Tattoos

[Neil_H]

While wandering around our local park yesterday a chav couple walked in front of us, and my girlfriend suddenly started laughing at something.

The girl chav had a Kanji tattoo in the middle of her back, and she explained it means "hentai" which basically means strange/ perverted - although it's quite similar to the Kanji for love. Whoever did this tattoo had got them mixed up (or did a bad job) and this girl now has a chav-branding telling everyone she's a very strange perv. I did wonder if it was intentional but she didn't seem the type.

We see a lot of these kanji tattoos and they hardly ever make sense - a friend of ours has the Kanji for 'woman' on her back. Just in case people can't see for themselves?

Does anyone here have one and do you know what it means?

[moanthebairns]

I know someone who went to get the lion rampant in spain. But came back with the welsh dragon!

[bigandclever]

I know of someone, a very proud Scotsman, who had Braveheart tattoo'ed on his arm. Unfortunately he used the dvd case from the Mel Gibson film as the image.

[crofty1984]

How can people NOT do that?
If someone came to me asking for "sex god" tattooed on their arm, you know they'd walk out with a bicep that read "Egg fried rice". Or perhaps a swift drop of the p-bomb.

[Justayellowbadge]

Hentai also, of course, a form of exceedingly NSFW Manga.

Maybe she's just a big fan of tentacle rape animations?

[stigmundfreud]

are we making the assumption that tattoo = chav?

[ofcorsa]

Justayellowbadge said:

Maybe she's just a big fan of tentacle rape animations?

Who isn't?

[scorp]

stigmundfreud said:

are we making the assumption that tattoo = chav?

I think it's the assumption that chinese character tattoos + no knowledge of kanji = fail

Edited by scorp on Monday 30th June 09:52

[crofty1984]

stigmundfreud said:

are we making the assumption that tattoo = chav?

I'm not.

Though crap, unoriginal tattoo -possibly.

[steven182]

google hentai with the filter off...go on I dare you.

[stigmundfreud]

scorp said:

stigmundfreud said:

are we making the assumption that tattoo = chav?

I think its the assumption that chinese characters + no knowledge of kanji = fail

oh I agree. I like tattoos but I dont like it where its just a fashion fad statement. Tats should mean something and preferably be custom one off to the person wearing it.

Doesnt make someone a chav though and how does the OP know that his OH wasn't winding him up.

[MilnerR]

A chinese friend of mine was chatting to a well built girl who was regaling him with tales of her trip to Hong Kong. In fact she had got a tattoo whilst over there. She thought the symbols meant purity or honesty or some such rubbish. The tattoo artist hadn't done exactly what he said he would do, the symbols, roughly translated meant fat caucasian....

[stigmundfreud]

MilnerR said:

A chinese friend of mine was chatting to a well built girl who was regaling him with tales of her trip to Hong Kong. In fact she had got a tattoo whilst over there. She thought the symbols meant purity or honesty or some such rubbish. The tattoo artist hadn't done exactly what he said he would do, the symbols, roughly translated meant fat caucasian....

bks

[Neil_H]

No I don't think all tattoos are chav, as long as they are tasteful and reasonably discreet I don't see anything wrong with them.

[scorp]

stigmundfreud said:

bks

I call bullst on this one too.. Photo evidence, or it didn't happen.

[carter711]

bigandclever said:

I know of someone, a very proud Scotsman, who had Braveheart tattoo'ed on his arm. Unfortunately he used the dvd case from the Mel Gibson film as the image.

I don't get it, did he get a picture of Gibson tattoo'ed on his arm?

[clonmult]

I had my sons name put together in kanji for tattooing onto my right shoulder. I did a bit of research to check the kanji came out correct, and then had it confirmed by colleagues (I was working at a Japanese company when I had it done).

But with any of these foreign characters its way too open for abuse by tattooists who don't really give a st.

[stigmundfreud]

clonmult said:

I had my sons name put together in kanji for tattooing onto my right shoulder. I did a bit of research to check the kanji came out correct, and then had it confirmed by colleagues (I was working at a Japanese company when I had it done).

But with any of these foreign characters its way too open for abuse by tattooists who don't really give a st.

if its your sons name, and I presume he is English speaking, why not just get it spelt in English. Whacking it down in china town aint giving it no more cred than a dad turning up to pick him up from school in a Vaxhall Nova with 21 inch spinners

[clonmult]

stigmundfreud said:

clonmult said:

I had my sons name put together in kanji for tattooing onto my right shoulder. I did a bit of research to check the kanji came out correct, and then had it confirmed by colleagues (I was working at a Japanese company when I had it done).

But with any of these foreign characters its way too open for abuse by tattooists who don't really give a st.

if its your sons name, and I presume he is English speaking, why not just get it spelt in English. Whacking it down in china town aint giving it no more cred than a dad turning up to pick him up from school in a Vaxhall Nova with 21 inch spinners

Its already been done, so why bother suggesting I have it done in english???

[Twincam16]

Neil_H said:

No I don't think all tattoos are chav, as long as they are tasteful and reasonably discreet I don't see anything wrong with them.

Quite. However, I think for too many people they're a fashion statement too far. They get them because some magazine or other told them to.

I think the saddest ones are the Disney characters. You're effectively branding yourself as the product of some big American corporation.