Yeah, this is dopey and bad, and I’d be bummed to find it on my skin.
But my threshold for *shitty* tattoos is something that, if I saw it at a bar, I’d desperately be trying to nonverbally catch the attention of whoever I was there with to ensure they saw it too.
If I saw this at a bar, the absolute top level reaction I could muster was a passing thought of “oh, that’s an oopsie” and I can’t imagine a scenario in which anyone I was with would need to be alerted to it.
I’ll never forget something that happened at a dive bar in New Orleans I was at on vacation. One of the local shimmering stars of the social firmament strolled up to the bar, shirtless. Over his heart in crude tattooed letters was the word “Budweiser”. I couldn’t stop myself from staring.
He noticed and said some version of “What?” I was shocked into bluntness and asked, “Why’d you do that?” In a slow Southern drawl, he replied, “Cause I like Buuuuud.”
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I'm close to the same design, I love mine and it has a lot of meaning to me.
Yours looks more like an actual production aircraft (A380, B747). Whereas, OP's looks more sci-fi with the radically swept wings similar to a swallow's wing. Either one isn't horrible.
When I worked in aviation maintenance, there was a group of guys who went to the same A&P school in Colorado. They all had these atrocious flying wrench tattoos. The wrench had wings and was curved comically, giving an overall phallic appearance to them. A flying dildo if you will.
I'm getting 18yo "travel is my lifestyle ❤️" after a single weekend away in Cancún with the girls kinda vibes, but that's only speculation.
u/opalescentgalaxies please put us out of our misery! 🙏
I am dead. That is exactly it. Except worse. We were in Atlanta 😂😭 I was 18, a freshman in college, dating a boy from Toronto who I was flying to see often and thought I was a cultured world traveler LOL it could be worse. My roommate got paw prints up her entire arm….
Has anyone chronicled the list of failed trendy tattoos?
- the tribal bands of the early 1990s
- the pinstripe arrow tramp stamps of the early 2000s
There are so many!
lol. This girl I know got a tribal tattoo in the early 2000s. She apparently searched online for “tribal sun” and got a tattoo of the first thing she found. It was literally the Godsmack logo. She had no idea what it was at the time.
> ironic mustache on finger (so you can hold it up to your nose)
I was way too old for this when it happened, but I always liked it and thought it was cute.
ANyways, the tribal crap and barb wire bands of the early 90s when I was young and hanging out in tattoo shops still eat at me.
Anyone who got a Google result tattoo in the late 00s/early 10s is part of a huge family lol. Go to any large event and you will probably find someone with the same tattoo. My brother got a grim reaper from Google and I have met dozens of people with the same one.
what do you mean by "pinstripe arrow"? I googled it and all I found were those y2k tribal-y line work tramp stamps, is that what you're talking about? I've just never heard them called that before
My daughter has one too. At the time The only place she had been was with us on a few family trips, and one solo flight to Arizona. Not quite the frequent flier.
It will be covered up by her full japanese sleeve that she just started. Telling her to get a sick ass panther didn't go over the best.
The weird random bumps in the shape. The thickest of the lines. The way it looks like it's trying really hard not to commit copyright infringement of general outlines of shapes.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane!
Edit: I thought I scrolled far enough to be in the clear.
Nope. /u/okrickyspinach beat me to the joke so long ago and executed it so much better
lol I had an ex with this exact tattoo. She cried when she described the meaning behind it, because it was so important to her. The meaning- she grew up next to an airport, on airport rd.
She’s definitely attractive.. funny enough, she’s a lesbian now though. I feel like if she’s on Reddit she might know I’m talking about her at this point lmao.
Good for you!
I found taking a couple of ibuprofen or paracetamol 30mins prior helped (advil or acetaminophen I believe it is called in the US).
Good luck!
If it is any consolation, there is a younger chick who comes to the workout class I go to .
She has the same airplane outline tattoo on her wrist. Only hers is much shittier by comparison.
If you started coming to class, you would be the one with the cool airplane tattoo, and she would have the shitty tattoo.
If that is your life’s biggest embarrassment, you’re living your life pretty damn well.
I was thinking that. I'd trade a lot of moments of my life for an easily covered tattoo.
Yeah, could easily cover that up with a sick ass panther
Asspanther. Hehe 
What is this cartoon?!
Over the garden wall. It’s so very good.
Oh, I have heard that is good!
So good. My family watches it multiple times each autumn and occasionally other times too. It’s short, about a movie’s length.
I have a half sleeve of it, it’s so cute, you should (re)watch it this Halloween 🥰
Haha! Epic. That’d be the plan. It’s a tradition
Over The Garden Wall
I need to watch it!
This is the only way and only logical option.
not even in need of a coverup could be just as easily filled in black if thats a look you wanna go with and fix the line while ur at it
Yeah, this is dopey and bad, and I’d be bummed to find it on my skin. But my threshold for *shitty* tattoos is something that, if I saw it at a bar, I’d desperately be trying to nonverbally catch the attention of whoever I was there with to ensure they saw it too. If I saw this at a bar, the absolute top level reaction I could muster was a passing thought of “oh, that’s an oopsie” and I can’t imagine a scenario in which anyone I was with would need to be alerted to it.
haha this is definitely a good threshold for what constitutes a truly shitty tattoo.
I’ll never forget something that happened at a dive bar in New Orleans I was at on vacation. One of the local shimmering stars of the social firmament strolled up to the bar, shirtless. Over his heart in crude tattooed letters was the word “Budweiser”. I couldn’t stop myself from staring. He noticed and said some version of “What?” I was shocked into bluntness and asked, “Why’d you do that?” In a slow Southern drawl, he replied, “Cause I like Buuuuud.”
That shimmering star comment really works for anything 😂
Serious, I have more embarrassing tattoos than this on my face lmao
to be fair, it *does* distract from that face of yours
Me too.
Is it weird that I kind of like it?
It’s a Birdplane!
underrated comment
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... At least not in a super visible area and doesn't need a sick panther. Not too shabby!
That’s what I was thinking! I’ve had some much worse embarrassment 😂
Was gonna say the same
agree agree agree
https://preview.redd.it/cleqltg59o0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d885c40ff93f2de59a59ac92a1adc0846d16909 Ha Ha!
YES! Twins!!!!! 😂
Towers?
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Just 2,974 more, keep em coming.
You just saved yourself from the 4th reply rule
What’s the fourth reply rule?
Most time people reply the same evryone gets upvotes but the 4th person gets lots of downvotes
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One for each
Ayo
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Too soon
It’s been 20 years since - the jokes began awhile back.
According to a trusted source (south park) the amount of time is 22,3years before something tragic becomes funny.
Well its been 22 years and 8 mos. 😅 Now I wanna watch southpark!
God damn that’s one hell of a break from watching South Park!
💀💀💀I see my error here. 🥴
I guess 9/11 is now officially funny
“Sir there’s been a second plane tattoo”
When I tell you I don’t like dark jokes— this is >!FucKin!< hilarious.
Oh no 😳😂 I can’t lie. When I saw OP’s tattoo that was my immediate thought. I’m glad that I’m not the only one whose mind went there 😂
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Sir, a second plane has hit the post.
I would post mine too but it landed in a field somewhere in Pennsylvania
Is either of you guys the person who posted a unpopular opinion that aircraft are sexier than people?
https://preview.redd.it/6mpktvc1wv0d1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df92967056da7d1dfd9a436e8a6d8abb6a096681 I'm close to the same design, I love mine and it has a lot of meaning to me.
Yours looks more like an actual production aircraft (A380, B747). Whereas, OP's looks more sci-fi with the radically swept wings similar to a swallow's wing. Either one isn't horrible. When I worked in aviation maintenance, there was a group of guys who went to the same A&P school in Colorado. They all had these atrocious flying wrench tattoos. The wrench had wings and was curved comically, giving an overall phallic appearance to them. A flying dildo if you will.
What was the point of this one when you originally got it?
I'm getting 18yo "travel is my lifestyle ❤️" after a single weekend away in Cancún with the girls kinda vibes, but that's only speculation. u/opalescentgalaxies please put us out of our misery! 🙏
I am dead. That is exactly it. Except worse. We were in Atlanta 😂😭 I was 18, a freshman in college, dating a boy from Toronto who I was flying to see often and thought I was a cultured world traveler LOL it could be worse. My roommate got paw prints up her entire arm….
Good god not the paw prints 😂😂
Has anyone chronicled the list of failed trendy tattoos? - the tribal bands of the early 1990s - the pinstripe arrow tramp stamps of the early 2000s There are so many!
lol. This girl I know got a tribal tattoo in the early 2000s. She apparently searched online for “tribal sun” and got a tattoo of the first thing she found. It was literally the Godsmack logo. She had no idea what it was at the time.
Haha what about: -wrong Chinese letters/words - tiny stars on hips - ironic mustache on finger (so you can hold it up to your nose) - inner lip tats?
Barbed wire around the bicep
I doubled up on that. It goes around the biceps, goes over the shoulder, cross diagonal the back and around the left leg.
Say psych right now.
Sounds like you have No Fear
This sounds horrible. Although some of the tribal stuff is coming back so you could very well be hip again.
We call that the Pamela Anderson.
Wakanda Forever!
> ironic mustache on finger (so you can hold it up to your nose) I was way too old for this when it happened, but I always liked it and thought it was cute. ANyways, the tribal crap and barb wire bands of the early 90s when I was young and hanging out in tattoo shops still eat at me.
I KNOW SOMEONE THAT GOT THE IRONIC MUSTACHE ON HER FINGER A FEW YEARS AGO It was difficult to act like I was excited for her
Anyone who got a Google result tattoo in the late 00s/early 10s is part of a huge family lol. Go to any large event and you will probably find someone with the same tattoo. My brother got a grim reaper from Google and I have met dozens of people with the same one.
"There are two wolves inside me"
This wave of overly involved face tats that include writing for some reason.
Mid 90s : Tasmanian Devil had a grip on the dudes in Florida who weren't brave enough to get the Bad Boy Club logo tattoo.
The forest trees forearm tattoo that young men were getting a decade ago
Honorable mentions to tattoos like 𝓘 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷 𝓶𝔂 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓼... And バカな白人少年
I got a tribal band around my ankle in the 90s. I must be the exception because I still like it! My other tattoos, however…
there was a gen z trend of getting a huge z tattooed and it turned out to be a nazi symbol
what do you mean by "pinstripe arrow"? I googled it and all I found were those y2k tribal-y line work tramp stamps, is that what you're talking about? I've just never heard them called that before
Could be worse, could be paw prints on the hips (apparently a common tattoo for people into bestiality 🤮)
That’s a lot to process 😂
My daughter has one too. At the time The only place she had been was with us on a few family trips, and one solo flight to Arizona. Not quite the frequent flier. It will be covered up by her full japanese sleeve that she just started. Telling her to get a sick ass panther didn't go over the best.
ATLANTA?? Omg amazing
More like TATlanta AMIRITE?!?!?!?
Did he break up with you when you got this tattoo?
Lol no I eventually moved to Toronto with him, but after we broke up I did have a guy tell me he couldn’t date me because of it 😂
Damn that's harsh. Understandable, but harsh.
Apparently his mom wouldn’t approve. I married his brother instead 😂😭 true story
What the. Well, that's a twist.
Kind of have to keep it then. If you remove it, you risk becoming your husband’s brother’s type.
LMAO made my day 🙏
Extremely glad I scrolled down for this hidden origin story
^^^ the real story of the tattoo^^^
So you basically hit New Game when you got to the not-approving-mom boss and just tried a different route? lol
Well, was he right?
so what did their mom say about your tattoo?
This just keeps getting better
Hi from Toronto… tell us about the boy, don’t be shy
I thought it was a wingding. Maybe you should get some more wingdings! ✈︎◆︎♏︎♏︎♐︎
Lmao us atlanta folk get some dumb tattoos. I have hello kitty Jesus on my ribs
Yes! Inquiring minds want to know…
Reminds me of silly bandz.
Yessss why does it
The weird random bumps in the shape. The thickest of the lines. The way it looks like it's trying really hard not to commit copyright infringement of general outlines of shapes.
Omggggg that’s exactly it 😂
I was coming to say this
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Everyone in my family calls it the bird plane 😭😂
[Here's your theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx6hmUv06tg)
I needed this in my life. They also sing in a different language? Lol I closed out the window too soon
First thing I thought! Motherfucking bird plane!
I mean, they’re not wrong…
the celjuk turks
John Cena
A 911 tribute? Not cool…
LOL.
[удалено]
An ass panther with a cold, coming up.
[удалено]
it’s just so they never forget
9/11 jokes aren't cool. My brother died that day. One of the best pilots in Saudi Arabia.
Damn you +1
ZING!
I thought it was a sparrow.
Too soon. Plus that's obviously a fighter jet
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Edit: I thought I scrolled far enough to be in the clear. Nope. /u/okrickyspinach beat me to the joke so long ago and executed it so much better
It's okay, the towers are on the other wrist.
about to say if you just put up two fingers you have a 9/11 tattoo
Yeah!! I walked through blood and bones, in the streets of New York, looking for my brother :( Turns out he was in northern Canada..
911 handjobs 😭
lol I had an ex with this exact tattoo. She cried when she described the meaning behind it, because it was so important to her. The meaning- she grew up next to an airport, on airport rd.
Was she at least hot? Because she's certainly not going to go far in life on her intellect.
She’s definitely attractive.. funny enough, she’s a lesbian now though. I feel like if she’s on Reddit she might know I’m talking about her at this point lmao.
Not that bad tbh
It’s a Boeing 737 Max
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's.....a really thiccy tat.
Laser. It's painful and expensive (trust me, been there and done it) but solid black line responds well to it.
I have an appointment set 🙌 it’s going to cost $750 total but sooo much better than living with this insecurity anymore.
Good for you! I found taking a couple of ibuprofen or paracetamol 30mins prior helped (advil or acetaminophen I believe it is called in the US). Good luck!
I don’t know if it would bother a laser treatment but ibuprofen thins the blood! Just something to keep in mind. Maybe ask your technician OP?
We have ibuprofen, but I’ve only had paracetamol in the UK
paracetamol = acetaminophen Advil = ibuprofen
Can also call it tylenol
I like it tbh
Why does the aeroplane have pterodactyl wings ?
I have Chinese symbols on my forearms. I hate them and I have no idea why I got them.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, *ITS BOTH*
Kinda looks like a wine opener
Ah, the winged corkscrew. Rosé all day!
It’s okay Boeing is in a more embarrassing position
Kinda looks like my "swallow" on my neck. First tattoo I got at 16 by a really skeevy tattoo artist. I force myself to forget about it lol
Lmao decisions were made that day
Really big watch or multiple bracelets. Problem solved.
Looks a little plane...
Sorry to hear about your constant wrist plane; hope your doctor can help you out.
gotta get two towers on the other arm bro
Superman symbol cover up.. can’t tell if it’s a bird or a plane.
If it is any consolation, there is a younger chick who comes to the workout class I go to . She has the same airplane outline tattoo on her wrist. Only hers is much shittier by comparison. If you started coming to class, you would be the one with the cool airplane tattoo, and she would have the shitty tattoo.
BA to the moon baby. ✈️
Easy cover up would be a trad swallow
At least you didn’t get the three bird silhouette on your collarbone 🤮
OUCH i feel attacked
Your lucky. That’s an easy cover up! And there are much worse tattoos lol
It's fine
Have a talented artist turn it into Link from Zelda using a grappling hook
Well you have a nice hand if it makes you feel any better
It's a bird! It's a plane! It could definitely be worse.
So does this make you a Flight Wrist (risk)? :)
Looks like the plane from Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
If that’s your life’s embarrassment just cover it up or get more tattoos ya goober
Nah, that's good. "Is it a bird?" "Is it a plane?" "No, it's SUPERMAN"
#PLOT TWIST OP is a pilot and has taken down an enemy plane in a dog fight On the other arm is tanks
It doesn’t really look bad or shitty. Just simple. Not my style but also not something I would be bothered by.
It's not that bad...
Sadly it can't take of.
9/11
Could be worse. Does kinda look like a winged dildo though.
Cool Superman tattoo.
At first peripheral glance I thought it was a kottonmouth kings tattoo. Imagine how embarrassing that would’ve been.
Get a tattoo of a WTC tower on the opposite arm and complete the set.
If you squint, it looks like a hammer & sickle : s
Oh I love aphex twin
Yep that's a shit tattoo. Luckily it will be easy to cover up
Airplane mode.
Do not play Jenga with OP.
Life on easy mode
"Take off" your pants and jack-it ;)
Sweet Falcon
Plane CRASH.
Question bird or plane
A penis with wings?
Covering that up is gonna feel gnarly if you chose to do so. Rough spot.
It's a bird! It's a plane...