Originally published at: Innocent sign turned X-rated at Japanese store by error | Boing Boing
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Is “self-sacking corner” much better? 
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I’m fired!
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yeah, @markfrauenfelder , wtf is a self-sacking corner?
it can’t just be me, my phone’s autocomplete didn’t have it, either.
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Well, “self-sucking corner” would explain why no one is in there. I can barely touch my toes!
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You honestly can’t make the mental leap from sacking to bagging? There’s an ideogram and everything.
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“sacking” isn’t the term used where I’m from. we might call a bag a sack sometimes, but the verb form is always “bagging”.
the whole point of the post is “self-sucking” means “I suck myself” so by that logic “self-sacking” means “I put a bag over myself”, which is ridiculous, so I thought it was further poor translation or that the japanese have an idiomatic meaning for whatever translates to sacking in english.
I guess the “ideogram” is supposed to be a basket, but it’s not a sack. without context, it’s not really obvious it’s a shopping basket, either.
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Dante: Wow! He really made it.
Randal: Yeah, but at what a price?
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took me a minute, guess I’m just slow today.
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Randal:
I never tried it. F***ing pervert.
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Well, that’s unfortunate.
My favorite Engrish was National-Panasonic’s computer ad, “Touch Woody, the Internet Pecker” back in the nineties.
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I still have no idea WTF this is all about.
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I’m not even supposed to be here today.
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And yet …
In my country we don’t use the term “bagging”. It’s “packing your items.”
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So? There are always unexpected items in bagging areas.
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I ASSURE YOU WE’RE OPEN
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