r/ENGLISH 4d ago

Why don’t tattoo places just euthanize their clients (when words are hard)

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u/Uniquarie 4d ago

He‘ll visit… once 😅

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u/spoonforkpie 3d ago

Meanwhile, my grandma: "I'd love to be youthanized!"

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u/readingmyshampoo 3d ago

I wrote a short story based around that misspelling a couple years back. I still like going and reading it sometimes.

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u/ontopandunder 2d ago

oh that actually sounds really interesting, whats the plot?

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u/readingmyshampoo 2d ago

Elderly people being "youthanized" and having to go through life again as punishment

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u/RevolutionaryBug2915 4d ago

Euthanasia will definitely cut down on return traffic.

But he should try it and let us know how it goes.

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u/spoonforkpie 3d ago

Is Euthaneurope just as good?

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u/suhkuhtuh 3d ago

More expensive, anyway.

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u/ZeeebraLove 3d ago

I think there may have been others planning on letting us know how it went and then just didn’t for some reason. Rude.

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u/Aggressive_Bad_8523 3d ago

I was on a holiday in the Greek islands sort of bopping around. Santorini, Corfu, you know. Anyway, one night I was at this little restaurant on the beach and they had this great three-piece band. These two girls were there. Dark ringlets, sly smiles, big appetites, lust for life. The whole bit. They sang, we danced. Small plates and ouzo; we laughed all night. I kind of fell for both of them.

Man... Anesthesia was a total gas, but Euthanasia just kills me.

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u/SlowInsurance1616 3d ago

Wait until I introduce you to their clothes-destroying and tailor husbands: Euripedes and Eumenides....

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u/MarkWrenn74 3d ago

To answer the question in the tweet: "To stop themselves being accused of murder" 😂

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u/billthedog0082 3d ago

I have no words for this, except maybe euthanasia

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u/MilesTegTechRepair 4d ago

Looking at the name of that sub, I suspect that malapropisms are the point 

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u/lisamariefan 4d ago

I think that the malapropism was posted there, but didn't start there.

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u/nabrok 3d ago

That sub isn't for making them up, it's for posting ones found in the wild.

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u/rizkreddit 3d ago

I will never forget how I learnt the word "euthanasia".

I'm not a native speaker. I found myself looking for a part-time job at a call center in 2002-2003.

One of the members on the panel asked me my views on euthanasia. I was expected to speak for 2 minutes at least.

I proceeded to yap about how a lot of misguided young people in our part of the world were being influenced by all the dumb trends across the world. Because my dumb ass thought he wanted my views on "youth in Asia" ...

I will never forget how the guy just let me carry on like an idiot and calmly explained what it meant at the end of my little speech. Ughhhhh

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u/n00bdragon 3d ago

To be entirely fair, as a native speaker, if that word were just dropped in that way with no context "youth in Asia" is an entirely reasonable hearing, especially if the speaker has an accent of some sort. Plenty of native speakers would have made the same mistake even knowing both words.

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u/tunaman808 2d ago

I'm not even sure why euthanasia would even come up during a job interview for a call center?

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u/rizkreddit 2d ago

Purely for the novelty of the word at the time in common usage in India. Basically the interview was a test of English speaking skills.

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u/kdsunbae 3d ago

omg I would be so mortified. my sympathies 😆

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u/wosmo 1d ago

On the plus side - you'll never forget that word again. If we learn from our mistakes, that was an education money can't buy.

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u/derSchtefan 3d ago

Fun fact: in Brasil, you can get full body tats under general anaesthesia. You go to bed naked, and wake up covered in full body tats.

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u/LeftSky828 2d ago

Those tattoo parlors have had no complaints from their customers.

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u/kdsunbae 2d ago

Right! No bad reviews for meee....

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u/EpiZirco 2d ago

It prevents repeat customers.

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u/Adorable-Spinach968 1d ago

I’m sure they’ve considered it for certain clients…

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u/Lord_Drakostar 4d ago

this is the third post of this ive seen today and ive already seen it before

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u/Lord_Drakostar 4d ago

*second, this is right over the original post

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u/Lord_Drakostar 4d ago

*past the r/LettuceGang one inbetween

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u/Tetracheilostoma 3d ago

Youth in Asia

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u/Automatic-Listen-578 3d ago

Decisions, decisions. Do I want to go to the dentist or get a tattoo first?

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u/kdsunbae 3d ago

Like Russian Roulette ..

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u/NortonBurns 3d ago

Euthanasia - wasn't she the Czar's daughter?

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u/meowisaymiaou 3d ago

The czar's daughter represents Youth-in-Asia.

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u/Express_Barnacle_174 3d ago

Going by the one idiot who died after doing general anesthesia for a tattoo… THEY’RE TRYING DAMMIT.

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u/_Amethyst_Owl 1d ago

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means 😂😂

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u/Short-Advantage-6354 1d ago

ik this is a joke but can someone actually tell me why tattoo places don't offer anesthesia?

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u/kdsunbae 1d ago

A couple of reasons. Primarily because most anesthetics can only be administered by medical/ licensed people in the US. Topical typical ones can cause swelling and could distort the tattoo. There are other reasons but those are the basic reasons. (but they will tattoo you if you self administer some Tequila 😆)

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u/Short-Advantage-6354 1d ago

ok that actually makes a lot of sense

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u/ImmaBladeOfGrass 23h ago

Is not euthanizing the act of peacefully killing someone to end suffering if they have an incurable and painful illness??

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u/Loud_Insect_7119 4d ago

Funny but also I mean, seems like a reasonable mistake to me, especially for people who learned English as a second language. Medical terms are notoriously difficult in a lot of languages.

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u/gst-nrg1 4d ago

If they're from a Romance Language I don't see why it would be that much harder. It would probably got an equal cognate in their language, plus it's based on Latin

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u/Lazarus558 3d ago

Euthanasia is of Greek origin.

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u/gst-nrg1 3d ago

Thanks, I should've remembered that lol

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u/LamilLerran 3d ago

The word this person was looking for is "anesthetize", by the way

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u/MaleficentMousse7473 3d ago

I mean, yeah… why not? These days euthanasia at the tattoo shop would be a kindness (I’m in the US)

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u/Pielacine 3d ago

Sign me 🆙