Comments on: Oh those smart-arse London tattoo artists

By: Rachel Gilbert

Rachel Gilbert — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:16:31 +0000

I’m a tattoo artist in America and share the same per peeve of doing endless asain characters on people who neither speak nor read the language they;re having permanently etched on their bodies. My favorite – a lady with a chinese character on her arm cam in to see me and asked me what it means (as if I know!). She was told it meant “wife/mother” – but upon further investigation we found out it meant “slave girl”. Ha ha!

By: m0vez

m0vez — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 20:13:22 +0000

hahahahaha he got d0ne like a kipper, chin up s0n.

By: aoife

aoife — Mon, 12 May 2003 09:19:58 +0000

And there’s the story of David Beckham, (famous english footballer married to Posh Spice).

He got her name tatoo on his arm in Hindi. apparently he thought getting it in english would be tacky

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 12 May 2003 05:14:52 +0000

A friend of mine was a head chef in Hong Kong and one day got hammered and ended up at Ricky and Pinkie’s tattoo parlor ( in HK they tattoo you whether you’ve been drinking or not ). Next morning he was working and was a bit quiet. He looked up and said ‘Nick, I’m ashamed to admit it but last night I did one of he most thuggish things I’ve ever done.’ He opened his chef’s jacket and had the word ‘MADE IN ENGLAND’ across his left pec. He was regtretting it already and knowing he knew classy people and might someday bump into one of them at the pool or the locker room was feeling pretty silly. I tried to cheer him up by saying it could of been worse, they could of written ‘MADE IN HONG KONG’.

By: Joe E.

Joe E. — Mon, 12 May 2003 04:05:15 +0000

Priceless.