Explodeing cups and glasses,

I just had two glasses spontaniously combust in the cupoard,
4 hours after taking them out of the dishwasher,
when I took them out of the dishwasher they were perfect, all nice and shiney
and solid, then they went snap crackle, pop and explode,
there was no heavy machinery going on around the house, no earthquakes no nothing,

anyone have any insight on exploding drinkware?

I would have pictures but the batteries in my Camera were chargeing from death,

Poltergeists?

Hmm, that's interesting. I know if you take say, a glas that just came out of the dishwater and is veeeeery hot, and poured ice-cold water into it (or anything like this that would cause an extreme temperature change), most glassware shatters... Other than that, I'd check for cupboard poltergeists; I'm stumped.

I'm not sure if my mother's house is haunted, and we didn't pour any cold water into it, we always wait til the dishes are cooled down to take them out,
I've heard that poltergeists leave a clean cut mark, or so says some guy on google's blog, and this was an explosion,

course if we were haunted I would know, I'd be trying to make them move my furniture for me,

Sorry to tell you this, but the earth went off its axis slightly, causing a rupture in the space-time continuum that opened in your cupboard right over those 2 glasses... your glasses were replaced by broken ones and the yours are now in an alternate reality.

Left wing conspiracy I tell ya !

Nuh uh, it was all orchestrated by Karl Rove, who very cleverly made it look like the lefties had a hand in it

I just saw a hippy with a hammer run through her kitchen! Frostie, quick, check and see if any of your snack-foods vanished also!

Especially the granola bars!! Gah the horror!!

Oh dear merciful heavens NOT THE GRANOLA BARS!!!
all of my special brownies have ceased to exist,

I <3 this thread

/me comes in licking her fingers, "What's up guys?"

Hippy !! der

<reaches into the back of cupboard>

<pulls out hackey-sack>

"Case closed!"

Teen

I think my stairway to heaven just up and went down,




MY GLASSES MUST BE AVENGED, I'd call He-man but he's kinda busy curling his hair tonight,

Will these glasses do?



or do you think the doggie can handle the avenging?

There is no such thing as poltergeists, they are one of the least supported and easily explainable of the "borderline" phenomena.

The broken glasses in the cupboard thing, is somethign that happens all the time and that many people take as evidence of potergeists but it actually has a prosaic explanation, the most likely culprit being simple temperature change.

Many houses are built without insulation, and when they are retrofitted with it, areas like cupboards are often left out as its too hard to take down the cuboards to stick the insualtion in the wall behind them. Also most cupboards for glasswear are above and to the right of the sink area (which is typically on an outside wall of the house). This makes the temperature in the cupboard likely to be much lower than normal.

I know you said you let them cool down, but perhaps this one time you didn't really do that as much as you thought. Even if you did, the continual heating and cooling of the glassware over a period of time can also lead to a situation where a sudden failure occurs.

These occurances seem coincidental and "spooky" because it will happen to a bunch of glasses all at once, but if you always use the same four glasses and always wash the same four glasses and if you bought them at the same time, there is really nothing unusual about them all failing relatively simultaneously either. An additional thing to consider is that an exploding glass in a closed cupboard sends glass "shrapnel" into the other glasses and may be the very thing that tips the balance and makes them also mysteriously explode.

This is the typical explanation anyway, and it works (to a degree) even if your cupboards are not on an outside wall or one of the conditions is not met.

Awwww you had to come in with a rational explanation

Thanks for it!

Officer: What could do that kind of thing?
Agent Rogersz: It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes.

I believe this doggy might just make our quota for today;
he's no giant angry giant wal-mart smiley face of doom but he'll do,

Dianne thank you for your insight but just a few minor things,
There is Insulation in the outer wall as the Kitchen is three years old,
and the dishwasher was run last night, so the dishes were completely cool,

so either cascade dishwasher bombs sent their hit-gnomes after me for not using them always or the Dishes are acting against me

Sorry Joy,

I just love that X-Files kinda stuff.

I still vote for hippy poltergeists. Any word on the status of your granola bars ?

We seem to be fine on granola bars, I have my cat guarding them,
and I got another peice of useless information, it wasn't two glasses it was three,

OH THE CARNAGE!

Mice with pickaxes?