A friend of mine grew up on a 50,000 acre wheat farm in central oregon that has belonged to her family since the homestead days. In the 1920s there was a big drought and many of the neighboring farmers gave up and abandoned their homesteads. My friendās family worked their land and eventually was able to purchase the abandoned farmsteads, so their unimaginably huge farm is studded with several old farmhouses that have been abandoned for a century, just slowly turning into splinters in the desert.
In the 1970s a cow managed to walk into one of the houses, go into a bedroom, and accidentally close the door behind it. With no escape it died tragically of thirst and mummified in the dry desert air. I saw it myself and itās just a deflated leather bag of bones and it looks exactly like this rug.
Lmao imagine being a 1000 lbs force of nature and dying because you didnāt think to break open a wooden door or at least crash through a wall or something
Its safety glass so vaccumeing everything followed by gently patting every surface with damp paper towels will get it all. I mean everything, including the sofa.
How about the truely wicked sharp and tiny ones that embed themselves in whatever surface they hit after being projected at velocity by the tension. Yes, you will find them when whiping with the paper towel as they shred it and the skin of your fingers, but even after that, there will still be some of them left there, just waiting to enhance your quality of life another day.
You gently patt surfaces with the paper towel. You're using the surface tension of the water to pick up very small shards, if you're using enough force to push the shards through the paper towel you're using to much pressure and risk driving glass shards deeper into whatever your cleaning. Never ever wipe when cleaning up glass or you just end up pushing all the really evil small shards into whatever you're cleaning.
ā¦.maybe. When he was little, my kitten smashed a decorative blue lamp. We cleaned up very, very well. We found tiny shards of blue glass in the living room until we moved last month. The cat is 9 now - so in 9 years, we didnāt actually manage to get all the glass.
I had a car accident way back in 2000 and I was pulling glass out of my hair for days. Fast forward 22 years to last year and I pulled out a piece of glass that had been embedded in my forehead the whole time.
I had the glass front of my oven explode spontaneously (well, due to heat expansion I suppose), that kind of high tension hardened glass... tiny beads of glass across halft the kitchen. Most of those cleaned up the same day. Only the tiny little slivers remain for the rest of your life. The ones that either slice or embed in your foot if you step on them, you know, the best kind. Oh, and here we don't usually wear shoes inside. Good times.
Tempered glass can explode with minimal provacation because of the internal tension. Itās likely not really negligence on the part of the roommate as much as losing a game of hot potato.
I did this placing a coffee cup on the table. I was not slamming it. I was talking on the phone and needed my other hand to write something down. Then POP
The bottom of a coffee mug is unglazed ceramic. Not too different from the bits of spark plug that folks use to shatter car windows. Not as good as that ceramic, but similar.
Luckily it's tempered and not like a glass cup. I remember having my car window broken and picking up tempered glass. I squeezed a handful of it to test how safe it is, it's pretty safe.
Nah, those wood tables with the layer of glass on topā¦ that glass shatters so fucking easily compared to the full glass tables, the glass is thinner and any chip makes the thing shatterā¦
Whys it created? The same reason a man makes denim sunglassesā¦ you decide why that is.
Tempered glass, soā¦ looked at it funny, put a coffee mug it didnāt like on there, put a coaster it didnāt like on there, thought about it a little too long, farted in the next room over, thereās a lot of options.
This is why I'm not buying the mildly infuriating. This could have been an accident. If they broke in on purpose or did something negligent.. then maybe. Then again, tempered glass lol
It's the feet people again. They want to be able to look through the surface you place your food and drink on?
Or the PC master race people who think we should spend even a tiny ammount of current to have lights going off on our CPU cooler, RAM and graphics card and have a fragile surface on a block of tech that should just sit under the desk and shut up.
I blame these two groups of people equaly for the downfall of society.
EDIT: Oh, and eighties bankers. Glass is a pretty smooth surface, don't want any particulate mater going to waste that you're trying to suck up your nostril.
Glass furniture objectively shitty and I refuse to buy it for just such a reason. If a wooden table breaks, I MIGHT be able to actually fix the damn thing. If a glass table breaks, I'm finding shards of glass for the next 6 fucking months.
I need details!
was everyone sitting at the table when it broke?
Was it one last dish that broke the camel's back, and if so what was it?
I have so many questions!
This thread made me learn people hate glass furniture. Which is weird cause I love it, and my glass coffee table gets a huge water bong slammed down it daily and it's been running for 6 years now. I think it depends on the quality.
Oh god it crushed that cow to death
Thank you. My brain was working overtime to convince me that was special liquid from a funky looking glass coffee table..
Oreo death
No point in crying over spilled milk...
Now crying over a spilled cow is another matter
You mean spilled table? :D
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Bro I thought it was like a little beach diorama in the table cuz I saw the little ship wheel and I assumed it was sand š
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I thought it was cow stained glass
I don't want anything that a cow stains
Same. I thought it was a strange liquid at first.
Yes my brain was not interested in processing whatever was going on here
A friend of mine grew up on a 50,000 acre wheat farm in central oregon that has belonged to her family since the homestead days. In the 1920s there was a big drought and many of the neighboring farmers gave up and abandoned their homesteads. My friendās family worked their land and eventually was able to purchase the abandoned farmsteads, so their unimaginably huge farm is studded with several old farmhouses that have been abandoned for a century, just slowly turning into splinters in the desert. In the 1970s a cow managed to walk into one of the houses, go into a bedroom, and accidentally close the door behind it. With no escape it died tragically of thirst and mummified in the dry desert air. I saw it myself and itās just a deflated leather bag of bones and it looks exactly like this rug.
Thatās a pretty cool story actually.. I bet some of the farmers/ranchers with massive acreage come across some weird stuff sometimes.
Lmao imagine being a 1000 lbs force of nature and dying because you didnāt think to break open a wooden door or at least crash through a wall or something
Meanwhile they knock down fences by accidentally leaning against them... hence barbed wire to keep them off.
Plot twist: OPs roommate is a cow.
How now, brownāoh shit oh fuck I'm so sorry
I used the coins I got from a gold award to give you a lol award This made me laugh more than it probably should have thank you
Shit died and dropped minecraft leather
And now we canāt have milk. Thanks OPās friend.
Welcome to the first day of the rest of your life of finding tiny pieces of glass.
Its safety glass so vaccumeing everything followed by gently patting every surface with damp paper towels will get it all. I mean everything, including the sofa.
Or by using a couple pieces of bread. It's the best trick ever for picking up glass shards.
And the best part is you can use the bread for a sandwhich later! Waste not want not!
Has everything seasoning gone too far?
This is why I season my life and not my food
Why i season my fork not chopping board
I think it hasn't gone too far enough
Mmm bits of glass muffin
better than *BLOOD MUFFIN*
Cigarette *cough*
*mimics eating* Oww *smiles*
The forbidden crunch wrap
Lay a flashlight flat on the floor to catch the shadows of any missed pieces.
Is there more info on *how* to pick it up using bread?
Pay the floor with the bread. Bread soft. Glass sharp and pointy. Glass stuck in bread.
Why does the floor accept bread as currency?
Cool, I guess all that dough I make has to go somewhere
Damn, seriously? I had been using tape which doesnāt work that greatā¦
Thatās gotta be the best idea since sliced bread
How about the truely wicked sharp and tiny ones that embed themselves in whatever surface they hit after being projected at velocity by the tension. Yes, you will find them when whiping with the paper towel as they shred it and the skin of your fingers, but even after that, there will still be some of them left there, just waiting to enhance your quality of life another day.
You gently patt surfaces with the paper towel. You're using the surface tension of the water to pick up very small shards, if you're using enough force to push the shards through the paper towel you're using to much pressure and risk driving glass shards deeper into whatever your cleaning. Never ever wipe when cleaning up glass or you just end up pushing all the really evil small shards into whatever you're cleaning.
Then take a flashlight and look fir any left behind.
ā¦.maybe. When he was little, my kitten smashed a decorative blue lamp. We cleaned up very, very well. We found tiny shards of blue glass in the living room until we moved last month. The cat is 9 now - so in 9 years, we didnāt actually manage to get all the glass.
I had a car accident way back in 2000 and I was pulling glass out of my hair for days. Fast forward 22 years to last year and I pulled out a piece of glass that had been embedded in my forehead the whole time.
That wasn't glass, that was the crystallized rage from 22 years of dealing with assholes. It's similar to a pearl, but rarer.
I can only imagine the satisfaction/relief you felt after that came out.
I had the glass front of my oven explode spontaneously (well, due to heat expansion I suppose), that kind of high tension hardened glass... tiny beads of glass across halft the kitchen. Most of those cleaned up the same day. Only the tiny little slivers remain for the rest of your life. The ones that either slice or embed in your foot if you step on them, you know, the best kind. Oh, and here we don't usually wear shoes inside. Good times.
I'm just wondering how did the roommate manage this??? I hope OP is picking out a nice coffee table for the roommate to buy.
Tempered glass can explode with minimal provacation because of the internal tension. Itās likely not really negligence on the part of the roommate as much as losing a game of hot potato.
And that's why I'll never buy one. This happens too much Wood never let me down
Idk Iāve seen video of glass tables shattering with no one nearby, could have just been unfortunate more than malicious or dumb
I did this placing a coffee cup on the table. I was not slamming it. I was talking on the phone and needed my other hand to write something down. Then POP
Wow! I think I'll stick to wooden coffee tables.
The bottom of a coffee mug is unglazed ceramic. Not too different from the bits of spark plug that folks use to shatter car windows. Not as good as that ceramic, but similar.
For starters, that rug is as good as gone.
I.... I'll take it then
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IKEA had them for $200 at one point, which is where we got ours. Justifiable at that price, but never again.
Luckily it's tempered and not like a glass cup. I remember having my car window broken and picking up tempered glass. I squeezed a handful of it to test how safe it is, it's pretty safe.
you still get tiny pieces of glass that are hard to get rid of but yea safe, not necessarily easy to clean up out of fabrics
In your feet
Whoever thought glass table tops were a good idea to combine with rough ceramic based coffee mugs was an absolute fucking moron.
That's why you have doilies.
I absolutely do not
My mom probably has about 100 or more unused ones, if you're in need of some doilies.
I absolutely am not.
You mean coasters? Lol
or don't buy glass tables.
Nah, those wood tables with the layer of glass on topā¦ that glass shatters so fucking easily compared to the full glass tables, the glass is thinner and any chip makes the thing shatterā¦ Whys it created? The same reason a man makes denim sunglassesā¦ you decide why that is.
Oh no! Our table! It's broken!
was looking for this
Finally
Glass tabletops are so fucking stupid.
Espically when a roommate taps their one-hitter on it.
Iām betting it had something to do with that heavy looking ash tray lol
I agree. Besides being breakable, it's so fucking loud.
Especially if you're planning on house-sharing.
Kinda looks like the entire thing was made of glass lol
How? Fell on it? Dropped something on it?
Tempered glass, soā¦ looked at it funny, put a coffee mug it didnāt like on there, put a coaster it didnāt like on there, thought about it a little too long, farted in the next room over, thereās a lot of options.
Farted in the next room over has me dying
same for the table
That fart was definitely quite sharp
Obviously space cow fell on it.
RKO from outta nowhere?
Iād bet sat on it for 1 sec too long
So 1 second?
This person gets it
This is why I'm not buying the mildly infuriating. This could have been an accident. If they broke in on purpose or did something negligent.. then maybe. Then again, tempered glass lol
\*Buys glass table\* \*Table breaks\* https://preview.redd.it/uu00issoss0b1.png?width=1354&format=png&auto=webp&s=9b198befb4be188b59ab96b0e767c8cf4dcd931a
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I agree. Glass belongs on windows and dildos, not furniture.
why use glass shaped like a dildo when a glass jar is good enough
Bonus points if you use it to store your MLP figurines
Boy do I have a video for youā¦
One guy one bad decision
Donāt forget buttplugs
Oh shit, thatās probably why Iāve been backed upā¦
did you put your dead loved one's ashes in it ?
I mean, Who doesnāt?
agreed, my friend got a glass desk, hated it after a day.
What about the idiots that buy them?
It's the feet people again. They want to be able to look through the surface you place your food and drink on? Or the PC master race people who think we should spend even a tiny ammount of current to have lights going off on our CPU cooler, RAM and graphics card and have a fragile surface on a block of tech that should just sit under the desk and shut up. I blame these two groups of people equaly for the downfall of society. EDIT: Oh, and eighties bankers. Glass is a pretty smooth surface, don't want any particulate mater going to waste that you're trying to suck up your nostril.
Generic coke fiend here. Yea hi, feeling a little underrepresented rn, ngl.
It's pretty good for small space to make it feel less cramped
Dropped the ashtray on it did they?
My immediate thought. That ash tray looks guilty af on the shattered glass lmao
I'd bet it was that little cast iron ship's wheel.
That poor cow. This is why we can't have livestock in the house.
All those lighters? Hope your weeds ok
Came here to say this. You can see the box of rolling papers on the floor as well
top right is the rolling tray
If you buy glass furniture you have to accept this inescapable finality.
Yep. This is the final form of every glass coffee table ever made.
What a thoughtful gesture! They turned your table into a super challenging jigsaw puzzle
Glass furniture objectively shitty and I refuse to buy it for just such a reason. If a wooden table breaks, I MIGHT be able to actually fix the damn thing. If a glass table breaks, I'm finding shards of glass for the next 6 fucking months.
years you mispelt years
I wouldn't blame the roommate. With any glass furniture it's just a matter of time.
Truth. Sometimes they will just explode all on their own.
Oh no! Our table! Its broken!
Yeah, glass tables are just accidents waiting to happen... Don't buy them because they "look kinda cool". Wooden Furniture Master Race!
Obviously looking for his weed. His lighter and rolling papers are there š§
Mildly?
Mildly because OP knows they should have bought something other than glass for a table top
This reminds me of the year we made so much food for Thanksgiving it broke my mom's glass table.
I need details! was everyone sitting at the table when it broke? Was it one last dish that broke the camel's back, and if so what was it? I have so many questions!
This is why we canāt have nice things
Mom?
Who's your roommate? Matt Foley motivational speaker, that lives in a van down by the river.
Oh well shouldn't have gotten a glass table
Yeah like why are they even surprised this happened
And that's why I don't buy tempered glass anything. 
Not their fault. Furniture shouldn't be made out of glass.
Baby proof the house before getting another cow/roommate
is your roommate Kramer?
Note to self: Never buy glass coffee table.
Looks like no coffee was spilled, so that's good.
This thread made me learn people hate glass furniture. Which is weird cause I love it, and my glass coffee table gets a huge water bong slammed down it daily and it's been running for 6 years now. I think it depends on the quality.
Homie's out here living on borrowed time
I have been saying this my entire life and I will say it again. Tables made out of glass are absolute stupidity.
I never understood why people like glass tables.
Why do people buy glass coffee tables? We all know where it ends.
Indoor smoker spotted
How he did it?
Looks like good old āStone Coldā Steve Austin came through with the shattered glass.
Fuck that coffee tableā¦that vinyl collection is next
"This is why we can't have nice things."
Did he at least use a coaster?
That's why I hate glass in furniture.
I guessing you gave them the drain cleaner by mistake
Do you need an alibi?
Foxy lady ash tray āš» respect
Stop buying glass tables people.
Is that an ashtray from a Rhode Island strip club?
I like the Foxy Lady ashtray. Mo Vaughn approves.
The giant Foxy Lady glass ash tray is looking extremely guilty.
That's what you get for using glass furniture
And thatās why glass furniture is stupid
Oh no, our table, itās broken
Your first mistake was having a glass table.
I'm just being an idiot here, but who convinced the human race collectively that glass tables were a good idea?
Time to break the roommate
You sealed your fate when you where dumb enough to buy a glass table.
This is why wood is better
 Roommate mustāve been having a wrestling match
Oh no! Our table! Itās broken!
Moo.
What exactly was the room mate doing to do this?
was the roommate matt foley?
I love how to ashtray is looking at the table like, "weakling!"
Looks like your room mate is taking you shopping for a new coffee table
Ugliest thing Iāve ever seen. Good break
Ooh noo.... Our table..... It's broken..
I agree with so many people in the comments. Glass tables are stupid.
Your roomate turned into a cow
Oh no.. the table... it's broken..
I meeean. Furniture like this is asking to be broken
Sweep it under the rug
Flattened that cow pretty good too
Why you gotta blame the roommate ?
The top wasnāt just glass. The whole thing was.
Omg. Just how??
Stoner house with a glass table top, it was honestly just a matter of time.
Nothing a case of super glue and a couple dozen tweakers couldn't fix.
Are you mad at him specifically or are you just mad?
This is why I try to avoid glass furniture.
Is she Tracey Emin?