Racist? Really?

[sipowicz]

I was in the supermarket today and as I walked by the Sushi bar I noticed a tall lanky white guy behind the counter...he asked me if I wanted any Sushi...I said no, and added, BTW, I forgive you for WW2...he got so mad...said he lost an uncle in the war (as did I) and then called me a racist....okay, he didn't get the joke that he didn't look japanese, but how is it racist about WW2? It's just history...they did start the war...right?

 

[venomballistics]

you so dont belong on the left coast

 

[38-44HD45]

Sip, I REALLY need to meet you. And Venom is right; you'd fit in much better elsewhere, like here in Texas...

 

[sipowicz]

I've known that since I moved here in 85....

 

[sipowicz]

Sip, I REALLY need to meet you. And Venom is right; you'd fit in much better elsewhere, like here in Texas...

Thanks for the support!...

 

[586L-Frame]

I was in the supermarket today and as I walked by the Sushi bar I noticed a tall lanky white guy behind the counter...he asked me if I wanted any Sushi...I said no, and added, BTW, I forgive you for WW2...he got so mad...said he lost an uncle in the war (as did I) and then called me a racist....okay, he didn't get the joke that he didn't look japanese, but how is it racist about WW2? It's just history...they did start the war...right?

Sip,
You were insulting possibly a descendant of a US 442nd Combat
Regiment family member. They also rescued a lost Texas Battaion in 1944.

In the cold, wet Fall of October 1944, a battalion of American soldiers, nicknamed the "Texas Battalion" finds itself trapped miles behind German lines in the Vosges Forests of France.  For three days, allied forces struggle to free the trapped battalion to no avail.  With no food, no ammunition, and growing casualties, General Dahlquist turns to the 100th/442nd Regiment and orders them to free the trapped battalion, no matter the cost.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)

Decorations
The 442nd RCT became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history for its size and length of service, with its component 100th Infantry Battalion earning the nickname "The Purple Heart Battalion".[5] The 442nd RCT received 7 Presidential Unit Citations (5 earned in one month), and its members received 18,143 awards, including:

21 Medals of Honor (the first awarded posthumously to Private First Class Sadao Munemori, Company A, 100th Battalion, for action near Seravezza, Italy, on 5 April 1945; the others upgraded from other awards in June 2000). Recipients include:
Barney F. Hajiro
Mikio Hasemoto
Joe Hayashi
Shizuya Hayashi
Daniel K. Inouye
Yeiki Kobashigawa
Robert T. Kuroda
Kaoru Moto
Sadao Munemori
Kiyoshi K. Muranaga
Masato Nakae
Shinyei Nakamine
William K. Nakamura
Joe M. Nishimoto
Allan M. Ohata
James K. Okubo
Yukio Okutsu
Frank H. Ono
Kazuo Otani
George T. Sakato
Ted T. Tanouye
52 Distinguished Service Crosses (including 19 Distinguished Service Crosses which were upgraded to Medals of Honor in June 2000)
1 Distinguished Service Medal
560 Silver Stars (plus 28 Oak Leaf Clusters for a second award)
22 Legion of Merit Medals
15 Soldier's Medals
4,000 Bronze Stars (plus 1,200 Oak Leaf Clusters for a second award; one Bronze Star was upgraded to a Medal of Honor in June 2000. One Bronze Star was upgraded to a Silver Star in September 2009.)
9,486 Purple Hearts

586L-Frame

 

[Rule 303]

Think about just Northwest of Amarillo, Tx.
Great place to live, full of Conservatives and lots of jobs.

Rule 303

 

[truckemup97]

Think about just Northwest of Amarillo, Tx.
Great place to live, full of Conservatives .

Rule 303

And full of feed lots. I appreciate the beef, but the ammonia smell can be somewhat overwhelming. Come to Tulsa, Sip. We've got some culture and the world's largest gun show. How does it get any better than that?

 

[jag312]

What I would have said to him would get me bounced out of here, but let me paraphrase it. Let's see if I can get away with this. I would have told him that he had a strong resemblance with a certain excretatory part of our anatomy.

One of my uncles was on Bataan. He survived the march, he survived being locked in the hold of a ship with no food or water being shipped from the Philippines to Japan for slave labor, and he was singled out for beatings almost every day because he was tall (6'3"). He witnessed a young soldier being locked up with no food and water until he died to serve as an example to other prisoners. There were more atrocities that he wouldn't talk about. Curtis LeMay should have dropped a third bomb on Tokyo.

 

[TNDixieGirl]

Sip,
You were insulting possibly a descendant of a US 442nd Combat
Regiment family member. They also rescued a lost Texas Battaion in 1944.

He wasn't "insulting" anyone. He made the JOKE to a "tall lanky white guy".

 

[s&wchad]

I noticed a tall lanky white guy behind the counter...said he lost an uncle in the war (as did I) and then called me a racist....

Friend or foe?

My brother worked with two engineers at Ford Motor, both WWII vets. They were arguing about when they entered a certain town in Europe. One was sure it was May, the other July. The "July guy" said, "You couldn't have been sent there in May, we were some of the first allied troops to arrive". The other engineer smiled and said, "I was on the other side".

 

[sipowicz]

BTW, thank you all for the invites to your town...but when I leave Kalifornia, it will be a 7,000 mile trek to my new home...

 

[ladder13]

Will that then be the 50th State that you have left?

 

[Lt JL]

My Uncle Wil was a career Marine, Pearl Harbor through Viet Nam. He retired as a CWO. He always said "I don't know but two words of Japanese, Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

 

[cmort666]

The Japanese explanation of WWII:

"We were just minding our own business building Toyotas when they dropped a couple of atomic bombs on us. We don't know why."

The Korean explanation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:

"The Americans dropped atomic bombs on Japan."
"The Americans dropped two atomic bombs on Japan."
"The Americans dropped ONLY two atomic bombs on Japan."
"I think the Americans were pro-Japanese!"

 

[ingmansinc]

I've heard eating raw fish will make you stupid.......or was that you have to be stupid to eat raw fish...........??????? Oh, what the heck, do you have rabies?

 

[Strato]

I've heard eating raw fish will make you stupid.......or was that you have to be stupid to eat raw fish...........??????? Oh, what the heck, do you have rabies?

Have you been eating the fish in lake Eola?

 

[Out West]

You know what they say about people that can't take a joke...

Just keep walking. The world is full people that resemble dead ends and null sets. Karma retardants.

OUT
WEST

 

[Lenshappy]

I am a major supplier of wasabi to a big supermarket chain...you just don't get it.....

 

[GF]

BTW, thank you all for the invites to your town...but when I leave Kalifornia, it will be a 7,000 mile trek to my new home...

Damn..... your new home is...... the moon!?!

(ain't the moon way far away like that?)

Dean Martin sang with a black guy so your not racist. IMHO.


GF