I think it’s the one Conor Mcgregor has on his chest I can’t tell if it’s meant to be a monkey a bear a dog or something else.
For the cash that guy has its one terrible tattoo.
The Trump stamp.
That’s just sad.
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…
oh
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.
Maybe not quite as dumb as others here, but I once saw a woman in a sauna who had a GIANT 女 (woman) on her back. It went from the shoulders to the ass. I get finding Chinese characters cool and wanting them tattooed, but why on earth would you just tattoo “woman” instead of something meaningful and why so large it covers your entire back?
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.
Sounds like an easy removal at least.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I once shared a hospital room with two old geezers after surgery, and one of them had a visit from their grandson. The dude had Nazi tattoos all over his face, swastikas, SS lighting bolts, 88’s, the iron cross, the whole collection.
When the Nazi loser left, the old guy complained to us others in the room: “Lovely kid that… Such a shame he cannot get a job. I cannot understand why! Such a decent boy, has a forklift drivers license and everything!”
So yeah, in total that might have been the densest occurrence of idiocy I have ever witnessed.
I don’t think I would have been able to hold my tongue in that situation lol. I 100% would have blurted out something about his tatoos
Understandable. It’s hard for me to shut up too sometimes when I feel like being witty, but even doped up I realised well enough that I’d be stuck there for days with a pissed off Nazi sympathizer if the gramps took it badly.
I have heard that gangs and cults sometimes use facial tattoos to ostracize their members from society at large and prevent them from forming an external support network.
And some people do it to themselves, on purpose.
See: girl with trump face tattoo at the top of this thread.
I’m pretty sure it was just a mighty dose of stupid. It was a while ago and at least officially the only organised gangs in my country back then were bikers and I don’t think face tats are/were their style.
I am so baffled by people like this. Bet he talked about how happy he was that Germany was defeated in world war 2, as well…
I came here to say I knew someone who had an eye ball on a skateboard with flames at the back of the eye…
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.
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
I know a guy who got Abe Simpson crawling out of his butt crack.
it’ll happen to you.
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.
Really the only sensible comment in this thread
You win
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.
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.)
Hmmm. That’s not how you spoiler
!It’s like this!<
The way I did it works in the default Lemmy web UI and in Voyager. I think you’re the one with a non-standard spoiler tag.
You’re right. That’s annoying. Spoiler tags are useless if they’re platform dependant.
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.
I have “Lemmy” tattooed across my elbow
Big Motörhead fan?
Hugely
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.
