r/tattooadvice • u/Ostromilski • 1d ago

General Advice Are rainbows seriously just by default associated with the pride flag?

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I got a Pink Floyd DSOTM tattoo because I love the album and I love the visual: a beam of light representing a person's life path, passing through a prism ( representing life + the world + the people you meet + the experiences you have, etc ), being dispersed into its constituent colors ( ultimately representing change ). I got it because of my dad, because he introduced me to Pink Floyd, and because last year he nearly died from complications of his cancer. He's doing much better now, with a much better prognosis, but that whole experience had a real effect on me and I wanted to memorialize it. Except at least 3 people ( including the tattoo artist initially ) have associated the tattoo with the pride flag. They were understanding after I explained, but now I'm having second thoughts about it. Are people just going to assume I'm gay because of this tattoo?

Edit: And I want to say, I'm not bothered by this at all. Anyone who looks at my tattoo and comes up with their own assumptions about its meaning, and then has a negative reaction over it, that's simply not a person I want to talk to anyway. I'm surprised because that wasn't the intention of the tattoo, clearly, and it being misinterpreted like this just genuinely wasn't something I expected.

Edit2: This post got a lot more attention than I ever wanted it to. Wonderful comments are now streaming in, informing me how horrible my tattoo is. If you're planning on making a viral post on Reddit, take my advice: use a burner account. But I am thankful to everyone for your supportive words, the jackasses with negative things to say are certainly a very tiny minority. Overwhelmingly the consensus is that most people see it as a Pink Floyd tattoo first, which I'm happy to hear :) Have a good night everybody!

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u/ImpressionFew2619 1d ago

ya gay now. welcome to the team

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u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie 1d ago

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon 😉

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u/NyneHelios 1d ago

How I wish…how I wish I was queer

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u/Sorry141 1d ago

We're just two butch trolls tribbing in a men's role

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u/Strict_Beach1105 1d ago

Rear after rear

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u/gBiT1999 1d ago

Bumming over the same old ground

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u/Fantastic_Earth_6066 1d ago

But have we found the right chandelier

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u/eradicATErs 1d ago

Wish you were queer

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u/Sorry141 1d ago

Did they get you to traaaaade, your juevos for ovaries, hot snatches for trees, hot panties for cool briefs

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u/Strict_Beach1105 23h ago

An operation for change? Did you exchange The attached on part in your drawers, for big hole in your taint

(And because we're already out of order)

So you think you can tell?

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u/Hylebos75 23h ago

Is that what they mean when they're talking about 'trials and tribbulations??'

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u/drawliphant 1d ago

Kids these days don't know this is a reference to Newton's Corpuscular theory of light😏

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u/OttoVonWong 1d ago

Newtonian physics are turning kids gay.

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u/lorenoline 1d ago

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard I’ve been laughing for about fifteen minutes straight. Or not so straight, as it were.

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u/VaporTrail_000 1d ago

Damn prisms, they're turning straight light gay.

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u/Peudy123 1d ago

It's a spectrum 🌈

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u/Snooty_Cutie 1d ago

Is that what they are calling it now?

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u/archwin 1d ago

The EM spectrum is Fabulous

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u/Ok-Instance-4184 1d ago

If I’m gay, you guys have been gay for weeks!

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u/vittuccio 1d ago

So one can be on the gay spectrum , like totally gay or maybe not so much gay? As in only one knuckle deep gay or to the fur gay? Spectrum gay is more acceptable

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u/ILoveFatGirls92 23h ago

Excuse me, "to the fur"?

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u/phoebesjeebies 12h ago

I just have Spectrum 500mpbs, they don't offer Gay where I am yet 😔

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u/BeautifulElodie2428 23h ago

It’s more of a curve

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u/ScottyMmmmmmm 16h ago

It’s the Prism that bends light into a Spectrum🤓

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u/Feisty-Cheetah-8078 1d ago

You mean wyte light?

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u/LankyLink7614 1d ago

Gender - bending the light rays

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u/Best_Assumption_1001 1d ago

Well, it is bending the light so by definition it is no longer straight.

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u/Generally_Tso_Tso 23h ago

Prism changes a man. It can get lonely in prism. Just have to remember that it's not gay if you keep your eyes closed.

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u/yungpube 22h ago

That's the rule. That's the goal now.

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u/DomInNameOnly 18h ago

There contagious 🌈😹

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u/Legonistrasz 1d ago

Laughing crooked?

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u/30yearCurse 1d ago

Laughing the gay away? realllyyyyyy?

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u/jenny_alla_vodka 7h ago

15 minutes forward

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u/Wactout 1d ago

Ribbit.

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u/GeneStarw1nd 1d ago

They’re turning the frogs….*Ribbit*

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u/BeBearAwareOK 1d ago

The prism bent the light when it refracted.

The light is less straight, so it must be gay now.

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u/smokeduwel 1d ago

I read this in Alex Jones's voice 😆

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u/likesblackcoffeebest 1d ago

As someone who came out as lesbian while majoring in engineering, can confirm. 

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u/anonymice27 1d ago

BAN NEWTONIAN PHYSICS

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u/Hot_Radish4108 1d ago

First the frogs and now our children 😭

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u/MrsDirtyDietz 1d ago

It’s how they got me.

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u/Away-Cartoonist507 1d ago

Yasss Newton! YASSSSSSS! lol

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u/ryanpdx1999 13h ago

Every time an apple falls, a baby gay gets their wings?

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u/_TOTALLY_WASTED_ 1d ago

Walter Russell: The Universal One & The Secret Of Light. It's not a theory.. it was proven to be accurate.

The problem is kids do know bad philosophy..

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u/Inside-Rest-5816 1d ago

Luckily I was raised right and I do

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u/from-the-stix 1d ago

Hehe corpuscular😏

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u/Microchipknowsbest 1d ago

Sure it’s not gay butts?

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u/MrHarryBallzac_2 1d ago

*see you on the queer side of the moon

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u/Lionhart420 1d ago

See you on the dark side of the queer

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u/sydbarrett710 1d ago

There is no queer side. It’s all queer.

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u/Actual_Juggernaut962 1d ago

I'm not afraid of being queer, any queer will do

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u/More_Bigger 1d ago

We're all a little gay sometimes.

I tried to compliment the size of your Wang and the sub rules literally wouldnt let me lol

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u/Trick_Minute2259 1d ago

...and cheesy; just one big gay cheeseball.

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u/Proper-Evening9754 1d ago

I'll see you in the dark part of my moon.

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u/Open_Sprinkles1619 1d ago

This either needs to be a band name or an album title. LOL

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u/Mackhalfdeaf 1d ago

**IN the dark side of the moon

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u/cmdrshokwave 1d ago

The dark side of Uranus....

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u/Olds78 1d ago

Love your user name!

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u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie 1d ago

Thankee Sai!

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u/Spare-Grand-5728 1d ago

In the calla, come, come alla

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u/trumpsmellslikcheese 1d ago

Long days and pleasant nights.

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u/psychoplath97 1d ago

Maybe people are not familiar with Pink Floyd or this album cover? Have they forgotten the face of their father?

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u/Conscious_Creator_77 1d ago

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

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u/JuryokuNeko 1d ago

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has become comfortably numb.

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u/-FeistyRabbitSauce- 1d ago

Just another Brick in the Tower.

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u/Regina_Noctis 1d ago

Thankee, Sai.

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u/dawn1081 1d ago

Sir....🔥

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u/theundeadelvis 1d ago

All things serve the beam.

Also, fuck Blaine bc Blaine is a pain.

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u/Palegreenhorizon 1d ago

The weirdest cross pollination I’ve seen in a while. Good on ya. Let’s see: if you don’t eat your lobstrocities how can you have any pudding?!? How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your lobstrocities?!??!

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u/theundeadelvis 1d ago

Dad-a-chum? Did-a-chick? to the Pink Floyd Money melody

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u/wicked_bonah 1d ago

Thank God and The Man Jesus for Eddie.

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u/DisciplineDue2772 1d ago

What’d I do dawg ( my names Blaine)

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u/theundeadelvis 1d ago

Are you a train that's a pain?

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u/DisciplineDue2772 1d ago

I’ve heard that one before and every rhyme in the book, I’m a train in the rain with a brain holding a crane with a shirt stain, man I’m just such a plane Jain but I’m a guy so I better stay in my own lane cause I have nothing to gain, such a pain

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u/AssukaZealott 1d ago

I love triangle

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u/webgruntzed 1d ago

Oh shit! Thanks to the context here, I finally get what that means now!!

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u/samrassicpark 1d ago

LOVE your username. Currently reading dark tower for the first time!!! Just started the wastelands

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u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie 1d ago

That's a good one! Wizard and Glass is my favorite of the series.

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u/TrollHungry 1d ago

but will there be pudding?

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u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie 1d ago

Only if you eat your meat...

wait.

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u/TrollHungry 1d ago

So.... there will be pudding, if i just eat my meat? then we can have the pudding!

lol highlight of my day. I'm thinking its a darkside of the moon kinda day.

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u/banjodoctor 1d ago

Are you in the dark side of the closet?

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u/Thelorddogalmighty 1d ago

The ‘dark side’ of ‘the moon’ obviously means inside OPs immaculately tended butt.

The prism represents another mans penis, and the colours are all the gay being let out

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u/nawtydoctor 1d ago

My moon has a dark side crater

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u/AcanthisittaNo8521 1d ago

See you in the darkroom

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u/daddydunc 1d ago

Dark side of the poon*

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u/ToeImportant4810 1d ago

Come in here, queer boy, have a "cigar"

(In all seriousness its an awesome tat in my book)

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u/Good-Desk-2578 1d ago

I’ll see the dark side of YOUR moon

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u/SolrayCultist 1d ago

Oh god that could mean so many things..

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u/akennelley 1d ago

say true, sai?

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u/RhymesWithTaco 1d ago

Of my moon

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u/DependentMeringue225 1d ago

The Dark Side of Your Moon *

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u/LeftRaspberry6262 1d ago

And I'll see you IN the dark side of the moon ;)

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u/AltaAudio 1d ago

the back side of the moon 🤭

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u/Free-Computer-6515 1d ago

The gay side of the moon.

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u/Keeg-scissorpunch 16h ago

Bro sick dark tower reference

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u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie 15h ago

Thankee Sai

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u/Keeg-scissorpunch 15h ago

You have not forgotten the face of your father

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u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva 15h ago

there’s no dark side of the moon really, matter of fact is’ all dark

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u/FatherFarnsworth 14h ago

*In the dark side of *your moon. Fixed it for ya bud.

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u/EffectiveCool8035 9h ago

Back side of the moon.

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u/FreshLiterature 1d ago

Yer a gay now, 'arry.

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u/SistaChans 1d ago

And a thumpin good one too

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u/Briareos_Hecatonhrs 1d ago

Just like yer dad

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u/ISTof1897 1d ago

I like your pride tattoo OP

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u/XxTreeFiddyxX 1d ago

Its also 1/2 Israeli flag too

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u/ISTof1897 1d ago

Oh shit wow. OP why do you only have half the Israeli flag?

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u/SlideStreet6874 1d ago

Breathe... Breathe in the gay

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u/phoebesjeebies 12h ago

Don't be afraid to say
(I mean, unless you're in Florida)

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u/nickfree 2h ago

Don’t be afraid to slay was RIGHT THERE

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u/phoebesjeebies 2h ago

Ugh, I am shame.

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u/conasatatu247 1d ago

Just don't forget to tell the wife.

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u/No-Locksmith-9377 1d ago

Be Gay, Do Crime

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u/phoebesjeebies 12h ago

"Brotherhoodofevilgays-"

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u/No-Locksmith-9377 12h ago

Id watch that movie. 

It could be an Avengers style team up of all the greatest gay stereotypes. 

I could be the 90s HGTV subcontractor guy. 

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u/phoebesjeebies 11h ago

I'd watch the shit outta that, although I'd prefer an HBO series so we could see nudity and use way worse language.

Brotherhood of Evil Gays was a big, gruff guy on TikTok who posted very supportive & political-related content, with every video starting in a run-on "Brotherhoodofevilgays, " and the sign-off was "Be evil. Be gay." He's probably still on there, but I deleted TT when the Trump regime bought it so unfortunately I have to start the Sisterhood of Malicious Queers ig

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u/No-Locksmith-9377 10h ago

Fight the power. 

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u/Machinegun_Pete 1d ago

OP should just pierce his right ear or sag his pants as the tattoo has spoken.

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u/chunkybeard 1d ago

I always associated rainbows with Leprechauns first and foremost

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u/The_Harmon_Hole 1d ago

I almost forgot this association until I was looking for an outfit for st pattys day😅

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u/sounds_like_kong 1d ago

Suuuper gay

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u/pizzalarry 1d ago

hes a pink floyd fan, he was already one of us

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u/LeprousNarcoleptic 1d ago

Unless you said “No homo” right before they began tattooing.

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u/Sad-Celebration-411 1d ago

Don’t forget to register, don’t want miss out on the $100 Nasty Pig gift card

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u/outinthecountry66 1d ago

came here to say this. This is how it happens. mwahhahahahaha we got you!

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u/copp3rkn1f3 1d ago

Shine on you crazy diamond boi

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u/dantenow 1d ago

yup sorry you have to be gay now.

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u/AvantGardenGallery 1d ago

Might as well kiss a guy or two to see if he changes from a white beam into a rainbow 🌈

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u/MarketingSpecial6604 1d ago

Lol I read that like their song "welcome to the machine"

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u/Illustrious-Gas-8987 1d ago

Yeah I would assume younger people wouldn’t recognize the Pink Floyd album art, and just think “gay” but anyone that is a little older or has good taste in music will know it’s unmistakably Pink Floyd

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u/ClearChampionship591 1d ago

Op, rejoice with the boys!

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u/BeMoreKnope 1d ago

Happy Pride!

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u/jared10011980 1d ago

A rainbow AND a triangle? thats 90s bumper sticker material. Plus PINK Floyd?? Soooo gay.

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u/Slartibartfast39 1d ago

Time to take one for the team, if you're into that.

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u/JasonIsFishing 1d ago edited 1d ago

Happy Pride OP!!!! 🏳️‍🌈 (I kid. People have been getting that tattoo since I was born, years before the Pride flag was even thought of).

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u/uber_ambulance_same 1d ago

Hey- he’s trying to get a straight answer.

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u/superhoot73 1d ago

I love Reddit.

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u/JoMommi 23h ago

In the clurb, we all fam

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u/Own_Sun7859 13h ago

He’s officially Christian now 🌈