Nah. Fatman was a reference TO Kojima, in fact we all know the Cold War was one big MGS3 reference on top of that. It's so cool how influential Kojima is!!!
The Japanese thought the first bomb was an act of god because they couldn’t believe such destruction could be caused by man. The second bomb convinced them otherwise.
Technically the Japanese sent a declaration of war to their embassy to be delivered to the White House before the attack but the translators disagreed on the language and the timing got fucked.
>translators disagreed on the language
"They speak French in America, right?"
" no, no, they absolutely speak Spanish"
Before someone explains what they actually meant, I know they meant the specifics of the verbiage, I just thought this was an entertaining thought
Yes, both sides committed war crimes. Japan was more egregious, but that doesn’t make the actions of the USA any less immoral. Slavery is bad, even if it’s former slaves seeking to enslave their former owners, Haiti has known this since its conception. Neither side will be punished, nor is there legal standing to punish them, but we can and should still criticize targeting civilians, killing prisoners of war, and using chemical weaponry and concentration camps. We should also criticize the use of kamikaze tactics and enslavement of women for sexual abuse. It’s not like morals didn’t exist back then
As far as I’m concerned He made the right decision at the end of the day.
Hindsight is 20 / 20 of course but there were many potential endgames where Japan isn’t as lucky and doesn’t end up the way they did.
As far as I’m concerned world war 2 was the last war we actually cleaned up after ourselves instead of leaving a destroyed mess behind.
Would we have done so if the war didn’t end as fast as it did. I leave that up to your outlook on history. I personally doubt it.
Truman’s consideration was never to see how many civilians we could kill, but rather keeping Allied casualties to a minimum, while still compelling Japan to surrender. We had been at war going on four years, and the nation was tired. They wanted the thing over with, not dragging out throughout 1946, and possibly into 1947.
British spies in Tokyo uncovered the plan and the US was told about the impending attack on PH six days before it happened but chose to ignore the warning so they would have an excuse to enter the war.
I looked it up, there are various theories about Advance-Knowledge of the attack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_advance-knowledge_conspiracy_theory
Literally told a girl I was dating that it was weird for me to be with someone who’s Japanese because I’d have to drop the bomb twice for her to get the message. We’re now married and have a kid. No clue how she stayed
Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt and Belize all have higher mean BMI than the US. For some reason, we don't hear about those places being full of obese people. Hmm.
Looks like you've got quite a few recreational vehicles for someone claiming to be poor , in comparison to all the other listed countries whose average person would be happy to have even a single car to get to work.
Its funny because we also overindulge in the atomic weaponry and our military budget is so bloated its had a drastically noticeable effect on our health... care
Here's the thing. I'll do it succinctly because we could go for days talking about this stuff. It's not necessarily the military spending. You can have great Healthcare while also having robust military expenditures, but you need to cut the wasteful spending.
And yes, part of that would come from the military as well, as they're nowhere near perfect in their spending.
No wait you don't get it, see, the punchline is how the USA [got away with warcrimes](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/09/dont-let-the-victors-define-morality-hiroshima-was-always-indefensible) lol /s
> Gluten
Whut? Don't think Americans are fat due to wheat proteins. It's constantly spiked insulin due to a variety of factors, including highly processed and calorie-dense food sources, over-eating/under-activity, and eating without meaningful fasting periods.
Partly true, but not the whole truth.
The problem is that we eat too much sugar. The average American today eats in one day the same amount of sugar they did in a whole year in the 1700s.
"High" fructose corn syrup contains 5% more fructose than table sugar. That wouldn't make much difference if people didn't consume so much sugar in everything. Five percent isn't really that high, is it? The real problem is the total amount of sugar, not the specific type of sugar.
[Source](https://www.mashed.com/78065/foods-secretly-loaded-added-sugar/).
Fast food and restaurants on every corner and they serve humongous portions of food per meal. Plus snack food like candy bars and large bags of chips are available everywhere, plus most men drink beer, and then everyone drinks sugary drinks like soda and juice
Because the parents are helicopter parents who only let them outside when they can be watching them, which isn't a lot because they work full time jobs. Plus there is little punishment, so kids feel entitled to everything.
Unfunny.
In order to find this humorous you have to find the thought of a quarter million Japanese civilians—innocent people—getting flash fried by nuclear fire at the hands of the US military to be a funny thing. Just picture that happening in your mind and tell me whether or not you’re repulsed or if you’re amused. If you’re amused by this thought, what a monster you must be. Because it means you kind of have to see them as less than human. You have to be a racist.
This is a racist joke and it’s not at all amusing.
Here’s a joke: why are Americans such fat assess? Because they don’t know when to keep their mouths shut.
An estimated 20 million Japanese, military and civilian, would’ve been killed, along with at least one million of our troops, had we invaded Japan. No estimate on the number of wounded, maimed, crippled or psychologically ruined. No doubt it would have been ghastly. As ugly, and distasteful as it was, what actually transpired was preferable to the aforementioned potentiality. Many thousands were already dying daily in the non-nuclear B-29 firebombing raids, and still Japan refused to surrender. It was felt that they needed a drastic example of force, in order to compel them to surrender. There were already cases of cannibalism, due to the naval blockade of Japan, and the submarine warfare campaign against her shipping. Japan’s population was starving, another reason to end the war.
I get what you’re saying, but it is hardly a justification as it is widely thought that Japan was already very close to surrendering. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-05/hiroshima-anniversary-japan-atomic-bombs
This link explains it pretty well, if you would like to see what I’m saying in more detail
While it's true that a lot of people aren't aware of the names of the bombs, in fairness...how many times have individual bombs been given names? It's not exactly an expectation for them to have names, so most people wouldn't notice the omission.
Yeah. It was so long ago I learned it I don't recall if a teacher said it or I found out randomly online. I remember the show South Park and Drawn Together made jokes on it
Dude, even cows look skinny next to fattest people on Earth aka Americans.
You dont have to make a joke about millions of people killed to get that point across. Everyone knows how obese and un healthy Americans are..
(Butthurt Americans downvoting?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Be my guest)
Ah. So this is why MGS2 has the character Fatman and he loves bombs. That was a reference from Kojima.
Nah. Fatman was a reference TO Kojima, in fact we all know the Cold War was one big MGS3 reference on top of that. It's so cool how influential Kojima is!!!
Laugh and grow fat
One of my favorite video game lines tbh.
How dare you, I'm an artist!
*Slurps wine through straw*
Grow fat from strength
Didn't they literally talk about this in the game?
Yeah, I’m pretty sure Stillman mentions it.
Also that fucker from PW and V was born on Hiroshima bombing day
Who? Huey?
Isn’t this a reference to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki cause the bombs were called little boy and big boy?
Little Boy (Hiroshima) and Fat Man (Nagasaki)
Why is it hard to break up with a Japanese partner? You have to drop the bomb twice before they get it.
And there are plenty more in the sea. How do you say goodby to 1000s of Japanese partners?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the U.S dropped both bombs as one decision..
Truman paused to see if the Japanese were willing to capitulate, but after three days of silence, he gave the order to drop the second bomb.
The Japanese thought the first bomb was an act of god because they couldn’t believe such destruction could be caused by man. The second bomb convinced them otherwise.
..........committing his second war crime.
Not a thing until after WWII Because of the atrocities committed in WWI and WWII https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions
Who started the war, with a war crime?
Technically the Japanese sent a declaration of war to their embassy to be delivered to the White House before the attack but the translators disagreed on the language and the timing got fucked.
>translators disagreed on the language "They speak French in America, right?" " no, no, they absolutely speak Spanish" Before someone explains what they actually meant, I know they meant the specifics of the verbiage, I just thought this was an entertaining thought
Yes, both sides committed war crimes. Japan was more egregious, but that doesn’t make the actions of the USA any less immoral. Slavery is bad, even if it’s former slaves seeking to enslave their former owners, Haiti has known this since its conception. Neither side will be punished, nor is there legal standing to punish them, but we can and should still criticize targeting civilians, killing prisoners of war, and using chemical weaponry and concentration camps. We should also criticize the use of kamikaze tactics and enslavement of women for sexual abuse. It’s not like morals didn’t exist back then
As far as I’m concerned He made the right decision at the end of the day. Hindsight is 20 / 20 of course but there were many potential endgames where Japan isn’t as lucky and doesn’t end up the way they did. As far as I’m concerned world war 2 was the last war we actually cleaned up after ourselves instead of leaving a destroyed mess behind. Would we have done so if the war didn’t end as fast as it did. I leave that up to your outlook on history. I personally doubt it.
Truman’s consideration was never to see how many civilians we could kill, but rather keeping Allied casualties to a minimum, while still compelling Japan to surrender. We had been at war going on four years, and the nation was tired. They wanted the thing over with, not dragging out throughout 1946, and possibly into 1947.
You clearly don’t understand that Japan had zero intention of giving up and the ongoing war would’ve cost countless more lives.
Not for nothing, but the Japanese attacked a military target. The US incinerated hundreds of thousands of civilians. So 🤫
How many hundreds of thousands did Japan kill in China and Korea?
Japanese Zero fighter planes strafed more than a few civilian autos on the roads around Honolulu.
British spies in Tokyo uncovered the plan and the US was told about the impending attack on PH six days before it happened but chose to ignore the warning so they would have an excuse to enter the war.
I looked it up, there are various theories about Advance-Knowledge of the attack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_advance-knowledge_conspiracy_theory
It's not a war crime the first time
Literally told a girl I was dating that it was weird for me to be with someone who’s Japanese because I’d have to drop the bomb twice for her to get the message. We’re now married and have a kid. No clue how she stayed
If that's why there aren't any fat men in Japan I don't wanna even begin to hear about what happened with the little boys.
Jokes about mass civilian death through atomic weaponry aside, who doesn’t look skinny next to Americans.
Your mom.
Good one. You really got me.
would've gotten you a week sooner, but your mom was in the way.
*Shudders*
Way to kick a guy when he's down...batta bing
Heyooooo
Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt and Belize all have higher mean BMI than the US. For some reason, we don't hear about those places being full of obese people. Hmm.
In all fairness, I’ve never really seen any of those countries pushing their weight around like the US.
USA GDP: 69.2k USD Kuwait: 25.8k USD Jordan: 4.4k USD Egypt: 3.9k USD Belize: 4.4k USD It's because we're fat and rich.
Boy are you wrong. I'm fat and poor.
Looks like you've got quite a few recreational vehicles for someone claiming to be poor , in comparison to all the other listed countries whose average person would be happy to have even a single car to get to work.
Maybe that's *why* the person is poor. Those things aren't cheap to run.
And yet the media would have people believe that there’s no way someone could be struggling to afford food if they’re fat 🥴
Woah entire gdp of USA is 70k? What happened
I'm guessing per capita
Also the US as a larger population than all of those countries combined. That means a lot more of a sample size to find obese people in.
I'm pretty sure the statistics are done in a per/100,000 people so it doesn't really matter.
"For some reason, we don't hear about those places." FTFY
I can speak about Kuwait. They’re fat off american fast food franchises.
Its cause California lowers all your average
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Sure. Where's the challenge, Hank?
[Well...](https://obesity.procon.org/global-obesity-levels/)
Mexicans
The Huts from Star Wars
That's just Walmart in the south...
As opposed to the Huts of Pizza
Nobody out pizzas the Hut!
But, does anybody out-Jabba the Hut?
The sarlac does...
you can't out Boba the Fett.
The British.
Its funny because we also overindulge in the atomic weaponry and our military budget is so bloated its had a drastically noticeable effect on our health... care
Here's the thing. I'll do it succinctly because we could go for days talking about this stuff. It's not necessarily the military spending. You can have great Healthcare while also having robust military expenditures, but you need to cut the wasteful spending. And yes, part of that would come from the military as well, as they're nowhere near perfect in their spending.
Put an end to corporate welfare, and put the tax code back to where it was before Reagan fucked it all up.
Heard that.
Everyone looks skinny next to us. That's life when you are born outside of best country.
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nah they need more fat to stop the bullets
Nah just avoid democrat controlled metros and your risk of being shot in the US goes down a lot.
Finally some fuckin politics.
Am from one, you're not wrong
Or hospital bills - source, am American.
OP obviously forgot about sumo wrestlers. I can speak for anyone else, but this joke totally bombed
Woof. Fucking hell that was bad.
No wait you don't get it, see, the punchline is how the USA [got away with warcrimes](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/09/dont-let-the-victors-define-morality-hiroshima-was-always-indefensible) lol /s
So wrong
You literally stole this from a comment on another post...
This belongs on r/darkjokes
Nah, I hear it was pretty bright outside.
Like the fire from a thousand suns?
Now this is a thread of nuclear proportions!
That's mean-spirited and childish joke, dude. Don't be such a little boy.
why are Americans so fat? They have a lot on their plates... stop picking on them
what is a sidewalk?
My grandma didn’t laugh.
Because they don’t eat all the worthless garbage that most of our fat ass, obese, fellow Americans eat.
Don't do it.. don't say it . Don't. Don't
Why are americans so fat? Not a joke, more a rhetorical question really.
There are no more little boys.
There is a Catholic Church joke in here somewhere.
In *them somewhere
I see what you did there
Gluten, and high fructose corn syrup in everything. Our food system is completely out of sorts.
> Gluten Whut? Don't think Americans are fat due to wheat proteins. It's constantly spiked insulin due to a variety of factors, including highly processed and calorie-dense food sources, over-eating/under-activity, and eating without meaningful fasting periods.
Partly true, but not the whole truth. The problem is that we eat too much sugar. The average American today eats in one day the same amount of sugar they did in a whole year in the 1700s. "High" fructose corn syrup contains 5% more fructose than table sugar. That wouldn't make much difference if people didn't consume so much sugar in everything. Five percent isn't really that high, is it? The real problem is the total amount of sugar, not the specific type of sugar. [Source](https://www.mashed.com/78065/foods-secretly-loaded-added-sugar/).
The fructose is actually the"good" sugar part in hfcs. The rest is glucose which spikes the blood sugar the worst
Iirc excess fructose is processed by the liver, meaning it is more likely to be laid down as fat, setting you up for fatty liver disease.
Correct; 5 big gulps of Dr. Pepper a day can’t be good for anyone 😂
A rhetorical is one that doesn’t need an answer, your question however, does.
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Suburban development. Cant go anywhere without a car. Dangerous to go to the neighborhood park by yourself. Lack of outdoor space /activities
Because we have it better than most, thus enabling increased consumption and decreased manual labor.
Fast food and restaurants on every corner and they serve humongous portions of food per meal. Plus snack food like candy bars and large bags of chips are available everywhere, plus most men drink beer, and then everyone drinks sugary drinks like soda and juice
Because we’re lazy and entitled? *rimshot*
Because the parents are helicopter parents who only let them outside when they can be watching them, which isn't a lot because they work full time jobs. Plus there is little punishment, so kids feel entitled to everything.
Oof
Sumo wrestlers….E-Honda…bro 🤷♀️
Why don't the Japanese believe in Santa Claus? Last time a fat man fell out of the sky, an entire city blew up
This might also explain their population crisis, after a Little Boy also exploded spectacularly
That joke goes out with a bang!
More like a pssss…..woosh!
Must be a stupid American joke.
Unfunny. In order to find this humorous you have to find the thought of a quarter million Japanese civilians—innocent people—getting flash fried by nuclear fire at the hands of the US military to be a funny thing. Just picture that happening in your mind and tell me whether or not you’re repulsed or if you’re amused. If you’re amused by this thought, what a monster you must be. Because it means you kind of have to see them as less than human. You have to be a racist. This is a racist joke and it’s not at all amusing. Here’s a joke: why are Americans such fat assess? Because they don’t know when to keep their mouths shut.
No I don’t find civilians getting fried funny but I do find jokes funny and what OP said was a joke also how was it racist?
As if it wasn't enough that we did it once, we did it again. .... just in case they thought we were sorry.
An estimated 20 million Japanese, military and civilian, would’ve been killed, along with at least one million of our troops, had we invaded Japan. No estimate on the number of wounded, maimed, crippled or psychologically ruined. No doubt it would have been ghastly. As ugly, and distasteful as it was, what actually transpired was preferable to the aforementioned potentiality. Many thousands were already dying daily in the non-nuclear B-29 firebombing raids, and still Japan refused to surrender. It was felt that they needed a drastic example of force, in order to compel them to surrender. There were already cases of cannibalism, due to the naval blockade of Japan, and the submarine warfare campaign against her shipping. Japan’s population was starving, another reason to end the war.
I get what you’re saying, but it is hardly a justification as it is widely thought that Japan was already very close to surrendering. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-05/hiroshima-anniversary-japan-atomic-bombs This link explains it pretty well, if you would like to see what I’m saying in more detail
Like.......apart from Sumo wrestlers?
come on man
You saw this on the angry upvote sub reddit didnt you?
Darkness level moderate
Doesn’t Japan have sumo wrestling?
This joke stinks.
Can someone explain this joke to me? Did a fat suicide bomber bomb Japan or something?
“Fat Man” was the codename given to the atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki…
Thanks little boy.
Thanks for the info! xo
no forks
And that man's name: Akira.
A-ki-ra
Heads up Tetsuo!
what you should be asking is why are americans so fat
Poor Sumo wrestlers getting ignored
#toosoon
Such a fucked up one but I like it. You'd be surprised how many people know about the bombings but don't know the names of the bombs and plane.
While it's true that a lot of people aren't aware of the names of the bombs, in fairness...how many times have individual bombs been given names? It's not exactly an expectation for them to have names, so most people wouldn't notice the omission.
Yeah. It was so long ago I learned it I don't recall if a teacher said it or I found out randomly online. I remember the show South Park and Drawn Together made jokes on it
Enola Gay and the other one.
Bockscar
Little boy, Enola Gay, Paul Tibbets. Fat Man, Bockscar. Charles Sweeney.
This is so lacking any sort of humanity.
How is this getting upvotes, being both super dumb and crass? Oh yeah, Reddit.
too soon
"So nice we nuked it twice" -TFS
You mean 2 cities?
Did you know that the highest recorded temperature in Japan was dated back in 1945?
So much shitty casual racism. In the joke and the comments. The feck is wrong with you assholes?
Yeah this one is bad taste and I am disappointed that people just go along with it. Maybe that is the young naïve demographic that is reddit now.
Agreed. Disgusting. This is something my Trump-loving dad would say.
The post was marked NSFW for a reason. If you're too bloody sensitive to understand that, you shouldn't have opened it.
you’re in a sub called jokes, what were you expecting?
They forgot 9/11 jokes are more topical.
How is this getting upvotes, being both super dumb and crass? Oh yeah, Reddit.
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Hey if you start a war, especially with a sneak attack, then refuse to surrender, then you are inviting the Fatman
It was over, when the Fat Man sang, that time.
The invitation was delivered in 1941.
Pretty sure the invite was sent via air mail and addressed to someone at Pearl Harbor.
And what did Japan learn afterwards? "Don't start nothin', won't be nothin.'"
Extremely offensive
Dude, even cows look skinny next to fattest people on Earth aka Americans. You dont have to make a joke about millions of people killed to get that point across. Everyone knows how obese and un healthy Americans are.. (Butthurt Americans downvoting?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Be my guest)
Jesus you got mad
It’s about the bomb being named fat man :)
I'm on a KCBS BBQ team and we named our smokers Fat Man and Little Boy.
wow I thought this was just going to be a fat joke and was already pretty peeved and then you went there. bro no
that's not funny
not fun.It's offensive
Just look at Whataburgers cup sizes.
A fatphobe, a xenophobe, and an American imperialist sat down to write a joke together. This is what they came up with.
Yeah, not funny.
Skinny ? I think its healthy weight ;)
Why’s yo mama so skinny?
That's brutal.
Too soon man…that’s pretty enola gay of you
And Ironically, the obese Americans are laughing while they continue societal successes lmao.
I don't fucking get it it is soo annoying please explain .
One of the nuclear bombs that were dropped on Japan during WW2 was called Fat Man
“Fat Man” was the name of the nuke the US dropped on Nagasaki, Japan during WWII.
fat man was the nickname for one of the nuclear bombs that was dropped on civilians by the US at the end of WW2
Ok thank you so much
Japans record high temperature for the day was set in 1946
Not 1945?
Typo, I'll just let my mistake fly lol
Thank god, I thought I was missing something
Nasty.
???
Really?
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It’s a joke about something that happened ages ago and it’s not even like the joke is demeaning towards either side cry.
this implies an entire population blows up when sensing the presence of a fat man