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[โ€“] tangonov@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 hours ago

Right, the Texas tattoo would be my first priority, too ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago

Are they registered at the local meth house?

[โ€“] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 32 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'm always resistant to throwing trashy around. It just feels really shitty to judge that on one picture. Some tats, it really can be the angle or lighting that makes a difference.

But, sometimes, you run across a pic like this where there's so many problems I just can't think of a better word for the tattoos.

Bad placements, bad techniques, bad designs, bad everything. Like, if you're gonna do face ink, make sure they're well executed.

There is a certain degree of intentionality to some people's choices of bad tattoos, where it's a form of self expression to have badly done or otherwise bad ink. But this doesn't look like that, it just looks like someone thought these were good and doesn't know better.

[โ€“] glimse@lemmy.world 21 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Bad placements, bad techniques, bad designs, bad everything. Like, if you're gonna do face ink, make sure they're well executed.

Lest we forget to specifically mention out "bad content" when there's a meth pipe on his neck

[โ€“] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

That looks like a lighter and a spoon.

[โ€“] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

It's definitely a meth pipe. A spoon wouldn't have a circle at the end.

[โ€“] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

What does that make it, crack or heroin? I don't know much about this topic.

[โ€“] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 2 points 10 minutes ago (1 children)

A spoon would make it heroin. You smoke crack out of a pipe just like meth. The tattoo is definitely a meth pipe though.

[โ€“] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 minutes ago

Thank you. I'll let you know if that into comes in handy someday!

[โ€“] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

Maybe just like warm spoons

[โ€“] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 28 minutes ago
[โ€“] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Probably on meth when he had them done. He just warning people to stay away from him.

Yeah, that's true. I tend not to think about that as inherently bad. The same thing on a thigh under shorts might be dubious, but not the same way when it's on the neck, if you get the distinction I'm using

[โ€“] devAlot@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Is that a meth pipe, or a lighter heating up a spoon? I think we need to track down the original artist here to confirm.

Edit: there's quite an interesting debate in the comments about this already ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] bnrnrtbgd@sh.itjust.works 28 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

There's an entire hand covering her face, there's no way to make it "clearer". Might as well let an ai guess what she looks like.

Why not ask them to take another picture? Is this the only one in existence? Did they agree to the wedding invite?

[โ€“] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure if this is so much better

[โ€“] jonne@infosec.pub 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, remove a couple of the other tattoos and it's basically presentable.

[โ€“] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

So, changing everything about them and it becomes an OK picture.

[โ€“] Comment105@lemm.ee 1 points 34 minutes ago

Could we also see them as black and chinese?

[โ€“] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Now give both of them Ratatouille rats please

[โ€“] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Now put them on a ferris wheel lol

[โ€“] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] x00z@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

And change the background with a church.

[โ€“] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 10 hours ago

It's for church, honey, NEXT!

[โ€“] RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 28 points 11 hours ago (11 children)

How can you make yourself more unemployable than having a visible face/neck/head tattoo?

It's a badly drawn crack pipe...

[โ€“] steeznson@lemmy.world 17 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I shouldn't know this but I think it's a meth pipe.

Meth would also explain the other tattoos.

[โ€“] TurnOnTheSunflower@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Or a spoon to heat up heroin perhaps?

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[โ€“] jordanlund@lemmy.world 42 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I was trying to figure out WTF is going on here...

The text tattoos, eyebrow, corner of the eye, chest, are all backwards, but Texas is not.

Makes me think he did the text himself whlle looking in a mirror.

People probably tell him "Dude, your tats are backwards!" at which point he looks in a mirror and thinks they look fine.

[โ€“] dicksteele@lemm.ee 36 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The crack pipe under his chin should give away the reason for any of the other tattoo designs

[โ€“] unaccomplishedbottom@lemm.ee 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's a meth pipe. Crack pipes are just a tube without the bowl

[โ€“] match@pawb.social 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

No, it's a spoon being heated up, so heroin

[โ€“] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I thought that she was holding a cigarette?

[โ€“] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 58 minutes ago

That's a meth pipe.

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