• @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    011 months 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.

  • Libb
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    011 months ago

    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.

    • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      011 months ago

      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.

      • Libb
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        011 months ago

        I quite like this approach :)

    • @LandedGentry@lemmy.zip
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      11 months ago

      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.

      • Libb
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        011 months ago

        Thx a lot, it’s very interesting.

  • nocturne
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    011 months 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.

  • @yesman@lemmy.world
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    011 months 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.

  • @Fondots@lemmy.world
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    011 months 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.

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    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.