• Waldelfe@feddit.org
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    27 days ago

    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?

    • stelelor@lemmy.ca
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      26 days ago

      Depending on how thick the line was, maybe it was a cover-up for another tattoo? (or a group of tattoos)

      • Waldelfe@feddit.org
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        26 days ago

        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.

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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    28 days ago

    I saw this one kid, with a tattoo of a butt on his butt. He kept pulling his shirt up over his head. He said he was from lake titicaca. That boy wasn’t right.

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    28 days ago

    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.

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    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.

    • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
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      28 days ago

      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?

      • Fondots@lemmy.world
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        28 days ago

        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.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    28 days ago

    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/MCXCIV

    But 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.

    • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      Assuming 4/10 is 4th October, shouldn’t the day be written like “a.d. IV Non(as)” (4 days until the first kalend)

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        27 days ago

        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…

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      27 days ago

      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

  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    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.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    28 days ago

    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.

  • rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz
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    28 days ago

    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.

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
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      28 days ago

      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.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      27 days ago

      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

      • rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz
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        27 days ago

        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.

    • Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml
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      28 days ago

      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…

  • PineRune@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    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.

  • DUMBASS@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    28 days ago

    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.