Girl I know has a slice of drippy cheese pizza on her arm. Can’t even really give a reason for it.
I like pizza tho
Poorly drawn Cliff Richard seen on a woman’s shoulder in Blackpool (of course).
My brother got Loser down one of his sideburns. Everybody uses it against him every once in a while.
Not “THE” dumbest, but my older half-sister got a breakup tattoo that said “you’re loss” a couple of years ago… I don’t understand how neither she nor her tattooist took 5 seconds to look up the spelling. And getting a breakup tattoo in the first place is dumb enough.
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.
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?
Depending on how thick the line was, maybe it was a cover-up for another tattoo? (or a group of tattoos)
No, it didn’t cover anything, it was really just the lines for the character. I don’t think you could cover much under it other than a very tiny tattoo.
The Trump stamp.
That’s just sad.
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.
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…
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.
Nobody owns culture, don’t stress about it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All tattoos are for degens
WEIL REINE HAUT REINHAUT
I got to ask. What is your trauma around tattoos? People don’t have such strong opinions about what other people do unless there’s some serious weight on their minds.
Just got divorced and found out she slept with each tattoo artist she went to and she spent money we didn’t have on those, making her progressively uglier and trashier in the process and embarrassing me in front of my family because I had to even later borrow money from them to recover from said tattoos
I feel like tattoos can only make you look worse or best case, the same, never better. Told her that during our first date I’m sure and after 10 years she almost had nowhere left on her body left to draw on
degenerate’s a nazi term, man. that’s why people are getting the wrong idea about you.
No way, people commonly use that word where I live
Sounds like your problem isn’t tattoos then.
Yeah, tattoo artists from the sounds of it.
No but being a judgmental prick sure is
Sounds like another person with tattoo regret
Don’t have one but please keep talking
Hell yeah brother prestine skin
Lol ur gross
Feel like he’s about to start mumbling about Clarice
stop being weird. You’re not the fun weird. You’re being Republican weird.
I’m Canadian and voted green party
You don’t have to be a resident of eagle land to be republican weird.
I will probably get a lot of flak for that but I would be tempted to say: any tattoo one can’t easily remove.
Don’t get me wrong, there are some wonderful tattoos out there, there is no question about that but isn’t it a bit… presumptuous to think one will like a drawing or a some text inked under their skin… forever? That’s the reason why I never got tattooed.
I have a rule for my tattoos. I design the general idea, on paper, and date it. If I still think it’s a good idea for a tattoo a decade later, I will get it. I have 4 so far.
I quite like this approach :)
I think one of the bigger misunderstandings of why people get tattoos is that they do it “because they will love the image forever.“ It’s more useful to think of it as a snapshot, a permanent time capsule that you can always look at. So yeah, you don’t want to get something you will truly hate to look at later, But your taste evolves and there is a bit of an art to getting something that you will still look back on fondly. Like a poem you wrote in high school that still makes you smile, even if you’re a much better writer now.
Ask people about their tattoos and you’ll often hear them say “I got it because I liked how it looked.” It was that simple. Especially if it’s not their first tattoo.
Thx a lot, it’s very interesting.
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.
Which was the style at the time.
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 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
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 tattoos
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 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…
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.
