Today, a tattoo artist angrily threw me out of his store because an "88" tattoo is apparently a Nazi thing, representing “Heil Hitler.” I just wanted my birth year. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my son told me he got a tattoo to honour our German heritage. The bloody fool got an eagle and swastika on his arm. I had to explain to a 20-year-old what WWII was. He’s now researching laser removal. Idiot. FML
Today, I was yelled at while I was shopping by some lady, because she saw my tattoo on my arm. She screamed that I'm the "spawn of Satan" and told me I'm going to hell. It's a fake tattoo of Mickey mouse. FML
Today, a woman yelled at me for hurting her. I'm a tattoo artist. FML
Today, I went on a date with a respectable, successful, polite, and attractive guy. Ten minutes into the conversation, I find out he's a neo-Nazi and earned a swastika tattoo in prison for "something shady." FML
Today, a tattoo artist send me home without tattoo because the acne on my back has gotten so bad, he refused to work on such an 'unpredictable surface'. FML
Today, my son was arrested for tagging a wall with the well known symbol of a certain evil Nazi leader. Not only that, the police showed me a picture of the graffiti and turns out he’s so dumb he couldn’t even draw the symbol properly and gave up after 4 failed attempts. FML
Today, someone informed me that my new boyfriend's tattoo is really an old Nazi symbol and not just a poorly-drawn skull. Now I'm trying to figure out how to ask him whether he's a neo-Nazi or not. Why am I so nervous? I'm Jewish, he just hasn't heard my last name yet. FML
Today, my tattoo artist boyfriend of five months gave me my first tattoo in celebration of my 18th birthday. It was supposed to be a heart with my name in script. He spelled my name wrong. FML
Today, my friend sent me a link to a "horrible" tattoo that he found online, that a guy had gotten at my tattoo parlor. FML
Today, I got a tattoo. My mom got upset and threw a bitch fit about how my body "is a temple and it belongs to God.” I told her, “My body, my choice.” She responded with, “Oh really? Well, my house, my choice who lives here. Pack your shit and get the fuck out.” I’m currently in my car with nowhere to go. FML
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Charlie Given 28
🤦♂️ Why didn't you just ask for 1988 and also always do research into symbols the white supremacists have taken over a lot of the symbols that were innocent before like the OK sign and have twisted them into their own perverted symbols.
Joy Smith 5
Be glad! He is totally right, and people would have believed you're a nazi, showing that tattoo. Just don't do it!
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Joy Smith 5
Be glad! He is totally right, and people would have believed you're a nazi, showing that tattoo. Just don't do it!
lev 11
but the tattoo artist also got mad and that's an FML.
Joy Smith 5
Sure it is. But I totally understand why the tattooist got angry.
Charlie Given 28
🤦♂️ Why didn't you just ask for 1988 and also always do research into symbols the white supremacists have taken over a lot of the symbols that were innocent before like the OK sign and have twisted them into their own perverted symbols.
Mie Thorbjørnsen 4
happened to me too 😅 I think you should still get it, people who judge your tattoo without asking and hearing the story behind it, aren't worth collecting anyway 😊
Joshua Downes_1922795788 2
Are you serious? As if anyone is going to ask someone who they think might be a Nazi for the story behind their tattoo :P
Mie Thorbjørnsen 4
are you? 88 has meant the number 88 way longer than anything else, it is also good luck and fortune in Chinese culture, but you jump to nazi? do you think nazi too when you see a lotus/buddha tattoo with the swatsticka? or do you use common sense and ask why? then you would get the answer that the symbol means happiness and is a sun sign, and has been way before the nazi's took it and twisted its meaning... so yeah I would rather ask, find out if they are a nazi and if the answer is yes, deside not to talk to them, than judge people badly because of my own prejudices... and my fredomfigther grandfather, who ended up in concentration camp, agrees with me...
Habacadavarus 12
There is something to be said about not allowing racists to redefine the world. 88 means eighty eight to me, any attempt to redefine it is as dumb as hating someone over color.
Grizz8831 14
Just stop getting tattoos while you are ahead. at some point the nazis will claim whatever idea you have as one of their "signs" and you will be trying to prove you had it first... Though it is weird how they can remember all their signs but are to stupid to not be nazis...
lev 11
why did you get so many downvotes? it's scary how scum groups can get ownership of the most mundane symbols.
raven_of_azarath 35
Yes, Nazis are going to take over butterflies, flowers, cartoon characters, and every word in every language of the world.
BurnInDemonFire 39
Add an 'mph' after it, and start randomly yelling "Great Scott!" Or do the whole '1988' thing. Or don't bother with a tattoo at all. Unless you have trouble remembering the year of your birth, in which case I suggest getting your social security number and credit card info tattooed, as well. And an outline of your house/car keys, just to be safe.
RichardPencil 32
Too bad you weren't born in 1969. It's a pretty stupid tattoo, anyways. Why not get your height tattooed on your neck? That'd be cool.
Warp1978 15
My advice would be to get a design and put it on with sharpie then reink it so that it doesn't fade too quickly. If you're not sick of it in six months get it otherwise you've dodged a bullet.
gloire_blanche 6
That artist did you a huge favor.
Aurora25 29
why get your own birth date/year as a tattoo? its so self absorbed like
sirrubberduckie 37
"C'mon man! 88 is when I was born, I'm a big fan of lightning striking twice, and that last one is an ancient religious symbol! Why are you being such a jerk?"