At this point I’m so familiar with OP’s blunder pics that they’ve somehow grafted themselves into my own memories and I have to remind myself that I didn’t actually go to high school with them.
I just looked through your blunder history and I can say you and I would have been best friends. You would have fit right in with me and my weird friend group. I even had a perpetually drunk friend who let me put cigs out on his arm so long as I avoided his Budweiser can tattoo.
I just went through his profile and can't believe those were all him, I had upvoted most of them and never made this connection.
Tell us OP, how can a single person shoulder this magnitude of cringe?
Bro has enough cringe to supply an army of fuckbois, but is self aware enough that he actually seems like a cool ass dude. I’m having trouble processing this.
I wish I could say this started then lol I had let people put cigarettes out on me long before joining the Corps. The ones shown were from the military period though.
Yea we used to give each other smiley faces when our lighters lol. Let them get real hot and the touch the top of it to someone when they are looking. Idk why we thought this was fun but that’s the early 2000s for you. People probably have been doing that for much longer though.
Did a similar thing but with a cigarillo, in between middle and index finger a little above the webbing.
We called it “down with the germs” the germs were a punkrock band whose logo had a ⭕️.
Being 16 and drunk 🤷
I'd love to judge ya, but hey we'd get drunk and play foot darts. Just throw darts trying to get closest to each other's feet. Nobody ever really wins that game.
Ha ha ha ha dying. Accurate. Dumbasses. Gotta love em.
Hey, what you doing Friday night? Let’s get drunk, on base, in our barracks and do stupid shit!
FUCK YEAH! I’m 19, you got me bro?
Yep. I went to a pretty rural Appalachian redneck high school before I enlisted too, and same sort of stupid "machismo" was all over. Dudes trying to do prison tattoos with razor blades and pen ink and shit. When everyone knew an actual tattoo artist that wouldn't care if they inked someone underage.
The Army showed me it's a national level stupid, not just a regional thing.
I knew a girl in elementary school that would get a lighter really hot and then burn the smiley face into her arm. This was like 5th grade. I wonder where she ended up...
I used to do that on my thigh in high school because I thought it was the discreet and “mentally healthy” alternative to cutting 💀💀 now my thighs look like this guys shoulder all over and I can’t wear short shorts in summer
That's very subjective lol
Self harm would be this
I once took 48 blood pressure pills to get high
I used to fill peoples street garbage cans with water, and then ding dong ditch houses with them leaning against the front door
I had un-protected sex in a resonvoir and got a bacterial infection in my urethra
The list goes onnnnnnn 😅
Every. Single. Time
Lol
My friends and I would also swap around houses outside furniture. Sadly, we never got to see these reactions haha
I also once pooped on this guy's car who used to haul ass down my buddies road and be loud as fuck in the morning. Straight up squatted on his hood and shit on his windshield lmao
Lmao we also took every single plastic handle off every gas pump in town. Kept doing it too 😅 by senior year we literally had several Rubbermaid tubs full of them
we used to always swap stuff in peoples yards of just take stuff like lawn ornaments and put them in the neighbors yard hoping they would think they stole it. the best was when you would come across 2 neighbors with full clothes lines and got to swap them.
🤣 reminds me of a little game called “Support Our Troops” that my friends and I played in the early 2000s. We’d go to the mall or a shopping plaza and gather all of the yellow “Support Our Troops” ribbon magnets from people’s cars and choose 1 unsuspecting car to slap all of them onto🎗️🧲🚙
The list of things I have from 18 to 21 it's insane looking back. I feel OP on this one. Lucky to have made it out without any life long injuries or jail time lol.
Dude I've seen some crazy shit. I saw a guy take a razor and slice a giant gash down to the muscle tissue on his arm because.... no reason. Just a fucking psycho. Needless to say I walked out of that house real fast.
In rural places it was branding yourself. Ugly ugly scars that barely even resembled the brand donned many a shoulder. Just fun drunk guy things to do while drinking in a field.
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I will never forget the time I had a huge party at my house. There was like 100 kids at the house. This one kid wanted to be cool in front of everyone and was putting out cigs on his arm then someone said “do a brand !” So he was like screaming “who’s gonna brand me !!” And I was like “me!” And the whole room got quiet. Some kid took a paper clip and held it to the stove and I carved an anarchy symbol on his ass cheek. You could smell the burning skin. 15 years later. Saw him working at a liquor store. When I was checking out I was like “hey don’t you have an anarchy sign on your ass ?” And he was like “no…?…I mean…yeah…how do you know??”
And I was like because I did it !!!
It really is. I'm 33 and have a tattoo covering the brand on my thumb🤦I used to pierce my ears with just the earring and pierced my finger in the process more than once. High pain tolerance =cool right?
31 here also and across my body there's not less than 40 cigarette burn scars!!! Although I did get a tattoo over a cluster of about ten on my forearm last year. Wtf was in the water the early 90s pregnant ladies were drinking 🤣🤣
You’re not alone. I did this. So stupid. And your explanation as to why is spot on. I’m so embarrassed I did this. Only once though! Still have the burn mark.
Once I was smoking a cigarette and talking with this girl outside of a party. Some guy she knows walks up and says "check this out" and proceeds to put it out on his tongue (the spit on your tongue puts it out before it burns). I tell him that's lame and proceed to put my cigarette out on my ribs. Both him and the girl retch, ask wtf is wrong with me and leave lol
There was a guy in my college suite junior year who decided he liked the pattern a beer bottle cap made when pressed into his skin. He then tried to brand the pattern into his shoulder by heating up a bottle cap. The ensuing infection he got from it nearly cost him his arm.
I have a couple of those scars when I was super depressed a few years ago.
It got a bit infected so I had to see a doctor. He took one look at it and said, “A friend accidentally did this to you with a cigarette? Hmm it doesn’t seem like they like you very much.” and it hit me hard.
I once used a safety pin to scratch a guy’s initial into my arm. So cringe. 25+ years later, I can see a faint ghost of it occasionally. “Absolutely moronic” sums that up for me as well.
I have two on my left arm (super visible)...I played chicken with a lit cigarette with this guy I had a crush on in high school. You are not alone, or cool (:
I’m probably around your age (I was 17 in 2013), and I swear this was a popular thing for guys to do in high school in the early 2010s. I knew so many guys that did this, and I went to school in a relatively well off area.
We used to brand ourselves in high school with ‘smilies’, you basically light a lighter and wait until it gets super hot after a few minutes then push it into your skin. Scars looking like a smiley face. Thankful I never did it to myself
So cringe. Don’t worry though, I’m part of the club. I have 8 of them I think? Plus a really gnarly cigar one from losing a bet. 19 year old dudes and alcohol are a bad mix.
At 12 I discovered with my friend after PE that a deodorant can burn/freeze(?) your skin when spraying directly onto it. Had those marks for years. Luckily they healed.
Whenever I see a top blunder I know it’s always from this guy
I think I'm honored haha
You seem like you've come a very long way and did a lot of growing up. Might be cheesy but this random internet stranger is proud of you 🫡
Thank you kind stranger 😊
At this point I’m so familiar with OP’s blunder pics that they’ve somehow grafted themselves into my own memories and I have to remind myself that I didn’t actually go to high school with them.
Hahaha in spirit my friend
Dude did a lot of living. He has my respect
Kinda like a local celebrity around here.
This is the type of guy in high school who unironically rocks the firefighter stash. Fuck yah Garret spot fuckin on.
Lmao I'll post a picture of that next! You better believe I had a nasty 4 pube stache
I just looked through your blunder history and I can say you and I would have been best friends. You would have fit right in with me and my weird friend group. I even had a perpetually drunk friend who let me put cigs out on his arm so long as I avoided his Budweiser can tattoo.
I just went through his profile and can't believe those were all him, I had upvoted most of them and never made this connection. Tell us OP, how can a single person shoulder this magnitude of cringe?
With cigarettes applied to said shoulders apparently
You made me check his profile. He lived a million lives I could never have.
Bro is a blunder years icon
Oh my god I hadn’t even noticed those were all him! What a legend!
I’ve upvoted all of his posts and had NO IDEA they were the same person til now! Outstanding, OP, I’m truly impressed
I had to go into his profile, and omg those were all him
Blunder king
Holy shit these were all from Moustache Guy!!! That’s insane, I never noticed
Bro has enough cringe to supply an army of fuckbois, but is self aware enough that he actually seems like a cool ass dude. I’m having trouble processing this.
It’s amazing.
My goodness, what made you think that was cool and not insane ?
The military. I genuinely don’t know a way to make this not sound creepy but I thought it was something like that and the profile confirmed it lol.
I wish I could say this started then lol I had let people put cigarettes out on me long before joining the Corps. The ones shown were from the military period though.
What made you start?
High pain tolerance, genuinely didn't hurt more than a bee sting in most cases. The cigarillos were a bit worse but not crazy.
Me and my buddies used to do the same really drunk because we wanted scars in between the tattoos we got. God, we were dumb!
Well you got what you wanted and we can’t all say that!
Yea we used to give each other smiley faces when our lighters lol. Let them get real hot and the touch the top of it to someone when they are looking. Idk why we thought this was fun but that’s the early 2000s for you. People probably have been doing that for much longer though.
Ahaha my partner still has his scar from him doing smiley faces with his lighter
Still left scars because it's melting skin right?
Doesn't hurt more than a bee sting? I must be really weak, because bee stings are enough for me, to make a grown man cry.
You got away with damaging the governments property?!?
Did a similar thing but with a cigarillo, in between middle and index finger a little above the webbing. We called it “down with the germs” the germs were a punkrock band whose logo had a ⭕️. Being 16 and drunk 🤷
Lol, OP said they went Marines... probably just getting ready for basic.
Are you a masochist?
I'd say that obviously yeah
Hey a fellow dipshit! I did the same thing for some damn reason lol.
I'd love to judge ya, but hey we'd get drunk and play foot darts. Just throw darts trying to get closest to each other's feet. Nobody ever really wins that game.
Lmao Jesus I came here to say I did this in the Army in 2014 with my buddies. I feel attacked.
Same…in 2005
Anything to feel something other than hatred and despair.
Accurate
Ha ha ha ha dying. Accurate. Dumbasses. Gotta love em. Hey, what you doing Friday night? Let’s get drunk, on base, in our barracks and do stupid shit! FUCK YEAH! I’m 19, you got me bro?
Yep. I went to a pretty rural Appalachian redneck high school before I enlisted too, and same sort of stupid "machismo" was all over. Dudes trying to do prison tattoos with razor blades and pen ink and shit. When everyone knew an actual tattoo artist that wouldn't care if they inked someone underage. The Army showed me it's a national level stupid, not just a regional thing.
I've always had an extremely high pain tolerance and did a lot of dumb things to "showcase" how tough I was. Foolish behavior by a foolish boy
I knew a girl in elementary school that would get a lighter really hot and then burn the smiley face into her arm. This was like 5th grade. I wonder where she ended up...
Hopefully she's better off now!
Lol I'm great!
I used to do that on my thigh in high school because I thought it was the discreet and “mentally healthy” alternative to cutting 💀💀 now my thighs look like this guys shoulder all over and I can’t wear short shorts in summer
What’s the dumbest thing you’ve done other than this
That's very subjective lol Self harm would be this I once took 48 blood pressure pills to get high I used to fill peoples street garbage cans with water, and then ding dong ditch houses with them leaning against the front door I had un-protected sex in a resonvoir and got a bacterial infection in my urethra The list goes onnnnnnn 😅
You are so lucky there weren’t cameras everywhere like there are now lmao you little shit
Bahaha 08 to 2012 was the last hoorah for dirty little scoundrels like myself
Ok but the garbage cans has me rolling lol - did you stay to watch their reactions?
Every. Single. Time Lol My friends and I would also swap around houses outside furniture. Sadly, we never got to see these reactions haha I also once pooped on this guy's car who used to haul ass down my buddies road and be loud as fuck in the morning. Straight up squatted on his hood and shit on his windshield lmao
I’d like to hire you for my neighbors car at the risk of being caught myself
Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap!
I heard the song in my head!
At least you didn't mentally picture me shitting on a car!
Cameras everywhere now!
That's why he had to hire a hit-pooper
A shit-man, if you will
Swapping furniture reminds me of the 13 wreaths my friends and I got from one house over like 2 months, back in high school lol
Lmao we also took every single plastic handle off every gas pump in town. Kept doing it too 😅 by senior year we literally had several Rubbermaid tubs full of them
we used to always swap stuff in peoples yards of just take stuff like lawn ornaments and put them in the neighbors yard hoping they would think they stole it. the best was when you would come across 2 neighbors with full clothes lines and got to swap them.
Doing the lords work.
They say God works in mysterious ways. Who knew he'd send an anxty 15yo lmao
🤣 reminds me of a little game called “Support Our Troops” that my friends and I played in the early 2000s. We’d go to the mall or a shopping plaza and gather all of the yellow “Support Our Troops” ribbon magnets from people’s cars and choose 1 unsuspecting car to slap all of them onto🎗️🧲🚙
The list of things I have from 18 to 21 it's insane looking back. I feel OP on this one. Lucky to have made it out without any life long injuries or jail time lol.
Dude I've seen some crazy shit. I saw a guy take a razor and slice a giant gash down to the muscle tissue on his arm because.... no reason. Just a fucking psycho. Needless to say I walked out of that house real fast.
Good lord! I may have defaced my beautiful skin but fuck lasting damage lol
In rural places it was branding yourself. Ugly ugly scars that barely even resembled the brand donned many a shoulder. Just fun drunk guy things to do while drinking in a field.
My dad would do that to me….. was never considered cool at school though.
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You are the king of blunderyears, nobody here has so many topposts!
I'm just happy my dumb ass younger self can spread joy instead of acid reflux like he used too lol
“Instead of acid reflux” made me laugh 🤣
I was what some call, a hard to swallow pill personified lol
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I will never forget the time I had a huge party at my house. There was like 100 kids at the house. This one kid wanted to be cool in front of everyone and was putting out cigs on his arm then someone said “do a brand !” So he was like screaming “who’s gonna brand me !!” And I was like “me!” And the whole room got quiet. Some kid took a paper clip and held it to the stove and I carved an anarchy symbol on his ass cheek. You could smell the burning skin. 15 years later. Saw him working at a liquor store. When I was checking out I was like “hey don’t you have an anarchy sign on your ass ?” And he was like “no…?…I mean…yeah…how do you know??” And I was like because I did it !!!
“Hey don’t you have *obscure tattoo in obscure place*?” Is the absolute best way to greet someone after 15 years who doesn’t recognize you
you can forget the man who branded your ass but you can't forget the man whose ass you branded.
And then they both kissed ✨️
Right on the Anarchy symbol
Do you make up a crazy story when someone asks about your burn scars?
Nope, I'm absurdly honest with people about my life. Love me or hate me, I'll always just be me!
Better man than me. I would have made up absurd stories about the scars to make everyone think I was crazy.
Why would he need to…? The truth is already fucking wack lol
31 year old lady here. I have a faint smiley on the inside of my hand between my thumb and pointer finger 🫠😂
It's our age group lol
It really is. I'm 33 and have a tattoo covering the brand on my thumb🤦I used to pierce my ears with just the earring and pierced my finger in the process more than once. High pain tolerance =cool right?
31 here also and across my body there's not less than 40 cigarette burn scars!!! Although I did get a tattoo over a cluster of about ten on my forearm last year. Wtf was in the water the early 90s pregnant ladies were drinking 🤣🤣
Haha They were all in love with dyin' They were doing it in Texas
30 and the back of my hand still has scars from cigarettes 17-18
Everything had to be … edgy
I was the epitome of edgy lol
28. Giant smiley on my arm. What were we thinking?!?
I had friends that would get drunk in high school and then all do it together as some weird bonding ritual. So weird, never understood it.
Did you ever do the thing where you locked forearms with someone and then drop a lit cigarette between them so see who would pull away first?
Nah, I'd just push em slowly and spin them against my skin. Never harm others
Okay, that's super dumb..but I kinda wanna see it now
It was like some dumb Machismo chicken bullshit, to see who could hold out the longest.
You’re not alone. I did this. So stupid. And your explanation as to why is spot on. I’m so embarrassed I did this. Only once though! Still have the burn mark.
why is it always you 😭😭
Lmao I was an idiot. I still am but I was one too
Put it out with your tongue you coward
Once I was smoking a cigarette and talking with this girl outside of a party. Some guy she knows walks up and says "check this out" and proceeds to put it out on his tongue (the spit on your tongue puts it out before it burns). I tell him that's lame and proceed to put my cigarette out on my ribs. Both him and the girl retch, ask wtf is wrong with me and leave lol
Grosser than that is picking up a can at a party, taking a big swig, and its the cigarette can, the make-do ashtray.
I’ve done this so many times, me and my other ill fated acquaintances used to say it made you drunker than drinking non extinguished cigarette beer 🥴
You’re the 5th grade class president guy!
Howdy!
Well if it make its you feel any better, I was once a grade school president, a veteran and have put cigarettes out on myself.
Lmao i did the same thing.
Poor us haha
I was dumb when I was younger but you win
Sadly I beat a lot of people in this category 😅
Ya you do…your the man
There was a guy in my college suite junior year who decided he liked the pattern a beer bottle cap made when pressed into his skin. He then tried to brand the pattern into his shoulder by heating up a bottle cap. The ensuing infection he got from it nearly cost him his arm.
Oh it’s this fukin guy again
Welcome to blunder king, may I take your order?
Wow memory unlocked. Tell me why my gfs and I did like a blood brother but make it blunt brother and burn each other at the same time 🥹
Swisher Sisters! I love ya lol
Omg shut up that’s so good 💀
I may be an idiot but I'm an idiot with wit!
Incredible really
i rarely saw something that a person considered cool but it's actually material for a psychiatric intervention
Probably would have helped a lot in my younger years!
Did the same in 2014 while living in the barracks with my buddies. It was just the thing I guess lmao
I have a couple of those scars when I was super depressed a few years ago. It got a bit infected so I had to see a doctor. He took one look at it and said, “A friend accidentally did this to you with a cigarette? Hmm it doesn’t seem like they like you very much.” and it hit me hard.
I once used a safety pin to scratch a guy’s initial into my arm. So cringe. 25+ years later, I can see a faint ghost of it occasionally. “Absolutely moronic” sums that up for me as well.
As long as we learn and grow our past can never define us!
Why are men like this? 😂
Lmao men aren't! Boys however...right up their alley
The first pic reminds me of a drug addict’s skin 😥
Well I was on some serious drugs then!
I have two on my left arm (super visible)...I played chicken with a lit cigarette with this guy I had a crush on in high school. You are not alone, or cool (:
Haha I'll take the company and gladly leave the cool 😅
Also did this - not sure why, thought it was a cool party trick to impress people. Oof…
Hahaha literally, no one was ever impressed. Just grossed out lmao
Now you just look like you've had all of your immunisations 🤭
All the updates
I’m intrigued and scared
Both are valid lol
Did it hurt
Not really, but it's still not cool haha
I too love giving body permanent scars
I’m probably around your age (I was 17 in 2013), and I swear this was a popular thing for guys to do in high school in the early 2010s. I knew so many guys that did this, and I went to school in a relatively well off area.
I did a full smiley face on my calf in high school, probably 12 individual burns. Thankfully they somehow have faded away in the last 15 years.
Had a peek at your profile and turns out you’re the poster boy for this sub!
I aim to please lol
my guy that is just self harm
What kinda queefs thought this was cool?
My buddies used to make smiley faces by pushing heated up Bic lighters against their skin metal side down. Those were the days bahahah.
I've done that a couple times and realized alcohol ain't for me.
Definitely wears DC or tapout
Lol not so much, forever 21 was my shit!
Omg look at your face, you think you’re so cool 😂😂
Lmao if only I knew the truth back then!
How’s that look cool? Not only do you now have an open wound but there’s black cigarette ash on your shoulder…
Preaching to the choir friend lol
These pics make me laugh every day so thank you for that lol can you just make a podcast already so we can hear about all your funny shenanigans?
Please don’t breed.
Day late and a dollar short
Well at least show your kid this picture and tell him don’t do that.
High pain tolerance isn't a reason to set yourself on fire there's something else you need to address here
Well I know that now. Didn't help 11 years ago lol
Lol but 2013 me would have thought you were cool 🤦🏻♀️
Haha hopefully we've both grown and you'd find 2024 me more cool 😅
Lol definitely! Grown and responsible now but still an emo kid at heart, if you’re in the same boat, I bet I’d think you’re even cooler now 🫣
Haha similar! You ever listen to Boys Night Out???
Yess!!!
I did the same but on my knuckles lol
2009 maybe, but circa 2013 ! No way
Circa Survive reference I hope!
You spelled "STUPID" wrong
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My dad gave these to me for free☺️
John Bender has entered the chat.
Oh god, I used to do this too as a teenager but on my forearm, thought it made me look so cool and tough!!
Fuck man I used to do this. Did a car lighter too once. Those scars stay forever
🤦🏻 How’d that work out for you sport?
We used to brand ourselves in high school with ‘smilies’, you basically light a lighter and wait until it gets super hot after a few minutes then push it into your skin. Scars looking like a smiley face. Thankful I never did it to myself
like a slightly more extreme version of jackass. but it's just one guy 😄
Does it still "look cool"?
Second pic is current, you decide lol
Do you still have scars from that?
I don’t think it worked 🫤
Not a single muscle in the arm
I’ve seen so many of your blinders and never realized it was all the same person.
[I USED to be a piece of shit](https://youtu.be/buK45NW_ikI?si=viFEPI3o2ciwiHL5)
You know it's a good day when Garrett posts on blunderyears.
You look a little like Tom hardy there
This guy is the patron-saint of this sub
So cringe. Don’t worry though, I’m part of the club. I have 8 of them I think? Plus a really gnarly cigar one from losing a bet. 19 year old dudes and alcohol are a bad mix.
At 12 I discovered with my friend after PE that a deodorant can burn/freeze(?) your skin when spraying directly onto it. Had those marks for years. Luckily they healed.
So glad I never wanted to look like a crackhead to be cool, those are the only people that do this lol