"What Is This Thing?” : Times People Stumbled Upon Mysterious Objects #33

[@susanrobinson910]

Wow, I have never felt so old as when the picture of the ashtray popped up 😂

[@nommadd5758]

Bingo! 😃

[@rattus3102]

Lol....me too! 😂😂

[@SputnikDeb]

Right?!

[@ann-mariemeyers9978]

Made me wonder what kind of cheap hotel he was staying in.

[@MarciLinscott]

Me too

[@helenalennon9528]

Those Blue glass things are for making butter pats. The butter is pressed in to the chilled shapes and served at fancy meals.

[@rattus3102]

Thanks.....that seems more plausible to me than the other explanation! 👍

[@AND-od5jt]

I choose to believe that -- putting glass on wood for protection sounds contra-productive ^^ (not to mention putting weight on top)

[@stephaniehowell1109]

Yeah, glass furniture coasters would do a number on wood floors. 😂😂😂

[@caronstout354]

Possibly cookie presses to shape cookie dough...

[@cynthiayoung6074]

Nope, butter presses. How do I know that? Grew up in the south, so maybe that's it.

[@gabeangel8104]

I feel sorry for the person who was afraid they had cockroaches and found out that instead they actually had a rattlesnake! 😂

[@larrijohnson4885]

Yep, I started laughing immediately

[@mrcuthbertgriswald]

Half of those things were buttplugs and the answers were LIES!!

[@punkw7852]

The “glass stoppers” are actually for fermentation. They are glass weights to put on top of cabbage to keep it pressed down below liquid level as it ferments to make sauerkraut, etc. Fermentation produces gas bubbles that can make the cabbage rise above liquid & possibly grow mold & being ruined. The long point/handle it to adjust & press the cabbage/etc back into liquid & gentle press veggie to let bubbles that build up to release.

[@Ivan-cr3vc]

For many years my mom used one of those ironing sprinklers on the same 7up 'glass' bottle. It took the place of a steam iron if you did not have one. Someone did a great job on that golf bag cover. I carve also but not to that caliber.

[@sophroniel]

The door harp thing says "welcome" in swedish, randomly

[@silverlaptop2022]

I only knew two of these. The ash trey and the door chime. Both have new versions still out there today 2024. 😊

[@janamathis4729]

Amazing info, many I didn't know.

[@JOKESANDJOYS68]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@Rosagale1012]

I need a mercury arc rectifier! To be sure! Great stuff!

[@Rosagale1012]

Blue glass must be butter molds.

[@Wolfie_Rankin]

First one is Piano insulators, they stop sound travelling through the floor.

[@johannesofie777]

Half of them even the explanations are Greek to me

[@gabeangel8104]

Yeah, a lot of them really need to explain their answers a bit more thoroughly don't they

[@Vincent_Beers]

The question answered is what is it, not how it works. Once you know what it is searching for how it works is simple.

[@johannesofie777]

@@Vincent_Beers English is not my first language (never assume that it is online) and sometimes the words mean nothing to me, not always, sometimes!

[@johannesofie777]

@@moon-moth1 Not the point at all

[@tommunyon2874]

Our hospital, of all places, had stands with the flip bottom ashtrays, as shown in the video, in the waiting areas. I had almost forgotten about them. It is difficult to imagine someone smoking in a hospital these days. I was inspired to make a table-top sized cribbage board when my wife found a handful of old textile bobbins at an antique store. The bobbins became the cribbage pegs.

[@galloe8933]

A couple I didn't know out of hand, maybe more than a couple, but I went pretty hard on the knowing things front. The phrasing, and lack of object to compare size to, for the hamster watering "plug" got me. The rattlesnake rattle was kind of strange confusing it with cockroach parts, but I saw rattlers, and their removed rattles a lot growing up. Big woop, but I feel like I've taken that knowledge for granted. The stories my dad told me is they grow another segment on their tails for each year they live, like noisie tree rings. Long way to go, but I'm fairly sure that's only partly true, I don't know how many times they molt a year, but I feel like molting is a big part or rattle length, if not the only part.

[@williamrich7638]

4:17 that's an ash tray. You press down on the button and the halves slide up and the ashes fall to the bottom. The bottom half of this is a kind of bowl that catches the ashes. We had these in our house. Everyone use to have one of these in their homes but it was on a separate stand. Everyone 60 years ago had ash trays all around their homes, but this isn't done anymore. People stopped smoking. This one looks like it's fixed to a wall so this is probably of picture of one in a hotel lobby or hallway in an office building. I haven't seen one of these in 60 years.

[@SputnikDeb]

Not everyone. My parents never smoked (married in the mid-1950s). One of my grandmothers and one of my aunts smoked, but they had typical ashtrays placed around their homes. I’ve only seen those split type of ashtrays as a stand-alone in the foyers of restaurants or hotels, on top of a tall, sturdy base maybe 3 feet tall.

[@kille7543]

6:09 It a holder for an ovenproof glass dish/ bowl.

[@elainemacdonald6541]

Pretty sure the 'pen holder' is a cutlery drainer used when washing dishes by hand.

[@kille7543]

12:16 They are glasses for aquavit, you have to empty the glass or waste the drink.

[@_PJW_]

Not so sure. I have seen similar meant for use outside, like during a picknick or at the beach. You simply push the glass into the sand so it won't spill.

[@bioLarzen]

OK, so this thing @ the 13:30 mark... how exatly is that a paint roller? For a start, where is the roller? If it is missing - where is it supposed to go in this contraption?

[@bkrokkit217]

To be fair, it's a roller *handle* and the actual roller bit is missing. You would unscrew the nut, take the L shaped bits out, and put them back in facing forward, one on either side of the handle. The roller would fit into the holes at the tips. It's like this to save space when storing, it's basically just folded up.

[@ALA9E]

I sooo want the pumpkin thingie❤

[@Girl-Next-Door]

@5:15 ...or a bed for your cat 😂 I know that if we had one and placed it there that it would be our cats favorite resting place while we were watching tv.

[@AhNee]

Yes, the silver charm is a Navajo silver wedding vase.

[@shawnwright4129]

My joking answer to everything I don't know is "cheese wincer". I ain't seen one of those ash tray styles in decades.

[@sophroniel]

what does "cheese wincer" even mean tho

[@shawnwright4129]

@@sophroniel I honestly have no idea. It's just my way of calling the item something when I don't know what it is. Mostly I'm trying to be funny.

[@ruffraff1059]

Have never seen furniture leg cups that are patterned inside. Could be wrong though. They look more like a decorative mould for something, particularly as they are made of glass.

[@bioLarzen]

I have very serious doubts about that explanation. Doesn't add up in any way. Also, helenalennon9528 says a couple of comments above that they are "for making butter pats". Whle I don't know what the truth is, it sounds much, much more plausible.

[@ruthmaier755]

Butter Pat makers

[@grannym2880]

Yeah, no way glass on the legs of furniture is going to 'protect' the floor. 🙄

[@cathoderaytube7497]

Very little damage to any part of the glass.

[@cynthiasimpson931]

It makes me feel old to see things from my youth on a "what is this thing?" board.

[@cianmoriarty7345]

8:03 "nightlight" it may be, but one with a very obvious camera lens right in the middle 😒

[@ThaFuzzwood]

That's the light dark sensor.

[@Rosagale1012]

Definitely a phone holder. I got one for the new quantum phones until I can get a case because they are an odd size.

[@elainemacdonald6541]

If it's the funny-shaped thing on bungee cord attached to the ski jacket then I'm pretty sure it is to hold your ski lift pass - a phone would be too heavy and you would want that safe and secure in an inside, zipped pocket, whereas your lift pass needs to be easily accessible.

[@sophroniel]

Pretty sure the thing at 8:41 is actually a ring sizer

[@AND-od5jt]

2:00 Could as well be an early weed-grinder ;)

[@ruffraff1059]

8.37 Don't know what it is but bobbins (lace making or tatting) don't have a hole through the length.

[@elainemacdonald6541]

I thought it is possibly a 'plumb bob' to help get a true vertical line when decorating. The string would run through the central channel of the bob.

[@romeoslover817]

Me either I still see those in places I actually knew about half of these things but then again I'm 60 years old

[@484848474]

In my opinion most.if not all the answers are wrong, as are some others. Either answer with knowledge or don;t.

[@bioLarzen]

You know these answers are not given by the creator of the video, right? These questions and answers are harvested from reddit and/or boredpanda (and maybe other similar sites).

[@484848474]

@@bioLarzen Yes I'm aware of that ,but when an answer begins with, it looks locks like or I think it's, Then I have to question it.

[@bioLarzen]

@@484848474 Yeah, it would be good if no such answers made it into these videos...

[@484848474]

@@bioLarzen Yes I know this. Just at least let the creators gibe the he correct answers.

[@beckyhurst9451]

I think the Native American wedding vase was to small and wrong material to actually be that. I think it is an incense burner.

[@bioLarzen]

@ 14:30 - phone holders must be getting out of hands... this is about the third object identified as a "phone holder" in these videos, where for the life of me I cannot think how they would hold a phone... Anyone with an idea?

[@InnerAlice]

I think the thin bands of rubber slip over the corners of your phone with the flat piece either in the back or over the screen to protect it.

[@elainemacdonald6541]

Think it's to hold your ski lift pass so it's easily accessible. I have seen them attached to ski jackets in the shops last winter.

[@bioLarzen]

@@InnerAlice Oh, I see. Thanks!

[@bioLarzen]

@@elainemacdonald6541 Could easily be.

[@sophroniel]

the thing at 9:08 is a c0ca1ne holder lol

[@rattywoof5259]

0:22 - Clitoral stimulator?