c/die_reklame · by NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org · 168d1943 US Navy recruitment poster 147 points · 29 comments · view on lemmy.world
29 Comments
hOrni@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 168d
Responsibilities include:
-Raising the periscope
-Polishing the torpedoes
-Deep exploration
-Having sex with other men
TheRealShadeSlimmy@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 168d
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 43 pts · 168d
"100 guys go down, 50 couples come back up." - as quoted to me by a career submariner
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 168d
You had me at going down
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 168d
Dang they all paired up? I'd think there'd be a lot more just sleeping around going on in a scenario like that.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 168d
Hey nobody said the couples were exclusive, or that they stay the same for the whole underway.
starik@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 168d
$7M is nothing for a sub. Cheap ass sub, can’t even afford shirts for their sub boys. Pass.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 168d
That's like $140M today. Also, that ad makes it pretty clear that shirtless boys that are subs is the main selling point here.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 168d
Still pretty cheap, good subs go for billions these days.
puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 168d
while i certainly wouldn't turn money down, I'll go for free.
Axiochus@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 168d
This was so unbelievably homoerotic that I had to check. It's real. No edits. 1944. 😸
Source: https://fdr.artifacts.archives.gov/en/objects/20669/learn-to-operate-a-7000000-sub
tetris11@feddit.uk · 18 pts · 168d
Hey, America was made on the backs of young strapping men and women. He just always had a preference for some reason...
grue@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 168d
Can't afford bigotry during total war.
dukemirage@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 168d
They knew
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 168d
No they did't know, because they didn't ask and they didn't tell.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 167d
DADT came from the Clinton era.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 2 pts · 167d
And McCarthyism technically ended in the 50's, but you can still make anachronistic references for humor and comparison.
certified_expert@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 168d
They totally knew
mech@feddit.org · 14 pts · 168d
Imagine how awkward it would be to be the only straight guy on the sub.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org · 12 pts · 168d
Would (the guy, not the submarine)
Gladaed@feddit.org · 7 pts · 168d
Correct choice is both, but you do you.
dmention7@midwest.social · 10 pts · 168d
What's long, hard, and full of seamen?
TomMasz@piefed.social · 9 pts · 168d
Not an expert, but I believe that's a "Come Hither" look.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 168d
Man, I wish I cost $7000000. We gotta stop setting unreasonable standards
binarytobis@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 168d
My dad would always tell me about how many unreasonable people made his life hell in the Navy. Maybe it was because he was too straight and missed all the “team building”.
BigShammy80@feddit.org · 3 pts · 168d
"Beeing trapped inside of a submarine with a 100s peoples farts"
certified_expert@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 168d
What about serving your nation by being the captain of a (current) $800,000 electric bus?
Less gay (lol) and more useful to the country.
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 168d
Bummer =/
certified_expert@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 168d
I know, right? It is a bummer. It's probably due to the lack of steam and close spaces 🥵