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Originally Posted by Cartheron
If you actually do Judo, then it wasn't really you I was talking about. Seeing as though it's a Japanese Martial Art and you practice it. You learn some of the language, the countries history and obviously have enough respect for it to dedicate some of your life towards it. ;]
I was more on about people who get stuff like "peace, love, harmony" in Japanese. Why if you are not Japanese? It just makes no sense. It just gives the impression that you use the word as an excuse to have a "cool Japanese tattoo". Because if you got it for the actual meaning of the word, why not get it in your own language? So people around you can actually understand what it is and why you have it. And if you don't want people to know what it is then why the **** are they getting a tattoo of it in the first place? The only reason is. . . to have a cool tattoo, but pretending, "Noooooooo, it's really deep and meaningful BECOZ ITZ IN JAPANEEZ LOL!1"
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A couple of years ago I read a story in a magazine on a page where readers send in there funny stories and the story went something like this.
"A few years ago at college, my college friends and I befriended a chinese exchange student Kim. Over the year he stayed we became really good friends and he was fun to party with. When it was time for him to go home he gave us all good bye cards with our names as a chinese symbol. I had been thinking about getting a tattoo for a while and I really liked the way my name looked in Chinese so I decided to get the tatoo done.
The next summer I went on holiday and down the beach a bunch of Chinese girls came chasing after me shouting Sidney, Kim had mixed up the cards, bastard.
From Dave.