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Shitty/Trashy Tattoos

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[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You all do realize those are just drawn on with a marker right? If those were real, and fresh enough to have the ink smear, they would be way more red and probably raised a bit.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

those tats are entirely real, old, and indistinct because they were put on in prison.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You can literally see the smear lines in the picture (the chin especially). On top of that they're clearly taking a joke picture and she's hiding her laughter. If this dude has these face tattoos and teeth THAT nice he's like a complete anomaly. Everything in this picture says those are marker, but you can believe whatever you want!

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

Everything in this picture says those are marker, but you can believe whatever you want!

when you're wrong, bud, you're really fucking wrong lol

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 0 points 23 minutes ago

People wouldn't take two pictures in the same day. That would be crazy.

[–] tangonov@lemmy.ca 21 points 8 hours ago

Right, the Texas tattoo would be my first priority, too 😅

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 24 points 9 hours ago

Are they registered at the local meth house?

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 43 points 14 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.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 26 points 11 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

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

That looks like a lighter and a spoon.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours 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.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe just like warm spoons

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 4 hours ago
[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] modus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Why is this being debated? Is one more socially acceptable than the other?

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's just something to talk about.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

In that case, it's definitely a jenkem flute.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

You know, I think you may be right.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

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

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 54 points 17 hours ago (4 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.

[–] dicksteele@lemm.ee 43 points 17 hours ago (8 children)

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

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[–] bnrnrtbgd@sh.itjust.works 31 points 16 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?

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure if this is so much better

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago

Could we also see them as black and chinese?

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Now give both of them Ratatouille rats please

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Fine, I'll do it myself:

(the left one can't actually control him because of the darn hat)

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

This is basically the art world version of opening and closing your own Pull Request. 😂

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

Now put them on a ferris wheel lol

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

And change the background with a church.

[–] RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 33 points 16 hours ago (16 children)

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

It's a badly drawn crack pipe...

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