Thread: Tattoos

Originally Posted by bpave777

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

Well maybe not one of the ugliest, but not very attractive either. When I see her nothing sexual comes to mind, which is pretty amazing considering I have a twenty one year old, male, mind.
I think her demeanor is kinda man-ish.

Originally Posted by Kanahmal

Well maybe not one of the ugliest, but not very attractive either. When I see her nothing sexual comes to mind, which is pretty amazing considering I have a twenty one year old, male, mind.
I think her demeanor is kinda man-ish.

You think that she is mannish? Dude, you really need to get out more

Originally Posted by Spike J

Dude, you really need to get out more

I can't argue with that.

proud owner, one Rorschach test on my right rotator cuff, acquired during my time in the Navy, in Washington state from a small all-woman studio in Bellingham. Have thought about getting another one for 15 years but haven't found anything that speaks to me as much as this one.

However, should I ever manage to start and finish the Appalachian trail, I will get the trail map tattooed on my leg. Georgia on the ankle, Maine on the hip.

As to your question of who "owns" tattoos - should they be reserved for the tribes, etc. There's a line there. The concept of putting ink under skin has spread through the world, there's no way to take it back now. However, the designs are a different story. "tribal" style is one thing: have at and gods bless. Using designs considered sacred to a culture when you're not part of that culture (maori designs on a pakeha or chinese characters on non-chinese speaking people): probably not the best choice.

Originally Posted by jockeys

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 ...

Nah, getting drunk on your honeymoon and staggering down to the nearest tattoo place to pick a design off the wall, that would have been a white trash thing to do. Not the way you and your wife did it.

Rich

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

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.

From "Tattoo - The Exotic Art of Skin Decoration":

Tattooing was quite popular in Europe during the Classical period until the Dark Ages when Christians expressed opposition to body modifications. ... tattooing all but died out for a thousand years.
Then came the age of discovery ... The art of tattooing was something that these explorers rediscovered and appropriated often in the process of destroying other native cultures.

Don't know why, but I just found that well-observed piece of irony amusing.

Damn, this book is 15 years old and I still haven't got around to getting a tattoo!

I know it's fake, but I like Abss's spiderweb in NCIS. Then again I think she is hot so I may be biased.

Anyway, I thought about tats, but I never found something that is important enough to mark it on my body till the day I die. If I had them, they would be someplace where people don't normally see them.
I also really don't like tat sleeves.

I have this photo of my friend Lyle Tuttle autographed to me on the wall in my work station. He owned and operated a shop in San Francisco for around fifty years and tattooed Janis Joplin and Joan Baez among many other luminaries. He deserves a certain amount of credit for the transformation of tattooing from a sub-culture into the mainstream. He has been on the cover of Rolling Stone, written up in Time, Life magazine and in many others.

Lyle has often said, Tattoos are not for everybody, they are too good for most people". My favorite quote by Lyle is ."When you're ready for a tattoo, the tattoo god will tell you".

As an aside, you know that you are getting old when ....... a young lady was getting a tattoo and she looked at the photo of Lyle. She said,"Who is that "? I told her who he was and that he tattooed Janis Joplin. She asked me who Janis Joplin was.

Originally Posted by SirDaniel

However, should I ever manage to start and finish the Appalachian trail, I will get the trail map tattooed on my leg. Georgia on the ankle, Maine on the hip.

that's a really cool idea. if i ever finish (still have over 1000 miles to go) i may have to steal your idea.

Originally Posted by Kanahmal

I think her demeanor is kinda man-ish.

I dont think she's the most beautiful girl in the world, but I'de bang her.

I bet she's a freak in bed and I kinda like that.