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WCDT - 6-10 September 2010 (1746-1750)
J:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 14 Sep 2010, 03:57 ---It matters if you screw up or get screwed and instead of, say, "Courage" have "Does Not Move" or "Giant Chicken" or somesuch written on you.
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--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 14 Sep 2010, 06:59 ---On the other hand, suddenly finding out that what you thought was a symbol of badass masculinity actually means that you perform unnatural acts with farm animals might be quite embarrassing, and allows the "plundered" to get a good chuckle at the expense of the stupid.
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--- Quote from: Tergon on 14 Sep 2010, 08:08 ---But if you saw someone walking around with the letters SMPELAT tramp-stamped over their arse, you'd wonder what the hell they were thinking. Let alone if they had random words like BANNANA CHAIR FROG BUBBLE there instead. If you're on about aesthetics, I'd have to think that having the body-art equivalent of Tourette's Syndrome permanently affixed to your skin would be kind of a drawback.
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hence the original idea:
--- Quote from: J on 12 Sep 2010, 18:41 ---i wonder if there's anyone out there you can send whatever you want tattooed, and they will translate and send you back the correct characters in the correct placement.
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to clarify, the idea is that you can hire a native speaker of the chosen language to design you're tattoo for you and avoid these problems.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 14 Sep 2010, 06:59 ---That's the whole joy of plundering though - I get it because I'm better at taking it than you are at keeping it.
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LOL, yeah... But like any awesome party, the hangover can be a bitch. When your humiliated victim turns into an extremely grumpy, nuclear-armed, emerging superpower. Which you spent a century or more teaching, in the most brutal way imaginable, that you are greedy, untrustworthy, racist, and respectful only of naked military and economic power. :-D And you still have to live with them. In a house made of egg-shells.
I don't, however, put stupid hanzi tattoos on quite the same level of ignorant cultural appropriation as Firefly, never mind the full-on neo-colonialism of Western museums refusing to return antiquities looted during the Opium Wars. :-(
Carl-E:
I'm rather fond of the opposite of hanzi tatoos, those t-shirts Japanese teens are fond of that have nonsensical English phrases on them.
Of course, they're not permanent...
I wonder how many of those teenagers get ill advised "Bad Engrish" tatoos?
I imagine they're not that stupid, but you never know... stupid is everywhere.
Border Reiver:
S'alright we westerners often find our own cultural history too troublesome to get right - Mel Gibson's Braveheart and The Patriot are prime examples of taking a couple of stories taht can be a goldmine for inspiration, and make them really difficult to watch if you have any knowledge of the actual story....
For all those out there - the Scottish army of the Anglo-Scottish Wars DIDN'T wear kilts, or paint their faces blue (that died out about 1100 years before), and William Wallace was born into the knightly class.
It's not neo-colonialism, it's straight out theft, gussied up with weight of history and some questionable financial transactions with the locals.
jwhouk:
And all of your points are good enough arguments to me to not get a tattoo in the first place, thanks.
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