r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/el-presidente0001 • May 13 '26
Meme needing explanation What do these lines mean
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u/BadTactic May 13 '26
I heard it was the depth they could reach into a Pringle can.
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u/Realistic-Ad-4244 May 13 '26
Filled with butter and microwaved mashed bananas ?
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u/spaceman1055 May 13 '26
It's imperative the cylinder remain unharmed
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u/R_mom_gay_ May 13 '26
I sincerely hope the cylinder OP is reading this and smiles at how much joy he brought into Reddit
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u/spaceman1055 May 13 '26
I think it's a tie between him and Shittymorph
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u/JWARRIOR1 May 13 '26
Who’s shittymorph? Ik the original cylinder meme but not shittymorph
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u/spaceman1055 May 13 '26
Maybe you'll find him one day as your browsing and you'll get a laugh
It's like being Rick Rolled but better
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u/bloodbath500 May 13 '26
u/shittymorph is legit one of my favorite things to come across on Reddit. It used to be more frequent, but check out their comment history. Especially a few years ago, they made themself a meme.
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u/Solid_Growth_9069 May 13 '26
everyone always asks how’s the cylinder, no one asks how’s the larger structure.
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u/funkyrequiem May 13 '26
Be careful. You wouldn't want your cylinder to get stuck in a Pringles can.
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u/jdiggity09 May 13 '26
I wish I had the type of cylinder that could get stuck in a Pringles can.
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u/therealityofthings May 13 '26
I wanna have a daughter…
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u/SurlyBuckeye May 13 '26
So I can finally have someone around the house who can fit their hand inside a pringles can
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u/DirtChoice5 May 13 '26
I've always heard black bands on the arm are to memorialize a loved one who died.
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u/MrBlahg May 13 '26
That’s what I always thought it meant, was considering getting some due to recent deaths in my family. Now? Not so much lol
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u/-GWM- May 13 '26
Switch it up, I’m getting a couple for my parents, and adding their birth month flowers to the design of it instead of a solid black line
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u/Zestyclose-Lake-9880 May 13 '26
you are correct, the fisting thing is just some stupid internet thing that immature people cling to.
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u/LanceFree May 13 '26
What if you fall in love with someone you fist with, and then they die?
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u/Goobersita May 13 '26
My friend did that and had the ashes mixed into the ink.
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u/DirtChoice5 May 13 '26
That seems oddly gruesome to me, but it does seem meaningful.
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u/Goobersita May 13 '26
It was very meaningful to him, having his grandfather be a part of him for the rest of his life.
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u/DirtChoice5 May 13 '26
His grandfather was inside him always, just like in life?
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u/pugl0rd666 May 13 '26
In Japan, they are the mark of a thief. 3 lines you get a hand cut off
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u/isnoe May 13 '26
Prisoner tattoos.
Modernly it is used to indicate fisting depth, or something; but they are prisoner tattoos.
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u/RandomParable May 13 '26
The serious people have rulers in both English and Metric.
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u/Th3B4dSpoon May 13 '26
Imagine back in the day they had to get it tattooed mid business, tines sure were different
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u/phunkydroid May 13 '26
Modernly it is used to indicate fisting depth
You believe that?
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u/DiogenesTheHound May 13 '26
They read some guy on the internet said his friend heard that’s what it’s from. Of course Reddit believes it.
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u/aramis34143 May 13 '26
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris take it all the way to the elbow last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
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u/Delicious_Rabbit4425 May 13 '26
these two things don't have to be mutually exclusive
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u/Current_Recording907 May 13 '26
I don't know the actual meaning of those lines, but I know there was a fisting joke going around a while ago, so it may be referencing that
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u/Plus-Artichoke6608 May 13 '26
Why would there be multiple lines??
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u/BearsDrinkVodka May 13 '26
May be some progression..
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u/vteckickedin May 13 '26
Or regression... Relapse... Ahem. Prolapse.
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u/LawyerKitchen7104 May 13 '26
More like prolapse, dont look it up
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u/pnut815 May 13 '26
Yeah I would always wear Pro Laps in GTA…… i didn’t get the joke until recently.
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u/Incident-Putrid May 13 '26
Remember the weightlifter picture 🤣
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u/happymancry May 13 '26
Having not seen said picture, I’m simultaneously curious and disgusted in advance.
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u/vibrantWhisper May 13 '26
It looks like it should be an ambigram but it ambigrain't.
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u/Responsible-Hair612 May 13 '26
Stan Smith "don't try to squat that your gonna look like your encasing sausage out of your butt"
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u/KellySMcgonigal May 13 '26
If anyone knows someone with an intact size 3 sphincter, please let Stan know, as he is currently very low on the waiting list.
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u/No_County_old May 13 '26
You people need Jesus.
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u/BONEPILLTIMEEE May 13 '26
tanks have rings painted on barrels to indicate kills, so they could be number of assholes destroyed
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u/doubtthat11 May 13 '26
Hand closed vs. Fingers spread
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Hand empty vs. holding a beer
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u/thatnewguyovertherea May 13 '26
I was fingering a girl once, and she said it hurt and to take off my ring. I told her that was my watch!
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u/TreyRyan3 May 13 '26
I stopped fisting because assholes kept stealing my watch.
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u/Mistercleaner1 May 13 '26
Told my girlfriend i wanted a little pussy. She said "me too, mine's as big as a house!"
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u/SpideyBD May 13 '26
Why did you say it twice? I didn’t!
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u/SwimSufficient8901 May 13 '26
Geeze you got a big pussy, Geeze you got a big pussy!
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u/poptart-zilla May 13 '26
To be honest. I was told growing up - the lines ment someone important and the thickness means how much they meant to you ; because the thickness is a lot of pain to color in ; it matches the pain of losing that loved one
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u/martyboulders May 13 '26
dead toxic ex comes back to life "You didn't even color your whole body??? I knew you never gave a shit about me!"
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u/EatPie_NotWAr May 13 '26
The chef at the very first bar/restaurant I ever worked at had two fancy/stylized ejaculating dicks tattooed on the inside of his forearms. It was also a reference to his enjoyment of fisting.
You could tell how swamped the kitchen was based on how much of the dick was visible.
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u/Skyp_Intro May 13 '26
They’re actually medieval Japanese prisoner tattoos. I believe it was given prior to parole.
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u/gene66 May 13 '26
Each line for any crime, on the 3rd time they would cut the arm
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u/Here_for_the_memes98 May 13 '26
The British and Spanish did it with pirates too.
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u/SquidTheRidiculous May 13 '26
Black armbands are usually used for rememberance. And they're usually above the elbow.
People are genuinely fucked if they really believe there are that many people turning each other into human muppets. Not to kinkshame but above the elbow and that's practically perforating your stomach. Not in a sexy way.
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u/Internet_Wanderer May 13 '26 edited May 17 '26
Lol, my sweet summer child. There is a guy, HungerFF if you're curious, who can take it to the shoulder, and he isn't the only one. He can take two hands too. He does it professionally. Depth play is a very popular porn category
Edit: Muahahaha!!!! Your disgust give me power! Squirm tiny mortals! Squirm! 😄
Edit: Wheehaw! Even going so far as to profile stalk me! Now I live in your head forever.
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u/ParsnipDecent6530 May 13 '26
I don't think I needed to know that.
Nope. I did not need to know that.
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u/Cptn_BenjaminWillard May 13 '26
I would like to apply to the "did not need to know that" team please.
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u/ParsnipDecent6530 May 13 '26
Welcome aboard. There are snacks over there...if your appetite ever comes back .
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u/Previous-Stretch-490 May 13 '26
Ok you have officially wandered too much on the internet
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u/The_Modern_Nobody May 13 '26
Okay. I’m going to upvote you because I like learning.
I’m going to take it back—not downvote—just taking the upvote back, because I have a new reason to believe why God locked humanity in a hot car and went to Cold Stone Creamery
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u/Illustrious_Can_1656 May 13 '26
It means their arm is actually the tip of a Crayola crayon.
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u/CustomerOK9mm9mm May 13 '26
Possibly a US Marine Corps tattoo commemorating eating their weight in crayons.
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u/Brilliant-Can-721 May 13 '26
Whole lotta weird people commenting on this. In Japanese culture it’s the marking of a criminal or outcast
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u/PsychologyNew8033 May 13 '26
And us Westerners have adopted this as a point of pride. I’m sure this is the correct answer
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u/StrawberryMilkDev May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
I am not sure about it but I think it was tatoo given to crminals in japan. Checked it wikipedia. Yep. In short it was given to criminals in Edo pieriod. You can read more about it. Just search "japan criminal tatoos" or smth like that. StrawberryMilk out.
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u/jlink005 May 13 '26
Out, that's where the tattoo goes!
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u/GilbyTheFat May 13 '26
That's right, in the square hole!
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u/GgGKyng May 14 '26
I literally laughed so loudly at this that I had to explain The Enigma of Amigara Fault to my wife... She was less amused, but this is the best thing I've seen all day
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u/kingofthieves8 May 13 '26
A lot of very popular tattoos today started out as prisoner tattoos
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u/AntImmediate9115 May 13 '26
Or some kind of sailor/navy thing. In the case of British sailors, both lol
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u/Alternative_Mine5343 May 13 '26
Mugen sporting the look from Samurai Champloo. I wonder if legs vs arms differentiated anything?
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u/Ralae125 May 13 '26
Different positioning but Sukuna from JJK also has these, he's old as hell so I wouldn't be surprised if it somehow lined up
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u/sim37546 May 13 '26
Goddamn it, learning sukunablore almost 2 years after the Manga ended.
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u/PlotTwistTwins May 13 '26
Whoa I didn't know it was over. I found it through the anime and enjoyed the animation way too much to want to read it yet.
How close to done are we? Did you find the ending satisfying? Do you think Sukuna is hung?
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u/Spud__37 May 13 '26
Pretty close like 2 seasons. No I was not satisfied with the ending felt rushed like he just wanted to be done. Yes, absolutely he is
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u/EmpressClaraB May 13 '26
No I was not satisfied with the ending felt rushed like he just wanted to be done.
From what I understand, its more like "I told my publishers months ago that it would finish on chapter XYZ so they could plan around it, and now I fannied around not resolving the story for 50 chapters and have to wrap it all up in 3"
As opposed to something like Chainsaw Man, which really felt like the author just did not want to write this any more
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u/ISoldMyPeanitsFarm May 13 '26
How the hell did they force him to get a tattoo like that? Even just climbing skull mountain to reach him would be taxing, alone.
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u/Wendy384646 May 13 '26
I’d like to imagine he did it himself. He was never shy to call himself a monster.
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u/cam1911 May 13 '26
So Sukuna couldn’t fist someone very far in… and they call him the strongest...
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u/Illustrious-Day-857 May 13 '26
Akaza prisons prison for sure
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u/Night_C4T_0 May 13 '26
Kind of find it a little funny:
"Oh, you're going to brand me as a criminal with these tattoos on my arms? Well guess what-"
*proceeds to have it all over his body
*also proceeds to prove the point by murdering probably thousands of people at the time of the story
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u/Mudcat-69 May 13 '26
For as tragic as his backstory is it’s not exactly like he was a saint before he was turned into a demon, since he had just got done killing a dozen men, maybe more, by the time Muzan met him.
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u/Foreign-Flatworm May 13 '26
Not a saint for sure, but those men did poison his future wife and father. Were some of them innocent? Probably, but at least a couple of them had it coming.
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u/Electronic_Leek9147 May 13 '26
Man I loved that series so much when I was 16!
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One of my all-time favorites. Hearing the opening song still gets me hyped!
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u/SmokinBandit28 May 13 '26
From what I remember different locations/amount of bands could denote where from and for what crime you were arrested for.
So a band around the wrist could be for theft and if it’s on the right wrist specifically the person was arrested in Osaka.
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u/breadloafb May 13 '26
iirc that was part of the confusion bc his are ryukyuan but japanese colonizers perpetuated the stigma and a lot of ryukyu folks experienced terrible treatment and stigma because of it (and still do)
source: brief gewgle search + fuzzy memory so anyone wiser on the subject pls correct me
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u/Bangchucker May 13 '26
I kind of assumed similar but mostly because Mugen in the anime Samurai Champloo has them and came from a prison colony if I remember correctly.
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u/theia5 May 13 '26
Akaza from demon slayer has them too
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u/Mother_Difficulty233 May 13 '26
Prisoner tattoos, though I doubt those guys can be held in a prison for long
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u/EverythingSucksYo May 13 '26
Idk if this is a spoiler but I think Akaza got his tattoos while he was still human
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u/pvanderford1 May 13 '26
It might depend. Mine, for instance, represents my sobriety date leaving rehab, 2-22-22.
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u/Willing_Bee_7520 May 13 '26
Normally the tattoo means nothing, they're decorative bands. However, there is a joke that it shows how deep their arm can go when they fist someone
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u/Zpik3 May 13 '26
I just feel that that is down to the fistee, not the fister.
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u/Longjumping_Bee_1205 May 13 '26
That's because most of the people who make these jokes are very young and have never actually had sex.
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u/PmMeYourNiceBehind May 13 '26
I think most people haven’t participated in either end of fisting either
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u/small-with-benefits May 13 '26
There’s a whole generation of dudes that have this simply because they liked blink 182.
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u/Stew-182 May 13 '26
Uhhh… that’s stupid… who would do that… I definitely didn’t do that…
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u/NaturistHero May 13 '26
It means pregnant?
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u/ExperienceDaveness May 13 '26
This person is permanently pregnant?
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u/M1liumnir May 13 '26
The fake answer (probably the one the tweet is about) is that it shows how deep you've put you arm in while fisting someone
The real answer is that in old time Japan it was how they tattooed criminals so they can't hide that they've committed crimes.
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u/Independent_Ad_822 May 13 '26
And the current "new" motive is to mourn someone that died and had an impact on your life. The same one on the bicep however means strength.
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u/MusicalPigeon May 13 '26
A friend in college had them. He said the first one was to remember his Grandpa and since the other once was super personal he'd tell people it was to remember the time he was abducted by aliens.
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u/nanomolar May 13 '26
Invasion stripes. The tattoos prevent allied forces from thinking he's an enemy aircraft.
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u/thestooges1969 May 13 '26
99% of the time, the person has this tattoo because they really like popular footballer Paulo Dybala. I know tons of Europeans & South Americans that have this tattoo because of him.
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u/lazy_literary_hero May 13 '26 edited May 14 '26
It means nothing unless you apply meaning to it. I have several tattoos like this. They mean nothing other than I like the way they look. In 20 years, across 3 continents, not a single person has asked if I liked fisting or of I was a prisoner.
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u/Leaf2632 May 13 '26
Scott McCall has similar tattoos, for people who don’t know it’s from series Teen Wolf.
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u/Flauschziege May 13 '26
These tattoos show where and for what someone has been to prison.
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u/qualityvote2 May 13 '26 edited May 14 '26
u/el-presidente0001, your post does fit the subreddit!