Thread: lets find a hat for carl

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Is one of the tatts a southern cross? Seems every Aussie who has tatts has one, hope I don't have to have one after I do my citizenship, or do you mean that you have 6 dragon tattoos? I have been considering another tatt for about 6 years but have not got around to it. cindy seems to be trying to knock your confidence, what with the gay boots, and too old comments, reckon the time has come for a mid life crisis to prove how young and virile you are.....
I don't imagine my hairline won't change, perhaps it is and I haven't noticed because I look at it most days, always said I would shave my head if I go too bald, but I am a bit concerned that it will look like a potato.

Oh for goodness sakes no, it's not a Southern Cross! That just says "I'm a white supremist who wants to bash [insert race]". And no, not six dragon tattoos. Some Polynesian tribal stuff on my arm (it looks like a cross between a road and a snake) A Chrysanthemum on my upper inner arm (that one HURT) a sun on my left bicep (I like that one), barbed wire turning into birds on my wrist and a hand on my hand. They're pretty bad. They look like prison tattoos. If I didn't dress up a bit at work I'm not sure they'd let me out at night...

(I really should have had second thoughts about the hand, but you live and learn and make mistakes; why cover them up?)

Originally Posted by edhewitt

My thoughts on akubras.
1 people who come over on holiday and buy one and wear it while on holiday generally look silly.
2 people who come over on holiday and buy one and wear it at home after the holiday look sillier, unless they are somewhere really hot and sunny.
3 akubras have to look like they have been around the block or they usually look silly.
4 wearing an akubra around town often looks silly, unless it is a country town, or unless it is a battered one, and you have appropriate clothes on with it.
I have often been tempted by an akubra, but I know I would end up looking like an Englishman at work who was known as the idiot with the massive hat. If he didnt have the hat, he would have been known as the idiot. he would wear it indoors even when it was still dark outside.
If I could find a really old, battered, holey one then I would definately wear it.

If you dont agree then don't take offence, I am often wrong.

I could find you one very easily mate! And my own personal farm wear hat is slightly less holey, but definitely more gungy and mouldering. Sadly no pics of that one. I'll have to take one sometime. It'll put you off yer breakfast.






Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

I could find you one very easily mate! And my own personal farm wear hat is slightly less holey, but definitely more gungy and mouldering. Sadly no pics of that one. I'll have to take one sometime. It'll put you off yer breakfast.






Mick

The one on the right looks a bit new.
The farm hat sounds like my sort of thing. I loosely use my wife as a guide for good hats, if she hates it then its about right.

I never attained rank (never aspired to it I suppose), although I was often given the unofficial role of Lance-Jack, which gave me the opportunity to yell at people too. I understand your joy. I had one bloke during fire and movement training that kept lagging behind. My #4 rifle. He hated me because I would make him get up and go until he finally fell into his correct position, I got to make him do push-ups, star-jumps etc. I also got to drill another bloke...But that was mine and another blokes choice, because we got sick to death of being made to do 200 push-ups in his stead when he proved incapable of learning how to march, dress off, salute, you name it, he couldn't do it. He didn't last. He took it into his head that he was going to knife one of the corporals, which didn't fly well with the NCO's, so that was him gone.


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

I never attained rank (never aspired to it I suppose), although I was often given the unofficial role of Lance-Jack, which gave me the opportunity to yell at people too. I understand your joy. I had one blqoke during field movement training that kept lagging behind. My #4 rifle. He hated me because I would make him get up and go until he finally fell into his correct position, I got to make him do push-ups, star-jumps etc. I also got to drill another bloke...But that was mine and another blokes choice, because we got sick to death of being made to do 200 push-ups in his stead when he proved incapable of learning how to march, dress off, salute, you name it, he couldn't do it. He didn't last. He took it into his head that he was going to knife one of the corporals, which didn't fly well with the NCO's, so that was him gone.


Mick

if you drill other blokes, that's your business.

The green man I have represents the four seasons, with 1/4 of his face being each season, but he has faded a bit now.
A few years back I was cycling and had a singlet on, and a person in a car was stopped at a junction about 10m away, they stopped and called out nice green man, they were the first person in about 4 years who knew what it was.
I would like to get my next tattoo done using the pointy stick and tapper method, I don't know the proper name for it. Its supposed to hurt less, though my other two weren't particularly painful, its more that it would feel traditional, and as they take more time, it would be more special.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

The green man I have represents the four seasons, with 1/4 of his face being each season, but he has faded a bit now.
A few years back I was cycling and had a singlet on, and a person in a car was stopped at a junction about 10m away, they stopped and called out nice green man, they were the first person in about 4 years who knew what it was.
...

Oh it's like one of those English pagan things, like the little hillocks and the stones in circles and stuff. Very quaint.

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Oh it's like one of those English pagan things, like the little hillocks and the stones in circles and stuff. Very quaint.

Quaint arms, what an interesting image that paints, could see an "english" pub named that in America.
But yes its pagan, you find them carved into a lot of Christian churches. Those crafty pagan craftsmen.
He has a bit of meaning but dont want to bore you. Besides Google is a wonderful way to waste an evening.

That, or I could lend you some reading material so that you might see the light, and convert from your evil Christian ways and join us Pagans in celebrating the wheel of life, and the seasons. You get to play with fire, dance in the moonlight, you'll have a larger range of gods and goddess' to use in blaspheming and general day to day cussing, and just a whole lot more variety of belief systems to choose from in general...Come on down Carl, we're not all English here


Mick

P.S Don't forget to bring your own pointy hat if that's the way you swing

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Oh for goodness sakes no, it's not a Southern Cross! That just says "I'm a white supremist who wants to bash [insert race]". And no, not six dragon tattoos. Some Polynesian tribal stuff on my arm (it looks like a cross between a road and a snake) A Chrysanthemum on my upper inner arm (that one HURT) a sun on my left bicep (I like that one), barbed wire turning into birds on my wrist and a hand on my hand. They're pretty bad. They look like prison tattoos. If I didn't dress up a bit at work I'm not sure they'd let me out at night...

(I really should have had second thoughts about the hand, but you live and learn and make mistakes; why cover them up?)

For maybe centuries tattoo's were something 'special', carried by those who worked as a 'not-so-respectable professions', say sailors or military or those who had been in jail. And shamans and religious leaders also carried some symbolic images on their skin.

Maybe those professions are still not so respectful here but for the last 50 years or so things have changed so much and nowadays it perfectly ok to carry tattoos without anyone giving you second look. So at least here. Even my wife has a symbol of Kuutar (sister moon, very old symbol here) in her chest.

Back in the army days there were few dudes at our troops who made decend tattoos. They used only butterfly needles and pen ink of various colors but still the results looked very professional and have stood against time very well. So i took some, just military tattoos or symbols we thought were cool back then. I had one covering my left arm and one on my both shoulders.

The one on my arm was Garmr, sort of a Kerberos along with the hammer of Ukko (Thor). That was very popular in our military back then but in time it started to look silly to me so i took a cover tattoo. Nowadays there's just blackbird under black moon.

The one on my left shoulder was too childish to tell here so nowadays there's another cover: Brown sparrow with a Red Lilium.
The only original there's still left is the one one my right shoulder, 'Sword Lion', a military symbol aged centuries. A lion with straight sword in it's hand, stumbling Pulwar (eartern style curved sword) in it's feet. Been thinking about covering it as well. It's still used by our military and police but it has become of symbol of those 'white supremists' as well and i do not want to have anything to do with these folks.

Might take pics some day but do not expect any from my wife lol.

Now as i started. Back many years ago i used to know a young woman, about my age. She had mr moon at the upper parts of her inner leg, looking up and smiling. She's dead long ago and remembering her always makes me sad. But the tattoo was really something, like the whole girl was.