The asploding glass

[Ashington]

Ok, so i was just doing my normal pub shift last night and a friend of mine orded a brandy which i put in a thick based lowball glass, with two ice cubes. Nobody touched it before what happened. Now i was serving someone on the same bar a metre or so away from the glass while it was sat on the bar. About a minute or so later it just suddenly shattered strait down the middle (even through the thick as hell base) and both halves pushed themselves about 3 inches away from each other. Of course everyone was pretty shocked/amazed at just how on earth this happened, because like i said; no one did anything to the glass after i prepared the drink, i didn't do anything different from what i normally do, and the glass was perfectly fine prior. It's been bugging me all night what might have made it happen, does anyone have a logical explanation as to what really caused it or is there something eerie about this?

[spite]

Thermal expansion?  That happened to my fishbowl once.
I don't know, that sounds crazy though.

[Ashington]

Iunno, maybe. The glass was pretty warm and the ice was fecking freezing (fresh out a particularly cold ice machine). But if thats enough to cause that then why has it never happened with any other glass? Also bear in mind i pour the guy the exact same drink again and nothing happened.

[Crabarms]

YOU CLUMSY FOOL

[sQueef]

maybe it "asploded" because you're so fucking gay

[Flash]

Thermal expansion for sure. Maybe it had happened to that particular glass before.

[leone]

its cuz ur gay!

[Ashington]

Thermal expansion for sure. Maybe it had happened to that particular glass before.

that's probably the most sensible answer, but it wouldnt of happened to it before. the glass was in perfect condition, and if it had happened to that particular one before then there would have been no way of reusing it, it seriously shattered itself apart.

[MRat]

This exact thing happened to me when I bartended. Sometimes glasses just explode.

[rtil]

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[Flash]

Thermal expansion for sure. Maybe it had happened to that particular glass before.

that's probably the most sensible answer, but it wouldnt of happened to it before. the glass was in perfect condition, and if it had happened to that particular one before then there would have been no way of reusing it, it seriously shattered itself apart.

I meant that maybe the glass had already been in a situation where it was warm and you put ice in it. If it had happened before, it might have only "weakened" the glass, but when it happened again, it was too much. =p

[trent bortknob]

my old babysitter took a plate out of the oven and after taking the food off immediately poured cold water on it and it shattered

thats the same kind of thing you're talking about right

[SHADOWFOX2]

SCIENCE

Haha damned Physics videos...

[sQueef]

maybe it "asploded" because you're so fucking gay

its cuz ur gay!

leone is a wise man

[shura]

SCIENCE

[Daveb0t]

Im opting out of common sense and relaying th important message

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