Posted on 07/15/2017 11:50:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Mark Cropp just wants to to get a job and support his family, but something unique is holding him back.
A giant tattoo saying “DEVAST8” covers half of his face, and, perhaps not surprisingly, it’s off-putting for potential employers.
The teenager, born in Oamaru in the southern part of the country, told the New Zealand Herald he had it inked a few months ago, while drunk on homebrew in a jail cell in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Dang, you're good! The article doesn't specify who made the homebrew (or what they brewed), but our boy Mark Cropp could be the brand's "face."
It reminds me of the "19 Crimes" brand of Australian red wines.
He’d fit in just fine in any democrat stronghold...Seattle, Portland, San Fran etc.
Maybe bottle special limited edition in a face jug.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=North+Carolina+Face+Jug
Theodore Dalrymple at Taki Mag wrote a whole article on the fundamental contradiction in the lives of people like this (including not just those with elaborate tattoos, but also transexuals and others): they go way out-of-their way to make themselves noticeable, then they get all honked off when they do get noticed and aren’t regarded in conventional fashion.
http://takimag.com/article/everyday_snowflakes_theodore_dalrymple#axzz4mrd6BX3V
Amazing...putting a tattoo on your face is a death sentence to a good job. He might get a job at Starbucks.
I’m not a fan of face jugs, but the third one down, with the dark, shiny finish, has sort of an Antipodean vibe.
A pertinent quote from the Dalrymple article referenced above:
“The demand for recognition and nonrecognition at the same time is surely one of the reasons for the outbreak of mass self-mutilation in the Western world in an age of celebrity. A person who treats his face and body like an ironmongery store can hardly desire or expect that you fail to notice it, but at the same time demands that you make no comment about it, draw no conclusions from it, express no aversion toward it, and treat him no differently because of it. You must accept him as he is, however he is, because he has an inalienable right to such acceptance.”
http://takimag.com/article/everyday_snowflakes_theodore_dalrymple/print#ixzz4n02fo4YO
Note to self: do not drink the toilet wine if incarcerated.
As for this guy, he could get a job in a carnival or a Waffle House in the States.
DANG!
In my “Tater Head” days of hanging out on Tate Street in Greensboro, the backyard of a friend’s house was lined with those things half buried face up, that was my introduction, in the dark, half in the bag wandering around back there, startled the heck out of me. I’ve had a love-hate relationship with them ever since, with the hate part fading over time.
My experience is mostly seeing them on “Antiques Roadshow” or in “Our State” magazine. I recognize that they’re a folk art form and all, but they don’t appeal to me.
Perfect for a facial-tattoo homebrew brand, though. Perhaps some self-colored or lightly-incised patterns in the glaze ...
Somebody needs to get this guy a “minder” with some business sense as well as a sense of probity, partner them up, set up a GoFundMe page and go to it, I think he really could make lemonade out of this lemon of idiocy. Depending, of course, upon just how desirable the homebrew might be, I have no idea what New Zealand prison homebrew consists of, or what it tastes like. Making hooch shelf-stable might be a challenge too, but surmountable I’m sure.
Tattoos are ugly no matter where on the body they are. I guess if you can cover them up in public, it’s nobody’s business but your own. But I’ll never understand why people willingly deface their body like that.
Where there's a profit to be made, there's a way.
On the downside, the government would probably resist commercializing a down-market competitor to their highly-regarded wine industry. Anoreth and I have a bet on future geopolitical events, and I've suggested a wine trip to New Zealand as a possible stake.
Bump the alcohol content way up into “spirits” territory just shy of Everclear, that would give it a certain appropriate mystique, sort of like those novelty Carolina Reaper hot sauces that people buy just to try on a dare, not because it actually tastes good. Flaming off the empties would just be an added bonus. Blue flame, thwoomp.
You've just sold it to Tom the Son ...
That was always a blast when we made PJ in college, took a good four bottles of EverClear at least. It’s surprising just how much blue flame a tiny little bit left in the bottle can make, too, shot out several feet.
I’m tattooed from head to feet in Caucasian.
Where’s my check?
Any tattoo at all that’s not a direct result of military service is, for me, a major negative in a potential job applicant. It is immediate hard evidence of two things: a lack of self-respect, and a lack of judgment. Neither one of those things is compatible with any of the work I do or any of the engagements I have with my clients.
Mow yards, home painting, construction, dig ditches, etc.
Night work preferred
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