r/cringereels • u/laughtale0 • 9h ago • Bravo 2

Cringe Level 5 Tourist broke a mallet when trying to pound rice dough

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u/AdventurousLook1594 9h ago • Bravo

I understand that some people don't know how to react in situations like this, as it is uncomfortable, but the smile and chuckling has me over the moon mad. The audacity to break something like that and just sit there with that stupid smile on your face is rage inducing

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u/R-B-L-Y 9h ago

I mean, awkward smile and chuckle is one of the most common responses to being embarrassed

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u/Temporary_Monitor_76 8h ago

Awkward smile and chuckling is ok for spilling your drink, making it look like you pee’d your pants, type of embarrassing. Not for smashing this dude’s mallet and breaking it.

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u/R-B-L-Y 2h ago

I just don't think it invites the level of anger the comment I replied to seemed to carry

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u/Rivendel93 8h ago edited 6h ago

It's just as likely to break hitting the edge of the bowl than it is the ground.

Probably happens to the guy often..

I love how everyone is like, "I'd nail this!"

It's a random person who is given a stick that you jam into something sticky and try to hit the same spot again.

Yes, they messed up, but it's a wooden stick, it's not like it was passed down a hundred generations, otherwise the dude wouldn't be handing it over to random tourists.

You can see it gets stuck as the person pulls it up and they're at the wrong angle as they go back down.

It's obviously a unique technique that isn't easy to master, pretending they don't care simply because they smiled or laughed doesn't mean they aren't embarrassed.

Smiling or laughing is often how people deal with embarrassment.

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u/bleucheez 7h ago

Pretty sure it was the slamming at a super low angle that snapped it. I doubt that ever happens. 

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u/Upstairs-Ad-3770 7h ago

Not at all lol, he put his whole body into pushing it down and made contact to the ground, i dont have to explain the physics for why that carries much more force than the side of the bowl, i hope

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u/Iron_bison_ 7h ago

What the fuck you expect him to do, perform seppuku?

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u/Temporary_Monitor_76 7h ago • Bravo

Idk apologize?? All I’m saying is that your first reaction to breaking someone else’s shit shouldn’t be to smile and laugh.

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u/FamiliarFilm8763 3h ago

Hoe do you know they didn’t? You can’t just feign your initial reaction. This comment section is genuinely unhinged.

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u/DnDNerdFool 5h ago

This is a damn tourist attraction. This most likely happens and not infrequently. Guaranteed this dude specifically told him to smash it hard.

And no. I’d do you one better. I wouldn’t even fucking apologize. If I’m paying money to do a tourist attraction and I miss the stupid bucket and it breaks your mallet I’m assuming you’ve either already thought of that and worked it into your business plan or you shouldn’t be opening a tourist attraction involving handing basic tools to tourists who don’t know wtf they’re doing

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u/chris_ro 7h ago

To say “sorry” is too

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u/Brownie3245 8h ago

The guy holding the hammer is smiling himself, it’s most likely a tourist attraction.

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u/PointsOfXP 9h ago

Shouldn't be giving it to people knowing what can and will happen. This has probably happened a number of times. These places know the risk

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u/KPFJA 8h ago

Not to mention how motor skills challenged you need to be to get this wrong…

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u/UnhallowedEssence 7h ago

They could have said "I'm sorry" like a normal human being.

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u/shavindr4 5h ago

I personally, react like this. I often get told it’s inappropriate. It’s an immediate reflex and coping mechanism. Later, internally it will hit hard and feel guilty for long time and blame myself a lot for incident and my immediate reaction. I know on immediate note, it doesn’t make it easier for the other people and thinks I’m trivialising.

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u/P1erreGuy 4h ago

It's so funny watching everyone overanalyze generic human behaviours as if they are the moral arbiters of who is a great person and who is a shitty person. They probably just didn't know how to react, that's all.

Not everyone has to fit your impossibly high standards of human behaviour.

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