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Engrish photo of a sign that says f*ck the vegetables the food products

F*CK THE VEGETABLES THE FOOD PRODUCTS

Engrish Photo By: Rachel W

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  1. Cheshire says:

    Didn’t we already have a corn vibrator?

  2. dann says:

    We needed classification exactly which vegetables to fuck (the food products).

  3. Catbroad says:

    Wrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  4. --E says:

    Ya know, if you tilt your head right, the symbol in the middle of the top line kind of looks like someone fucking vegetables.

  5. Mike says:

    Apparently, 干 is a modifier that suggests the item is “dried”, in relation to food and clothes. Why it got translated as it did is WAY beyond me.

  6. Something evil says:

    This is bad. I’ve seen foreboding signs around on the Inertnet, but I was just too scared to believe it. At this rate any vegetable/fruit around will be deemed fuckable by some.

    Dendrophilia is the latest trend! Everybody’s doin’ it.

  7. david says:

    Looks like a fake.

  8. PT says:

    First the fruit, now the veggies. :[

  9. Arbiter says:

    worst cornbrator refrence ever…

  10. Mr. J says:

    Quote from http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005195.html

    “…one of the sources of this phenomenon: several Chinese characters pronounced GAN1 or GAN4 — and meaning such widely disparate things as “dry,” “calendrical sign,” “to do,” and much else beside — all got collapsed into one simplified character: 干. This has led to enormous confusion, especially when people who know next to no English rely on machine translation software to convert Chinese into English. The chaos caused by this combination of circumstances is vastly exacerbated by the fact that this little, three-stroke symbol also has a vulgar meaning when pronounced in the fourth tone, GAN4, namely “fuck,” which is probably an extension of the regular sense of “do.” Because GAN4 (“do”) and GAN1 (“dry”) are now both written with that little, three-stroke character, the damage is compounded by the enormous range of intended senses of GAN1/4 (“dry,” “do,” “act,” “work,” “undertake,” “shield,” “have to do with; be concerned with,” “edge of a body of water,” “be rude, impolite, blunt,” “embarrass or annoy,” “give the cold-shoulder to,” “empty, hollow,” measure word for a group of people, “trunk, stem, main part,” “cadre,” “competent, capable, able, talented,” “go bad,” “be a disaster,” etc.), all of which are capable of coming out of the translation software as “fuck.”"

    • GJay says:

      are you sure it wasn’t translated as “fuck” out of the fact the computer just didn’t WANT to list all those possible sub-meanings?

  11. sinophile says:

    it’s not fake at all, 干means dry but also fuck in slang (at least in simplified characters)

    somewhere along the line a goblin put fuck as the primary meaning of 干in an electronic dictionary and we have had amusing translations ever since

    • Something evil says:

      The slang meaning of 干is likely backed up by the same deep cultural links that made “cock” a slang term for “penis”.

      • Something evil says:

        never mind. got the bloody enigma solved thanks to Mr. J. Really sucks to have to translate a logogram based language into an alphabetical one.

  12. tracylee says:

    As a Vegetable Rights Activist (don’t kill ‘em for me, I won’t eat them) I appreciate the sentiment, and the caption gave me lolz

  13. pavlov says:

    Yeah! Fuck the vegetables! Eat meat!

  14. Whatthe-?! says:

    Meat is murder, tasty tasty murder.

  15. Guess Again says:

    So, Mr. J, you’re saying that we’re lucky that the sign doesn’t say “dry-fuck the vegetables the food products”???

  16. Kitty says:

    HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN!!!!!?

  17. hblahh says:

    I’d see why. Produce is always so darn expensive nowadays… but that’s sexual harassment.

    Don’t sexually harass the veggies, it’s not nice!

  18. laconejita says:

    Call me old fashioned, but I am not into having sex with food. I prefer to do it with my husband.


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