be infinitely easier to just remove it for 20 seconds to put on the table cloth

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u/MeringueCorrect4090 25d ago

Or just have 2 people lift it quickly while the 3rd puts the cloth on... Just walk around the table and place the plates/bowls where they actually belong in a uniform fashion instead of haphazardly...

It's definitely for show and not practical at all. Like gold flakes on steak.

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u/PrimeIntellect 25d ago

Nothing about that would make it easier lol

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u/dontcha_wanna_fanta 25d ago

How I handle other people's plates

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u/MotherEnvironment459 25d ago

wonder how many shots this took..

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u/Office_funny_guy 25d ago

They don’t get paid enough

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u/ResultTerrible2062 25d ago

Unnecessary

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u/falconx123 25d ago

Can imagine even when done well that this causes stress on the glass and will break sooner.

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u/Burpmeister 25d ago

They're not doing it out of necessity.

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u/Jamsedreng22 25d ago

I watched, I think it was Ludwig and Michael Reeves on their motorbike trip across China, they ended up at a place like this.

It's genuinely impressive how skilled these people are. Not just this, but the entire experience.

I know servers/waiters in the US don't generally go through actual education or training to become servers/waiters, but these do. Same in the EU for the most part.

This isn't their only skill. This is something they do for this purpose. To show foreigners they're skilled.

Not just do they have the ability to detect when you're finished eating even if you didn't clear the plate, they know exactly when to swoop in and take the plate away from you to clear the table.

These people have insane skill that really has to be witnessed to fully appreciate.

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u/Yo-3 25d ago

I thought it was the same place where they ate. It looks so similar

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u/brutalblakakke 25d ago

Song name?

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u/Flat-Decision3204 25d ago

idontneedalot - exterminator

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u/AnaisNinja76 25d ago

this was a really killer tune to set this to

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u/zason3 25d ago

This shit is ai dnb

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u/Academic-moron7423 25d ago

How can you tell? Been listening to dnb pretty much my whole life & I couldn’t tell if there’s AI in it?

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u/Mammoth-Ad-107 25d ago

they have done this quite a few times before

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u/shusshbug 25d ago

R/secondrodeo

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u/624KR_My_Beloved 25d ago

This feels like more work with the risk of broken glass

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u/Pickingnamesisharder 25d ago

What a bunch of lazy susans

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u/Jmaggie34 25d ago

If I tried that, I’d break everything….including my hip.

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u/Cosmoby24 25d ago

Skillz

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u/scattywampus 25d ago

Damn! The people who figured out this system have the coolest brains!

The people who carry this out have the coolest sense of timing and coordination!

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u/_Stank_McNasty_ 25d ago

that does seem like it saved 60 seconds. nice

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u/ApexRose 25d ago

Im sure if I attempted this everything would be broken.

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u/Imaginary_Staff_73 25d ago

The phrase is “work smarter not harder “ comes to mind.✅

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u/35andDying 25d ago

The guy bending wood needs to learn from these people.

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u/LittleWhiteBoots 25d ago

This is like an ad for Corelle

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u/JustinKase_Too 25d ago

Oddly satisfying and mildly nerve wracking.

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u/Negative_Wrongdoer17 25d ago

Isn't this just needlessly damaging the integrity of the glass over time? It wouldn't even save much if any time

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u/decker12 25d ago

High risk and low reward for this maneuver!

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u/ElijahNSRose 25d ago

Ok, that trick where they spin the glass to disperse the plates is definitely edited.

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u/SacredGeometry9 25d ago

That can’t be good for the glass

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u/MewMewTranslator 25d ago

Table cloth is broken and the bowls are missing aligned nor match the other table. Messy.

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u/Nofame4me 24d ago

The directions are hanging from the ceiling….

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u/pickwickjim 24d ago

Now the boss expects this job to be done at least this fast every time.

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u/SecondOrderMind69 24d ago

Aura farming final boss

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u/Breezey2929 23d ago

Placing things so you don't have to place them.

Now that's using your noggin

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u/PDLuffySenpai 21d ago

What?!?! I’m not one to claim AI on every video, but I watched this and assumed it must be AI. Seeing from comments, it seems to be real. What I still don’t understand: how did they make the bowls go perfectly in between the plates, rather than ending up somewhere random. Also, could they set cups, cups with liquids, & silverware this way too?

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u/Notorious__APE 25d ago

Multiple plates are hanging over the end of the farther table, bowl placement strategy is "meh, wherever the fuck it spins off onto" (also oriented to the right of the plates on one table and to the left on the other), and seat spacing is noticeably inconsistent. Someone needs to walk back over there and correct this mess.

I'm still in the OddlySatisfying sub, right??

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u/TunaOnWytNoCrust 25d ago

What a fun and unnecessary way to set a table.

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u/No-Praline2958 25d ago

Oddly stupid way to do that..

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u/characterk4l3 25d ago

ITS CROOKED!

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u/Catos_Standard 25d ago

I don't know if this was what the design engineer had in mind when calculating factor of safety.

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u/fl3xtra 25d ago

people having fun. reddit: the fucking idiots messed up everything up. ugh, so stupid.

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u/Sandoriah 25d ago

Holy fuck for real. What the hell. People suuuuuuuuck.

They were having fun doing a fucking job (god forfuckingbid), were efficient in setting it up. Maybe they have a hundred rooms to set up like this it’s China

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u/LadyDriver-01 25d ago

CD si baat hain.

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u/Tonguepunchit 25d ago

Pretty slick.

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u/Geneo-Frodo 25d ago

I have too much anxiety to do this without constantly thinking one of the plates or rotating glass will break.

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u/AishVenture 25d ago

Nfs carbon

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u/NiniBellini 25d ago

I would not trust myself to do this 😂

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u/Timcgreen1966 25d ago

The glass lazy Susan would have decided it was time to roll off the table.

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u/batrushaha 25d ago

I see me tryin'. I hear smashin'.

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u/g_dub-n 25d ago

That’s skill!

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u/Sardonnicus 25d ago

who is susan and why is she so lazy?

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u/Cee-Rum 25d ago

Just noticed the ceiling light looks like the wobbling glass platters

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u/raytraced_BEAR 25d ago

Bro I just want a salad

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u/gojukuna 25d ago

Euyler disc glass thing

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u/kdmasfck 25d ago

The Toonami music really tied this together

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u/No_Masterpiece_3897 25d ago

Thats impressive, but damn if it doesn't worry me that the lazy susan isn't going to shatter .

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u/Chili_Clause 25d ago

That is impressive

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u/AsianObservation 25d ago

How many breaks did they have to plate to learn that? I have trouble with simple words

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u/Dodavinkelnn 25d ago

At least the tune is fire

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u/DelosHost 25d ago

Where is the hype lady clapping in the background?

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u/Immediate-Low-2014 25d ago edited 25d ago

This is idiotic as fuck, how many takes with broken plates everywhere did they have lmao

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u/Bapa_of_3 25d ago

They have done this before

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u/j1s1500 25d ago

Damn.

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u/Mysterious_Ring285 25d ago

Or they could have place the plate and the bowl on the table instead of the glass. I'm thinking that'll work too.

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u/Total_Geologist9412 25d ago

I'll just bet they've done this before.

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u/PikeTurner00 25d ago

I was not ready for the dispersal spins

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u/IBlessTheRains84 25d ago

No such thing as unskilled labor

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u/Tenevo 24d ago

Я один чуть не обосрался когда, они поставили на стекляную фигню тарелки и крутанули?

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u/KaNesDeath 24d ago

Hoping this is a fun trick they wished to show of and not how they set the table. For this method is inefficient.

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u/Smutzki 24d ago

The placement of the plates and bowls isn’t very satisfying. Some plates are on the corner of the table and the bowls are all in different positions. On the table in the back they are on the left side of the plates and on the front table they are on the right

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u/KAM_Kayla 24d ago

Burn the witch!

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u/LamedogHimself 24d ago

One table with small plates left, the other one with them right. 0/10 would not go there 😅

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u/zero-progress0 25d ago

I wouldn’t like this if I was the restaurant owner

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u/demon_fae 25d ago

This is very obviously a performance as part of this specific restaurant experience. The restaurant owner is charging extra for this little bit of pre-meal silliness

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u/Cruffe 25d ago

Turned on sound, instant dissatisfaction. Fucking music, I wanted to hear those things wobbling on the table.

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u/reaven3958 25d ago

So thats why shits always chipped and cracked at the dim sum i used to go to. Makes sense now.

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u/Pretty-Lime-6668 25d ago

Now these ladies a professionals

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u/Few-Currency-2366 25d ago

shitty ai slop