Tattoos

[jhynesrockmtn]

Originally Posted by kach22i

I bet those ancient tattoos were naturally derived, safe and organic compared to the toxic stuff used today.

and gluten free as well

[vash]

Originally Posted by peteremsley

Awesome. All the more The naughty ones for Vash and I

High five! Besides I'm not handsome enough to eliminate the naughty ones from my list of possibilities.

Some of you old grouchy guys must be real lookers!


Great fun thread.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by peteremsley

A friend got a "natural" bamboo tat in Indonesia a couple of years back. Said it hurt like he11! No thanks.

It apparently doesn't hurt here in the US. People without the courage to do anything worthwhile with their lives are getting them by the thousands.

[CMYK]

I follow a lot of talented tattoo artists on Instagram, but I personally have no interest in one for myself unless it was to mark some significant event or it was based on my own artwork.



The number of poorly executed, bizarrely placed, off-the-shelf tats that I see on a daily basis is mind boggling. If I'm judgmental in any sense, it's from an artistic standpoint. I realize some are into wearing their taste, culture and history on their sleeve (literally) but I'll take a pass on that one. Better to keep them guessing IMHO.

[RKDinOKC]

In my family/gang/group of friends the coming of age was thru successfully rebuilding a car engine. They all thought tats were the result of a drunken dare with the wrong people.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by Gretch

do you see the deep irony in your post?????????

Sorry no.....

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

In my family/gang/group of friends the coming of age was thru successfully rebuilding a car engine. They all thought tats were the result of a drunken dare with the wrong people.

I thought it meant you joined the Navy, got schit-faced drunk in some foreign port, and had a brilliant idea....like Fread did

[Jolly Amaranto]

Originally Posted by CMY

Add Trypophobia to list. I think I will go puke my guts.

[ckelly78z]

A girl I work with has both of her children's 2 year old faces tattood on each bicep/upper arm. It's kind of freaky to see these kids staring at you from across the lunch table. I imagine that stops all amorous activity, for the fear of needing an additional tattoo.

[Holger]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

A girl I work with has both of her children's 2 year old faces tattood on each bicep/upper arm. It's kind of freaky to see these kids staring at you from across the lunch table. I imagine that stops all amorous activity, for the fear of needing an additional tattoo.

And all to often those tat-jobs are awfully ugly! I mean, it is not a photo ...


We have talked with the kids about tats.
I read somewhere that the inc can be really dangerous. Parts of it is "stored" in the lymph nodes. Not good at all.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

In my family/gang/group of friends the coming of age was thru successfully rebuilding a car engine. They all thought tats were the result of a drunken dare with the wrong people.

Yep.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by kach22i

I bet those ancient tattoos were naturally derived, safe and organic compared to the toxic stuff used today.

Be careful with that sort of thinking. Hemlock is natural and organic. Lead is natural and so is arsenic. There are all sorts of nasty substances that are natural and/or organic that are not necessarily good for you.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by masraum

Be careful with that sort of thinking. Hemlock is natural and organic. Lead is natural and so is arsenic. There are all sorts of nasty substances that are natural and/or organic that are not necessarily good for you.

Like botulism and ricin. Deadly and 100% natural.

[vash]

that leg tat is nasty..i hate those realistic graphic ones that look like holes in the body..bleech..but as long as he loves it; and keeps he pants on around me..i'm good. it gives me the heeby geebies!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by vash

that leg tat is nasty..i hate those realistic graphic ones that look like holes in the body..bleech..but as long as he loves it; and keeps he pants on around me..i'm good. it gives me the heeby geebies!

I thought it was a chick.

[Baz]

I can get behind this one.....

[vash]

Originally Posted by masraum

I thought it was a chick.

oh maybe. i couldnt stay with the image long.

i have that issue where some things just get me going on the goosebumps..i googled it awhile back and never found a name for it.

[Jolly Amaranto]

Originally Posted by vash

oh maybe. i couldnt stay with the image long.

i have that issue where some things just get me going on the goosebumps..i googled it awhile back and never found a name for it.

I mentioned it in a post above.
Try googling Trypophobia.

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by Baz

I can get behind this one.....(see image in Baz's post)

Do most people who get tattoos have even a shred of aesthetic or artistic sense in them? I can see that this lady obviously loves her dog, but she'll most likely outlive 'The Peanut' and if she's a real dog person, she'll probably have several more dogs during her lifetime. Will she get a similar tattoo for each of them? I would've definitely run out of skin had I got inked with the image of every dog I ever had. Instead, why not simply have a portrait done of your pet and hang it on the wall? Why a tattoo?

And that other masterpiece..."Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death". Really? How trite and ridiculous is that? Yes, I know...I'm being judgmental here, so all of you noble beings who never ever judge anyone needn't chime in about it.
Every once in a while I do see a tattoo that's well done and quite stylish, but the vast majority (99.8%) of the work I see has absolutely no artistic merit at all and reflects quite poorly on those displaying it.

Originally Posted by Baz

People mostly get tattoos to be different.

Yes, I get that...but only a very few people seem able to pull it off in an aesthetically pleasing way. Besides, having tattoos these days is hardly a demonstration of one's individually...it's more like just following the herd.

I might decide to be different too...maybe by walking around with a toilet seat around my neck, or a bird's nest on my head. But I would venture to guess that most who see me would probably feel that I look completely ridiculous instead of thinking, "Wow, that guy's a real individual". This is exactly what I thought when I recently saw a guy with a much-larger-than-life common housefly inked on his forearm walking next to a woman with a pair of semi-auto handguns tattooed on the backs of her legs. Just ridiculous...

Many of us do things to enhance our particular look or style...we dress a certain way, we have a certain type of haircut, women do their makeup to highlight certain features. Nothing wrong with this at all, but I feel that people who think that these mega-tattoos make them look more attractive in some way are really missing the boat. Some day, this practice will go the way of bell bottoms & paisley shirts and they'll be an awful lot of folks saying to themselves, "WTF was I thinking?".

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by rcooled

.... "WTF was I thinking?".

I know what your first tat should be