Sunday, April 16, 2006

Futility

This has to be the best Japlish T-shirt I've ever seen, courtesy of a teenage student who had no idea what it said. I know this would sell well in the UK. Not much to add here, except that it's snowing again...
Location: Hakodate, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love it. Did you ever download any of "Nathan Barley" that was on TV last year? The shirt is almost a quote off it :)

7:59 pm
slideyfoot said...

That makes me wonder about the countless shirts I've got with Japanese characters all over them. I have checked a few times with Japanese speakers, and it generally seems to be something pretty innocuous, like '1,2,3', or just bizarre; one apparently was along the lines of 'medical sushi' or something like that.

Still, at least I can be relatively sure my tattoo isn't anything overly stupid. Its supposed to say 'true friend' (well, 'true', 'loyal', 'honest' - the usual multiplicity of meanings), which was confirmed by a random Chinese lady who saw me in a swimming pool not long after I got it back at Warwick. I also found that when I was getting off a sleeper train in Xian, my backpack had caused my shirt sleeve to roll up and reveal the 'friend' character. This prompted some fellow passengers to smile at me in a pleasantly welcoming fashion, so I'm hoping thats because it really does say 'friend' rather than 'drooling retard, please treat gently' or something along those lines...

10:29 pm
benkyo said...

Iain: Nathan Barley? Nope, any good?

Can: Yeah, don't you remember us taking the piss out of you for declaring to the world that your left arm/hand was your best friend? Has somewhat onanistic overtones, no? =P

8:32 am

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