Had a ninety year old coworker named "Irv". Coolest dude you ever met. Ww2 vet. My username is influenced by him

He always wore a gold necklace charm that looked like gibberish. People would occasionally ask about it. He would say "it's an old yiddish expression." Then turn it upside down and around and it read the same.

The world needs more old people with a sense of humor.

Edit; were he around now, I think he would angery. That thought brings me joy.

In case you're wondering, the "Japanese" section of the shirt has a mixture of actual Katakana (usually used for "style" or foreign words) and Hiragana (used for native words and [grammar] case markers). Plus, random shapes that look somewhat like Katakana. Some appear to be backwards Katakana, while some are simply made up (like the "R" character).

Also, the shirt says you need to turn you head to read it... But traditional Japanese, which was written top-down and right-to-left, was readable without turning your head. T L K
H I I
I K N
S E D
_ _ A

(edit: Vertical text is weird in Markdown)

I realize it's meant as a joke. But if you know Japanese, even if only how to read the non-Kanji, alphabetic characters (Katakana and Hiragana), it borders on lame. Especially since they faked a bunch of the characters.