My mother-in-law went to Switzerland and bought my baby a cute little stuffed animal that talks and yodels when you press his tummy. The kids love it.

Then my mum came to visit and the kids showed it to her. She was shocked! Mum can speak swiss german and told me it says "You stupid pig! You make me lie down!"

This really makes one wonder.

how strange

it says what? that is hilarious!

I think I will start collecting toys that say inappropriate things!

I realise swiss german is not a widely spoken language, but still, how did they think they'd get away with it

I googled the exact expression and it's even worse!
Deutsch-Englisch Übersetzungen für das Wort "du blöde Sau!":
"you big shit!"

Das ist, hilarious!

will you sell that to me?!

This reminds me of people who get tats done with chinese or sanscrit writing and think it says "love" or "peace" and it's actually saying "I am a twat"

IrresistibleB1tch said:

are you collecting them too?

charlottegelin said:

it would be a great start to a collection, for sure!

PREDOMINANT said:

or any japanese t-shirt with english writing on it like "Spoon"

PREDOMINANT said:

you know, that would actually be very funny to do on purpose!

charlottegelin said:

I have an action figure of Venom (nemesis of Spider-Man) that has a backpack with buttons you can press. One of them says " DIE, SPIDER-MAN!" Another one says "I WANT TO EAT YOUR BRAIN!" The third one is just a hiss, but it almost sounds like someone slurping up the last remnants of a shake through a straw. Play all three of them back-to-back in that order, and it's music to my ears.

charlottegelin said:

A 'Sau' is a female pig
It actually means 'you stupid female pig'

PREDOMINANT said:

Britney Spears' tattoos have that problem. (from wikipedia: In May 2004 Spears had a Hebrew tattoo (מהש) inked into the nape of her neck. She was under the impression that it meant "new era", while a more scholarly reading would be "protection". A source said, "She's taken Kabbalah pretty seriously and this was a big deal for her." This echoes a similar incident in 2003 when Spears was informed by her friend, actress Taryn Manning, that her hip tattoo (the Japanese Kanji character 奇) read "strange" rather than "mysterious")

My friend's brother (they are also half Japanese) got his family crest tattooed on his back. Turns out he got it done backwards.

One last one; a guy I saw on the show Miami Ink got an Italian word tattooed on his forearm, running from the elbow to the wrist. After it was all said and done he realized he had misspelled it.

Dewrede said:

like "sow" in English

Natsume said:

I saw in Rolling Stone once some rocker who had "yeah, though I have walked
though the valley of death, I am the meanest son of a bitch to have walked that valley" when it should have read through

Natsume said:

and you get to see what a dolt you are everyday when you look at your arm


lol i have a shirt with a chinese character on it... and it says "harmony" underneath. i was out one day when a woman started to say
"did you know? your shirt, it actually says..."
i held my breath
the thought that it might have said something else had not occured to me until that very moment.
luckily her sentence ended with "peace."

we just got an email from our corporate office telling all of our stores to locate this new elmo talking book. it's supposed to say "elmo wants to try", but apparently it sounds like "elmo wants to DIE"...

(we sold out so, if you hear anything about little kids offing themselves, there's your smoking gun..literally )

charlottegelin said:

meltwithu said:

charlottegelin said:

Oh ,i didn't know that word

This whole thread is cracking me up!

JasmineFire said:

poor Elmo, must be depressed

charlottegelin said:

you would be too, if kids were just wanting you only for your tummy-tickling abilities.

charlottegelin said:

Well, if you had a man's hand up your butt for 20 years and....


Wait, that's not quite what I meant.

TMPletz said:

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

and I would say worse things than I want to die, "get your hands off me, demon spawn!" and my eyes would glow red and smoke would come out and my head would spin around. Exorcise Me Elmo

charlottegelin said: