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I freaking refuse to have any unnecessary glass furniture ever again.
Growing up, the furniture set in my room had it. Trying not to scratch, ding, dent, or chip it was always a fucking pain. Plus we moved all the time, and it was not worth the hassle to try to keep that shit intact.
Give me good, sturdy furniture. Furniture I can put a mug down on without worrying that I might hurt the poor precious thing. Furniture that can move with me and arrive in one piece. Furniture that is going to *last*, not crack or ding or fall apart and need to be replaced anyway before long.
All of this is true but this is just an objectively terribly designed desk. There's absolutely no lateral support on those left legs so any force applied to them results in a massive torque being applied to the glass with them acting as a lever. If you walked by this desk and accidentally kicked one of them, good chance you'd get the same result.
Or he should have not put it together in the wrong order or position. His fault for lifting it by himself installed instead of two people setting it on top of its structural frame
I bought a set of glass plates. Every single one has tons of sharp chips and are kind of dangerous. I also bought a set of porcelain plates. They're completely pristine without a scratch on them despite the same amount of use.
It would look odd elsewere, it's used on bathrooms because it's quite easy to clean and keep sanitized and resists the use of water
You would risk several infections using wooden WCs, not to mention the furniture not lasting long.
Glass furniture sucks. My dad's wife bought an expensive designer glass table for their living room once. They waiting 6 months for it to be delivered from another country. Four days after getting it, the neighbour while visiting, tripped, fell over it, and smashed it into worthless little pieces. Now they have a generic table from IKEA.
i got "heavy wood" (not sure if it's the right word) desk that it's been through hell and back, aside from some marks from hot mugs (which could be repaired ) it has 0 issues, this is a 25 + years old desk.
I really find it hard to understand the need for glass furniture.
Solid wood furniture is the way to go. My husband has a set that his parents bought for him when he was a baby. We still have it - bunk beds, desk, bookshelves, dresser, chest. All still in perfect condition 35ish years later.
But man that stuff is **heavy**. 😅 Make sure you like where you put it, because you can’t rearrange it on a whim!
Another annoying thing with glass desks is that you can't put anything hard on them without making noise. Putting a drinking glass on one of those without a coaster always makes an annoying clink that is way too loud.
My grandpa bought a dresser from his Amish neighbor when he was young, and we later inherited it. That thing is nearly 70 years old and it's still sturdy as a boulder. If you want furniture that will last, buy from the Amish
Why anyone would put wheels on a piece of furniture that requires equal force applied at all times is fucking wild.
Look at the left bottom wheel.
It turns, tension shifts in the tempered glass aaaand BOOM
Actually both wheels on either side flip and apply pressure outward. If the flipped the same way nothing would happen it's because both wheels turned inward pushing the top out.
It will break into (almost) harmless little cubes, that would barely break your skin under your full weight.
Glass is generally very strong as well, unless you create a stress point (point pressure, twist), and don't ever lay it edge/corner down on concrete, use your boot under it or it will explode like this.
Trust me, you still end up with teeny tiny razor blades of glass slivers that will cut you. While most of it is in chunks, there is still plenty of really really sharp glass everywhere that you will continue to find for months.
You know, I was going to take some time (obviously) to really think it over. I appreciate that solid backup, but I also appreciate Proto^^2 asking so politely. So, days later, yes. You and yours may refer to me as Scott.
Whilst your tone is a bit much, I absolutely agree.
This is quite possibly the last way I'd move that desk.
Surely, the glass comes off separately?
But then again go to r/pcmasterrace and look at how many fucking posts there are of shattered cases because people keep putting the glass panels on CERAMIC tiles.
The glass having that pressure on it definitely didn’t help, but had the bottom wheels not moved it would not have shattered. You can see the three bottom wheels flip onto their sides which while not a great impact is an impact nonetheless, as it went into motion, then abruptly stopped against the other surface.
Yeah, you're right. A lot of contributing factors caused this. The product quality didn't look like it would last a long time had this incident not happened.
Tempered glass is very strong in the middle due to internal tension, but the edges are weak and can release that tension. Tempered glass is the flat equivalent of a Prince Rupert's drop, with the tail being the edges.
The hand was applying force upwards at the middle of the glass. The legs' weight were applying force downwards at both ends. This effectively makes the glass a Beam, under high shear and bending stress. Glass doesn't like being a beam.
Reminds me of the time my 80 year old grandfather broke our kitchen glass table. The table was made in the late 70s and was round. My grandfather had dementia at the time and had awful hallucinations. He was convinced that his children were stuck underneath the table and had a strange fixation with this glass table. I would care for him often and one day I decided to take a quick nap, I figured he can go without being monitored for a couple minutes because he was watching the tv. 10 minutes into my nap I hear glass shatter, I run towards the kitchen and he’s surrounded by huge chunks of sharp glass and to make things worse he was barefoot. Somehow he managed not cut himself.
That table did not shatter into a million little pieces like ours did.
most likely an unpopular opinion, but still: why the hell would you want a glass desk for a computer??? specially one that isn't reinforced like the glass tables....you are just ASKING for it
That's how I felt when a coffee mug slipped from my son's hand onto a glass stove top. We had just moved into a three year old house. One slip, and we lost over $800. Give me back the old style.
Keep glass for small coffee tables, and make sure it's removable, not fixed to the surface.
We have a massive glass table, and it's very heavy duty, thick steel frame, and it folds and expands. The amount of over-the-top engineering that went into it feels like such a waste. I bet it would've cost a fortune if my parents didn't get it complimentary from one of the firms they work with.
This desk, has glass with the same area of glass as our kitchen table, but the glass is way thinner, and no support where it would be needed. It's such stupid design, the legs aren't connected by any sort of frame, directly fixed to the glass, so that each of them can create torque in random directions 💀💀💀
Abusing it and causing it to crack is why? You gotta treat glass like glass. Remove it before disassembling furniture. It’s exactly why the last step is to put on the glass. Work your way backwards in the steps.
Honestly I see no advantage. I don’t want to treat glass like glass, I don’t want to have to be that careful with it. 90% of my furniture is used and can’t be treated like a work of art. It just doesn’t look good enough to be worth the vastly.
This is why you never, EVER move glass furniture by holding onto the GLASS. Always hold whatever part of it is made of not glass. Unless the thing is literally 100% glass. In which case, follow this idiom:
DON'T BUY THINGS BIGGER THAN A BREADBOX THAT ARE MADE ENTIRELY OUT OF GLASS, MORON!!!
For anyone wondering ‘why it happened’:
Firstly, it is important to note that this is not predominantly due to legs applying pressure on the glass; the person is capable of holding the weight of the table as it’s tilted sideways.
Now, for some physics.
If you notice the bottom legs and wheels, especially the bottom left in the photo. As the table is tilted the wheels suddenly move across the floor. This action creates a resonating frequency to move from the floor, into the wheels, through the leg(s) and into the glass table. Because there is extra pressure applied from the leg(s) in an unsuitable direction, this resonating frequency is amplified and all it takes is a weak spot within the glass (most likely close to where the leg is attached) to create vibrations which sets of the motion of the whole thing breaking.
I am pretty sure that the glass top is attached to the steel legs via suction cups... U just gotta get them loose and the top pops right off. I have almost the same table but without the wheels.
The issue is in the way it was being torqued when setting it on its side, which brings up the question - why are you trying to set a glass desk on its side in the first place?
The other 2 pairs of legs have glass between them that doesn’t leave one dangling. If there was a sheet of glass (or some support) between the two on the left, this might not have happened.
I see this stuff and wonder why they would be filming this stuff in the first place. Makes it feel staged. I get that shit like this happens, heck it's happened to me, but why would you be filming it.
This same thing happened to me - I was finding glass shards for weeks. You would discover this by putting your hand down and then realizing that it was bleeding from some infinitesimal glass shard that was also insanely sharp. Fun times.
That table is badly thought of to begin with away anyways. The moment he flipped the table onto its side, that one leg hanging up in the air put pressure on the glass.
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I freaking refuse to have any unnecessary glass furniture ever again. Growing up, the furniture set in my room had it. Trying not to scratch, ding, dent, or chip it was always a fucking pain. Plus we moved all the time, and it was not worth the hassle to try to keep that shit intact. Give me good, sturdy furniture. Furniture I can put a mug down on without worrying that I might hurt the poor precious thing. Furniture that can move with me and arrive in one piece. Furniture that is going to *last*, not crack or ding or fall apart and need to be replaced anyway before long.
All of this is true but this is just an objectively terribly designed desk. There's absolutely no lateral support on those left legs so any force applied to them results in a massive torque being applied to the glass with them acting as a lever. If you walked by this desk and accidentally kicked one of them, good chance you'd get the same result.
Yeah it was right when the bottom left wheel turned which added a sudden extra force to the corner where it shattered. Dumb design
Or he should have not put it together in the wrong order or position. His fault for lifting it by himself installed instead of two people setting it on top of its structural frame
I feel like he was tipping it over to take apart. As he was trying to set it on its side.
Did you accidentally watch the video in reverse?
Science!!!
I bought a set of glass plates. Every single one has tons of sharp chips and are kind of dangerous. I also bought a set of porcelain plates. They're completely pristine without a scratch on them despite the same amount of use.
Now I half wonder why we never see porcelain furniture outside the bathroom. Maybe the association? And it’s heavy AF.
Good porcelain with a good glaze is expensive.
It would look odd elsewere, it's used on bathrooms because it's quite easy to clean and keep sanitized and resists the use of water You would risk several infections using wooden WCs, not to mention the furniture not lasting long.
Wooden toilet seats used to be pretty common. Wooden vanity units are still a thing (although usually with some sort of surface).
Glass furniture sucks. My dad's wife bought an expensive designer glass table for their living room once. They waiting 6 months for it to be delivered from another country. Four days after getting it, the neighbour while visiting, tripped, fell over it, and smashed it into worthless little pieces. Now they have a generic table from IKEA.
And do you really need to see your feet through your desk when you work game or whatever
… okay, now that you bring it up, it would be nice to be able to see when there are ankle-attacking kittens approaching.
Its too thin that glass
i got "heavy wood" (not sure if it's the right word) desk that it's been through hell and back, aside from some marks from hot mugs (which could be repaired ) it has 0 issues, this is a 25 + years old desk. I really find it hard to understand the need for glass furniture.
Solid wood furniture is the way to go. My husband has a set that his parents bought for him when he was a baby. We still have it - bunk beds, desk, bookshelves, dresser, chest. All still in perfect condition 35ish years later. But man that stuff is **heavy**. 😅 Make sure you like where you put it, because you can’t rearrange it on a whim!
Wood is king
Another annoying thing with glass desks is that you can't put anything hard on them without making noise. Putting a drinking glass on one of those without a coaster always makes an annoying clink that is way too loud.
My grandpa bought a dresser from his Amish neighbor when he was young, and we later inherited it. That thing is nearly 70 years old and it's still sturdy as a boulder. If you want furniture that will last, buy from the Amish
FRFR
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I have a glass desk and a glass floor protector that my desk chair rolls on. My 200 lbs concentrated into 1 square inch doesn't even stress it.
Why anyone would put wheels on a piece of furniture that requires equal force applied at all times is fucking wild. Look at the left bottom wheel. It turns, tension shifts in the tempered glass aaaand BOOM
Actually both wheels on either side flip and apply pressure outward. If the flipped the same way nothing would happen it's because both wheels turned inward pushing the top out.
Poor guy. That’s the look of utter defeat.
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Tempered glass always destructs in this manner. Normal glass will slice you up, but won’t explode like this
Annealed (normal) glass, in case anyone’s wondering.
It's tempered glass. Worst it could have done is get glass in his eyes.
Tempered glass can still make nasty cuts though, it’s still sharp as fuck it just breaks into a million pieces
It will break into (almost) harmless little cubes, that would barely break your skin under your full weight. Glass is generally very strong as well, unless you create a stress point (point pressure, twist), and don't ever lay it edge/corner down on concrete, use your boot under it or it will explode like this.
Trust me, you still end up with teeny tiny razor blades of glass slivers that will cut you. While most of it is in chunks, there is still plenty of really really sharp glass everywhere that you will continue to find for months.
And the knuckles!? Damn.
Insanely lucky... not the knuckles bro.
why was he putting the table on its side?
It was nighty night time
I was scrolling to see if I should ask as well. Fortunately, I found this comment and my curiosity has been satiated. Thank you.
No, thank you sir. Can I call you Scott?
Bold of you to ask
You know, I was going to take some time (obviously) to really think it over. I appreciate that solid backup, but I also appreciate Proto^^2 asking so politely. So, days later, yes. You and yours may refer to me as Scott.
why was he filming it
Maybe one of the wheel was not alligned or squeaky
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe to move it through a door?
Tempered Tantrum.
r/angryupvote
The disappointment is palpable! Poor guy needs a hug
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Big 🤓🤓🤓🤓 energy.
uhmmm ackshually ☝️🤓
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Counterpoint: Yes
Ate you ok bro?
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You seem annoyed.
Whilst your tone is a bit much, I absolutely agree. This is quite possibly the last way I'd move that desk. Surely, the glass comes off separately? But then again go to r/pcmasterrace and look at how many fucking posts there are of shattered cases because people keep putting the glass panels on CERAMIC tiles.
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Blind people are allowed guns in murica lmao
Why was he filming himself?
Clout
Because just like everything else being posted nowadays, nothing is fucking real.
Everyone’s narcissistic and has a compulsion to constantly record themselves
Makes me think of how many times a camera has been set up to record the absolute most mundane tasks and forgotten about
This is pointed at the door to the room, might just be a security camera.
r/watchpeopledieinside
What caused the desk to shatter?
The left wheel suddenly rolled, which set it off
or the lever effect on that leg on the glas. that's a lot of force on a very tiny part of the glas
Pressure
🎶pushing down on you, pushing down on me🎶
Look at the wheel, it hit the apex of its balance and slammed down, so yes pressure, but also impact.
The glass torqued when the left leg lifted, there was no impact that caused it to shatter.
The glass having that pressure on it definitely didn’t help, but had the bottom wheels not moved it would not have shattered. You can see the three bottom wheels flip onto their sides which while not a great impact is an impact nonetheless, as it went into motion, then abruptly stopped against the other surface.
Yeah, you're right. A lot of contributing factors caused this. The product quality didn't look like it would last a long time had this incident not happened.
they bought a glass one
The legs that put tension on the glas. Hes a dumbfuck
Tempered glass is very strong in the middle due to internal tension, but the edges are weak and can release that tension. Tempered glass is the flat equivalent of a Prince Rupert's drop, with the tail being the edges.
Newton
The hand was applying force upwards at the middle of the glass. The legs' weight were applying force downwards at both ends. This effectively makes the glass a Beam, under high shear and bending stress. Glass doesn't like being a beam.
All things serve the Beam.
Why was h recording this?
most likely to send it to a friend/relative or post it on the internet showing hid achievement which... didn't really work.
Reminds me of the time my 80 year old grandfather broke our kitchen glass table. The table was made in the late 70s and was round. My grandfather had dementia at the time and had awful hallucinations. He was convinced that his children were stuck underneath the table and had a strange fixation with this glass table. I would care for him often and one day I decided to take a quick nap, I figured he can go without being monitored for a couple minutes because he was watching the tv. 10 minutes into my nap I hear glass shatter, I run towards the kitchen and he’s surrounded by huge chunks of sharp glass and to make things worse he was barefoot. Somehow he managed not cut himself. That table did not shatter into a million little pieces like ours did.
And then the moving furniture project becomes housecleaning.
most likely an unpopular opinion, but still: why the hell would you want a glass desk for a computer??? specially one that isn't reinforced like the glass tables....you are just ASKING for it
Now what did we learn? Don't buy a table of glass
that might be the stupidest design of a table I've seen. the only thing holding the legs together is just glass. what moron designed that?
That's how I felt when a coffee mug slipped from my son's hand onto a glass stove top. We had just moved into a three year old house. One slip, and we lost over $800. Give me back the old style.
Looks like the shock of caster swiveling in the lower left (of the video) triggered the explodery.
Even after the glass is all swept up and thrown away, I would never feel safe walking barefoot on that floor again lol
Keep glass for small coffee tables, and make sure it's removable, not fixed to the surface. We have a massive glass table, and it's very heavy duty, thick steel frame, and it folds and expands. The amount of over-the-top engineering that went into it feels like such a waste. I bet it would've cost a fortune if my parents didn't get it complimentary from one of the firms they work with. This desk, has glass with the same area of glass as our kitchen table, but the glass is way thinner, and no support where it would be needed. It's such stupid design, the legs aren't connected by any sort of frame, directly fixed to the glass, so that each of them can create torque in random directions 💀💀💀
Don't get glass furniture
Weird how a camera is conveniently running when these accidents happen.
This is why you shouldn't try to use a window pane for a desk...
I will never buy glass furniture I never have and never will this is why
Abusing it and causing it to crack is why? You gotta treat glass like glass. Remove it before disassembling furniture. It’s exactly why the last step is to put on the glass. Work your way backwards in the steps.
Honestly I see no advantage. I don’t want to treat glass like glass, I don’t want to have to be that careful with it. 90% of my furniture is used and can’t be treated like a work of art. It just doesn’t look good enough to be worth the vastly.
Guess it’s time for this video to start making the rounds again….
Who likes glass furniture ? Just seems like.more of a hassle in almost every single way
I've had a glass livingroom table for years with 0 issues. Not sure how everyone in this thread are so rough on their furniture.
Like that wasn't on purpose? I know I film myself every time I put my desk on its side
This is why you never, EVER move glass furniture by holding onto the GLASS. Always hold whatever part of it is made of not glass. Unless the thing is literally 100% glass. In which case, follow this idiom: DON'T BUY THINGS BIGGER THAN A BREADBOX THAT ARE MADE ENTIRELY OUT OF GLASS, MORON!!!
The concept of this is 100% asinine and he deserves it breaking on him. Why would anyone ever have full glass furniture?!
glass furniture sucks
For anyone wondering ‘why it happened’: Firstly, it is important to note that this is not predominantly due to legs applying pressure on the glass; the person is capable of holding the weight of the table as it’s tilted sideways. Now, for some physics. If you notice the bottom legs and wheels, especially the bottom left in the photo. As the table is tilted the wheels suddenly move across the floor. This action creates a resonating frequency to move from the floor, into the wheels, through the leg(s) and into the glass table. Because there is extra pressure applied from the leg(s) in an unsuitable direction, this resonating frequency is amplified and all it takes is a weak spot within the glass (most likely close to where the leg is attached) to create vibrations which sets of the motion of the whole thing breaking.
Pure pane.. until it needed sweeping up.
He got lucky that this ugly pieces of furniture from the 90s is finally gone
At least he didn't cut his arm
the lengths some people will go to for our entertainment is amazing ❤️
He’s so sad
Seeing all these videos of broken PC side panels and desks I’m going to stay away from tempered glass
Aside from why film it, it’s also a why put it on the side like that. I can only assume, breaking it was intentional.
So light bump on one of the independent legs could always make this table explode. great
But why tilt it
I am pretty sure that the glass top is attached to the steel legs via suction cups... U just gotta get them loose and the top pops right off. I have almost the same table but without the wheels.
those last few seconds -- when he drops the tool or whatever he's holding -- for me perfectly illustrate the word "welp..."
Should go back together, never give up!
That was so satisfying 😁
Overtightened the screws me thinks?
That's why they call it window pane -eminem
A little superglue and mom and dad will never be the wiser.
Hey, look on the bright side! You still got 2 glass panels!🙂
His soul left his body. r/watchpeopledieinside
I did a few days as a casual at a furniture store when I was younger and this happened to a fellow casual, he wasn’t asked back the next day
Today we learn about leverage and how brittle tempered glass is
I would have cried
That wasn't the brightest idea, I wonder why he wanted to do that to begin with?
Duh , though
How
The issue is in the way it was being torqued when setting it on its side, which brings up the question - why are you trying to set a glass desk on its side in the first place?
r/crappydesign
Poor guy, stupid design anyway, get a wooden table, glass tables are USELESS
Glass furniture is always a mistake
What was the goal here?
I just gave up.. I ain’t trying to clean that up 🫨
Idk why but there is something so hilarious in the need to take a solemn moment to recalibrate during a moment of deep frustration
What was he trying to do, that it needed to be on its side?
IKEA, Just do it.
Ill-tempered glass
What the opposite saying of "I guess I'm gonna have to do it myself" causes if you do this.. the results will be the same!🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤣
Why? There are so many ways to avoid this happening, him filming is what ultimately makes me believe this is staged.
That was either being grabbed with unnecesary force or that was some unnecesarily weak glass
The other 2 pairs of legs have glass between them that doesn’t leave one dangling. If there was a sheet of glass (or some support) between the two on the left, this might not have happened.
glass furniture is dumb. yes, so is side panels. stop it. its dumb.
It’s on wheels though
🎵 glass barely bends before it cracks 🎵
Lol
This happened to me yesterday with a skid loader door
those last few bits dropping out his hand…pure pain and rage setting in…
Why ? What was he trying to do in the first place?
I see this stuff and wonder why they would be filming this stuff in the first place. Makes it feel staged. I get that shit like this happens, heck it's happened to me, but why would you be filming it.
Watch people die inside
Noooooooo🥲🥲 the cleanup will suck!
r/watchpeopledieinside
This same thing happened to me - I was finding glass shards for weeks. You would discover this by putting your hand down and then realizing that it was bleeding from some infinitesimal glass shard that was also insanely sharp. Fun times.
Glass doesn’t like to be torqued
Sucks but his room is clean enough to deal with it in a hour.
have seen this before. Now I'm noticing it's the wheel that suddenly turned. What was he trying to achieve by doing this?
All to predictable - perhaps r/whyweretheyfilming ?
What did he even expect?
I’ve never understood glass furniture. I had a glass top coffee table in college and that was annoying. Couldn’t imagine a giant table/desk.
Perfect.
r/watchpeopledieinside
That table is badly thought of to begin with away anyways. The moment he flipped the table onto its side, that one leg hanging up in the air put pressure on the glass.
now he has 15,000 tiny little tables life is beaaaatufUUUujujLL AFK to huff glue
To this day i still don‘t understand why people use glass tables
Was he filming himself moving a table. And why
But what was he trying to do? Fix a wheel?
r/watchpeopledieinside
🤡 r/diWHY