i'm going to get "orientalism" tattooed on me in chinese

[tgies]

Today I saw a 女神 ("goddess" in Chinese or Japanese) tattoo on a dude for the third time. I have only been seeing those since I moved here, so I bet there's a local tattoo parlor telling people it means "US MARINE CORPS" or something. I am going to stop the next guy I see with one of those tattoos and ask him what it says.

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[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

Perhaps there is some beautiful Asian girl who tells all her boyfriends they need to have her named tattooed on them.

Wait, that was my subconscious again...

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

p.s. Thank you for giving me an excellent string of characters to feed in to Google image search.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

do 尿 next

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

Huh, somebody on the internet seems to really like those devices that let women pee standing up. Particularly if the women are young and attractively dressed. I should string all these characters together and see what "urine goddess" gives me.

Perhaps that'll be my tattoo.

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

Okay, either concept by itself mostly gives hits from ".cn" but the juxtaposition of the two primarily gives sites from ".jp"

This just reinforces my stereotypes about the Japanese.

[omgwtftoph.livejournal.com]

DJ MICHAEL THE GODDES

[tgies.livejournal.com]

DJ TOPH THE :G

[total-death.livejournal.com]

At least it isn't a Chinese restaurant name.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

I have unfortunately seen that D:

I have also seen "THE EIGHT TEACHINGS OF BUDDHISM": 一二三四五六七八, which is just the damn Chinese/Japanese numerals 1 through 8. As one might guess by looking at the first three.

[magis.livejournal.com]

hello my name is 火 and im a tattoo.

(Sadly, I still hold high regard for kanji that look like animals and I'd definitely have 点 engraved on my ass)