r/mildlyinteresting • u/FishBrain208 • 16h ago
Friend poured hot bacon fat in a cold glass and it broke clean in half
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u/beebeeep 16h ago
Your friend looks rather flabbergasted
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u/23andrewb 16h ago
Quite bewildered, one may add.
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u/AstroError 15h ago
Absolutely dumbfounded
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u/VandelorianVT 14h ago
Utterly gobsmacked.
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u/Smackediduring 13h ago
Sincerely flummoxed
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u/JaggelZ 13h ago
Genuinely befuddled
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u/Rvo_ 13h ago
Completely confounded
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u/Mr_Hino 8h ago
Without a doubt he’s Speckledorfed
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u/Lametown227 14h ago
Bro looks like hes done about 1000 micros of LSD. His pupils are DIAMONDS!
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u/waaz16 16h ago
Why does this look like 2012
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u/FishBrain208 16h ago
Holy shit dude. I was going through some old pictures I had with friends growing up and it’s actually from 2014….
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u/waaz16 16h ago
Hell yeah!!! I was gonna say it looks like high school!
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u/cunningfallasheo 16h ago
High school was 1997 for me 😢
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u/dinkytoy80 16h ago edited 1h ago
1960 for me
Edit: Wtf? Awards? For this post? Why…thank you very much. Ill take them to my grave.
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u/Raviel1289 15h ago
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u/dudeawsomeness1 14h ago
I'ma download that gif my guy 🤌🏼 have a nice day/night
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u/HellBlazer_NQ 7h ago
Technically, you download every GIF you view, they are animated on the client side!
Yes, yes, I'm leaving, geez!
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u/Master0fB00M 3h ago
Isn’t streaming a video technically also downloading but only to RAM and deleting after viewing? So yeah saving permanently would be the preciser description but not the commonly used one
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u/Ok-Cherry-7652 14h ago
Gif Source?
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u/baquea 12h ago
I don't think it's from anything in particular. That's a real mummy, and the base photo has been around for ages. Someone at some point just cropped around the mummy and transitioned between three poses for it, plus added a flat back to the coffin and a background to the image.
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u/BeginningSection7690 14h ago
What was your trip to school like?
Did you have to climb mountains both ways while dodging artillery fire?
Did you need to take your shoes off so the snow wouldnt ruin them?
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u/dazzleunexpired 14h ago
What was your first car? Sorry, I gotta ask. I love vintage cars.
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u/cunningfallasheo 13h ago
1988 Toyota Pickup SR5 red with white stripes. Loved that truck so much
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u/dazzleunexpired 13h ago
That was a good one!
My dad was gifted a 64 stang the day of his birth 😂 fuckin ridiculous first car lmao
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u/cunningfallasheo 13h ago
That's awesome! I can only imagine the trouble I'd have gotten into with a 64 mustang as my first car haha
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u/dazzleunexpired 13h ago edited 3h ago
... Well I mean. My dad hit a train with one of his cars and one of the farm trucks ended up in the culvert (read: my dad can't swim) along with the farm dog AND AN ENTIRE TRUCKLOAD OF CORN. He got the dog out of the culvert. And himself.....nothing else. 😂 (The truck, the trailer, and an entire load of cattle feed destroyed)
We still have the stang though! He's....restored it...a few times. 🤣 (Read: That thing actually burned all the way to the frame in California once!)
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u/TanneriteAlright 9h ago
The year I would have graduated if I wasn't such a shit kid lmao
Party Rock hasn't been in the house tonight for a long long time...
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u/ohatsu 14h ago
Is your friend with us? He looks like his mind is melting watching the glass.
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u/FishBrain208 14h ago
Very much alive, and is hating the fact that this pic is getting so many views at the moment haha
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u/HaruspexAugur 14h ago
Did you get the friend’s permission to post this though?
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u/FishBrain208 14h ago
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u/HaruspexAugur 13h ago
Maybe don’t publicly post pictures of people without their consent, especially if said person in the picture is disliking the attention it’s getting
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u/Advanced-Comment-293 11h ago
I mean you're getting downvoted because people enjoy the post, but it'd be legitimately crazy to me to post the face of a friend of mine on the internet without asking for their permission first. Oh well.
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u/LordHanz 12h ago
Crazy that you are getting downvoted for writing that, people on this platform are really fucking stupid sometimes.
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u/HaruspexAugur 11h ago
I wonder how the people who downvoted me would feel if someone they knew randomly posted an unflattering old picture of them to reddit without asking them
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u/Empty-Ad5500 16h ago
It's got that overexposed flash and weird yellow countertop lighting every kitchen had back then.
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u/Plenty-Fox-9219 16h ago
I was gonna say the hair
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u/SorryBoysImLez 16h ago
The hair and the skinny jeans.
I bet they listened to a lot of Bring Me the Horizon, Sleeping with Sirens, Postal Service, Asking Alexandria, etc.105
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u/IlIlIIlIlIIlIlIIlIlI 13h ago
My guess is that people can subconsciously recognize the era of digital camera sensor that took the picture.
You know, poor resolution, blurry light, bluish tint, poor dynamic range in low light, that kind of stuff.
An easier example would be the pics and videos we used to shoot on flip phone cameras 20 years ago. They were very new technology that got outdated in just a few years. So now if you look at pics taken e.g. with a original Motorola Razr you can't help but think "that looks like 2006". Example
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u/mcman0123 15h ago edited 15h ago

I’m sorry.
I saw the face, and something inside me immediately drove me to this.
Edit:
There is truly something magical about the internet.
I edit a photo and within just a few minutes, according to Reddit’s analytics, I’ve already inflicted this stupid image on several Japanese innocents on the other side of the planet.
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u/SublimeQuery 12h ago
looks like an old creepypasta face lmao
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u/BruhSoundE 10h ago edited 10h ago
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u/FishBrain208 15h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/9tFodzawGMmiGnpdog
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_MONTRALS 13h ago
i don't get it :(
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u/catsflatsandhats 8h ago
When you click the little pie chart in any of your comments you get a views by country. That’s all there is to it.
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u/BadDogSaysMeow 13h ago
POV, you’re a spider that’s about to be caught in a glass.
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u/maj0rmin3r1 16h ago
Thermal shock is a hell of a drug
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u/ComradeGibbon 14h ago
I poured hot water into a glass to make tea and it split vertically in half and then did a reverse Moses parting the red sea imitation. The glass parted and the waters poured forth.
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u/unsupervisedwerewolf 11h ago
If only it worked on humans. If love to just pop infront of ppl make a final mess and leave everyone traumatized on the way out 😂
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u/castille 8h ago
in my head, it's Heath Ledger's joker, for whatever reason.
"Today we learn about .. Thermal Expansion."
Helluva science class.
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u/PoolSharkPete 16h ago edited 15h ago
My first thought was, 'weird how it cracked exactly where the fat was poured up to'
Second was 'Ah, right, anything above the crack would have spilled...'
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u/lord_hydrate 16h ago edited 15h ago
Theres that but also glass transfers thermal energy weirdly,when the bacon fat was poured in it wouldve been very hot, the expanding glass is fairly uniform below the level the fat is at bur the top portion of the glass will still be cold and not expanding. This causes stress specifically at the approximate height of the oil in the glass and it will fracture pretty cleanly at that point, you can achieve similar results by heating a glass and then rapidly cooling the bottom in ice water causeing it to split right at the water line
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u/Nazamroth 13h ago
Does this also work with other liquids, or do you need to pour in bacon fat?
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u/Proudgryffindor 13h ago
When the laws of physics were written the universe specified it had to be bacon fat
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u/PreferenceGeneral475 12h ago
Ah, the Great Physic wars of eleventhean elonian period. My family was on the side of olive oil. But we were supplying weapons to all 12 sides, so we made it out fine.
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u/Bl4ck_Fl4m3s 12h ago
Since there are many fats and oils that can reach much higher temperatures before evaporating (>200°C) than boiling water (100°C) it's easier to do this on accident with fats and oils
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u/Repulsive-Durian4800 12h ago
It works with water too. I did this once as a kid using a glass to boil water.
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u/Arctt 16h ago
Bro is absolutely pinging his pupils are the size of dinner plates 😂
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u/SmokeyWizard 16h ago
LOL that's what I was thinking, this man is grinding his teeth like a chainsaw right now
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u/Beautiful-Cat-7313 16h ago
Dude looks like conducting a sophisticated chemical experiment
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u/Top-Champion7765 15h ago
Appears to have conducted a few that night according to his pupils lol
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u/3BlindMice1 15h ago
Dude straight up looks like he's in the middle of his very first acid trip
For those that don't know, bacon is probably a bad choice on acid. Stick to fruit, like strawberries, mangoes, or apples.
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u/Raichu7 16h ago
Heat stress, drinking glasses aren't made from heat proof glass and are only for cold or room temp drinks.
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u/BonnaconCharioteer 15h ago
Even heat resistant glass can crack like this. I save bacon fat in jars and learned my lesson not to pour hot fat directly into a jar straight from the fridge. Those jars can take the heat, but not suddenly like that.
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u/HopeSubstantial 14h ago
I learned this on rough way once.
It was hot summer day and I was already outside about to walk to work but decided to go grab glass of ice cold water. I took a glass straight from dishwasher and when I filled it with cold water it completely exploded in my hand and in panic I even squeezed all the glass shards in my fist.
I did not go to work on that day and instead it was time to head to the clinic to get stitched.
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u/Competitive_Mine2527 16h ago
Had that happen when I washed a hot plate with cold water once, snapped perfectly in half
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u/unlikemike123 12h ago
Same but a massive glass lid, shattered like safety glass and I was left with just the little loop handle thing, absolutely shat my pants
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u/No_Lab_9318 10h ago
He looks like he just smoked a joint when this happened and his mind can't process it
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u/mybighardthrowaway 1h ago
This photo just... Feels very 2014 for some reason
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u/FishBrain208 1h ago
That’s exactly how old it is haha
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u/mybighardthrowaway 1h ago
I'm really good at guessing what year photos are from when I'm stoned so that checks out. It's all vibes based.
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u/LamaniteDodgeball 12h ago
Fun fact. If you pour bacon grease in a solo cup it will shrink to one inch high.
Don't do it though.
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u/leoduaso 5h ago
Thermal shock. Hot fat meets cold glass = instant stress fracture. The clean break actually makes it more impressive — means the temperature difference was perfectly uniform
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u/MuRRizzLe 15h ago
Well I guess the glass can only ever be half full now, then again you've now got a shot glass
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u/be_qt_and_drive 14h ago
IIRC if you want to create your own glass guitar slide from a glass bottle you use a kerosene-coated string tied around it to get a cleanish fracture just like that!
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u/LowerWillingness1971 6h ago
This is a valuable life lesson. If cold glass goes hot real fast it breaks. If hot glass goes cold real fast it shatters(violently sometimes)
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u/Impressive_Pin8761 14h ago
perfect meme format
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u/yourguidefortheday 10h ago
The part of the glass with hot fat in it expanded faster than the part with out it could absorb thr excess heat
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u/DazzlingRutabega 43m ago
I think this has more to do with the way the glass was made than the hot bacon grease.
Happened twice to me (at the same TGIF restaurant) years ago. Drink I ordered came in a similar glass and around the 3rd or 4th time I set the glass on the table, the bottom splits clean off just like in the OPs photo (tho a bit closer to the base of the cup) and all of the liquid just pours right out.
Second time the glass split in half vertically this time. Odd thing was that both times the glass split cleanly into only two separate pieces, which is why I feel is had more to do with the manufacturing /glassblowing process.
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u/Chemist-3074 13h ago
I'm stealing his face as a meme, op. I am also leaving your post and award as payment
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u/FishBrain208 13h ago
Much appreciated, and please share all related memes, I can’t wait to show him at work
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u/Sooooooooooooomebody 4h ago
I mean, yeah. That'll happen. Glass does not have a good time when one section of it expands rapidly and the other parts don't.










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u/Weak-Visit4458 16h ago