Che Guevara Tattoos

[CHE with an AK]

As someone with a Che tattoo myself, who has met at least a dozen fellow comrades in the U.S., Mexico, Cuba, Netherlands, and France with Che tattoos - I am always interested in seeing the variations of Che's image that people get tattooed on their bodies.

The media likes to portray the mostly mythical teenager in a Che shirt who dawns the visage without even a basic understanding of the man, but in my view, every person I have ever met with a Che tattoo knows entire biographies of information about him.

In my biased view it is one of the most powerful symbols of Marxist rebellion, and a great way to semiotically and literally wear one's belief on their sleeve. I have also met at least 50 other comrades because of it - as they'll see the tattoo and instantly approach me to let me know that they admire him as well.

Thus, I am curious of who on here has a Che tattoo? If you do, then feel free to share a picture with us.

Also what are your opinions on Che tattoos? And have you ever met someone with one? One thing that surprised me was how many people I saw in Cuba (both locals and tourists) who had them. I would say at least 25 people in 14 days. Although he can clearly mean many things to many people - the one constant I have always found with those who have him as a tattoo - is that they understand the soul-sucking damage of capitalism and desire to see a more equitable world.


Below I figured I would include some examples in case you might want to get one ...



The most common is Che in his Guerrillero Heroico pose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrillero_Heroico


http://s1.hubimg.com/u/63548_f520.jpg


http://tatuagem.com/files/directorio/portfolio/che-guevara_tattoo_estudio_tatuagens_matosinhos_porto. jpg


http://witchcityink.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/che-guevara-tattoo-na1.jpg


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3633/3330041913_d2a5232d43.jpg


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HWU3wX2cDLQ/SLoHRnhleEI/AAAAAAAAC_Q/gNOSu5rKwnk/s400/Che_Guevara_Tattoo.jpg


http://www.nanytattoo.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/102_06342.JPG


http://spc.fotolog.com/photo/12/8/5/primo2007/1278205708837_f.jpg


http://chinesesymboltattoos.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Che-Guevara-tattoo.jpg


http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1423/1470641079_eb37cdf4fa.jpg


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3170/2851776724_1f1b4632a5.jpg


http://www.absolutiontattoolounge.com/E-che-guevara-tattoo-tatuag.jpg


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/4529347946_501b6d9c9a.jpg


http://www.tatzoom.com/Portfolio/[email protected]/Portfolio/pic472010124634270672245035604.jpg


http://www.checkoutmyink.com/assets/photos/0224/1788/101_1626_large.jpg?1278533049


http://www.tattoo.tv/gallery/cache/artist/Theresa-Gordon-Wade-Lifetime-Tattoo/Theresa-Gordon-Wade-Che-Guevara-Portrait.jpg_500.jpg






Other variations


http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs134.snc1/5732_122758158055_696588055_3073621_3415546_n.jpg


http://www.zhippo.com/CarlosLopezTattoo101HOSTED/images/gallery/che-m.jpg


http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/300W/i/2010/364/1/0/che_guevara_tattoo_by_tattoohardcore-d361b9m.jpg


http://www.paolotripmaitrop.com/gallery/d/11469-6/16th_ball_tattoo_004.JPG


http://www.zhippo.com/CarlosLopezTattoo101HOSTED/images/gallery/medium/che%20portrait.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/4926425609_5af33bb51e.jpg


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3389/4602630502_0756406974.jpg

[CHE with an AK]

Some pics from around the World ...



Spain
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q0Zyv46rvI0/SvfbyCk7PXI/AAAAAAAAAtg/2frIDM7o2Bc/s400/Che_Guevara_Tattoo.jpg



Britain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioassets/photos/2007/3/23/17594_2.jpg



Iran
http://www.worldhum.com/images/slideshows/tehran/cache/6_630995601_94cd9ab19c_b-540x345.jpg



Cuba
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/05F43xW8Pz6qQ/610x.jpg


Scotland
http://www.directmeats.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/biker3.jpg


Cuba
http://www.thepixelgallery.co.uk/Content/Images/photoblog/medium/46201113654PM-pp.jpg (http://www.thepixelgallery.co.uk/Content/Images/photoblog/large/46201113654PM-pp.jpg)


http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0gZ37RPfmP23C/610x.jpg


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3136/2672264905_532b635f4b.jpg


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4632040843_f888eabb5e.jpg


U.S.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4052/4542488760_aff5a68124.jpg



http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2231/5771140277_630d7bb1af.jpg


France
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5302/5793041788_31705baa3c.jpg


Mexico
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4619232222_25bdaaecc1.jpg

Kurdistan (PKK flag)
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j318/Tredcrow/2011/ITALY_KURDS_PROTEST_sff.jpg



http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6007/5883221502_a4e296f906.jpg

[CHE with an AK]

Interestingly, a number of high-profile athletes around the World also have Che tattoos ... such as Fútbol legend Diego Maradona (my sports hero) and fmr Boxing champion Mike Tyson.



http://www.portlandmercury.com/images/blogimages/2010/07/22/1279840104-maradona-smoking-a-cigar-001.jpg http://tattoostars.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/tattoo_mike_tyson_tattoos-8.jpg




Che in Body Art

Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, has a tattoo portrait of Che Guevara on his right arm.


Former Heavy Weight Boxing champion Mike Tyson who has a tattoo of Che Guevara on his rib, in 2003 described Che as "An incredible individual. He had so much, but sacrificed it all for the benefit of other people."


Veteran English professional footballer Darren Currie has a large tattoo on the left side of his stomach of Che Guevara. When asked about the motivation for the piece, Currie stated that he had been reading Che's book since he was 14, and that he "admired the way he went out of his way about things."


Argentine Juan Sebastian Veron, the 2008 South American Footballer of the Year, has a tattoo of Che's face on his shoulder. When his S.S. Lazio won the 1999 Serie A championship, some of the teams Italian fans who initially didn't like the tattoo, came into the dressing room and kissed it.


Italian footballer Fabrizio Miccoli who plays striker for Palermo, has a large Che Guevara tattoo on his left calf. As a result, when he played for Ternana Calcio from 1998–2002, the teams fans would unveil a large stadium sized banner bearing the image of Che along with Moccoli's club shirt and the hammer and sickle.


Swedish Olympic boxer Kwamena Turkson has the image of Che Guevara tattooed on his arm.


Former South African football great Mark Fish, who helped his country to its African Cup of Nations victory in 1996, has a tattoo of Che Guevara.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara_in_popular_culture

[Hebrew Hammer]

1. Mike Tyson having a Che tattoo is hilarious.
2. I don't have a Che tat and I don't plan on ever getting one, I mean, comrade Che was cool and all but still.

[CHE with an AK]

1. Mike Tyson having a Che tattoo is hilarious.
Tyson also has a tattoo of Mao on his right arm ...

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/media/Mike_Mao_Tyson_sm.jpg

... as for his Che tat, he got it after reading Che's books in prison and then visiting Cuba where he learned more about him.

[The Man]

Tyson also has a tattoo of Mao on his right arm ...

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/media/Mike_Mao_Tyson_sm.jpg

... as for his Che tat, he got it after reading Che's books in prison and then visiting Cuba where he learned more about him.

Tyson is a Maoist? :confused:

[CHE with an AK]

Tyson is a Maoist? :confused:
No, but he has said he admires Mao and his accomplishments.

[Revy]

No. I don't like tattoos in the first place, and I don't think I will ever get one. But even if I did, it wouldn't be a Che tattoo.

Having his face on your arm isn't as bad as this :

http://www.tattoo.tv/gallery/cache/artist/Theresa-Gordon-Wade-Lifetime-Tattoo/Theresa-Gordon-Wade-Che-Guevara-Portrait.jpg_500.jpgWhy not just get a T-shirt instead of a tattoo like that?

[Sir Comradical]

http://www.directmeats.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/biker3.jpg

Don't these two have a cooking show? I watched it once and they shared their food with the people of the country they cooked in, in this case Morocco. So maybe they're closet commies? lol.

[tracher999]

nice i like all the pics keep going guys

[Hebrew Hammer]

No, but he has said he admires Mao and his accomplishments.

:lol:

Don't lie, he fucks with Maoz, he's down for the People's War.

[Aspiring Humanist]

Not into idol worship sorry

[CHE with an AK]

Not into idol worship sorry
So all of your clothes/hats are blank with no words or images on them?

[ellipsis]

Only Che tat i can remember seeing was on the back of a scum bag hustler lumpen's hand. Then i beat him with a bag full of doorknobs.

[Tim Finnegan]

Don't these two have a cooking show? I watched it once and they shared their food with the people of the country they cooked in, in this case Morocco. So maybe they're closet commies? lol.
Yeah, they're "The Hairy Bikers". Not closet commies, but certainly possessing of a few leftist-sympathies, which is what you might expect from a couple of Northern English working class lads. ;) (Their episode in Mexico actually had segment about the Zapatistas that was highly sympathetic, and a little touching. :))

[∞]

I just don't want a face on my arm.

[Sam_b]

So all of your clothes/hats are blank with no words or images on them?

Slightly different from having the likeness of somebody permanently etched onto a part of your body.

In all seriousness, I tend to find people with tattoos such as this carry the worst sort of politics, and have critical thinking tarnished by ideas around image and personality. If we are to apply the Marxist method, and deconstruct concretes to rebuild them, how does blindly following someone without any real criticism helpful to the struggle?

I convince people by organising and through dialogue and winning people over to a position - not by having some guy, who frankly is an irrelevance in the current political climate, being etched on me permanently.

[CHE with an AK]

nice i like all the pics keep going guys


http://witcharttattoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/yukiliiii.jpg

http://img1.photographersdirect.com/img/11227/wm/pd673231.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3259/2747614301_6c7b87b3a3.jpg

http://www.tattoo.com/sites/default/files/images/che%20guevara.album.jpg (http://www.tattoo.com/sites/default/files/images/che%20guevara.jpg)

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs47/i/2009/200/0/c/Che_Guevara_Tattoo_by_svendo.jpg

http://cdn1.media.cyclingnews.futurecdn.net//2010/02/16/1/chetatto7b_600.jpg (http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/vuelta-a-cuba-2-2/stage-7b/photos/106449)

http://www.tattoochameleon.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/portraits-memorials/Che%20Guevara%202.jpg

Che Quote ...
http://www.contrariwise.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/hpim0094-225x300.jpg (http://www.contrariwise.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/hpim0094.jpg)

[CHE with an AK]

http://www.buffalochip.com/Portals/0/Gallery/Album/179/Rob-Hill---Che-Guevara.jpg




I just don't want a face on my arm.
It doesn't have to be on the arm ...





I convince people by organizing and through dialogue and winning people over to a position - not by having some guy, who frankly is an irrelevance in the current political climate, being etched on me permanently.
1. The image is not about "convincing" anyone. It is merely a symbol, and we constantly communicate through symbols (see semiotics). As a symbol it might strike up conversation with a like minded person who ordinarily would not have approached you. Plus the absence of any images is itself an image (a blank canvas) and denotes its own meaning (so there is no escaping it). I've had people buy me drinks, invite me into their home, give me their contact info all based solely on them seeing my Che tattoo and thus believing that we would have similar interests or feeling that they could trust me etc.

2. As for Che's "irrelevance", I have to say I find that view fairly offensive and ignorant (especially for this site). Over time Che has been proven to be even more relevant and many of his predictions and objections were decades before his time. He attacked South African apartheid in 1964, 25 years before the West even cared. He warned developing countries about taking loans from the IMF in the early 60's, decades before they all realized they had been scammed into debt slavery. He predicted that the USSR would go capitalist, and that China's model of industrialization would one day make them a World power. He believed that the US would lose in Vietnam and spoke of how American imperialism would continue to build their empire throughout the world based on where the resources were. Che also has been one of the foundations of the "red tide" in South America and his ideas have been spread by Chavez, Morales etc.

I would recommend you read some of his speeches and see just how much of what is currently taking place he predicted and offered theoretical solutions for - including his economic ideas which are just now being published. Don't fall into the capitalist facade that he is merely a face on a t-shirt.

[Dr Mindbender]

I'm not hating but those are going to look fucking awful when you're older.

[CHE with an AK]

I'm not hating but those are going to look fucking awful when you're older.
You make it seem as if there are people out there saying “man if that 70 year old wrinkled geezer didn’t have a black blotch on his arm he would look really good.”

If anything, it might detract from the fact that you are old and wrinkly and cover up some of the skin's imperfections that come with age.

[Dr Mindbender]

You make it seem as if there are people out there saying “man if that 70 year old wrinkled geezer didn’t have a black blotch on his arm he would look really good.”

If anything, it might detract from the fact that you are old and wrinkly and cover up some of the skin's imperfections that come with age.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TD-KYuieS1E/TPO8nS-q-uI/AAAAAAAAA_4/s-T4mH7UfFo/s1600/sir%2Bcliff.jpg

[∞]

The foot one is just gross.

[Aspiring Humanist]

Gonna be awkward when you have to explain to your coworkers why you have a Che tattoo when you inevitably give in and join the ranks of the bourgeoisie

[Tim Finnegan]

Gonna be awkward when you have to explain to your coworkers why you have a Che tattoo when you inevitably give in and join the ranks of the bourgeoisie
I'm not sure that you know who the bourgeoisie are, if you think that joining their ranks is not merely easy but hopelessly inevitable. :rolleyes:

[Rooster]

I like the ones where Che's looking tired and frustrated. I just imagine it like "Ug... why... am I... a tattoo?"

Anyway, here's a stencil if anyone is interested. You could print it off and have the tattoo artist use it, cause I just hate it to see people with really badly done tats.

http://www.spraypaintstencils.com/a-zlistings/che-guevara-stencil.gif

[CommieTroll]

Some Che tattoos look horrible and are badly done, and I don't see the point of getting any tattoo on your legs or feet, I was thinking of getting a Che tattoo once but like any tattoo it needs a lot of thought. Maybe someday I will but for now and the foreseeable future I'm not getting any tattoo

[Rooster]

Some Che tattoos look horrible and are badly done, and I don't see the point of getting any tattoo on your legs or feet, I was thinking of getting a Che tattoo once but like any tattoo it needs a lot of thought. Maybe someday I will but for now and the foreseeable future I'm not getting any tattoo

You kinda get used to having a tattoo (even a bad one, trust me). I just couldn't go around though with a messed up portrait. The only tattoos I'm reluctant to get would political ones incase I'm ever in a situation where I would have to cheese grater it off.

[CommieTroll]

You kinda get used to having a tattoo (even a bad one, trust me). I just couldn't go around though with a messed up portrait. The only tattoos I'm reluctant to get would political ones incase I'm ever in a situation where I would have to cheese grater it off.

Thats exactly why I would hesitate to get a Che tattoo, I think most people with a Che tattoo (like the ones with the t-shirts) don't fully understand what he stood for. I know kids who think ''Nazi's are cool'' and ''Hitler wasn't that bad'' who considered getting a swastika tattooed on their chest who would regret it when they are older. As for me I think I'll hold off on getting a tattoo until I'm at least 25, I was thinking of getting a hammer and sickle but I could regret it in the future.

[Reznov]

I would never get another mans face tattooed on my body.

I like Che, and I respect him.

But my god, is he overrated. Thomas Sankara was ten times cooler imo.

[CommieTroll]

I'd get a tattoo of Reznov any day!:laugh:

[∞]

I'm get a tattoo of Sunfarstar.

[Rafiq]

Che tattoos are fucking stupid... What if you decide not to be a Leftist anymore? Or more likely, decide not to like Che?

[Ocean Seal]

Che tattoos are fucking stupid... What if you decide not to be a Leftist anymore? Or more likely, decide not to like Che?
Then you tattoo sucks underneath.

[Tim Finnegan]

Che tattoos are fucking stupid... What if you decide not to be a Leftist anymore? Or more likely, decide not to like Che?
Then claim it was ironic and fall in behind the other ten million aging hipsters with regrettable tattoos. :D

[CHE with an AK]

Gonna be awkward when you have to explain to your coworkers why you have a Che tattoo when you inevitably give in and join the ranks of the bourgeoisie
Speak for yourself. Some of us are grounded in our beliefs and already old enough to know what we believe.




I was thinking of getting a hammer and sickle but I could regret it in the future.
If you go capitalist or reactionary in 10 years, then you deserve to have it still tattooed on you, as a reminder that you once actually understood society.

[CHE with an AK]

Che tattoos are fucking stupid...
You are obviously entitled to have your own stupid fucking opinion. :)




What if you decide not to be a Leftist anymore?
Well, then you are a reactionary douche.




Or more likely, decide not to like Che?
"Likely", what the hell is up with some of the trolling on this thread? If you liked Che enough to get him tattooed on you, and later became a right-wing sell-out; then you deserve to look at his face everyday or go through the pain of having him lazered off of you for thousands of $.

[Rafiq]

Terrible attitude there. There are countless Former Neo Nazis on this site who would have been saying the same thing right now. imagine if they would have gotten swasticas.

Plus, what is this, a religion? What if you decide not to like Che anymore? Have an open mind, dude.

[Pretty Flaco]

A che tattoo sounds really really dumb.

[CHE with an AK]

I would never get another mans face tattooed on my body.
Could one assume from your comment that you would be ok with the face of a woman on your body instead? If so, then this strikes me as having quasi-homophobic undertones – as if a straight man can’t tattoo another man’s face on his body without it being perceived as homoerotic. As a straight man myself, I am confident enough in my sexuality not to be worried about that.





I like Che, and I respect him. But my god, is he overrated.
One of the unfortunate afflictions that I believe infects the political “Left”, is that since we are usually on the margins of society or part of the “counterculture”, many leftists shy away from anything as soon as it garners popular support. The same inherent distrust for capitalist authority that fuels many on the left, is also the same thing that subconsciously leads them to be suspect of anything that begins to garner wide appeal. For instance, there could be a Marxist revolution tomorrow, and half the Marxists would probably splinter away from that successful leader (1) under the assumption that if he rose to the top, something must be wrong with him, or (2) because they feel uncomfortable being part of the majority, since they usually relish their 'enlightend' role as the proverbial lone rebel in the wilderness.

However, I think this is an inherent weakness of the political left, as it causes many of them to abandon our historical heroes as soon as the capitalists realize their appeal and try to co-opt them. Thus, rather than fight to reclaim Che as one of our own, some on the left throw their hands up and say “well if some middle class teenager wankers like him, then I don’t anymore.”

Lenin himself warned in The State and Revolution that this would occur, stating:

"During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it."
George Galloway has also spoken of my sentiment, remarking:

"Some argue that history has transformed Che's revolutionary image into just another fashion accessory. It is tempting for those of us on the left to feel uncomfortable with his popular appeal; rather like music fans who, when their favorite underground band hits the big time, moan that they've 'gone commercial' ... I don't see it that way. If only 10 percent of the people who wear the image know what he stood for, that is still many millions. Overwhelmingly, they are also young people, with their hearts set on making the world a better place. Indeed, in my experience, many more than 10 percent have a very good idea of what he stood for ... If Che's image seems to be everywhere, that is because what he fought and died for is more fashionable than ever."



Thomas Sankara was ten times cooler imo.

"Che Guevara taught us we could dare to have confidence in ourselves, confidence in our abilities. He instilled in us the conviction that struggle is our only recourse. He, was a citizen of the free world that together we are in the process of building. That is why we say that Che Guevara is also African and Burkinabè."
— Thomas Sankara


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/ThomasSankara.jpg/220px-ThomasSankara.jpg (http://www.revleft.com/wiki/File:ThomasSankara.jpg)



I'm not sure if you were shooting for poetic irony with this comment, but I would hope you are aware that:


- Sankara is commonly known as "Africa's Che Guevara"

- Sankara adopted Che's concept for Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs)

- Sankara emulated Che in both style and substance. Stylistically, Sankara emulated Guevara by preferring to wear a starred beret and military fatigues, living ascetically with few possessions, and keeping a minimal salary once assuming power. Both men also considered themselves allies of Fidel Castro (Sankara was visited by Castro in 1987), spoke fluent French, and are well known for having ridden motorcycles. Substantively, Sankara borrowed many of his ideas about armed revolution against imperialism and monopoly capitalism directly from Che, and like Che denounced financial neo-colonialism before the United Nations, while like Che, holding up agrarian land reform and literacy campaigns as key parts of their agenda. Sankara also implemented revolutionary tribunals like the ones Che oversaw in 1959 after the Cuban revolution.

- Lastly, both men were murdered in their late thirties (Guevara 39 / Sankara 38) with Sankara coincidentally giving a speech marking and honoring the 20th anniversary of Che Guevara's October 9, 1967 execution, one week before his own assassination on October 15, 1987.


... you couldn't have picked a more similar figure to Che, if you tried



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Pionniers_de_la_r%C3%A9volution.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Pionniers_de_la_r%C3%A9volution.jpg)
Sankara had his children "pioneers" of the Revolution, don starred beret's in honor of Che.

[CHE with an AK]

Plus, what is this, a religion?
Ironically, it is religion (namely Islam and Judaism) which forbids getting tattoos.
Moreover, an array of indigenous collectivized/primitive communist cultures practice tattooing (going back thousands of years) as a means of group solidarity and identification.




Have an open mind, dude.
I do. You however, seem very judgmental and elitist towards the thousands of potential/actual comrades of yours who have Che tattoos. If you go to Cuba you will see them on many of the local Cubans as well as the tourists (in fact when I visited the CDR's, many of them were emotionally moved by this act of symbolic solidarity, remarking how proud it makes them feel to know that Westerners are willing to wear Che - and possibly receive backlash from right-wingers - in what they saw as a permanent badge of honor).

[Rafiq]

Nothing immoral about tattoos, it's just ones with political or religious symbolism are really, really dumb

[CHE with an AK]

Nothing immoral about tattoos, it's just ones with political or religious symbolism are really, really dumb
So you are ok with trite, banal or kitschy tattoos, just not ones with deeply held political or religious meanings – (i.e. Bugs Bunny is fine, but a Hammer and Sickle is an abomination?).

If anything, shouldn’t it be the other way around – (i.e. if you are going to permanently etch something into your flesh, at least have it mean something important to you, and not just be a randomly picked tribal squiggly design above your ass crack?)

[Sam_b]

I would recommend you read some of his speeches and see just how much of what is currently taking place he predicted and offered theoretical solutions for - including his economic ideas which are just now being published. Don't fall into the capitalist facade that he is merely a face on a t-shirt.

Dont have time to respond to everything here, especially as im in another country right now, but funnily enough I have a bit of an idea about what I am saying in general and have read speeches and literature before. If you can tell me how Che Guevara is of supreme importance to an unemployed young person in Glasgow right now then I am truly all ears.

[twenty percent tip]

great jobs guys. next time tatto your fore head with the words"here i am :leftwinger" so whennthey want toround people up for arrest theydont need to search google fo ryour where abouts.:rolleyes:

[∞]

great jobs guys. next time tatto your fore head with the words"here i am :leftwinger" so whennthey want toround people up for arrest theydont need to search google fo ryour where abouts.:rolleyes:


Wait, what?

[Le Libérer]

I'm not hating but those are going to look fucking awful when you're older.

Thats what they said to me when I got my first tattoo 20 years ago.

And I am here to say I have proven that theory wrong.

[HEAD ICE]

http://www.buffalochip.com/Portals/0/Gallery/Album/179/Rob-Hill---Che-Guevara.jpg


this is the best one because his tattoo is facepalming itself

[Le Libérer]

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/300W/i/2010/364/1/0/che_guevara_tattoo_by_tattoohardcore-d361b9m.jpg
The best tattoo (technically) of those posted so far.

[Volcanicity]

The problem with having a person's image tattooed on you is if you go to a bad tattooist you can end up with it looking like someone else.

This is poor by anybody's standards:

http://www.cuerpoyarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/cheguenespalda.jpg

[pastradamus]

I have a che tattoo. Despite what people here have posted I do not regret it in the slightest. I would consider myself a supporter of Guevara's policies and so I decided after much contemplating to get a tattoo of him. I got that when I was 18 and at 25 I do not regret a bit of it. Its a personal choice after all. People here might thinks its a bad idea and not for them and thats perfectly fine, but having been so influenced by Guevara from a young age I decided to get this done almost as a form of tribute (for want of better descriptive English). Each to his own and all that.

[Metacomet]

The best tattoo (technically) of those posted so far.


That is fantastic........wow.

[Dr Mindbender]

Thats what they said to me when I got my first tattoo 20 years ago.

And I am here to say I have proven that theory wrong.

Yeah but you've looked after yourself, unless the pics ive seen are lying.

:)

[Honggweilo]

some of them are nice... but a che tattoo is the leftist equivilant of a tramp stamp; completely lacks originality

[Agent Ducky]

This thread reminded me of this:
http://picsaga.com/wp-content/uploads/HLIC/bfe8b58e43764f834f71d733eabb8e45.jpg

[GD38]

No. I don't like tattoos in the first place, and I don't think I will ever get one. But even if I did, it wouldn't be a Che tattoo.

Having his face on your arm isn't as bad as this :
Why not just get a T-shirt instead of a tattoo like that?


who are you to say what is and isn't bad??? to those who don't like tattoos,it may seem drastic,but i have my reasons for having this tattoo,and the reason i don't just buy a t-shirt is because i have the courage of my convictions and am not just some flake who would simply choose to buy a t-shirt instead.It's your opinion,and you're entitled to it,but i have a far worse opinion on people who don't like tattoos yet somehow feel they are an authority on what is and isn't bad regarding them.If you don't like tattoos,that's fine,each to their own...but in that case pull your neck in when commenting on those who do.....

[GD38]

I'm not hating but those are going to look fucking awful when you're older.


who gives a fuck what they will look like when we're older! if we make it to old age,we're all gonna be wrinkly and decrepit,you included...personally i'd rather see a full canvas in old age than a wasted bare one,that's still gonna look as fucked as everyone else anyway...we're here to live our lives,not have some ridiculous concern about vanity at the end of them...

[GD38]

with all his millions,and the work he's had done,you'd think he'd at least make himself look even better by getting a load of tattoos done :p

[Shotgun Opera]

Tyson is a Maoist? :confused:
No, just an idiot.

He has a stylized moko on his face (something that, in Maori culture, you are supposed to fucking earn) and tattoos of Arthur Ashe as well as his own face (IIRC).