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Skyrim Fan Takes An Arrow in the Knee  Skyrim's "arrow in the knee" meme makes the jump from the internet to some lady's leg. You can tell your infuriating internet meme has made the big leagues when impressionable types start branding themselves with it. The leg you see to the right, complete with the cartoonish arrow, belongs to tattoo artist Nikkisny. The pic was originally found on website FunnyJunk, along with an amusingly combative essay from Nikkisny:
For those of you who have no idea what this "arrow in the knee" business is about - presumably because you've just emerged, bleary-eyed, from your stasis pods - it's a reference to an oft-repeated sound bite from Bethesda's Skyrim. For some reason, town guards - and by this I mean every town guard - will periodically inform the player that they too used to live a life of unfettered freedom and adventure, until their tomb-raiding career was cut tragically short by a crippling knee injury. Haha! You had to give up your dreams and settle for a life of endless drudgery because you were maimed! That's funny. Source: Funnyjunk | |
Damn it I was hoping some crazy fan literally shot himself in the knee. Since that appears to be the only thing that could possibly slow that meme down. | |
That title was misleading, but the outcome is still satisfying. I'll put this on the list of videogame related tattoos I want to get. | |
So she has a tattoo to remind herself of something that stopped being funny about a week ago? Well at least she wont regret it. | |
I used to love getting tattoos Then I took an arrow to the knee. WHY HAS SOMEONE NOT DONE THAT YET? | |
what I want to know is WHY IS THIS CONSIDERED NEWS OF ANY KIND? | |
I got the meme when it started, I remembered a few guards saying it in Whiterun. Since the meme went crazy, I haven't heard a single guard mention it. This after making 4 new characters and getting them past level 20. Odd. Dumb tatoo, but she can think the silly things are important to her. So be it. | |
I used to take arrows in the knee until I became a tattoo artist. INCEPTION! OT: Well, if she's never gonna regret it, then props to her. I don't like tattoos, but if I ever had to get one, I'd choose something symbolic that wasn't born from the internet and that will be meaningful for years to come. Not...MEMES. "Granny, what is that? Is that a tattoo of a raisin?" Well, you get the idea. | |
I've played about the same amount, yet literally I have never heard a guard say the "arrow to the knee" line. Not once. We should start a club or something. OT: That's nifty. Now she should quit her day job so she can say "I used to be a tattoo artist, but then I took an arrow to the knee. See? It's right here!" | |
kind of a particularly annoying reference to skyrim. like if it had been some dragon word or badass symbol from the game, i would totally approve. but "arrow to the knee" started to annoy the hell out of me incredibly quickly | |
Along with Pac-Man moving up your thigh? | |
A: Lamest Meme ever. I guess everyone was looking around desparately because it had been 6 months since SPAAAAAAAACE with nothing really good/new on the horizon. B: Is this really news worthy? A dumbass permanently scarred herself for something that is going to become tired and cliched in less than a year? C: Yes, this is proof people are too stupid for their own good. I would say the only thing more brain dead would be to take an actual arrow in the knee, but hell, at least that would show a level of commitment. This is just going to be a passing fad, resulting in a cartoonish looking scar, that can never resemble what it is supposed to due to lack of depth and will become such an obscure reference that it will have to be explained every single time its viewed. Congratulations, I have been slain by the arrow of unbounded ignorance that boasts a -50 to faith in humanity. | |
I used to make arrow to the knee jokes, until, oh, wait, I'm making one right now.....shit. | |
in unrelated news. | |
"I WILL NOT REGRET IT!!!" Oh you poor naive girl. | |
Dude that tattoo looks like it was made by someone to whom straight lines are a foreign concept. That and that guy really needs a serious waxing. [1] the arrow that is | |
This meme would be worth it if everyone that invoked it actually got shot in the knee. | |
I thought it was a real case of a fan taking an arrow in the knee. Oh well, meme status has been confirmed thrice over now. | |
That was pretty funny, in a bit of a sadistic sort of way. | |
"I'm defacing my body to make myself happy" Stupid tattoo, most likely odd woman. | |
Wow. I haven't visted Funnyjunk since the days of dialup. | |
Ahhhhh come on it's not THAT bad - cartoonish was the style aimed for and on it's own it's mildly funny... Yeh I wouldn't do it, but meh - I've seen worse oh soooo many worse | |
Please quit trying so hard to kill this meme. It's on the fast track to the graveyard to sit alongside Portal's "the cake is a lie". | |
Me too. I came on here thinking something bloody had happened. OT: It's...um...there was a thread on here about things you can't comprehend. This is one of those things. | |
i doubt it would slow you maybe make it move faster | |
Well... it was never funny in the first place... so that means this? I don't even know. | |
Props to her..though I don't think I'd ever do something like that. I try to think like my character when I play, so the first time I heard that line, my thought was. You milk drinking pansy. I've been shot by dozens of arrows, and I'm still adventuring. | |
well on the upside she doesnt regret it on the down side it will get annoying having to explain what it means to everyone who sees it in a month when most people forget about the meme | |
*shrug* It's her choice, and I don't know her. I don't have the right to judge or criticize her. | |
I used to play Oblivion. Then I took a sword through the chest. | |
she wont be a adventurer like me anymore | |
not going to lie, I was hoping that would be the case too, but just because I would have found it hysterical regardless. OT: Im not sure whats honestly dumber. this or the couple that named their child to win that contest. | |
Seems to be quite a common "Fantasy" complaint.......... Yeah she probably won't regret the tattoo. Depends on the sort of person she is. | |
What's better is when you hear a guard say that particular line immediately after he or she was helping you take one down. On Topic: It's not a bad tattoo, even outside of the Skyrim joke. Least it looks nice, ya' know. Hopefully (though doubtfully) this will close the book on the "arrow to the knee" repeaters. We get it guys, you played Skyrim. Just like everyone else. | |
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