Carved Into Flesh

[Koliedrus]

I have one. It's on my left shoulder (closer to my heart than the right).

It's a circular ribbon surrounding the Hebrew symbol for Life.

His birth and death were seperated by exactly 19 years.

He was a little brother to me. I had good reason to mark myself. My old man approved before I let him see it.

Someone with whom I've recently started working has taken his pay and ....

I feel so sad for him that it's difficult to put this down...

"Steve The Stud"
"Ladies Man"
"Loverboy"

There was more.

First, he asked me if it was "cool".

What could I say? It's the second time he's done something like this. The first has his grandma on his chest!

He asked. I said something like "HELL FUCKING NO!!!!"

/me talks to a fence-post.

Some people don't realize that they're extracting themselves from the gene pool by carving images of their grandmothers into their chests and announcements of their own perception of thier promiscuity on their arms.

Oh, my head....

[Smug Git]

I don't understand any tattoos. They were cool for about twenty minutes. Although some are certainly worse than others.

Any women here have that classy tattoo on their backs at about the level that their pants come to? Very sophisticated.

[Cruise Director]

I see people wearing the crucifix all the time. Growing up in Utah where the predominant faith is LDS (whom do not believe in the crucifix as a symbol) it stands out here.

I see a very religeous person wearing theirs, living a good life and looking to it for divine inspiration.

I see a whore of a person wearing one while spilling forth verbal vile from their mouth.

I see a whole lot of similarities to tattoos. Anybody can have them but the one's who wear them with meaning stand out.

[MAC]

I'm not gonna argue with my sister and venus about tattoos today but I will say this:

If by some odd twist of fate I live to be a very old man I fully intent to accost and insult everyone of the once young and beautiful tattooed fools who live to be that old as well.

on a more personal note:
all the scars on my body have real meaning, they mean "MAC was acting stupid when that happened, but not stupid enough to die" Thank god that fatal blows don't get to scar.

In the mean time, what do I care if you are tattooed? If you're tattooed because you are an IDIOT who thinks its cool, then it will show through pretty quick and I'll add it to my reasons not to deal with you. If you're tattooed for some other reason, it won't really make a shit will it?

I'm not touching the "girls with tattoos on their lower back" thing.
My ridiculous sense of honour & propriety has, thus far, kept me out of bed with women based on sexy tattoos or revealing dress. We'll see how I hold out for another 2 years, eh?

[Smug Git]

Bang those skanks, MAC. Just do it in a motel and don't tell them where you live.

[Billyman]

That was a very good attempt at being impartial Mac.

You still need to work on it. :p

[Mudflap]

I have two tattoos. Both have meaning to me. One I will explain to anyone that asks, the other I won't. Its for me and me alone.

[MuffyTheVampyreLayer]

Everytime I contemplate getting a tattoo I imagine how rediculous it will look in 40 years time when it's wrinkled, distorted, drooping and looking like a deflated disney balloon - then I think otherwise.

[Smug Git]

Seen quite a few people like that of late in the UK, aging slappers with tattoos that must have seemed like a great idea 15 years before.

[SatansLeftHand]

i saw a woman with the elven text that belongs on the 'one ring' tattooed around her upper arm. y'know, the way you see so many assholes with barbed wire or something like that. it looked pretty cool, but that could just be the geek in me talking.

[Venus]

I seem to be vastly out numbered here...

One tattoo has no meaning, just something I like, the other one has some meaning, being that my daughter's name is in it.

Both are in a place I can easily keep covered whenever I don't want the tattoo displayed. But I guess most of you would be repulsed just to look at me, 2 tattoos, 4 piercings low cut spaghetti strap tank tops...

[Billyman]

Hmm, I've got 2 tats, 4 piercings (all ears) but I usually go strapless. :p

[SatansLeftHand]

sounds good from here...

[sauron]

Originally posted by MuffyTheVampyreLayer
Everytime I contemplate getting a tattoo I imagine how rediculous it will look in 40 years time when it's wrinkled, distorted, drooping and looking like a deflated disney balloon - then I think otherwise.

I thought we're talking about tattoo's here, not tits?


- d.

[MAC]

now that sauron brings it up, I guess you could use the same logic for not getting a gf, huh.

hell, what's she gonna look like when she's old?
doesn't matter how hot she is now. :p

[Koliedrus]

Arrrch. Now I'll have to get all sneaky and shit so I can get a picture of it.

My scar goes through my shoulder and into my soul. I have no regrets for choosing to have it. It was the result of an accident and my flesh bears the marks for someone who can no longer be scarred.

But to have it written on your body that you consider yourself to be a chick magnet? And who in their right mind would maintain a level of sexual arrousal when the shirt is removed and GRANDMA is staring at you?!

Nope. I'm gonna have to make fun of this guy.

It's for the best.

[Barbie]

Tattoos sound painful.

I've seen some lovely looking designs that I may or may not would want to etch onto me permanently, but the thought of the pain.

I'm just not a needles type of person anymore.

I'm with MAC on the "getting old" part.

Saggy skin...ick

[MuffyTheVampyreLayer]

Originally posted by sauron
I thought we're talking about tattoo's here, not tits?


- d.
Maybe I was thinking of getting a tattoo on my tit - smartarse. Although I imagine my arse would fit the above description in 40 years too. Hey, at least I wont have a wrinkly little limp flacid penis though. Joy!

[Venus]

Originally posted by Barbie
Tattoos sound painful.

I've seen some lovely looking designs that I may or may not would want to etch onto me permanently, but the thought of the pain.

I'm just not a needles type of person anymore.

I'm with MAC on the "getting old" part.

Saggy skin...ick

Depending on where you get it, they're really not that bad. The lower back was pretty painful. Over the spine was really bad, I broke the bed I was laying on, but damnit I didn't cry. My leg was nothing. Felt like a cat scratch. It's the itch for a week afterward while it heals that's a bitch.

[ms. bing]

i find them beautiful.
that's why i got into henna tattooing. i realized i occasionally wanted more decoration on my skin than i would want permanently, or than would be practical. it's beautiful, not difficult, and absolutely temporary. better than that, it's my own imagination at work.
all my real tattoos have meaning for me. i never went and got one because i had money and access to a tattoo gun. i never got one i thought was just "pretty". my tattoos tell the story of my life, and even if they only tell it to me and i never show them to anyone, they will have served their purpose. when my friends come to me and say "hey, i was thinking of going and getting this cool tattoo i saw" i always ask them "really? and how long have you been thinking about this particular design? why?" then i usually end up declining because i don't want to be part of someone's ill concieved permanent decision.

and i absolutely will not put anyone's name or face on my body. yuck. grandma? how creepy is that?

[Lady Sianna]

i agree with ms. bing that tattoos can be beautiful. i've turned my head many a time to see a gorgeously coloured lotus or a japanese scene of some sort. for those to whom they are personal, it is an expression, pure and simple. a permanent one, yes, but an expression like any other.

i have only one - on my upper right arm. it is a design i had considered for some time and has meaning for me. i have considered others, but so far none have manifested. the designs are in my head, but the time has not yet been right.

there is nothing wrong with wrinkly old tattooed skin. like ms. bing said, they can tell a story of one's life.

[RiZZ]

my tattoos rule

http://www.rizzworld.net/bodyart/ba002.jpg
http://www.rizzworld.net/bodyart/ba006.jpg
http://www.rizzworld.net/bodyart/ba009.jpg
http://www.rizzworld.net/bodyart/ba010.jpg

[Koliedrus]

Originally posted by MuffyTheVampyreLayer
Maybe I was thinking of getting a tattoo on my tit - smartarse. Although I imagine my arse would fit the above description in 40 years too. Hey, at least I wont have a wrinkly little limp flacid penis though. Joy!

Stop giving me visuals!!! They multiply! Now I'm seeing an old lady's uterus falling into her bedpan with "This End Up" tattooed on it.

[Kayla]

The next tattoo I am getting will be the word "house" in blue ink on my ankle.
If you know the significance of this, kudos to you :)

[Mudflap]

Somehow, I feel like I'm in some sort of moral majority for not knowing.


You can have "Barbie's Dream" tattooed above it.

[Venus]

Originally posted by ms. bing


and i absolutely will not put anyone's name or face on my body. yuck. grandma? how creepy is that?

That's why my daughter's name is hidden. You can't really see it unless you know it's there. I pointed it out to my parents, and they still couldn't see it.

[Escape Artist]

How did you manage that one?

[Goatboy]

Originally posted by a skank


Depending on where you get it, they're really not that bad. The lower back was pretty painful. Over the spine was really bad...


Nothing says a girl takes it in the ass like a tat on the lower back.

[Goatboy]

I think it's finally time for a new sig.

[Billyman]

Originally posted by Escape Artist
How did you manage that one?

3D stereogram?

[Smug Git]

Originally posted by Goatboy
I think it's finally time for a new sig.

I like your current one.