I'm only asking here, not judging or anything....But why is it that people get names/initials and whatnot tattooed in Chinese and not English? It seems fair enough if you speak the language, but what is the attraction for someone who does not? Why are Chinese letters more fashionable than, say, Greek ones?

TBH i just walked into a tattooist after a couple of drinks and picked it as i wanted a tattoo.

Im in the middle of designing my daughters name in gaelic as her name is Irish, (my hubby is part irish)

Tattoo's make people look interesting so it stands to reason that chinese characters will make people look even more interesting and also a bit mysterious. Greek doesn't work because that reminds people of maths which is boring.

(incidently it's why I have thai characters on my tag line - it's a desperate attempt to make people think I'm an interesting person to know, not that it works, but then maybe it's not permanent enough)

Oh. Working on that logic, I wonder if there are lots of Chinese people walking around with letters of the alphabet etched on them? A big black Q, to symbolise the meaning of life, or love, or something deep.

(I always thought you had been messing around with the funny fonts and couldn't turn it off again)

Have a look at this

"The guy at the tattoo shop told me this means brave and proud warrior in English,” said beaming Beijing teenager Hao Tsang as he pointed to the letters GARF freshly inked onto his left bicep. “It’s perfect for me because I am very bold and confident, yet spiritual.”

Tsang’s friend Yuan Chi Hao also went under the needle for some English language characters. “Mine simply says FRUNK. The letters are so beautiful and flow so smoothly into each other. The word actually means old soul with young spirit in English. How cool is that?”

Apparently, very cool.

Throngs of Chinese youths are flocking to tattoo parlors looking to colorfully emboss their bodies with “meaningful” English language words.

“I couldn’t decide between CRYMPH or DLECH,” said Chengdu high school student Mingmei Lee. “I know they both mean beautiful flower dancing in the wind in American, but I can’t decide what looks prettier.”

I smell a rat, but its funny anyway...


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=frunk!

Seems strangely appropriate to me...

Ive no tats, and no desire to have any. Sometimes I just shake my head and wonder what people are A: Thinking, and B: Going to think in 30 years time, but its their choice and I shouldnt judge too harshly.

I guess Im just a middle class boy who inherited his parents prissy middle class values.

I'm just happy to know i'm middle aged and desperate

story of my life

It appears location is just as important as design..........

http://www.cracked.com/funny-298-tattoos/

oh dear I am the lime green - second to bottom

bahahaha best get yersen down t'clinic love

Before getting one done, I suggest having a look at those here, and avoiding anything like that at all costs. Also make sure the tattoo artist can spell.

http://wtftattoos.com/

Well this has brightened up my morning no end. Dog ass. Brilliant.

“My man just hooked me up with some mad asian ink! He says it means wise wolf that guards the pack. That’s totally me dawg… I take care of my boys. Cool dat!”

Upon further investigation, the characters were found to actaully mean dog ass.

I have one tattoo - it is Mr Chookie and my name translated into Elvish and then into Tolkien's elvish writing. (I am a huge Tolkien fan and did the translations myself).

I do plan on getting two more - one of little flowers on my foot with vines and leaves - one flower for each of the kids and each one coloured in one of the kids favourite colours (so that would be purple, yellow, blue and pink). And then I also want a crown as one of my nicknames means crown in Hindi. Not sure where I want that one put.

Mr Chookie has a lincolnshire imp on his calf.

Is Mr Chookie from Lincoln then or does he just like the look of the Imp as a Tattoo? Seems a specific choice of odd looking creature for a tattoo.....

I have 2 tattoo's, one on my hip that is a cover up for a crappy version of a celtic symbol (tattooist was rubbish!!) that I had done when I was 18 and one on my shoulder blade of a rose which is in memory of a friend who died. Always fancied getting another, maybe with my son's name or something to represent him but not sure....