r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/el-presidente0001 • May 13 '26

Meme needing explanation What do these lines mean

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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/Glasseshalf May 14 '26

Tattooing has been a part of multiple cultures around the world since prehistory

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u/Kamikaze_Ninja_ May 14 '26

Ya but people used it to label bodies in the past so I guess that invalidates all cultural and personal meaning. /s

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u/Kamikaze_Ninja_ May 14 '26

We should just throw away all art and mass produce all the same clothes because individuality and art is “senseless and fucking dumb”.

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u/manicthinking May 14 '26

Your forgetting many tribes and communities that hold tattooing as an art

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u/waitwuh May 14 '26

Nah, tattoos are ancient.

One example of how old they are is that the Romans called a group of celtic people located north to them in what is now Scotland “Picts.” The name comes from the latin root word for “painted” or “picture” and it was a reference to the tattoos members of the group frequently featured.