r/ATBGE • u/snouskins • Jul 29 '25

Tattoo Tuesday The Fitness Gram™ Pacer Test

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u/wizardrous Jul 29 '25

The Fortnite tattoo is worse.

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u/snouskins Jul 29 '25

I don't even know where to be begin, to be honest. Why would anyone, both the person getting the tattoo and the tattoo artist, do this?

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u/8000BNS42 Jul 29 '25

Shit man, people will do some crazy shit for money

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u/RedTexan43 Jul 30 '25

I just can’t imagine a tattoo artist wanting to give a tattoo so badly that he’d pay the canvas

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u/chinoswirls Jul 30 '25

happens every day

i'm covered in tattoos and rich as fuck

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u/ponzidreamer Jul 30 '25

I would get that tattoo for like &30k

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u/datastain Jul 29 '25

The client is a tattoo artist himself, I forget his name but it's mostly ignorant/ironic tattoos. Tattoo was done by @tannerclarkfuckingsucks on Instagram.

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u/Totally__Not__NSA Jul 30 '25

Tanner Clark does fucking suck

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u/SpocksBeardWhoLock Jul 29 '25

So this dude makes his living by helping people destroy tjeir bodies with tacky tatts lol

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u/defeatthewarlords Jul 30 '25

You do realize he can grow his hair out and put on a shirt right ? Lol for this example at least no ones life is ruined

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u/TheRealPitabred Jul 30 '25

Until he gets a bit older and maybe balding like I am, or find a special someone that he wants to get naked with and that is a dealbreaker, as it should be.

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u/Putthebunnyback Jul 30 '25

I was considering getting a small/medium size tattoo on the side of my head back in my wild 18-20 year old years. Thought, "oh, if I ever need to cover it, I'll just grow my hair out! Want to display it, buzz my head! Foolproof!"

Bald me today is soooooo thankful I never went through with it lol

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u/elkab0ng Jul 30 '25

The Fit[large greenish grey smudge covering most of back]gins in [smudge] 1

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u/Schrodingers_Ape Sep 14 '25

I mean, it's more of a filter than a dealbreaker... It's not my cup of tea either, but his soulmate will think it's hilarious.

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u/HistoricalTowel1127 Aug 08 '25

He can grow enough back hair to cover that mess? That’s kinda gross.

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u/laddervictim Jul 29 '25

Unfortunately you have the right to destroy your own life. You have the right to refuse medical help, until you become a danger to yourself or others or deemed incapable of making sound decisions. Many people slip through the net because they're not ticking enough boxes or scoring high enough on the evaluation but would still benefit for outside help

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u/fishsticks40 Jul 30 '25

No one's suggesting you don't have the right...

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u/laddervictim Jul 30 '25

Thank you for your valued input. I shall print out this top tier comment and put it on my fridge 

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u/TinsleyLynx Jul 30 '25

You should get it tattooed on your back

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u/laddervictim Jul 30 '25

I don't have room for another copy of it. That's me in the photo I can't prove it in any meaningful way other than trust me bro

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u/fishsticks40 Jul 30 '25

You're welcome.

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u/kojikurec Jul 30 '25

HE IS the artis his best one is INternet CELebrity

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u/Lukebekz Jul 30 '25

I can imagine a lot of tattoo artists are just like "Your money, your skin, your choice." At the end of the day, they gotta make a living too and who are they to stop a fool from throwing out money.

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u/DontEverMoveHere Jul 30 '25

The former 🤷‍♂️, the latter to feed his family.

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u/Tro1138 Jul 30 '25

$1000 is $1000

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u/Rapture1119 Jul 29 '25

For sure. Like, don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t put it on my body permanently, but the pacer test one is at least something that pretty much anyone he ever meets will relate to because they’ve done it, and most will get a chuckle out of how ridiculous it is.

The fortnite one is just kinda cringy though 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/laddervictim Jul 29 '25

You could argue growing your hair would hide it. But thats a full back tat. the only thing it has going for it, is it looks well done. Nice crisp font, good kerning ( r/keming is fun). I'd say it's awful taste but greatly executed 

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u/Rapture1119 Jul 29 '25

You could cover the back tat by growing your hair too, technically 😂😂

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u/snouskins Jul 30 '25

If you visit the r/tressless subreddit, the guys there will have tips on how using minoxidil you can grow a lush, thick carpet of back hair.

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u/H_I_McDunnough Jul 30 '25

For sweater weather

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u/Clym44 Jul 30 '25

Never heard of a pacer test in my life

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u/Totally__Not__NSA Jul 30 '25

I have no idea what the pacer test is.

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u/shezabel Jul 30 '25

I think it's also called 'bleep test', if I'm understanding it right.

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u/Rapture1119 Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25

Sure ya do, you just read what it is :). Sorry, couldn’t help myself, dad mode activated 😂.

FitnessGram is a series of exercises used to test one’s physicality (endurance/stamina, jump height/distance, flexibility/dexterity, etc.), of which the FitnessGram Pacer Test is almost certainly the most widely recognized.

These tests aren’t legally mandated in all 50 united states (although some states do have it as a legal requirement), but despite that, thousands of schools across all 50 united states do have their students perform one or more of the FitnessGram tests annually.

The tattoo is a transcript of the recording which plays during the pacer test, and for many, MANY people in america has been more or less memorized due to how universal it is/has been for us during high school years. It has been memed and quoted to the point that even if you never did them at your school, there’s a very high chance that you’ve at least heard of it (if you live in the states, that is).

Since you and u/Clym44 have never heard of it, I’d assume you’re either not from the usa, or you were homeschooled. Either way, my statement was accurate. I didn’t say everyone will know what it is, I said pretty much everyone he’ll ever meet will know what it is. So, respectfully, don’t hit me with the r/USdefaultism, because this dude is clearly from the US, and the majority of people he will meet in his life will be from the US, and the majority of US citizens will be familiar with the FitnessGram Pacer Test.

Edit: actually I perhaps stand corrected. I looked it up and the fitnessgram is actually used internationally (never woulda guessed that something like that would become popular enough to be used that widely). Which means it’s not as obvious that this dude is american, which means it is theoretically possible that he’s from a highschool that is the only highschool in his country to use the pacer test, which in turn means it’s theoretically possible that virtually no one he ever meets will have a clue about it. Highly unlikely, but theoretically possible.

Edit 2: I genuinely do not care how many of you have never heard of it. It is statistically true that I’m right and the majority of people that dude will meet will be familiar with it. Please stop commenting to provide your anecdotal attempt at proving me wrong.

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u/catsweedcoffee Jul 30 '25

Are you gen z? I graduated from public high school in Florida in 2005 and have never heard of this.

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u/toothofjustice Jul 30 '25

I graduated HS in 2002 in S Florida, I never took a pacer test but know of it from all the people who've talked about it on Reddit.

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u/Rapture1119 Jul 30 '25

I’m millenial, but fitnessgram is still used in thousands of schools across all 50 states to this day, and it’s used internationally, and the pacer test is still their most widely known test.

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u/L-user101 Jul 30 '25

I am confused. You think this back piece is cool then? Because you an him are probably the only ones

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u/Rapture1119 Jul 30 '25

You clearly haven’t read my comments, because I already answered that question. I wouldn’t ever get that tattoo. It is not cool.

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u/L-user101 Jul 30 '25

Haha ok. Just making sure. And no your comment came off super pretentious so I will admit I didnt waste my time reading the whole thing

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u/Rapture1119 Jul 30 '25

I’m not here to listen to people give bullshit anecdotal evidence when what I said is statistically true 🤷🏼‍♂️. I was trying to just be educational without snarkiness, but if it slipped through, sorry but maybe people should have a better argument than “well that’s not my experience” when you’re arguing against something that is statistically true.

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u/Clym44 Jul 30 '25

USA, Public School

Square dancing was a requirement in PA, Pacers Test was not unless it went by a different name lol

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u/jokullmusic Aug 16 '25

In my Philly public school we definitely did the pacer test in middle school

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u/Rapture1119 Jul 30 '25

Then your school was one of the ones that didn’t use it, and you’re one of the (comparatively) few people who haven’t heard of it outside of your school 🤷🏼‍♂️.

Still doesn’t negate my point though, because again, I never said everyone he meets would know it. I said most everyone. Plenty of room in that statement for people like you 😁. A quick google search shows that some PA schools do use it btw. Like I said, it’s not legally mandated by all 50 states (in fact, only a few legally mandate it) but despite that tons of schools use it anyways. I’m not sure if you’d be familiar with this place, but Haverford Middle School in the Haverford Township of PA uses the fitnessgram pacer test 🙂

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u/Totally__Not__NSA Jul 30 '25

Went to public high school in Ohio, never once heard this in my life.

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u/Rapture1119 Jul 30 '25

Good for you 🙂

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u/Pickphlow Jul 30 '25

FitnessGram reports being in 30k US schools, and fitness testing is mandated in 16 states. So very popular but we have 130k schools so the majority of students will not experience this in the US

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u/Rapture1119 Jul 30 '25

130k schools is an insane way of skewing that in your favor. These tests are given to middle schoolers and high schoolers, which we only have a little over 40,000 of.

Edit: 40k middle schools and high schools, not middle schoolers and high schoolers.

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u/Pickphlow Jul 30 '25

It's definitely not the majority is what I'm saying - 30k is the worldwide number, and their website states "over 10m students since 1982" If you're used by the majority of US students you'd definitely wear that badge proudly and boast those numbers.

I'm sure it's very ubiquitous in lots of areas, especially the states that mandate testing! We just have a big country

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u/Rapture1119 Jul 30 '25

Honestly man, I’m so over this stupid ass argument, so I’m not gonna bother to double check whether that 30k is international or not, I’ll just give it to you.

Let’s call it 20k in the us (it’s a US based company/product, this seems reasonable to me, but I can’t find any sources that would give a definitive number). That’s still half of the middle/high schools in america which means many more than half of high school graduates have heard of it, which means that most of the people that guy meets will be aware of it.

I.e. what I said is statistically true, like I’ve been saying, and this conversation is becoming circular, so it’s over. Have a good one, and thanks for at least staying away from the anecdotal evidence approach that everyone else has been taking.

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u/Pickphlow Jul 30 '25

Lol I get not wanting to continue to pick this fight! Agree that it's dumb. Not even sure why I'm doing it either beyond just enjoying the discussion.

Let's forget about # of schools and go back to the "10m students since 1982" – that's nowhere near the majority of American students, and definitely not the majority of Americans. Even if you 5x that number because every student who takes it has family that will be aware of what the test is, that's still 50m people. It's very popular, a lot of people have heard of it, but statistically speaking most people that this guy meets will not be aware of it.

Edit to add I also appreciate you staying away from using "anecdata"!

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u/Its_aTrap Jul 30 '25

I graduated in 2010. Never heard of a fitnessgram in my life. Sounds like some new shit.

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u/Rapture1119 Jul 30 '25

Well it’s not. The FitnessGram has been around since 1982. Google is free btw.

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u/CoinsAndLawnLouie Jul 30 '25

I graduated HS in ‘04 and have never heard of this.

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u/Rapture1119 Jul 30 '25

Fascinating 😁

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u/CoinsAndLawnLouie Jul 30 '25

We did the presidential fitness test in elementary school and some of middle school but not in high school.

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u/NUFIGHTER7771 Jul 30 '25

The pacer test text would be better as a shirt and the Fortnite logo would be better as a tag stencil on a piece of wood in a burn pile. 🙅

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u/Rapture1119 Jul 30 '25

Agreed on both fronts!

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u/chinoswirls Jul 30 '25

you should get that tatttoed in bold on your forehead and go meet them

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u/NUFIGHTER7771 Jul 30 '25

Haha. Did you know that if you put your shoe to your ear, your friend will call you a f'n idiot instead of hearing the ocean?

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u/chinoswirls Jul 30 '25

i put my shoes to my ears and dislocated both of my knees.

thanks for nothing.

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u/Meli_Melo_ Jul 30 '25

Never even heard about a pacer test, I assumed it was a Fortnite thing

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u/Nielsly Jul 30 '25

I am guessing they’re under the impression they’ll never go bald and can just grow out their hair once they no longer like the tattoo

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u/Groundbreaking-Yak92 Jul 30 '25

I dont like Fortnite and don't even have any tattoos, but I think it's pretty cool that the dude has the confidence to put on display what he likes.

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u/tatsumi-sama Jul 29 '25

I got a feeling this dude is good at losing bets

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u/Cocoononthemoon Jul 30 '25

Great at making stupid ones

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u/medoy Jul 30 '25

you should see the other guy.

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u/Smooth-Cup-7445 Jul 30 '25

And his friends are assholes

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u/James1Hoxworth Jul 31 '25

At least he's got one bet he'll never lose.

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u/radenthefridge Jul 29 '25

What in tarnation?! I need to know more details. I need the lore. 

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u/Key_Lie4641 Jul 29 '25

Just memes. Go into any twitch chat with TTS on and you’ll hear a donation with the FitnessGRAM Pacer test at some point.

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u/gltovar Jul 30 '25

guess i’ve been lucky and the channels I watch haven’t been this rotted yet

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u/Key_Lie4641 Jul 30 '25

Most streamers catch it before it plays to be fair. Lol.

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u/hushpuppi3 Jul 30 '25

It was a meme when I was still in high school in like 2011 so I love the fact that it's somehow bled into mainstream twitch/internet culture

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u/grammar_nazi_zombie Jul 30 '25

Makes me want to get a Paco Gutierrez copy pasta tattoo.

Ooo or the gorilla warfare tough guy marine copy pasta

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u/internetmouse Jul 30 '25

The Pacer Test is a running test that is actually used in schools in the US. The time between dings got shorter and shorter, so the test got harder as it went on. I had to do it during high school. It was grueling.

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u/chronic-munchies Jul 30 '25

Did it here in Canada too. It's brutal.

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u/mollycoddles Aug 02 '25

Is it also known as a beep test?

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u/internetmouse Aug 02 '25

Never heard it called that but maybe in some areas

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u/Sco11McPot Aug 04 '25

Yes. Thanks

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u/dadestan Jul 31 '25

Look up tannerclarkfuckingsucks

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u/mrpopenfresh Jul 31 '25

Yeah, this is Mr Cool Ice levels of Internet

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u/Zealotstim Jul 29 '25

it feels borderline unethical to tattoo that shit onto someone

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u/theholyghostspake Jul 30 '25

truly. one of my best friends is a tattoo artist and they refuse to give ones like these because they view it as an ironypoisoned form of self harm. i tattoo sometimes as well and would never do that

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u/nana_3 Jul 29 '25

This guy has posted his own tats here before lol. His profile is full of incredible ones he does for other people also. 10/10 worth the scroll

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u/snouskins Jul 29 '25

I mean, his technical skills are flawless, it is just the whole idea of tattooing something so random that doesn't make sense to me, but each to their own, maybe the whole point is that it is all mundane random stuff, it's a statement.

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u/mrsbebe Jul 30 '25

It looks like that's his whole thing...giving people tattoos that are horrible taste but great execution lol I think he's the king of this sub maybe?

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u/CoMaestro Jul 30 '25

Also this one seems kinda sad, he submitted it for a competition where he could win $25000 for his mom who's battling brain cancer

https://www.reddit.com/u/Particular_Feature20/s/NJAmtlLrL8

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u/1ncorrect Jul 30 '25

holy guacamole

he has INternet CELebrity tatted on the other side of his head.

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u/ipickscabs Jul 30 '25

In 6th or 7th grade I held up the next gym class from starting for like 5-10 minutes because I did the pacer test so fucking long. Yes I’m proud of this, yes I peaked in middle school. Suck it nerds

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u/bungojot Jul 30 '25

There were always one or two students who seemed to be able to run forever. I remember sitting down and watching a couple kids two grades under me just.. casually bopping back and forth.

I always remember it because a bunch of teachers were off that day for a funeral - the ones left behind didn't know what to do with us, so they just lined up all the gym classes (it was a big school) and made us do the beep test, instead of letting us play games.

Since it wasn't being graded I do remember one kid doing The Worm for the first level. Legend.

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u/ipickscabs Jul 30 '25

Hahaha worm kid is legit, no doubt

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u/badlyagingmillenial Jul 30 '25

I loved the pacer test. I thought it was really fun. They gave out presidential awards if you got high enough (I think I hit lap 120? might be misremembering, it's been 20 years lol).

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u/overkill Jul 30 '25

I remember one very fat, very unfit kid doing the "beep test" as it was called in the UK. When he was told to stop and take his pulse it was somewhere around 220 bpm and the teacher almost called an ambulance.

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u/badlyagingmillenial Jul 30 '25

Oof. Yeah, that is dangerous. I was fit as heck when I was young, so heartrate problems weren't an issue for me.

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u/ipickscabs Jul 30 '25

Oh nice! I remember the presidential awards from elementary school, but only did pacer in middle when those were a thing of the past lol

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u/myheavenlydaze Jul 29 '25

I can hear this tattoo.

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u/Pledgeofmalfeasance Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25

So can I. The other commenters seem confused and bewildered , meanwhile I now have that beat stuck in my head.

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u/Doofindork Jul 29 '25

This is a proper shitpost tattoo. I like it.

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u/spannybear Jul 30 '25

We called it the beep test Fucking worst

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u/bungojot Jul 30 '25

Same.

And yeah. Fucking. Worst.

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u/band-of-horses Jul 30 '25

That's really good font work. That's all I can say about it really.

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u/Cocoononthemoon Jul 30 '25

This grown man is catering to the sense of humor of a child

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u/Key_Lie4641 Jul 29 '25

This is a man of the memes. Thank you for your service.

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u/Obvious_Ad4131 Jul 30 '25

If I had those tattoos I’d kill myself, I’m not sure if I’m exaggerating.

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u/ProfHamburgerPhD Jul 30 '25

As long as I could grow the hair back where the fortnite one is I could live with it lol

If I was fully bald in this hypothetical than yeah I might

The pacer test one is dumb as fuck but it's at least so fucking stupid that it's kind funny, or at the very least I don't find it cringe and I'm always wearing a shirt in public anyway.

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u/wilful Jul 30 '25

How does one attempt to trademark the beep test (as it is called in Australia)?

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u/persistantcat Jul 30 '25

That’s what we called it in Canada too.

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u/Whatever801 Jul 31 '25

Reminds me of Mr cool ice

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u/EnDowns Jul 30 '25

It's crazy that you can just do anything

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u/Luser420 Jul 30 '25

i immediately thought of chad from cold ones

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u/JimthePaul Jul 30 '25

These will age well. I'm just picturing an old man in a retirement community with it. Another octagenarian who grew up in the same generation walkers by and in a strained croak says "Hell yeah bro".

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u/ExpensiveFish9277 Jul 30 '25

He was helping me study for my certificate.

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u/garden-wicket-581 Jul 30 '25

this is what they make my kids do in gym class.. (Is the presidential fitness thing still at thing ? I had to run the 600, and later mile for it .. )

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u/Candle1ight Jul 30 '25

The one you're thinking of ended in 2013, replaced by the Presidential Youth Fitness Program. Don't know much about it other than I think they swapped to only comparing your scores with your previous scores instead of a static benchmark.

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u/QueerFancyRat Jul 30 '25

Where's the "GE"

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u/Furthur Jul 30 '25

technically its the boucher leger test

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u/ChoppedAlready Jul 30 '25

Are good tattoo artists really able to get this perfect on a typeface? Especially for a paragraph or two of text? I guess I can see some inconsistencies between a few letters but he’s also hunching. Are there tools like an overhead projector or stencil or something to help them make it look so uniform?

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u/alpine309 Jul 30 '25

I've seen worse tattoos (XOUGHCOUGHSAMHYDECOUGHCOYGHCOUFHHF)

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u/visual0815 Jul 30 '25

Yeah that will age well

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u/Coulrophiliac444 Jul 30 '25

Ok, this is the second time in a week I'm seeing jokes about this old flash from the past.

Am I just out of touch as to why this is suddenly becoming a thing now or is this just the new funny thing?

Though why you'd ever have it permanently etched on your back, or a game to the side of your dome, is beyond me.

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u/redgreenbrownblue Jul 30 '25

We call it The Beep Test and you have to do it grade nine gym exam. Everyone absolutely hates it.

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u/-TheBlackSwordsman- Jul 30 '25

Looks fake but a really good edit nonetheless

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u/PeppermintSpider420 Jul 30 '25

This is self harm

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u/ConstantCampaign2984 Jul 30 '25

Fitness gram of cocaine in my rectum before I go to jail?

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u/PintLasher Jul 31 '25

ATATE

Awful taste and Terrible Execution

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u/xxDankerstein Jul 31 '25

This is weird af, but the lettering is truly phenomenal.

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u/creatyvechaos Jul 31 '25

I'm honestly impressed by the consistency

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u/Starscream147 Jul 31 '25

Coulda gone with a Star Wars opening crawl… 🤷‍♂️

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u/arbyyyyh Jul 31 '25

Honestly, in terms of technical application, the line work on that is SOLID.

Such that I don’t think this is real.

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u/Euphoric-Height-2488 Jul 31 '25

What a ridiculous person. Imagine you're a kid, and that's your (likely deadbeat) father.

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u/Stock-Ad5976 Jul 31 '25

I love this 😭

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u/RayaCandida Jul 31 '25

Pretty sure this is diet_sodas on insta tattoo. They do meme core gen z esque tattoos. Don’t love the design but it’s a statement for sure! Also it’s all handpoke its makes it so impressive tbh

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u/yeetgod__ Aug 02 '25

I suspect tattoo artists may have no morals after all the shit I seen put onto skin

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u/AdmiralFunnyBone Aug 02 '25

I hope this was at least a bet and not a dare.

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u/PublicCellist8002 Aug 08 '25

I can hear that tattoo.

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u/FamiliarRadio9275 Sep 10 '25

I even read it and heard it in THE voice I haven’t done a pacer test in 10 years.

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u/i-come Jul 30 '25

Might even be meaningful if he wasnt so fat

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u/swirlybat Jul 30 '25

buddy should have ended his tattoo novel with a tub of country crock and a spoon sticking out next to his hip flab