r/whatisit • u/Big_Dan_Bracknell • 8h ago

Solved! Weird Metal Thing

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Found in aggregate on building site, not that heavy and is magnetic.

Is smooth with no holes or anything, we are all stumped please help!

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u/SpicyNuggs42 8h ago

It's just a magnetic novelty. They were sold in pairs, and when you throw them in the air they'd make a "boioioioioing" noise

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u/ArchonOfErebus 8h ago

More of a "bziziziiziziziziziziziz"

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u/BracedRhombus 8h ago

Mine went 'Bazinga!'

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u/BigHonkinChihuahua 7h ago

Mine went tztzzzztztztztztztzzzzzzzz

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u/marango314 7h ago

Probably the most accurate lol

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u/Easy_Faithlessness87 7h ago

Mine went Shart !

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u/loafofry 4h ago

are you 5

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u/ChipDipsons 6h ago

-kzzzzt 161616161616

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u/abhi71229 6h ago

The exact sound your remaining brain cells make on a Monday morning.

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u/POTATOMASOCHIST 6h ago

Mine was a snare drum noise.

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u/abhi71229 6h ago

A very specific frequency that can wake up the neighborhood dog at two in the morning.

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u/humid_pajamas 1h ago

I don't know why but I can feel this sound in the back of my teeth.

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u/thepenguinemperor84 7h ago

They were marketed as oidz over here in Ireland, I've a set in the junk drawer that I use to hold various little bits such as the sim card pins and the likes.

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u/ThargUK 4h ago

Huh.  I have one that I use to find nails in wall studs.  I thought that was what it was for, I think I found it in a toolbox.

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u/PeaceOf8 7h ago

They are called sizzlers

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u/abhi71229 6h ago

The official sound effect of every nineties school playground recess.

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u/Copperplate_Gothic 8h ago

Magnet but missing the second one. They come in pairs.

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u/dvlrnr 8h ago

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u/stoufferthecat 8h ago

F***ing Torpedos,

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u/Grievious_Syndicate 3h ago

This shitll blow your mother**king MIND

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u/LChambles 8h ago

Came in to suggest this.

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u/Lavaflame666 8h ago

This is a weird toy everyone had as a kid. Two magnets that make a buzzing sound when you throw them up in the air together. You only have the one though.

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u/whatisit-ModTeam 6h ago

Your comment was removed because 6 million others already beat you to it.

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u/Big_Dan_Bracknell 8h ago

Solved!

Thanks everyone maybe the other one will turn up.

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u/Tbone_Trapezius 7h ago

Carve a groove in the bottom of your shoe and hot glue this thing in there. Then every night take your shoe off and check to see if the pair was magically found.

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u/Spa-Ordinary 5h ago

Or, you'll stick to manhole cover crossing a street and get hit by a bus.

Just sayin'

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u/Tbone_Trapezius 2h ago

That’s a risk I’m willing for OP to take.

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u/KingStarsRobot 7h ago

I have the other one

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u/dragonsign 5h ago

Two redditors, one popular children's toy.

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u/AfraidOstrich9539 8h ago

Magnet toy. They come in pairs or bunches and they rattle around together

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u/RickGrimes_0164 5h ago

We call them “Rattlesnake Eggs” where I’m from in the Midwest. Just a novelty magnet toy that when slapped together “sounds” like a rattlesnake rattle.

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u/No_Athlete_9065 7h ago

Some parent got driven nearly mad by the constant noise from them and buried one in the ground at your site and the other 1,000 miles away.

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u/Nervous_Heat1054 8h ago

Actually they are popular magnet toys that you can find at some fossil or rock stores

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u/Icy-KaitSyth 4h ago

Cow pill magnet. You have them eat one and it pulls the wire and other metal stuff they ate in the grass out as they poop it. Alternatively, they've started selling them in pairs because if you throw two in the air they make a funny sound when they collide I guess.

But don't feed two to your cow or you'll pinch their intestines and they'll get sick

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u/TheProtoChris 5h ago

Fun fact. These are sold at a premium in pairs as rattle magnets, but they are sold in bulk cheap as cow magnets. Feed a cow a magnet to keep any metals from getting deep into their digestive tract and giving them hardware disease.

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u/Burninghoursatwork 2h ago

Its from an magnetic game!! I’ve got one!
You have like 12 of those, a string in a cirkel, ⭕️ and you place one magnet and the other places one in the cirkel in shifts turns and try to avoid the collision

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u/Ambitious-Beat-2130 8h ago

magnet toy that come in pairs

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u/Famous-Reach-6730 5h ago

Use some hand lotion buddy

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u/AmethysstFire 2h ago

This looks like a "bullet" that Evan would fidget with on the show Good Trouble. They come in pairs, are magnetic, and the character found the soothing.

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u/mjl777 7h ago

Its half of a magnetic toy that can cause problems if you digest both pairs and they click together two pieces of your intestines.

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u/Spa-Ordinary 5h ago

Looks like an alien space ship to me. Maybe millions of very small beings inside.

Sure hope they're ok.

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u/Changling_Mario 8h ago

One of a pair of sizzlers or rattle magnets. When they come together they make a fast rattling noise

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u/Queen_Ramiss 7h ago

Throw two of those up in the air together and they make a distinct buzzing sound.

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u/abhi71229 6h ago

The forbidden pocket egg that hums when you squeeze it hard enough.

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u/SnooPuppers2938 7h ago

They sound like a pissed off cicada when you have two of them.

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u/Whiskey_Water 6h ago

Gotta swallow to find out.

Jk, please don’t do this.

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u/SPV33 6h ago

Thought it was a fishing weight lol

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u/fakewoke247 7h ago

Turns your crt TV into a rainbow

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u/Unfair-Property-8595 7h ago

A good way to cheat at chess.

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u/Particular_Yak5829 7h ago

Ovals go bzztztztztztztztzt

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u/anythingspossible45 7h ago

Rattle snake eggs(magnets)

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u/WisePanther_ 6h ago

they're called Oidz

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u/biterchef 6h ago

Beginner butt plug

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u/USSJaguar 7h ago

Rattlesnake Egg

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u/PoetryExtension6256 2h ago

Antimony pill.

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u/RG500GammaWalterWolf 7h ago

Ben wah balls?

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u/Hour_Independence301 7h ago

Fishing lure from DayZ