Found these two notebooks in a bargain store today. Ah, crazy Japan ^_-
http://kabocha.futariba.com/photos/misc/extra3%20004.jpg
Gave me a laugh.
ah, sweet engrish.
www.engrish.com
I think that this thread is getting funnier by the minute (or every 3 minutes?)
Too bad I don't have something to add, but thanks Kinoko and esper.
I'm laughing my head off here, and it's only morning.
I'll wait a little longer, then I'll drink 3-4 pints of beer and then I'll fall asleep on my double bed (alone). And in the meantime I'll watch friends on the DVD.
How more off-topic could this post be?
euhm, this might sound silly, but I don't get the joke?! please explain! pffft...
Really check espers link! See some photgraphs (I propose computers...) Then you'll definately understand
I propose clothing.... Oh, the clothing people wear in Japan....
"War is Homo..."
EDIT: Oh, boy, I just noticed this on my work computer. I'm sorry, but I have to tell you what the morons decided to put on the main server here at work... Note that this is the computer that has to be connected to the internet in order to do my job
Do Not Download the Internet on This Computer....
WTF? That is one bigass hard drive.
Heh heh. This is exactly how they pronounce it here too. It's very funny. I still double-take everytime someone says "peanus butter."
And esper, regarding the terrible but hilarious Engrish on clothing: My sister who is in High School flew over here to visit me and went nuts buying tons of shirts with ridiculous English. I always have a good laugh, especially when English teachers at my school wear stuff like this.
Okay, and what is it with anime music, huh? Let me present for your consideration "Freckles," the themesong to Rurouni Kenshin...
I brush against the freckles that I hated so, But life goes on and I heave a little sigh for you.
It's heavy, the love that I would share with you, Then it dissolved like it was just a sugar cube.
Now the little pain sittin' in my heart, Has shrunk in a bit, but it really does hurt me now.
Those silly horoscopes I guess I can't trust them after all.
If we could get further away, I wonder what it would be like...
ya-a-ay!
I'd be so happy,Inside my heart!
All the memories, I have are beautiful in my mind, But they don't feed the hunger deep inside my soul.
And tonight I thought, I'd be just sitting in my sorrow, And now I must wonder wonder why.
What did it really mean to you? I just can't see it anymore!
I just can't see it anymore! Oh-ahohoh-o-o-oooh!
Tell me, just what does that have to do with a story about a man who once was a bloodthirsty killer and now roams the countryside seeking penitence for his evil by doing good deeds with a reverse-bladed sword? And the Japanese version probably contains about 12% of those actual words.
...and also, why is it that every anime song has one line in English???
"The real folk blues!"Ã, Ã,Â
Silly Esper, didn't you know anime songs are translated to Engrish with Babelfish?
Ah, the wacky engrish of Japan - I've encountered no small number of occurrances of Engrish and its like in the years I've been here. I also just so happen to have a few on file. So, since this is the thread for it, I think I'll share.
Exhibit 1: Salt & Beef Potato Chips.
(http://www.garlic.com/~rideout/spacepiratecaine/engrish1.jpg)
I know the english isn't exactly incorrect, being a valid potato chip flavor, but I still wanted to pimp out the marvelous Yamayoshi (http://www.yamayoshi.co.jp/) brand "And Beef" potato chip series. Other favorites include Curry & Beef, Mayonnaise & Beef, and my personal favorite Wasa-Beef (spicy).
Exhibit 2: 'Alcoholic shirt'
(http://www.garlic.com/~rideout/spacepiratecaine/engrish2.jpg)
(http://www.garlic.com/~rideout/spacepiratecaine/engrish3.jpg)
It's been a while since I had pretty, long blue hair, but take a look at that sweater. The front and back seem not to really agree with one another. I fall into the 'back' category, but I do love my alcoholic shirt. It's not pictured, but on the sleeve is printed: SAME: Success or Failure, it's all the same to me
...Yup.
Exhibit 3: Toothpick
(http://www.garlic.com/~rideout/spacepiratecaine/engrish4.jpg)
One could argue, of course, that this is one of those 'cover your ass' situations, where they want people to be sure they know that if they poked a sharp wooden object, the mini-stake generally wins, but still... is it really necessary?
That's all I have for now. If this thread's still going Thursday night, I'll take a picture of the side of the local casino. It's pretty damned baffling.
Space Pirate Legolas, is that you? o_o
Lol. At everything from the engrish to the Legolas comment.
I'm not much of a shutter-bug. I always forget to whip out my camera when I come across funny Engrish, but here's the bar that my co-workers and I went to after a conference in Kobe.
(http://www.thexiis.com/media/neojapanese.jpg)
in case you can't make it out (it was dark), it says "Neo Japanese Fooding Bar."
MMMMmmmmmm.
[edit because I just remembered it was Kobe, not Kyoto... as if anyone cares or will notice this...]
I'm maybe a complete idiot, but what's the joke with salt and beef?
I've got to find my warranty card for a Flash Reader. It's got a lifetime guarantee and reads something like: "This is for the being good until the day you die."
The way I see it, 'beef' flavor is an odd thing to put on a potato chip. Maybe it's just my prissy elven heritage; granted 'meat and potatos' is nothing new, but am I the only one who finds 'meat' an odd potato chip flavor? Especially when added seemingly arbitrarily just to round out your flavors...
Perhaps this will entertain you then:
(http://walkers.corpex.com/cr15p5/walkpix/prodpix2/crisps_bo.gif)(http://walkers.corpex.com/cr15p5/walkpix/prodpix2/crisps_pc.gif)
Oh those crazy British. What will they eat next?
Ha. I took a Linguistics class once, and one of the TAs was Korean (go figure), and her favorite sample sentence was "Elephants don't like peanuts," said of course, "Elephants don't like peanus."Ã,Â
It was always heartbreaking to see her stand there and look confused when everyone giggled.
You guys have never heard of beef flavour?? Wow. It used to be one of the classic flavours, like smokey bacon. I guess you never got that in America...
actually, prawn and barbeque are my two favourite chip flavours.. don't understand how those chips are Engrish ???
I don't remember much Engrish here and those I do are not funny enough:
- A fast food place says "HAMBOURKERS" with big letters
- A t-shirt says "Why I can't wear shorts?"
- Some rules I saw in a swimming pool are gramatically incorrect and tragically misspelt
Also, my English teacher for this year (one of the most annoying people ever), pronounces some English words totally wrong and expects us to pronounce them the same way.
Hambourkers???
Anyway... My friend in college married a Canadian girl, and her brother came down for the wedding (Elliot Hird, are you from Canada??? Her name was Kristine Hird, and I think she might have had a brother named Elliot)... He came bearing two of the stupidest potato chip flavors I have ever seen in my life...
Dill Pickle... and Ketchup.
Now, the Canadians seem to be taking over America, because we're selling Dill Pickle flavor in all our supermarkets. The Ketchup brand seems to have yet to catch on though... And also the Dill Pickle flavored popcorn...
Although I must say, prawn chips and mayonnaise and beef chips sound even worse...
I stand corrected, I s'pose. We get 'barbecue' flavor in California, which I suppose has a vaguely meaty taste - though primarily 'barbecue sauce', but I'd honestly never seen a 'meat' flavored chip before I came here. Oh well - the mascot's still cute.
They briefly sold "Meat Pie and Sauce" chips here.
As well as spider [soft drink and icecream] flavoured fanta.
And both were as tasty as they sound.
That meat pie and sauce chip was amazing in just how much it tasted like meat pie and sauce though. I remember they had two other flavours in that campaign... one was the particular flavour of cheese and... I can't remember the other, but they all tasted like very real flavours whether you liked them or not.
I never ventured to try the icecream spider fanta though.
I do't think any of the chip flavours I've seen in Japan are terribly weird. There's wasabi (I won't touch them) and nori/seaweed which is actually a rather nice mild taste. Haven't seen anything 'kookier' than those though and thay're not terribly interesting.
Oi. We have Dill and Ketchup. Dill is awesome. I have yet to taste te Ketchup ones. Pringles comes up with some stupid flavours nowadays too
Apparently, it's a known fact that they don't have Sour cream & onion flavoured crisps in Greece. I remember trying to find those in a couple of different markets in Agia Anna, with Helm and Adam.
I guess I have boring taste as my favourite crisps are plain salted and sour cream & onions. I haven't dared to try those exotic flavours like ketcup and stuff.
And on the topic regarding peanuts (or peanus, what ever you prefer), I remember begging my mum to buy some peanut butter years ago. I always thought it would taste sweet, but BAH! It was horrible and after the almost full jar had been in the fridge for weeks my mum finally tossed it away.
* Nikolas defending Greece *
Yes they do! I'm pretty sure that I've seen sour cream and onion flavour in Greece!
And in Greece we also have Feta Cheese flavor (?) and ketchup, which is my favorite!
:-X
Quote from: Nikolas on Sun 16/10/2005 11:16:59
* Nikolas defending Greece *
Yes they do! I'm pretty sure that I've seen sour cream and onion flavour in Greece!
And in Greece we also have Feta Cheese flavor (?) and ketchup, which is my favorite!
Heck yeah! You forgot to mention the olive flavor and olive oil flavor (not the plain kind, it tastes different) :=. Yummy....
I like Feta cheese but not on crisps. We've had goats, and I tell you, they smell like those crisps taste. and after you've seen dirty goats and associated that with the smell you don't want to eat feta crisps any more.
Kinoko, try the wasabi chips, they're excellent! Also, green tea chips rock.
Isn't it weird how this thread called "Peanus butter" has changed into a thread about global potato chip flavors?
Green tea chips sound weird, but I made some Green Tea ice cream once... Then I went into an Indian restaurant that made it and it was a hundred and fifty times better than mine...
Here's something a bit more regional... In America, especially in the Northeast, seemingly, apparently only in Portuguese dominated sectors where people eat Linguica, Chourico, and Cacoila, there is a big thing about COFFEE!!!!
Coffee Ice Cream is seeing its way around the country. However, I bet some of you people outside the original 13 colonies have never had coffee flavored Mousse, coffee flavored Milk, or coffee cookies.
When I left home and went to college in the South, my beloved coffee flavored items and portuguese meats were replaced by pig's brains somehow finding their way into my scrambled eggs and french toast being made by way of deep-fryer. Now that I'm in the Old West, no one has ever heard of anything...
....except Sarsparilla.
Quote from: esper on Sun 16/10/2005 12:10:33
Here's something a bit more regional... In America, especially in the Northeast, seemingly, apparently only in Portuguese dominated sectors where people eat Linguica, Chourico, and Cacoila, there is a big thing about COFFEE!!!!
I hate coffee. I'm a grown up, but I still drink milk with chocolate flavor :-X
But I do know that here in the Uk, and in Greece there is a couple of flavors which remind me of coffe: Toffu and Moca.
I've never tried any of this cause I would vomit, but is it the same as coffe or not?
I tried toffu candy, it tastes more like caramel than coffee
Toffu probably is the equivalent of Toffee, which, yeah, is a bit more caramelish. Mocha is coffee mixed with chocolate.
EDIT: Here, I'll tell you how to make it. Take one cup brown sugar, one cup white sugar, and half a cup instant coffee and boil in two cups of water until syrupy. Refridgerate it in a closed container, and when it is cool, put a tablespoon or two in a glass of milk. DELICIOUS!
I hate wasabi. I really, really do. I'm not wasting 100yen on chips flavoured with it. I'm sticking with good ol' potato flavoured :D
Coffee flavoured milk is just as available as soft drink.
Quote from: Kinoko on Sun 16/10/2005 12:56:45
I hate wasabi. I really, really do. I'm not wasting 100yen on chips flavoured with it. I'm sticking with good ol' potato flavoured :D
How much is 100yen? In GBP, Dollars or euros, please...
www.exchangerate.com
Since we entered this field, let me just say that since Greece entered the EEC prices have gone waaaaayyyy up!
I mean it almost costs 1 euro (137 yen!!! ;D), to buy a bag of chips. It's not so bad as the Uk, I guess but still, just before we started using euros prices were definately 50% down!. It seems that they just decided to go: "Hm, 30 drachmas, lets make it 30 cents!"
I love this Engrish thing. But what's up with this "Walkers" business? I seriously expected it to say "Lays"...crazy British folks.
Yeah, bloody Walkers.
They took over the crisps industry in the 80s - and forced my beloved Golden Wonder out.
At least Tandragee Castle is still home to Tayto. Mmm, Onion Rings.
1â,¬ for a bag of crisps? Come to Finland. It's atleast twice as much. Local gas-station here sells a bag for 3,30 :)
Haddas: Really? My god, so if you never it chips you can save the money and buy a nice two bedroom house anywhere in the world? 3.30 euro is a lot of money!
And a small comment on the Brittish. I'm not one, I like the country a lot, I love living here, but I fail to see a reason on the OPEL cars being named VAUXHALL. Same with WALKERS and LAYS...
Wow guys, don't take me so literally. I was rounding for one thing. For another, you have no idea what size bag I mean.
Quote from: Kinoko on Mon 17/10/2005 08:57:48
Wow guys, don't take me so literally. I was rounding for one thing. For another, you have no idea what size bag I mean.
Anyway, Kinoko, Japan seems so much cheaper than Finland...
We're like the 3rd or so most expensive country in Europe :=
But our bags of crisps are also HUGE. I mean, HUGE. I doubt even Haddas could eat a megabag by himself at one go.
And gas-stations are expensive places anyways.
HAH. I eat one an hour. Only time I haven't finished something is that one family pizza with cheese crust and 4 different kinds of fatty meat and extra cheese. Believe me I'm a master eater. The smallest glass I drink from is a 0.5 l pint and I empty it quickly.
Quote from: Haddas on Mon 17/10/2005 14:05:12
HAH. I eat one an hour. Only time I haven't finished something is that one family pizza with cheese crust and 4 different kinds of fatty meat and extra cheese. Believe me I'm a master eater. The smallest glass I drink from is a 0.5 l pint and I empty it quickly.
Ok. About beer: Now that my wife is gone and I can party all the time, I drink 6 pints of beer every day. Three for lunch and three in the evening. I can also eat a full size pizza with all kinds of meat, and of course extra cheese. But in the evening I only eat a salad... for 4! You know, 200 gr. of letuce, half a bottle of ceasar sauce, lots of parmegiano cheese, and some chicken (150-200 gr).
I try to watch my silouette!!!!!! ;D
Quote from: Nikolas on Mon 17/10/2005 08:52:08
I'm not one, I like the country a lot, I love living here, but I fail to see a reason on the OPEL cars being named VAUXHALL. Same with WALKERS and LAYS...
Walkers is a subsidiary of Lays (now I dislike them even more! thanks!), and produces a completely different product. Crisps, not chips.
As for Vauxhall, why not call all the cars General Motors? Because people recognise the brand. British people are buying the cars and they want to buy Vauxhall, not Opel or GM. According to this wikipedia article it was mainly big companies buying company cars that forced Vauxhall to stay Vauxhall:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel
Haddas, you realise that's not something to be proud of...
Quote from: SteveMcCrea on Mon 17/10/2005 14:59:34
Haddas, you realise that's not something to be proud of...
Each to his own ;D
Also I never said pint of BEER. I mean pint of anything. Juice, Lemonade, Spirits, Battery Acid, Cleaning products.. you name it!
Quote from: SteveMcCrea on Mon 17/10/2005 14:59:34
Walkers is a subsidiary of Lays (now I dislike them even more! thanks!), and produces a completely different product. Crisps, not chips.
I know, I saw that afterwards, my mistake...
As for Vauxhall, it's just that all other countries have OPEL, just an observation...
BTW, I find most intelligent, and much more convinient the left driving, but it remains the fact that the rest of Europe is driving on the right side.
Quote from: Haddas on Mon 17/10/2005 15:03:07
Also I never said pint of BEER. I mean pint of anything. Juice, Lemonade, Spirits, Battery Acid, Cleaning products.. you name it!
Aah, I see. Then hold your head up high, young man!
Thank Napoleon for the disparity of which side is drivn on.
Vive la difference!
Viva!
Quote from: esper on Sun 16/10/2005 07:35:42
Hambourkers???
Anyway...Ã, My friend in college married a Canadian girl, and her brother came down for the wedding (Elliot Hird, are you from Canada??? Her name was Kristine Hird, and I think she might have had a brother named Elliot)... He came bearing two of the stupidest potato chip flavors I have ever seen in my life...
Dill Pickle... and Ketchup.
Now, the Canadians seem to be taking over America, because we're selling Dill Pickle flavor in all our supermarkets. The Ketchup brand seems to have yet to catch on though... And also the Dill Pickle flavored popcorn...
Although I must say, prawn chips and mayonnaise and beef chips sound even worse...
Me? Canadian? Hahahaha. British, actually.