Weber grill grates do not include the Weber logo. Most manufacturers do not put their logo on the grates. Most consumers like the aesthetic of grill marks and would not want the reverse logo of the manufacturer on their food.
I think the tattoo-melts-over-time factor is highly overstated. Yeah dudes with tats from 1960 have black blobs now, but most of those things were black blobs in the 70’s. I haven’t seen any 20+ year old tattoos that are DIYers or jail house shit that look melty like the ones you see on old Vietnam vets or WWII navy guys.
I think the methods and ink have come a long way over time along with increased focus on skin care. Tattoos from today aren’t going to look melty on a person who’se skin in general holds up well.
This is a question that needs answering, as is the one about how/why he stayed pressed against the logo long enough to brand himself.
Just men? Why women, too?
I hate when I’m looking at a beautiful woman remove her clothing, then suddenly there’s this big nasty blob of ink ruining her lovely form.
A nice body’s a work of art, not a canvas.
I’ve been fairly free these past 14 years on this forum with saying my spouse is disabled, specifically, he has spina bifida. It takes him some time to get up without assistance, even if his ass is literally on fire. What was holding him down was gravity and legs that don’t work very well. By the time his drunk buddies realized he wasn’t kidding around the clothing over his ass was burned away and he had some third degree burns.
But yes, I’ve been engineering this gag for a decade and half, deliberately planting posts about a disabled spouse and a BBQ that happened 40 years ago. Have at it, skeptics.
But hey, let’s get back to tattoos - why do most of them suck? Why would anyone deliberately get permanently embedded in their flesh crap artwork or scrawling, misspelled words? Accidental scarring is one thing but people pay money for what looks like crap to me.
Of course, I defend their right to get the worst artwork imaginable tattooed on their bodies, freedom and all, and I’ll keep my opinion to myself in front of them, but seriously, if you’re paying for it why not go for quality? I’ll give a pass to prison inmates with limited tools but well-off suburban wannabes should have the bucks to get quality tats.
I think I can answer that Broomstick, confirmation bias and negativity bias.
We all tend to remember the crappy things and not the nice things.
I’ve seen plenty of tasteful, well executed tattoos but the ones I remember most vividly are the ones that were really, really bad.
Supposedly someone with their clothing on sat on a Weber grill long enough for the clothing to burn away and was left with “rebeW” on his ass?
Someone would have to sit on a grill for a long while to ignite clothing. Branding would not occur through clothing, nor through the charring remnants of burned clothing. And again, “Weber” does not appear on grill grates.
This simply makes no sense whatsoever. It could not have happened.
Actually, the correct question to ask is: Why do otherwise beautiful people deface, and basically ruin, their bodies with tattoos? It’s not just limited to men.
The short answer is that they have psychological issues. They are not happy with their own self-image, so they try to change it by mutilating themselves with tattoos and/or piercings.
And yet when I try to stop shaving, cutting my hair, trimming my nails or wearing any clothes for a couple of years, I am the one who gets locked down.
I keep telling them that they are the ones who are insane for not accepting their natural bodies, but they keep being impervious to that simple logic.
So you’re now saying he was able to get up out of his wheelchair, lurch over to a hot grill, turn around and laboriously drop his backside onto it to the extent that he set his clothing on fire, but wasn’t able to repeat the feat to extricate himself? And his friends were what, cheering him on?
Additionally, grill surfaces are at about waist level, so that people don’t have to stoop to use them. To sit on one, you would have to jump up a bit.
All to sit on a grate that doesn’t exist in reality.
And then Spiderman showed up in a monster truck and turned all the water in the swimming pool into wine, and then he turned into Jesus and the monster truck turned into Optimus Prime, and then they flew away together.
My tattoo (a wedding ring with the first letter of my wife’s name) is on my finger, which I hope won’t get too saggy.
…posts just like this one.
An average weber grill is about 4-5 feet tall, which means a logo would be about 3.5 feet to 4.5 feet from the ground. Your husband must be pretty damned tall and agile to stand on a footstool and lean against a mostly vertical surface (the logo on Weber grills is on the front “window” area and it’s on a curved surface on the “flying saucer” type grills.) without falling off and staying perfectly still for the 30 seconds or so to brand him? And the 3d degree burns that “branded” him and caught his pants on fire* just happened to only leave the brand? Not the rest of his skin? AND he didn’t knock the grill lid off? Or just fall away?
And hey–30 seconds of internet searching later to confirm what I thought, Weber Grill logos are inset (the words are cut-outs on a larger strip of metal), so he should have a brand of burned skin, with his “Weber Grill” brand being made of unscarred skin. Of course, he’d have to stay even more pefectly still for that to work and with precisely the right amount of pressure since the metal plate looks to be less than 1/8th inch thick. That’s pretty damned agile, especially on a footstool with his pants ignited.
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Please don’t kung-fu me and break my femur for me making this post.
*Hm…“…pants on fire”?
If the claim is that the logo *on the lid * of the grill caused the branding, how the hell is that going to cause pants and undergarments to ignite?
Since the grates of Weber grills don’t have logos on them, I assumed that it was the 1/8th (or less) thick logo on the lid of the grill. I mean–that’s the only one on most Weber grills.
And I assume the ignition of the pants were caused for the same reason that most people get “pants on fire”.
FYI the standard Weber kettle is 39.5" tall per Weber’s website.
Fair enough. 
That said, it’s still to high for someone to crawl on top of the molten-hot lid without levitating, and the height of the gas grills is somewhat higher. And on there’s still the question of how one would stick one’s ass to the apparently white-hot curved surface of the lid…unless Broomstick’s husband is…Spider-Man! :eek:
Can we get a new “Tall Tales” forum? I have a nominee for the first mod, if her spouse will let her spend the time on it.
To be fair, they aren’t all like that. I just checked and mine has raised letters on a recessed background. It’s probably not possible to say with much certainty what every weber grill looked like 40 years ago (although there were certainly fewer models available). Who knows, maybe they shipped one that came with a branding iron in case you wanted your steaks to say rebeW on them.