# How did this horrible tattoo even happen?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-horrible-tattoo-even-happen/589253>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 16, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-horrible-tattoo-even-happen/589253 "2011-07-16T15:54:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Apricot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Apricot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apricot)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-horrible-tattoo-even-happen/589253/101 "2011-07-20T05:11:56Z")

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I think the tattoo will look a little better once it heals and loses the bruising and gets washed off. There’s a bunch of loose ink on her skin. I wouldn’t rate this as a horrible, just “mediocre”.

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**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-horrible-tattoo-even-happen/589253/102 "2011-07-20T16:53:16Z")

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> [@rachelellogram](#):
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> I like the stumptoo. Its shape doesn’t lend itself to much but a dolphin, IMO. And the art is very well-done.

I second, that! 😃

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> Anaamika “I actually don’t have a problem with this, at all. Guy has a stump! He may as well embrace it. I’ve always felt that if you have a particularly ugly feature and you can’t hide it, you may as well decorate it and thus draw attention to it.”

Well said! 😉

Lmao @ “stumptoo”, very clever! 😛

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