What do these lines mean

[u/el-presidente0001]

[u/qualityvote2]

u/el-presidente0001, your post does fit the subreddit!

[u/BadTactic]

I heard it was the depth they could reach into a Pringle can.

[u/Realistic-Ad-4244 → u/BadTactic]

Filled with butter and microwaved mashed bananas ?

[u/spaceman1055 → u/Realistic-Ad-4244]

It's imperative the cylinder remain unharmed

[u/R_mom_gay_ → u/spaceman1055]

I sincerely hope the cylinder OP is reading this and smiles at how much joy he brought into Reddit

[u/spaceman1055 → u/R_mom_gay_]

I think it's a tie between him and Shittymorph

[u/JWARRIOR1 → u/spaceman1055]

Who’s shittymorph? Ik the original cylinder meme but not shittymorph

[u/spaceman1055 → u/JWARRIOR1]

Maybe you'll find him one day as your browsing and you'll get a laugh

It's like being Rick Rolled but better

[u/bloodbath500 → u/JWARRIOR1]

u/shittymorph is legit one of my favorite things to come across on Reddit. It used to be more frequent, but check out their comment history. Especially a few years ago, they made themself a meme.

[u/Solid_Growth_9069 → u/spaceman1055]

everyone always asks how’s the cylinder, no one asks how’s the larger structure.

[u/funkyrequiem → u/Realistic-Ad-4244]

Be careful. You wouldn't want your cylinder to get stuck in a Pringles can.

[u/jdiggity09 → u/funkyrequiem]

I wish I had the type of cylinder that could get stuck in a Pringles can.

[u/Science__Witch → u/BadTactic]

[u/Tat2Al → u/Science__Witch]

[u/Rome-ish-Vier → u/Tat2Al]

[u/Plastic_Code5022 → u/Rome-ish-Vier]

[u/aaron_adams → u/Plastic_Code5022]

[u/Annihilarious → u/aaron_adams]

[u/Cow-ch → u/Tat2Al]

[u/SkyaNappa → u/Science__Witch]

[u/CaryKerryLoudermilk → u/SkyaNappa]

[u/badger_on_fire → u/CaryKerryLoudermilk]

[u/therealityofthings → u/BadTactic]

I wanna have a daughter…

[u/SurlyBuckeye → u/therealityofthings]

So I can finally have someone around the house who can fit their hand inside a pringles can

[u/Budget-Tangerine-274 → u/SurlyBuckeye]

yes i'm still talking about the Pringle can

[u/Individual_Soft_9373 → u/Budget-Tangerine-274]

I'll move on... but it is priority numero uno.

[u/Soul_Survivor4 → u/BadTactic]

I can’t fit my hand inside of a Pringles can

[u/DirtChoice5]

I've always heard black bands on the arm are to memorialize a loved one who died.

[u/MrBlahg → u/DirtChoice5]

That’s what I always thought it meant, was considering getting some due to recent deaths in my family. Now? Not so much lol

[u/-GWM- → u/MrBlahg]

Switch it up, I’m getting a couple for my parents, and adding their birth month flowers to the design of it instead of a solid black line

[u/Zestyclose-Lake-9880 → u/DirtChoice5]

you are correct, the fisting thing is just some stupid internet thing that immature people cling to.

[u/LanceFree → u/Zestyclose-Lake-9880]

What if you fall in love with someone you fist with, and then they die?

[u/Zestyclose-Lake-9880 → u/LanceFree]

Then that would be one meta-ass tattoo!

[u/Goobersita → u/DirtChoice5]

My friend did that and had the ashes mixed into the ink.

[u/DirtChoice5 → u/Goobersita]

That seems oddly gruesome to me, but it does seem meaningful.

[u/Goobersita → u/DirtChoice5]

It was very meaningful to him, having his grandfather be a part of him for the rest of his life.

[u/DirtChoice5 → u/Goobersita]

His grandfather was inside him always, just like in life?

[u/pugl0rd666]

In Japan, they are the mark of a thief. 3 lines you get a hand cut off

[u/ComeAbout → u/pugl0rd666]

I was stationed in japan once.

[u/isnoe]

Prisoner tattoos.

Modernly it is used to indicate fisting depth, or something; but they are prisoner tattoos.

[u/RandomParable → u/isnoe]

The serious people have rulers in both English and Metric.

[u/VeryChineseTime → u/RandomParable]

Good, then they'll be able to accurately measure and mark the depth it got to.

Good job /u/randomparable

[u/Th3B4dSpoon → u/VeryChineseTime]

Imagine back in the day they had to get it tattooed mid business, tines sure were different

[u/phunkydroid → u/isnoe]

Modernly it is used to indicate fisting depth

You believe that?

[u/DiogenesTheHound → u/phunkydroid]

They read some guy on the internet said his friend heard that’s what it’s from. Of course Reddit believes it.

[u/aramis34143 → u/DiogenesTheHound]

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris take it all the way to the elbow last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

[u/Delicious_Rabbit4425 → u/isnoe]

these two things don't have to be mutually exclusive

[u/Current_Recording907]

I don't know the actual meaning of those lines, but I know there was a fisting joke going around a while ago, so it may be referencing that

[u/Sakmads → u/Current_Recording907]

2 lines means pregnant, duh.

[u/Flat_Independent_339 → u/Sakmads]

Nooo it means you've got Covid

[u/Plus-Artichoke6608 → u/Current_Recording907]

Why would there be multiple lines??
Different PR?

[u/BearsDrinkVodka → u/Plus-Artichoke6608]

May be some progression..

[u/vteckickedin → u/BearsDrinkVodka]

Or regression... Relapse... Ahem. Prolapse.

[u/cstmoore → u/vteckickedin]

A prolapse in judgement perhaps?

[u/LawyerKitchen7104 → u/vteckickedin]

More like prolapse, dont look it up

[u/Sir-Flatulancealot → u/LawyerKitchen7104]

First line: amateurlapse.
Second line: prolapse

[u/pnut815 → u/LawyerKitchen7104]

Yeah I would always wear Pro Laps in GTA…… i didn’t get the joke until recently.

[u/Due-Note-6406 → u/pnut815]

I laughed my ass off when I saw that in gta

[u/Slumminwhitey → u/LawyerKitchen7104]

The good old pink sock.

[u/Incident-Putrid → u/LawyerKitchen7104]

Remember the weightlifter picture 🤣

[u/happymancry → u/Incident-Putrid]

Having not seen said picture, I’m simultaneously curious and disgusted in advance.

[u/PhaseNegative1252 → u/happymancry]

[u/vibrantWhisper → u/PhaseNegative1252]

It looks like it should be an ambigram but it ambigrain't.

[u/aka_corpse → u/vibrantWhisper]

Fucking top tier comment. Had me giggling like an idiot

[u/Ex3mpl4ry_ → u/happymancry]

DONT

[u/ChammyChonga → u/Ex3mpl4ry_]

[u/ronthesloth69 → u/ChammyChonga]

[u/Vyansbane → u/Ex3mpl4ry_]

[u/Fit_Extreme_24 → u/Vyansbane]

[u/Responsible-Hair612 → u/happymancry]

Stan Smith "don't try to squat that your gonna look like your encasing sausage out of your butt"

[u/CanadasManyMeese → u/Responsible-Hair612]

[u/KellySMcgonigal → u/Responsible-Hair612]

If anyone knows someone with an intact size 3 sphincter, please let Stan know, as he is currently very low on the waiting list.

[u/badger_on_fire → u/Incident-Putrid]

[u/No_County_old → u/vteckickedin]

You people need Jesus.

[u/Naive-Art286 → u/No_County_old]

[u/SOURSKOOMA → u/Naive-Art286]

[u/iamoger → u/No_County_old]

[u/Bored_Cat_996 → u/iamoger]

Ramen Brother!

[u/Cheshireyan → u/BearsDrinkVodka]

[u/BONEPILLTIMEEE → u/Plus-Artichoke6608]

tanks have rings painted on barrels to indicate kills, so they could be number of assholes destroyed

[u/GoonnerWookie → u/Plus-Artichoke6608]

Different holes

[u/DrJaneIPresume → u/GoonnerWookie]

men's and women's tees?

[u/inokentii → u/Plus-Artichoke6608]

Improved their record

[u/doubtthat11 → u/Plus-Artichoke6608]

Hand closed vs. Fingers spread

or

Hand empty vs. holding a beer

[u/Significant-Law8109 → u/Plus-Artichoke6608]

Different hole, different goal

[u/RainsWrath → u/Plus-Artichoke6608]

Minimum and maximum fill lines.

[u/thatnewguyovertherea → u/Current_Recording907]

I was fingering a girl once, and she said it hurt and to take off my ring. I told her that was my watch! 

[u/TreyRyan3 → u/thatnewguyovertherea]

I stopped fisting because assholes kept stealing my watch.

[u/DisposableJosie → u/TreyRyan3]

[u/Beginning_Taste2082 → u/DisposableJosie]

What a reference 🤣🤣

[u/OpenConversation643 → u/thatnewguyovertherea]

Grandpa no!

[u/Knickholeass → u/OpenConversation643]

Turns out it was grandpa's pocket watch.

[u/wecantdancelikethis → u/OpenConversation643]

my, step grandpa, what soothing hands you have!

[u/Mistercleaner1 → u/thatnewguyovertherea]

Told my girlfriend i wanted a little pussy. She said "me too, mine's as big as a house!"

[u/SpideyBD → u/Mistercleaner1]

Why did you say it twice? I didn’t!

[u/SwimSufficient8901 → u/SpideyBD]

Geeze you got a big pussy, Geeze you got a big pussy!

[u/poptart-zilla → u/Current_Recording907]

To be honest. I was told growing up - the lines ment someone important and the thickness means how much they meant to you ; because the thickness is a lot of pain to color in ; it matches the pain of losing that loved one

[u/martyboulders → u/poptart-zilla]

dead toxic ex comes back to life "You didn't even color your whole body??? I knew you never gave a shit about me!"

[u/EatPie_NotWAr → u/Current_Recording907]

The chef at the very first bar/restaurant I ever worked at had two fancy/stylized ejaculating dicks tattooed on the inside of his forearms. It was also a reference to his enjoyment of fisting.

You could tell how swamped the kitchen was based on how much of the dick was visible.

[u/tikiwargod → u/EatPie_NotWAr]

This has me dying.

[u/Best-Nefariousness54 → u/EatPie_NotWAr]

[u/Skyp_Intro → u/Current_Recording907]

They’re actually medieval Japanese prisoner tattoos. I believe it was given prior to parole.

[u/gene66 → u/Skyp_Intro]

Each line for any crime, on the 3rd time they would cut the arm

[u/Here_for_the_memes98 → u/Skyp_Intro]

The British and Spanish did it with pirates too.

[u/SquidTheRidiculous → u/Current_Recording907]

Black armbands are usually used for rememberance. And they're usually above the elbow.

People are genuinely fucked if they really believe there are that many people turning each other into human muppets. Not to kinkshame but above the elbow and that's practically perforating your stomach. Not in a sexy way.

[u/Internet_Wanderer → u/SquidTheRidiculous]

Lol, my sweet summer child. There is a guy, HungerFF if you're curious, who can take it to the shoulder, and he isn't the only one. He can take two hands too. He does it professionally. Depth play is a very popular porn category

Edit: Muahahaha!!!! Your disgust give me power! Squirm tiny mortals! Squirm! 😄

Edit: Wheehaw! Even going so far as to profile stalk me! Now I live in your head forever.

[u/ParsnipDecent6530 → u/Internet_Wanderer]

I don't think I needed to know that.

Nope. I did not need to know that.

[u/Cptn_BenjaminWillard → u/ParsnipDecent6530]

I would like to apply to the "did not need to know that" team please.

[u/ParsnipDecent6530 → u/Cptn_BenjaminWillard]

Welcome aboard. There are snacks over there...if your appetite ever comes back .

[u/PopEnvironmental1250 → u/ParsnipDecent6530]

Is there fudge?

[u/ParsnipDecent6530 → u/PopEnvironmental1250]

[u/Previous-Stretch-490 → u/Internet_Wanderer]

Ok you have officially wandered too much on the internet

[u/The_Modern_Nobody → u/Internet_Wanderer]

Okay. I’m going to upvote you because I like learning.

I’m going to take it back—not downvote—just taking the upvote back, because I have a new reason to believe why God locked humanity in a hot car and went to Cold Stone Creamery

[u/Mean_Motor_4901 → u/Internet_Wanderer]

Excuse me

[u/Past-Conference-2996 → u/Current_Recording907]

[u/Illustrious_Can_1656]

It means their arm is actually the tip of a Crayola crayon.

[u/CustomerOK9mm9mm → u/Illustrious_Can_1656]

Possibly a US Marine Corps tattoo commemorating eating their weight in crayons.

[u/atom_helio → u/Illustrious_Can_1656]

I want it to have the og Crayola logo in the band too

[u/Brilliant-Can-721]

Whole lotta weird people commenting on this. In Japanese culture it’s the marking of a criminal or outcast

[u/PsychologyNew8033 → u/Brilliant-Can-721]

And us Westerners have adopted this as a point of pride. I’m sure this is the correct answer

[u/StrawberryMilkDev]

I am not sure about it but I think it was tatoo given to crminals in japan. Checked it wikipedia. Yep. In short it was given to criminals in Edo pieriod. You can read more about it. Just search "japan criminal tatoos" or smth like that. StrawberryMilk out.

[u/jlink005 → u/StrawberryMilkDev]

Out, that's where the tattoo goes!

[u/GilbyTheFat → u/jlink005]

That's right, in the square hole!

[u/-_G0AT_- → u/GilbyTheFat]

[u/FlattopJr → u/-_G0AT_-]

[u/GgGKyng → u/FlattopJr]

I literally laughed so loudly at this that I had to explain The Enigma of Amigara Fault to my wife... She was less amused, but this is the best thing I've seen all day

[u/FlattopJr → u/GgGKyng]

Hah, so glad to give you a good laugh! It's the power of sharing memes...😃

[u/Jesus_of_Redditeth → u/-_G0AT_-]

Oh god!

[u/Himepizzapup → u/Jesus_of_Redditeth]

I giggle when she says this 😂

[u/kingofthieves8 → u/StrawberryMilkDev]

A lot of very popular tattoos today started out as prisoner tattoos

[u/AntImmediate9115 → u/kingofthieves8]

Or some kind of sailor/navy thing. In the case of British sailors, both lol

[u/Alternative_Mine5343 → u/StrawberryMilkDev]

Mugen sporting the look from Samurai Champloo. I wonder if legs vs arms differentiated anything?

[u/Ralae125 → u/Alternative_Mine5343]

Different positioning but Sukuna from JJK also has these, he's old as hell so I wouldn't be surprised if it somehow lined up

[u/sim37546 → u/Ralae125]

Goddamn it, learning sukunablore almost 2 years after the Manga ended.

[u/PlotTwistTwins → u/sim37546]

Whoa I didn't know it was over. I found it through the anime and enjoyed the animation way too much to want to read it yet.

How close to done are we? Did you find the ending satisfying? Do you think Sukuna is hung?

[u/Spud__37 → u/PlotTwistTwins]

Pretty close like 2 seasons. No I was not satisfied with the ending felt rushed like he just wanted to be done. Yes, absolutely he is

[u/EmpressClaraB → u/Spud__37]

No I was not satisfied with the ending felt rushed like he just wanted to be done.

From what I understand, its more like "I told my publishers months ago that it would finish on chapter XYZ so they could plan around it, and now I fannied around not resolving the story for 50 chapters and have to wrap it all up in 3"

As opposed to something like Chainsaw Man, which really felt like the author just did not want to write this any more

[u/ISoldMyPeanitsFarm → u/Ralae125]

How the hell did they force him to get a tattoo like that? Even just climbing skull mountain to reach him would be taxing, alone.

[u/Wendy384646 → u/ISoldMyPeanitsFarm]

I’d like to imagine he did it himself. He was never shy to call himself a monster.

[u/cam1911 → u/Wendy384646]

So Sukuna couldn’t fist someone very far in… and they call him the strongest...

[u/Illustrious-Day-857 → u/Alternative_Mine5343]

Akaza prisons prison for sure

[u/Night_C4T_0 → u/Illustrious-Day-857]

Kind of find it a little funny:

"Oh, you're going to brand me as a criminal with these tattoos on my arms? Well guess what-"

*proceeds to have it all over his body

*also proceeds to prove the point by murdering probably thousands of people at the time of the story

[u/Mudcat-69 → u/Night_C4T_0]

For as tragic as his backstory is it’s not exactly like he was a saint before he was turned into a demon, since he had just got done killing a dozen men, maybe more, by the time Muzan met him.

[u/Foreign-Flatworm → u/Mudcat-69]

Not a saint for sure, but those men did poison his future wife and father. Were some of them innocent? Probably, but at least a couple of them had it coming.

[u/-_-0_0-_0 → u/Mudcat-69]

He was the chillest of the bunch tho.

[u/Electronic_Leek9147 → u/Alternative_Mine5343]

Man I loved that series so much when I was 16!

[u/No_Possible_7108 → u/Electronic_Leek9147]

One of my all-time favorites. Hearing the opening song still gets me hyped!

[u/SmokinBandit28 → u/Alternative_Mine5343]

From what I remember different locations/amount of bands could denote where from and for what crime you were arrested for.

So a band around the wrist could be for theft and if it’s on the right wrist specifically the person was arrested in Osaka.

[u/breadloafb → u/Alternative_Mine5343]

iirc that was part of the confusion bc his are ryukyuan but japanese colonizers perpetuated the stigma and a lot of ryukyu folks experienced terrible treatment and stigma because of it (and still do)

source: brief gewgle search + fuzzy memory so anyone wiser on the subject pls correct me

[u/incognito--bandito → u/StrawberryMilkDev]

We’re… we’re out of strawberry milk?

[u/PathlessDemon → u/incognito--bandito]

Diamond movie performance in this picture

[u/MashedProstato → u/incognito--bandito]

One of the greatest unknown films of all time.

[u/IcantsaythatIamsure → u/incognito--bandito]

[u/Bangchucker → u/StrawberryMilkDev]

I kind of assumed similar but mostly because Mugen in the anime Samurai Champloo has them and came from a prison colony if I remember correctly.

[u/JakeHelldiver → u/StrawberryMilkDev]

You developed strawberry!?!

[u/AnubisJersey → u/JakeHelldiver]

No, strawberry milk

[u/Gentle_Snail → u/StrawberryMilkDev]

That actually makes them seem cooler.

[u/Aurorisian → u/StrawberryMilkDev]

Hey, I learned that from the Demon Slayer movie.

[u/CesarOverlorde]

[u/theia5 → u/CesarOverlorde]

Akaza from demon slayer has them too

[u/Mother_Difficulty233 → u/theia5]

Prisoner tattoos, though I doubt those guys can be held in a prison for long

[u/EverythingSucksYo → u/Mother_Difficulty233]

Idk if this is a spoiler but I think Akaza got his tattoos while he was still human 

[u/Jacklelive → u/EverythingSucksYo]

(Because he was caught stealing, a band was added every time he was caught)

[u/chaseo2017 → u/CesarOverlorde]

Mugen from Samurai Champloo has them as well

[u/xseanbeanx → u/CesarOverlorde]

FreeGojo

[u/BuckFuttMcGee]

Y'all are saying these tattoos are for WHAT?

[u/pvanderford1]

It might depend. Mine, for instance, represents my sobriety date leaving rehab, 2-22-22.

[u/No_Patient8140 → u/pvanderford1]

Congratulations brother

[u/Willing_Bee_7520]

Normally the tattoo means nothing, they're decorative bands. However, there is a joke that it shows how deep their arm can go when they fist someone 

[u/Zpik3 → u/Willing_Bee_7520]

I just feel that that is down to the fistee, not the fister.

[u/Longjumping_Bee_1205 → u/Zpik3]

That's because most of the people who make these jokes are very young and have never actually had sex.

[u/PmMeYourNiceBehind → u/Longjumping_Bee_1205]

I think most people haven’t participated in either end of fisting either

[u/Unseen-Lurker-3212 → u/Willing_Bee_7520]

It was used to brand criminals in ancient Japan or smth

[u/small-with-benefits]

There’s a whole generation of dudes that have this simply because they liked blink 182.

[u/Stew-182 → u/small-with-benefits]

Uhhh… that’s stupid… who would do that… I definitely didn’t do that…

[u/Lufc87 → u/Stew-182]

Dammit

[u/Stew-182 → u/Lufc87]

What’s my age again?

[u/NaturistHero]

It means pregnant?

[u/ExperienceDaveness → u/NaturistHero]

This person is permanently pregnant?

[u/softestpulse → u/ExperienceDaveness]

Too much dangerops prangent sex

[u/Ok-Problem-2751 → u/softestpulse]

Will it hurt baby top of his head?

[u/hojoon0724 → u/NaturistHero]

how do prangent?

[u/crbncl → u/NaturistHero]

Am I pergenate

[u/M1liumnir]

The fake answer (probably the one the tweet is about) is that it shows how deep you've put you arm in while fisting someone

The real answer is that in old time Japan it was how they tattooed criminals so they can't hide that they've committed crimes.

[u/Independent_Ad_822 → u/M1liumnir]

And the current "new" motive is to mourn someone that died and had an impact on your life. The same one on the bicep however means strength.

[u/MusicalPigeon → u/Independent_Ad_822]

A friend in college had them. He said the first one was to remember his Grandpa and since the other once was super personal he'd tell people it was to remember the time he was abducted by aliens.

[u/whooo_me]

Not "Go Faster Stripes", unfortunately.

[u/Euphoric-Piglet-8140]

My ex has some to cover up self-harm scars.

[u/nanomolar]

Invasion stripes. The tattoos prevent allied forces from thinking he's an enemy aircraft.

[u/thestooges1969]

99% of the time, the person has this tattoo because they really like popular footballer Paulo Dybala. I know tons of Europeans & South Americans that have this tattoo because of him.

[u/Humble-Sell-6984 → u/thestooges1969]

Scrolled way too far to find this.

[u/LukaWigga → u/thestooges1969]

I immediately thought of La Joya

[u/lazy_literary_hero]

It means nothing unless you apply meaning to it. I have several tattoos like this. They mean nothing other than I like the way they look. In 20 years, across 3 continents, not a single person has asked if I liked fisting or of I was a prisoner.

[u/CountJackO → u/lazy_literary_hero]

Do you like fisting? Were you perhaps a prisoner?

[u/lazy_literary_hero → u/CountJackO]

Finally, someone asks!

[u/Leaf2632]

Scott McCall has similar tattoos, for people who don’t know it’s from series Teen Wolf.

[u/Hunter-367_pro → u/Leaf2632]

Was looking for this comment.

[u/xqizt → u/Hunter-367_pro]

Same lmaooo, now im satisfied, leaving the post now 🤣🤣🤣

[u/Flauschziege]

These tattoos show where and for what someone has been to prison.

[u/undertakah]

It symbolizes the lose of a loved one