Stupid tattoos

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

I know a guy who has Herman and Lily Munster on his knuckles. needless to say, he's a big Munsters fan

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally posted by 911SC Pilot
My next tat i will be geating is a Chinese Symbol, that represent Father, or Dad, which is going on the back of my neck.

My only recommendation would be to have someone who speaks Chinese to verify the true meaning and connotation of the character; my wife always points and giggles at flawed translations of English into Japanese or Chinese.

[911SC Pilot]

Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
My only recommendation would be to have someone who speaks Chinese to verify the true meaning and connotation of the character; my wife always points and giggles at flawed translations of English into Japanese or Chinese.

LOL, I know what you mean. And I have researched it, and found the correct symbol that represents Father/Dad.

How bad are the translations that your wife has seen ? Has she ever asked, and corrected a tattoo on somebody ?

When it comes to symbols like that, you HAVE to research it. I mean, come on, its going to be on your body for the rest of your life. I would hate to think I have a symbol that I think represents my dad, but yet really means Yogurt, LOL.

[widebody911]

My aversion to tattoos comes from growing up out in hicksville, where the only people who had tattoos were the bikers. Not the noveau hick accounts with $35k bikes with matching accessories and payment plans, but real bikers; with sunburns, missing teeth, and BO just this side of a rendering truck. On the back of the hawg was the "old lady," (1 out of 2 ain't bad) cigarette hanging out of her mouth and a can of Bud at the ready. A real 'looker" in them days was a gal with 2 teeth pointing the same direction; don't have to be in the same jaw. Poor white trash wasn't just an affectation - it was a way of life. These were the heady days before helmet laws or regulations concerning inbreeding.

So that's the image that pops in my mind when I see a chick with a tattoo.

In short, tattoos have been co-opted by suburbanites just like Harleys and rap.

[911SC Pilot]

O ya, and On a side not, I would NEVER get a tattoo on arms below my elbow. Not there is anything wrong with that, I just dont like the look. Or on the side of my neck, or head. My calvs are a different story.

[widebody911]

Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
my wife always points and giggles at flawed translations of English into Japanese or Chinese.

And there's also: http://www.engrish.com/

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

Originally posted by 911SC Pilot
O ya, and On a side not, I would NEVER get a tattoo on arms below my elbow. Not there is anything wrong with that, I just dont like the look. Or on the side of my neck, or head. My calvs are a different story.

lol, i have a big tat of Betty Page looking all devlish on my right calf.

[911SC Pilot]

lol widebody. Well, I have all my teeth, no sunburt, but a light tan, and I smell fresh.

[911SC Pilot]

Originally posted by Jared at Pelican Parts
lol, i have a big tat of Betty Page looking all devlish on my right calf.

She too sexy to look devlish, lol. Full body tat of her, or half body, or head shot ?

[Moses]

Bettie Page? Wow. I take back everything bad I ever said about tattoos. Bettie Page? Are you serious?

(I think Bettie page may well have been the woman Thom described on the back of the Harley.)

[Doug Zielke]

Oh dear!!
What is that nasty woman doing to poor Betty?

[Moses]

Bettie was a skank. I think Bettie discovered skank.

[widebody911]

Originally posted by Moses
Bettie was a skank. I think Bettie discovered skank.

"Discovered" or "Invented?"

[Moses]

Originally posted by widebody911
"Discovered" or "Invented?"

Yeah, that too!

[cegerer]

"A real 'looker" in them days was a gal with 2 teeth pointing the same direction; don't have to be in the same jaw."

Exactly! Of course, the best pickup line in those Hicksville bars was, "Nice tooth."

BTW, the only tattoo I've ever liked was one I saw just recently. An attractive client/friend has a 'toe-ring' tattoo. Or maybe it was just the way she took her shoe and sock off at the dinner table in a crowded restaurant to show me ......

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally posted by 911SC Pilot
How bad are the translations that your wife has seen ? Has she ever asked, and corrected a tattoo on somebody ?

Can't remember any really bad ones offhand, but a coworker of mine wanted "light" as in "shining glory" light but had chosen the character for "lightbulb light". My wife pointed this out before the drawing was carved in stone, so to speak. This is what I meant by understanding the connotation...idiomatic expressions don't translate easily or well.

The best one was a dude I knew who went by the handle of "Jefe" (Spanish for "boss"). Quite an ego, you can be sure. He decided to get "Maaved" (Hebrew for "boss") tattooed on his shoulder. Now, the "D" in Hebrew looks very much like the "R"......so he wound up, unknowingly, with "Maaver". Which, loosely translated, means "pedestrian crossing".

Disclaimer: I don't know Hebrew, so my translations/spelling/whatever may be off.

[dd74]

How the hell I missed this thread, I just don't know, but here I go...

Overdone, overwrought, overkill. I think tattoos fall in the same realm as footbinding. A horrible manner of self-expression, and one that's made worse today by its trendiness.

Only last night, I saw some little Asian girl with a full-on Medusa on her back. I have to say it's the only tattoo I've seen that was half way cool.

The barbed wire **** is boring. Lightening bolts and whatever equally so.

Want distinction? DON'T get a tattoo.

I drop my kid off at school, and see all these washed-up mothers with their runy-assed goddess and butterfly tats on their ankles, middle-aged girl guts, arms, sway-back backs above their droopy hineys, and sagging shoulders, and think, "man (or woman) that's only gonna' look worse when your kid really starts to notice you shouldn't have put that crap on yourself to begin with."

I look forward to the day all these so-called "hip" anti (but really supportive of) pop culture Social Distortion throwbacks look at themselves in a full-length mirror and realize their "creativity" has started to blur together because "age" (not maturity) has caused their skin to go leathery.

Want to change your look? Get a tan.

[Victor]

Um,

Just to bring this back to topic, the stupidest tattoo I have ever seen:

Some idiot with a dotted line all around his neck with the words "cut here" above it.

Guess he thought that makes for a tough look.

Of course, Charles Manson's tattoo of a swastika between his eyes is champagne stupidity too.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

My wife's trailer-trash cousin got a yin-yang (Tao symbol, not a phallus) put on her thigh. She proceeded to gain 100 lbs. and now it's more of an oval shape.

[widebody911]

Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
My wife's trailer-trash cousin got a yin-yang (Tao symbol, not a phallus) put on her thigh. She proceeded to gain 100 lbs. and now it's more of an oval shape.

An X-g/f's sister got a tattoo of a jester (ala Michael Parkes) on her lower abdomen. Then she had a kid. And then another. And another (where do these things keep coming from?) Now it looks like the court jester that got run over by an elephant, then drawn and quartered.

Yeah - reeaaaal sexy.