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…
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.
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.
The Trump stamp.
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.
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.
I mean, there's definitely gonna be worse out there, but I once saw a tattoo on an online post, of presumably their date of birth in roman numerals.
Problem is, there was only one "M", so it looked something like: IV/X/MCXCIVBut I figured, alright, let's not assume things, maybe they're a history buff and something cool happened on that day in 1194.
But if I remember correctly, I found some list of all Wikipedia articles for specific dates and that day did not have an article, because nothing noteworthy had happened.So, yeah, I guess we do have to assume that they are in fact a vampire.
Oh man, there's something that really frustrates me about people with Roman numeral tattoos that do not follow the actual conventions of Roman numerals whatsoever.
Like you moron, there is a numeral for the year you were born. You don't separate out each digit you fucking dumbass
Assuming 4/10 is 4th October, shouldn't the day be written like "a.d. IV Non(as)" (4 days until the first kalend)
To be honest, I have no idea. I'm not a Roman numerals/date crack myself. The tattoo definitely wouldn't have been faithful in that regard, but it's also not like they intended to be accurate down to that level...
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 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.
You win
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 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 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 :)
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!
Mr. Cool ICE 💀
You take that back
that one your mom got on her butthole .
Where else you going to get the eye of sauron tattooed on to your body?
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.
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.
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.
Went to this ice cream shop. This lady talked about all her tattoos. They all looked awful like a toddler did them. She said that she proudly stated that all her tattoos were done by her ex.
