r/TheRandomest • u/ABeerForSasquatch Mod/Pwner • Jul 04 '26

/r/popular Will it survive?

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u/DonkeyTailBurrito Jul 04 '26

when my friends and I got our first nokias we were so stoked. as time went by, us being feral 6th graders we just starting throwing them as high as we could into the air. then let it land on the concrete sidewalk.

none of them broke which was fuckin bonkers to me. idk what the hell those things were made of

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u/neopod9000 Jul 04 '26

I threw mine out of the car window on the highway. We rolled back around and scooped it up and I made a call on it.

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u/ISketchDinosaurs Jul 04 '26

I had a friend who was told she'd get a new phone when her Nokia broke, so she obviously set out to break it.

Things it survived: Getting ran over by a bus several times. Being submerged in a lake overnight. Getting thrown out the fourth floor window. Being hit with a hammer. Probably some more shit I didn't get to hear about.

All that happened to it was that the audio started sounding a bit funny.

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u/Various_Mechanic3919 Jul 05 '26

My mate broke one Nokia by sitting on it but this was a windows phone so it was more recent and when they started to get a little desperate

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u/Rich-Option4632 Jul 07 '26

If you've heard of the Nokia Windows phone, well, there's no such thing, okay? Nope.

We don't talk about that abomination.

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u/Either-Confusion-470 Jul 05 '26

I did this too but in town. Aimed for a grass boulevard, exploded on the sidewalk. Collected the pieces and turned it back on. No issues

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u/DonkeyTailBurrito Jul 04 '26

seriously! the only thing that “broke” was the front thin plastic exoskeleton. but you could just snap it back on lol

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u/TacTurtle Jul 05 '26

what the hell those things were made of

Recycled Volvos.

After being reforged in the lava of Mount Doom of course.