No Pants! No Life!

June 28, 2010 by reesan · 4 Comments
Filed under: engrish 

Retailer Love & Valentine brings you the slogan “Yes! We Pants! No Pants! No LIFE!”

I guess the hardcore no lifer’s wear no pants whilst sucking down on a can of Zero Life.

No Pants! No Life!

Japanese Wolverine Cosplay Fail

June 13, 2010 by reesan · 12 Comments
Filed under: cosplay, fail, weird 

More cosplay gone wrong, well more than the Top 10 Cosplay Fails anyways. Looks like his membership at the Tokyo Rockabilly Club was rejected so he thought he’d try his chances at the Wolverine fan club instead.

Japanese WolverineImage source: 9GAG

On The Blink

May 12, 2010 by reesan · 3 Comments
Filed under: engrish 

On The Brink – Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System.

Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was at the absolute epicentre of the recent economic storm, and his account of how he dealt with the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression was quite appropriately translated into Engrish.

“On The Blink”: an idiom for malfunctioning, out of order or broken. As opposed to “brink”: verge, the limit beyond which something happens or changes, the edge of a steep place.

Thanks to Kieran for this gem.

On The Blink

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