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[–] M137@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Girl I know has a slice of drippy cheese pizza on her arm. Can't even really give a reason for it.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 5 days ago

I like pizza tho

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 5 days ago

Poorly drawn Cliff Richard seen on a woman’s shoulder in Blackpool (of course).

[–] Teknikal@eviltoast.org 5 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 2 points 6 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.

[–] auginator@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] JakoJakoJako13@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

My brother got Loser down one of his sideburns. Everybody uses it against him every once in a while.

[–] rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz 78 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 71 points 1 week 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.

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 8 points 6 days ago

The Trump stamp.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

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.

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[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 43 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I worked in Indiana, and actually got to see that dude with the Romney campaign logo on his face.

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[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 1 week ago

Some nazi shit

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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!

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah I can see that 100%. Makes total sense.

Sightly similar but obviously different we always do handmade birthday cards instead of store bought.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like an easy removal at least.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

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.

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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