Shirt.Woot

Swordfighting is so much more civilized than when the fish just go at it with their teeth and claws. Or lips and jaws. Whatever.

rflcptr wrote:Fish don't have thumbs to hold swords. And even if you could give fish thumbs to hold swords, where are they going to buy the swords? There's no sword store in the bowl, and even if there were, where would the fish get the money to buy the swords?

The Pirates sunken treasure chest ...Duh!?!

Don't be KOI...you BETTA buy this shirt!

kimmux wrote:

I thought this would be a popular question: "Does this shirt make sense in Japanese?" The answer is: "In the same way Engrish shirts make sense in America".

I only spent a year in Japan, and my Japanese isn't that great, so if somebody wants to correct me, I have no problem with that. Handwriting is one of my weaker areas, but the イ symbol on the left side of samurai looks way out of proportion to me.

As for my pretension, I'm sorry about that. I had to rush the comment to get it on the initial page. I always sound like a jerk when I'm rushed, probably because I'm actually a jerk or something.

All together now...At the mermaid parties do these fish smoke seaweed? And if so....

ewtye wrote:Yes, you're right.

Anybody knows that Japanese fighting fish would be Samarais! Or maybe Ninjas!

samarais? whut, now it's french fighting poissons?

JadenKale wrote:PINK:



Hope that clarifies it for you.

That's not pink. That's light red.

This design is much betta than yesterday's.

dangerhaus wrote:samarais? whut, now it's french fighting poissons?

If they were French, then they'd be surrendering.

eHalcyon wrote:That's not pink. That's light red.

No it's not. It's heather cranberry. You just can't see the heathering because your eyes are fuzzy. And happy birthday!

eHalcyon wrote:That's not pink. That's light red.

BLAH BLAH BLAH IM CANADIAN

weirddave wrote:I thought this would be a popular question: "Does this shirt make sense in Japanese?" The answer is: "In the same way Engrish shirts make sense in America".

I only spent a year in Japan, and my Japanese isn't that great, so if somebody wants to correct me, I have no problem with that. Handwriting is one of my weaker areas, but the イ symbol on the left side of samurai looks way out of proportion to me.

As for my pretension, I'm sorry about that. I had to rush the comment to get it on the initial page. I always sound like a jerk when I'm rushed, probably because I'm actually a jerk or something.

I thought your post was both valid and thoughtful. Keep up the good work.

BoredStiff wrote:Don't be KOI...you BETTA buy this shirt!

You just said that for the halibut, didn't you?

BoredStiff wrote:Don't be KOI...you BETTA buy this shirt!

Man; beat me to the pun post and added another good one to boot. Touché.

BoredStiff wrote:If they were French, then they'd be surrendering.

and monkeys..

rflcptr wrote:Fish don't have thumbs to hold swords. And even if you could give fish thumbs to hold swords, where are they going to buy the swords? There's no sword store in the bowl, and even if there were, where would the fish get the money to buy the swords?

and i was THAT close to buying one. but rflcptr is right, dammit, and when rflcptr is right, rflcptr is... where am i going with this?

dangerhaus wrote:and i was THAT close to buying one. but rflcptr is right, dammit, and when rflcptr is right, rflcptr is... where am i going with this?

You're going to click the "I want one" button. Because you know that fish used to have thumbs, way back when they wore handcrafted armor.

BoredStiff wrote:If they were French, then they'd be surrendering.

that, or standing in water up to their midriff and smoking.

hee hee hee.

I'm in for two!

HalfWheat wrote:You just said that for the halibut, didn't you?

Weren't you spreading carp in last night's thread too?

A little shad, don't you think? I mean, holy mackerel.

AdderXYU wrote:BLAH BLAH BLAH IM CANADIAN

No, I'M Canadian.

AdderXYU wrote:Weren't you spreading carp in last night's thread too?

A little shad, don't you think? I mean, holy mackerel.

I believe you're thinking of salmon else, sir.

To be honest, I like the idea of this shirt. However, the face of the fish on the left completely ruins it for me. It looks..."cancellation" or "slow".

Note: The fish in this picture, I assume, are siamese fighting fish. Siam is now Thailand, not Japan.

Samurai are Japanese though, so that works.

weirddave wrote:I thought this would be a popular question: "Does this shirt make sense in Japanese?" The answer is: "In the same way Engrish shirts make sense in America".

I only spent a year in Japan, and my Japanese isn't that great, so if somebody wants to correct me, I have no problem with that. Handwriting is one of my weaker areas, but the イ symbol on the left side of samurai looks way out of proportion to me.

As for my pretension, I'm sorry about that. I had to rush the comment to get it on the initial page. I always sound like a jerk when I'm rushed, probably because I'm actually a jerk or something.

No, you're right; the radical on the left is out of proportion. The first stroke is supposed to be shorter and more vertical so it takes up less space.

If you really want to be picky, the "box" part of the fish character has an extra stroke; the top and right side of the box should use a single stroke that goes right, then down.

If you really want to be picky, having two left-handed fish samurai in custom-fit full (normally ceremonial) samurai armor fighting each other is highly unlikely. Normally you'd only find one left-handed fish at most, and they prefer to use concealed shivs.

The googly eyes on the orange fish are astonishingly accurate though.

HalfWheat wrote:You're going to click the "I want one" button. Because you know that fish used to have thumbs, way back when they wore handcrafted armor.

sorry, charlie.

love love love the design, but cream looks like hell on me, so sadly, i'll have to pass.

dangerhaus wrote:sorry, charlie.

You'll change your tuna some day...

HalfWheat wrote:I believe you're thinking of salmon else, sir.

that pun smelt.

Seriously, it was really roughy

anyone else having problems paying with paypal?

strawhat311 wrote:Doesn't their lower bodies look like mops to anyone?

Don't their lower bodies look like mops to anyone?

Do their lower bodies look like mops to anyone?

Does anyone else believe their lower bodies look like mops?

Doesn't the lower body of each fish look like a mop to anyone?

And so on

strawhat311 wrote:Doesn't their lower bodies look like mops to anyone?

cheaper by the doesn't

AdderXYU wrote:that pun smelt.

Seriously, it was really roughy

From where I'm perched, I thought mine was eely good. Yours, I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pike.

chefbooyadee wrote:If you really want to be picky, the "box" part of the fish character has an extra stroke; the top and right side of the box should use a single stroke that goes right, then down.

I could be way pickier than that, actually. You can see the stroke order is wrong in both kanji. The 十 at the top of samurai should be horizontal, then vertical. The bottom part of the same kanji has the wrong order, too. The top part of sakana is written in the wrong order, and the bottom part of the hook radical should not extend past the top part. The bottom kanji, as you said has an extra stroke and the inside of the box is written in the wrong order, and the horizontal stroke should touch on both sides.

ta-da!

HalfWheat wrote:From where I'm perched, I thought mine was eely good. Yours, I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pike.

I declare to my sole, that haddock condescending tone to it. And it is simply not your plaice to talk down to me

rflcptr wrote:Fish don't have thumbs to hold swords. And even if you could give fish thumbs to hold swords, where are they going to buy the swords? There's no sword store in the bowl, and even if there were, where would the fish get the money to buy the swords?

my thoughts exactly...

...and the little suits they have on...where did they buy them? there's no army/navy store in the bowl...

...and, if the winning fish gets blood on his suit, how does he clean it? no drycleaner's in the bowl either...hmmm...

weirddave wrote:The top symbol is indeed 侍 (samurai) and the bottom symbol is indeed 魚 (sakana, a.k.a. fish). Unfortunately, in Japanese, when one kanji is below another kanji, it forms a new word. In this case, the word is 侍魚, which is meaningless, but I think the expected pronunciation would be jigyo, and the meaning would be something like "fish servant". A Japanese person wouldn't fully understand this shirt, either, because they call the fish ベタ (beta, a.k.a. betta), not samurai swordfish, or whatever. He'd understand what you were going for, but it's like when we see Engrish.

The samurai kanji is poorly written, IMO. The leftmost radical takes up too much space. I could be wrong about this part, though.

great! there goes my lower-back tattoo

AdderXYU wrote:Don't their lower bodies look like mops to anyone?

Do their lower bodies look like mops to anyone?

Does anyone else believe their lower bodies look like mops?

Doesn't the lower body of each fish look like a mop to anyone?

And so on

you seem inordinately focused below the waist... are you some kind of prevert? what we need around here are some fish with pick-up sticks.

AdderXYU wrote:I declare to my sole, that haddock condescending tone to it. And it is simply not your plaice to talk down to me

I believe you took my comments the wrong ray...and now I'm floundering to explain myself. I'm not an angler trying to bait you. I'm a mere damsel; an angel, really.

dangerhaus wrote:you seem inordinately focused below the waist... are you some kind of prevert? what we need around here are some fish with pick-up sticks.

pick-up sticks? Hmmm I have some chopsticks. Since this was Japan week, perhaps that will suffice.


oh... oh... I see what you did there. I have those too, though, I am without fins.

I wonder if there are any master armor smiths out there who would be willing to craft tiny little armor sets for my fish...