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Note from Microsoft to this guy: Dude, thanks for the love, but you're sooo not helping the current situation.
Seriously, though, this has to be a good sign for Zune. The obsession, that is. Can another Zune fanatic explain the reasoning behind it to me? And is an iPod tattoo worse, because of the ubiquity?
Forum [Zune Scene, Thanks Nate W.]
3:35 AM on Tue Jun 12 2007
By Brian Lam
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A) Don't help the brand.
B) For life?
The look on the guy's face is classic, it's like "DID I JUST REALLY DO THIS?!" I sure hope he got well compensated for it.
Welcome to the social leper.
...Dude...this makes me NOT want to buy a Zune...if this is the Social, I want no part of it..
"I was thinking my next would be the flaming zune birds"
ROFL!! God..I'm speechless right now..I want to be mean but at the same time I dont..I'll just say...good for him*
I dont have a tattoo so correct me if I'm wrong, but would one really look like this if it were new? Wouldn't the skin around it at least be red and irritated? I think there's a high liklihood that either this guy put on a fake or someone just photochopped a zune tat on a funny picture. I'm actually going with the latter.
@weatherman
You're absolutely right. I have two and both times I've had them done they've been irritated, and more importantly swollen so you couldn't really see the detail nor could it look this smooth . This is either a fake or a few weeks old. Maybe he wanted to document MS selling a million zune's and now he's sad cause it hadn't actually happened....
real: http://www.zunescene.com/forums/index.php?topic=16115.0
@ weatherman
Looks pretty real.. especially if you go to the forum linked and check the close up picture out.. still though.. ugh.
My Name is Earl
@ weatherman
You're absolutely right. I have two and both times I've had them done they've been irritated and more importantly swollen so you couldn't see the detail nor could it be this smooth. This is either a fake or a few weeks old. Maybe he got it to commemorate MS selling a million zunes and now he's sad cause he heard it hadn't actually happened yet....
Gizmodo will be getting the bill for my 24inch Dell that is now covered in vomit.
Bring your zune by his place, there's something he wants to squirt you
It'll be especially funny to see it, when this guy loses/gains weight and that thing stretches/crumples :)
@ weatherman
You're absolutely right. I have two and both times I've had them done they've been irritated and more importantly swollen so you couldn't see the detail nor could it be this smooth. This is either a fake or a few weeks old. Maybe he got it to commemorate MS selling a million zunes and now he's sad cause he heard it hadn't actually happened yet....
Update: I went to the link, and it is swollen so it's probably just a few weeks old
Well, the Zune IS kinda chubby like he is.
What's a tattoo?
Please don't ban me! I did it out of irony!
I am sick of the constant negative slant on every post about the zune-"not helping the current situation" What the hell is so bad about the "current situation"?? They've sold a million zunes, which is what they had aimed to sell by this time! I think they are doing much better than they ever thought they would and lets remember they only have one model on the market, give them time to release more to get more marketshare.
Looking at the closeup pics it could just as easily be magic marker done by someone with an art degree.
rc28
most people mock the Zune, as it is microsoft and they want to take over the world...
bit like Pinkie and the Brain
He needs Spock Ears to make the transmogrification complete.
Is that his mother's basement?
I hope Microsoft paid him well for the premium ad space. Paid him in candy, sweet, sweet candy.
His expression is one of having been freshly raped.
*sigh* some people just do things to do things. The guy was prolly like "Yeah...The Zune logo looks cool, and hey! I have a Zune! I'm gonna get a tattoo! sweet!"
There really is no reason to do something like this...lol But yeah, people...that tattoo most probably is real. It would not surprise me that someone did this. What surprises me is that someone hasn't done it sooner.
People can really do weird things...just look at the news one night and you'll see...
Can we examine dude's room for a second? Beware of the dog sign, multiple sketches I'm sure he thinks will definitely win a lady over one day, some sort of strange green headrest on his chair, and a scientific looking contraption along the right edge. Do you think he has plans to clone the woman on the poster on his door? Since she appears to be from the '90s, I suspect she will really dig his futuristic music machine called Zune. Maybe I just have too much time this morning, and a strange imagination...
At least it isn't snakes on a plane... besides, the world has to teach us our lessons someway, right? Stay in school kiddies
Worst . Tattoo. Ever.
As a Zune owner and ink lover, I'm embarassed for the both of us...
Even though music and tattoos usually lead to some fine works of art, music players and tattoos lead me to question what this guy was thinking. The ink work up close looks great, especially how the tattoo artist blended the colors, but 3 hours to do that? I don't know about any other inked Giz readers, but none of mine have taken more than 3 hours and they are all a lot larger and more detailed than that one.
Whatever, to each his own.
@dmeck
That's not his room. That's the tatto parlor. The "scientific looking contraption" is a small autoclave for sterilizing. I will say it looks like he went to a "learn to tatto from home" tatto parlor.
One day his mom will come in to clean his room and he won't be able to hide it in time...then there will be hell to pay.
Seriously...I have some ink that I question on occasion but I truly find myself at a loss for words when I consider what this guy was thinking.
Worst. Episode. Ever.
I told you, Tattoos are permanent!
Sorry Roger, you tiger now.
In response to the accusation that this man is a "social leper"
He should only PRAY to be ailed by some form of leprosy-- then maybe his left arm would fall off.
Going to be a lot of folks asking that guy
"What's that supposed to be?
At least it's on his arm, he could of gotten a Zune "tramp stamp" on his lower back.
It would have look cooler on the middle of his forehead...
Yes kids, there really IS a Darwin*
*Award
I think it is fake.
I regretted my tattoo 5 minutes after I got it, not because the tattoo was wrong, but because I forgot the fact that when the tattoo sketch looks awesome in the mirror, it means it is inverted on my arm.
Wow, Gray White's stock has REALLY fallen since his controlling interest in GloboGym was purchased by the boys at Average Joe's... first gaining all of that weight and then a Zune tattoo?
It's just a stupid weirdo guy with a Zune tattoo.
Compare it to the Apple iCult tattoo, and shaved heads, and they're pretty much both weird, scary, and just stupid.
So if it's anything, this just represents one weirdo in the population. Not all Zune users.
What a shame. This dude would have been so cool without this tat.
Id rather have the Apple logo on the back of my head than be a fat shameful man.
Does anyone think that this might be Microsofts marketing once again? hahaha
The process of turning a man into the world's first NASCAR racer is nearly complete. All he needs now is DuPont plastered to his ass, and a pair of rocket skates.
@pupaboy
It would have look cooler on the middle of his forehead...
But then he might've been defaced by some iPod Gang like a guy I heard about who had a swastika put into his forehead. Within two weeks he was jumped by some ex-Israeli militia kids, perhaps a touch intoxicated, who picked him up by the seat of his pants and sanded the swastika off, on the sidewalk.
baltwade says:
@dmeck
"That's not his room. That's the tatto parlor. The "scientific looking contraption" is a small autoclave for sterilizing. I will say it looks like he went to a "learn to tatto from home" tatto parlor."
You seem to know a lot about tattoos considering you can't spell it. Sorry, I probably wouldn't have flamed you if you weren't jumping on someone else, but hey, what goes around comes around!
That tattoo totally ruined his look! And yes, sorry zune owners, but the zune is a joke. It's huge, drmed out the wazoo, and oh yeah, IT'S FRIGGIN HUGE! If I wanted a brick in my pocket I would get the cowon a2 or something like similar...
Is that a picture of Pizza right by his forehead?
"Sorry Roger, you tiger now" is best comment so far!
Perfect Zune marketing.
Fits their demographic.
Let's face it - he's going to be unique, and in 5 years no-one will remember what a Zune was so it'll be kind of retro cool.
dude, that's the guy from the South Park Warcraft episode
"Well you see little Tommy, back when your grandpappy was a lad there was a famous man who wanted to right all the wrong in the world! His supporters were called "Zunes". That's why I got this tattoo!"
"But grandpa, I saw a special on TV of tech that never made it and they said the Zune was an iPod from Microsoft that only lasted a year or so"
"Damns."
watch, it'll happen.
oooooooohhhh - so THAT'S what a zune user looks like...
honeslty - i've never seen one - but now i know what to look out for...
I would like to think that this tattoo cold draw some attention away from other less attractive features... but alas, it's more likely to make him look fat AND stupid. "My advice to you... is to start drinking heavily."
Eh, I'm an idiot... White Goodman, not Gray White. This is what I get for posting without coffee.
I have a tattoo in the same spot that says "ROXETTE!" over a blue star. Does it mean I suck because I'm the only one with a forgotten 90's swedish rock band tattoo, or am I cooler than the six million people who have KISS, AC/DC, or Rolling Stones tattoos?
(I'm still happy with it 12 years later, FWIW.)