'A teenage girl who had her lover's nickname tattooed onto her stomach in Chinese symbols found out months after they split up that it actually said "supermarket". Joanne Raine discovered the mistake after she walked into a Chinese takeaway to find out what the tattoo symbols really meant. Miss Raine, 19, from Firthmoor, Darlington, the tattoo in March 2005 six months after she started going out with Andrew Blenche. She had wanted to have a tattoo of Roo, Andrew's nickname. She went to Skindeep Tattoo Parlour, in High Northgate, Darlington, and chose a capital r, capital o and small o from the wall and paid £80. Miss Raine said: "They had Chinese symbols on the wall. "So I picked capital r, capital o and small o, so they were all different" - The Northern Echo.

Words fail me.....

I have to admit I'm puzzled by the lunatic fashion with tattoos, especially the divs who get some meaningful message in another script... I bet there are quite a few rarfs going around with them saying things like...'open box this end'.... 'not for children under 3 years' etc...

Having only a very small knowledge of written Chinese and it's subtleties, it is most unlikely that you will get anything written correctly in Northgate, Darlington.

I'm told that Beckhams is incorrect as well.

Made in Hartlepool tattoed across the chest of a chav is a great one as well.....

Or around the belly button. One of my mates had it done when he was 15, boy does he regret it now. Especially as he's lived in Greatham all of his life and his mam and dad are from Billingham

Thick Loids!

clever tattoist must be a poolie

Can someone point me to a clever tattooist??

At the risk of offending anyone who might be one, don't you find they're all multi-pierced ex-biker thugs covered in black indecipherable rubbish badly done years ago?? With bad haircuts??

My willy says 'wow' but in moments of stress it says 'welcome to Jamaica, look forward to tomorrow'

Howay Talbot, date that one!!

I havent got the faintest idea, can I have a clue?

I Kev. Duke Webb was a good tattooist. He put my bulldog on. It looks like a cat, but I heard he's found his jamjar bottom glass's now.

duke is your typical tattoist ear rings not the long haired type though and his bottle alleys are usually tinted

there is a lady tattoist in york road though kev next time you are back
in the mean time someone will come up with a way of changing "WOW"

TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN AND YOU HAVE GOT "MOM"

So let me work this out Frank..........Duke Webb's good right??

But your bulldog looks like a cat??

And you let him tattoo you without glasses a quarter of an inch thick??

Frankie can you remember Tin-Top out of the Millhouse?? Did you ever get your watch back??

Dawn French.