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In general, not a fan of "Ow, my balls", but I'll make an execption:

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lol.. what are the odds.. amazing
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He thought he was going to have sham pain, but received genuine pain instead.
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its got what nuts crave, electrolytes.
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Nonc Hilaire wrote:He thought he was going to have sham pain, but received genuine pain instead.
+ 1
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Parodite wrote:lol.. what are the odds.. amazing
They say the gods protect fools and small children.

Sometimes however, they just can't resist dispensing cosmic justice...... keeps the rest of us in check. Clever.
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You've been warned.
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Misunderstanding the expression "to give head".

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20+ Asian translation fails

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I think some of these on were done on purpose. Very good aggregation site for daily levitas, btw.

http://www.boredpanda.com/hilarious-chi ... s-english/
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Meat counter?
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Or cucumbers.
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Phallic vegetables, aisle 6.
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YMix wrote:Image

Meat counter?
A now classic.

For the pedants,

The etiology and elaboration of a flagrant mistranslation

____

Of course, Japan is [in]famous for it's wild and crazy [ab]use of Engrish.

One gets used to it. However, once in a while I see a phrase that raises even my Engrish weary eyebrow.

Walking down the street, an elderly lady bicycles by. The back of her t-shirt has the explicit phrase
Yellow Corn

Bum F*cked Hillbilly
Before Japan Post privatized, selecting "English" to withdraw money from their ATM machines,
one would be informed after the transaction was completed, by a lovely female voice, to
Please be careful of things left behind.
I would choose "English" just to hear this phrase. It always made me smile.
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Ah, thanks for posting that link, Typhoon. :)
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Typhoon wrote:
YMix wrote:Image

Meat counter?
A now classic.

For the pedants,

The etiology and elaboration of a flagrant mistranslation

____

Of course, Japan is [in]famous for it's wild and crazy [ab]use of Engrish.

One gets used to it. However, once in a while I see a phrase that raises even my Engrish weary eyebrow.

Walking down the street, an elderly lady bicycles by. The back of her t-shirt has the explicit phrase
Yellow Corn

Bum F*cked Hillbilly
Before Japan Post privatized, selecting "English" to withdraw money from their ATM machines,
one would be informed after the transaction was completed, by a lovely female voice, to
Please be careful of things left behind.
I would choose "English" just to hear this phrase. It always made me smile.
Damn shame. I thought it was just effective marketing. Solves the age old problem of how to get kids (especially teen age boys) to eat their veggies. :(

addition: Even old guys like me would be willing to give it a try....
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Typhoon wrote:
YMix wrote:Image

Meat counter?
A now classic.

For the pedants,

The etiology and elaboration of a flagrant mistranslation

____

Of course, Japan is [in]famous for it's wild and crazy [ab]use of Engrish.

One gets used to it. However, once in a while I see a phrase that raises even my Engrish weary eyebrow.

Walking down the street, an elderly lady bicycles by. The back of her t-shirt has the explicit phrase
Yellow Corn

Bum F*cked Hillbilly
Before Japan Post privatized, selecting "English" to withdraw money from their ATM machines,
one would be informed after the transaction was completed, by a lovely female voice, to
Please be careful of things left behind.
I would choose "English" just to hear this phrase. It always made me smile.
Interesting indeed, but why did the supposedly English fluent programmers think the F word should be included in the lexicon?
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A mischievous sense of humour?
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In Russia, even robot try to escape to West.
Runaway robot IR77 could be de-activated because of ‘love for freedom’
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