I knew a guy who had "bad to the bone" written on his neck in Chinese. The problem is, the phrase doesn't translate at all.
So, his tattoo read as "my bones are bad"
Tbf, he was a clown and had something like that coming.
I knew a guy who had "bad to the bone" written on his neck in Chinese. The problem is, the phrase doesn't translate at all.
So, his tattoo read as "my bones are bad"
Tbf, he was a clown and had something like that coming.
Mine is similar. On my forearm,not my neck (yuck). It's supposed to be "blood and guts". Literal translation equals something about "inside organs".
I'm okay with that. If you actually discuss the meaning of works out fine.
I got that tattoo because I actually work with "blood and guts" as a Paramedic.
Not his fault, that's just a mean or ignorant tatooist. Why wouldn't they just do a literal word for word translation if there's no equivalent phrase in Chinese?
Like if the phrase "great to the neck" has some special meaning in Chinese but not English, you can still write the english words "great to the neck" on someone's skin.
Unfortunately, I can't read the language it was written in and I can only go with the people we knew and met who could.
I was thinking of getting 何か日本語で "nanika nihongo de" and if someone would ask me what it meant I’d say "something in Japanese"
well, I'll bite. What's it mean?
Something in Japanese
Alright, I'll bite. What's it mean?
Yeah, but what exactly?
No, What's on second
Then who's on first?
Yes.
I know someone who has something tattooed on him: in Thai.
As in, it's a phrase which says 'in Thai' in Thai. So when people ask him, what is that? He says 'it's in Thai'. They say yes, but what is it? 'It's 'in Thai''. Yes, but...
You get the idea.
Some guy came up to me when I first joined the military and told me "hey I got your name tattooed on my ass. Don't believe me?"
Sure enough there was "YOUR NAME" tattooed on his ass check. I'm pretty sure he just liked showing people his ass.
Was it a nice ass at least?
It has to be if your name is on it
Because your name is such dogshit that it makes everything around it nicer by comparison
It wasn't plump, like how I prefer but I could see why some people would think his ass was nice. Being fit and young and all that.
This is like setting your guest WiFi password to "It's on the wall over there."
I knew a barista that set the wifi pass to "ten bucks".
I have a tattoo that means "I don't know, I don't speak japanese." It works when an English speaker asks me what it means, and it also worked with the Japanese when I lived in Japan and didn't speak the language.
My sister's first year in college she got the Chinese word for LOVE tattooed. Later she found out it was the correct symbol, only mirrored. I called her EVOL for a while
That's the kind of stupid I like.
Ehm... isn't "日本" = "Japan" both in chinese and japanese?
Thats what google translate is telling me anyway
Yes.
That's actually hilarious.
I remember seeing a FB post ages ago, of some dude saying that he went to Japan to tattoo "God is faithful" in Japanese because he didn't trust local tattooists to write it right. The post was a photo of the tattoo on the dude's arm.
Someone pointed that it said something along the lines of "idiot stranger".
Mr "I went to Japan" complained that was impossible, because he went to Japan.
The other person posted a screenshot of the kanji on google translate and lo, "idiot stranger"
Even the premise: why would you want a Christian message in Japanese?
Some guesses: it looks cool, it makes people curious to ask "what's that supposed to mean?", the dude was a christian otaku
Not the first time I've Lemmied this story, and it's not a tattoo it's a motorcycle decal. Kid turns up on a Kawasaki forum to show off his Ninja's paint scheme, and on the front cowling are five kanji figures, the first and the third were identical. Someone asked "Why does your bike say 'pig dog pig bird horse?'" He says "Nah man, it says N-I-N-J-A. That's how you spell 'Ninja' in Japanese."
Hentai Gaijin
Also reminds me of this story of a guy who wanted to have his name tattooed in Japanese. His name is Gary. And in Japanese it’s written in Katakana like this ゲリ but Gary didn’t think that looked cool and wanted to have it written in Kanji. So the artist gave him a tattoo of 下痢 which is pronounced as geri. Which actually means diarrhea.
Not sure if it’s true but would be funny as hell if it was.
Should've been ゲーリー, not ゲリ. No wonder people got confused.
Geri is my favourite Indonesian crackers, but not so much the chocolate ones...
This would be perfect for me and my IBS-D
In high school there was a Chinese girl who hung out with us. We were at at an arcade after school one day, and this guy comes up to her. She's 16. He's 40. He says something like "Hey baby, check this out!"
He takes off his shirt to reveal a not at all impressive body. But his chest had something tattood on it in Chinese.
She goes wide eyed, and runs off. When we caught up to her (obviously without the guy) she's having trouble breathing, because she's giggling so hard. Just try to visualize that. It's not a belly laugh, it's a giggle, but she's giggling so hard she's wheezing.
Now she spoke full perfect english, and only had a slight barely noticable accient. But when we asked her what was so funny, she went full stereotype Chinese voice from how amused she was at the tattoo.
"His chest.....it say ASSHOOOOEEEE!!!" (She was saying asshole, but I typed it phonetically how she said it, and with the enthusiasm she said it).
She just burried her face in her hands, and had the biggest giggle fit I've ever seen. She later said "He must have been an asshole to the tattoo artist. He'll never know!"
宫保鸡丁
kung pao chicken.
he thought it was super funny, like he was in on the joke.
Asian beauty makes me think of an ad for makeup. Alternatively, those cool looking mountains from old looking paintings that look like giant ant mounds.
I want "pretty nice and vanilla guy" tattooed on me, and I'll say it means "horrible pervert"
I bestow upon you the title of 凡人 (bonjin), in Japanese means an unremarkably mediocre person. You can tattoo it and tell people it means psychopath instead of course, who's stopping you?
Don't leave out the part about your omniscience
That is actually the same thing.
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