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I was reading this and it didn't make sense to me. This pirate wanted a drink,
but the store was sold out. So one of the guys offered to give him an unopened
bottle, but it only made the pirate mad. Maybe it's because I don't understand
enough Japanese or Japanese culture, but it seems that he was insulted. Did
the guy who offered him a drink not have good manners?

Why did the pirate say ナメたマネ?

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Why did this pirate get angry when he was given a bottle?
I'm not sure if there are other contributing factors but just in the first two
panels these are present:

  * **おれ** 達

  * 尽くし **ちまった** (Contracted ~てしまう)

  * **すまん** (Very short version of すみません）

  * よかったら **やる** よ 

I think those in bold may be rude.
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The pirate is basically saying "Don't fuck with me".

> ナメたマネするんじゃねェ

Here `ナメたマネ` is the kana form of `舐めた真似`. `舐める` is slang for "take lightly";
`真似` is a way of acting, and conveys a hard-to-translate contempt. So, more-
or-less literally, the pirate is saying:

> You are not to do the looking-down behavior

As for the scene, he's angry for the internationally comprehensible reason
that someone drank all the booze and is now cracking jokes at him.
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Isn't the answer in the text that follows?

> ビン一本じゃ寝酒にもなりゃしねェぜ

He's insulted by the fact that the guy thinks he can be placated with a single
bottle after they drunk all the rest of the sake.
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Let's imagine that somebody went to a bar (asking for three barrels of wine*),
seeing everyone in the bar drinking, but the owner told him there's no wine
left. And now, someone (drinking in the bar) says: we've drunk all the wine
here, oh, there's one bottle left, do you like to have it?

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*This is the content of previous pages. 

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Well, the words used are not in the normal polite form, but I cannot say
that's too rude. He just used the way to speak to some friend.

The one who came to ask for wine is someone considering himself "boss" of the
area, and anything not working in his way is an insult to him. (He is one of
the "bad" characters who are deliberately written as such.)

Finally, you must really be very careful in using mangas to understand
Japanese culture. Most of the mangas are not about the everyday life in Japan,
and a lot of them are in some imaginary world. Usually, what the characters
(either "good" or "bad" characters) do would not reflect how a normal Japanese
person would act in such situation.
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