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Tattoos (whilst removable with extensive laser surgery) are permanent scars. They can occasionally be tasteful, but for the most part are not. Sometimes they are downright ridiculous. This is a list of the top 20 worst tattoos. (As usual, click each image for the full size view).
1. When getting an “In Memoriam” tattoo, it is best not to completely disrespect that person for the remainder of your life.
2. There has got to be an equally bad inside joke regarding this tattoo.
3. What? No Princess Leia!
4. The scariest sex you’ll ever have.
5. Ok, getting your hands done has pushed the limits of good taste.
6. “Yeah, I Am looking to get a buck-toothed naked Indian straddling a corndog….Yeah, a corndog.”
7. “Hi, I am here for the daycare assistant position.”
8. “My tattoo could beat up your tattoo!”
9. Ladies, see Number 4 above. Now multiply by 10.
10. I will not sleep until I know the story behind this tattoo.
11. “Me a stalker? I am highly offended you make such an accusation. Oh, the tattoo….its uhh my nephew.”
12. The mugshot was funny for 1 day. Now make it two.
13. This guy’s last name better be Maytag.
14. The Japanese symbol stands for “intense therapy needed”.
15. I think he wanted Elvis or Celine, not Elvis and Celine.
16. “Your honor, I’d like to admit the following as evidence. We rest our case.”
17. I am speechless.
18. I bet his momma’s proud!
19. Ok, this bellybutton, anus thing is officially out of hand.
20. You didn’t need the tattoo to let us know you were a nerd.
Contributor: teacherman
#16 rules!
#1 the worst tattoo ive ever seen. really.
#4 OH MY GOD….the only dude who would do this chick is #9. *puke*
#6 looks nice enough to not be on the list….really…its not as bad the other ones….
#7 retard
#9 wouldnt let a needle come anywhere near my privates let alone do THAT !!!!! no seriously, how is it that a man who thinks that is "okay" to do is either not in prison, or in a mental institution.
#14 HAHAHA only the people who brought us bukkake and hentai are twisted enough to let this be on their skin
#16 how very very very stupid….these kind of people should be shot so they dont reproduce….
#17. he looks like he thought for approximately 30 seconds before he decided he wanted this on his face. forever.
#18 i think this is kind of a good idea…no really…very creative….
# 19…not the same as above…..just makes u remember how the inside of ur belly button smells….yuck
#20 loooooooooosseeerrrrrrrr
Number 1 and number ten do not belong on this list at all 1 st off how the ***** is a tattoo made to memorialize someone stupid? That tattoo should be under worst tattoo artists not worst tattoos. And number 10 is in no way stupid theyre *****ing stupid for putting it on this list, lighthouses can stand for guidance and a sense of direction or it could be a lighthouse that he went to as a child with his family or it could be for someone who helped him through life and pointed him in the right direction like an older brother or a father figure
wooooooooohoooooooooo first comment babyyyyyyyy!!!!!!….too excited to say nething else !!!!!
yep
Worst Comment Ever!!!
#4 and #9 .. make for better abstinence propaganda than anything i’ve ever seen.
*ugh*
Good job on getting real tattoos. I was actually surfing for bad tats last night, and a couple that made the list were clearly paint jobs. (Beautiful, artistic, different, but also washable and not painful.)
I think the dragon weener would be the most painful…
Oh god, number 9 made me laugh…There is a picture on the net floating around of a guy who has an elephant tattood down there and his penis is the trunk, that made me laugh
sdggrant: I guess if you can’t afford penile surgery it is the next best thing
There are literally thousands of bad tattoos floatingaround the net, I could have done a top 100. The corndog one, although not artistically bad, is just so bizarre, I had to include it.
It takes all kinda people! My man and I have matching koi tats on our thighs, but that stuff is too much! Thank you so much for that list! I’ll be laughing for quite some time!
Great list!
I’ve been thinking about making a list like this for some time, but teacherman apparently beat me to it. Damn you!
That said, my friend has a very crappy tribal tattoo on his arm. It’s not crappy in itself, it just doesn’t match his other tattoo (the placement isn’t very good either). I’ll see if I can find a picture of it.
sdggrant: The elephant one is just body paint.
Those were great! I was thinking about getting another tattoo . . . can’t decide between #4 and the corndog . . . JK! Love the captions also!
wow…. whats with all the nudity lately????
Angelina: hahaha! That comment could win best listverse comment!
emily: warming up a new category. Regular lists to follow – we must cater to all tastes
Do a search for Mr. Cool Ice and you’ll see the hideousness of his tattoos in FULL glory. Front, back, and head…
whoa the #4 creeped me out, I can only imagine the face of the dude when she take off her pants.
#9 how can that dude withstand that kind of pain omg.
#17 ………
well j good list(as always) keep up the good work.
video of mr cool ice.
it’s not in english, but wow.
What on earth happened to “Zune Guy”? Surely he has to be on this list somewhere. http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/what-kind-of-man-gets-three-zune-tattoos/
Here are some more you can add to the list…
http://cottonandsand.com/sandandcotton/?p=594
There are a surprising amount of belly button vaginas/buttholes. (Or unsurprising, considering…)
jfrater: I think you just found your next list!
jfrater: Definitely do a “Top Ten Best Listverse Comments”
Columbo: Hilarious! The Homer Simpson is my fave by far! Ouch!
You know you have hit it big when people are excited that they get the first comment. And i wouldnt call these the “worst” tattoos, maybe some of the worst places but to be honest some of the tattoos are really well done, no matter then intentions behind them.
Keep in mind i said SOME, not all!
Number 1 looks like a zombie…
maybe i’m just missing something completely,
but can someone explain to me why #10 is so bad?
Good list, thanks. We’ve got a few others you might enjoy:
There’s one on TV show tattoos:
http://www.yuppiepunk.org/2007/09/a-not-so-complete-history-of-tv-show-tattoos.html
One on cinematic tattoos:
http://www.yuppiepunk.org/2007/04/history-of-cinematic-tattoos.html
And one on band tattoos:
http://www.yuppiepunk.org/2006/03/not-so-complete-history-of-band.html
They’re not all bad tattoos of course, but then again not everyone is cool enough to rock a Chachi tattoo anyway.
I believe that the girl on the corndog is from a painting by Robert Williams.
I am a tattoo artist and even I wonder why the hell people do these kinds of things to themselves.
Mr. Cool Ice just cracks me up though.
Wow, some of those are quite terrible.
I AM MR COOL ICE.
I have several tattoos on my arms/shoulder areas and I have always been cognizant of exactly what and where they are. How these people, be it drunk or otherwise (and I have NEVER been that drunk) decide that they desperately need ***** bellybuttons and snake dicks is so beyond my comprehension as a human it’s just staggering. Art work as beauty aside, think before you ink, friends!
I have one tattoo. It is on my right shoulder blade. It is of a blue fairy. It took me 10 years of debating before I got it. I wanted to make sure I really wanted it, I really wanted it there, if it was the exact picture i wanted. I am now thinking of my second tattoo. I want an armband that is made of my kids names. But it will be a while before I get it because I want to find the exact font type.
what’s wrong with # 10, it’s just a lighthouse scene. it’s not the best tatto but it’s not the worst, or am I missing something?
I would say that many of these people were wayyyy too bored, or had extremely bad taste.
Are we SURE 17 is a tattoo?
glad to see i’m not the only one missing something on #10
As re #9: Someone took the term “trouser snake” too literally.
When #4 and #9 are 50+, I don’t envy them the laser tattoo removal, either.
9 is just righteous, Great detail, good colors. 16, is funny but if you hate him so much why tattoo his name on yourself.
Had a Friend Jim, went out and got his first tattoo, He shows up at the hangout and flashes everyone. He opted for a thought bubble about his junk with an arrow pointing down that said “The Other White Meat”. Most of the time I’ll congratulate youfor getting poked for the first time. I think he hit the “this was a bad idea” stage of life about an hour after he showed up.
What were they thinking? Oh my god…
#10 just struck me as so blahand unoriginal. It’s a huge tattoo of a lighthouse, not even a specific lighthouse. It doesn’t seem to be copied from a photograph. The grass is brown and the sky is purple and the shoreline doesn’t match when it goes behind the lighthouse. It’s just a really bad tattoo. I just can’t imagine what was soooo inspiring about thislighthouse to have someone devote an entire leg to it.
It’s Cape Hatteras lighthouse on North Carolina’s outer banks… Quite famous actually
MY MOTHER DIES 9-25-03 CAPE HATTRAS WAS HER FAVORIT LIGHTHOUSE. THE PURPLE AND YELLOW SKY ARE FOR HER FINAL SUNSET THE "BROWN" GRASS AS YOU CALL IT IS THE PAIN THAT HER DEATH BROUGHT ME THE BLUE WATER IS THE HAPPINESS HER AND I SHARED. THE 6 BIRDS ON EACH SIDE REPRESENT HER 6 KIDS AND 6 GRANDKIDS SHE HAD WHEN SHE PASSED. BOTTOM LINE ITS MY LEG AND MY TATTOO IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT DON'T LOOK.
#17 — this guy has guaranteed that his entire life will consist of the words – “You want fries with that?”
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/01/26/cavalier-love-gone-too-far/
check this one out, this HAS to be up there
I am thoroughly surprised this one isnt on here AND that no one has mentioned it yet.
http://pictures.humpingfrog.com/12454/2005/11/gayest-tattoo-ever.html
It IS a little graphic though. BUT its not on there and should be. LOL.
And as for the rest, I do definately agree. WORST TATTOOS EVER
Awesome. Mr Cool Ice still has me laughing.
You missed out spider webs around the elbows.
OK, I’m just going to have to let it be known….I am actually The One that has all of these tats! The *****ers above in the pictures are all posers! Go to any tattoo convention and you’ll see me there. I am Steve-O’s hero. These dudes that try and strut their stuff, knowing that I am “The One” have got another thing comming to them. …ok…I cant keep this up again. I’ll puke, I confess, my flesh is squeaky clean. To the guy with the cow anus: You rule!
Your my virtual buddy. ahem…dont get the wrong ideas if you happen to read this.
butterfish, I watched a documentary and read a few books on the Aryan brotherhood, and spiderwebs are supposed to represent that that person had committed a murder. Fun stuff, eh?
Interesting list. Tattoos are fascinating to me, but I am in full agreement with StewWrither “Think Before You Ink.” I have two tats myself and both of them carry significant personal meaning to me. My first is a claddaugh over my heart to always remind me of where my family came from and the second is a labrys on my shoulder marking my coming out.
#16- I saw Ray Romano at the Knicks game Saturday, so i’m guessing she didn’t get to him yet(I’m also assuming it’s a she)
Amazing Pictures. I agree, really some of them are the worst.
sdggrant – that’s not the explanation I got from a former co-worker with that tattoo. His explanation? ‘well, it fills the gap, see.’ A less racist blood-thirsty idiot you couldn’t hope to meet, but he did get drunk and get tattoos.
It’s not a corndog – it’s a waterplant called a cat-tail. I believe it is also called will-o-wisp, marsh mallow, and (perhaps the inside joke of the tat) pussywillow.
Wow, these are um, interesting. And I actually sort of like number 9…not that, if I were a man, I would ever do such a thing. =p Definately makes me feel better about my decision to not get any tattoos.
A washing machine? What about a fridge, or stove? We have number 8 with a tat of hulkster and number 7 that looks like a pro wrestler.
17 I too am speechless.
I’ve seen a goatse tattoo before, I’m suprised it’s not here.
Here are a few more ones to check from the same site I posted earlier. Say goodbye to your faith in humanity…and also your lunch.
http://cottonandsand.com/sandandcotton/?p=765
http://cottonandsand.com/sandandcotton/?p=1117
the indian woman riding the corndog needs psychiatric help, it’s wrong of us to laugh. a speech bubble with ‘duhhh’ would have fit nicely. i think it might be margot kidder. great line, i was howling.
In one of the many tattoo mags I have collected through the years, there was a guy with a full sleeve of ears of corn. Just ears of corn covering his entire arm, ending in a sort of spiral into an infinite universe of golden corn on his shoulder. The quality of the tattoo was superb, and the colors were incredible … but to this day I still want to know the story behind it. Honestly, a full sleeve? Of corn? Ah, well, I may never know the answer …
That, and the guy with the new-skool flaming salt shaker. WTF? o_O
If you are willing to go through the pain of tattooing your entire penis or vagina, hopefully you’ll be able to endure everyone you ever try to have ***** with never wanting to see you again after they see your genitals.
Yeah, you should try get 9 and 4 together, what a couple they would make. I have 1 tattoo and had no problem with it, didn’t think it was painful at all but I reckon 9 was.
#1 I would cram the “so called artist”tattoo gun up his ass and a real gun in his mouth and put him on the “ROAD TO GLORY”.Looks like he used an autopsy photo instead of the one he was provided! People like this have ruined the industry. That is why I don’t tattoo for a living anymore!
#2 NO COMMENT The tattoo speaks for itself
#3Just another idiot thatshould move out of his mothers basement and GET A FRIGGIN’ LIFE !!!!!
#4 Talk about BAD BREATH !!!
#9This guy has got balls,I can see um!
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#14 is actually fine, at first glance, then u look at it again and see how crazy vagina crazy it is. Then number 18 is just hilarious, I think my fav. one.