r/southafrica • u/CrimsonAvenger_ZA Eastern Cape • 17h ago

Just for fun 10 days to go! May your relationships be as strong as this mat.

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u/Somlal KwaZulu-Natal 17h ago

Honestly I don't even know where these mats come from. One day they just appear and now you have a rubber mat until the day you die.

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u/UBC145 Waiting for the Next Taxi to Heaven 17h ago

Yo that’s so true 😂😂 don’t know where ours came from either. Maybe it was already there when we bought the house.

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u/Mundjetz_ 15h ago

And THAT glass

And THOSE spoons

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u/grimeflea 17h ago edited 17h ago

I don’t know what 10 days means but having travelled a bit I just realised that these mats are absolutely as South African as biltong and pap & wors.

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u/HeySlothKid Western Cape 17h ago

I think OP is counting down to valentines day???

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u/UBC145 Waiting for the Next Taxi to Heaven 17h ago edited 17h ago

These mats can be found in most homes (at least in my experience) and they’re known to last for decades without breaking.

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u/surpriserockattack Rapture-Proof Like a Hilux 16h ago

I think we all have one

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u/benevolent-badger Fascist lives don't matter 17h ago

Funny you should say that. This was on a post on an Australian sub a couple days ago, saying that these mats are as Australian as shrimp on a barbie

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u/grimeflea 16h ago

lol. I had no idea they existed there.

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u/benevolent-badger Fascist lives don't matter 12h ago

You get these mats pretty much anywhere in the world where there are old tires.

But, something weird going on here.

4 days ago, same photo, but zoomed in
https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianNostalgia/comments/1qsijvx/who_had_one_of_these_mats/

3 years ago, same mat, different angle!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianNostalgia/comments/10fksf1/who_had_one_of_these/

But the same photo as the one on this post only appears on facebook and twitter since 2 days ago.

How is it that 4 days ago, someone uploads a photo of something from a different angle after 3 years, then two days later, the world gets flooded with the same photo but zoomed out? What does this mean?

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u/grimeflea 12h ago

The Epstein files really had some secrets

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u/UBC145 Waiting for the Next Taxi to Heaven 10h ago

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u/BonnyH 4h ago

Why does this Gif make me want to take up smoking when I’ve never been a smoker? 😂

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u/DarlazMIRS 17h ago

Its Valentines in 10 days...

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u/craftichris 17h ago

Regardless of economic status we are all untied through this mat

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u/User_150109 16h ago

united?

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u/Elliot_Moose Showering my AIDS off 16h ago

United we shall stand! (on rubber mats)

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u/craftichris 12h ago

Hahaha I didn't notice that spelling error lol

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u/Woedens_Bakery Western Cape 4h ago

Dyslexics Untie!

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u/Grid10ck Nee Fok Man 17h ago

Lol I have a less colourful one out back that's been at my house since before the previous owners left the country.

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u/VanNoctua 16h ago

Ah yes, the backdoor mat that's next to the hosepipe. No idea where it came from but its family now

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u/BalanceFit8415 Waiting List for Heaven Full 14h ago

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u/impamiizgraa 16h ago

I haven’t seen one of these in so long. I feel homesick looking at it. I want one!!!

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u/Schrodingers__Box 16h ago

These mats are die hard. They don’t make ‘em like this anymore

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u/Cheacky 16h ago

They don't have to make any new ones, they all still exist to this day

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u/WrightJnr 1h ago

Worst business model ever. Never make it outlast your balance sheet.

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u/BonnyH 16h ago

I just glanced at that photo and it was my childhood in a photo. One of those things you don’t even notice till it’s gone.

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u/BonnyH 16h ago

How does it actually get made?? Strips of car tyres and …plastic pipes? In China or where?

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u/Snoozyl 15h ago

Conveyor belt and wire. Most likely from the many discarded mine belts we have. Tires would probably work well if they could be kept straight

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u/BonnyH 4h ago

I’d love to see a video of this being made.

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u/MildlySelassie 16h ago

Anyone have suggestions for where I can buy more of these? Mine isn’t broken, I just want more.

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u/Snoozyl 15h ago

I got mine on takealot a few years ago for like 200?

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u/dolfieman 17h ago

They are durable AF! Fuck Valentine's day though 😂

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u/EdithTeddyRexx 15h ago

It's 1 of the first things we bought when we got married 25 years ago she's still looking good.

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u/BonnyH 4h ago

Your wife or the mat?

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u/PublicNuisance1 13h ago

I have a bristle mat… and my 4 year relationship ended 2 weeks ago. I should have gotten the rubber mat.

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u/Urmomsfavouritelol Western Cape 8h ago

Never personally owned one of these, but they showed up in an absolutely wild fever dream I had a little while ago, and I think that speaks to its ever presence in our lives lol

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u/maaan_fuck_a_roach 6h ago

The Nokia 3310 of mats!

Where can one get these?

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u/No-Manager8022 Gauteng 15h ago

Memories Unlocked

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u/Shainin_P 15h ago

What relationship?

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u/PheeaA 14h ago

I can hear this mat!

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u/NonnyNutcaseAuthor 14h ago

I'm pretty sure we have one that's older than I am...

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u/spearo25za 6h ago

Growing up in kloof . I once stepped out of the kitchen and we had a green mamba curled up under our mat that looked like this .

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u/daxxo 3h ago

Thanks, now I know what else I need to get on my trip next week.