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Q: Best Chinglish / Nonsensical English shirts - 2013 edition
I walked by a Chinese guy wearing a shirt that said "I am an OK Lover" yesterday. It's the best/worst chinglish / nonsensical English shirt I've seen in a while. I really wanted to take a picture of it, but I do not know if there's a proper way to ask someone without sounding like a jerk ("Hi, your shirt makes you look stupid, can I have a photo?"). What is the best shirt you've seen lately, and do you ever take pictures of them?
Not sure about Chinglish, though I've seen many t-shirts with Dutch on them; or Chutch.
Not really a chinglish shirt per se, but I saw a young boy with a shirt that said "tomboy". His parents obviously didn't get it.
One that makes me chuckle is girls that wear a white t-shirt with "Comfortable" written across the breasts.
I guess "Chinglish" doesn't really describe most of the funny shirts around here. I've updated my question to include "nonsensical English" too.
girl wearing fbi shirt, female body inspector , maybe she was.
I saw a woman in T-shirt recently that said
Palatable
strange but possibly true
I saw someone wearing a shirt the other day that had in CAPS from top to bottom...
OMG
AKA
WTF
I saw a guy wearing a pink Polo shirt with a patch of the German flag, above the patch read "England"
I love BJ
It was popular in Beijing.
mike168229:
Saw that one a lot when I was last there, pissed myself laughing every time.
A friend and I were in a shopping mall a few days ago. He is Dutch and I am English. We laughed our arses off when we saw a shirt on display that said Netherlenguish.
one I found kind of baffleing... I used to practice piano.... nothing else, no pictures or anything. Just a set up with no punchline.
This is one I actually bought here last year for 5 yuan....
"Think less. Stupid more."
Makes a special kind of sense, really...
A girl with T Shirt with the words 'Touch One' written across her chest!!
Yeah, what gets me is when girls (even young girls) have sexually suggestive messages on their shirts that they aren't even aware of. Yesterday a middle school student had a shirt with a picture of a monkey and it said "The monkey is full of viagara." First one I can remember making me laugh was a 7-year-old girl had a shirt that said "Make love not war"
I saw a guy with a shirt that had "Only 10 seconds" on it... (and nothing else)
One of my students has a sweater that says "I dont need sex. The government fucks me every day."
Not Chinglish, but I saw a set of twins each wearing identical tshirts saying "Individual". Could be some high level sarcasm going on or some low level English skills
Girl > grey t-shirt > picture of business man like, with Kim-jong-il smile and, over the chest is writen :
Mo Money
Mo Problem
just today morning of 7th June 2013 in Shanghai.
Two year old kid with a t-shirt that had the hipster glasses and mustache. Nice.
Same kid the next day with a t-shirt that had a small U.S flag on it and the words 'land o' ones heart'.
Mother with a sense of humour?
mike168229:
Oh, another with the British flag and the words 'New York New York' above and below.
Just had an encounter that takes the cake I think. I'm at a convention, in a booth trying to get people to join our international program. A young girl (entering high school) comes up to our booth with the shirt "keep calm and fuck British boys" written large across the front! Normally I wouldn't know if this was intentional or not -- like if she was just trying to be funny or get attention. But I happen to have a Chinese teacher with me who called her on it. You could see on the girl's face she was mortified and tried her best to hide her embarrassment. To make matters worse, her dad was right there too. I'm afraid these shirts may not seem that funny now
My stupid tablet won't let me comment on answers, but I want to say the answer above this is awesome! I wish I'd found one for my British partner (not that he's all that fond of being called British...)
Not all that appropriate for a teenager, though.
