Comments on: Bottled Water

By: Chikumaya

Chikumaya — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:51:35 +0000

Not fresh. It’s distilled and infiltrated, like usual water supplies in Japan. Suitable for drinking, unlike that of America or Europe!

By: Kevfent

Kevfent — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:50:23 +0000

Sounds like someone in the advertising department needs to be canned!

By: solo piano

solo piano — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:55:07 +0000

ahhh, fresh water, rare in japan!

By: solo piano

solo piano — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:53:24 +0000

spring water comes from a spring, but this canned water originated from a bottle…

By: Y. Uno

Y. Uno — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:58:18 +0000

This is nothing special. It says in Japanese “drinking water for emergency.” No Japanese will misunderstand. Someone must have looked up the English equivalent in a dictionary or something and only found “bottled water.” That’s all. The Japanese language has both “can” and “bottle”. For those who make fun of “Engrish”, I’d like to remind that “L” and “R” are mixed up even in European languages. The word “title” is “titre” in French. “Oblige” is “obrigar” in Portuguese. It just happens that Japanese has only one such sound which is really closer to L than R.

By: Goo-Goo

Goo-Goo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:45:26 +0000

Who cares!!!They can’t read english anyways. :>)

By: Stone

Stone — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:41:36 +0000

You know nothing. It says Bottled water for extreme disaster. Watch ‘the Pianist’ to learn why is bottled water useful. One thing Chinese people never heard of is douchebags like you..

By: Unreal

Unreal — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:27:39 +0000

Bottled fail.

By: bald spot.

bald spot. — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:19:30 +0000

it says bottled water buuuut…it’s in a can. hence the fail.

By: lauren

lauren — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:34:58 +0000

This is japanese
and i dont see any fail here
i speak some japanese and it says bottled water

By: C

Sun, 24 May 2009 20:17:38 +0000

Japanese, I don’t recognise the kanji (probably because I don’t know any) but I recognise a few of the hiragana on the “bottle” to the right.

By: anna

anna — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:41:49 +0000

WTF?! 0__o

By: anna

anna — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:41:13 +0000

Of course they have a word for ‘canned’ in Japanese and Chinese, but
please don’t assume they’re the same thing.

By: mark

mark — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:11:41 +0000

ummm just like any other water is?

By: lol

lol — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:20:39 +0000

It’s Japanese, but if you read the Kanji as Chinese and translate it into English, it reads:

“Extreme-Disaster Use”
“Drinking Water” (aka. Water for drinking)

nothing about bottles or cans, douchebags

By: shitkoks

shitkoks — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:08:28 +0000

I know chinese people have never heard of cans, or democracy.
I think they have like 1000 words for penis and for the sun, due to their primitive sun worshipping heritage and phallic obsession. Not unlike richard simmons.

By: jon

jon — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:31:22 +0000

not knowing how to spell fail…

By: OASSO

OASSO — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:23:30 +0000

I believe its the formal noun for Mormon. POLIGAMY FTW

By: OASSO

OASSO — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:21:20 +0000

HIROSHIMA FTW

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:29:59 +0000

Haha epic fail for anonymous! “The bottle says”… Kind of the point of the fail!!

By: Vetrina

Vetrina — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:37:03 +0000

More like canned water
FAIL

By: BURN

BURN — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:16:09 +0000

HEY IM AN AMERICAN and your right most of us do fail epically (please note the word most for it is a descriptive word that means almost all. ALMOST we have hope…. not much)

By: BURN

BURN — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:13:26 +0000

ching do not act like an intelligible person it only makes u look more idiotic than if u had just said lol thats a fail because if u had read the the first 50 comments u would have realized that there was never any mention of canned water on the can of water its beverage water moron

By: Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:50:43 +0000

How unusual, I’m half Chinese and half Canadian and i recognize the words to be Chinese. The small print maybe able to indicate that they are Japanese but there that link on the bottom left hand corner. Too bad i can’t read Chinese, only speak

By: valerie

valerie — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:51:22 +0000

yeah i used to live in japan .. and this is what we called japlish

By: George

George — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:52:11 +0000

Learn to spell… moron

By: Aja

Aja — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:20:35 +0000

Didn’t take long to find that out, did it?

By: Someone from a galaxy far, far away.......

Someone from a galaxy far, far away....... — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:17:42 +0000

Double post fail.

By: fanfive

fanfive — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:56:58 +0000

Um, no, bottled water refers to water in a bottle. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

By: Jax

Jax — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:41:28 +0000

What’s a Moran? I know what a MORON is.

By: asdf

asdf — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:26:49 +0000

too bad you don’t have one

Gender Identity FAIL

By: frqt

frqt — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:22:21 +0000

suck my left nut.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:24:59 +0000

shape fail!

btw, you can convey the idea of a can in Japanese.

By: Dudu

Dudu — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:53:55 +0000

Nakamura…..like HIRO NAKAMURA!

By: ffnovice7

ffnovice7 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:06:52 +0000

ching is either Thinly Veiled Force-Substituted Self-Deprecation of Racial Prejudice … Win, or just Racist Twat Fail, but for chinx. And ching-a-ling him/her(ohpleaseGodIhopenot)self is obviously not AZN for he/she(againfortheloveofGodno) describes the “Asian language” as hanji/japanese/chinese, two real yet discrete languages and one typo (probably/tabun/surma meant Kanji or Hiragana or Hanja)

By: ffnovice7

ffnovice7 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:02:50 +0000

Thinly Veiled Force-Substituted Self-Deprecation of Racial Prejudice … Win? Or just Racist Twat Fail? Only Mountain Trail (an English cognate that is used by Asians, PROPERLY) will know.

By: ffnovice7

ffnovice7 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:00:19 +0000

Antithesis/Chiasmus/Inversion WIN! … Forget AP Lit Terms Fail 4 meez

By: cheesyme

cheesyme — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:02:30 +0000

Moronic Moran,
ummm… I can read japanese but it doesn’t say that……

By: cheesyme

cheesyme — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:00:29 +0000

Of course there’s a word in Chinese and also Japanese for canned water…
Just like English, we combine the word “canned” and “water”.

In this case this is one of the “Engrish” examples. Product designers were so lazy they just decided to move the words on a bottle to the canned version. You can google “engrish” and find tons of funny examples of English applied incorrectly in product packaging.

By: MixT-ape

MixT-ape — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:55:30 +0000

thats a fail fail!

Because bottled doesn’t necessary refer to water that is in a bottle, it’s a general term.

americans kinda fail, epicly :/

By: tuddle18122

tuddle18122 — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:41:08 +0000

or maybe it WAS bottled water but now inside a can but the customer wants verification of its origin.
you never know whats in the manufacturers plan is.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:56:06 +0000

When companies (from anywhere) translate chinese/japanese/korean or whatever other language to English they usually use LITERAL translation. The bottle says bottled water because… I don’t think there is a word for canned in chinese and japanese language, I don’t think. It says bottled water in the language, so it translated to bottled.

By: hymen

hymen — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:26:33 +0000

i love cans

By: chance

chance — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:26:25 +0000

And it’s peel “off” the lid, not “of.” Just a friendly reminder.

By: fandangozilla

fandangozilla — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:57:50 +0000

hahahahahahaha, i have one of those in my garage.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:51:50 +0000

whats the point?

By: ching

ching — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:46:59 +0000

typical stupid americans.. can’t even read hanji/japanese/chinese. Why couldn’t you read wt others said? It’s a canned water for extreme disaster!!

By: MT

MT — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:05:14 +0000

Typical Asians…..can’t drive cars or make bottled water right. Why would I want one more step to get my water?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:30:21 +0000

The can says:

Extreme Disaster Use
Beverage Water

doesn’t mention a bottle or a can.

By: Heh...

Heh... — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:46:07 +0000

From what I can tell from the pic, it appears as though “Bottled Water” is the only print not in Kanji (or whatever the script is. I know there are others.). Given that, it seems as though someone thought “Well, it’s in Engrish and Japanese, so if the person speaks either of these two, they’re golden! Otherwise, they will open the can, take a tiny sip, then realize it’s bottled water! We rock!”

“Dude, Google translator says the word means a bottle. Shouldn’t we change it to can?”

… Realizing they’ve already manufactured 800,000 cans…

“Shut the hell up, kid.”