Tattoos, punks, and pool

[gordonzola]

This thread deserves a post of its own. What’s the worst tattoo you have? What’s the worst tattoo you’ve ever seen?

And what’s up with the Epicenter worst tattoo competition? I never heard about it. slanderous? arispurr? kittynitro? radcarrots? lapsed? Don’t hold out on me. I don’t remember that. Was it after my time there?

I remember holding an informal poll about my tattoo idea there. Young Emma or old Emma? I never got that tattoo because I decided I didn’t really want it, but I was thinking of it because I have never seen a man get a tattoo of a woman who was a public figure. I mean, you see guys sometimes with their heroes or whatever, but the only women you ever see on men are either relatives or some kind of stupid sexist shit. Then I decided that I didn’t really want a picture of another person on my body.

Cheese on the other hand…

Speaking of Epicenter, you know what one of my favorite moments was? The pool tournament. It was near the beginning back before anyone was hating on each other. We were playing on the totally warped and fucked-up table salvaged from the Verbal Abuse house. All the factions of punk were represented and had dressed up a little. Mohawks were gelled, gutter punks had a fresh drunk on, straight-edgers were tidy and boring-looking, crusties were extra shiny. Every time someone sank a shot people would applaud quietly and politely like it was a golf tournament. This drove Tim Yo crazy, which encouraged us to keep at it.

And to bring this full circle, that was the day after I got my first tattoo. Btw, I should have won the tournament but I eight-ball scratched.

Comments

carpe deim

[d14n.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it qualifies as Worst Tattoo Ever, but this tattoo makes me laugh out loud:



I just want to know if the tattoo artist is at fault... or if he noticed the misspelling and just didn't say anything... or what.

Re: carpe deim

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

mis-spelled tattoos... is there anything sadder? I wish more of them would make it to People's Court.

Re: carpe deim

[primroseport.livejournal.com]

omg this is making me cry inside my heart

ewwwww

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

http://www.elreyano.com/postales/raras/21.jpg

Re: ewwwww

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

wow, my goaty friend, that is truly something. You have to wonder if these guys have just given up on ever getting laid.

[ammonoid.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'm kind of late to the thread, but I was astounded by this one tattoo I saw following some link from hanzismatter.com (which I just looked through but couldn't find it again) which had tattoo of two mermen, one taking the other one from behind, while giving him the reacharound, underneath two arching penisis with cum coming out of them. There was more to the tattoo but that was the main OMG WTF part.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

that is something. I'm going to search now.

[rivetpepsquad.livejournal.com]

i wanted to make this one a huge-ass MURAL on the Cracktory wall for the Aquarian party!

HA!

Remember when you used to think Linux was cool?

[nugget.livejournal.com]

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Re: Remember when you used to think Linux was cool?

[(Anonymous)]

I bet it just torques him out when he's told to switch distros! I loves me some RHEL/Fedora, but a tattoo is going too far.

Re: Remember when you used to think Linux was cool?

[jwz.livejournal.com]

The only possible excuse for that is if he's employee #3 or something.

But I'm doubting it.

Re: Remember when you used to think Linux was cool?

[crosley-bendix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I used to think it was cool. Then I installed a version of Redhat that was the worst operating system release that I'd ever seen. I wondered whether they actually tested it before they shipped.

I'm thinking of getting the sendmail logo tattooed on my ass.

Re: Remember when you used to think Linux was cool?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I will accept that this is a bad tattoo even if the context is over my head. must be one of those computer things...

re:

[ammonoid.livejournal.com]

I knew someone who had the scsi logo on his arm.

don't fear the reaper

[valentwine.livejournal.com]

Until recently I shared an office with a guy who has the Blue Oyster Cult symbol self-tattooed onto one of his ankles. Anytime BOC comes up in conversation (which happens more often than you'd expect really) I take the opportunity to laugh at him, yet again, about his stupid fucking tattoo.

Re: don't fear the reaper

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

well, that symbol lends itself to home-tattooing pretty well.

Washing-machine

[(Anonymous)]

I actually once saw (and I swear I saw it, there were about 50 people around and it even got photographed), a guy having a washing-machine tattooed on his leg.

In fact it was a fully-detailed washing-machine next to a guitar standing on a crate of beer.
And this guy was also proud of it! Now if that doesn't go in for the worst tattoo ever...

Re: Washing-machine

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

what's wrong with a washing machine? Maybe he met his lover in a laundromat? Maybe his family owned one? maybe it's a long involved metaphor or life? Did it have motion lines?

The guitar and a crate of beer I'm not so sure about.

[pvck.livejournal.com]

(here thanks to jwz)

Once there was a skinhead. Said skinhead decided that he wanted to show his colors proudly, so he wanted to get "skins" tattoed to his forehead. However, all of his mates were not stupid enough to do it for him, so he got really blasted, and very carefully did it in the mirror.

He woke up the next morning to find, scrawled in blue across his forehead:
"SNICKS".

True story. I never met the guy, but a friend of mine was one of aforementioned mates.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Skinhead humor never fails!

SNICK Pride! heh heh heh

[anarqueso.livejournal.com]

Of course, a certain lanky clown has 2DUM2DIE tattooed under a cross-eyed loose-toothed skull in flames. He figures he'll give some mortician a good laugh some day.

He was considering getting IDIOT in a big gothic rocker across his belly, but a friend convinced him that when I give head I might not want to be reminded that either of us are idiots.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I like the 2dum2die one. I agree that "idiot" was best loved undone. He's got some great tattoos actually.

[arispurr.livejournal.com]

don't know about the epi worst tattoo contest. before reading the responses to your post, i _used_ to think that the worst tattoos were when people got those old english lettering words on their necks. you know, like "integrity." i stand corrected.

Bad tattoos

[jqmark.livejournal.com]

As a an aficionado of bad tattoos mine being some of them I think this one should at least be in the running.
I use to drink with a hardcore crusty punk back up in Seattle named Pukey and she had drunk and ugly tattooed across her forehead.
There is also a bunch people in some sort of gang that have the word "WUSSY" tattooed in large old english script on themselves as some sort of initiation.
Check www.wussy.net (shameless plug)

Re: Bad tattoos

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

that Wussy website rules. Who knew mods had a sense of humor?

drunk, ugly, and a girl named Pukey. That actually sounds kind of endearing. but I'm sure that's only from a distance.

[lapsed.livejournal.com]

You MUST have been there. It was at one of the anniversary parties, maybe the sixth?. The one where they were screening free epicenter t-shirts if you brought your own shirt.

I remember being very disappointed that Johnny's Surfing Skeleton with Bottle of Booze didn't win. I think the winner was the guy from the Ricketts and his tattoo was some cartoony figure (a bird maybe?) vomiting. The idea for the contest, that was all mine.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

aha! that explains it. Was that the same year Los Crudos played our reunion? We had the whole week of festivities? I herniated a disc in my neck and couldn't get out of bed! and I had helped plan/organize a lot of it.

Started out ok, became unbearable

[sjn.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine loved his tattoo when he first got it. He had Siouxsie (spelling??) sign his arm from bicep to shoulder, then went and had it tattooed over. For years he was a "hit" amongst those who liked Siouxsie. Flash forward about 4 years. There we all are sitting around some coffee shop, and some guy walks on up to him and tells him how much he likes his tattoo, blah blah blah. Then proceeds to ask, and here I quote, "So what made you decide to get the Stussy logo tattooed on ya? That's pretty bitchin'..."

Who knew?

Anyways, it stuck. The tattoo was soon there after covered up.

[kittynitro.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the contest. It must have been after my time. But, if I could retro-actively enter myself, I might win. Illuminati seal, anyone? Argh, the regrets of mis-spent youth.

[baconmonkey.livejournal.com]

I know this little goober who had the word "ubermench" tatooed on his chest. The truly bad part about it, was the lack of umlat. so phoenetically, he had "ubbermench" on him. about a month later, after nedless teasing, he finally had the umlat added.


also: http://www.hanzismatter.com/

Still wrong.

[angry-ferret.livejournal.com]

Übbermench and übermench are both wrong. The correct spelling is 'übermensch', so his tattoo still sucks, umlaut or no.

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