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"Do you think my tattoo is cool?" No, I don't. There are no cool tattoos. "Check out my sleeve!" Oh god ew.

Tattoos themselves are stupid. Doubly so if it's some media IP. "I put Batman on my body!" "Look at this image of Goku on my calf!" I can't think of many things I'd want to do less than that.

There are a few narrow exceptions. Chances are yours isn't one of them.

If you personally like tattoos, fine. I'm not saying nobody should get tattoos because I don't like them. I'm stating my opinion that tattoos are stupid, and I am stating it here because it is probably not a popular opinion.

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[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 77 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Wait... I disagree completely but it's correctly posted in unpopular opinions. Fine... Take my up vote.

There are bad tattoos but I love most of them. I don't have any yet, but my wife and I are talking about getting our first.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 points 45 minutes ago

Lol changed my for same reason

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 44 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

The way you wrote the last sentence implies to me you and your wife are planning to intentionally get bad tattoo stamps soon. I love the idea.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

I love these. Some people have children's drawings or just fun amateurish designs. It's a whole style!

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Lol, well hopefully they're not bad. But I see how I wrote that.

When we see someone with a tattoo we really like we ask who did it and they're either very far away, dead, or so busy we'd need to get on a multi year waiting list. But as soon as we find an artist we really like where those aren't true we'll get the tattoo we want.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

My wife had that problem when she got a paw print tattoo when one of our cats passed. She's hoping now that's she's been a previous client she can get in easier in the future

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I'll cross my toes for her that it works out!