r/SipsTea • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 1d ago
Lmao gottem US Marines engaging in high-level diplomacy with Japanese sailors
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u/chefbobbyjay 1d ago
Bro is like every day with this shit
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u/KennyWeeWoo 1d ago
“Everyday they keep asking to see my girlfriend”
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u/straydog1980 1d ago
If they hadn't washed the towel, it could damn well stand up on its own
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u/Alarmed_Buffalo_7523 1d ago
There's a Japanese among us
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u/chefbobbyjay 1d ago edited 1d ago
I can take on less than or equal to fitty of them
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u/SelenaMeyers2024 1d ago
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u/SeraphOfTheStart 1d ago
Lmao wtf what is this from?
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u/SelenaMeyers2024 1d ago
White lotus season 3. Drop everything go to YouTube and search Sam Rockwell lotus....
Best 4 minutes of acting and hilarity you'll find.
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u/jaymochi 1d ago
Sam Rockwell just absolutely cooking, with some of the best pure reaction work ever put on film coming from Walt Goggins.
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u/Locke_____Lamora 23h ago
That scene finally got me to watch the show. Pretty great overall but that scene is the peak of the show.
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u/GamerKratos-45 22h ago
One of the craziest things I've ever seen. I could not believe Sam Rockwell's character would take that turn.
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u/yokozouna_ed 1d ago
Ah yes, the greatest diplomats the United States can muster; USMC Grunts....
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u/-Badger3- 21h ago
They tried to make a Japanese flag to hang in solidarity but somebody ate all the red crayons.
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u/yokozouna_ed 20h ago
Gunny tried to make someone fess up, but they didn't.
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u/stockflethoverTDS 21h ago
You could tell USMC from AF or Navy when they came into the music bar I used to play, they came to have fun but they knew not to misbehave in a foreign Asian city where punishments by the local govt or their Gunny will be harsh. They also were mostly tough af. The Navy guys they just kinda did whatever according to their own thoughts.
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u/Vegetable_Challenge5 22h ago edited 11h ago
Honestly I trust them magnitudes more than the president which is a sorry state of affairs.
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u/yokozouna_ed 20h ago
I'd trust a rotting sock soaked in cat piss to represent the United States before I'd let the president or any of his minions do so...
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u/TooManyNamesTried 16h ago
Well when one of them screw up they're held accountable; publicly and severely. Politicians on the other hand, well, file it away.
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u/recidivist1001 15h ago
It’s not “perving out over anime waifus,” Sharon, it’s called cultural diplomacy and it’s classy
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u/Pomegranate_Mobile 13h ago
"It's like she doesn't even try to understand how we impact the global stage, isn't that right hatsune miku?"
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u/Crafty-Help-4633 1d ago
I'd love to know what's being said on the Japanese vessel.
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u/Cautious-Area-4141 22h ago
mite mite kono nazekenai no yankee yaro, yabaiiiiiiizehhhhh
nah i bet they were trying their best not to laugh their arses off
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u/JesusaurusRex666 18h ago
I’m not trying to call you out or be rude or anything, but what is nazekenai intended to mean? I find it interesting that you have enough understanding of Japanese to know yabaize and mitemite, but not that yankii means something very distinct from the word it owes its roots to. Just curious as a student of Japanese.
eta: yes the Japanese sailors would almost definitely think this was hilarious. All the SDF people I’ve met have been very chill, though it’s mostly a small sample size of people in the airsoft community willing to play with/against foreigners.
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u/Firm-Scientist-4636 1d ago
Wait. Does Japan still use the Rising Sun flag?
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u/Ragewind82 1d ago
That is the Japanese Naval flag, it's a little different from the imperial flag - it depends on how the sun is centered / offset.
It was in use for decades before they started the co-prosperity sphere takeover thing.
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u/Nyther53 1d ago
The germans similarly still use the Iron Cross.
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u/Freddie-Peterson 1d ago
Or so the Germans would have us believe...
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u/Nyther53 1d ago
I mean, it's painted on the sides of the tanks, it's not a secret.
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u/Freddie-Peterson 1d ago
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u/Nyther53 1d ago
I don't understand this response. Am I missing something?
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u/Low-Refrigerator-663 1d ago
I think this is refering to Warsaw, Poland.
You can probably surmize how dark of a double entendre this is.
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u/Nyther53 23h ago
I don't know how you get Poland from Norm Macdonald reading a newspaper?
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u/Pedantic_Pict 21h ago
Fun fact: nazi Germany didn't widely use the iron cross. The aircraft roundel of the third reich was the bar cross, which has straight arms as opposed to the flared arms of the iron cross
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u/Noob66662 1d ago
Actually the Sun being centered or not just depends on whether it is Navy or Army. Japan's imperial flag is the same as modern day. It's their national flag.
The reason the rising sun flag got associated with WW2 was simply because nations were occupied under the control of the Imperial armed forces and they used their respective flags.
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u/Imaginary-Group1414 18h ago
For starters, the flag of the Empire was the Hinomaru and the same as Japan's current national flag.
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u/Misty2stepping 1d ago
Yes. Their navy still uses the flag.
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u/an_older_meme 1d ago
Yes indeed. One of their ships visited Hawaii and guess what ensign they were rocking?
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u/Logical_Box_4645 19h ago
That's just their flags.
Japan/Nippon (日本) literally means origin of the sun which is what we translate to rising sun.
They made relatively small changes after the war, but didn't drop the overall styling of their flags.
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u/Pinksamuraiiiii 1d ago
It’s not looked upon well, this would be like Americans using confederate flag. Which people still use, especially in the South.
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u/stupidber 1d ago
Confederate flag was created to represent the confederacy. Rising sun flag was just japan's flag for the better part of a century.
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u/Often_Forgotten2 18h ago
Nothing like that, the rising sun was Japan's flag long before and will be forever
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u/blackbb601 1d ago
But why the little American flag next to the Japan flag?
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u/Grunn84 22h ago
If you want the actual answer its probably a courtesy flag and they are in American territorial waters.
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u/-Ultra_Violence- 18h ago
absolute shit take
its their flag, they dont have to change it just cause they surrendered
in no way shape or form is this the same as the american civil war
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u/Sir_Potato2000 19h ago
The official flag of Japan has always been the current flag (red circle on a white background), and this flag on the video has always been the flag of the naval forces.
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u/ThereIsAJifForThat 1d ago
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u/ZorkNemesis 21h ago
...you boys wanna get high?
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u/walking-flowermantis 1d ago
So Japanese fly American flag out of respect and American fly waifu as a .. respect?
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u/PMMEURDIMPLESOFVENUS 1d ago
... Or they just held up something funny for a few seconds to give 'em a laugh.
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u/DangKilla 22h ago
Yeah, I was just in Okinawa in May. Due to outside influences, Post WWII, even local Japanese consider Okinawa like a country within their country. Different mindset. For example, its got lovely beaches, so people do actually tan there on purpose. Unlike the west which seemed to quit caring about sun block, people in mainland Japan use sun umbrellas.
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u/karmaisnonsense 18h ago
It goes well beyond WW2. Ryukyu was its own kingdom until imperial Japan forced an annexation in the late 19th century.
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u/JesusaurusRex666 18h ago
I’m solidly on team parasol and I’m a white dude in my forties. Don’t even get a second glance in Tokyo.
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u/West-Astronaut8515 19h ago
I'd classify it as humor/banter between them. As in, if I were underway in this situation, I'd do the exact same thing as a joke
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u/T_Money 16h ago
I am prior USMC and have drank with more than my fair share of JSDF members, both enlisted and a few mid level officers; there is very little chance that they would see this as rude.
Despite the reputation Japan might have as a whole, our militaries generally get along very well. While stationed in Japan if we met our counterparts randomly at a bar it was always a good time
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u/Motor-Ingenuity-2068 21h ago
I just remembered there was an anime called Girls und Panzer.
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u/SadBase5550 18h ago edited 8h ago
There still making movies and the fan base actually helped save the town the show is based around.
Oarai was hit hard by the earthquake/tsunami and subsequent nuclear plant disaster years back. They were a fishing town and that was hindered by said nuclear plant disaster. But the show gave them a new market, it made them a tourist destination and it actually sustained the town. If you go to Oarai now you'll see that the town is basically embraced the show and there's pictures and cutouts and photo opportunities all over the place
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u/the_cunt_muncher 20h ago
Why did I expect for there to be a guy holding a similar waifu towel when the camera panned over to the other ship?
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u/Bud_wiser_hfx 1d ago
Im glad all the weirdos and beardos are gone
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u/Anonymous__Android 1d ago
Whats a beardo tho?
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u/Lysol3435 1d ago
Hegseth likes his boys smooth like seals
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u/lanshaw1555 1d ago
African Americans with hair follicle conditions that are prone to infections with regular shaving, leading to medical exemptions allowing beards, against standard regulations. Removing the exemptions is a way to get them to leave or not join in the first place.
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u/Spobobich 1d ago
The Japanese sailors are saying "Fuckin' nerds."
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u/Available-String-109 1d ago
This is a recruiting poster for the JSDF, including the Navy.
Yes you can see her panties.
Don't underestimate how Japanese Japan is.
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u/JstaFriskyHusky 1d ago
Military ads comes in two forms, men doing cool stuff or hot women doing cool stuff. Also I'm pretty sure that's from an old anime and none of them wear pants from what I remember
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u/BigHardMephisto 20h ago
I remember when warthunder released the AH-1 Kisarazu, a Cobra attack helicopter with an anime version of it's pilot emblazoned on the side. It also has a unique pilot model.
It took the forum and reddit by storm for a bit, as it was in fact a real helicopter and pilot (used for recruiting).
What people seem to forget about the military is; they're after your 16 and 17 year old boys to get them to join when they're 18. And a death machine with a sick ass anime girl on it based on the real sick ass helicopter pilot would 100% drive up numbers. The guys that are most likely to join are the guys most likely to glue that image in their mind until years after they blow their signing bonus on something stupid.
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u/zanotam 23h ago
So those aren't panties and that's just characters from an anime. One of the early examples of turning thing X into cute girls. I think this is loosely based upon an actual real world fem only group of flyers during the 20th century but now it's literally girls flying and oh man I haven't seen Strike Witches in possibly a decade so I don't remember the specifics.
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u/SeaCaligula 1d ago
But why didn't Japan return the gesture? This is a diplomatic affront, like slapping away a handshake
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u/tarfullbr 17h ago
I thought that japanese flag was banned
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u/Frontier_Sociologist 16h ago
That's the Japanese military ensign. The Naval and Ground Self Defense Force still use it
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u/ANUBISseyes2 14h ago
Japan didn't really change their flags after WW2 the normal Japanese flag was actually the same flag that they have rn just in a different shade of red and this was their navy flag for a long time
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u/Elhyphe970 1d ago
This is what happens when you leave lcpl's unsupervised. Typical Marine shenanigans. Lol
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u/hellobutno 20h ago
I mean these guys see each other every day for joint exercises and visit each others bases in Japan.
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u/eldritch-eldritch 20h ago
Why do they have that on A BATTLESHIP?
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u/Qui_Gon_Jim66 20h ago
You know exactly why he has that on a battleship...
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u/eldritch-eldritch 20h ago
Gooning the historic way.
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u/hmmmmmmmmmidk 18h ago
Surrounded by seaman and salty spray. Arrrrrrrrr, me mateys, there be no other way.
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u/SneakySardine117 19h ago
Why wouldn't sailors have personal property and silly things on A BATTLESHIP? They're people, not machines
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u/Excellent-Ad-4876 17h ago
yeah man, amount of pocket pussy's and anime towels is staggering
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u/1RehnquistyBoi 14h ago
Okay first off.
Neither ship is classified as a battleship but classified as a destroyer.
(Yes that is the same ship where Japan signed the surrender papers on.)
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u/omgu8mynewt 19h ago
You know the navy is staffed by 19 year olds not smart enough to go to college?
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u/CarlsCarLOL 18h ago
lol brother. This is the tip of the hornyberg. On an aircraft carrier, that I shall not name, in a server room, there is an Anpanman pocket pussy hanging from one of the racks. Or at least there was back between 2014-2016.
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u/vkats 12h ago
Dumb question isn’t that the flag of the Japanese empire that fought against the US in WW2?
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u/bypatrickcmoore 1d ago
Remember the time we fought an insanely hideous war against each other? LMAO good times.
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u/Introverted_Extrovrt 17h ago
Don’t let marines on the catwalk, they might think it’s a diving board
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u/Shooter61 16h ago
HS classmate was Navy carrier pilot flying an A6 Intruder. while conducting training excersizes with Japan, got accidently shot down. 🫣
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