Ugh, fucking fondant. Who decided to prank the world and see how many people will put big slabs of cement in their mouths and go “mmmmm, delicious”?

“You had one job, cake cutter.”

Ew. Married sex. That doesn’t sound sexy at all. Even the sound of the word “nuptials” makes my body shiver.

Why does it not surprise me that self righteous bitch was vegan? Not to insult all vegans, but it seems like lots of self righteous people try to go vegan in order to have an excuse to be even more self righteous about something.

Yeah, but you can’t charge for cake cutting and then neglect to actually cut the cakes.

Not a cake disaster (necessarily)...but after cake was served I had to get up and talk to the Dj about a song my mom wanted. When I came back to the table my cake was gone. The waitstaff cleared it away thinking I was done. I hadn't even taken a bite.

I just got lost in the world of cake wrecks for about 10 pages before I could pull myself away from it. *shakes fist*

My tattoo was a walk-in, and I actually experienced something a bit similar to what you described; the guy wouldn’t do it at the scale I initially wanted because he said it’d end up running together. So I said okay and went with a bigger version. I figure his expertise is a large part of what I’m paying for.

You clearly didn’t read the entire thread then— if he refuses to do her tattoo for an arbitrary reason while still performing the same tattoo on others than he gets no respect from me for it. If you are going to claim as an artist and a business person that you have certain standards of behaviour than that had better…

It was just pretty funny considering......

I agree. My biggest issue with Dan though is that instead of going the route of, “I’m sorry, I have a strict no neck or hand policy that I abide by.” He went with “no, your idea is tacky.” It just comes off as rude, and sort of makes you hate him even though he is in the right in this situation.

I’ve spent an awful lot of time and money on tattoos—tattoo artist who do walk-ins don’t usually care that much what they tattoo on you or where if you already have ink. They just want your money. The only reason this guy gave her a hard time is because she didn’t have a lot of skin covered already which is a bullshit…

Yeah, that was my thought — if you’re not going to do hand or neck or any other body part (which is the artist’s perogative), just say it. “Sorry, but we don’t do hand or neck.” The end. No need to make analogies or call things “tacky.” Just refuse.

I just got my first tattoo, and I had to initial in about 50 places saying I would not sue them for this or that, and if I did sue them and list, I would pay their legal costs. The idea that someone could successfully sue (or that they should even seriously entertain a fear of being sued) for regretting a tattoo is…

Exactly! The tats in the photos are well executed, but totally “tacky.” An ice cream cone that takes up half of your face? How in the hell is that not tackier than a simple name on your neck?

It’s a refusal that doesn’t particularly make sense to me though. Adults should be capable of making decisions about their bodies. The artist is not personally responsible if she suddenly becomes unemployable due to a small neck tattoo. So why should he care?

LOL those other tattoos are dumb and so is this guy. And I’ve love to see the precedent where a tattoo shop got in trouble because some moron with bad taste couldn’t get a job. Gonna go out on a limb here and say there isn’t any.

I’ve always wanted something tattooed on the fleshy part of my hand next to my thumb. If I finally worked up the courage to do this, and found exactly what I wanted, and the tattoo shop refused due to “reasons”, I’d be livid.

I believe she’s pointing out the sheer, condescending hypocrisy of not trusting her to know her mind about a subtle neck tattoo, having covered tons of dudes with extremely loud, easy-to-regret tattoos.

She’s not mocking his work. She’s pointing out that he was perfectly willing to do somewhat odd tattoos on people (sorry, the ice cream cone is absolutely bizarre), so it’s weird that he would refuse to do a relatively simple neck tattoo. Compared to the other examples, what she wanted isn’t particularly extreme.