Asian characters are really beautiful and they have meaning (although you should verify the meaning before getting it permanently inked). That’s like saying “Non-Botanists getting flower tattoos makes them the biggest douches ever.”
To be fair bob didn’t state causation, only correlation. And I think we can all agree that a disproportionate number of people who get Asian character tattoos are lame, even if for a whole host of unrelated reasons.
“TL;DR.” Just know that it is not an abbreviation for “too long; didn’t read,” but, instead, “hi, I am a miserable cretin of the Internet that must be spoon-fed pictures and factoids or I will piss myself.
Not always. There is a point in saying tl;dr sometimes when the contributor is known for his or her long-winded replies. It is a terse reprimand which gets the point across very well.
+1, very true. Asian characters look pretty neat and simply getting one tattooed doesn’t make you a douche, but such tattoos certainly are popular among douches.
Many Asian tattoo artists will tell you one thing, and then give you a tattoo that says something different, just because you’ll probably never know the difference, and they get a laugh out of it.
It’s like asking for the word “Dragon” and they say okay, and then tattoo the symbols for “I’m stupid”. You’ll never know.
Bob and Payday talk too much….they are just jealous they can’t get their own tattoos because the new “no minors period” laws took effect. It shows. They will undoubtedly reply to this posting with more trash talking, thus proving their immaturity.
**their immaturity (please don’t correct spelling and grammar unless you know wtf you’re doing, it must makes you look stupid) (and just fyi, I used ‘you’re’ correctly)
Fail at correcting… the word “they’re” comes from “they are,” which would make it “thus proving they are immaturity” if your correction was made. George had it correct. Billy starts with a capital “B” also.
No Billy. Go back to grammar school. George was right. They’re is a contraction meaning “they are”. Their means “something belonging to them”. There means “not here”.
I wasn’t speaking DIRECTLY to bigots or trolls, but I’ll bite.
Roman Catholics are Christian. Any form of the cross distinctive to them is therefore also distinctively Christian.
You are mistaken in any event. Other quite prominent Christian communions use the crucifix in certain contexts, including Anglicans and Orthodox.
The three-barred cross is strictly Christian, particularly with the slanted bottom bar: it is used primarily by the Slavic churches in that form. A Greek (equal-armed) cross is purely Christian when labeled with “IC XC NIKA”; the same can be said of any cross labeled with either the “IC XC” nomina sacra or the Chi-Rho monogram. I’ve not seen the “budded cross” in any context but Christianity. The ornate, filigreed crosses used by the Egyptian and Ethiopian churches are instantly recognizable as proper to them.
There are many others. Those are just the ones that spring to mind.
I disagree, when civilians want to support their troops, the get those ribbons tattoo’d or on their cars, when someone gets a legit USMC tattoo, that is not supporting, that is pretending to be something you are not
Everyone on this earth can appreciate flowers and have their own feelings/memories when viewing flowers.
A civilian getting a military tattoo is just retarded for a couple reasons…one, if someone who was actually in the military ever caught on, you would either be outed or hurt, most likely both…two, unless you have no friends and/or lie about everything in life, all of your friends know you are a fake and probably make fun of you to everyone, every chance they get…three, I can’t think of one reason why anyone would want an ugly, bold, and bulky acronym…besides to show off the tremendous accomplishment of being in the military.
But then again, I guess idiots have been keeping the tattoo removal industry in business for a while now.
You have a very narrow view on life. If I saw someone with a Marines tat who wasn’t in the Marines, I would think they are supporting their friends/relatives/significant others. You can’t assume they are just trying to be cool. I know several people who get a military emblem (a lot of them are not bulky) with their relative’s/friend’s name incorporated in it. They are very nicely done and mean a lot to that person.
You, sir, need to get over yourself and realize you are not the expert on tattoos.
hahaha, I didn’t know my opinion on a specific tattoo meant I have a narrow view on life, that’s crazy. I think you are right, having a RIP tattoo about losing a loved one in the line of duty is definitely acceptable, even just supporting a friend. But you are missing the context in which I was replying to. Payday claimed Non-Botanists getting flower tattoos make them the biggest douches ever, as well as civilians getting military tattoos. Basically stating someone getting a tattoo about something they are not affiliated with makes them the biggest douche ever. I was simply stating that getting a military tattoo without any affiliation (family, friends, etc..) is way worse than getting a flower tattoo without having any affiliation with Botany. Since you have friends with tattoo’s supporting your friends in the military, i can see how you jumped to that conclusion though.
Ilikeadajuice is my other email, for some reason the site kept crashing when i tried posting with TheDarkSide so i switched to repost.
I would have thought common sense would have set in once you realized there wasn’t another post on this thread from Ilikeadajuice, or because I referred to my previous post (from TheDarkSide) a couple times, but i guess its an easy mistake to make. Sorry to have confused you.
If I saw someone sporting a USMC tat without having served, I’d key their car, piss in the gas tank, puncture all the tires and take a steaming dump on their drivers seat.
Even if it was a fallen Marine’s Mom, who got the tat in memory of her son or daughter? You Dave, are an ignorant, steaming, pile of rodent fecal matter.
Please end yourself. My father is a US Marine and if he fell in combat you’d damn well believe I’d do something to honor him. Such as, I dunno, maybe getting a tattoo such as the one you’d be so willing to piss on me for. You are a waste of life.
No it’s not the same. At all. White people have been appropriating other cultures and languages for centuries, usually reducing them to one thing that they think is “really neat” or “soooo cute” that they just “gotta have.” It’s like when white people put dream catchers that they bought at the dollar store on their rear view mirrors to show how in touch they are with Native spirituality. Or white suburban kids who tell everyone how much they can “really relate” to hardcore gangsta rap. It’s lame and douchey.
Yo dude there’s like this thing called culturel deffusion (sp?) it’s like super rad and it’s this process where dudes from other cultures spread stuff from their culture or other dude’s cultures influencins their dude’s culture. It’s like totally old school.
I think what you mean there is:
“Some members of the marketing community in white-dominated countries find objects that are meaningful in other countries aesthetically pleasing and therefore choose to sell them for profit without understanding their exact origins. I find that this dilutes the meaning of the cultural exchange that this would otherwise represent, and makes citizens who purchase those items seem ignorant through no fault of their own.”
So do words in English, or French, or Italian… What’s the point of getting a foreign language tattoo when you’re just gonna have to explain it to everyone? Just tell them to write ‘picnic table’.
That is an awesome tattoo. And I bet no on else ever- no, wait, it’s been posted on the internet. a thousand people will have gotten them by the end of the week, now.
of course they have meaning, they are characters of a written language. Also, your analogy is retarded because flowers are not a written language of botany. Learn how to make a proper analogy.
I disagree. Asian characters are man-made while flowers are natural. All people can encounter flowers everyday if they wish, and give them their own meaning, but not all people can understand the meaning and depth behind Asian characters because they aren’t Asian. Why get a tattoo (something so completely meaningful to you) of Asian characters (something so completely meaningful to Asians) if you’re not Asian? The only way to not be a douche and still get a tattoo of Asian characters is to either be Asian and know exactly what the characters mean, or to not Asian but involved deeply in Asian culture so much that it has changed you in some way.
I’m the other way around with Danish and Swedish! I can’t speak either language (except for a few words), but I can read them and understand when others speak them, to a certain extent.
Same here, but with me, being Danish, it’s Norwegian and Swedish.
(Although, since I have a TON of Norwegian friends and my boyfriend’s mother is Norwegian (though boyfriend himself only knows very little), I’ve been learning both to speak and write it, too… it’s a fun language! )
Especially Japanese. I was told, in first year Japanese, that you need to know 10,000 of the Kanji (pictogram-like ones) plus both katakana and hirgana alphabets before being considered even basically literate.
They lied to you, lots of Japanese do not know even close to all the Kanji, just the common ones. They even print special editions of newspapers written all in Hiragana for the large numbers of people who don’t know all the Kanji.
Your teacher lied. There are 2136 Joyo Kanji, which are the kanji decided by the government to be the kanji required for everyday life (reading newspapers, ect.) However in the JLPT (Japanese language proficiency test) to reach the level 2 grade you need to know only ~1000 kanji (which isn’t very hard if you’ve spent any time in Japan). Level 2 rank is advanced conversational/basic fluency.
10,000 Kanji? I doubt many Japanese know that many. Chinese–maybe, Japanese, not at all.
I’ve seen men wearing English tshirts that they obviously didn’t understand. One macho man wore a white shirt with black print that said “Lift and Separate, Victoria’s Secret” and I could not stop myself from laughing out loud.
Seriously?! I hate to burst your bubble but it’s not the 15 or 16 hundreds anymore. Yes, America has it’s own culture (not one that i personally like but one none the less). You see people all over the world with McDonalds, Coca-Cola, tee shirts and jeans playing baseball…that’s American. Crappy pop icons, cars built to last a week, reality TV, and plastic surgery, it’s American. Yes America has it’s very own superficial culture. New by most peoples standards but that is why we are called the new world after all.
Also, don’t make yourself sound like a total retard by pulling the “Hallmark holidays” crap. America only has one real holiday to claim and that’s 4th of July and Thanksgiving. The rest are Christian holidays Stolen for Pagans long before anyone other than Natives set foot on America. The smaller holidays not celebrated elsewhere are still Catholic holidays that America originally used to celebrate their origin of culture.
Check out engrish.com of many examples of the same phenomenon occurring in Asian countries, where English words are printed on shirts and other merchandise just because they look nice to them.
I wonder if it ever happens the other way around. Where people in China or Japan think they’re getting the word “mighty dragon” tattooed on there butt but it’s really “stinky cheese”.
I disagree. I want a Kanji tattoo at some point, because I spent my formative years in Japan. I grew up in their culture more than American. Only one TV channel was in English, and those shows were mostly terrible, so we watched a looot of Japanese TV. Not to mention all the time we spent at Japanese parks and stores.
She has dark hair and you can’t see her eyes, so how do you know she isn’t Asian? Or partly Asian? Many of my Asian friends have “english” names they use in everyday life, even though the name on their birth certificates are in their native tongues and completely different.
She could easily wear a bra or bikini top, and still have that tattoo totally visible….
Anyone know the language, to inform us uneducated types of the truth?
I actually got bored and looked it up on google translate… While we all know translators aren’t always 100%, I don’t think what she has tattooed is actually “picnic table.” According to Google translate “野餐桌” is picnic table and it is only three characters long, not 4.
Hsieh Won could easily be her birth name, but for assorted reasons she has an ‘American/anglo’ name of Elizbeth
– which she uses to avoid strangers butchering the pronunciation of her given name
– depending on her faith or more her parents she could have Hsieh Won on her Birth certificate, but was Baptised as Elizabeth
– or her middle name is Elizabeth
– look at the guy who played Mr. Miyagi his given name is Noriyuki but he went by Pat
I love how the first thing Native Speakers come up with is Shakespeare. Even German is a better language in terms of expressions and variety…and it sounds like typewriter eating tinfoil and being kicked down the stairs (Dylan, I love you!)
Actually English is one of the largest spoken and written languages partially due to the fact that it stole so many words from other languages and partially because Shakespeare just invented a couple thousand.
Also, being a GERMANIC language means that German and English come from the same roots. Notice all the cognates?
Really? You can’t deny that Rowling is talented out the ass. I’m not sure what her amazing ability to story-tell has to do with whether English sounds pretty or not, though. :/
She knows how to weave a good yarn that sells to the masses, but keep in mind that this is the same demographic that eats up reality television.
Don’t pretend for even a second that she can actually WRITE well. Te books are pretty badly written. The Order of the Phoenix can literally be summed up by “Harry woke up this morning. Harry ate some breakfast. Stuff happened. Harry went to sleep. Harry woke up.” etc.
Seriously, just look at her use of the English language. It’s amateurish at best. Unfortunately that’s what caters to the general brain dead population. Another great example is Dan Brown. Can weave a good yarn, but absolutely sucks at actual writing. Don’t believe me f you don’t want to, but I highly encourage you to seek out some actually well written literature.
Keeping in mind that the target demographic of HP was originally around 10 and she had to account for that, you have no way of knowing what her skill level actually is. I think she has a special talent for keeping the books accessible, I was able to start reading them at 5.
Her language skills are atrocious even in her last books, by which point her audience should have grown up and gained at least a decent grasp of the English language. Sorry, epic fail again.
A spastic elephant doped up on crystal meth tromping across a typewriter could make a better storyline with more plausible characters and personality than that sorry excuse of a writer.
Being a choral musician, I have to respectfully disagree. Even though my favorite language to sing in is Russian, English has a beauty all its own when sung. You have probably become so inured to this beauty, or have heard too many defile it, that you can no long appreciate it.
honestly, it doesn’t matter what it says, 99% of the people in her life will never know what it literally translates into. Unless she has a lot of chinese friends. she chose them because she liked them…end of story.
I am a Chinese, and upon reading those characters (by flipping the image) I can *prove* that the Li guy made a fake comment. The tattoo did mean a *name*, and definitely not “picnic table”.
To be concise, the bottom two characters stand for “William”.
I am a Chinese as well. I cannot make out the first word since it is quite blurred, but the second word is ‘蕊’ (‘rui’), which means ‘pistil’. So the person who got that tattoo probably has a name that ends with ‘-ryl’ or something that approximates the sound of ‘-ryl’. Patrickov is right to point out that the last two words translate into ‘William’.
And you have the same intelligence as a blue triangle with a smile drawn on it… I would say congratulations, but you wouldn’t be able to read it anyways.
I’m not Japanese and I got Kanji tattooed onto me. I double checked it before inking it. I also speak Japanese and lived there for a while. Do I have your permission to keep them now? Body art is personal and meaningful. Just because you understand the reasoning, does not make it stupid or make someone a ‘douche’.
You’re the type of white boy that learned Japanese just so he could watch anime without subtitles. Lived in Japan because you had no friends where you come from, having spent your time fantasizing about Sailor Moon. You probably practiced with the one Japanese student at your school, who politely praised you on your pronunciation despite the fact it made him cringe.
I live in Novi, Michigan and there is quite a large Japanese population here. 25% of my graduating class was Japanese. There’s a fair amount of Chinese, Vietnamese and other Asian cultures as well. Look at shows like “Silent Library” and the popularity of Pokemon. Society is becoming global, America is becoming more Japanese and Japan is becoming more Americanized. Hell, even America’s Funniest Home Videos is a ripoff of a Japanese tv show.
Iagree, people, don’t get a kanji tattoo if you don’t speak the language. It is a douche-y thing to do, especially since you wouldn’t be able to identify which symbol says what for the life of you.
I admit, it is a great way the Asiums are getting back at us for our Engrish mockery. Except it’s permanent.
Just because you can’t speak the language doesn’t mean you cant identify with the symbols. My friend just had sa-rang-hae-yo (in hangul; don’t want to hook in my Korean keyboard) which means I love you. I personally love the tattoo because it is gorgeous and, while I may be one of the only people who knows why he got it, it has a deep meaning to him.
XD my brother got his name in arabic or whatever tattooed to his inner upper arms when he was 18. Dumbass is covered with tats, but at least only 4 of his young age tats are meaningless.
Wait, but then…someone was complaining about white people stealing Asian culture…are you saying Asians don’t all the have the same uniform culture, and they have stolen things from each other?
Kanji is the Japanese term for a system of writing that was adopted from the Chinese written language at a time when the Japanese language had no written form. It has undergone subtle changes (simplification of many of the characters for one) over the years, but it is conceivable that his Chinese friend would know enough to translate his Japanese kanji (or his Chinese hanzi). However, to further add to the confusion, while many characters in the Chinese and Japanese written languages may still resemble each other the original meaning of some characters has been dropped or changed. So it could also conceivably mean two different things depending on what it is and which language you are interpreting it as.
I took a Japanese culture course in college, our professor a native to Japan, said it’s conceivable for a Japanese person to write something in kanji give it to a Korean to translate into their version of Chinese symbols and then give to a Chinese person and they would somewhat understand what it meant.
We’re at a point at which we cannot believe anything. Does she really have a tattoo or did she just photoshop it in? Is the comment about the picnic table true? Is your comment true that her’s isn’t?
The only thing you can be sure of, are the legions of people thinking “I’d hit it!”
It’s a lot easier to just use a mirror than to find a surface on which to set the camera that is the exact height you need it to be. It’s a facebook picture, not a family portrait, it doesn’t need to be perfect.
The way you said that makes it very clear that you’re the kind of groveling pansy who, if presented with this woman in real life, would whimper “Pleeease pleeeease can I see your boobies? Please? I’ll do anything you want!! OH GOD I’M SO LONELY”
謝芯威廉 = Shieh Rey Way Lian
So I’d say it’s Sarah William. The proper translation of Elizabeth into Chinese characters is 伊麗莎白, so the whole thing should be 伊麗莎白 威廉
Everybody who thinks this is a categorical fail just because a white person is getting a hanzi tattoo needs to head over to the Engrish page and see what Asians do when they put English on their clothing.
Putting Engrish on a shirt vs. getting a permanent tattoo in a language you don’t understand are pretty different scenarios. If I ever see a person in China with a tattoo in Engrish…I’ll reconsider your point. Until then, this is still FAIL.
Yay, another “fashionable” thing to do. Over-tan, over-gelled spiky hair, a tattoo in Japanese…
Its something shallow people do to try and get some depth. If the word had a special meaning, you would get it in a language you understand, otherwise, you’re doing it just to impress others, and therefore, you’re an idiot.
On the other hand, tattoos in general are for shallow people who need to label their preferences or their likes on their skin because they fail to communicate it like normal human beings.
Lawl you are the biggest retard i have ever heard of when it comes to tattoos. The first part of what you said, i agree with. Then you totally lose it there at the end. In fact many shallow people don’t get tattoos because it “ruins” their skin. Also, if you have any art on the walls of your home, in your lonely little cubicle, or shirts in anything other than plain colors, your a hypocrite as well.
Weird. I thought “shallow” referred to being superficial, not incapable of communicating well with others. I guess non-verbal autistics are pretty shallow; also, any person who has been abused to the point that they find it difficult to share with others verbally.
But judging someone on such an insignificant thing as whether they enjoy body art…that sounds fairly superficial in itself.
wow, you have no excuse, you scrolled all the way through all the posts explaining that Li was just a troll and that the tattoos are in fact names just so that you could make a picnic table joke
Can someone tell me where the local Tattoo Approval Office is? I mean, I have a specific meaning for each one I have, but that’s not enough for the Douche Patrol. So I want to make sure my next one is approved so I can show the permit if asked.
I wouldn’t sweat it too much. When you think about it a bit, you begin to realize that the Douche Patrol tends to be where the douches are most concentrated anyway.
cool.. its a magical talking tattoo
cool.. you lost the game
Who cares?
Everybody except those who can divide by zero. And you’re not one of those people.
My thought exactly
@Neo & Ghost
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non-asians getting asian symbols tattoo’ed are like the biggest douches ever.
Asian characters are really beautiful and they have meaning (although you should verify the meaning before getting it permanently inked). That’s like saying “Non-Botanists getting flower tattoos makes them the biggest douches ever.”
To be fair bob didn’t state causation, only correlation. And I think we can all agree that a disproportionate number of people who get Asian character tattoos are lame, even if for a whole host of unrelated reasons.
TL; DR
“TL;DR.” Just know that it is not an abbreviation for “too long; didn’t read,” but, instead, “hi, I am a miserable cretin of the Internet that must be spoon-fed pictures and factoids or I will piss myself.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-popular-phrases-that-make-you-look-like-idiot
tl;dr
internetelligence win
Not always. There is a point in saying tl;dr sometimes when the contributor is known for his or her long-winded replies. It is a terse reprimand which gets the point across very well.
Possibly, but I hardly think that two sentences constitutes a long-winded reply. I’m going to go with “miserable cretin” on this one.
Seconded.
Thirded.
Fourthed
thirded
+1, very true. Asian characters look pretty neat and simply getting one tattooed doesn’t make you a douche, but such tattoos certainly are popular among douches.
Oh, and getting one without even actually knowing what it says, now that’s just stupid.
Many Asian tattoo artists will tell you one thing, and then give you a tattoo that says something different, just because you’ll probably never know the difference, and they get a laugh out of it.
It’s like asking for the word “Dragon” and they say okay, and then tattoo the symbols for “I’m stupid”. You’ll never know.
which is the case
same for civilians getting military symbols and so on
I like apples better than oranges.
Orange you glad I didn’t say banana?
You two make a good pear. ^_^
I cantaloupe with you
Bob and Payday talk too much….they are just jealous they can’t get their own tattoos because the new “no minors period” laws took effect. It shows. They will undoubtedly reply to this posting with more trash talking, thus proving their immaturity.
*they’re immaturity
Had it right the first time.
They’re = contraction of “They Are”
Their = possessive adjective indicating it belongs to them
McFly had it right.
All of you who replied directly to billy’s comment fail at feeding the troll..
*their immaturity” ^^
Best be trollin’
*their immaturity.
(wanna be mature)
Except no…
**their immaturity (please don’t correct spelling and grammar unless you know wtf you’re doing, it must makes you look stupid) (and just fyi, I used ‘you’re’ correctly)
it must makes you?
Nothing more annoying than messing up while trying to correct someone.
ditto
Fail at correcting… the word “they’re” comes from “they are,” which would make it “thus proving they are immaturity” if your correction was made. George had it correct. Billy starts with a capital “B” also.
Maybe he was trying to imply that the people are the very essence of immaturity.
No Billy. Go back to grammar school. George was right. They’re is a contraction meaning “they are”. Their means “something belonging to them”. There means “not here”.
don’t fall for his sad attempts to wind people up!
You mean like the previous 10 straight posts? Haha
Trolling. Learn it.
You do this every time, you stinker!
And no one seems to catch on! Well, almost no one.
How do y’all keep fallen for that?
Billy is a TROLL
Ever since Drongo left, he’s all we have.
OMG we are doomed
What happened to Drongo?!
I don’t know! I tried to write him a letter, but I guess I can’t get his address right cause it keeps coming back to me!
No he isn’t. He just lives under a bridge because the rent is cheap.
*falling
billy, you are a chop. don’t go around correcting grammar mistakes that you have no idea about!!! ‘their’ is correct.
What about non-Christians getting crosses?
Well, a cross is not actually a Christian symbol, strictly speaking.
historical fact: actually even the Christian cross comes from the zodiac symbols and paganism
This is a common misconception. Actually, it comes from the lower case letter ‘t’.
A cross, in some cultures that do not practice Christianity, means a “crossroads”. So, no, non-Catholics getting crosses is not a bad thing.
There are, however, forms of the cross that are strictly Christian.
Which forms? The crucifix? Roman, not Christian.
I wasn’t speaking DIRECTLY to bigots or trolls, but I’ll bite.
Roman Catholics are Christian. Any form of the cross distinctive to them is therefore also distinctively Christian.
You are mistaken in any event. Other quite prominent Christian communions use the crucifix in certain contexts, including Anglicans and Orthodox.
The three-barred cross is strictly Christian, particularly with the slanted bottom bar: it is used primarily by the Slavic churches in that form. A Greek (equal-armed) cross is purely Christian when labeled with “IC XC NIKA”; the same can be said of any cross labeled with either the “IC XC” nomina sacra or the Chi-Rho monogram. I’ve not seen the “budded cross” in any context but Christianity. The ornate, filigreed crosses used by the Egyptian and Ethiopian churches are instantly recognizable as proper to them.
There are many others. Those are just the ones that spring to mind.
Where’d you copy/paste this from?
Google for it. You will find it only here.
Well… A cross was really just a common form of execution/torture in the Roman Empire, even though Jesus was one of the most famous guys killed on one.
Iron Cross is okay
As an Army Wife i’d have to disagree, Civilians getting military symbols is a sign that they support their troops.
I second that.
I disagree, when civilians want to support their troops, the get those ribbons tattoo’d or on their cars, when someone gets a legit USMC tattoo, that is not supporting, that is pretending to be something you are not
It is not the case.
Everyone on this earth can appreciate flowers and have their own feelings/memories when viewing flowers.
A civilian getting a military tattoo is just retarded for a couple reasons…one, if someone who was actually in the military ever caught on, you would either be outed or hurt, most likely both…two, unless you have no friends and/or lie about everything in life, all of your friends know you are a fake and probably make fun of you to everyone, every chance they get…three, I can’t think of one reason why anyone would want an ugly, bold, and bulky acronym…besides to show off the tremendous accomplishment of being in the military.
But then again, I guess idiots have been keeping the tattoo removal industry in business for a while now.
You have a very narrow view on life. If I saw someone with a Marines tat who wasn’t in the Marines, I would think they are supporting their friends/relatives/significant others. You can’t assume they are just trying to be cool. I know several people who get a military emblem (a lot of them are not bulky) with their relative’s/friend’s name incorporated in it. They are very nicely done and mean a lot to that person.
You, sir, need to get over yourself and realize you are not the expert on tattoos.
hahaha, I didn’t know my opinion on a specific tattoo meant I have a narrow view on life, that’s crazy. I think you are right, having a RIP tattoo about losing a loved one in the line of duty is definitely acceptable, even just supporting a friend. But you are missing the context in which I was replying to. Payday claimed Non-Botanists getting flower tattoos make them the biggest douches ever, as well as civilians getting military tattoos. Basically stating someone getting a tattoo about something they are not affiliated with makes them the biggest douche ever. I was simply stating that getting a military tattoo without any affiliation (family, friends, etc..) is way worse than getting a flower tattoo without having any affiliation with Botany. Since you have friends with tattoo’s supporting your friends in the military, i can see how you jumped to that conclusion though.
You sir, overreacted
Wow!! I didn’t reply to you, dear overreactive fool. I replied to what TheDarkSide said. But that was a very nice rant. Bravo.
Ilikeadajuice is my other email, for some reason the site kept crashing when i tried posting with TheDarkSide so i switched to repost.
I would have thought common sense would have set in once you realized there wasn’t another post on this thread from Ilikeadajuice, or because I referred to my previous post (from TheDarkSide) a couple times, but i guess its an easy mistake to make. Sorry to have confused you.
If I saw someone sporting a USMC tat without having served, I’d key their car, piss in the gas tank, puncture all the tires and take a steaming dump on their drivers seat.
Even if it was a fallen Marine’s Mom, who got the tat in memory of her son or daughter? You Dave, are an ignorant, steaming, pile of rodent fecal matter.
I agree
This chain of comments is obviously not big enough.
Please end yourself. My father is a US Marine and if he fell in combat you’d damn well believe I’d do something to honor him. Such as, I dunno, maybe getting a tattoo such as the one you’d be so willing to piss on me for. You are a waste of life.
THIS is the type of people in the military? Good god, we are doomed.
I’d agree if I thought the military was entirely made up of people like this. But there are jerks in every group, no matter where you go.
just ‘like’ the biggest douches ever.
No it’s not the same. At all. White people have been appropriating other cultures and languages for centuries, usually reducing them to one thing that they think is “really neat” or “soooo cute” that they just “gotta have.” It’s like when white people put dream catchers that they bought at the dollar store on their rear view mirrors to show how in touch they are with Native spirituality. Or white suburban kids who tell everyone how much they can “really relate” to hardcore gangsta rap. It’s lame and douchey.
ignorant troll is ignorant
Yo dude there’s like this thing called culturel deffusion (sp?) it’s like super rad and it’s this process where dudes from other cultures spread stuff from their culture or other dude’s cultures influencins their dude’s culture. It’s like totally old school.
Yeah, white people totally invented the whole absorbing culture thing. You’re a moron.
what about non-whites wearing levi jeans, and watching hollywood movies.
is that lame and douchey?
hows that any different?
I think what you mean there is:
“Some members of the marketing community in white-dominated countries find objects that are meaningful in other countries aesthetically pleasing and therefore choose to sell them for profit without understanding their exact origins. I find that this dilutes the meaning of the cultural exchange that this would otherwise represent, and makes citizens who purchase those items seem ignorant through no fault of their own.”
So do words in English, or French, or Italian… What’s the point of getting a foreign language tattoo when you’re just gonna have to explain it to everyone? Just tell them to write ‘picnic table’.
So, because you don’t understand it, it is invalid? And here I thought the earth revolved around the Sun!!!!
One should verify the meaning both in Japanese and in Chinese. Both use kanji but the meaning is different.
I knew a girl who had the kanji for “slutty nun” on her neck.
That is an awesome tattoo. And I bet no on else ever- no, wait, it’s been posted on the internet. a thousand people will have gotten them by the end of the week, now.
of course they have meaning, they are characters of a written language. Also, your analogy is retarded because flowers are not a written language of botany. Learn how to make a proper analogy.
I disagree. Asian characters are man-made while flowers are natural. All people can encounter flowers everyday if they wish, and give them their own meaning, but not all people can understand the meaning and depth behind Asian characters because they aren’t Asian. Why get a tattoo (something so completely meaningful to you) of Asian characters (something so completely meaningful to Asians) if you’re not Asian? The only way to not be a douche and still get a tattoo of Asian characters is to either be Asian and know exactly what the characters mean, or to not Asian but involved deeply in Asian culture so much that it has changed you in some way.
What if they speak that language?
Yeah, well this one DIDN’T.
Maybe she did, maybe she’s just implying that she’s a slut?
She may just love picnic tables that much. Nothing wrong with that.
I would hit THAT picnic table
Yawn, lesbians trash talking….now THAT’S funny.
Maybe she does SPEAK it, but can’t read it? You can speak a language without being able to read the text from it.
I’m the other way around with Danish and Swedish! I can’t speak either language (except for a few words), but I can read them and understand when others speak them, to a certain extent.
Same here, but with me, being Danish, it’s Norwegian and Swedish.
)
(Although, since I have a TON of Norwegian friends and my boyfriend’s mother is Norwegian (though boyfriend himself only knows very little), I’ve been learning both to speak and write it, too… it’s a fun language!
Especially Japanese. I was told, in first year Japanese, that you need to know 10,000 of the Kanji (pictogram-like ones) plus both katakana and hirgana alphabets before being considered even basically literate.
BTW, I did not even make it close to literate.
They lied to you, lots of Japanese do not know even close to all the Kanji, just the common ones. They even print special editions of newspapers written all in Hiragana for the large numbers of people who don’t know all the Kanji.
Who told you that? 1,000 will get you by, 3 or 4 if you really want to read everything.
Your teacher lied. There are 2136 Joyo Kanji, which are the kanji decided by the government to be the kanji required for everyday life (reading newspapers, ect.) However in the JLPT (Japanese language proficiency test) to reach the level 2 grade you need to know only ~1000 kanji (which isn’t very hard if you’ve spent any time in Japan). Level 2 rank is advanced conversational/basic fluency.
10,000 Kanji? I doubt many Japanese know that many. Chinese–maybe, Japanese, not at all.
how terribly dense you are…
Non tattoo-artists getting a tattoo are the biggest douches
Win ^^
I wonder how many Asian people get tattoos spelled in English? I’m guessing not too many.
Yeah, because English sucks.
I’ve seen men wearing English tshirts that they obviously didn’t understand. One macho man wore a white shirt with black print that said “Lift and Separate, Victoria’s Secret” and I could not stop myself from laughing out loud.
Macho Man Randy Savage?
more than you think so, trust me, I’ve seen a whole bunch
There actually have been tattoos featured on this site that are non-English speakers getting English phrases that made no sense.
it’s actually a big thing in germany too, believe it or not. but so are the american 1980′s
….still
*Engrish
^This
People who think that only white people “steal” culture are stupid and racist. Look up Engrish.com, it’s Asians trying to steal American culture.
Also as someone who works in the tattoo industry. Please don’t stop being stupid and getting tattoos you don’t understand. Cover-ups are double.
“American culture”? Of what speakest thou?
Do you mean Native American Culture, Latin American culture, or the patchwork of old European cultures and the Hallmark commercial holidays?
Seriously?! I hate to burst your bubble but it’s not the 15 or 16 hundreds anymore. Yes, America has it’s own culture (not one that i personally like but one none the less). You see people all over the world with McDonalds, Coca-Cola, tee shirts and jeans playing baseball…that’s American. Crappy pop icons, cars built to last a week, reality TV, and plastic surgery, it’s American. Yes America has it’s very own superficial culture. New by most peoples standards but that is why we are called the new world after all.
Also, don’t make yourself sound like a total retard by pulling the “Hallmark holidays” crap. America only has one real holiday to claim and that’s 4th of July and Thanksgiving. The rest are Christian holidays Stolen for Pagans long before anyone other than Natives set foot on America. The smaller holidays not celebrated elsewhere are still Catholic holidays that America originally used to celebrate their origin of culture.
LOL i mean two holidays ^ self fail
Check out engrish.com of many examples of the same phenomenon occurring in Asian countries, where English words are printed on shirts and other merchandise just because they look nice to them.
What? Really? This could not even be considered theoretically true. English is the most popular language in the world, also for tattoos.
Darn… you probably think my “Haku-jin desu” tatoo is lame too…
I wonder if it ever happens the other way around. Where people in China or Japan think they’re getting the word “mighty dragon” tattooed on there butt but it’s really “stinky cheese”.
I’ve seen some crazy t-shirts, but I think tattoo’s are too expensive for most people to not be positive of the meaning
I disagree. I want a Kanji tattoo at some point, because I spent my formative years in Japan. I grew up in their culture more than American. Only one TV channel was in English, and those shows were mostly terrible, so we watched a looot of Japanese TV. Not to mention all the time we spent at Japanese parks and stores.
Welcome to the world of American television.
She has dark hair and you can’t see her eyes, so how do you know she isn’t Asian? Or partly Asian? Many of my Asian friends have “english” names they use in everyday life, even though the name on their birth certificates are in their native tongues and completely different.
that’s racist!
No, but assuming she’s white when you can’t see her whole face and the color of the photo is farked, is.
Oh wait, I forgot, only white people can be racist. Carry on.
no you ignorant bum. only white men can be racist.
bob, people who like talk like and type like this are like the biggest douches ever like
id prolly eat off of it.
She’s a picnic table. Naked sushi, anyone?
*raises hand
she’s lying, I would do it too, it’s fun
picnic table HAHAHAHAHA!!
At least the meaning is kind of cute and random, rather than gross or offensive… :S I still feel sorry for her, though.
I’d use her as a picnic table any time
My thoughts exactly
She could work at one of those places where they serve sushi off a naked girl’s body.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyotaimori
If I could get past the whole sushi thing, I’d think that was kinda sexy.
^this
Only if they have an outdoor section. You can’t have a picnic indoors!
BS. We used to have “living room” picnics all the time in front of the fireplace when I was a kid.
I still do.
Let’s put food on her and wait for the ants!
She could easily wear a bra or bikini top, and still have that tattoo totally visible….
Anyone know the language, to inform us uneducated types of the truth?
I taught the same, I don’t understand why she’s topless
I actually got bored and looked it up on google translate… While we all know translators aren’t always 100%, I don’t think what she has tattooed is actually “picnic table.” According to Google translate “野餐桌” is picnic table and it is only three characters long, not 4.
*shrug*
but then she’d drop the camera…
why do you want to see her phone?? I say, “Move your arm.”
win.
Wow, she has the body of a 10 year old boy.
and thus, a “picnic table”. flat as a board.
You’ve been looking at naked 10 year old boys Derp? Shame on you.
Actually, you are probably overweight and have no sense of eroticism.
^This
THIS
and probably still gets amused by peekaboo the same way a 3 year old would.
Derp probably was a 10 year old boy once!
And exactly how do you know how 10 year old boys look naked, mister?
*drool*
Stop spouting such nonsense and making me look bad.
fatty!
I aint even
u jelly?
why would i be jelly of a fat chick?
Since she’s turned sideways, though, it’s really hard to tell what her hips look like, so it’s a tough call to make either way.
Win-cest!
Pics or it didn’t… oh, okay.
^ HA!
where’s the pick-a-nick basket?
Yogi and Boo Boo Bear stole it.
actually they mean Hsieh Won and William
which i assume are the girl’s name and her boyfriend’s name
so……unfailed
What’s the chance that, two minutes after the photo was posted, her relationship status read “Single”?
Nevermind that. I missed the big letters saying “Elizabeth’s Photos” at the top.
Hsieh Won could easily be her birth name, but for assorted reasons she has an ‘American/anglo’ name of Elizbeth
– which she uses to avoid strangers butchering the pronunciation of her given name
– depending on her faith or more her parents she could have Hsieh Won on her Birth certificate, but was Baptised as Elizabeth
– or her middle name is Elizabeth
– look at the guy who played Mr. Miyagi his given name is Noriyuki but he went by Pat
^this
There was no need to post a topless photo for a tattoo. ASW.
yeah, and i bet all of you can confirm that it actualy means picnic table…
According to Google translate “野餐桌” is picnic table and it is only three characters long, not 4.
*shrug*
Is that in Japanese or Chinese, though?
it is in chinese (both the tattoo and what is written in the comment above)
english is the worst language so i can’t reeeally blame people for wanting to get tats in other tongues, haha.
Have you read Shakespeare? Wordsworth? Joyce? The English language is beautiful!
I love how the first thing Native Speakers come up with is Shakespeare. Even German is a better language in terms of expressions and variety…and it sounds like typewriter eating tinfoil and being kicked down the stairs (Dylan, I love you!)
You know what the worst language to listen to ever is?
Vogon.
I still want to know what a freddled gruntbuggly is. It sounds cute.
I think I’d rather gnaw my own leg off than know the definition of that.
I love you.
Actually English is one of the largest spoken and written languages partially due to the fact that it stole so many words from other languages and partially because Shakespeare just invented a couple thousand.
Also, being a GERMANIC language means that German and English come from the same roots. Notice all the cognates?
Yes, it can be if not used by illiterate miscreants.
↑THIS
You forgot Rowling, Riordan, and Patterson.
GAG. Read some talented YA authors: McKinley, Collins, Yolen, Coville, Stiefvater, Bray, Pierce, Gaiman, du Prau, Black, George, Anderson, Lisle……et al.
Really? You can’t deny that Rowling is talented out the ass. I’m not sure what her amazing ability to story-tell has to do with whether English sounds pretty or not, though. :/
She knows how to weave a good yarn that sells to the masses, but keep in mind that this is the same demographic that eats up reality television.
Don’t pretend for even a second that she can actually WRITE well. Te books are pretty badly written. The Order of the Phoenix can literally be summed up by “Harry woke up this morning. Harry ate some breakfast. Stuff happened. Harry went to sleep. Harry woke up.” etc.
Seriously, just look at her use of the English language. It’s amateurish at best. Unfortunately that’s what caters to the general brain dead population. Another great example is Dan Brown. Can weave a good yarn, but absolutely sucks at actual writing. Don’t believe me f you don’t want to, but I highly encourage you to seek out some actually well written literature.
Keeping in mind that the target demographic of HP was originally around 10 and she had to account for that, you have no way of knowing what her skill level actually is. I think she has a special talent for keeping the books accessible, I was able to start reading them at 5.
Her language skills are atrocious even in her last books, by which point her audience should have grown up and gained at least a decent grasp of the English language. Sorry, epic fail again.
And Stephanie Meyer!
Oh wait…
A spastic elephant doped up on crystal meth tromping across a typewriter could make a better storyline with more plausible characters and personality than that sorry excuse of a writer.
She WASN’T a spastic elephant doped up on crystal meth?!? I…may have to go edit the wiki…
English WAS a beautiful language. I should of been clearer.
Personally I think German, Russian and French are lovely as well.
Sorry to grammattack you, but it’s “should have.” The pronunciation comes from the contraction “should’ve.” “Should of” makes no sense.
Take the Wordsworth one back!
Being a choral musician, I have to respectfully disagree. Even though my favorite language to sing in is Russian, English has a beauty all its own when sung. You have probably become so inured to this beauty, or have heard too many defile it, that you can no long appreciate it.
honestly, it doesn’t matter what it says, 99% of the people in her life will never know what it literally translates into. Unless she has a lot of chinese friends. she chose them because she liked them…end of story.
if you’re going to do something, at least get it right. unless of course you’re a complete dumbass
Tattoo parlor I went to had the kanji symbol for Holly (as in “Deck the halls with boughs of”) but thought it meant Holy.
Wonder if anyone got it?
Neil Diamond, maybe?
That comment is full of more win than most commenters here will ever know.
I am a Chinese, and upon reading those characters (by flipping the image) I can *prove* that the Li guy made a fake comment. The tattoo did mean a *name*, and definitely not “picnic table”.
To be concise, the bottom two characters stand for “William”.
Thanks for clearing that up. I was wondering if Li was just trolling.
I concur.
I would guess the girl’s name is something like “Cheryl Williams”
I am a Chinese as well. I cannot make out the first word since it is quite blurred, but the second word is ‘蕊’ (‘rui’), which means ‘pistil’. So the person who got that tattoo probably has a name that ends with ‘-ryl’ or something that approximates the sound of ‘-ryl’. Patrickov is right to point out that the last two words translate into ‘William’.
野餐桌 = picnic table?
Well, clearly it fits. She has the same intelligence as a picnic table.
Never ever offend my picnic table again, evil K!
And you have the same intelligence as a blue triangle with a smile drawn on it… I would say congratulations, but you wouldn’t be able to read it anyways.
it’s a lie…
it should be her name and her boyfriend’s name in chinese.
…which is still a fail. Unless it’s your child, or a memorial, it’s never a good idea to tattoo someone’s name on your body.
lol, that doesn’t say “picnic table”
I’m not Japanese and I got Kanji tattooed onto me. I double checked it before inking it. I also speak Japanese and lived there for a while. Do I have your permission to keep them now? Body art is personal and meaningful. Just because you understand the reasoning, does not make it stupid or make someone a ‘douche’.
“Body art is personal and meaningful.”
In rare cases.
You’re the type of white boy that learned Japanese just so he could watch anime without subtitles. Lived in Japan because you had no friends where you come from, having spent your time fantasizing about Sailor Moon. You probably practiced with the one Japanese student at your school, who politely praised you on your pronunciation despite the fact it made him cringe.
I live in Novi, Michigan and there is quite a large Japanese population here. 25% of my graduating class was Japanese. There’s a fair amount of Chinese, Vietnamese and other Asian cultures as well. Look at shows like “Silent Library” and the popularity of Pokemon. Society is becoming global, America is becoming more Japanese and Japan is becoming more Americanized. Hell, even America’s Funniest Home Videos is a ripoff of a Japanese tv show.
Iagree, people, don’t get a kanji tattoo if you don’t speak the language. It is a douche-y thing to do, especially since you wouldn’t be able to identify which symbol says what for the life of you.
I admit, it is a great way the Asiums are getting back at us for our Engrish mockery. Except it’s permanent.
Just because you can’t speak the language doesn’t mean you cant identify with the symbols. My friend just had sa-rang-hae-yo (in hangul; don’t want to hook in my Korean keyboard) which means I love you. I personally love the tattoo because it is gorgeous and, while I may be one of the only people who knows why he got it, it has a deep meaning to him.
“…doesn’t mean you cant identify with the symbols.”
Not what I said. Try again.
“why do you have the chinese character for “soup” tatooed on your buttock?”
“it doesnt say soup, it says “courage”"
“…”
I’d take the chinese character for “soup” tatooed on my butt.
Here’s the Hanzi for “soup” – 汤 We want pictures.
Yay! Sheldon FTW
Her friend is jerking her chain. It doesn’t mean picnic table. It’s a transliteration of her name, which is still a pretty douchey thing to do…
XD my brother got his name in arabic or whatever tattooed to his inner upper arms when he was 18. Dumbass is covered with tats, but at least only 4 of his young age tats are meaningless.
My backpack has a fancy kanji on it. A friend who knows chinese told me it means “messy” or “perverted”… I’m fine with that.
Unless she happens to speak Japanese, your Chinese friend is probably messing with you.
No single character has both those meanings. She’s messing with you…
^WIN
There’s an overlap between Japanese and Chinese characters.
Kanji was stolen from the Chinese. They say the characters differently, but for the most part, they mean the same things.
Wait, but then…someone was complaining about white people stealing Asian culture…are you saying Asians don’t all the have the same uniform culture, and they have stolen things from each other?
Kanji is the Japanese term for a system of writing that was adopted from the Chinese written language at a time when the Japanese language had no written form. It has undergone subtle changes (simplification of many of the characters for one) over the years, but it is conceivable that his Chinese friend would know enough to translate his Japanese kanji (or his Chinese hanzi). However, to further add to the confusion, while many characters in the Chinese and Japanese written languages may still resemble each other the original meaning of some characters has been dropped or changed. So it could also conceivably mean two different things depending on what it is and which language you are interpreting it as.
^This
I took a Japanese culture course in college, our professor a native to Japan, said it’s conceivable for a Japanese person to write something in kanji give it to a Korean to translate into their version of Chinese symbols and then give to a Chinese person and they would somewhat understand what it meant.
Except that it doesn’t say picnic table in any Asian language. Her friend is totally messing with her.
Do you know what it really says?
If someone enough knowledge of Kanji (is it Kanji?), it would be cool to let us know!
it’s not Kanji(japanese).
it’s Hanji(chinese).
謝芯=sounds like zabeth… but better in 莎伯
威廉=William(Formal Translate)
i think travel to Taiwan and get a hanji tattoo is a good idea
謝芯=Shieh Rey, which sounds more like Sarah, so I would say the name she tried to tattoo is Sarah William.
Trolls on the internet? Unthinkable!
We’re at a point at which we cannot believe anything. Does she really have a tattoo or did she just photoshop it in? Is the comment about the picnic table true? Is your comment true that her’s isn’t?
The only thing you can be sure of, are the legions of people thinking “I’d hit it!”
^ this
Yes sir. I would.
One day, when the missing link between man and internet has been crossed, someone will get an existential crisis along those lines.
http://www.iamaselfawaresite.com?
Give that b*tch a picnic table…
Was your friend a hick? cause if her Sister is her mother, lover and friend, something is wrong…
I’m assuming they were self-identifying words. She is a sister, a mother, a lover, and a friend. Similar to what might be put on her tombstone.
but where’s the “whore” part
I checked on Google Translate. Picnic table doesn’t look a bit like it.
壊滅的なコンボ << Devastating Combo
Oh.. and that’s in Japanese.. so there’s no confusion
ないように、コンボ壊滅的な << Not so devastating combo
Um…that actually says something like “as if not, combo devastating”
Never trust online translation sites…
Feh, close enough.
starlingは馬鹿だなｗ
Can somebody please confirm that this indeed says ‘picnic table”?
If you would read the comments above you before posting, you would know it says her name and “William”.
Actually when I asked nobody had explained it yet (or perhaps they had but Wordpretzel didn’t fancy showing it at the time).
Well she’s already too dumb to operate the countdown timer on her camera, so this shouldn’t be surprising in the least.
It’s a lot easier to just use a mirror than to find a surface on which to set the camera that is the exact height you need it to be. It’s a facebook picture, not a family portrait, it doesn’t need to be perfect.
This was posted somewhere before. There are more comments below the first where Li says he/she can’t actually read it.
it’s Hanji(chinese).
謝蕊=sounds like zabeth but better in 莎伯
威廉=William(Formal Translate)
ps. the photo shot via mirror
So what does it *really* say?
The way you said that makes it very clear that you’re the kind of groveling pansy who, if presented with this woman in real life, would whimper “Pleeease pleeeease can I see your boobies? Please? I’ll do anything you want!! OH GOD I’M SO LONELY”
does that work?
worth trying
This^
*REEEOOWWWRRR* Get em ducky!
I am now officially in love with you, Canaduck!
Lol, don’t lie, you already were!
Forever alone…
This is a mirror image, right? Could it possibly mean something else if flipped the other way? I mean, look at lower case “b” and “d”, or “p” and “q”.
No, Chinese characters don’t work like that. There is a certain pattern to the way they’re written which makes them unable to be rotated or flipped.
Out of the three-hundred or so comments posted thus far, this one has been the most interesting. Thanks.
She is hawt.
iCame
Finally someone said it instead of arguing about characters.
Picnic table? Probably more like “you paid me to fondle you”.
yes i did, and i’m still waiting!
haha girl’s hot aside, the facebook commenter Li is a troll.
as previously explained by slpk, the Chinese characters are:
謝芯威廉 (once u flipped them over)
謝芯 (in Cantonese) sounds more like Jesse
while 威廉 is most certainly William
hmm.. it doesnt sound like cantonese.. i think more to mandarin..
謝芯威廉 = Shieh Rey Way Lian
So I’d say it’s Sarah William. The proper translation of Elizabeth into Chinese characters is 伊麗莎白, so the whole thing should be 伊麗莎白 威廉
I’m pretty sure it cheryl williams
I’d eat off her picnic table.
Doesn’t that say “Elizabeth Williams?” o.O Don’t know many characters, but I THINK it says that, not picnic table…
looks like 謝蕊 威廉 <– not 謝芯
so I guess it's Jerry William or something like that
I would eat off of her….
I’d eat off that!
Couldn’t she just lift her shirt enough to show the tattoo instead of getting half-naked on facebook?
Yeah, that’s what I’m wondering. She took her bra off… why?
Because it’s hotter that way.
+100
Everybody who thinks this is a categorical fail just because a white person is getting a hanzi tattoo needs to head over to the Engrish page and see what Asians do when they put English on their clothing.
I’m Chinese, but I totally second this comment!
Putting Engrish on a shirt vs. getting a permanent tattoo in a language you don’t understand are pretty different scenarios. If I ever see a person in China with a tattoo in Engrish…I’ll reconsider your point. Until then, this is still FAIL.
Look it up before you post. Google image “Engrish tattoos” A ton come up! Including http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TRcQCuP2b5A/SMDMFmy4j0I/AAAAAAAADIQ/7JAj66CDGlA/s1600-h/tattoo157.jpg which is a personal favorite of mine.
You’re probably the type of guy who swears when he and his right arm hook up.
It doesn’t really say picnic table… 野餐桌 is picnic table, just saying
comrades, you read it wrong
it’s 谢蕊 威廉, which in English should be “Sherry William” in Mandarin Chinese.
芯 and 蕊is two different characters.
Regardation.
Chinese guys, please pay attention tha the first two characters are “謝蕊”, NOT “謝芯” (totally different pronunciation and meaning !!!)
謝蕊 can be approximately translated to “Sherry” in Mandarin Chinese…
威廉 is definitely “William”…
Their last name is Li. You can’t explain that.
*tatoos “easy chair” just above his buttcrack*
booooooobs……..
Yay, another “fashionable” thing to do. Over-tan, over-gelled spiky hair, a tattoo in Japanese…
Its something shallow people do to try and get some depth. If the word had a special meaning, you would get it in a language you understand, otherwise, you’re doing it just to impress others, and therefore, you’re an idiot.
On the other hand, tattoos in general are for shallow people who need to label their preferences or their likes on their skin because they fail to communicate it like normal human beings.
Discuss.
Lawl you are the biggest retard i have ever heard of when it comes to tattoos. The first part of what you said, i agree with. Then you totally lose it there at the end. In fact many shallow people don’t get tattoos because it “ruins” their skin. Also, if you have any art on the walls of your home, in your lonely little cubicle, or shirts in anything other than plain colors, your a hypocrite as well.
That’s Chinese. You lose.
^ this =D
Or maybe some people just find Chinese characters aesthetically pleasing.
Lol u all mad?
Weird. I thought “shallow” referred to being superficial, not incapable of communicating well with others. I guess non-verbal autistics are pretty shallow; also, any person who has been abused to the point that they find it difficult to share with others verbally.
But judging someone on such an insignificant thing as whether they enjoy body art…that sounds fairly superficial in itself.
Picnic table is appropriate. Now her gf can look forward to eating out…side.
wow, you have no excuse, you scrolled all the way through all the posts explaining that Li was just a troll and that the tattoos are in fact names just so that you could make a picnic table joke
Or just hit the ‘end’ button, but whatever. ;]
Can someone tell me where the local Tattoo Approval Office is? I mean, I have a specific meaning for each one I have, but that’s not enough for the Douche Patrol. So I want to make sure my next one is approved so I can show the permit if asked.
I wouldn’t sweat it too much. When you think about it a bit, you begin to realize that the Douche Patrol tends to be where the douches are most concentrated anyway.
…probably because she’s as flat as one…
in the best possible way.
Couldn’t she of just lifted the side of her shirt for that picture instead of standing there shirtless just maybe more socially appropriate.
Um no, the words do not mean ‘picnic table’. I study Chinese. Double fail.
Ohhhhh, chin chong ling long ting tong… OOhhhhhh
she’s that flat?
What everyone that commented should know is, her tattoo doesn’t really say “picnic table”. Joke’s on you.
Extra fail. Even with a (I assume) Chinese friend, she still didn’t get the right characters.
I think the mirror is causing confusion.