A couple of years ago (ah, yes, remember pre-pandemic times?) I went to a club and while I was with friends and had a decent time, I can't say I was exactly a fan of the crowd.
Then I noticed that quite a few guys there had tattoos of lions wearing crowns on their heads. It felt like a certain kind of cultural thing... all these dudes thinking they're kings or something.
It didn't scream creativity, certainly, but it did give me a chuckle.
People shared their observations after Redditor Peliaroth asked the online community:
"What tattoos scream, 'I have no creativity'?"
"I have two..."
"I have 2 flying birds on my ankle lol. I feel like I belong to this category."
Ineshakia7
I'll die on the hill that if someone is a sheep for getting a tattoo just because the design is popular then they would also be a sheep for avoiding a design they like just because too many other people have it. Either way you let other people dictate what you do.
"Every man..."
"Every man from Essex that wears those dumb ass tight tops and trousers has a sleeve that has a melting clock. So mysterious."
[deleted]
Essex, huh? So specific. Good to know.
"Remember..."
"Remember the mustache tattoos that everyone was getting on the side of their fingers? What happened to those people?"
[deleted]
We don't talk about those people, okay? We just don't.
"I knew a dude..."
"I knew a dude with a microphone on his index finger and he’d hold it up to your face after asking you a question."
QuietStroganoff
I can't decide if I love this or if I find it utterly insufferable.
"Anything copied from..."
"Anything copied from or inspired by the Joker and Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad."
Temmere
Something tells me that the people who idolize these two characters don't actually know anything about them.
"The owners..."
"The Council Cabbage. The owners always insist it’s meant to be a rose."
Ravekat1
This is the best thing I’ve ever heard. Council cabbage. I will remember this.
"Or..."
"The infinity symbol. Or a feather breaking off into birds flying away."
LoboPatronus
Oh, wow. Are you a member of a camera crew following a third of the men who live in my neighborhood?
"Getting..."
"Getting your own name tattooed on you."
Mr-scientist
Oh, Lord. I have met a few people with tattoos like this. No. Please, no.
"I have a pineapple..."
"I have a pineapple on my upper arm. Why? No reason. I’m not creative and I like to make people wonder."
ddoinyomom
I can see this driving some people absolutely nuts. It's kind of brilliant, to be honest.
"I know someone..."
"I know someone with that COEXIST bumper sticker tattooed on them. It’s so terrible. I think of them every time I see that sticker on a car."
[deleted]
Oh dear... Do they also have a Subaru logo tattooed somewhere else?
Let's be real though: If you like something, just get it.
Tattoos don't all need to have significant or meaningful stories attached to them. You do you.
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We all have to draw the line somewhere.
Tattoos are both expensive to get and slightly dangerous. I mean, you're literally coloring on somebody's skin with a needle. And that tattoo is going to stay on that person's skin for the rest of their lives, presumably. So you want to make sure that you aren't doing something too crazy.
Still, people will demand crazy. And it's up to you in those moments to set your personal tattoo boundaries.
u/staychel asked:
Tattoo artists of reddit, who and what have you refused to do?
Here were some of those answers:
Tattoo artists are artists. Artists love variety and there comes a point when you are drawing on people's skin that you just think, "no. I do not want to do that again."
Everybody has personal taste, so not every tattoo artist will be annoyed by an infinity symbol on your wrist. But still, don't be surprised if your request for the word "Always" in cursive gets turned down and you need to find another artist.
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Tattoos are a deeply personal thing for most people, and many put a lot of time into coming up with the perfect design before getting inked. Some people put a bit less thought into things, or get their information from less-than-trustworthy sources, and that can end in an embarrassing disaster.
This is especially true of tattoos that include languages the tattoo-ee doesn't know.
Reddit user u/thejoker0305 asked:
"Chinese speakers/readers of Reddit, what's the dumbest sh*t you've seen tattooed on someone?"
Some of the responses are only a bit cringey, while others are simply absurd.
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Times change, and if you don't change with them you're likely to get left behind. That simple piece of wisdom applies to pretty much everything - up to and including the job market. It seems like a lot of older didn't get that memo, though.
So I'm standing in the store with my mother and she starts in again asking me when one of us (she means me, my partner or the father of my children) are going to get a "real job." All three of us freelance and she just cannot fathom why we would choose not to have a steady 9-5 job that offered benefits and a retirement plan. Of course I've tried explaining that they're not that easy to come by, but she is the head of HR for an international company and has had the same position for longer than many of you readers have been alive. She "grew" with the company and doesn't grasp how rarely that happens anymore. She's never faced a world where a company isn't willing to pay what she's worth, doesn't offer benefits, and certainly doesn't view employees as family members. We freelance because it pays way better and it affords us the freedom to not have to pay for daycare or aftercare costs - and almost nowhere offers health benefits that we can afford anyway, sooo... ?
One Reddit user asked:
What does the older generation not understand about today's job market?
And I kind of want to send all of these responses to my mom, but I'd rather not get into a fight that I know will last 42.68 lifetimes - so I'll passive aggressively write an article instead!