So these refrigerators in Finland are really being kept to hold land mines?

[Maraya1969]

So much of this is new to me. And the question is how do you get the mine into the fridge without it going off?

Link to tweet

I thought this pic of a washing machine was funny but I'm not sure why..........

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[Historic NY]

1. Ah no

[link:https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/fridge-mountain-ipswich-suffolk-britain-2002-378066b|]

FRIDGE MOUNTAIN, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK, BRITAIN - 2002

THERE ARE NEW EU LAWS ON THE DISPOSAL OF OLD FRIDGES, DUE TO DANGEROUS GASES AND OTHER MATERIALS USED IN THEIR MANUFACTURE. FRIDGES ARE PILING UP WAITING FOR SPECIAL DISPOSAL UNITS TO BE BUILT.

[Celerity]

9. +10000000000000000

[PoliticAverse]

2. Not to hold the mine. The large amount of metal in the fridge interferes with mine detection

equipment and helps hide the location of the mines in the mine field. That's why it says they will be put in the "middle of the mine fields".

[Salviati]

5. I'm not sure how much metal is really in the fridge...

And it seems like there'd be better ways to less obviously mess with detection.

I think, given the spirit of the other posts, the point of the refrigerator is to lure the feckless russian soldiers into the minefield with unbelievable luxuries not available in their criminal organization masquerading as a country.

[Celerity]

10. that picture is 20 years old and it is from Ipswich, England. smdh

https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/fridge-mountain-ipswich-suffolk-britain-2002-378066b

[herding cats]

14. It's a joke gone wrong.

Not a great joke, but an attempt at humor taken seriously I suspect.

Humor is subjective, and gallows humor is more often taken wrong. Just my guess.

[Celerity]

15. but the OP and other posters are taking it seriously

sigh

[herding cats]

17. Yeah, that's the problem with humor being a subjective thing.

*whoosh* Happens. My philosophy is, be kind and explain it was a joke.

To be fair gallows humor is hard for a lot of people. It's like satire, which takes a specific mindset to get automatically. Me, my sense of humor is so dry it resembles a desert, so it's in my DNA to get it.

[Maraya1969]

3. Well one thing seems clear. I don't think the world needs to manufacture any new metals. There

are plenty in land dumps.

[Karadeniz]

4. I think... not sure.. that it's a joke, war joke. They'll place fridges among the land mines and the

Russians, starving because they can't plan a war competently, will get blown up as they race for the food they think is in the fridges. Maybe someone else has a better solution.

[Chuuku Davis]

6. Yes

[fierywoman]

7. Isn't this a riff on the looting by the Russian soldiers?

[Amishman]

18. Yes, it makes sense when you know that Russian troops looted truckloads of appliance from Ukraine

Which was particularly absurd given that they were trying to retreat from Kyiv, they were abandoning tons of military hardware but trying to drive out trucks of stolen washing machines instead.

[Warpy]

8. There are stories of Russian soldier stealing appliances out of apartments

and houses, totally apocryphal stories of them stealing washing machines.

So that toon makes perfect sense.

[jmowreader]

11. As to how you get it into the fridge...

A land mine has a safety pin, like a hand grenade. As long as it’s in, the mine won’t detonate.

[Celerity]

13. yes, but that doesn't solve the time machine problem

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100216604401#post10

[jmowreader]

16. For that we need to talk to Peabody and Sherman

[herding cats]

12. I'm guessing it's a topical joke like the other tweets?

Gallows humor to be sure, but at times like these it helps many of us make it through the reality.