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The guy basically forced himself into the building and demanded a tattoo, even when he was told it couldn't be done. And to top it all off, this male Karen honestly didn't believe that the owner of a tattoo place might have a tattoo on his head. For a Karen at odds with another business owner, here's a lying Karen getting decimated by an owner's response. For some tattoo tales, here are some stories of tattoo choices that had people asking questions.

Anyone might have their personal reasons for getting a tattoo that says "I do not know" in Chinese characters, but if anything it's definitely committing to the bit. At least they know what it says. People have witnessed some extremely bad tattoo translations as well as tattoo choices that had people asking questions. There are worse tattoos to get.

When a customer comes in slurring and demanding a chest tattoo of Mario and Luigi using the same toilet, any semi-responsible tattoo artist is going to ask them if they're sure about it. Some people here had an artist take pity on them and just said no, while others insisted. Here are some stories of dumb tattoo translations and some straight up strange and troubling tattoos.

Craftsmanship and taste are two different things, and sometimes one gets the better of the other. Sure, you can make high quality shoes out of teeth, but you should also be asking yourself if anyone wants to look at them. It's very possible to make a thing that's impressive but also of highly questionable taste.

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the most cringeworthy types of tattoos that people have seen. If anything the following insights should serve as an instruction manual for the kinds of tattoos that should be avoided at all costs. It really pays off in the long run to do some research on those tattoos before getting something drawn on your body. 

Some of these are actually kind of cool, while others just never should've happened in the first place. That being said, it'd be a bold move to get any of these. 

Do what you want with body art, but we can't say that these were all intentional. With the wrong artist, wrong idea, or wrong spelling, a regrettable tattoo can become as memorable as it is permanent. If you have a great idea, might as well run it by someone first and make sure the spelling is at least right.

Like buying a car or anything else you're expecting to be stuck with for a while, tattoos are one of those things that it helps to think a little harder about, and go to the right artist. Oh, and double check any tattoos you get in languages you don't understand, because they end up as tattoo translation fails. On the other side, here are some cool tattoos that turned scars into art.

Someone on AskReddit asked for tattoo artists to describe their experiences with rejecting people's tattoo requests. Sometimes the tattoo artist ends up being a kind of gatekeeper, from letting the stupid spontaneous decisions from getting through. 

Sometimes people feel like being a paying customer makes them impervious to criticism, but when it comes to responding to entitled customers who don't reveal the full story, the businesses themselves tend to have some pretty damning responses. Here's one where a business owner leveled with a guy who complained over a dollar taco. This one has an interesting twist regarding that pesky "voice was too high" remark.

Someone on AskReddit asked for people that speak Japanese and/or Chinese to share the very worst (or best...) of the tattoo translation fails that they've seen. These might be some of our favorite kinds of fails. Tattoo artists can be brutal when it comes to surprising people with tattoos that definitely don't translate to what people think they do. 

These people are part of the reason why some parents tell their kids to never get tattoos. We can't imagine that there was a ton of thought that went into some of these. Hell, maybe we're wrong though. Maybe these are the kinds of tattoos that these individuals dreamed of getting all along. 

In this wide world, we see a lot of hilarious translations and translation fails. Languages are complex and hard to understand completely. These frustratingly interesting observations on language and silly literal translations are a good example of that. This can come to a head when overzealous tourists try to get a tattoo in not only a language they don't understand, but in characters that are also completely foreign to them. Case in point, you don't want to misstep and end up as the "goldfish man"

Some of these are extremely well done and absolutely random, and that's totally okay. While others, others generally make us fear for humanity. 

These timeless tattoos might make anyone out there who regrets a particularly bad tattoo that they got, feel a little less worse about themselves. Sometimes, it just helps to know that there's always a bigger moron in the universe who got a dumber tattoo than you. 

Here are some tattoos that are just off, really not well done, or were a not great idea from the start. Hopefully these people had a really good reason for their unorthodox ink. Done with cursed anything? Think some images could cursed but blessed at the same time? Here are some blursed images spawned from purgatory itself. For some straight up tattoo fails, here are some really not great tattoos people went through with.