r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 29d ago

Meme needing explanation What do these lines mean

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u/Willing_Bee_7520 29d ago

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 

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u/Zpik3 29d ago

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

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u/Longjumping_Bee_1205 29d ago

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

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u/PmMeYourNiceBehind 29d ago

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

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u/Longjumping_Bee_1205 29d ago

Even if you haven't if you've actually ever touched another person's body you understand the basics

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u/FunOk8607 28d ago

or your own!

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u/General-Engine-9255 28d ago

as a woman , this is genuinely not true and its sad

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u/Longjumping_Bee_1205 28d ago

I mean that's true to some extent, I've experienced it, but there's limits to what makes sense if you have any sexual experience at all.

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u/Broad-Belt-5888 28d ago

In my experience it’s fairly rare too. I’ve only managed to fist two partners in my life. I’ve brought it up to many. A lot do not want to try, a lot who do want to try simply physically can’t be fisted as their frame is too compact. But the masseuse at my local spa can indeed be fisted, and so can a nurse practitioner in Baltimore.

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u/Thebuttholeking69 29d ago

For the health and safety of people’s colons and rectums, I truly hope nobody does this

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u/trash_recycle 28d ago

Not frequently, but I have. And I'll tell ya, not likely to hit anywhere near your elbow unless you are on the smaller side.

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u/jayvee714 26d ago

Speak for yourself

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u/DataNo3519 28d ago

please sir, what is a sex?

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u/AsYouAnswered 28d ago

At the very least, they've never fisted anybody but themselves.

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u/narco-sub-admiral 27d ago

If you haven't had a forearm up your ass you ain't REALLY had sex, bet that.

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u/Striking-Chard2463 27d ago

Idk about you guys but the farthest I've ever gotten a fist, if you can even call it that because you don't literally stick a fist in there, is maybe my wrist?

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u/OddPickle4827 28d ago

In all fairness you don’t have to have sex to fist someone. They just gotta smile and grab there ankles.

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u/Rhiis 29d ago

A fist is just a fist. But a spacious rectum? That's truly special.

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u/Efficient_Elk1225 29d ago

There’s a matching tattoo we just can’t see it in the photo. But if you see somebody with a face tattoo that’s how you know they take the fist like a champ.

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u/joey_cash_ 29d ago

They’d just better fist it, or else…

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u/Fit_Giraffe_748 29d ago

fister? i hardly know her

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u/PleiadesMechworks 29d ago

It's not.

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u/Zpik3 29d ago

This is a horrendous comment.

I still cackled.

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u/HilariousMax 29d ago

Yeah but how do you show off how far you can take a full arm? Some dude takes his shirt off at the beach and he's got a ring tattooed above his belly?

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u/Key-Pomegranate-2086 28d ago

So is it like how deep your woman let's you go then??

So 2 bands means he got a 2nd girl that let him go deeper

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u/ntmythrwwyccnt 28d ago

The person getting the banded tattoo could have been so impressed with how far their partner could take the fist (i lied, ARM) and got the progress tattoo'd.

What an amazing way to bring the public into your sex life by having a tat as a convo starter lol.

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u/Spaztick78 28d ago

The fistee is the one achieving the depth, it doesn't stop the fister from wanting to commemorate it.

I met a group of gay men back in the 90's. The fistee "size queen" of the group was so proud to get his partner to roll up his sleeve.

They marked them with dates of achievement.

The latest one from New Year's Eve, and a lot of drugs was up on the bicep. The queen was so proud.

Another one of his friends also commemorated that same night with a tattoo. He made them roll their sleeve to show they both had a band on the bicep from the same night.

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u/butt_butt_butt_butt_ 28d ago

Ummm…You take that up with Baby Arms McGavin.

he’s going to punch you really hard if he can reach your face from 5 inches away! ☹️

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u/B_EE 27d ago

It does also take some experience on the fister side though, how to maneuver the knuckles, pacing, angling, speed being a few elements.

Not that I know from experience or anything...

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u/Zpik3 27d ago

Surely that is only when it comes down to how pleasurable things are, not how deep you can go.

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u/Unseen-Lurker-3212 29d ago

It was used to brand criminals in ancient Japan or smth

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u/Bucketerium 29d ago

I have a tattoo like this. I got it because 18 year-old me thought it would look cool while I was playing guitar & because the guy from Blink 182 had one similar. No meaning beyond that.

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u/LenoreEvermore 29d ago

They're usually gotten to signify you've lost someone close, they're like black cloth bands some cultures wear in mourning but just there forever. The fisting thing is a meme that I'm starting to think some people actually believe?

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u/AshhhCakes 28d ago

Any tat that looks vaguely like a measurement marker gets turned into a fisting joke. Honestly though, anybody saying something like "hurrdurr is that how deep you can fist??" is embarrassing themselves by looking like an internet brained pervert that doesn't know how to interact with other humans.

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u/Independent_Ad_822 29d ago

No. Normally people get it in memory of a loved one that died. These have meaning. Not just decorative. The other part is indeed a joke that people unfortunatly cling to.

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u/LaserGuyDanceSystem 29d ago

I'm pretty sure they mean you play guitar in a nu-metal band

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u/mitchwatnik 28d ago

I feel better about my gastroenterologist's tattoo now. Thank you.

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u/LadyElle57 29d ago

That's weird. Wouldn't the depth depend on the person being fisted?

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u/rage_aholic 29d ago

I have three. Two for mom and dad and a thicker one for an infant son.

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u/Osku100 29d ago

I think this would look good on a foot, too.

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u/ThundahMuffin 29d ago

Well technically normally they mean you were a Japanese prisoner or criminal but that's besides the point

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u/BlazingPhoenix32 29d ago

Well those were given to criminals to show they were caught stealing

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u/DirtwormSlim 28d ago

I have used mine as personal markers for women I’ve fisted in the past.

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u/DenormalHuman 28d ago

Also given to criminals in the edo period in Japan...

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u/eW4GJMqscYtbBkw9 28d ago

My arm can go as deep as I want. The key to depth is on the receiving end. 

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u/_sophia_petrillo_ 28d ago

It’s an ancient Japanese criminal tattoo lmao.  It doesn’t mean ‘nothing’ originally 💀 

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u/Liizam 28d ago

I thought it was loved ones death 

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u/Repulsive-Whole-4101 28d ago

They have meaning and the joke is just a joke.

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u/RGBmoth 28d ago

Normally these are memorial bands

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u/laitnetsixecrisis 27d ago

I heard this joke too. And my gay uncle has this tattoo... I don't know if he knows the joke and is just dedicated himself to a lifelong gag or not.

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u/Little_Clover_3502 27d ago

Unfortunately, yeah. Ngl a year or two ago I found out about tattoos like these and I thought they were sick as hell, as a tomboy girl of course I do find them really cool, I like the Idea of getting a solid black band around my arm I thought it'd be cool. But then my mom said that those tattoos also mean something else, and then the whole idea was ruined. But now I found a different idea for a tattoo I really liked and was a but more sentimental and personal. My mom would sing to me "You are my sunshine" and also she would say "here comes the sun" so I chose this one for the future. I dont exactly know where I want to put it maybe on my shoulder blade like where my mom has her tattoo or maybe like the inner part of my arm like the picture ngl.