Flickr as Engrish harvester

I’ve been making a lot of contacts on flickr over the past couple of weeks (add me!), and I’ve been surprised and delighted at the wealth and variety of stuff people are doing. I have contacts who are graphic artists, some who are street photographers, and others who use the camera to document their daily lives. I find it all very inspirational.

This morning I made a new contact by the name of byezdomny, who apparently lives in Vietnam. My first thought was, I bet they have a lot of good Engrish there, and sure enough, right on the first page of the photostream I hit the jackpot:

My favourite part is how the first commenter didn’t get the joke, and thought it was something about domestic violence. That made me giggle almost as much as the DVD cover itself. It reminded me of the time some of my high school friends and I got together for coffee to talk about the old days, and when one girl lamented that she’d wasted most of her teenage years doing blow, one of the other girls perked up and said, “me too! I didn’t really want to, but I thought it was the only way I could keep my virginity!” She was confused when we all erupted into laughter.

Why yes, I did grow up in the ’80s, why do you ask?