Thread: Tattoos

Originally Posted by Rajagra

Err... cough, splutter, there are exceptions of course!

And, errr, um, my kid brother was messing with the keyboard, that's it, kid brother

This forum needs more get-out emoticons, haha!

Hang around long enough Ray and you will realise I'm one of the least easily offended people here. Seriously though your attitude did amuse me somewhat. For the record I have 17 piercings and 4 tattoo's.

A lot of good points have been raised on this thread towards old and newer attitudes towards ink and iron. For me I wanted ink when I was 14, agreed with my Gran that I would wait until I was 18 (because I may go off the idea in the meantime) and eventually had my first ink when I was 21.

I've had them (both ink & iron) for so long I forget they are there, which is why it takes me a while sometimes to work out why I'm being stared at in the street. To me they are a way of expressing yourself in a creative, artistic way.

There are more and more "extreme" ways out there, branding or scarification has become more and more popular over the past 10 years, as has having your tongue split in half. Neither are for me but I wouldn't judge someone for having it done. Each to their own as the saying goes.

I love tattoos but I dont have any , I have been looking at them all my life. I have to be the only biker in the world without tattoos,
BTW I think Kat is hot

Originally Posted by Mike257

I love tattoos but I dont have any , I have been looking at them all my life. I have to be the only biker in the world without tattoos,
BTW I think Kat is hot

Hot damn it you owe me a new keyboard.

I've wanted to get a tattoo for the ever and a day but I'm also of the belief that it has to mean something and I seem to be far too unimaginative to come up with design ideas for the very few meaningful events in my life

Originally Posted by JMS

As long as I can remember there was only one tattoo that I ever wanted and that was snoopy on top of his dog house pretending it was a sopwith camel doing battle with the red baron. never did and probably never will get a tattoo.http://www.gamerevolution.com/images...py_sopwith.jpg

JMS, if you PM a copy of your avatar I guarantee I will find a place on my bod to tattoo it PDQ. I love cats and Felix is a favorite.

Originally Posted by Silver

Neither are for me but I wouldn't judge someone for having it done. Each to their own as the saying goes.

I read a book once called "The Decorated Body". What intrigued me was the author pointing out different cultures and their forms of body decoration being in a sense equivalent. Growing up around women who plucked their eyebrows and then applied a grease pencil to the area seemed normal to me as did the application of lipstick and rouge. Pierced ears were a given for women and not long after I made the scene for men in the left or right ear depending on sexual preference. Remember that distinction ? Left ear for hetro and right ear for the other. Not long after that there was no distinction and a man having both ears pierced became the norm amongst some folks.

The author pointed out that in Victorian England a women was considered properly attired based on cultural norms of the time if her clothing covered her whole body from the neck down leaving only her hands exposed below the wrist. In the same time period in Tahiti a women was considered properly attired if she was wearing a grass skirt reaching mid calf and naked from the waist up. Same time period but different cultural norms within the geographical areas. Sort of like Kansas compared with San Francisco.

My father and I got our first tatoos together, a few years before he died. He was an artist (painter) and helped a lot in finding a good design and spotting a skilled tatoo artist. That is a very special memory for me.

Jordan

Originally Posted by jnich67

My father and I got our first tatoos together, a few years before he died. He was an artist (painter) and helped a lot in finding a good design and spotting a skilled tatoo artist. That is a very special memory for me.

Jordan

that's pretty cool, dude.

I totally agree about tattoos being a bonding experience. My wife and I got tattooed together on our honeymoon (we had been thinking about it and planned it out months in advance, it wasn't an impulse thing) which is kind of a white trash thing to do, I guess, but it's a cool memory for me of a special thing shared with a special person to me.

Originally Posted by barneycg

Hot damn it you owe me a new keyboard.

I've wanted to get a tattoo for the ever and a day but I'm also of the belief that it has to mean something and I seem to be far too unimaginative to come up with design ideas for the very few meaningful events in my life

So shoot me a PM with what & when those events are & I will get scribbling sir!

Originally Posted by jnich67

My father and I got our first tatoos together, a few years before he died. He was an artist (painter) and helped a lot in finding a good design and spotting a skilled tatoo artist. That is a very special memory for me.

Jordan

That's cool, my dad is an artist as well, we both have Salvador Dali paintings tattooed on our forearms.


As far as body mods go, I have a lot of friends with a lot of body mods(one of my hobbies is suspensions), but I haven't found any that I really want.

And for the record I think Kat is one of the ugliest chicks...I'm not sure why.

Originally Posted by Kanahmal

And for the record I think Kat is one of the ugliest chicks...I'm not sure why.

Really? "One of the ugliest"? Dunno what girls look like where you live, but she's pretty hot IMO.

I've got a couple ideas for more tats brewing. Can't imagine myself ever stopping.