M’sia Host Wants to Sell Her ‘Shatterproof’ Plate But It Shattered Immediately

By
Victor Fong
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One of life’s biggest entertainments is watching other people’s failures live. No edited footage, just unadulterated fails as it is happening.

Even more entertaining when the one failing is a large corporation, or in this case Astro, a Malaysian television network, promoting unbreakable plates (looks Corelle branded) on their home shopping network Go Shop.

Wait, home shopping networks still exist?

Astro TV Host: This is an unbreakable plate!

Me: K

Astro TV Host: *Proceeds to attempt to break plate*

Plate breaks.

Me:

Credits: dailydot.com

The original tweet, having gained 610k views, 28k retweets and 12k likes since posted on 19 June (YouTube mirror):

After the shatter fest, the co-host and host said the plate probably broke because it “had been thrown many times”.

In case you know nothing about Corelle plates: these actually last a super long time and are quite shatter resistant if you don’t try to break them deliberately.

I mean, duh, if Corelle was shatterproof, Captain America’s shield wouldn’t be made of Vibranium. It would be made of Corelle. I present to you the greatest beacon of American hope, fueled by capitalism:

But when they break, they don’t just shatter. They explode into billions of pieces and are a general bitch to clean up.

Twitter noticed Co-host using hands for cover

But it would appear the co-host seemed to have seen this coming, as a twitter user has pointed out:

“She looks like she knew what will happen”

Image: Twitter

Some others noted that for Corelle to not shatter, it has to be a specific angle:

“If you don’t want these Corelle plates to shatter the angle has to be flat. If the corner hits the floor first then it’ll definitely shatter”

Which, I want to point out should be a concern for the designers when engineering a shatter resistant plate, but ok.

Photoshop battle in the tweets

Some took it as a chance to show off their video editing skills, like this one showing a repeated drop of the plates:

And this one suggesting an edit showing “Directed by Robert B. Weide” (which you can find the explanation for the meme here):

Several Robert B. Weide Edits:

This isn’t the first time failure has happened live on television, as shown by another tweet:

That time, the pressure cooker actually exploded for real.

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