* Photo(s) have been removed on behalf of Ms. Naomi Chaney's (owner of the "crazy diarrhea" tattoo) Request *
The original can be viewed at BMEzine.com: http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A50210/high/bmegl019014.jpg
In October 14, 2004, when I first saw this tattoo, I was stunned and speechless. It literally means "crazy diarrhea" in both Chinese Hanzi and Japanese Kanji.
狂 = crazy
瀉 = to flow out, diarrhea
One comment from the supposely owner of the tattoo (he/she submitted the comment anonymously and there is no confirmation) claimed that:
"I knew pretty much what it meant and got it as a joke to people who get stupid shit tattooed onthemselves without knowing what it was. Though yes I thought it meant violent diarrhea, crazy diarrhea isn't too far off. I had help from an asian friend of mine to pick this out."
I wonder if this is the same person, or there has been a "crazy diarrhea" cult spawned.
One big vote for the samosas. Heck, I'd buy a package of these, just to keep the packaging.
ReplyDeleteHell yeah. Hilarious.
ReplyDeleteThere's absolutely nothing wrong with poking fun at boneheads with crappy kanji tattoos. I can't tell you how irritated I get when people say "oh you can speak a tiny bit of Japanese? Can you write *Inner Spirit* for me?"
I think of the kanji/chinese phenomenon like this: people get all worked up if they get the wrong thing ("Insert General Tso's Chicken here" comes to mind), but don't English-speakers get upset and/or make fun when they see botched English? I think speakers of whatever botched language have every right to mock said botchery.
Yes, I have seen mockery of Japanese-English (see engrish.com).
ReplyDeleteBut of all their examples, I don't see them tatooed on a person for all eternity.
"I saw the movie which could cry very much"-t-shirt. Yes. http://engrish.com/detail.php?imagename=I_saw_the_movie.jpg&category=Clothing&date=2005-01-10
But a tatoo? No.
I love this blog and had forgotten it existed until boingboing reminded me by showing me the funniest post ever...
ReplyDeleteSooo... a good friend of mine has a tattoo on his shoulder. (I'll have to get a pic of it)
ReplyDeleteHe asked a street caligraphy artist to do a 5x7 version of it for his wall. The artist agrees and for 10$ produces a nice copy of it. Then laughing he hands it to my friend. I ask him why he's laughing.
Artist responds "It says 'Sheep'"
What would the kanji be for "All your base..?"
ReplyDelete基地 = base
ReplyDeletehttp://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=57fa
http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=5730
" How does one pronounce crazy diarreah in Japanese?"
ReplyDeleteWell, these two kanji would be read in Japanese as 'kyou-sha', but this character for diarrhea is used very rarely. The more common one is 痢(ri), as in the word 下痢(geri), which is the usual word.