Parents buy kids clothes printed with swear words because they don't understand English

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Posted: 7/29/2015 7:40:18 AM EDT

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-news/fk-you-pay-me-parents-6154785

Consumers in Asia are being sold clothing with offensive phrases on them - but they have no idea because they don't speak English

Parents are snapping up clothing for their kids covered in inappropriate language - because they don't understand what it says.

The clothing, shown here with sayings like, "$ex for money" and "too drunk to f***", are being worn by children as young as eight in Asia because they can't read the English.

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Posted: 7/29/2015 7:43:53 AM EDT

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Kind of like those protesters carrying the "bomb us now' banners.

Posted: 7/29/2015 7:47:28 AM EDT

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You just know some Western dipshit has a tattoo of Chinese/Japanese characters that is the parallel of these T-shirts.

Posted: 7/29/2015 7:48:20 AM EDT

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I was in Japan for 3 weeks back in 2012 and some girl of maybe 13 years was wearing a shirt that said "Buck Naked"

They love the English language, their radio was full of English songs being done by Japanese people.

I heard a Van Halen song done by a Japanese band..... god......

Posted: 7/29/2015 7:55:28 AM EDT

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I've been told that Asian people seem to like the work FUCK in English because of the 2 angular letter surrounding the two curvy letters. Granted, this is all hearsay so I dunno could be bullshit.

Posted: 7/29/2015 7:56:30 AM EDT

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I always assume every one of them is like that. Worse tats ever.

Posted: 7/29/2015 7:59:40 AM EDT

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I always assume every one of them is like that. Worse tats ever.

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You just know some Western dipshit has a tattoo of Chinese/Japanese characters that is the parallel of these T-shirts.

I always assume every one of them is like that. Worse tats ever.

Just googled. Can't hotlink. http://kotaku.com/why-you-shouldnt-get-chinese-script-tattoos-if-you-ca-1037896584

Posted: 7/29/2015 8:02:03 AM EDT

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Made in China or Singapore or Vietnam or Mexico?

Kind of like white people getting tattoos in Chinese characters not knowing that someone just "put a spell" on them..

Posted: 7/29/2015 8:03:12 AM EDT

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Or it is a restaurant menu item list

Posted: 7/29/2015 8:07:10 AM EDT

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And how is that any worse than westerners getting tattoos in Kanji and script that they don't really know what it says?

Posted: 7/29/2015 8:08:38 AM EDT

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Posted: 7/29/2015 8:11:39 AM EDT

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Most people don't bother to read, anyway.

Posted: 7/29/2015 8:12:15 AM EDT

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I always assume every one of them is like that. Worse tats ever.

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You just know some Western dipshit has a tattoo of Chinese/Japanese characters that is the parallel of these T-shirts.

I always assume every one of them is like that. Worse tats ever.

Lower back tats like that say "this end up". All of them.

Posted: 7/29/2015 8:13:11 AM EDT

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I am convinced that the majority of tattoos of Chinese characters don't say what the artist and client think they say. If I ever learn to speak and read Chinese, the ability to read nape tats aloud to their bearers will be my motivation.

Posted: 7/29/2015 8:17:54 AM EDT

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You just know some Western dipshit has a tattoo of Chinese/Japanese characters that is the parallel of these T-shirts.

I always assume every one of them is like that. Worse tats ever.

Just googled. Can't hotlink. http://kotaku.com/why-you-shouldnt-get-chinese-script-tattoos-if-you-ca-1037896584

Hotlinked and worth it.

Posted: 7/30/2015 6:32:20 AM EDT

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FIFY.

Posted: 7/30/2015 7:07:08 AM EDT

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Posted: 7/30/2015 7:25:50 AM EDT

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When I was in Japan, I remember seeing sports/team style shirts that said complete gibberish, but in western letters.

They didn't know or care what they said as long as it looked American.

Posted: 7/30/2015 7:30:29 AM EDT

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Great for those weekly "Friday what you Drinking" threads.

Posted: 7/30/2015 8:03:46 AM EDT

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We do the same thing:

MAYBE that is what it really says.

Posted: 7/30/2015 8:26:24 AM EDT

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Wear earbuds at work.

Posted: 7/30/2015 10:50:07 AM EDT

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This nothing new. In the 80's when I was in junior high we had a lady come in to talk to our social studies class about living in Taiwan. She commented that t-shirts with english words were very popular with kids. She said some of the shirts made no sense or were profane. However she said it was pretty funny to see a 10 year old kid walking down the street with a shirt that said "Numbnuts" and a squirrel on it. She said the rumor was a group of American college students studying in Taiwan silk screened these shirts and somehow got major retailers to sell them there.

Posted: 7/30/2015 10:52:06 AM EDT

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This has gotta be BS

Posted: 7/30/2015 10:54:05 AM EDT

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I was in Japan for 3 weeks back in 2012 and some girl of maybe 13 years was wearing a shirt that said "Buck Naked"

They love the English language, their radio was full of English songs being done by Japanese people.

I heard a Van Halen song done by a Japanese band..... god......

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With the Japanese there's a good chance it's intentional.

Posted: 7/30/2015 11:11:38 AM EDT

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Long-time visitors to Engrish.com know that it is 110% true.

ETA - Perfect example, t-shirt from Japan:

Posted: 7/30/2015 11:15:59 AM EDT

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That's OK, the same thing happens with white guys. To wit:

The Hebrew reads "matzah," as in this stuff:

Posted: 7/30/2015 11:18:47 AM EDT

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China:

Posted: 7/30/2015 11:27:07 AM EDT

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Kyoto, Japan:

Posted: 7/30/2015 11:31:22 AM EDT

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I'm guessing they must feel the same with Americans wearing their language shirts.

Posted: 7/30/2015 11:38:14 AM EDT

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I like that one.

Posted: 7/30/2015 11:39:05 AM EDT

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Great for those weekly "Friday what you Drinking" threads.

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Great for those weekly "Friday what you Drinking" threads.

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm267/dvd31565/Mobile%20Uploads/silly.png

DK fan obviously.

Kid will be emporer one day.

Posted: 7/30/2015 11:43:07 AM EDT

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Posted: 7/30/2015 11:46:47 AM EDT

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Or it is a restaurant menu item list

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Or it is a restaurant menu item list

A few years ago a a car magazine did an article making fun of different 'car guy' stereotypes. The description for the 'import/tuner' guy included "Rear widow has Japanese writing which says 'Osaka residents are reminded that garbage collection is on Tuesdays and Thursdays' "

Posted: 7/30/2015 11:46:50 AM EDT

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This! and the fact that the non-english speaker can just take off the shirt, not so much in the case of the tattoo.

Posted: 7/30/2015 11:49:49 AM EDT

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I want that shirt to wear around the office.

Posted: 7/30/2015 12:37:30 PM EDT

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One of my favorite memories from law school was a very very quiet visiting grad student from Japan who came to classes every day in a suit. After a month or so, he finally comes to his first Friday afternoon beer fest in a t shirt with a picture of a motorcycle on the front and a back that read "I wouldn't shit you man, you're my favorite turd" - and he had no idea what it meant because he, the perfect older son, had taken it from his rebellious younger brother's stuff before he left and never bothered to read the text. For such an uptight guy it was a perfect shattering moment to get him to realize he could let loose for a few hours. By the end of the night he had let loose maybe a bit too much - transformed into The Donger from 16 Candles - but he had never really relaxed before and was hammered, shouting stuff in Japanese, and hitting on every girl in sight. I got to know him pretty well over that semester - quite a few courses in common, and he told me that stealing his brother's shirt was the luckiest thing he ever did.

Posted: 7/30/2015 12:46:26 PM EDT

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Yep. Had to expect this to happen, after years and years of idiots over here getting all kinds of Asian shit on clothes and tats that they don't really understand.