StrikerLPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand
happilybitchycowboyWhy not? I got Vete a la Mierda tattooed on my arm when I was young and still learning Spanish. Occasionally, I’ve had the great opportunity to pull my sleeve up.
eatham 🇦🇺What does that mean
PregnenoloneIt means “Fuck You”
“Fuck off”
Literally “Go to the shit”
whoisearthI mean we can probably all visualize the person who had that tattoo and “foreign pervert” probably fits them perfectly.
straightens fedora; leans on sheathed katana like a cane, from underneath a long trenchcoat
AKSHUALLY…
How about ‘never get a tattoo’.
Full stop.
I will likely never get a tattoo. But I know there are lots of reasons to get tattoos, and it seems to me that the vast majority of people not only don’t regret but feel good about the tattoos they get. So I dunno, sleep on it, but go ahead and get a tattoo if you really want.
I’ve only got one on my inner wrist but it makes me so happy when I see it.
Why? Are you allergic to fun or something?
It’s so weird, for over 30 years it didn’t make sense to me, until all of a sudden I knew what I wanted and it just clicked? One thigh and calf piece later and I’m addicted. I get nothing but compliments during shorts season and the Leo in me lives for that shit.
Yeah tattoos are the shit! They make these meat bags we’re all trapped in more bearable. My tattoos are my favorite part about me
It does feel nice to embrace your body, and like, make it more “your own”. It’s kinda like expressing your autonomy over it.
CoderKatSame, first 20 years of my life I disliked the idea of tattoos and thought I’d never, ever get any. Turns out all that was just society pushing puritan ideas on me and I just had to get over that.
If you live in Japan you might want to avoid tattoos unless you want to be banned from all water parks and most hotsprings.
This is one of the few situations where I can say good thing I’m American lol
Yep. My tattoos have no meanings to anyone but myself, and there’s no way that my 6’3" 220lb white ass would ever be confused for a Japanese person. I don’t need to “say” a damn thing. They can tell I’m ガイジン.
I still remember my first trip to Asia and being noticed everywhere. Was telling a friend of mine later “oh that must be how minorities and attractive women feel all the time but still kinda better”. There is just no way to blend in if you are a white-arab dude in a city that is +99% a specific east Asian ethnic group. I tried dressing like a local, I put on my blank New Yorker facial expression, didn’t speak much, but nothing worked. Everyone was doing doubletakes and kids/old people were openly looking.
ZoidsbergFor real? Whats the reasoning?
konodasTatoos are associated with criminals, particularly the yakuza, afaik.
I’m almost tempted to get full body art of the Jojo rumble kana to see if one of the guards starts up, “oh? You’re approaching me? You’re coming right to my admittance stand?”
That’s a very odd thing to get tattooed…I love it! heads straight to the local tattoo shop
You do you. I have none myself and am unlikely to ever get one. But I’m pro-choice on it. For adults. Kids should stick with ruining their hair, because it’s a non-permanent way to experience regret. Could probably lead to better choices about tattoos later. Piercings, too.
My personal rule is that I can get any tattoo that I want, provided I still want to get it a decade later.
I have never gotten a tat because I am too afraid of regrets. I admire a good ink job and whenever I see someone with a fresh one I will talk to them about it. But like you it isn’t a thing I would want.
Also agree about hair and clothes. Unless it is totally inappropriate for weather or the situation (yes kids you are dressing up for the wedding we were invited to) I let my kids work it out for themselves. My parents were strict about clothing and I won’t put my children through that.
永远不要纹身。
snippyfulcrumI think this is very much an ‘each to their own’ thing.
I have a Loth Cat from Star Wars on my arm I got at Star Wars Celebration 2019 and so I get warm fuzziness and memories of that time when I see it there. It was a fun experience I got to have with my family… and a very cute little critter too.
Admittedly I’ve been asked many times if it was a Pokémon LOL
Lol all of the mid 20’s to mid 30’s hipster chicks with arm sleeves are down voting you.
I have a couple of tats I got with my squad in Iraq when I was in the Army. Explaining those tats to those same younger hipster gals never seems to go over well.
DojanThis is my favourite. 痔 means haemorrhoid. Presumably it was meant to say 侍, samurai.
insomniacWhy works you presume that? Maybe they’re suffering and trying to raise awareness.
Maybe he’s a 痔 侍, haemorrhoid samurai, bringing awareness and defending those with inflamed bottoms
SinkingLotusThis sounds like a plot straight from Gintama.
…It really does. Especially with the amount of word play (Kanji play in this case? Not sure if it’s a ‘they just look similar written down’ thing or actually a verbal play too. I won’t pretend to know the word for hemorrhoids in Japanese LMAO)
Man, I miss Gintama.
Season 2: Ronin prolapsus
Because their radicals are really similar.
randintmmmm sweet sweet 痔
“The Way of the Samurai lies in devoting one’s body and soul to one’s anus.” -Hagakure
Samurrhoid
Hentai Gaijin
Foreign Transformer?
Franky is that you‽
Where I live, we get a number of used vehicles imported from Japan, and for a while it was trendy to have English slogans on vehicles.
They frequently made little sense, I imagine our ones look the same to them.
You wouldn’t happen to remember any would you? For some reason I love those “Why is a mouse when it spins? The higher the fewer.” type things.
grasshopper_mouseI have just the site for you:
I was having difficulty understanding my Chinese boss one day, and after the third time I asked in total confusion, “What?” He looked at me and asked, “Why you not understand me, am I no speaking English?” I cracked us both up with my reply of, “No, you’re clearly speaking Chinglish!”
Her: I am struggling with two words.
Me: Ok.
Her: Fuck and fuck.
Me: umm
Her: the first one is like a thing for eating a meal.
Me: Oh! Ok “fork” is what you eat with and “fuck” is what you do in private or yell when something goes wrong.
Her: Say it again.
(Multiple minutes later of me saying fork and fuck)
Her: So I eat with a for-K and f-U-ck in private.
Me: You got it, now go and fork yourself.
(Me getting hit with a pillow multiple times while laughing)
LucyLasticI have this sort of thing all the time here in Spain, though with shit/sheet.
There’s plenty going the other way too, of course. At least I don’t mistake miedo and mierda these days …
One time I misremembered my Japanese teacher’s mnemonic and wrote that my grandpa was married to noodles.
harkSofu (祖父) is grandpa. Sobo (祖母) is grandma, which is even closer to soba.
Damn, I still cannot get that mnemonic right
I’m well aware, but thank you.
I need more. MORE!
I’m trying to remember some of them, or find a photo. I can’t remember what model of vehicle they were though.
Not OP but the Toyota MR2 had the following text on the rear window on some units:
Mature sporty personal
More innovation more adult
A man in dandism
Powered midship specialty
Lol those are great, thank you.
darq日本語土手
I know the first 3 Kanji mean “Japanese” (as in the language) then you lost me with the Kanji for what I think are “dirt hand”.
Admittedly I know VERY little Japanese
To be fair, those kind of mean the same thing
And honestly a pretty hillarious phrase to tattoo when some white foreigner rolls up asking for a “Lover of Asian Beauty” tattoo.
A friend of mine wanted a tattoo in french, she speaks it but not fluently, I found a quote for her that she loved, she transcribed it to paper to bring it to the tattoo artist… I think she transcribed it from memory because she made a mistake in the text and I never had the heart to tell her… And it’s a very long quote in a straight line on her vertebral column, so it’s not easy to hide if she wears something more revealing…
Flying SquidThere’s a great website documenting this. I’m surprised no one has linked to it.
Example:
Ariana Grande’s new tattoo, 七輪.
She wanted it to promote and celebrate her latest single, 7 Rings.
Instead it is referencing to a type of Japanese charcoal cooking grill.