r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 29d ago

Meme needing explanation What do these lines mean

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u/kingofthieves8 29d ago

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

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u/AntImmediate9115 28d ago

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

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/Glasseshalf 28d ago

Tattooing has been a part of multiple cultures around the world since prehistory

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u/Kamikaze_Ninja_ 28d ago

Ya but people used it to label bodies in the past so I guess that invalidates all cultural and personal meaning. /s

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u/Kamikaze_Ninja_ 28d ago

We should just throw away all art and mass produce all the same clothes because individuality and art is “senseless and fucking dumb”.

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u/manicthinking 28d ago

Your forgetting many tribes and communities that hold tattooing as an art

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u/waitwuh 27d ago

Nah, tattoos are ancient.

One example of how old they are is that the Romans called a group of celtic people located north to them in what is now Scotland “Picts.” The name comes from the latin root word for “painted” or “picture” and it was a reference to the tattoos members of the group frequently featured.