# The man with the swastika tattoo **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 23, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769 "2014-04-23T14:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/121 "2014-04-24T17:22:49Z")
All evidence points to asking him about it. Look at how many replies this thread got. Clearly a swastika tattoo is a conversation starter. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/122 "2014-04-24T17:48:14Z")
Who here is volunteering to go ask as they are suggesting the OP do? If the guy is a conversation ender, in a violent way, will you pony up $$$ or accept any responsibility for egging the OP into doing the asking? Most of those I know who did this quit it after high school because they find that they do bear some responsibility. Amazing how much that has not happened to so many of the posters in this thread. If it would not be harmful to the OP, I would like for tattoo guy to be a real bad ass with a violent reaction to that question. - There is right & dead right.\* I wonder how many are willing to put that up front over this guys old tattoo? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/123 "2014-04-24T17:51:10Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > - There is right & dead right.\* I wonder how many are willing to put that up front over this guys old tattoo? You live in a weird world. I suspect it exists only in your head. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/124 "2014-04-24T18:06:06Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > Who here is volunteering to go ask as they are suggesting the OP do? šŸ˜• I do things like this not every day, but occasionally. Asking a question is not going to elicit a violent response almost ever. It seems kind of cowardly, to be honest, to be so terrified of asking a question. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/125 "2014-04-24T18:14:33Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > šŸ˜• I do things like this not every day, but occasionally. Asking a question is not going to elicit a violent response almost ever. It seems kind of cowardly, to be honest, to be so terrified of asking a question. And if you think the guy is going to kill you for asking the question, maybe heā€™s someone you want to avoid, with or without a Nazi tattoo. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/126 "2014-04-24T20:48:38Z")
GusNSpotā€™s worldview is certainlyā€¦unusual. Here, he berates everyone who thinks that anyone defending a driver who hit a dog and in the process of slowing down to stop the car is chased away by what appears to be a screaming maniac who may be yelling racist comments is a ā€œnothingā€ and presumed chickenshit. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15399031](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15399031) Etaā€“post 165, but check out some of the earlier comments too Soā€¦yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/127 "2014-04-24T21:42:26Z")
Picture yourself in a gym on a weight bench Surrounded by grunting and the smell of sweat Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly A guy with a swastika tat ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/128 "2014-04-24T22:05:21Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Picture yourself in a gym on a weight bench > Surrounded by grunting and the smell of sweat > Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly > A guy with a swastika tat You think he got the tattoo to commemorate his colitis? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/129 "2014-04-24T23:53:07Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Picture yourself in a gym on a weight bench > Surrounded by grunting and the smell of sweat > Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly > A guy with a swastika tat _Nazi in the gym with biceps Nazi in the gym with biceps Nazi in the gym with biceps Bleaaauggghhhhhā€¦_ ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/130 "2014-04-25T05:29:42Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > GusNSpotā€™s worldview is certainlyā€¦unusual. > > Here, he berates everyone who thinks that anyone defending a driver who hit a dog and in the process of slowing down to stop the car is chased away by what (appears to be a screaming maniac) your opinion, not fact (who may be yelling racist comments) > Sounds like typical FOX commentator is a ā€œnothingā€ and presumed chickenshit. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15399031](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15399031) > Etaā€“post 165, but check out some of the earlier comments too > Soā€¦yeah. I am pleased that you remember this and were willing to go to the effort to go back & dig it up. Or did you have it booked marked because you knew you would want to use it in the future. Either way, Iā€™m glad to know you are that concerned with what I say. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/131 "2014-04-25T05:38:04Z")
> [@](#): > > presumed chickenshit. You made that up, I did not say that. ---
**Author:** ![SirGalahad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@SirGalahad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirGalahad)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/132 "2014-04-25T06:31:39Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Iā€™d mind my own business. If he seems nice, assume he is nice. Who cares about a silly old tattoo? This ā€¦ ignore the tattoo. Problem solved. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/133 "2014-04-25T11:50:17Z")
I gotta admitā€¦itā€™d be kinda hilarious if it turned out he got it when he was blackout drunk (or his friends got it for him), and itā€™s at _juuust_ the right spot to escape his normal field of view, and is usually covered up, he actually has no idea he even _has_ a tattoo. :eek::smack: ā€œSo _thatā€™s_ why girls never called me back!ā€ That, or maybe heā€™s a Nazi, but just [not racist towards South Asians](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indische_Legion). ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/134 "2014-04-25T12:06:59Z")
> [@SirGalahad](#): > > This ā€¦ ignore the tattoo. Problem solved. Or, ignore the Nazi. Problem solved. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/135 "2014-04-25T13:04:56Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > I am pleased that you remember this and were willing to go to the effort to go back & dig it up. Or did you have it booked marked because you knew you would want to use it in the future. Either way, Iā€™m glad to know you are that concerned with what I say. šŸ˜ƒ Googleā€¦itā€™s this newfangled interweb thingā€¦you type in words and it searches for them. Took about 20 seconds of typing to find it. Itā€™s not so much a concern, itā€™s that I had 30 seconds free and thought Iā€™d let people know that your bizarre worldview and posting habits are consistent from thread to thread. Also, everyone knows the parts that are my opinion, since I put qualifiers like ā€œappears to beā€ and ā€œmay beā€. Note that the ā€œmay be racistā€ part is due to the op of that thread making a point of repeatedly saying ā€œlarge angry negroā€ to describe people. And as for ā€œpresumed chickenshitā€. True, those werenā€™t your exact words. Your exact words were > [@](#): > > Hummmm, Iā€™m a big biker looking guy and people run screaming or speed away or poop their pants when I am just standing there, so Muffin, & all you others run from me also just cause I look scary? > > Jeez, the cops would get tied of coming out and hassling me for looking so scary. > > Bawahahaha > > I do not have a dog right now but we do have 7 cats. So come on by and run over one, Show me how you will stop and be a good citizen and an upstanding human being while I just stand quietly in my yard. > > Bawahahaha I think ā€œpresumed chickenshitā€ adequately sums up your largely incoherent postā€¦at least thematically. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/136 "2014-04-25T13:24:00Z")
Iā€™d ask. Iā€™d ask because he seems nice and Iā€™d want to be able to interact with him at the gym in the future, and I canā€™t do that if _he has a swastika tattoo, he has a swastika tattoo!_ is in my head every time I see him. Odds are, heā€™ll be slightly embarrassed and possibly hadnā€™t realised it was visible. Then Iā€™ll be comfortable with him. Maybe suggest he wear something that covers it up because it isnā€™t giving out the right impression for the man he is now. FWIW, itā€™d cost maybe Ā£50 to get it covered up, not thousands as someone else was suggesting. If the South Asians in the gym have noticed the tattoo, they might stop going there too. Hell, Iā€™m gay, and Iā€™d feel uncomfortable going to a gym that was happy with open swastikas. You donā€™t just display the swastika like itā€™s any old symbol - it does mean something. He needs to cover it up with a t-shirt or something until/if he chooses to get it covered up permanently. Odds are pretty good that someone else will notice it, report him, and get him banned. ---
**Author:** ![SirGalahad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@SirGalahad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirGalahad)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/137 "2014-04-25T13:42:55Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Or, ignore the Nazi. Problem solved. I wouldnā€™t care what Mr. Swastika thinks, only what he does. Swastika, Texas, a ghost town in Hale County, has largely been removed from maps, but I have access to a very old map. Didnā€™t Lindburgh have a Swastika painted on the Spirit of St. Louis? ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/138 "2014-04-25T13:56:58Z")
> [@SirGalahad](#): > > Didnā€™t Lindburgh have a Swastika painted on the Spirit of St. Louis? You mean the Charles Lindbergh who said > [@](#): > > We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence ā€¦ Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur. and > [@](#): > > Their [the Jewsā€™] greatest danger in this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government. and who was unabashedly a [Nazi sympathizer?](http://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/201613/Charles-Lindbergh-Hitler-s-all-American-hero) Yeahā€¦I wouldnā€™t be surprised at all if he had a swastika painted on his airplane (or even tattooed on his forehead), but Iā€™m not sure I understand why youā€™re bringing it up. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/139 "2014-04-25T14:07:07Z")
Yeah, Iā€™m sure there are plenty of righteous swastika wearers out there. _oldrolleyes_ And there are people wearing KKK as a historical nod to their southern ancestry. ---
**Author:** ![SirGalahad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@SirGalahad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirGalahad)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769/140 "2014-04-25T14:13:01Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > You mean the Charles Lindbergh who said > > and > > and who was unabashedly a [Nazi sympathizer?](http://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/201613/Charles-Lindbergh-Hitler-s-all-American-hero) > > Yeahā€¦I wouldnā€™t be surprised at all if he had a swastika painted on his airplane (or even tattooed on his forehead), but Iā€™m not sure I understand why youā€™re bringing it up. From _Symbolism: Astrology, Swastika, Crossroads, Western Use of the Swastika in the Early 20th Century, Sex Symbol, Symbol Grounding, Badge of Shame_ ā€œThe symbol was popular as a good luck charm with early aviators.ā€ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-man-with-the-swastika-tattoo/686769.md?page=8)