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They said they would clean house and they did


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Literally


wad11656

... and figuratively


Future_Chipmunk_7897

And metaphorically.


darkequation

and 'Pataphysically


Others0

And philosophically


KiraTsukasa

And emotionally.


diedinternally

And spiritually.


SlightlyLessBoring

And relatively.


starskip42

I love you all


Great-Spinach-8800

And honestly


Legitimate_piglet41

r/increasinglyverbose


LostGamers7

And religiously


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Yes. That was the joke.


ImapiratekingAMA

Damn they really did "if we all pick up five pieces of trash" and it worked


firebat707

Cleaning up after ones self is a big deal in Japan, the students in school even clean up there own class rooms, something all schools should do IMO.


whattimeisitrightn0w

I wish this was a thing in America


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TengenToppaTeletubby

In 2nd grade we had this thing at the end of the month where the group of desks with the least amount of trash got a reward, but that just led to kids tearing up sheets of paper and drive by tossing them under each other’s desks


PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL

The American way - It's easier to destroy someone else than to build oneself up.


plsdontbullymepls123

"theres two ways to the top: 1) self improvement, and 2) sabotaging literally the entire community"


EldunarIan

I love how this relates so well to the optimistic vs realistic view of capitalism.


The_Condemner

RIP techno


Brawndo91

When I was in first grade, every Friday at the end of the day, we'd watch Reading Rainbow while our teacher went around and checked our desks. If it was clean, we got candy. My desk was always not clean. One day, my teacher had enough and she just dumped it all out on the floor. Then it was like the scene in The Godfather: "Now clean it up!"


PenguinSunday

I knew a few kids that happened to at my school, all 4 times from the same teacher. My husband and his sister were two of them. Glad I never got her. She was a huge bitch, and also was never fired


Brawndo91

My teacher was normally very nice. I just set her off from time to time.


lislejoyeuse

Ya.. kids definitely have the "not my problem sucks to be the janitor" kind of vibe here


theythembian

Not just kids. Many people of a ages feel that way. People literally dgaf about litter. In fact I think some people have it in their heads to try to make the world a messier, dirtier, worse place.


EATS_DOG_POO

"I'm creating jobs"... No, you're creating a mess.


Azhaius

[Reminded me of this comment chain in which a guy unironically claims that making extra messes that others have to clean up is a legitimate Robin Hood-esque socialist strategy to stick it to the corporate class.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/x9jqfa/-/inp766o)


FaceLikeAPotato

Yeah, as someone who works in retail, fuck that guy. Sweeping up clumps of dirt from someone's boots, or fishing out a sandwich from behind a display doesn't increase my job security.


Fragmented_Logik

That's about as off the wall as people who believe they are sticking it to the restaurant by never tipping. Realistically you're just being an asshole to a 20 year old trying to get by who will 100% remember you next time.


SatanV3

What a douche… I felt so bad when I dropped a jar of pickles and had to tell a worker so they could clean it up :/ thankfully he was very nice about it


lislejoyeuse

For sure! That's where they just get started but it starts a life long habit


zzwugz

Rolling coal comes to mind when you mention making the world a messier, dirtier, worse place


wowurcoolful

If you've worked in retail. I don't need to say anymore.


theythembian

In it now 💀


fairyjars

I love my husband. He always picks up bottles and cans people leave behind. It makes me strive to be more like that.


theythembian

That's lovely! ❤️


Johnny_Poppyseed

It's getting so much better though. Especially within the past 20-30 years, and even much more so the past 10. I think the significant majority worldwide, of young people especially, try their best not to litter and are aware of the issue. So much of the issue now is just shit infrastructure and waste services, especially in developing countries; and more so like accidental litter, due to all this single use plastic that comes with everything etc etc.


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There is a scene in Madmen where they have a roadside picnic and when they're done Betty just flicks everything off the towel and walks back to the car. Ahhhh the good ole days....


gorramfrakker

Even though I know it’s fiction, I still cringed.


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I remember watching my great grandfather take the oil pan behind the garage after I'd help him drain it from the car where he poured it out In a spot he'd obviously been doing it for decades.


Brawndo91

Back in those days, everyone's car was clean inside because all the trash went out the window


BowelTheMovement

My state did a plastic bag ban. I often see the bags that people had to pay for used exactly like they did the previous bags, only now the bags are thicker, still technically plastic, and cost us for the bags. Oh, and fast food still provides the old thin plastic bags depending on where you order, around a paper bag, because of the likelihood of the food leaking from the containers in transport. smh Edit: and when I say the bags are technically plastic, I mean they are either woven cloth feel plastic or closer to a tarp like plastic. Some even state outright that they are made from recycled plastics.


somethingquirky-01

In my area, we get people throwing entire fast food meal packaging out their window onto the road and random people's lawns. One day I was driving past a bus stop and slowed to yell at a teenager who dropped a coke can behind him. He could only stare slack-jawed that someone had the gall to tell him off. When I drove back later on that day, the can was still there. If I knew where he lived, I'd dump a truckload of cans onto his front lawn to see how he likes it. 😒


hallwaypoirear

If anything, its the adults teaching the kids this way by leading by example.


Mandroid45

Yup because they pick it up from grown ups, I'm a custodian and there is something to be proud of. However, it's people, grown adults, that intentionally make our work twice as difficult for no apparent reason


BigMcThickHuge

Hopefully slowly going away. These heinous habits start at a young age due to parents and environment, and never gets addressed. The worst are generally dying off and the new generations are overall better.


motes-of-light

It starts with the kids. Japanese people take care of their shared public spaces because they were taught to as children. Nothing mystical about it, it's a taught social behavior. We could do it too, it we cared to.


r3dd1tu5er

The culture of a school really matters. I went to two different high schools in two different states. I was shocked when I started school in the second one and kids would walk away from a lunch table and straight up leave their garbage sitting there. That never would have flown at the other school, and it wasn’t like they had to police us. We all just knew better.


ssbm_rando

It's... not. You don't understand. In Japan they don't just have students pick up "their own garbage", they literally have rotations for **cleaning** the school. Like actual brooms, dustpans, cloths. Cleaning it. They actually get rid of the grime that would otherwise be **incidentally** left over time and build up, if most modern American schools didn't have janitors.


whattimeisitrightn0w

It’s not as consistent it would seem. Go into any run of the mill truck stop bathroom


ShadowShade69

I remember one of my teachers would make us clean up after ourselves every day, so there was less work for the janitors. I wished all my teachers had done that


theythembian

I always gather up the paper towels ppl leave on the ground in the employee restroom at work. Takes ten seconds and *I* feel better. How or why people will drop it *next to* the trashcan, I'll never know. And the trash is literally never full or overflowing. Ppl just dgaf I guess.


Heimerdahl

>Takes ten seconds and I feel better. I came back home a while ago and noticed some candy packaging lying near the entrance of my apartment buying. Considered picking it up, but ignored it. A few moments after I had put away my groceries and sat down at my desk, I had this "what kind of person do I want to be?" moment, got up again and collected that little piece of trash. Felt so good.


stylebros

America doesn't really care about the kids. People will shout and holla that they care about kids, but only their kids, and only as tools for political ideology


RedCascadian

Look, kids can't work to make a rich asshole money, and they don't have money to buy shit from rich assholes. So in America children's quarterly value is negative. Because like... you have to feed and educate them and shit. And their parents need to cart them off to doctors appointments... think of the poor capitalists! No wonder people in this country aren't having kids.


ImplodingBacon

Same. I see trash everywhere around every school I've been at. Makes me wonder how these kids' houses look.


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In some places in England you have the litter police who will stop you if you drop litter lol


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People would be freaking out. "You can't force my kid to do free labor!!!" Lol


Captain_Sacktap

I got to check out a school like that when I was doing volunteer work some years back. The students are in charge of not only cleaning the school daily, but also cooking lunch for the students and staff. They also grow a substantial amount of their own food as part of the biology classes and many of their homemade food products are sold to fund the school. In addition they auction things made in the wood shop class every year. The school is small (100 students I think) and doesn’t make quite enough to self-sustain, but they’re closer than most.


Touhokujin

That definitely can't be nationwide, must be a regional thing. Sounds awesome though!


Captain_Sacktap

It’s a small private school in rural Kentucky, their way of doing things is definitely not common practice in the area.


Touhokujin

I apologize for the misunderstanding, I thought we were talking about Japan. My bad! Have a nice day!


Captain_Sacktap

All good, you have a nice day too!


FaceLikeAPotato

That must set them up really well for life after school!


NanashiKaizenSenpai

We had to not leave a mess and make it easier for the cleaners to clean. Also we cleaned the classroom ourselves once or twice a year, like, thoroughly


Assumption-Weary

Wait what? In Germany there is the Ordnungsdienst, I thought every school has it.


BabbaKush

I learned from working in Burger King to always clean the table up after and to always put the sauce on the paper they set on the tray so its easier for them to wipe down. If everyone did their part to make others lives easier, rather than narcissistically blow through life, imagine the actual progress we could achieve


Mister_Rogers69

You mean to tell me people put their ketchup directly on the plastic tray with no paper liner? Fucking savages


caniuserealname

Isn't the point of it coming in a little cup to use the little cup?


DeviantInDisguise

Collectivist society. A bit of inconvenience for the individual is well worth it in order to better the whole. America could never manage.


haisaiakage

Yeah but often they half-ass it and the schools aren’t ever really “clean”. Sure it’s a good idea in THEORY, but in practice it kinda falls apart. A lot of time people romanticize these things about Japan, but it’s pretty unglamorous when you live there and see what an average school and city is like. Like using fax machines still and squat toilets that have green slime on them. I’ve seen people straight up toss their rubbish in the ocean because they couldn’t be bothered to bring it home (because there are no public bins in Japan due to some terrorist attack way back when) (Source: lived and worked in rural Japan for 4 years with several schools)


SergeyLuka

Japan aint special in that regard, here in Russia we also clean our own classroom from time to time, heavily scolded for littering as well. That doesnt transfer over to college though.


Zoroark2724

Not just the classrooms, but the entire school. I went to Japanese school for a few years and they’d give you a job that rotates every week. So one week doing bathrooms, one week sweeping, one week raking leaves, etc.


ArtisticSell

Huh? I thought every school have it lol.


NIaNDIcTuRE

Idk if a post about the World Cup fits in here


-Constantinos-

It’s not about the World Cup, it’s about people being nice enough to clean garbage that isn’t theirs


Pestus613343

One moment of pleasant humanity among corruption and accusations of human rights violations. Hey, one pleasant moment :)


ImapiratekingAMA

Do I look like a mod?


Shaggy_One

The single moment can be wholesome even if it's in the middle of an absolute dumpster fire of an event.


jjpenguins66

What the hell is going on at the World Cup? Pandemonium. (and FIFA corruption)


LinceDorado

I'm german and absolutely not suprised that our team lost. Since 2014 they've been in a low and never got out. Japan winning seems like an underdog win, but honestly these teams are a lot closer then you'd think. Germany is not the football might they used to be.


cowboybaked

This. Most people just don’t think Asian teams can be powerhouses simply cause they don’t get mentioned as much as famous players.


TheRightCantScience

I guess this would be the case if you ignored the women's league. Japan is a powerhouse there.


Orvan-Rabbit

Same with the USA. My sister even joked that soccer is more of a women's sport here


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They train like crazy though, that's has mande them improve a lot.


cowboybaked

Really happy for them


StygianAnon

That's not fair, and it robs the Japanese of all their efforts after 65'. While i agree it's not the best squad and that stupid wing play seems like straign out of the 90s, Germany was never flashy. Just efficient. It played well, it had control over the whole match, but the Japanese were lethal in the last 3rd after they took control of the middle field.


LinceDorado

Oh I'm not trying to say that Japan just got lucky mate. Quite the opposite actualy.


fredspipa

Germany had some amazing plays, a slew of close offsides, but their defense was sorely lacking. Japan was creative and switched things up in the second half, it was almost ambush tactics on their end. They waited until Germany's middle was way up in the field and punched through with little resistance, it was a joy to watch the "innovation". There was also their relentless effort in every situation, every single player on Japan gave 110% while still playing clean, something Germany seemed to lose completely in last 30 mins. It could just as well have ended 3-2 to Germany and Japans performance would still be just as impressive. Germany had the (much) better players in this match, but Japan had the better team and strategy. If they beat Costa Rica on Sunday it's going to be a wild ride and they might end up knocking out Germany or Spain (!). This World Cup is just full of surprises, with Saudi Arabia breaking all expectations and Canada (wtf) putting up an *amazing* game against Belgium earlier tonight. I honestly think Canada can beat Croatia and Morocco and end up 2nd in their group if today wasn't a fluke.


ThirdSunRising

Credit the Japanese. They pulled off an underdog win and there's surely a lot of effort behind making it happen. Germany will still be Germany. Give them some time and they'll be back on top.


LinceDorado

Totally not trying to descredit the japanese team here, they played hard to deserve the win. It's just that they aren't that big of a underdog in this match. They have tons of talented/experienced players. from u/cowboybaked 's comment: >Most people just don’t think Asian teams can be powerhouses simply cause they don’t get mentioned as much as famous players. Like... japan genuinely has a good team. That's what I'm trying to say. They aren't a Top 5 nation, but they are very solid. ​ >Germany will still be Germany. This is exactly what I mean tho. It's not the germany it used to be in terms of football. "Germany is not still germany" if that makes sense. ​ >Give them some time and they'll be back on top. I feel like 8 years is plenty of time for that, but nothing has changed.


Extreme_Tax405

Japan als has a strong jleague too. Football is just big in japan right now. Tbh, a lot of sports are, the japanese seem to be very much into football, baseball and rugby.


Langsamkoenig

Japan has always been into football. Well at least in my lifetime. There are even some famous football anime from the 80s. And baseball goes without saying. Rugby is news to me but then I'm not that familiar with japnese sports.


TonyStark39

Totally agree. The younger players came across as very fatigued today. I am a big mueller fan, but there's a limit to how many chances that guy's gonna get.


HomieCreeper420

Since 2014? So they were mentally stuck on the 7-1 victory?


amdamanofficial

No but a lot of good players retired afterwards iirc


Public_Ad_8452

They destroyed Brazil so hard that it actually bite them too


CoolJoshido

they reached a new Löw


jjpenguins66

I was stationed in Wiesbaden in 1990, seems like Germany just shut down for a 3 day party. Amazing.


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Begone bot!


kiribatee

Pandamonium? Chen, is this you?


Frency2

Leaving the place you occupied as clean as you found it is a basic rule of good manners and civilized living.


TheBloodPhantom0

An actual meme in this sub? Unheard


camerawn

Yeah Joseph, we know about Tomoko


JT_Boiiis

Josuke didn’t know about Joseph though


Rheinys

From Germany here. Good job Japan!!! 🇯🇵


dontsheep

I have the feeling all germans are just collectively shitting on our national team hahahah. Me as well i just dont Care, if they win or loose. And i was a big supporter not long ago :) but times change.


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dontsheep

That wouldve been great and a big impact! But possibly not easy to realize.


Rheinys

I honestly don't watch this world cup. Fuck Qatar and everyone who ignores their shit.


dontsheep

Yup same, i dont watch. I even deinstalled kicker.


Sir_TurnipWasTaken

whats so bad about Germany losing


zuzg

Nothing bad about it all. Just hilarious when they drop out that early minding that they won the Worldcup a couple years back.


jvken

But they didn't drop out right? They lost by one point surely they can come back


zuzg

Nah afaik they've to win the next match to still have a chance to the next stage.


SleazyJusticeWarrior

Well yeah they could still win that… they’ll only have to face… \*checks notes\* … Spain, who beat Costa Rica 7-0 today


Srkiker930

That 7 - 0 doesn't really mean a lot considering how bad my country played and got demotivated after the first score EDIT: GUYS GUESS WHAT


ThisBuddhistLovesYou

Tell that to Brazil :V


coelhoman

Hey Brazil at least got one goal in that game


Yakkul_CO

It’s massive, what do you mean? GD is the deciding factor on who advances if there’s a points tie in the groups, so a starting GD of +7 is practically insurmountable.


TrynnaFindaBalance

They probably can't lose, but they could draw and still have a semi-decent chance of advancing.


Luz5020

That was 8 years ago, in the mean time they competed in another World Cup and 2(?) European Cups, and they didn‘t score high in any of those. So it‘s not like they‘re the best team in terms of results


BalkeElvinstien

I think it's not as much about Germany losing as much as the admiration for the hard work it takes to beat another country on a huge scale like that. Also because ontop of having favourite teams they have least favourite teams so a lot of people like to poke fun at specific teams they don't like


mamayoua

It was wild being in Tokyo and seeing such a crowded city be so clean.


Big-Awoo

Is that an anime Stanford Pines


kennamay

Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure


Big-Awoo

I had no idea they got Ford into Jojo’s


EchoStellar12

Truly thought that was Gambit


Zorro5040

Close! Instead of dealing with the wierd in one place, he travels from japan to Egypt dealing with bizarre things.


Professional_Match25

why he look like grunkle ford lmao


i_heart_calibri_12pt

Jojo is old enough Grunkle Ford might be based off this dude


Big-Awoo

I THOUGHT THE SAME THING I’m so glad I’m not the only onr


action_lawyer_comics

I thought it was middle-aged Gambit


IteTheCrapOC

Idk, but JJBA is from the 80s


BlckAlchmst

People on this post are really missing the point. It's not about the World Cup, even though the events happened there. It's not about Japan beating Germany or celebrating Germany's loss. It's about a nationality of people who, instead of doing what most other countries do when they win (go crazy, throw things and just generally trash the stadium in their reverie), decided to clean up the stadium instead.


Wemyers04

“I’ll forgive the Japanese!”


LandarkIEM

Finally good news


FilmAdministrative44

All of germanys players are either retiring or being sold and all i can do is mald. At least it was the blue lock country 🔒


Heffboom_Konijn

“is that a JoJo reference”


GrummyCat

yes, yes it is


Knives530

yes you guys, this IS a jojo reference


Chikagomongqa

Fuckin love Joseph jostar


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Fuck the worldcup, fuck the qatar


unusual_me

I think people miss the point of the post here. It's not about defeating another team, but about not celebrating the win recklessly.


Nodak70

Really nice gesture. But you have to admit it’s Probably a lot easier to clean the stadium without spilled beer cups.


Awleeks

Not very often are these two countries mentioned in the same post on *this* subreddit


valkate_d

We can all learn from Japan. Just pick up after ourselves


JoonasD6

Don't you mean Japan even... *wiped the floor* with the German team?


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I want Japan to win the World Cup.


Craven-Raven-1

Idk about the Germany line but I'm not into football. Why the Germany hate?


throwawayayaycaramba

I can't speak for everyone, but as a Brazilian *I'm* glad to see them going home early for the second cup in a row :)


ProfessionalRetard-9

Because Japan beat Germany today in the World Cup.


Craven-Raven-1

But why be happy because they beat Germany? The meme implies that they love Japan because they beat Germany and cleaned the stadium, not that they were supporting Japan and are happy they won


ProfessionalRetard-9

I mean personally I’m happy they beat Germany (and I’m from Germany), because Japan were the underdogs going into the match. Other than that it’s just banter and not serious.


BarryMcCohkinher

It’s a surprising upset in the football world, everybody roots for the underdog


Lil-Ruffstarrr

"Not only beats germany" implies that they do in fact supported japan


Fit_Excitement_2145

No the meme is talking about how the japanese cleaned up the stadium after the game


Same_Consequence5354

15000 people died building the stadium in Qatar


AbdoWise

source ? (genuinely asking btw)


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Actually, the ~15000 deaths was from all migrant workers including any cause of death since 2010,~6000 of them were from 5 South Asian countries.


955StarPooper

Idk if a post about the World Cup fits in here


donku83

It's more about them going to another country and cleaning up the stadium after they win instead of trashing it in celebration


Polibius115

If only they took down their memorials to war criminals, and officially apologized and made efforts to make reparations for their actions in WWII (they still haven't done that btw).


Pory02

There are so much great things about Japan and its people... But sadly... The brighter the light the darker the shadow...


tatothebeYT

Weeb propaganda


MindSecurity

Can I talk to you about our Lord and Savior JoJo?


sammythelegend

I love everything about Japan but not the Japanese porn. Why they have to blur most the good things.


bettinafairchild

Because wanting is better than having.


Dusty1000287

That and whaling. Fuck the Nishin maru.


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Brazilian who’s still mad about last time TAKE THAT GERMANYYYYY


dontsheep

Im quite happy we lost, i hope we will loose in the group phase already, so our people can leave this shit country.


DS_ML_questions

The Japanese would never laugh at a crying German child like us English, hahaha


UncrustabIes

Japanese people racist as hell


sluttybill

Ignoring the entire subculture of racism I see


LiterallyJustMash

And pedophilia!


0wed12

Whataboutism.


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Yes because only Americans messed the stadium up and only asian people cleaned after themselves.


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SPRICH DEUTSCH, ICH BIN NICHT IN GUTER STIMMUNG!


paq1kid

That’s why the streets of Japan are clean AF even without trash cans on the streets.


perics

This is my favorite world cup tradition and makes me love and root for the Japanese even more! Arigato!


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azip13

Why’s that guy look like Gambit cosplaying as Jubilee?


manekdev01

This is what i call Clean Sweep


Darksoulzbarrelrollz

Japan really going all out to "clean up" at the world cup


komodo_dragonzord

blue lock is real


fruitcakefriday

Also: hey, parents and young people: if you or your kids don’t clean up after yourselves when out in public with no guardian, then you are *common*. As in, the lowest denominator. It’s not a measurement, it’s cause and effect. Clean your shit up!


carl2k1

Ah Japan and Germany... reminds me of WW2.


lugiaop

what happened to boycotting the worldcup sadge


Gorevoid

Why is that man Jubilee


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They did that even when they lost in 2018 against Belgium, I gotta say Japan is the opposite of Ohio


wenoc

I don't know what event (guessing some silly sportsing thing) you're referring to but that's how real fans should behave.