This doesn't strike me as being very clever.....

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 03/22/2020 at 16:42 • Filed to: icelopnik

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This is the Finnish icebreaker Tarmo steaming up a frozen river somewhere in Finland in the 1920s, with hundreds of people out on the ice to watch it, very close up. I suppose if anybody knows ice, it would be the Finns. Still....

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 03/22/2020 at 17:30

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Ballsy.

Stupid, but ballsy.

RacinBob > ttyymmnn 03/22/2020 at 17:33

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Especially the cameraman....

wafflesnfalafel > ttyymmnn 03/22/2020 at 17:48

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wow - that can’t be real, can it?  Insane

ttyymmnn > wafflesnfalafel 03/22/2020 at 17:50

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I’m sure it is.

John Norris (AngryDrifter) > ttyymmnn 03/22/2020 at 18:10

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Funny.

Of course it looks stupid, but this is pretty much  the barnstorming generation that brought us flight . They crashed a lot in the process. There is something to be said for well placed reckless endangerment.

I love the motorcycle cruising on the melting ice across the bow of the icebreaker.

ttyymmnn > John Norris (AngryDrifter) 03/22/2020 at 18:24

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Good points all. And yeah, that moto guy had zero Fs to give. 

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ttyymmnn 03/22/2020 at 19:16

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Watches video. Consul ts username. Yep, it checks out.

kanadanmajava1 > ttyymmnn 03/22/2020 at 20:20

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I guess that kind of silliness was ok in the 20's. We don’t do it anymore as we are very safety oriented country.

Btw t hat icebreaker still exists. It has been restored as a museum ship. I think it’s even operational but despite this it hasn’t been operated in a while. If you want to see how it loo ks like the museum folks have made a virtual tour page .

ttyymmnn > kanadanmajava1 03/22/2020 at 21:12

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thanks for the link!

Only Vespas... > ttyymmnn 03/22/2020 at 22:03

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Honey, did yo u have nice day out with the boys?

Sure did! We went down the to river and chased the bow of an icebreaker. Yo u could hear the ice crack a mile away!

Uh, yo u took the boys down on the same ICE THE BOAT WAS BREAKING!

Uh huh.

Oh... Ready for dinner?

ttyymmnn > Only Vespas... 03/22/2020 at 22:54

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I liked Angry Drifter’s reply. 

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > kanadanmajava1 03/23/2020 at 09:18

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I’m confused by the sauna, there is no stove or heat source that I can see.  Is the sauna a joke, or did they just tap into the steam lines for heat?  I see a couple small lines that come into the room that could be steam lines that just open to air.

kanadanmajava1 > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 03/23/2020 at 09:49

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That’s indeed an interesting topic. One possibility is that the large pipes are hot enough steam pipes and acting as the stove. The ship has two saunas but apparently only one is shown .