This is my favourite. 痔 means haemorrhoid. Presumably it was meant to say 侍, samurai.
“The Way of the Samurai lies in devoting one’s body and soul to one’s anus.” -Hagakure
mmmm sweet sweet 痔
Samurrhoid
Why would 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
I mean we can probably all visualize the person who had that tattoo and “foreign pervert” probably fits them perfectly.
To be fair, those kind of mean the same thing
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.
I 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)
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 really related, but a couple of years ago in my home country, a Western bloke was actually pictured on the internet wearing a shirt that said something like “白人很笨” (white people are stupid).
Some of us buy those ironically though. I had a shirt that said (and I unfortunately cannot put it in kana/Kanji atm) something very close to, in full kana and kanji: “I am a stupid American. I’ll buy anything.”
I knee fully what it meant because the sentence was pretty easy, but I still wanted to travel to Japan wearing it.
Kinda want to get one in english now.
I imagine you were quite first impression popular with the local vendors!
Well I mean it’s not wrong. Everybody’s stupid, it’s just a matter of quantity and context.
There’s a great website documenting this. I’m surprised no one has linked to it.
https://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/
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.
This one is great because those are literally the characters for “7” and “ring” but if you put them next to each other they mean “portable charcoal grill”. Luckily it was an easy fix. An additional character was added and it now reads “7 rings” as intended.
It’s kinda still messed up, even with the additional characters because you read right to left with vertical writing, and technically it should have a つ after the 7.
I have a friend that has Thai writing tattooed on his leg that translates to “I love chicken soup.”
I think when he was drunk he went into a tattoo parlor thinking it was a restaurant.
Thats awesome
I’ve seen a few Sanskrit ones. Nothing drastic in real life, thankfully. I find the Chinese ones much more hilarious.
Had a friend in college legit get ancient Chinese calligraphy. Absolutely beautiful. But my international center buddy told me separately it just meant window. It was supposed to be this heavenly view or some such thing. No. It was window.
Why 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.
What does that mean
“Fuck off”
Literally “Go to the shit”
It means “Fuck You” and maybe some other things depending on context.
A French women got an English tattoo. The two sentences were full of your/you’re and it’s/its mistakes.
That’s typically more of a native speaker error, but I guess it could happen.
That’s pretty slopppy
I saw a pic that supposedly said “egg fried rice”. I wouldn’t even be mad
Hentai Gaijin
Foreign Transformer?
Franky is that you‽
When I was a kid I remember a clothing store getting in trouble because it was selling underpants with an artistic Arabic lettering design. They hadn’t checked what it said, but it turned out to say “There is no god but God and Mohammed is his prophet.” Having this on underpants didn’t please anyone.
1 man with menstruation tattooed on his neck
Obligatory do not go to a tattoo parlor and ask them to tattoo something derogatory in their native language as a joke. At worst you’ll severely offend them and at best they’ll be extremely reluctant to do it because it could get them in serious trouble and thrash their reputation. I promise you it’s nowhere near as funny as the internet would have you believe and it won’t be taken well by a vast majority of tattoo artists.
