Pretension, anyone?

I’m not crazy about tattoos on my best day, but I’m growing truly weary of witnessing the proliferation of tattoos in the images of Chinese and Japanese pictographs.  Ooo . . it’s so deep.  Such a good scam perpetrated by the ink parlors.  It’s in Japanese so it must be . . . deep! 

Please.  It’s the same thing as calling your New York snack shop “Bonjour Croissant;” it’s just looking in the opposite direction geographically.

I wonder how many of these illustrated would-be hotties even know what the translations of their characters mean?

I bet the reverse situation is just as bad.  I picture kids in Shanghai and Tokyo running round town festooned with tattoos which bear English inscriptions such as “Me Love You Long Time” and “Diet Coke.”