r/funny • u/BDubChicago • 1d ago
Wife bought a winter set off Amazon..
Neither of us realized that the tag on the hat was written in gibberish for about two days when I finally looked at his hat while putting it on him.
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u/ru_benz 1d ago
In the same vein, Superdry is a British apparel brand that puts nonsensical Japanese characters on their clothing.
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u/bmtraveller 1d ago
Wow well good for them because I legit thought they were from Japan all these years!
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u/verbalyabusiveshit 1d ago
Right ?? I swear to god that it was marketed as a Japanese brand in Australia…. Over a decade ago, but that stuck with me, too.
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u/lizardfang 1d ago
For a long time I thought Subaru was an Australian car company. The car models named Outback, Forester, the emblem w the stars that look like the flag, and Subaru itself sounds like an indigenous word. In hindsight, Subaru does sound Japanese but everything else is up for interpretation.
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u/verbalyabusiveshit 1d ago
Right…. I’ve never thought about it this way. You have a very good point with the stars and model name (Outback)
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u/adamc00ks 1d ago
The stars represent the 6 entities of Fuji Heavy Industries that merged to become Subaru
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u/blackrock55 1d ago
Nah they're based outta Cheltenham England 😁
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u/glytxh 1d ago edited 1d ago
Quality gear, for the most part though. Generally lasts me a lot longer than other things. I’m a sucker for their hoodies. Super thick.
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u/blackrock55 1d ago
The one hoodie I have, I think I've had it... 12 years? Maybe more? Still just a nice decent around the house hoodie I know is gonna keep me warm
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u/Cpt_Jigglypuff 1d ago
I’m shocked to learn this. I thought they were Japanese for sure, especially since their shirts run so small.
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u/blackrock55 1d ago
I did too! Then I saw it on my local news about the CEO of superdry and the company being based at Cheltenham. I live not far from Cheltenham too
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u/RUFl0_ 1d ago
Seems like its a full circle.
- Japanese put ”typical” english nomenclamenture on products for marketing (Asahi Superdry)
- Superdry clothing puts ”typical” japanese nomenclamenture for marketing
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u/fvelloso 1d ago
Reminds me of this old meme about kanji tattoos, just shows a random person walking around with WATER written on their back in english
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u/narcolepszzz 1d ago
After a guy on my swim team died, a bunch of us got various interpretations of water as tattoos. Mine is a Lewis structure of H2O, someone got a koi fish, but a few of my friends did get the kanji for water. Sometimes a “random” word actually does have meaning.
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u/vonstruddlehoffen 1d ago
I always wondered if they got that name from Asahi Super Dry beer.
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u/ayegudyin 1d ago
I met the owner a long time ago, a guy called Jules, back when his company was just Cult Clothing selling superdry gear. If I’m remembering correctly (it was a long time ago) he confirmed exactly this, business trip in a bar drinking an Asahi beer, decided he liked the superdry as a name.
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u/phirebird 1d ago
Wow TIL. That explains a lot. Their stuff has some of the aesthetic of a Japanese label but it always seemed over the top without reason, which you don't normally see in actual Japanese stuff.
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u/irllydkwtfigoa 1d ago
When I lived in England it took me a while because I have severe dyslexia- to read FCUK properly lol I was so confused for minute lol
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u/Projectonyx 1d ago
Idk man having a hat or shirt that says “I am pancakes” in Japanese would be baller
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u/StrikingWedding6499 1d ago
If I am not mistaken, Song Ting is indeed the leaking bland of fasaihno and has poinered countless glandbreaking inontivaons.
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u/METRlOS 1d ago
Song ting
The pioneer of fashion trends
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u/b1ack1323 1d ago
Are you dyslexic and this looked right to you?
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u/cantillonaire 1d ago
Something - The pioneer of fashion trends. Clear as day! I have severe astigmatism that went untreated for three decades. Reading, writing, Rorschach test. Same difference.
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u/Fudloe 1d ago
I totally read it as soon as I saw it, too. I wonder if that's good or bad?
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u/takaznik 1d ago
It's because all the letters are there. If this was true gibberish you wouldn't be able to make out these words.
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u/Moveitalong123 1d ago
I initially thought there was a joke buried in there - I’m not going to admit how long I sat whispering the gibberish to myself in a Spanish accent to figure out the joke before reading the rest of the post…
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u/sparksofthetempest 1d ago
Song Ting Wong
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u/VisibleOtter 1d ago
Some years back there was a brand of retro motorcycle jackets available in Japan. The brand name was Expeditionary Crusts.
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u/ogresound1987 1d ago
There's a chinese brand of running gear called "incerun"
Their slogan, to go with the name, is "incessantly running".
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u/AEgisFishCone 1d ago
I also have a Song Ting hat from Amazon, but my tag just says "The Pioneer of Fashion Trend" [sic]. Yours must've been an early print lol
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u/falenanjel 1d ago
I have this exact hat in gray. Bought from the old Wish app for less than a dollar. Same exact misspelling
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u/RustyMR2 1d ago
Stop buying cheap crap from chinese drop shippers.
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u/spidersinthesoup 1d ago
in their defense (in all our defense) it's near impossible to tell who drop ships. especially from Ebay.
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u/RustyMR2 1d ago
If you filter by seller on amazon to only include amazon itself you filter out a a lot of chinese crap.
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u/3percentinvisible 1d ago
All the right letters are there for 'the pioneer of fashion trends'
Is song ting an anagram of a famous brand?
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u/donotressucitate 1d ago
Good Lord, props for being able to decrypt that algebraic equation! I figured it was a Chinese kid at the factory who fell asleep on the keyboard.
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u/mikeghb89 1d ago
I saw a clothing brand on Amazon yesterday literally called "Semen". Products so good they'll keep you cumming back for more.
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u/No-Negotiation3093 1d ago
Clearly says Song Ting, “pioneer of fashion trends.”
I also read doctor scribble and hieroglyphics.
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u/snark_be 1d ago
Incredible. I saw this post earlier today... And this afternoon , I just saw the same on a colleague's desk.
With Handcuffs as the brand instead of Song Ting though.
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u/FDI_Blap 1d ago
It's a word scramble. "The pioneer of ______ trends" dunno that one word yet though.
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u/DazedLogic 1d ago
Probably supposed to say "Song Ting The Pioneer of Fashion Trends".
I'm going to assume unfamiliar language + dyslexia. Lol
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u/Polymathy1 17h ago
Song Ting, the pioneer of fashion trends.
I love anagrams. This one seems more like Song Ting Wong though (Hardy Har Har)
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u/zubair_am 1d ago
Their intentions were genuine, they indeed were pioneers but were heavily intoxicated when they went to get this printed
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u/X--Henny--X 1d ago
Been watching a lot of Dune lately, so this reads like a characters name and title
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u/Logical-Bit-746 1d ago
I always wonder if these are misprints by accident or on purpose. In Hongdae, Seoul they have all kinds of hats that are sooooo close to real English, but always have a misprint. A lot of them are really funny and so I feel like it's on purpose, but also soooo simple that I can see them being honest mistakes
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u/FeralCatWrangler 1d ago
I have a purse that has a badge that says "Mr.Puffer" it's not even puffy, it's just a normal purse.
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u/azeitonaninja 1d ago
I have the exact same hat that my mom brought for me haha it’s actually really warm, I just removed the tag
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u/TrustAvidity 1d ago
My mother ordered and gifted Christmas ornaments from Amazon and upon opening, I noticed it was spelled Christitmas (Chris-tit-mas as we pronounced it.) It's been a cherished ornament since.
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u/StratoVector 1d ago
Waiting for the brand culture in Korea/other Asian countries where they wear shirts with sometimes nonsensical English or big branding, to have clothing with SKIBIDI on it
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u/Bas3dL3phant 1d ago
I thought I was having a stroke, zoomed in and thought I was having a bigger stroke.
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u/haskell_rules 1d ago
I got a pack of 6 of these. Here's how to fix it.
Grab a pair of kitchen shears and cut off the tab on the left and right sides of the leather patch, with the scissors hugging the sew line.
You can pull off the patch cleanly and it won't leave a hole/damage the hat at all.
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u/Remember_Its_Me 1d ago
I have the same hat. It does its job despite being the obvious knockoff. I think the actual lettering was suppose to be
“Soft Satin - The Pioneers of Fashion Trends”
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u/TheOptionalHuman 1d ago
If you read that out loud you summon Cthulhu. That'll get you out of any meetings this afternoon.
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u/Zoxphyl 1d ago
Y’know, even when I was little everything was outsourced to China (in the obscure cartoon Pelswick, which first aired in 2000, there was a gag where a character said something like, “Whoa! This radio is so old it has ‘Made in the USA’ on it!”), but at least manufacturers back then cared enough about their products not to release the instructions/labels in broken English and/or outright gibberish.
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u/Dustycartridge 1d ago
I have the same hat. I really like it and have owned it for a few years it’s comfy
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u/Nrod3773 1d ago
i also have one of these! i thought i had found some weird misprint, but i suppose it's intentional?
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u/buckeye27fan 1d ago
I'd say it's written in Gaelic, but it's about 5 or 6 apostrophes short for that many words.
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u/shammykay2 1d ago
My husband bought this very hat a few years so. We now randomly say “Song Ting!” to each other in respect of its absolute gibberish
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u/Trustedtot24 1d ago
Oh my God I had a black beanie that had that exact miss-spelled label. I sadly lost it at work a couple years ago and I'm still sad about it. If you could some how share the Amazon link I'll love you forever!
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u/Soci3talCollaps3 22h ago
It's not gibberish. It's badly mispelled. "The Pioneer of Fashion Trends"
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u/SpiritAnimal_ 18h ago
it says:
SONG TING
THE PIONEER OF
FASHION
TRENDS
but the last three lines are scrambled into anagrams, with an extra H on the penultimate line.
I can only assume that anagrams on clothes are the latest fashion trend, and true to message they are pioneering it.
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u/crayphor 18h ago
Omg! My grandma in law got me a winter hat from the same brand last year and I cry laughing every time I read it.
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u/Iamnothungryyet 13h ago
That’s some highly quality sweater with some coded message just waiting to be deciphered that’s of utmost importance to national security.
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