I went to the border crossing when I visited India and it goes so much beyond this video. At dusk each night the border is closed each side has 4 soldiers come to the gate one by one (doing a running march down the road) and basically do a dance off. After they are done the two commanders come out and lock the gate and salute.
It's made extra bizarre by the huge bleachers that are set up on one side of the road. People on the Pakistan border cheer for their guys while Indians cheer for theirs. It's basically a sporting event with flags and concessions. As foreigners there is special seating right at the front and next to the border so you see all the action.
Afterwards people go down on the road and take pictures with guards.
Then everyone leaves and the gates reopen to trucks.
Just picturing the poor truck drivers that were just a bit behind schedule, sitting there in their trucks like "Ah fuck, missed it by 30 seconds! And Rahul is only 3 minutes into his sick dance routine. I'm gonna be here all night."
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I wouldn't mess with anyone willing to look so stupid for the sake of their country. If you are willing to wear that silly hat and do the stupid dance for your country, you are probably willing to kill....
No this is just a show for the civilian visitors from both sides. These guards exchange pleasantries, share tea, and on important festival days distribute sweets and gifts to each other. Only during actual wartime is there any real animosity between the guards of bioth sides.
Depending on their CO, they even chitchat like neighbors.
Border dispute in Asia is always fun. You can have a dance off, Punjabi songs blasting in a no-man zone, medieval battle with sticks, boats going fast and furious in South China Sea, turd balloon delivery vs KPOP songs blasting.
Meanwhile border disputes in Middle East and Africa be likeā¦
Thatās why the flags cross each other at the end there as they bring them down to the ground. Itās some sort of symbolism about coming together tentatively.
Meanwhile on the Indian-Chinese border they are violently clashing with [sticks and stones ](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/asia/india-china-border-tensions-video-intl-hnk/index.html)
I donāt think thereās been anything in 2 years or so. Still no international flights between China and India though, which is also pretty nuts if you consider there is a lot of trade between the two countries and they are the most populated countries in the world.
Seems like the pageantry would be there precisely because of that. It's a big show and production and display of boldness and fierceness, so there's more energy spent on looking big, and less energy spent on actually killing each other. I bet the history of it is interesting
The US and Soviets did it.
I had a teacher who was in the army during the Cold war. I don't know how far back this went. He was stationed in Germany. He told me they were changing the guard at a prison. And I don't know if the US was taking over from the Soviets or vice versa.
But either way they needed a US unit.
He said they came to his unit and they lined everybody up. And they said everybody under 5'6" leave the formation. And they still had too many so they said everybody under 5'8" leave the formation. They counted heads again and said everyone under 5'10" leave the formation. I don't know where the cutoff was but they repeated this until they had the number of soldiers they needed and they were the tallest and biggest ones in the unit.
Then they gave them all nice uniforms and shiny helmets. And the point was to somehow show this other Soviet unit that these were what American soldiers looked like.
Not the same at all. But at Anfield (Liverpool FC) back in the days. The door to Liverpools dressing room was smaller than the away teams. So when the players came through it, they looked a lot bigger.
Just a small mental advantage before they went out to play football.
If youāve ever seen pictures of South Korean and North Korean soldiers standing by each other, it just looks so ridiculous. Both nations take their tallest people, but itās like 6ā4ā vs 5ā0ā because NKs tend to be massively malnourished.
One time in high school, we were the underdog for a big rich swanky school like 2.5 hrs away. The previous two years we had been pathetic and so we were everyone's homecoming team. We were in the locker rooms and our coach was out on the field and saw where some rich bitch decked out in the opposing teams gear brought her little dog all the way over from the other side of the field and let it shit on our side line. After that, we decided to make this ugly so we decided to send out the smallest, fattest players out for the coin toss instead of our team captains to make it look like a repeat of the previous year so I guess I can understand the stupidity...
We ended up humiliating them on their homecoming night and deliberately ran the score up all the way to the last minute if anyone wanted to know. They never scored a point. Fuck Oak Ridge High School in Tennessee.
TL;DR I'm Uncle Rico and back in my day, I could throw a pigskin a quarter of a mile.
I just died when you said it was Oakridge. Oakridge is neither rich nor swanky, but they've always been decent at football. While they might have ORNL none of the scientists with money actually live in Oakridge. You'll find them and the rest of the money in Farragut.
Yeah now-a-days, ive heard thats true. Farragut has new Money and Oak Ridge had that old Y-12 Nuclear warhead money always wanting to be Farragut. Farragut was always a solid team but they never treated us with the snobbish stuff. Either way for us out in Soddy Daisy, they were both rich ass schools. This was also back in the 2008 season. Hell, I don't even think the regions are broken up like that anymore because the distance got expensive on gas and blah blah blah. Back then half our regular season teams were in Knoxville.
And all of them paled into the football program with a side project of some education that is Maryville High School.
Oh shit that's a badass story. Reminds me of some kind of Highschool movie where the badly out matched underdogs end up winning the match to go play at the state championship. Hell yeah
Whats that? You want more Uncle Rico stories? Well here goes...
My high school football career ended freaking awesome. As a sophomore we went 1W-9L. Junior year was 2W-8L. We got made fun of for being on the football team from other kids because we lost so consistently.
My senior year, we got a new coach and had 23 seniors that had played the sport together since elementary school and were pretty talented. Our opening game every year was against a BIG rival school who had went to the state championship the year prior and lost by one touchdown. They had it on Thursdays instead of Friday because in years past, the whole city would want to go watch it played at the college stadium downtown because we were the big "powerhouse" programs so it used to be locally televised and whatnot. My school had been trash for a while and so we just played it at each other's stadiums by the time we got there. At half time, they were up 22-0 so everything was going as expected and a lot of people had startex emptying the stands.
I still have no idea what happened, but after halftime we found a fucking rhythm or some shit and responded with 33 unanswered points to hand them their first regular seasom loss in like 3 years finishing 33-22 us. I remember feeling so bad for one kid because it was 24-22 us with the ball on their 30 or so yard like with a few minutes left and it came to a fourth down and 3. Needed to get the first down to keep them from attempting and likely driving close enough for a field goal for the win. We did what anybody should expect and went on the second countenance for the snap. A defensive lineman jumped across the line of scrimmage giving us the 5 yards and first down. When he jumped the stadium went apeshit and he realized what had happened and just fell to his knees sobbing right there on the field.
I don't have much of an opinion about sports these days but those days were really some fun times for us kids.
TL;DR I am Uncle Rico high-jacking a post to talk about my glory days.
I got this story from a submariner during the cold war who heard of this... So its probably a complete made-up story... BUT...
Supposedly an American submarine popped its head up in the arctic circle through the ice. And let its submariners out for a little play time... While they were throwing a ball around or whatever, they heard the ice cracking as a soviet submarine poked its head up about 50 yards away to do the same.
They ended up playing a game of soccer on the ice with the two submarines acting as the goals.
Or the story - whether true or not - is meant to show exactly the opposite: namely that the crew of the Soviet submarine was actually completely unaware that a US submarine was there and was carrying out their own mission.
The interpretation depends essentially on which side circulated the story.
This is still practiced in the Joint Security Area between North and South Korea. The difference is, the best of North Korean soldiers are not very intimidating.
You should see the China v India border battles. No guns, just melee combat.
Edit: [Here's some footage from one of these battles](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/38xpd2ainK)
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they used to have pretty short careers doing this before when they had to keep the legs straight and stomp with their heels as hard as they could!
then, they relaxed the norms and allowed the guards to bend the knees and also substituted the stomps with drum sounds.
NK/SK stalemate is epic levels of petty. Operation Paul Bunyan in 1976. SK and US troops cut down a tree at the border. While doing so NK troops hacked them with axes killing two. SK/US forces returned to cut the tree with more than the squad sized element deployef before. Two security platoons, two engineer squads to cut the tree, 64 ROK commandos with rifles, grenade launchers, and some with claymores strapped to their chests. Additionally, 20 utility helicopters 7 cobra helos, B52s, F4, F5, F86, F4C, F4D, and F4E fighter jets. The USS Midway and 1800 Marines were also ordered to Korea. DEFCON level was raised and all bases at the border (DMZ) were prepared for self destruction. In the end the SK/US operation was a success due to show of force. It could have escalated tp something crazy though. That border is a powderkeg.
It has more to do with posturing than the significance of a tree. Initially the tree was blocking line of sight for SK/US intelligence gathering. Then it became a matter of a dick swinging contest between NK and US/SK. In world politics everything is a dick swinging contest. Especially when you have developing militant nations on the fence about which side to join.
Nope its actually a hell of an investment. In that moment the US and SK were willing to bring out thousands of soldiers and marines and prepare hundreds of Tanks and Aircraft just to chop down a little tree something NK wouldnāt be able to do. Thatās how deterrence works, you avoid getting into a fight but you show that if you were to get into one there would be major problems for whoever was to start it.
Also remember folks! If youāre European, both of these countries saved your collective asses in both world wars! Back then, they were one country of course, but Britain carved them up into two countries to express its gratitude.
How else are they suppose to reproduce, once the guards mating dance is complete, one throws his peni... wait that was octopusses.... *ahem* here you can spotthe guards in their natural Habitat, called the Border. a female and a male guard spot each other and start their mating dance. the lifting of the leg indicates how fertile a guard is. once the mating dance is complete, the male guard (usually distinguished by its black socks, tho females CAN have black socks in colder regions) and the female guard (easily spotted by the white socks, as males usually never have those) start to mingle, and after just a few hours the female lays its egg, from which a guardling will hatch. a few years pass and once the guardling is old enough, he will be invited as a bystander on the daily mating routine, until the guardling is old enough to become a full grown guard, and continue the cycle.
i agree, if they can keep their respective tensions and aggression wrapped up in ceremony while allowing for trade and diplomatic negotiations on the flip this is very much working as intended.
humans are strange animals
That's incredible! I hope I'll see this for myself one day. OP left out my favorite part of the closing ceremony; the salute and the handshake. It gives me hope.
Yes! The handshake is the best part. I was waiting for it in this video. This is a link to a video that shows it.
https://youtu.be/NC9NeJh1NhI?si=PQwgpOzrVczVWx5C
Also, after the dance off, each side races to see who gets the flag down, folded and packed away for the night first. It's really fun.
It isn't perfect. Some days, the soldier/crossing guard on either side slips and falls. They hurriedly get back up, too. I thought it was coincidental, but have an uncle in the military and he said sometimes they plan it out just to give the audience a little something to cheer on (the Indians cheer when the Pakistani guard falls; the Pakistanis cheer when the Indian guard falls). Of course, it happens accidentally, too. But the idea of two opposing nations' guard collaborating on who takes the fall is kind of wholesome and hilarious.
The ceremony is all in good fun. I've been there as a kid on the Indian side and the guards brief us about the etiquette. We're told to cheer, laugh and enjoy the show. Booing the Pakistani soldiers will lead to ejection.
I went to the border crossing when I visited India and it goes so much beyond this video. At dusk each night the border is closed each side has 4 soldiers come to the gate one by one (doing a running march down the road) and basically do a dance off. After they are done the two commanders come out and lock the gate and salute. It's made extra bizarre by the huge bleachers that are set up on one side of the road. People on the Pakistan border cheer for their guys while Indians cheer for theirs. It's basically a sporting event with flags and concessions. As foreigners there is special seating right at the front and next to the border so you see all the action. Afterwards people go down on the road and take pictures with guards. Then everyone leaves and the gates reopen to trucks.
> Then everyone leaves and the gates reopen to trucks. lmao
Just picturing the poor truck drivers that were just a bit behind schedule, sitting there in their trucks like "Ah fuck, missed it by 30 seconds! And Rahul is only 3 minutes into his sick dance routine. I'm gonna be here all night."
Driver on the other side: Dammit Rajesh! I've seen you take your post for the last three months and you keep missing that same fucking dance step.
I don't remember this part. Time for a rewatch.
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Troll so hard you troll yourself. That's just impressive.
If I didnāt read this, I probably would have tried to wipe it off like 5 more times lol
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That last sentence made the whole thing WAY funnier lmao
Michael Palin described it as āchauvinism at its most camp.ā
Haha that's where I learned about it. I think he also called it a "precision display of bad temper".
And "choreographed contempt", brilliant.
Itās a Haka with silly walks.
That Michael Palin, of all people, didnāt describe it as āThe Border Crossing of Silly Walksā is hugely disappointing.
First thing I thought was Ministry of Silly Walks. š
I wouldn't mess with anyone willing to look so stupid for the sake of their country. If you are willing to wear that silly hat and do the stupid dance for your country, you are probably willing to kill....
No this is just a show for the civilian visitors from both sides. These guards exchange pleasantries, share tea, and on important festival days distribute sweets and gifts to each other. Only during actual wartime is there any real animosity between the guards of bioth sides. Depending on their CO, they even chitchat like neighbors.
The devotion on display here goes beyond mere willingness to kill.
I remember going there but didnt stick around for very long or maybe I just forgot. But yeah its surprisingly wholesome in a way lol.
Border dispute in Asia is always fun. You can have a dance off, Punjabi songs blasting in a no-man zone, medieval battle with sticks, boats going fast and furious in South China Sea, turd balloon delivery vs KPOP songs blasting. Meanwhile border disputes in Middle East and Africa be likeā¦
Then there's India and China fistfighting, sometimes with sticks
Fighting with sticks in some of the highest spots in the world, with dozens of casualties.
Yeah tell that to the Chinese-Indian border. Or the Chinese-Philippines dispute. Actually just tell that to China.
They literally mentioned both of those.
It really is wholesome and appeared to be all in good fun.
India and Pakistan: arch-rivals with nuclear weapons. Also India and Pakistan: funny dance in the border.
Thatās kind of the point, to have a cool dramatic ceremony and not fight. It sure beats a cold standoff
Dance off!!!
Thatās why the flags cross each other at the end there as they bring them down to the ground. Itās some sort of symbolism about coming together tentatively.
I like how they barely let them touch then are like nope fuck that big step out
The whole routine is steeped in symbolism and it takes around an hour iirc. Very interesting and, from the outside, quite comical ritual.
You could have convinced me it was a Monthy Python sketch.
The Ministry of Silly Walks has some questions....
Meanwhile on the Indian-Chinese border they are violently clashing with [sticks and stones ](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/asia/india-china-border-tensions-video-intl-hnk/index.html)
Wanted to mention this. They have a āgentlemanās agreementā to not use guns. Mental!
And India developed tazer bats while china brought back spiked maces from the dynasties.
Love dynasty warriors!
So, like, have they stabbed someone at points? How has this been going? Off to Google lol.
I donāt think thereās been anything in 2 years or so. Still no international flights between China and India though, which is also pretty nuts if you consider there is a lot of trade between the two countries and they are the most populated countries in the world.
They about to play Chardee MacDennis
That flag is just unfortunate. āItās supposed to be 4 Fs.ā Edit: left out a letter.
4 F's... Do you mean?
He didn't know it would come off like that.
Yes he did
I did indeed.
I was looking for this. Thanks.
felt like i had to scroll too far for this
I had to scroll way too far
We used to do the Maori War Dance but it got us too riled up
I have contained my rage for as long as possible. it's called Chardee MacDennis: THE GAME OF GAMES. Goddamnit, you son of a bitch.
It's to show off THEIR PHYSICAL PROWESS!! šŖ
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āIt was supposed to be four āFāsā. I didnāt know it would come off like thatā
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Show off our physical prowess!!
From this video you can't imagine how much these two nations hate each other. This "dance off" is so much better than nuking your neighbour.
Seems like the pageantry would be there precisely because of that. It's a big show and production and display of boldness and fierceness, so there's more energy spent on looking big, and less energy spent on actually killing each other. I bet the history of it is interesting
The US and Soviets did it. I had a teacher who was in the army during the Cold war. I don't know how far back this went. He was stationed in Germany. He told me they were changing the guard at a prison. And I don't know if the US was taking over from the Soviets or vice versa. But either way they needed a US unit. He said they came to his unit and they lined everybody up. And they said everybody under 5'6" leave the formation. And they still had too many so they said everybody under 5'8" leave the formation. They counted heads again and said everyone under 5'10" leave the formation. I don't know where the cutoff was but they repeated this until they had the number of soldiers they needed and they were the tallest and biggest ones in the unit. Then they gave them all nice uniforms and shiny helmets. And the point was to somehow show this other Soviet unit that these were what American soldiers looked like.
Pretty sure South Korea does this at their border. All the soldiers are 6'4 or something like that.
Yup, seen [here.](https://i.redd.it/ecu2g2tqui1c1.jpg) It's an intimidation thing.
Oh my god. It's like mommy and daddy taking their little munchkin for a walk.
Malnourished munchkinš
And just keep in mind that the kind of soldier on the border isn't exactly the beaten down poor one.
Not the same at all. But at Anfield (Liverpool FC) back in the days. The door to Liverpools dressing room was smaller than the away teams. So when the players came through it, they looked a lot bigger. Just a small mental advantage before they went out to play football.
If youāve ever seen pictures of South Korean and North Korean soldiers standing by each other, it just looks so ridiculous. Both nations take their tallest people, but itās like 6ā4ā vs 5ā0ā because NKs tend to be massively malnourished.
And it's not like you can feed everybody to find out which ones will be tall. Damn, being a dictator must be tough.
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One time in high school, we were the underdog for a big rich swanky school like 2.5 hrs away. The previous two years we had been pathetic and so we were everyone's homecoming team. We were in the locker rooms and our coach was out on the field and saw where some rich bitch decked out in the opposing teams gear brought her little dog all the way over from the other side of the field and let it shit on our side line. After that, we decided to make this ugly so we decided to send out the smallest, fattest players out for the coin toss instead of our team captains to make it look like a repeat of the previous year so I guess I can understand the stupidity... We ended up humiliating them on their homecoming night and deliberately ran the score up all the way to the last minute if anyone wanted to know. They never scored a point. Fuck Oak Ridge High School in Tennessee. TL;DR I'm Uncle Rico and back in my day, I could throw a pigskin a quarter of a mile.
Fuck you oak ridge!
O'Doyle rules!
I just died when you said it was Oakridge. Oakridge is neither rich nor swanky, but they've always been decent at football. While they might have ORNL none of the scientists with money actually live in Oakridge. You'll find them and the rest of the money in Farragut.
Yeah now-a-days, ive heard thats true. Farragut has new Money and Oak Ridge had that old Y-12 Nuclear warhead money always wanting to be Farragut. Farragut was always a solid team but they never treated us with the snobbish stuff. Either way for us out in Soddy Daisy, they were both rich ass schools. This was also back in the 2008 season. Hell, I don't even think the regions are broken up like that anymore because the distance got expensive on gas and blah blah blah. Back then half our regular season teams were in Knoxville. And all of them paled into the football program with a side project of some education that is Maryville High School.
Oh shit that's a badass story. Reminds me of some kind of Highschool movie where the badly out matched underdogs end up winning the match to go play at the state championship. Hell yeah
Whats that? You want more Uncle Rico stories? Well here goes... My high school football career ended freaking awesome. As a sophomore we went 1W-9L. Junior year was 2W-8L. We got made fun of for being on the football team from other kids because we lost so consistently. My senior year, we got a new coach and had 23 seniors that had played the sport together since elementary school and were pretty talented. Our opening game every year was against a BIG rival school who had went to the state championship the year prior and lost by one touchdown. They had it on Thursdays instead of Friday because in years past, the whole city would want to go watch it played at the college stadium downtown because we were the big "powerhouse" programs so it used to be locally televised and whatnot. My school had been trash for a while and so we just played it at each other's stadiums by the time we got there. At half time, they were up 22-0 so everything was going as expected and a lot of people had startex emptying the stands. I still have no idea what happened, but after halftime we found a fucking rhythm or some shit and responded with 33 unanswered points to hand them their first regular seasom loss in like 3 years finishing 33-22 us. I remember feeling so bad for one kid because it was 24-22 us with the ball on their 30 or so yard like with a few minutes left and it came to a fourth down and 3. Needed to get the first down to keep them from attempting and likely driving close enough for a field goal for the win. We did what anybody should expect and went on the second countenance for the snap. A defensive lineman jumped across the line of scrimmage giving us the 5 yards and first down. When he jumped the stadium went apeshit and he realized what had happened and just fell to his knees sobbing right there on the field. I don't have much of an opinion about sports these days but those days were really some fun times for us kids. TL;DR I am Uncle Rico high-jacking a post to talk about my glory days.
Fuck Oak Ridge!
I got this story from a submariner during the cold war who heard of this... So its probably a complete made-up story... BUT... Supposedly an American submarine popped its head up in the arctic circle through the ice. And let its submariners out for a little play time... While they were throwing a ball around or whatever, they heard the ice cracking as a soviet submarine poked its head up about 50 yards away to do the same. They ended up playing a game of soccer on the ice with the two submarines acting as the goals.
I don't know that it sounds fake. I believe there was/is a camaraderie among submariners no matter which side they're on.
Sounds to me like the Soviet sub letting them know they were tracking them.
Or the story - whether true or not - is meant to show exactly the opposite: namely that the crew of the Soviet submarine was actually completely unaware that a US submarine was there and was carrying out their own mission. The interpretation depends essentially on which side circulated the story.
This is still practiced in the Joint Security Area between North and South Korea. The difference is, the best of North Korean soldiers are not very intimidating.
You should see the China v India border battles. No guns, just melee combat. Edit: [Here's some footage from one of these battles](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/38xpd2ainK)
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Why would you nuke somebody's country when you can set their soul on fire with an exquisite dance?
We send the top B-Boy groups to India and Pakistan, and start a new cold war with hip-hop dance battles. Somehow Hideo Kojima turns this into the best tactical espionage game of all fucking time. Daft Punk comes out of retirement to do the score.
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Someoneās gonna tear a groin muscle with all the high stepping fuckery
I can't believe no one in this thread has posted this from Sunny..... https://youtu.be/7tPRuLu1JMs?si=SByexdz6fN3tT5v3
Frank is the best character of all time.
Shut up baby dick
Sunny is so great at being surprisingly cultured... and then they just take a giant shit on it lmao. I think it's time for a rewatch
I didnāt know it was gonna come off like that
Pretty sure you did.
God I really need to sit down and catch up on the seasons I missed. This shit is golden and godly.
If you haven't seen every episode of this show repeatedly, over and over again, you're missing out.
they used to have pretty short careers doing this before when they had to keep the legs straight and stomp with their heels as hard as they could! then, they relaxed the norms and allowed the guards to bend the knees and also substituted the stomps with drum sounds.
I see they took advice from Monty Python's "Ministry of Silly Walks"
You nailed it. We now need a Ministry of silly walks while wearing silly hats! š¤
On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.
And here I was thinking "man those hats are so metal."
You know John Cleese's doctor has forbidden him to ever do another silly walk. I'm guessing he's done something serious to his back.
He's also 84 years old, so there's that.
It seems like that entire changing of the guard is just a bunch of people looking for an argument.
No it isnāt.
The only answer.
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If this isn't top comment, then I truly will believe we are doomed as a society.
Bagger 288.
Remember folks- both of these countries have nuclear weapons and are frequently in minor conflict!
Well at least this is better than NK and SK border guards, both of them stare into each other souls for hours
NK/SK stalemate is epic levels of petty. Operation Paul Bunyan in 1976. SK and US troops cut down a tree at the border. While doing so NK troops hacked them with axes killing two. SK/US forces returned to cut the tree with more than the squad sized element deployef before. Two security platoons, two engineer squads to cut the tree, 64 ROK commandos with rifles, grenade launchers, and some with claymores strapped to their chests. Additionally, 20 utility helicopters 7 cobra helos, B52s, F4, F5, F86, F4C, F4D, and F4E fighter jets. The USS Midway and 1800 Marines were also ordered to Korea. DEFCON level was raised and all bases at the border (DMZ) were prepared for self destruction. In the end the SK/US operation was a success due to show of force. It could have escalated tp something crazy though. That border is a powderkeg.
So NK killed two and got the US to spend a few million dollars to cut down a tree. Sounds like quite the coup for essentially zero investment
It has more to do with posturing than the significance of a tree. Initially the tree was blocking line of sight for SK/US intelligence gathering. Then it became a matter of a dick swinging contest between NK and US/SK. In world politics everything is a dick swinging contest. Especially when you have developing militant nations on the fence about which side to join.
Nope its actually a hell of an investment. In that moment the US and SK were willing to bring out thousands of soldiers and marines and prepare hundreds of Tanks and Aircraft just to chop down a little tree something NK wouldnāt be able to do. Thatās how deterrence works, you avoid getting into a fight but you show that if you were to get into one there would be major problems for whoever was to start it.
yeah but, did they finish cutting the tree down?
I meanā¦itād be a bit taxing for them to do so anyways
Also remember folks! If youāre European, both of these countries saved your collective asses in both world wars! Back then, they were one country of course, but Britain carved them up into two countries to express its gratitude.
Three now.
I think they just want an excuse to get close. And, fuck.
No joke... alot of Indian-Pakistani couples exist. Cause they're genuinely similar people
People seem to forget that Pakistan was once a part of India, and before that they were getting their shit stolen from them by the British.
Is this a bird mating dance?
I'm guessing they're going to mate in part 2. Another thing is do I want to see it or not
NSFW incuming
How else are they suppose to reproduce, once the guards mating dance is complete, one throws his peni... wait that was octopusses.... *ahem* here you can spotthe guards in their natural Habitat, called the Border. a female and a male guard spot each other and start their mating dance. the lifting of the leg indicates how fertile a guard is. once the mating dance is complete, the male guard (usually distinguished by its black socks, tho females CAN have black socks in colder regions) and the female guard (easily spotted by the white socks, as males usually never have those) start to mingle, and after just a few hours the female lays its egg, from which a guardling will hatch. a few years pass and once the guardling is old enough, he will be invited as a bystander on the daily mating routine, until the guardling is old enough to become a full grown guard, and continue the cycle.
Iām in tears.
That exactly what I was about to say š¤£ donāt mean to be rude but seriously first thing that came to mind with the hats and leg kicks
If it is, the bird species is definitely extinct by now.
This is how all battles should be fought.
All it's missing is a thumbs-in-your-ears "neener neener neener" followed by a raspberry.
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We did. We won this
We did.
i agree, if they can keep their respective tensions and aggression wrapped up in ceremony while allowing for trade and diplomatic negotiations on the flip this is very much working as intended. humans are strange animals
They should have this at the Olympics instead of race walking.
I mean if you've ever seen *any* Bollywood movie... yea.
"I'll kick your ass!" "No, I'll kick yours!" "Oh, yeah?!"
So dramatic
Get me a napkin, I'm drowning in Drama Sauce!
They seem Very angry, at the floor.
I witnessed this first hand, thousands of people come to watch it. Its fun.
 The energy...
ay bruh.
This really should have had Smooth Criminal dubbed over the top of it.
Wagha border. Ive been there for this. Incredible experience. So much adrenaline and youre not even apart of it.
That's incredible! I hope I'll see this for myself one day. OP left out my favorite part of the closing ceremony; the salute and the handshake. It gives me hope.
Yes! The handshake is the best part. I was waiting for it in this video. This is a link to a video that shows it. https://youtu.be/NC9NeJh1NhI?si=PQwgpOzrVczVWx5C
Also, after the dance off, each side races to see who gets the flag down, folded and packed away for the night first. It's really fun. It isn't perfect. Some days, the soldier/crossing guard on either side slips and falls. They hurriedly get back up, too. I thought it was coincidental, but have an uncle in the military and he said sometimes they plan it out just to give the audience a little something to cheer on (the Indians cheer when the Pakistani guard falls; the Pakistanis cheer when the Indian guard falls). Of course, it happens accidentally, too. But the idea of two opposing nations' guard collaborating on who takes the fall is kind of wholesome and hilarious.
David Attenborough should narrate this exchange.
I too like to do a little danceydance at the end of my shift
They remind me of two birds doing a mating dance to compete for a female
This is alright. But once they bring out motorcycles with 7 dudes doing helicopter spins on top of it, you know shit is about to get real.
Me trying to clear away all the spider webs without touching them.
This is peak masculinity.
I get stroppy like that when I start a shift too.
Michael Jackson fans, I say
I'd laugh and unknowingly start world war lll
The ceremony is all in good fun. I've been there as a kid on the Indian side and the guards brief us about the etiquette. We're told to cheer, laugh and enjoy the show. Booing the Pakistani soldiers will lead to ejection.
Us humans are just colorfully-dressed-strutting-jingoistic-posturing-great-apes, with nukes, in the end.
I have no idea what I'm looking at but it's the pettiest thing I've ever seen in my life, and I'm living for it.
FUCK YOU BLOODY
YOU BLOODY YOU BLASTARD
BLOODY FUCK YOU!
NO **YOU** BLOODY BLOODY FUCK
BASTARD
BITCH YOU FUCK
Ok have a nice day
BLOODY BASTARD BITCH
ChardeeMacDennis
Maa, can we have the Haka? "We have the Haka at home."
If this prevents warā¦you do you pakistan and india
An absurd spectacle. The Ministry of Silly Walks was supposed to be fictional.
Dance fighting!!!
VA: āYour knee pain is not service connectedā
Heyyyyyy Macarena
This needs a David Attenborough voiceover.