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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Things You Find on Girls


I saw a girl wearing a t-shirt that read “Eternal Peace”. So I throttled her to death. Actually I stopped myself at the last moment, because maybe it was her mom's shirt or something. What is the unwritten message of such a shirt? It's like advertising "dinner" on your clothes: you like it, want it, will probably get it. Good for you.

Today I saw a girl with a very large chinese character tattooed on her arm and I barked out a laugh. The chinese reading, "an", means "safety", while the japanese reading, "yasui", means "cheap". Safe and cheap - exactly what i look for in street prostitutes.

What chafes is this: there are manifold wonderful styles of writing kanji, and without exception what is tattooed on western flab is the style found in school primers and conservative dictionaries. So when you walk around with the word 'girl', or 'dragon' on your shoulder written in the equivalent of Arial font, you're kind of letting 1.5 billion people know what a tool you are.

scholar's bonus: the bottom left kanji, top to bottom = "onyomi", (chinese reading), and "kunyomi" (japanese reading) respectively. I taught myself this shit so you wouldn't have to.)

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