• Flying Squid
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    171 day ago

    This site is now dead, but it used to be one of my favorites. It’s someone who would translate the Asian-language tattoos people would send in. A lot of them were not even using real symbols or letters, but a lot of others were hilarious.

    https://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/

    This is one of their last posts and, to be fair to them, it’s pretty hard to continue a blog like that once your irony meter has exploded.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 hours ago

      That one is probably temporary, at least. During the first few weeks, tattoo ink can be rubbed away every time you wash your hands. You also have a lot of nerves on that side of your hand and the needle hurts like hell. So you go through a lot of pain for something that gets washed away.

      It’s probably plain ink.

      I have a wedding ring tattoo, and the guy who did it strongly discouraged me from going 100% of the way around. Pain kicked up quite a bit when it hit the fleshy part in between fingers.

      • Flying Squid
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        51 day ago

        Yeah, a lot of them are in the gibberish font, but there are some entries where they’re like “that’s not even the gibberish font, I have no idea what the hell that is, what is going on here?!”