I am unadorned, myself. Never been tattooed, have no piercings, etc.

Every few months I'll think "I want a tatoo!", but the feeling fades, and I don't do it.

Many of my good friends are tattooed. One of them began designing his own tatoos. He had little in the way of traditional artistic talent. He would bring his drawings to the tatoo parlor (I love that they are called that), and the artist would say, "are you sure you want me to do this?", and he was always sure. You have never seen tatoos like these, perhaps with good reason, but it would be hard to imagine him without them.

I have a friend who married a girl who has a tatoo that covers her entire back -- it's a very intricate tatoo of the Virgin Mary, or an angel or something. It is beautiful! It covers every inch from her ass to her neck. You would never guess that she has this tatoo -- she has no others, and doesn't seem like the type.

Maybe this summer I'll get one. The Last Supper on my chest? Pat Hughes on my shoulder? We shall see.

Not Crap.

A pretty good friend of mine had a sizeable bass-clef tattooed on his shoulder, and it seemed perfectly reasonable for him as he is an enthusiastic bassist.

Tim Green, from the Fucking Champs (and NOU, Young Ginns, etc) has either a horseshoe or the Omega symbol just above his elbows and that too seems perfectly logical to me.

My dad, having supposedly given this many years of thought, has decided that now that he's 54 it is time for him to get a tattoo himself. Because of our surname (Morgan) and the heritage associated with it, he has decided that the obvious thing is to get a Jolly Roger, probably on the shoulder as well. I have slightly more trouble condoning this.

My vote: whatever, with a waffle factor of go stick your head in a bucket.

Its been 2 months since i had my first tattoo done and i love it. I don't think tattoos are crap at all, but i do believe that a lot of tattooed people are crap. This whole explosion of "tattoo culture" is really quite disgusting. Because we now have a generation of stupid kids with sparrows and other various trendy emo bullshit permently engraved on their bodies. Emo is the new Disco... in 20 years your all gunna be afraid to admit you listened to it... at least in the 70's nobody thought it was a good idea to get the word Cocaine tattooed in a roman script across their stomach.

the word Cocaine tattooed in a roman script across their stomach.

Well, that settles it. Now I know what tattoo to get! Extra comedy points for having a big ol' paunch. That will look strange.

Thanks!

I've always liked the idea of having Winnie Mandela's face tatooed over my face.

A friend has offered to buy me a tattoo if and when I finally leave Baltimore.
There is one stipulation to the deal.
I have to get a tattoo of a ferret killing a smurf.

Tattoos are, and always will be a source of great joy for me.
I love mine, I love thinking of new ones to get. I used to love looking at my father's when I was a kid and hearing the stories behind them. I love that my girlfriend has a shitload of them. I like meeting and talking to people who also like them. I like the whole process, how that can be bad, or wrong I have no idea.

Crap, unless you're a sailor or a Maori. If you ain't, you're just a wannabe.

It's like those bones and hardware some degenerates stick in their noses and stuff... 2000 years of civilisation gone bust...

My dad was a sailor and he has an anchor on his left upper arm that I really like. He got it from a drunk fillipino, so it obviously looks like shit (more like an octopus), but at least there's a story. Not like:

"Hey how did you got that tattoo?"

"Oh I just walked into the shop and paid two-hundred bucks and there it is. I got to pick it from a book. It means "freedom" in mandarin."

That's crap. It probably also means "crap" in mandarin.

sunlore wrote:That's crap. It probably also means "crap" in mandarin.

A friend of mine wanted her name in Japanese kanji on her arm. (Full disclosure: I have a kanji tattoo on my arm) Foreigners don't have kanji for their names, so she had to pick some out. Her name was Kathleen, so she needed three or four characters: ka or kya, su, rin or ri and in. She ended up with four good ones, kya-su-ri-in. The "in" character meant yin (of yin and yang fame) in Japanese. Unfortunately, as she found out from the first Japanese to whom she showed her new tattoo, that same character is used as a prefix referring to the genital region as in, for example, inke: pubic hair. Funny! Permanently funny!

I like tatoos and to those of you who don't I think you're being tight-asses.

I have very expensive taste in musical instruments and recording equipment (and very cheap taste in shitloads of booze) so I don't have any tatoos except one I did myself with a needle and india ink when I was 17. I still like that one and I don't ever want to be embarrased about the kid I was.

I have freinds who are covered and they look awesome. One of them cuts (and dyes) my hair and her salon is full of hot ass girls with tons of tatoos. It's boner-ville.

grasp stick firmly with both hands, gently pull until it is completly removed from anus, relax, smile.

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