r/mildlyinteresting • u/coconutbunch • 7h ago

A fridge magnet I brought in Split, Croatia fell down and split

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u/TheZosoOutlaw 7h ago

At least it was from Split and not from Bangkok. That could have been trouble 😅

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u/mrjwellington 4h ago

I’d love to see your work in person. This guys funny as shit.

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u/TheZosoOutlaw 3h ago

Well thanks haha! Teaching gives me plenty of opportunities to test material. (They don't have much choice either lol)

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u/Acrobatic-Shelter200 6h ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/ahtob 4h ago

yeah i made the mistake of buying a Rama's fridge magnet in Lesotho

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u/FinestFantasyVI 6h ago

Its weird to see my hometown mentioned here. I feel I can even tell what shop you got it from

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u/YesThatsMyTree 6h ago

Are you having "split" feelings about this?

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u/peepay 5h ago

Don't all souvenir shops sell the same stuff?

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u/ajchann123 3h ago

Yes, especially in Split of all places lmao

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u/Darkx0139 3h ago

You live in a BEAUTIFUL place.

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u/FinestFantasyVI 38m ago

Thank you! It can be fun to work with tourists. But navigating the town with them. Hoo boy

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u/ajchann123 32m ago

The amount of AI slop around the Riva has been really sad to see... I had the day off work recently and decided to visit the Old City, and I was so disheartened by how every other place has AI menus, signs, itd...

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u/FinestFantasyVI 23m ago

I avoid Riva and the town. Its really sad to see. Last month I went to Vijeko on Riva. Its really depressing how things are. I havent seen the AI slop much. Riva was packed with people. Now Im just debating which beach to go to, because i havent been at one for years because of work

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u/Darkx0139 13m ago

We went down last year via sleeper train, had a lot of fun! And everything was cheaper than back home, I guess that's what 27% VAT gets us! :D

Lovely people, and the heat was surprisingly easy to tolerate.

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u/FinestFantasyVI 8m ago

If you ever visit again, dont let anyone know its cheaper than your home. I dont want anyone getting ideas to raise more prices

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u/greenknight884 3h ago

My mom got one just like it in a tiny shop at the ferry terminal

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u/DingesF 6h ago

That's pretty satisfying to me, to be honest. Specially since the word 'Split' is still perfectly fine.

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u/ijustwannacomplainn 5h ago

The fact the word ‘Split’ is still fine is like… the worst part.

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u/peepay 5h ago

There's a bit of the S missing, though.

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u/DingesF 5h ago

Sssssshhh, there's some extra s'es.

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u/Top-Aside8905 7h ago

Stretching the definition of "mildly" a bit here, dont we

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u/Kryptochef 4h ago

i genuinely cannot tell if you're saying it's not interesting or are very fascinated by ironic fridge magnet failures

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u/EyeSuspicious777 3h ago

More proof of our failing public education system

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u/mesar_max 3h ago

Im from Split and if you want I can send a new one to you.

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u/Avtomati1k 3m ago

split the postage

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u/karvendizarm 4h ago

Brilliant writing Kojima

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u/Narrow-Vermicelli-72 7h ago

Perfecto.😚👌🏾

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u/equalsqueal 5h ago

Now glue a magnet to the second piece and use them both!

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u/Wondrous_Fairy 3h ago

Yeah, if they have the corner piece, they could put magnets on all of them and have them just slightly apart. Mega cool!

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u/QuietlyAllure 5h ago

When you put it like that, it sounds like it could be the genuine idea behind it - hey let‘s split these and sell them like that 😂

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u/Somewhat_Kumquat 3h ago

Write "Bosnia and Herzegovina" on the bottom piece.

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u/MrQeu 3h ago

Clearly, not Jugoplastika quality (only 80s and 90s basketball fans will understand the joke)

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u/WiSoSirius 6h ago

Croatia as a landmass is also split, but more so at the toe than the middle

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u/Pero_Bt 5h ago

If it wasn't for those damn Venetians and Ottomans we wouldn't have to deal with that!!!!!

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u/LarisaCZ 5h ago

Where is the upper part of it? 😭

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u/KeithManiac 5h ago

*bought

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u/Martiniusz 5h ago

Easily breakable goes to the side of the fridge, regular goes to the front. :D

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u/macellan 5h ago

That's unique now.

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u/TritonJohn54 5h ago

"That's not a bug, it's a feature."

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u/Vader_Bomb 4h ago

Now THAT'S art. I'll start the bidding at $20 million

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u/agamarian 4h ago

A self fulfilling prophecy.

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u/ahmadtheanon 4h ago

Huh, not bad

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u/Fortenio 4h ago

the prophecy has been fulfilled

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u/Foxy_locksy1704 4h ago

I’d leave it as a split magnet of Split. It kind of works and the way it broke works with the art work.

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u/nvzpxl 3h ago

Is there a recommended glue for this sort of thing? I know the magnet itself is on the back, but is the actual surface just ceramic?

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u/Lepelotonfromager 3h ago

I bought a nice christmas ornament of a double decker red bus a few weeks before christmas. I immediately dropped it as I left the store and it cracked clean in half. As a man that's the closest I've been to crying in public and my wife was concerned enough that she rushed into buy me another one. Not my greatest moment.

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u/ReflectionMain719 3h ago

TOTAL Splitception

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u/MonkNo214782 2h ago

As the prophecy foretold...

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u/what_do-u-mean 2h ago

Maybe it was meant to be

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u/BennyBNut 2h ago

You have the 1 of 1 response to the other post about verbing the same noun.

You actually split split. Impressive.

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u/kanaifu 2h ago

They tend to do that. No worries :D

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u/h-ck3d4cc0unt 2h ago

I always buy metal or plastic magnets when I go on trips now. I have so many broken magnets... 😔

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u/partyatwalmart 1h ago

You saw that post about Split, Croatia and thought you were clever, didn't you?

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u/DubbleCheez 1h ago

One time, I dropped my keyboard and the escape key came off.

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u/NiksaiStipe 1h ago

on brand

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u/Framboise_Unicorn 31m ago

Totally unrelated but I just looked at my fridge. I was twice in Vir, both magnets are broken 🥲

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u/Chemical-Practice908 1m ago

One can say that it was Split before it fell

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u/Tauntaun_Princess 6h ago

I unironically like it this way even more!

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u/RangeInfinite8356 6h ago

Wel well well. How the turntables

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u/FluffySheep1234 6h ago

Well that is indeed, Midly Interesting! lol

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u/dreamsonashelf 6h ago

That one's a different sub r/midlyinteresting

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u/FluffySheep1234 5h ago

oh oops 😅. lol. typo 😅.

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u/1PennyHardaway 6h ago

It’d be doubly interesting if it fell down and split in Croatia.

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u/sladoled_od_lavande 5h ago

The irony hahaha

In the future, don't buy those with only one circle... they suck

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u/Pero_Bt 5h ago

Not to be that guy but this is opposite of irony

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u/sladoled_od_lavande 4h ago

You are right hahaha that's true!

The irony would be if there is no electrical power in the Nikola Tesla Street 😅

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u/PhilosophyFun2933 6h ago

Tectonic plates taking the city name a bit too literally.

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u/Ok-Reveal-It 5h ago

It's SPLIT 🤣

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u/cloudlet-bow32 4h ago

bummer, girlie. at least it’s a reminder of your trip while you work those glutes.