I 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…
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.
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
I'm trying to remember some of them, or find a photo. I can't remember what model of vehicle they were though.
Wasn't a tattoo, but a motorcycle decal. This dude had a Kawasaki crotch rocket with five kanji characters on it. Posted it to a forum, and this weeb says "lol where'd you get that?" dude answers all defensively "From the mall, why?" Weeb says "It says pig bird pig lizard dog." "No dude, it says N-I-N-J-A." He thought kanji characters translated directly to the latin alphabet.
Damn, I kinda wanna play my English ninja wkth the Japanese word for ninja. But I do not want to end up like that.
Wait did the characters look like the letters for ninja or was it the (I’m assuming Japanese) equivalent of the letter n then I and so on
I don't precisely remember, I'm recalling a forum post I read at least a decade ago, but I do recall that he had at least tried to literally translate the letters "NINJA" to Asian text beyond just picking some McDojo font. I don't know if he had attempted to find kanji characters that looked relatively like latin letters or if someone convinced him that "This one means N" or something.
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
A French women got an English tattoo. The two sentences were full of your/you're and it's/its mistakes.
Hentai Gaijin
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…
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.
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.
Reminds me of XiaomaNYC intentionally getting chicken noodle soup to make the folks in china town crack up
To be fair, those kind of mean the same thing
This is my favourite. 痔 means haemorrhoid. Presumably it was meant to say 侍, samurai.
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
The Chinese characters / text is 变態外人
(romanized "biàn tài wàirén")
Interestingly, Japanese uses the same characters for hentai, 変態. Tai is notably pronounced the same / similarly, while biàn / hen are different.
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).
How many Chinese people and places have mistranslated a word into English as “fuck?” I can’t remember which word it is, some kind of food. So ya’know, glass houses and all that.
