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
All tattoos are for degens
WEIL REINE HAUT REINHAUT
Ah, ein Mann von Kultur!
Wait what the hell, there’s an actual anti tattoo movement in Germany? That’s legit hilarious
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
My wife was extremely beautiful and was able to book with popular dudes on Instagram because she looked good on their feed but each one was thousands of dollars
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
I think it’s not tattoos itself but the whole thing around all of the artists being fine with sleeping with my wife because she’s hot, I just have such a negative opinion around the entire tattoo culture now and I’m pretty sure like half of tattoo artists are just creeps
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.
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Sounds like another person with tattoo regret
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Hell yeah brother prestine skin
Lol ur gross
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I’m Canadian and voted green party
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
I’m also planning on getting a voice bubble that says “come out of there you wascally wabbit”
Absolutely
My brother got Loser down one of his sideburns. Everybody uses it against him every once in a while.
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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
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.
That’s wild… hair
Ironic, considering back pieces like this are usually the result of drugs and/or alcohol.
Ironic
I think you misspelled “iconic”
Poorly drawn Cliff Richard seen on a woman’s shoulder in Blackpool (of course).
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…
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
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.
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.
