Challenge — can you get these cups unstuck?

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Drop them in your 55 gallon drum of lubricant for a couple of minutes and they’ll be right as rain.

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Register one of them with the Democratic party, the other with the Republican party. They will separate and never come together again.

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You could try to just

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put large cup into boiling water (making sure the water stays out of the cup), pour ice cold water into small cup

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Break the outer one and ’ Kintsugi’ (Japanese art of putting broken pottery pieces back together with gold) it.

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This is the thing, it’s not the shape that’s the issue here, it’s the glaze; the glaze has a high coefficient of friction (I believe that’s the correct term), which causes the two surfaces to bind together, so the trick is to break the bond at the point where the cups are stuck.
I had this happen with two ceramic bowls; sadly, I can’t remember how I got them unstuck!

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I just used PB Blaster to free up my (obscenely expensive because keyed alike to another one) padlock on my scooter; that stuff is pure-dee fuckin’ magic.

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You know, you’re right. I just fact checked and found that the fish-oil thing has been debunked as “urban legend”. Mea culpa.

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This has been experimentally tested on German television by a kids program!
TLDR: hot/cold method does not work (among other methods), they ended up building a custom jig

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Thanks. Watching a Sendung mit der Maus clip on a Sunday morning was a healthy dose of nostalgia.

They fill the cups with liquid nitrogen in this clip and then immediately dunk them into boiling water. I think that puts to rest the “it will definitely crack” theory.

Edit: took out the direct invoking of the user first mentioning that concern. On reading again it felt like I was calling them out, which wasn’t the intent

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I’ve heard that if you just ignore your problems, they disappear like magic. It’s like a miracle, really.

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Can we get an update? This is the worst Chekhov’s gun I’ve seen in a while.

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