{"id":28773,"date":"2014-11-20T00:03:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T05:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28773"},"modified":"2014-11-19T21:16:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T02:16:50","slug":"fortunately-t-shirts-arent-as-permanent-as-tattoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/20\/fortunately-t-shirts-arent-as-permanent-as-tattoos\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortunately, T-shirts aren&#8217;t as permanent as tattoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re of a skeptical turn, you may have wondered just what your friend&#8217;s new tattoo really says in Chinese, or Russian, or whatever script their tattoo artist just inked into their skin. My suspicion is that at least a significant proportion of the new &#8216;tats are the equivalent of these <a href=\"http:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-shirts-with-random-english-words\/\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese discount store shirts with random English words<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reddit user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pics\/comments\/2lv15c\/i_live_in_japan\/\" target=\"_blank\">k-popstar<\/a> recently moved to Japan to teach English. Over the last few months he has been wandering into various discount stores and taking photos of shirts with random English words on them. I have to admit, that potato one is pretty sweet! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-t-shirts-with-random-english-words-12.jpg\" alt=\"japanese-discount-store-t-shirts-with-random-english-words-12\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-t-shirts-with-random-english-words-12.jpg 600w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-t-shirts-with-random-english-words-12-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-t-shirts-with-random-english-words-12-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-t-shirts-with-random-english-words-12-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-shirts-with-random-english-words-6.jpg\" alt=\"japanese-discount-store-shirts-with-random-english-words-6\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-shirts-with-random-english-words-6.jpg 600w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-shirts-with-random-english-words-6-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-shirts-with-random-english-words-6-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-shirts-with-random-english-words-6-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-shirts-with-random-english-words-17.jpg\" alt=\"japanese-discount-store-shirts-with-random-english-words-17\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-shirts-with-random-english-words-17.jpg 600w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-shirts-with-random-english-words-17-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-shirts-with-random-english-words-17-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/japanese-discount-store-shirts-with-random-english-words-17-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That second one is almost poetic. If I knew what &#8220;thirstry&#8221; was.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyoteblog.com\/coyote_blog\/2014\/11\/i-wonder-2.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Coyote Blog<\/em><\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re of a skeptical turn, you may have wondered just what your friend&#8217;s new tattoo really says in Chinese, or Russian, or whatever script their tattoo artist just inked into their skin. My suspicion is that at least a significant proportion of the new &#8216;tats are the equivalent of these Japanese discount store shirts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,24],"tags":[618,400],"class_list":["post-28773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-japan","tag-clothing","tag-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7u5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28780,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28773\/revisions\/28780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}