Disgruntled tattoo artist exacts revenge
Mikey 13 comments
A disgruntled tattoo artist, tired of seeing sacred Japanese words and symbols of his heritage inked on random white folks, decided enough was enough, and started inking his unsupecting customers with something not quite what they expected.
Said Brandon Smith, one of his earliest victims who had requested the Japanese symbols for 'strength' and 'honour' on his chest:
"I went jogging through the Carnegie Mellon campus and a group of Asian kids started laughing and calling me 'Shorty.' That's when I knew something was up."
It turns out Smith actually had the words 'Small Penis' instead.
I have 3 tattoos. They are the nicknames I have for my kids. I chose to have them done in Japanese because so few would be able to read it. The nicknames for my daughters are on my shoulders and my son across the top of my back.
My ex wife found out for sure I got the right symbols on my arms. You see some one that could read Japanese asked her if I was gay for having the words "Angel" and "Princess" tattooed on my shoulders. She laughed and then explained it to him.
Trev
Monday 25th August 2008 | 07:12 AM...in response to this comment by Cron. rarf out roud
Jake
Monday 25th August 2008 | 08:31 AMGood one. A friend of mine had "fish and chips" tatooed on his forearm in chinese after he insulted the tatoo artist.
Chris
Monday 25th August 2008 | 10:50 AMI reckon half the Tattoo artists in the world have no idea about "kanji" (chinese characters). Alot of the artists I've been to/seen would struggle to point out Japan on a map. A simple test is ask the artist to say sushi three times really fast. If they can then they're legit lol.
Seriously, the number of friends at work (I work in Japan) who have been overseas all say they see kanji with strange or no meaning...
You've been warned.
Jake
Monday 25th August 2008 | 12:45 PM...in response to this comment by Chris. Jake, Chris, Kanji is Japanese language characters, not chinese!
marty answerforall
Monday 25th August 2008 | 03:24 PMYou rike a bick cock ,
Chris
Tuesday 26th August 2008 | 05:42 AM...in response to this comment by Jake. Hey Jake
Yeah I know Kanji is Japanese, but its based on Chinese. Over time it has evolved and is a little different now, but if you can read kanji, then you can pretty much read chinese (80%). The key difference is that Japanese also uses two other "alphabets" concurrently.
Hiragana and katakana (which is used exclusively for describing foreign things).
Alot of the Japanese engineers at work say they prefer to go to china cos they can get aound easier than other countries.
Jake
Tuesday 26th August 2008 | 08:48 AM...in response to this comment by Chris. I had no idea, thanks for that bit of information.
Gong
Tuesday 26th August 2008 | 04:27 PMi should get a tattoo saying nissan r35 gt3
jake
Tuesday 7th April 2009 | 01:03 PM...in response to this comment by Jake. actual their chinese characters that are used in the japanese language
Cron
Saturday 23rd August 2008 | 07:49 PMWhat's Japanese for "ROFL"?