I worked outside the US for 15+ years and returned in the mid 90s. The place I worked had some 20 something guys that had tattoo bands on their biceps. I asked them what they symbolized and they told me they were "tribal". So I asked them what tribe they were part of. They were pissed I asked and told I just didn't get it. I told them I had just come from the South Pacific and the different Islanders had different style tattoos to identify themselves. So why did they have 'tribal' tattoos if they weren't a member of a tribe? They didn't talk to me any more.

Some asshole got "kitchen" (台所) on his arm back when I was stationed in Yokosuka. I asked him what it meant and he said "It means demon". I had to draw it out for him since he didn't know stroke order and he was one of those weebs that came to Japan because he liked anime and Tokyo Drift and he couldn't be troubled with actually learning some of the language. The waiter came by and I asked him...

台所はどこですか？(where is the kitchen?) He pointed toward the back.

Then I pointed to the dudes arm and asked the waiter... 何ですか？(what is it?)

The waiter, obviously knowing the word in English says "Ki-chin". Then he grinned at the guy with the tattoo.

The guy was like, "What?"

I said, "He likes your tattoo."

Not sure how he managed to get that in his arm, but weebs are so fucking gullible. Probably pissed the artist off or wore some shitty anime shirt and couldn't do them the favor of at least learning more than survival Japanese.

This is before smartphones were prevalent.

Virtue signalling idiots who deserve everything they get. 99.99% of the time they don't speak a word of the language either.

Tattoos are degeneracy. Human skin is a product of billions years of evolution and dumb fucking monkeys spitting in a face of nature by making some shitty pictures or soon-to-be meaningless words on their bodies. If you need to write something important down, use fucking pen and paper.

It also could be nature's way to mark retarded people.

What are the Mandarin characters for "Stupid Tattoo?"

Is it any worse than ching chongs wearing English swear words because they have no clue what it means?

Also this is something that pajeets have missed out capitalizing on - getting paid by wypipo to tattoo 'Benchod' in Sanskrit over their bodies.

This goes both ways. There are more Asians with dumb English words as tattoos as there are a lot more Asians than White people.