David Dimbleby's tattoo....

True story;

I once temped at a place where a football-mad youngster had the ' England 3 Lions ' tattoo applied on his chest.

Snag was they put it back to front, ie mirror image, and of course he was stuck with it and the constant butt of never ending hilarity among similar football plonkers.
 
I will confess to occasionally considering being tattooed with a small, discreet Chinese dragon. But so far I haven't, and if I did, it would be somewhere like my upper arm or shoulder!

Every time I see someone with Chinese characters tattooed on them, I ask my wife to read it - I'm just waiting for it to read something like "Stupid Foreigner"!

Main thing that would put me off is not knowing which tattoo parlours are most careful with things like sterile procedures! One of my daughters has stars all over her back, and I know that she had to sleep face-down for a week afterwards, which hardly encourages me.
 
Seajet said:
I once temped at a place where a football-mad youngster had the ' England 3 Lions ' tattoo applied on his chest. Snag was they put it back to front...
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"SNOIL 3 DNALGNE"...? Reminds me of something which might have been said by the late memorably-accented BBC Northern Ireland correspondent John Cole. (Died last week, R.I.P.)

I expect it means something somewhere!
 
dancrane said:
"SNOIL 3 DNALGNE"...? Reminds me of something which might have been said by the late memorably-accented BBC Northern Ireland correspondent John Cole. (Died last week, R.I.P.)

I expect it means something somewhere!
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Hondootedly, to quote Mr Hislop's organ.
 
AntarcticPilot said:
Main thing that would put me off is not knowing which tattoo parlours are most careful with things like sterile procedures! One of my daughters has stars all over her back, and I know that she had to sleep face-down for a week afterwards, which hardly encourages me.
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I think in blighty you'd have to look quite hard for a truly unscrupulous tattoo artist. I'm no expert mind but I don't know any people who have managed to wake up with tattoos after a binge in England. I know quite a few though who have managed it abroad.
 
Eldest daughter would have had to have her left foot amputated, due to banana spider bites, if not for the swift actions of the tropical disease hospital. Bites left scars which she decided to have covered (tattooed) when she turned 18. If ankles sag then she's potentially in for a fall in later years.
 
One more time, traditionally...

愚蠢的外國人

(it is much easier to type Simplified, thinking in Mandarin, using the pinyin transliteration than it is to type Traditional, espescially if you are thinking in Cantonese!)

Actually, don't worry about that one; worry about this one - be warned that Cantonese contains an unusually high proportion of extremely obscene swear words, of which this is a fair sample (do NOT say this to your wife, or to anyone whom you are not trying to pick a fight with... 我他媽的你的母親!
 
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It takes a brave - or daft / p'd up - person to have a tattoo like that; to a pleb like me it could have the directions as to how to use the nearest Stargate, or be saying ' here is an esteemed pillock ' !

If I was a tattoo artist versed in foreign languages I don't think I'd be able to resist it if a customer was just a little bolshie...:)
 
Seajet said:
If I was a tattoo artist versed in foreign languages I don't think I'd be able to resist it if a customer was just a little bolshie...:)
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From what I've seen of people who go for tattoos, I don't think I'd want to risk being the target of a bolshie customers wrath after someone pointed out the true translation. Much safer to just give 'em what they want and take their money.
 
Woodlouse,

considering the average peer group I think a translation would be unlikely, and if someone did come up with the real meaning they'd cop it first, as in ' shoot the messenger ' !

I still reckon it would be an irresistible opportunity...:)
 
I'm not against tattoos but I am against the cheap nonsense ones you see kids covered in these days. If your going to get one think seriously about the art and pay good money for an artist to do it. So many kids running around with God knows what all over themselves, doodled on them by very un artistic people.
 
cryan said:
I'm not against tattoos but I am against the cheap nonsense ones you see kids covered in these days. If your going to get one think seriously about the art and pay good money for an artist to do it. So many kids running around with God knows what all over themselves, doodled on them by very un artistic people.
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Are you some sort of Tattoo Policeman?
 
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