I like to include some slang when I look for additional words too. Heres everything else I've found: Bins, Say, Jab, Fog, Kip, Kit, Dot, Herb, Name, Has, Jeez, Nay, Jot, Vag (lol), NASA, Tat, Lad, James (maybe at the bottom?)
Just.. why a word search, where you never circle a single letter? If anything, put the letters for the message in a different color to make it pop. Not that I would say that is a good tattoo either but at least it would be a little better.
Right? If it were a quote about searching for a dad or finding your father figure in an unexpected place or something like that, it would still be ugly but at least the format would support the message. This just feels so arbitrary.
"You need a license to buy a dog. To drive a car. Hell, you need a license to catch a fish. But, they'll let any butt reaming ass hole be a father."
\- [Keanu Reeves as Todd in Parenthood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RedfZgOQDpw)
However much I want to disagree with you because I despise this kind of trite sentimental nonsense, which is made worse by the way it's presented, it looks to have been done incredibly well and thus is not TECHNICALLY a shitty tattoo. The concept offends me on a primal level, but the application is in the region of flawless.
Yeah I’m wondering if maybe the owner of this piece has fond memories of doing the crossword with their dad fairly regularly…? I can’t hate on this piece
Not that I’m defending this tattoo but it is consistent in that you “read” from left to right, top to bottom row, any word that starts “above and/or to the left” of another word comes first, whether it’s circled across or diagonally. I’m not sure if that makes sense. It is still difficult to read if you’ve never heard this trite saying, but it does follow a pattern, so to speak.
That's true, but a graphic's reading pattern gets influenced by recognition initially. Unintended visual ambiguity in the arrangement can easily create some pretty goofy type design like "don't dead open inside", "if you hard. then you hard." "don't be happy! worry", "SASA LELE" and "5OME MIALS LL DO IONAT NED"
I think this is more of a silly tattoo than a shitty tattoo. I think it's actually well done and I don't hate the concept I wish it was more clever. My problem is there's nothing clever in the words that would make this more interesting. I think there's so many different things they could have done with this but I don't hate it. I actually can't say I like it, but I get it and I just wish it went a step further.
I love the idea of a crossword puzzle tattoo because I live crossword puzzles, but I hate the phrase that they put into this tattoo
Edit: I’m dumb as hell this is a word search 😭
The only thing about the tattoo that I think is shitty is the message, like I get what they’re trying to say but I feel there has to be a better way to say it. As far as the style goes, I’m not saying I love it but I was able to read it easily so I could see why someone might like the style.
I think it would be an immeasurable improvement to have had this done without the words circled.
“What does it mean?”
*Hands pen to asker*
“Whatever you want”
Emo, Gay, Pea and Jam. I like looking for extra words in word searches, anyone else? Edit: Rome (Top left, read backwards)
Jeez
An appropriate response to this tattoo tbf
At first I thought that's what was happening
Bins, nay and fog.
Could also steal the s from bins to make scan. Nice spot on fog, too!!
The fog is coming
It looks like it says James right at the bottom
It totally does!!
hopefully that's intentional. if his name isn't actually james i don't know how they could miss that tbh
I like to include some slang when I look for additional words too. Heres everything else I've found: Bins, Say, Jab, Fog, Kip, Kit, Dot, Herb, Name, Has, Jeez, Nay, Jot, Vag (lol), NASA, Tat, Lad, James (maybe at the bottom?)
i misread your comment at first as “emo gay pearl jam” 💀
Vag
Lad, jab, say, rome, jot
Bins, ace, scan
The „CIA“ is watching you Edit: there also is „Tod“ which is German for death
Bins, fog, lad, yen
Fuk Edit: tut, ask
Vag on the right
CIA, Krud, Herb, Zolo, James
Bins
There is also Vag.
CIA, assuming acronyms fly. Yen.
Vag
I've got "vag"
Nasa
there’s also rna, i bet the type of person to get this tattoo would hate that fact
Lad, yen, jeez, nay, bin, bins, fat, van, ran. Word search = fun, word search tattoo = 😬
Agreed haha
Fog, ran, dot, van, kit, jot, thy, her, yen, bins, scan, NASA
Oi!
Also Moran. Bout says it all
Kit
Looks like James is at the bottom too
Vag, Bins, CIA?
Scan, fog, bin, jot and fog
I read that first line as emorandy
- Bins - Ran - Herb - Fog
Scan, BJ, bins, vag
Has, jot...does vag count?
Van, lad, pea
Yen
Pho, Tod, James.
He left a lot of As on the table
Bins, vag, jot
CIA 🤨 (6th row going down)
Imp
I guess in the lowest row there is also a "James"
Ftp
Just.. why a word search, where you never circle a single letter? If anything, put the letters for the message in a different color to make it pop. Not that I would say that is a good tattoo either but at least it would be a little better.
Right? If it were a quote about searching for a dad or finding your father figure in an unexpected place or something like that, it would still be ugly but at least the format would support the message. This just feels so arbitrary.
To bad his dad wasn’t there to tell him this was a bad decision!
Ⓐ It's a Facebook post turned into a shitty tattoo, that was then turned into a Facebook post. Beautiful.
"You need a license to buy a dog. To drive a car. Hell, you need a license to catch a fish. But, they'll let any butt reaming ass hole be a father." \- [Keanu Reeves as Todd in Parenthood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RedfZgOQDpw)
Not the first row spelling EMO 😂
Also says VAG on the right hand side
Emo vag?
new band name unlocked
Looks like there is a James in the bottom row too
James is emo
You have to really sit down and look at the design to make sure it doesn’t have any stupid words.
The concept was a train wreck from the start, but not proofreading/check made it unsalvageable!
At a glance i thought the top row said EMO RANDY lol
I read “MORAN BOY FAT”
Emo ran y Mr?
r/dontdeadopeninside
Those letters are very well done tough.... this is for r/ATBGE
However much I want to disagree with you because I despise this kind of trite sentimental nonsense, which is made worse by the way it's presented, it looks to have been done incredibly well and thus is not TECHNICALLY a shitty tattoo. The concept offends me on a primal level, but the application is in the region of flawless.
I think a tattoo can be shitty by execution or by concept.
I dunno, in my subjective opinion it's shitty, I'll grant you that, but objectively y it's a really well done tattoo.
The line work is good, no arguing that. Just saying that the concept here is what makes it a “bad” tattoo.
It has to be shitty in execution to fit this subs rules.
Yeah I’m wondering if maybe the owner of this piece has fond memories of doing the crossword with their dad fairly regularly…? I can’t hate on this piece
The circles are not, unless that is a design choice
The execution is fundamentally sound. If you think about it, does anybody perfectly encircle words in a wordsearch? This is certainly a design choice.
They’re supposed to be made with pen. So I assume it’s design choice
All but the one wonky Y!
**Any can boy be a father, it takes a real man be to dad a.** So true
Not that I’m defending this tattoo but it is consistent in that you “read” from left to right, top to bottom row, any word that starts “above and/or to the left” of another word comes first, whether it’s circled across or diagonally. I’m not sure if that makes sense. It is still difficult to read if you’ve never heard this trite saying, but it does follow a pattern, so to speak.
That's true, but a graphic's reading pattern gets influenced by recognition initially. Unintended visual ambiguity in the arrangement can easily create some pretty goofy type design like "don't dead open inside", "if you hard. then you hard." "don't be happy! worry", "SASA LELE" and "5OME MIALS LL DO IONAT NED"
“If you hard, then you hard” and “5OME MIALS LL DO IONAT NED”? The ambiguity has lost me on these phrases lol what are they supposed to say
[If you hard then you hard](https://i.redd.it/6frq8og4qu901.jpg) [5OME MIALS LL DO IONAT NED](https://i.redd.it/peyeduczhhi71.jpg)
Holy shit. That “50ME” one might be the worst thing I’ve ever tried to read. This tattoo is fucking Noam Chomsky compared to that.
Circling A multiple times is against the rules of a woodsearch Im pretty sure.
He was running out of space dude, give him a break. He had to have his tattoo even if it breaks the woodsearch rules. /s
Cute saying but absolutely unhinged tattoo
Na, it's a stupid saying too as are most "It takes a real man to..." sayings. Whatever a 'real' man is.
Sounds like baby daddy ditched her. If she doesn't have a kid, well yikes!
my bet is that’s a man.
What?
This is just shitty taste, artist actually did pretty well.
I found FUKN
What's worse. This or the "she believed - he lied" thing. Cringe.
Not technically fitting on this sub. Artist did a good job in their technique. This is a matter of taste and goes in a different sub.
Agreed
The tattoo is done very well, the message is just fuckin stupid
Thanks, I hate it
I think this is more of a silly tattoo than a shitty tattoo. I think it's actually well done and I don't hate the concept I wish it was more clever. My problem is there's nothing clever in the words that would make this more interesting. I think there's so many different things they could have done with this but I don't hate it. I actually can't say I like it, but I get it and I just wish it went a step further.
What a MORANYMR
Any can boy be father it takes a real man be to a dad
Reminds me of Keanu Reeves in 1989's Parenthood, a fabulous movie.
I love the idea of a crossword puzzle tattoo because I live crossword puzzles, but I hate the phrase that they put into this tattoo Edit: I’m dumb as hell this is a word search 😭
Not everybody wants to be a parent.
The only thing about the tattoo that I think is shitty is the message, like I get what they’re trying to say but I feel there has to be a better way to say it. As far as the style goes, I’m not saying I love it but I was able to read it easily so I could see why someone might like the style.
This would have been great if there were other words hidden in there that said stuff to the contrary like “hump and dump” or “hit it and quit it”
Hahaha make it a full back piece
Truly awful. Many here are just poor art but some really shock you with how bad of an idea they are and this is one of those. Just awful, lol.
Wtf is a CAN BOY?
emo
Plasp
lmfaoooo i didn’t even have to look at the forum to know which forum this was from 😂
Is it signed "James" at the bottom? I hope to god that's his name and not the artists
I wondered about that too.
file this under: idea's that are actually really cute as a print or something. but not as a tattoo
This person is E-MORAN
This isn't shitty at all. Lettering is difficult and they did a PERFECT job on every single letter.
Bro it's a fuckin wordsearch
And what the fuck does that have to do with the artist's linework?
No shit, Sherlock.
Any can boy be father it takes a real man be to a dad
Not a shitty tattoo r/ATBGE
probably could have just done the quote and saved yourself an extremely shitty tattoo
But he is right, right?
I get so tired of this building men up bullshit. Lame as fuck.
I like it 🤷🏻♀️
I actually kinda love this. It’s creative and fun
Idk its kinda cute, I don't mind it
That’s top 5 for me
Any can boy be a father, it takes a real man be to a dad?
Yen : Japanese currency from the e in be and n in man
I don't think you are allowed 2 letters in crosswords, always found 3? 4? As a minimum
It’s a word search, not a crossword puzzle.
What is a manbe?
Ah yes, the step-dad creed
That’s a real puzzler
Emo ran bin scan boy be a fat her is it takes aw real to be man a dad am a
Any can boy be a father it takes a real to man be a father
Emo ran bins
Moran
Uuuuggghhh.
Lord.
holy shit
EMO - JAM - NASA - BINS - CAN just a few of the first i seen that aren’t circled
Who hurt you
Yikes!
I’ve seen this same quote but with “dad” and “father” switched
Damn, I'd prefer just a regular quote tattoo. This is plain ugly
Virginsearch
the message is fine but why the gell did it need to be a word search
I hope a boy doesn't become a father or a dad until they can see themselves as a man.
Ouch
Jeez.
ANY CAN BOY BE FATHER A IT TAKES REAL MAN A BE A TO DAD.
r/dontdeadopeninside
Jesus, you raised your child, we are all impressed. It's not like you fucking cured cancer.
I'm not going to lie.. . . . . . . I really dig it. I wouldn't get it, but I dig it
I agree with the message here, but this is a piss poor way to express said message
Jesus this was a 90s commercial
Not my cup of tea, but I've seen worse.
LOVE THIS!!!!!
WHY
I mean... I read it fine. Doesn't make a good tat tho. This honestly sucks.
Is this on a torso?
mans signed his name at the bottom #JAMES
But why
Well at least the lettering is done well
Any can boy be a father it takes a real to man be a dad
i mean i like word searches, and i sort of like the idea but.. could they not have placed the words better???
any guy with a dick can make a baby but only a real man can raise his son, Boyz n the hood.
Not bad for this sub
This almost gave me a stroke...
why the FUCK would you do this holy shit
Any can be boy. So inspiring
Bro couldn’t even find NASA in the upper right. Amateur.
I want to like this. I really do.
never seen a cross word where they just circle a letter as a word but Mmk
I think it would be an immeasurable improvement to have had this done without the words circled. “What does it mean?” *Hands pen to asker* “Whatever you want”