teeth to tat ratio is ...

[id10t]

approaching 1.

At Blue Springs park in Gilchrist County. Great place - pavillions bathrooms a nice spring run etc and you can byob

Being N Central Fl I feel safe to say it is a true redneck riviera. Much better in Fall and Spring when the salt of the earth brigade thinks its too cold or they are busy for deer season.

Maybe pix later.

[widebody911]

What's sad is you see people with absolutely fooked-up teeth but acres of tats; they could have had their teeth fixed for what they spent on ink, and enjoyed a better quality of life as a bonus.

[Bugsinrugs]

Teeth are temporary.....tats are forever.

[Z-man]

Originally Posted by Bugsinrugs

Teeth are temporary.....tats are forever.

I laughed.

I just don't get America's infatuation with tattoos.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Thug culture. Goes along with the desperate need by people to gain attention with big pickup trucks, pit bulls, clothing with skulls and Maltese crosses all over it, piercings galore and other "look at me" fashion statements.

[RANDY P]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Thug culture. Goes along with the desperate need by people to gain attention with big pickup trucks, pit bulls, clothing with skulls and Maltese crosses all over it, piercings galore and other "look at me" fashion statements.

Can you imagine flames too? Who ever saw such a thing- so original. Oh yes, UFC stickers and Monster Energy drink on everything

- ****ing White boys

[id10t]

What makes it better is there was a Subie WRX club meeting. Fart cans and rims and gauges and ...

At least the engine is the right shape even if it is in the wrong end of the car

[VINMAN]

Just curious if the Pelicans on here that have met me, would consider me a "thug".

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

Just curious if the Pelicans on here that have met me, would consider me a "thug".

That's what I was thinking the day we spent together Vinny. Man, this dude's a thug.

j/k

Wouldn't want to cross you, I'll say that!

[HardDrive]

Yeah. I'm into "thug" culture. That's it.

Thug culture. Goes along with the desperate need by people to gain attention with big pickup trucks, pit bulls, clothing with skulls and Maltese crosses all over it, piercings galore and other "look at me" fashion statements.

[TimT]

Wasn't the most recent holier than thou, anti-tattoo pile on thread as recent as this past May?

Yeap!!

It is interesting how some subjects get brought up so often...

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Thug culture. Goes along with the desperate need by people to gain attention with big pickup trucks, pit bulls, clothing with skulls and Maltese crosses all over it, piercings galore and other "look at me" fashion statements.

Bill Cosby on Thug Culture.

Ladies and gentlemen, these people set — they opened the doors, they gave us the right, and today, ladies and gentlemen, in our cities and public schools we have 50% drop out. In our own neighborhood, we have men in prison. No longer is a person embarrassed because they’re pregnant without a husband. No longer is a boy considered an embarrassment if he tries to run away from being the father of the unmarried child.

Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic and lower middle economic people are not holding their end in this deal. In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on. In the old days, you couldn’t hooky school because every drawn shade was an eye. And before your mother got off the bus and to the house, she knew exactly where you had gone, who had gone into the house, and where you got on whatever you had one and where you got it from. Parents don’t know that today.

I’m talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was two? Where were you when he was twelve? Where were you when he was eighteen, and how come you don’t know he had a pistol? And where is his father, and why don’t you know where he is? And why doesn’t the father show up to talk to this boy?

We cannot blame white people. White people — White people don’t live over there. They close up the shop early. The Korean ones still don’t know us as well — they stay open 24 hours.

Fifty percent drop out rate, I’m telling you, and people in jail, and women having children by five, six different men. Under what excuse? I want somebody to love me. And as soon as you have it, you forget to parent. Grandmother, mother, and great grandmother in the same room, raising children, and the child knows nothing about love or respect of any one of the three of them. All this child knows is “gimme, gimme, gimme.” These people want to buy the friendship of a child, and the child couldn’t care less. Those of us sitting out here who have gone on to some college or whatever we’ve done, we still fear our parents. And these people are not parenting. They’re buying things for the kid — $500 sneakers — for what? They won’t buy or spend $250 on Hooked on Phonics.

Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! Then we all run out and are outraged: “The cops shouldn’t have shot him.” What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand? I wanted a piece of pound cake just as bad as anybody else. And I looked at it and I had no money. And something called parenting said if you get caught with it you’re going to embarrass your mother.” Not, “You’re going to get your butt kicked.” No. “You’re going to embarrass your mother.” “You’re going to embarrass your family.” If you knock that girl up, you’re going to have to run away because it’s going to be too embarrassing for your family. In the old days, a girl getting pregnant had to go down South, and then her mother would go down to get her. But the mother had the baby. I said the mother had the baby. The girl didn’t have a baby. The mother had the baby in two weeks. We are not parenting.

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person’s problem. We’ve got to take the neighborhood back. We’ve got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It’s right around the corner. It’s standing on the corner. It can’t speak English. It doesn’t want to speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk: “Why you ain’t where you is go ra?” I don’t know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it’s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t land a plane with, “Why you ain’t…” You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they’re moving ahead on this. Well, they know they’re not; they’re just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you’re just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out.

Now, look, I’m telling you. It’s not what they’re doing to us. It’s what we’re not doing. 50 percent drop out. Look, we’re raising our own ingrown immigrants. These people are fighting hard to be ignorant. There’s no English being spoken, and they’re walking and they’re angry. Oh God, they’re angry and they have pistols and they shoot and they do stupid things. And after they kill somebody, they don’t have a plan. Just murder somebody. Boom. Over what? A pizza? And then run to the poor cousin’s house.

Five or six different children — same woman, eight, ten different husbands or whatever. Pretty soon you’re going to have to have DNA cards so you can tell who you’re making love to. You don’t who this is. It might be your grandmother. I’m telling you, they’re young enough. Hey, you have a baby when you’re twelve. Your baby turns thirteen and has a baby, how old are you? Huh? Grandmother. By the time you’re twelve, you could have sex with your grandmother, you keep those numbers coming. I’m just predicting.

So, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for the award — and giving me an opportunity to speak because, I mean, this is the future, and all of these people who lined up and done — they’ve got to be wondering what the hell happened. Brown V. Board of Education — these people who marched and were hit in the face with rocks and punched in the face to get an education and we got these knuckleheads walking around who don’t want to learn English. I know that you all know it. I just want to get you as angry that you ought to be. When you walk around the neighborhood and you see this stuff, that stuff’s not funny. These people are not funny anymore. And that‘s not my brother. And that’s not my sister. They’re faking and they’re dragging me way down because the state, the city, and all these people have to pick up the tab on them because they don’t want to accept that they have to study to get an education.

We have to begin to build in the neighborhood, have restaurants, have cleaners, have pharmacies, have real estate, have medical buildings instead of trying to rob them all. And so, ladies and gentlemen, please, Dorothy Height, where ever she’s sitting, she didn’t do all that stuff so that she could hear somebody say “I can’t stand algebra, I can’t stand…” and “what you is.” It’s horrible.

Basketball players — multimillionaires can’t write a paragraph. Football players, multimillionaires, can’t read. Yes. Multimillionaires. Well, Brown v. Board of Education, where are we today? It’s there. They paved the way. What did we do with it?

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by TimT

Wasn't the most recent holier than thou, anti-tattoo pile on thread as recent as this past May?

Yeap!!

It is interesting how some subjects get brought up so often...

Because Tattoos are permanent and Fashion is forever changing...

So older people like most of the members here can not understand why a younger would bother getting them.

[Taz's Master]

Tattoos don't bother me nearly as much as rudeness.

[Buckterrier]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

Just curious if the Pelicans on here that have met me, would consider me a "thug".

I have more tattoos than I have had cavities, ever. My teeth are fine. No one would take me for a thug.

[VINMAN]

Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa

That's what I was thinking the day we spent together Vinny. Man, this dude's a thug.

j/k

Wouldn't want to cross you, I'll say that!

I know, I just exude that whole "gangsta" vibe!

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Thug culture. Goes along with the desperate need by people to gain attention with big pickup trucks, pit bulls, clothing with skulls and Maltese crosses all over it, piercings galore and other "look at me" fashion statements.

Don't forget the fashion statement of V-Twin motorcycles with loud pipes.

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by Taz's Master

Tattoos don't bother me nearly as much as rudeness.

So, I guess that rude people with tattoos must be a real PITA, huh?

Seriously though, what I find most interesting about this relatively recent 'tattoos-for-the-masses' trend, is the force of the herd mentality that's spreading it. People who ten years ago would've never considered getting even a single tattoo, are now sporting full sleeves and more. It's a wonder how so many can decide to permanently alter their appearance seemingly on a whim, merely to follow some new fashion trend. And those with limited imaginations and/or thin wallets are winding up with some truly unattractive work. And what of the people who can't seem to come up with anything remotely meaningful to adorn their hide with, and who'll simply settle for a mash-up of lines & colors? They just need to join the club...that's all that matters.
When it comes to tattoos, I think that the 'less-is-more' approach is good. A few quality pieces here & there can be tasteful, whereas sleeves and full legs, chests & backs can be too much like having to wear the same clothes day after day...for the rest of your life!

[Arizona_928]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

"thug"

Don't mess with VINMAN!!!

[dewolf]

Guess she must be into thug culture as well or is displaying your own culture different?