Can someone explain
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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There going to drop him in to drown him. Usually people use bricks so they sink but in this case he’s going to float, head down.
The stereotype is mob enforcers make concrete shoes for people so they can “sleep with the fishes”. However styrofoam shoes would mean he floats upside down and drowns with his feet poking above the water. Humorous except for the murder part.
He will just be floating head down until he drowns
Joke aside. Will the guy even die with this method? Humans are supposed to float that’s why the mafia would use cement or heavy weights to pull you down. If you put something even lighter then wouldn’t he just have to lay down on his back. The styrofoam helping him stay afloat? Would the block even hold if he tried to break it with his legs?
there’s a song about this 😆 https://youtu.be/Gk7X-_dWCOc?si=8aSNBLmRHKETJWoc
it’s a play on the cement shoes
they used styrofoam so instead of the dude fully sinking
the styrofoam will float & thus he will have to balance so he wont be upside down with only the styrofoam sticking out
please don’t drown people using styrofoam, it’s bad for the environment.
Dark humor hitting different when capitalism makes you question even the value of comedy.
I think because the foam floats, it will put the person face-down into the water, making him drown, opposed to something that will sink and make him drown.
It might be a slower agonizing death..
I think i interpreted it as some kinda mafia/gansgter hit where they would give someone “cement shoes” to drown to the bottom of the lake but then maybe the person getting whacked suggested styrofoam? But not sure entirely
I thought he was just a dwarf standing on styrofoam watching over the ocean with his 2 besties.. My first thought was, oh they gave him a box so he can see further out, just like with Gimli in helm’s deep. Adorable.
I had to read comments to even think of something in the lines of drowning.
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the styrofoam will break off his feet when he struggles
sometimes the simplest jokes are the best
Clearly a Modest Mouse reference (joking obviously, but still one of my favorite songs of all time.
Well all’s not well but I’m told that it’ll all be quite nice
You’ll be drowned in boots like mafia but your feet will still float like Christ’s
Well I’ll be damned
They were right
I’m drowning upside down
My feet afloat like Christ’s!
They’re trying to make him “sleep with the fishes” but Styrofoam floats.
Mafia is said to be casting people’s feet into cement block and dropping people into water to drown. The styrofoam would have a similar effect but he’d be bobbing more.
Easier to find though. The point of the blocks isn’t just to drown them, but keep the corpse hidden after the occupant has passed on. It’s then available to rot and be eaten by whatever lives in the water, and eventually all thats left is a block, covered in moss and seaweed with some feet in it that’ll likely never be found
What are all these fish doing up there?
As a kid I tried putting those arm floaters on my ankles and almost drowned
styrofoam floats
I love this, reminds me of the Gary larson’s “farside” humor
Might be more fun, but also the body will be found more easily.
Is no one gonna talk about how you can just pick the styrofoam apart, but not cement?
Modest Mouse anyone? Styrofoam boots is a great song!
not to be “that guy” but you can just destroy a styro block
Adam does this to himself in Mythbusters.
It’s about making a guy drown by putting this legs in concrete but polystyrofoam is lighter than water so it’s just fun and no death!