I have a tattoo acquired about 40 years ago. It’s a small crescent moon shape, done the traditional way by cutting open the skin and rubbing soot into the cut. Accidental, not deliberate, but still as dark now as when it was first applied. I had a couple of pencil punctures as a kid, but none where the tip broke off.
My wife has a large tattoo of one of our cats on her calf, and our daughter has quite a few, some very elaborate.
I have to say, a lot of you people were really into writing implement-based self harm when you were kids. My sympathies.
At least they have a point.
Mine wasn’t self inflicted, it was from teasing the kid sitting in front of me in 6th grade. It’s still there 50+ years later.
This thread’s good as any…
I guess numbers are a thing.
MY CT on this is that MZ meant to let that slip, reminding me of that word I can’t think of when one intentionally screws up their tasks in order to either sabotage or simply not get it done.
“Malicious compliance” is the usual term of art.
Thanks.
Not really. Malicious compliance is when you do exactly what was asked for, without the interpretation or initiative that would have been necessary to make it actually work. This is more like when a kid assigned to do the dishes intentionally drops one (which is not what he was told to do).
Great cartoon; thanks.
I think the female version with the old gals discussing the challenges of their now 60yo implants dangling down around their knees would be equally funny.
If harder to draw in PG version.
I think it’s just plain ol’ self-sabotage.
The big question there is whether MZ meant to tell the world that trump is demanding certain performances from big business, or MZ was planning to toady, or MZ just got caught flat-footed and mumbled something to say something, expecting to be forgotten 20 seconds later.
Depending on what was intended, different terms fit.
A kid I went to high school with had brain surgery. When he returned to school, he wore a knit cap to cover this head. But he’d take the cap off if other kids wanted to see the tatoos on his head from the surgery.
Yup. My father had radiation treatment for prostate cancer 15-ish years ago; as a result, he has two small dot tattoos, one on each hip, which they gave him for use as they lined up the machine.
If you have to dry the dishes
(Such an awful boring chore)
If you have to dry the dishes
(Stead of going to the store)
If you have to dry the dishes
And you drop one on the floor
Then maybe they won’t let you dry the dishes anymore
-Shel Silverstein
That’s known as “weaponized incompetence”.
I misread the whole name as “Romulan Dildo”.
I missed the Romulan part. But yeah, the surname.
FROM THE OWNER’S MANUAL:
Do not activate the cloaking device on the Romulan Dildo. If you’ve done so, and cannot find your Rihanha Funne’sttoy™, please contact the corporate offices in Mol’Rihan before someone slips on it.
Offer not valid if you are Mrs. Margaret Cruikshanks of Toledo, Ohio, Earth, who has lost over three a month for the last two years.