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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tattoos also apparently taste bad, so they are also good at risk management, as they're avoiding cannibals

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

so they are also good at risk management, as they're avoiding cannibals

Eh, I'd argue it's actually the exact opposite of good risk management. They've spent a lot of time and money mitigating something that's extremely unlikely to ever pose a problem. They should take a step back and reevaluate that risk matrix, maybe get a second opinion on it too.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mah man, that's just what the cannibals want you to think! /j

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Christians are cannibals (they have a ritual), that's why they don't like tattoos.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that why sailors got tattows? xD

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Avoiding becoming long pork is as valid reason as any I suppose hah

serious answer

I think a lot of it was for identification of bodies if they are otherwise disfigured in death :3.. as well as other things like superstition, or marking important achievements ^^

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also they liked to share stuff with the local people, I think getting a tattow was also a big part of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I assumed at first it was a typo, but you've done it twice now. What's a tattow?