Disgruntled Asian Tattoo Artist
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mali a répondu le Sat 27 Aug, 2005 @ 3:35pm |
 Coolness: 202205 | Pitt junior Brandon Smith wanted a tattoo that proclaimed his manliness, so he decided to get the Chinese characters for “strength” and “honor” on his chest. After 20 minutes under the needle of local tattoo artist Andy Sakai, he emerged with the symbol for “small penis” embedded in his flesh.
“I had it for months before I knew what it really meant,” Smith said. “Then 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.” Sakai, an award-winning tattoo artist, was tired of seeing sacred Japanese words, symbols of his heritage, inked on random white people. So he used their blissful ignorance to make an everlasting statement. Any time acustomer came to Sakai’s home studio wanting Japanese tattooed on them, he modified it into a profane word or phrase. “All these preppy sorority girls and suburban rich boys think they’re so cool ‘cause they have a tattoo with Japanese characters. But it doesn’t mean shit to them!” Sakai said. “The dumbasses don’t even realize that I’ve written ‘slut’ or ‘pervert’ on their skin!” In the last month, seven people unknowingly received explicit tattoos from the disgruntled artist. Kerri Baker, a Carlow College freshman, paid $50 to have the symbols for “beautiful goddess” etched above her belly button, but when she went into Szechuan Express Asian Noodle Shop sporting a bare midriff, the giggling employees explained to her that the tattoo really said, “Insert General Tso’s Chicken Here!” “I don’t even like General Tso’s!” Baker sobbed. “I’m a vegetarian!” Sakai doesn’t feel guilty about using hapless college students as canvases for his graffiti. “I think I’m helping my fellow man by labeling all the stupid people in the world,” he explained. “It’s not a crime, it’s a public service. [ www.soufoaklin.com ] |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Densetsu13 a répondu le Sat 27 Aug, 2005 @ 6:23pm |
 Coolness: 76780 | This is why I'm learning Japanese =P
In all seriousness though, we had a good laugh about this is class with my Japanese teacher XD I could NEVER understand why someone would get something written on them if they CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT THEMSELVES >.< At least get a friend that can read it to go with you for christ's sake. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mali a répondu le Sun 28 Aug, 2005 @ 9:50am |
| Coolness: 202205 | Its totally funny what the guy did.. I wonder if they can sue? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer a répondu le Mon 29 Aug, 2005 @ 3:19am |
 Coolness: 92355 | I feel bad for those people though, I'd be really pissed, but in a way I understand the japanese guys frustration. The feeling of the word often changes when you translate so the least you can do is find the best word for what you mean if you even give a shti what it says. Plus 90% of the people in your city won't understand what the fuck it says, so it's pointless to have it say anything unless you're trying to appeal specifically to the japanese who'll soon learn you don't speak a word of their language anyway. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform a répondu le Mon 29 Aug, 2005 @ 7:10am |
 Coolness: 339755 | the dude's a fag for doing it, he gladly took their money to do a job he didn't want to do..
he could have *EASILY* refused to tat them. honnestly though. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc a répondu le Mon 29 Aug, 2005 @ 10:36am |
 Coolness: 148905 | i wonder if asian people tattoo english words on their bodies |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» earthyspirit a répondu le Mon 29 Aug, 2005 @ 10:48am |
 Coolness: 229765 | heheh look I've got the letter E on my chest mwaa hahah, at least the english tatoo guy said it was an E.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform a répondu le Mon 29 Aug, 2005 @ 1:12pm |
| Coolness: 339755 | they get a "letter" tatooed then find out he just dicked you. hahah |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» soyfunk a répondu le Mon 29 Aug, 2005 @ 3:23pm |
 Coolness: 126860 | this should be applied to those stupid ass "dragon" baseball caps and those matel hotwheels you see in front of the orange julep |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Trey a répondu le Wed 31 Aug, 2005 @ 10:05am |
 Coolness: 102855 | Sakai obviously doesn't appreciate the art of calligraphy. Maybe they don't know it, but people who get tatoo in eastern writtings/letters support this ancient form of art.
"Calligraphy (in Chinese, Shufa 書法, in Japanese Shodō 書道, in Korean, Seoyae 書藝" |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» ckm001 a répondu le Wed 31 Aug, 2005 @ 8:13pm |
 Coolness: 35070 | Are you sure this is legit? It sounds a lot like an article from the Onion. I don't even think "Insert General Tso’s Chicken Here!" would make sense in Chinese characters.
Edit: As I suspected... Click 'About Us' on the site: "Souf Oaklin fo' Life!!! (S.O.F.L.) grew out of a collaboration of labors of love. Its format is primarily derived from the national satircal newspaper The Onion [ www.theonion.com ] "... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» v.2-1 a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 3:15am |
 Coolness: 159210 | Besides, isn't it supposed to be General Tao and not Tso ? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 5:30am |
| Coolness: 92355 | Originally posted by CKM001...
I don't even think "Insert General Tso’s Chicken Here!" actually it can make sense in japanese characters, they have 3 different lettereign systems. The one you're probably fmailiar with is the one they use to have one letter representing something that usually takes a sentence, but they also have an alphabetical one for when none of those characters can be used, and then they have a completely seperate alphabet just for names. So you can write anythign you want. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Densetsu13 a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 9:44am |
| Coolness: 76780 | Romaji = Using our alphabet to spell out whatever in Japanese (My name is Alex, Arekkusu when written in Japanese)
Katakana = Only used for foreign words that aren't japanese originally (words like Soccer (sakka), tape (tepu) will be written in this fashion. It's a more straight blocky simple style of writing) therefore all of our names, since they are foreign, are written in katakana. Also, a lot of times, they will use katakana for words that are Japanese, but only because it makes it look more "fashionable" Hiragana = The most commonly characters since they are used for all words that didn't come from somewhere else. These characters are a lot more curvy and stylized, and I personally am having a hell of a time making my writing look good when using hiragana =P Kanji = The famous "symbols", Chinese in origin if I'm not mistaken. Basically one kanji is more like an idea, and you get different words from it. Kind of like how the kanji for Sun, can also be looked at as meaning light and/or day. Graphically the MOST complicated by far. Supposedly kids have separate classes for learning just kanji. This is also why Japanese can read SOME Chinese characters, since they mean the same thing, however since japanese incorporate other characters into their writing, they don't know as many as the Chinese. The last bit on Kanji might be a bit wrong, since I'm not even close to learning kanji yet, but the other three should be pretty much right. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mali a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 10:14pm |
| Coolness: 202205 | Actually I found out that this article might not be legit but there have been accounts of this actually happening a few times before |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» elka a répondu le Fri 2 Sep, 2005 @ 11:43am |
| Coolness: 52520 | Ya i have heard about people doing this too.
Thats horrible. But it IS annoying seeing all these retards with "asian character" tattoos.. soo lame |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn a répondu le Sun 18 Sep, 2005 @ 9:35am |
| Coolness: 178735 | :lol |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» soyfunk a répondu le Wed 21 Sep, 2005 @ 1:57pm |
| Coolness: 126860 | there's a restaurant in chinatown me and my folks like to eat out at once in a while
the food is so-so but we like that it's quiet and almost empty each time we go one of the last times we were there there was this dude trying to impress a girl about how much he knew about oriental food then he takes out some gold candles he must've bought earlier from one of the shops the waiter cuts them off "no good. for funeral. only for dead people. don't bring home it's bad luck. don't bring home." i thought it was funny cause the dude wasn't talking so much anymore for the rest of the meal |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc a répondu le Wed 21 Sep, 2005 @ 4:56pm |
| Coolness: 148905 | stupid... he shoulda used the candle to mourn his chances with the girl |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform a répondu le Wed 21 Sep, 2005 @ 5:07pm |
| Coolness: 339755 | bah, fuck badluck, i'dda light those fuckers up and waved em around as a sign of dissrepect to all those cultures unlike my own! >:D |
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