Bro Teaches Girl Why You Should NEVER Get A Tattoo In A Language You Do Not Understand, Shatters Her Life

Getting a tattoo should never be a rash decision. If you’re considering a tattoo you should really head over to the parlor and speak with the artist beforehand on some design work, style, thoughts, and then set up an appointment. All giving yourself ample time to consider the tattoo design, as well as ruminating on whether or not you truly want that tattoo.

One think you should NEVER do is get a tattoo in a language you’re not familiar with. If, for instance, you’re thinking of getting a tattoo in Chinese and/or Japanese characters, you better be DAMN SURE you at least know what those characters look like before having them permanently placed on your body. Because if you don’t do your homework on this, you might end up like this unfortunate soul…

Enter this bro who was at a party with his wife when he absolutely shattered the life of some poor soul at a party. Reddit user Oakland_Facet tells the tale of the time he tried to smooth over devastating a lesbian by making a poorly timed joke:

Several years ago, my wife and I were visiting a friend and her girlfriend for the weekend. On Saturday night they threw a party with all of their friends, most of whom were also lesbian couples. I saw that one girl had Chinese characters tattooed on her forearms, so I asked to see them, as I had recently been living in China. She was like, “Oh, they’re actually Japanese characters. This one (万) means ‘man,’ and this one (女) means ‘woman.’ Basically, I’m trying to describe how all of us exist on a gender continuum between the two and integrate parts of both into our identities to different degrees.”

I responded, “Actually, Japanese characters (kanji) and Chinese characters (hanzi) are really the same thing. And I don’t think that one (万) means ‘man.’ It actually means ‘ten thousand.’ The correct character for man is 男. 万 and 男 aren’t that far off, but the calligraphic style on it would make it hard to replace…”

I look up and this poor girl is literally in tears. The entire party had come to a standstill as I pompously embarrassed this kid in front of all her friends. She had had the tattoo done two or three years earlier and no one had ever caught it.

I had to add, “On the bright side, Chinese doesn’t really have a plural, so 万女 is a perfectly grammatical way of saying ‘ten thousand women.’ Make it a life goal!”
Crickets…

TL;DR: Lesbian didn’t check her facts and I gave her a life goal.

What does a person even do after they’ve just found out their tattoo is a lie? Do you get it covered up? Have it removed? Learn to live with it and hope that nobody in the room heard what he said?

If anyone has any personal experience with this we’d love to hear your situation down below in the comments.

P.s., I have absolutely NO IDEA what the tattoo in the first image says. So apologies if it says anything offensive. Unfortunately there’s not a Google Translate for pictures of tattoos.

For more on this story you can check out the original submission on Reddit by clicking HERE.