Oct 21 2007
Chinese Characters Are Like So 1334!
As if getting a tattoo wasn’t stupid enough, at least verify the meaning of the oh-so-cool foreign words you have etched into your skin…
A teenage-girl just wanted to impress her mother by having the word “mum” tattooed on her back in Chinese letters. After the tattoo was completed, the girl found out that the symbols meant “Friend from hell.”
A local paper said Charlene Williams, 19, only discovered something was wrong with her tattoo when a passing Chinese woman shouted at her, “Evil, evil, very bad.”
“I was shocked and angry, Charlene said. “Dad joked it said chicken chow mein.”
“It was worse than that.”
The 19-year old girl said she paid $20.43 when she had the Chinese characters tattooed on her back four years ago in Poole, Dorset.
After the horrifying incident, Charlene covered the characters with an image of a leaf design tattoo that cost $81.72.
Hey, had you not noticed, at least you would’ve had some nice trendy chinese characters on your back so everyone would ask you what they meant. After all, that’s what it’s all about… Getting people to ask you about your amazingly interesting tattoo.
HERE I AM, NOTICE ME!
October 21st, 2007 at 11:43 am
Check this site out: http://www.zug.com/gab/index.cgi?func=view_thread&thread_id=74866
Their fake Chinese tattoo site is #3 in a Google search for Chinese tattoos.
October 21st, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Half my family is Japanese. Yes I am getting a Japanese Kanji tattoo soon. Instead of relying on a tattoo parlor or the internet to give me a bad translation, I actually went to my family members. You definitely have to be very careful with these websites that claim to know what half these characters mean.
October 26th, 2007 at 8:24 am
A friend got “beef with broccoli” tattooed on his arm, because that’s his favorite thing to order at Chinese restaurants. He says it’s much more useful than all the lame Chinese-character tattoos…
July 17th, 2008 at 9:01 am
A friend also had a chinese symbol tatooed on his arm, supposed to be a star sign. Soon after a group of chinese laughed at the tattoo when asked if they could read it! But after some research it seems that it does say what is supposed to. Maybe the chinese were just having a wind up lol