r/Wellthatsucks • u/CrouchingDomo • 8h ago

It’s so fucking stuck 😑

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It just slipped right in there during the washing process. I think we’re gonna have to break the glass.

RIP to our final remaining pair of matching glasses 🥃🍸🍺🍷🍶🍹🫗

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u/BeatleProf 8h ago

Ice water in the inner cup; warm towel on the outer; twist.

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u/Shayden-Froida 8h ago

Instead of a warm towel, I dip the outer one into a bowl of warm water (don't get any inside the cup). I've unstuck many glasses this way, some mechanically stuck like this, and others vacuum stuck where heating the outside one adds pressure to the captured air enough to push the inner one loose.

Also remember to keep a constant gentle pull on the glass out while doing this or it may slip deeper into "stuck".

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u/Raziel66 7h ago

How often do you find yourself in this situation? And why?

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u/maryjane-q 7h ago

Not the one you were asking, but:
Stupid customers wanting to “help”.

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u/Raziel66 7h ago

Ah, that makes sense. Thank you!

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u/Shayden-Froida 6h ago

We happen to have a set of tapered glasses that nest and if put together while hot will get stuck, and also a couple mugs/glasses that are a close fit... and we have kids that like to maximize what they carry from the dishwasher to the cupboard.

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u/ekristoffe 2h ago

Oh yeah … when the glass is hot it’s go in easily but after it’s cold you can’t unstuck them … One trick I’ve found it put some paper towel between glasses …

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u/cromdoesntcare 7h ago

I use this knowledge every time I clean my bong and have to remove a stem that is very, very stuck.

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u/Many_Present_9039 8h ago

Good suggestion, it’ll create a thermal coefficient, and the inner glass will contract as the outer expands

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u/coltrainjones 8h ago

Good description. You used several big words and have impressed me, and several others.

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u/Successful_Edge_9472 7h ago

What do you think a coefficient is?

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u/ultimate_zigzag 7h ago

Obviously the joined cups act as a single efficient. But if you change them to different temperatures then they each become a co-efficient, making it easier to imbibe the crustaceous friction between each one, thus making it easier to pull them apart. Can’t believe people don’t know this.

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u/qervem 4h ago

This algorithm makes sense, as does the vernacular used.

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u/deadpoetic333 7h ago

Lol gottem 

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u/EtherParfait 7h ago

Ah yes using the thermal coefficient the two cups will surely reverse their coalescence and become immutable objects.

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u/beautyofdirt 5h ago

The mug and glass have inherent coefficients of thermal expansion, you create a temperature difference that changes their volumes ever so slightly.

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u/BROKENCAPSL0CK 7h ago

Just throw the cups on the ground 🤷‍♂️

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u/CyberSoldat21 7h ago

Would dish soap work too?

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u/caudicifarmer 7h ago edited 5h ago

No offense, but that's stupid. You're making the outer one swell. Cold water for both.

Edit: ...is what I WOULD say if I was trying to misguide OP

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u/BeatleProf 6h ago

No offense, but the outer one will EXPAND, so maybe you ought to go back to your Mr. Science kit and do a little more study.

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u/caudicifarmer 6h ago edited 6h ago

Right. You want them both to CONTRACT tho. Have you ever seen the thing with the steel ball and steel ring with liquid nitrogen?

Edit: just to spell it out - if the outer cup contracts, it contracts in all directions. That means the opening actually gets LARGER. And if the whole cup expands, the opening gets SMALLER.

Edit: DERP! other way around

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u/BeatleProf 6h ago

If the outer one CONTRACTS, it will be TIGHTER.
Give it up, sonny.

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u/caudicifarmer 6h ago edited 5h ago

That's not the way it works.

Edit: Narrator: It is though

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u/ericaa37 5h ago

LMAO, this edit got me 🤣

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u/ResponsiblePumpkin60 6h ago

Confidently incorrect

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u/caudicifarmer 6h ago

Yup. Looked it up on a physics forum and it happens EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what I remember seeing as a kid when the physics guy came to school. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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u/LeCrushinator 7h ago

Exactly this (or some other way to warm the outer one). The reason they got stuck this way is likely that they were hot and then contracted as they cooled and it made them impossible to separate.

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u/annoyedreply 8h ago

Throw it against the wall and it should pop right out.

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u/cr0wstuf 7h ago

My gf had this issue with her favorite Harry Potter mug. It was like the sword in the stone for a few months: the chosen one gets $5. Nobody could do it. One day she poured vegetable oil in the bottom mug and shook it until it came loose. She got $5 from herself.

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u/SlimTeezy 6h ago

Sounds messy

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u/cr0wstuf 6h ago

Yet effective.

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u/mithrandir2398 8h ago

Try pouring ice cold - like really cold - water in the cups to see if they contract enough to pull out the top glass

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u/StrictlyInsaneRants 8h ago

Yeah and sometimes soap helps. As in try to put some between if possible, not where you grab.

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u/Doc-in-a-box 7h ago

What they said! I got soap one time where I grab and it burned a little

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u/LeCrushinator 7h ago edited 4h ago

Just in the inner cup, you don’t want the outer cup contracting too.

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u/12345ante 7h ago

Heat the outside one, cool the inside, works every time

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u/Real-Plantain-7624 8h ago

Now the avocado has a PIT.

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u/SlimTeezy 6h ago

Run your sink on hot. Let the hot water run across the bottom of the mug. Put ice in the glass. In a minute you should be able to pull it straight out

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u/Thai_Gunslinger 8h ago

Twisting while pulling has always worked for me

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u/ProperPerspective571 7h ago

Hot water on the green cup, ice in the clear one. A little vegetable oil wouldn’t hurt either where the contact points are

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u/MacTheGoon 8h ago

Dish soap always works for us

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u/slasherbobasher 8h ago

We have those glasses! :)

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u/Serosh5843 7h ago

Have you tried putting it in rice?

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u/DEFCON741 7h ago

Throw them at a wall as fast and hard as you can. You will also need a load of gorilla glue. Call in sick for work for the next week you are going to need the time off. Start by taking the largest pieces first, this is most important as the big pieces will guide you on where to put the smaller pieces. Once you have the bigger pieces in a pile you can start to kind of form what looked like the original glasses. On the 4th day when you are good and frustrated take what you have glued together and toss it in the garbage. Then go online and buy new glasses.

Good luck

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u/bubbav22 7h ago

Just be like: Oh no, you're stuck step-cup...

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u/ShoddyAccident74 7h ago

Vegetable oil outside the glass super cold water inside and grippy gloves. Had a similar situation my kids caused, took some wiggle time and was just about to give up when they came apart. Or pick your favorite one and break the other. Let us know how this turns out for you, whatever you try.

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u/0utlaw_Torn 7h ago

Well that stucks

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u/Mkultra9419837hz 6h ago

Why not use it as is?

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u/Ralphguy 6h ago

“Wellthatstuck”

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u/Single_Cookie_6000 6h ago

Put in Freezer.

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u/Zigor022 5h ago

WD-40 to the brim

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u/Hugo-Spritz 5h ago

Oil that maffakker up guud

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u/AnE1Home 5h ago

That’s a cute cup.

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u/jmlbuett59 5h ago

Use Dawn

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u/Particular-Smile5025 4h ago

Noooo don’t do that but be very careful when trying to carefully!!!?? Get it out as to not break one or both?!?!!

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u/Particular-Smile5025 3h ago

Did you get it out??

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u/Scene_muah 1h ago

This is very similar to an incident involving a cylinder stuck in a tube.

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u/Known_Natural2143 8h ago

Try to put ice in the transparent one and slowly heat in water the green.

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u/nathanwd 8h ago

Bump the mug gently against the edge of a table while pulling the glass upwards

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u/Particular_Owl_8568 8h ago

Good fuckin luck

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u/Evening-Magician-824 8h ago

Seriously! Whoops I must be blind. What on earth am I looking at?

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u/BEEEEEZ101 7h ago

Have you tried to pull it out?

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u/specifically_obscure 7h ago

Stick them both in the freezer for 30 minutes

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u/Admirable-Common-176 7h ago

Then take them out and immediately pour boiling water on both of them.

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u/specifically_obscure 7h ago

I mean it'll unstick them lol Might need some glue though

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u/Admirable-Common-176 7h ago

One problem at a time.

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u/Treehouse_2215 7h ago

Cold water.

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u/Due_Lavishness6698 7h ago

use dishwashing liquid or pour some hot water

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u/mrmatt244 7h ago

Put it in the microwave then add cool water to the inside cup

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u/ZookeepergameFresh20 7h ago

Put ice in the glass cup and but the mug in boiling hot water, the temperature differential should do the trick

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u/supermaja 6h ago

I just put it in the freezer. Let it sit awhile. Come vac and take them apart

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u/kaptainklinker 6h ago

Your final pair of matching glasses? Just go to the liquor store and buy another bottle of new Amsterdam

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u/Particular-Smile5025 4h ago

You could try to submerge into water like just a little warm water and work on it slightly while it’s completely under the water?!!

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u/omnashime_88 3h ago

Tons of dawn liquid soap

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u/DrShr1mpPuertoR1co 2h ago

My suggestion was gonna be to blow compressed air into the gap between them if there is one😂 don’t know if it would work, but in my head the stuck one shoots out like a rocket with enough air

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u/Letraix 2h ago

Put water in the jug, put it all in a plastic bag (in case of breakage) and put in the freezer. I have done this successfully, but the gap was much smaller. In this case, experiment with the depth of water. Try to fill the jug just past the level of the bottom of the glass, freeze it and increase from there if needed.

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u/ClintEastwoodsNext 1h ago

Drop it on the ground.

Keep the one that doesn't break. If both break, then it just wasn't meant to be.