A guy at my work got promoted to manager and celebrated by tattooing the company logo onto his chest. Pretty much everyone had to hold back laughing when he showed it off.
Alright, folks lock the thread, we have a winner. Lol
God, there’s a huge part of me that hopes this isn’t real, but I’ve also been on the 'net long enough to know better.
Unfortunately this is 100% real.
And I’m pretty sure she’s from the UK…
However, she also admitted: “I’m not getting the tattoo removed [yet], just weighing my options to see what’s best for me moving forward. But I also have so much support, so that’s why I don’t know [if I’ll remove it] yet. I love my supporters.”
What a scam. Asking for money with no intent.
Hate bait, taking advantage of fanatics
Oh nooooooooooooooooooo
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oh no
Can we get an interview from her in 4 years?
We can! So long as they let women speak for themselves in four years.
That’s just sad.
The Trump stamp.
I worked in Indiana, and actually got to see that dude with the Romney campaign logo on his face.
Least deranged and dishonest Republican.
Tap for spoiler
(No, seriously: sure, he fraudulently reneged on the sale of ad space on his face, but at least he did so because he was disappointed in Romney’s lies. Too bad he learned fuck-all from it, since he intended to continue to support shit stains like Marco Rubio in the future.)
I have a distant relative with a traffic light tattooed in the middle of his forehead, just a black rectangle with red, yellow, and green circles.
And on either side he has some graffiti style writing that I’m pretty sure says “con man”
I became aware of him because we share a fairly uncommon last name, and one day police came to my house grasping at straws looking for this guy because he had been breaking into cars, so the basically went to the first person with the same last name they could find to see if we knew where he was.
It was the first time I’d heard of him, we’re not at all close with the extended family. Eventually I looked him up and found his social media with those stupid tattoos.
I have a distant relative with a traffic light tattooed in the middle of his forehead, just a black rectangle with red, yellow, and green circles.
Are any of the lights on?
All 3 of them, but no one’s home
He’s got a few other stupid tattoos. He’s got some more words tattooed above the stoplight in sort of a fancy script, but I can’t really make them out because he’s always wearing a hat. Some knuckle tattoos I can’t make out because in all his pictures he’s either holding a 40 of old English or flipping off the camera (or both) so his hands are always contorted weirdly, a few words that he probably thought sounded tough, some symbols I don’t recognize, and a crucifix on one arm and a devil holding a cross on the other that might be actually kind of well-done but I don’t have a great eye for tattoos.
He’s a shrimpy white guy with a patchy beard, who grew up in what passes for the ghetto in an otherwise pretty nice suburban area (not to sell it short, it is a pretty shitty town, once in a while it manages to crack some “Top X Most Dangerous Cities in state/country” sort of article, but compared to the “bad neighborhoods” in pretty much any major city it’s nothing)
I could go on for quite a while about him and the rest of that branch of the family, and all the dumb bullshit they’ve done even though I’ve never met most of them, their reputation far precedes them. All through grade school the prevailing advice from my parents was “if anyone asks if you know/are related to any other [our last name]s, just say ‘no’” and that’s always served me well.
None of his profiles seem to have been updated in about 10 years, so with any luck he’s locked up somewhere, or maybe dead. Or maybe he had just enough sense to stop broadcasting his dumbassery out onto the open internet.
Have a cousin with a Budweiser logo on her lower back ala “tramp stamp”.
Honestly, I think it’s cringe to have any logo or IP on your body.
In my late teens, maybe 20 I worked in a restaurant and got invited to a party after work in a very rough part of town. So rough that the taxi driver wouldn’t let us get out until we found the exact address (this would have been mid nineties so well before GPS nav was popular).
Anyway we get there. Folks are nice. Maybe ten in total plus the 4 of us from work. They’re rough around the edges but generally salt of the earth characters which I love so it’s all going well. Get chatting to one lad and he shows me his new tattoo on his forearm that his friend had done for him.
It was a palm tree on a tiny desert island with a dude sitting against the tree smoking a massive joint.
Now this monstrosity was one colour, all outlines, looked like it was done with a compass from your school pencil case and my 11 year old would have done a better job. It’s very difficult to describe just how shite it was.
Felt really sorry for the lad. He was definitely going to regret it if he didn’t already. Never forgot that tattoo though.
Reminds me of a dude I met at college. Had the shittiest arm tattoos known to man. I’m talking 5th grade blurry doodles. His response was, “I was trying to get with a hot girl at a party giving out tattoos”.
Ooooof.
Tbf tattoos from friends have much greater value than just direct art.
I have some poorly drawn tattoos from my friends and they’re still some of my favorites!
Yeah I can see that 100%. Makes total sense.
Sightly similar but obviously different we always do handmade birthday cards instead of store bought.
Sounds like an easy removal at least.
Yeah I believe so. Not sure why you’re being downvoted because non-professional ones done by your mate like that are easier to remove. I can’t remember if laser removal was a thing back then.
Ironic, considering back pieces like this are usually the result of drugs and/or alcohol.
Ironic
I think you misspelled “iconic”
That’s wild… hair
I’m getting Elmer Fudd on my ass this Monday, so, um, that.
Please tell me that he’s gonna be pointing his gun where I think he’s going to. As if he’s expecting Bugs to pop out.
Absolutely
I’m also planning on getting a voice bubble that says “come out of there you wascally wabbit”
I came across a Twitch streamer with his username tattooed across his knuckles in Norse Runes, except it was spelled wrong. He had ᚦ (Th) in place of ᚲ (K or C) which is far from similar in pronunciation. A quick Google search of the wiki page for Norse Runes could have avoided this issue too.
Luckily for him, nobody ever has to know unless he volunteers that information
This is hardly the dumbest one originally but I worked construction in high school and college. One old dude had gotten “RESPECT” tattooed on his abs in his youth. By the time I met him, he had a beer belly and had had some injuries and surgeries. It was just a completely different font/message.
By contrast, the best tattoo I’ve seen is a friend who is a musician. She has musical notes tattooed behind her ears. You wouldn’t even know if she did her hair a certain way (for a job interview or something) but when she was ready to party, the musical notes were on display.
I also knew a guy who was an artist who had an amazing sleeve. He obviously cared about the artistic aspect; he literally flew to Japan multiple times to have it done because he cared that much about being a canvas for the specific artist he chose. That was the most impressive. I like the subtlety of the music notes but I’m not against going all out. It’s really the middle-ground — like a drunk tattoo that meant something at the time — where people regret it later.
I know a guy who got Abe Simpson crawling out of his butt crack.
Meh, that is more funny than dumb, it is normally hidden under clothes.
I have a mustache tattooed above my dick. It was for Movember, so why not there. I don’t take photos in the nude, and I’m happily married to my wife, who finds it funny.
I’m am considering getting a tramp stamp, only as a mustache. My wife does not like it, but gets why I want it, as a joke. We’re also the age when tramp stamps got popular with our friends, so my wife gets the joke.
Obviously you should get “Speak friend and enter” in Elvish.
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Which was the style at the time.
it’ll happen to you.
You win
I saw a kid, like 20 at the most, walking around with his shirt off, and on the top of his back was the name of a removals company and a mobile number. Not particularly well done, and I’d bet it wasn’t even his company
My tattoo is very well designed, but it is a lotus flower with the Om symbol in it because at the time I was practicing a lot of yoga, and I didn’t realize it looks kind of… culturally foolish, shall we say, especially now that I live in a city with a lot of South Asian folks, and some have asked me about it, I am white as the driven snow. I did not intend it in any cultural appropriation way and it isn’t offensive or anything, they all seem to like it, but it was a bit thoughtless ultimately.
As a human being that shares this earth with the rest of us…I don’t see anything wrong with this. You were practicing lots of Yoga, and it was significant enough for you to outwardly mark yourself with it, you can back up the fact you studied and immersed in that (sub)culture.
You clearly didn’t just spot it on the wall and go “lol that looks cool.” While drunk or something lol.
I am white as the driven snow.
It sounds like this is where some perceived guilt is coming from. Contrary to what sections of the internet will tell you, there’s nothing wrong with consciously adopting a culture that meant something to you. Even if you’re “white.”
There’s this weird expectation that white folks should only be able to get tattoos of like, what, the Wonderbread logo, or Elvis or something LOL.
they all seem to like it
This speaks volumes in itself. It’s obvious to the people OF that culture that you’re not just some poseur ripping them off to self-aggrandize. They seem thrilled to meet someone who saw it and said “I want to learn from them!” This is why humanity is beautiful.
The world’s a smaller place now. People move. Cultures evolve now as they always have. That’s how traditions like Yoga or Kung Fu traveled across the world in the first place right?
I’m just some guy on the internet, but It sounds like a cool tattoo, and I hope maybe you can feel less burdened by it, especially when it doesn’t cause anybody else any harm.
Sounds like the opposite, actually! It seems like it gives you a connection to others and has started a lot of conversations, when you’d otherwise be seen as an outsider!
Thank you for saying this. I genuinely would never not take someone’s cultural practices and religion seriously. I just really like what it symbolizes to me.
And for what it’s worth, Hinduism is an open religion, and yoga is a cultural practice that is encouraged to be shared.
Respectfully partaking in other people’s cultures is a joy when you’re welcomed. The talk of cultural appropriation is really about disrespectful utilization of other cultures or taking part in cultural practices you aren’t welcome to.
Totally chill, it really is fine, they won’t take it seriously.
It’s not cultural appropriation to practice another’s religion, in whole or in part, belief and spirituality is one area where you should feel free of judgement, we’re all just finding our best path.
Thank you. I just felt a little silly.
On the list of things to get tattooed, yours is pretty much at the top that I wouldn’t judge someone harshly for.
Nobody owns culture, don’t stress about it.
Mr. Cool ICE 💀
You take that back
I have a line tattooed on my leg, I lived with a guy who had a tattoo setup, one day I was home alone, reeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaalllly fuckin drunk and stoned, so I decided to tattoo myself, did a little nirvana face thing, then, while I had the tattoo gun in my hand, resting on my leg, I passed out, my foot pressed the pedal and I tattooed a thick line in my leg, woke up as second after and just left it.
I only ever tattooed myself when I was kind of drunk from then on.
How squiggly is the line?
Edit: I just noticed it kinda looks like the “Do something” meme character.
Oh that’s not as bad as I thought. I imagined a much longer line. Interesting that it’s two parallel though.
It’s like that most likely due to running out of ink. It looks like a bigger collection of needles, not just a single fine line one.
Straight like Freddie Mercury