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Do you have a tattoo?
« on: March 10, 2023, 10:48:23 am »
Bit of banter. Tell us what it is and/or show us!

Ten points if you can tell me what the orange/green thing is.
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Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2023, 11:07:21 am »
india flag

ive been meaning to get a tattoo of a turtle on my leg at some point, havent gotten around to it yet


Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2023, 11:30:09 am »
India Flag...or something to do with the Pokeyman?


Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2023, 11:37:33 am »
Upside down India.

Something to do with 7 Eleven, UMiami, or the Lego Octan logo.


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Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2023, 12:40:51 pm »
Probably IPA related lol.

I think that these days, it might be more interesting to ask who *doesn't* have a tattoo.

I remember doing group interviews for a teaching job in Japan, and one of the other applicants had tattoos on his neck and over his knuckles. He wore a high collar for the interviews, and tensor bandages over his hands. He ended up getting the job despite Japan being even more anti-tat than Korea. Cool guy.


Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2023, 12:58:51 pm »
Ten points if you can tell me what the orange/green thing is.

Reverse image search says it's an optical component, a bearing, a plug, a bottle cap, or part of a dab storage travel kit (there's a 18+ warning page visiting this site?).


Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2023, 01:00:33 pm »
Probably IPA related lol.

I think that these days, it might be more interesting to ask who *doesn't* have a tattoo.


I have no tattoos or body modifications at all for that matter.

Edit: I have one dental filling. Although I don't know if that can be classed as a body modification.
« Last Edit: March 10, 2023, 01:03:33 pm by curtain-package-2398 »


Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2023, 01:02:07 pm »
Probably IPA related lol.

Haha, no.


I am a story without an equal;
The echoing void of a disaster
I am a smile drowning in tears
I am the silence at the end of your journey


Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2023, 01:04:42 pm »


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Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2023, 01:25:04 pm »
Bit of banter. Tell us what it is and/or show us!

Ten points if you can tell me what the orange/green thing is.

I think Mr. C should be flattered you got one of his rebus puzzles tattooed across your arms. 
« Last Edit: March 10, 2023, 02:55:20 pm by Augustiner »


Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2023, 01:26:53 pm »
I am a story without an equal;
The echoing void of a disaster
I am a smile drowning in tears
I am the silence at the end of your journey


Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2023, 02:52:40 pm »

Or is it something to do with the Spidersmen and Xman?


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Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #12 on: March 14, 2023, 07:54:39 am »
Probably IPA related lol.

I think that these days, it might be more interesting to ask who *doesn't* have a tattoo.

I remember doing group interviews for a teaching job in Japan, and one of the other applicants had tattoos on his neck and over his knuckles. He wore a high collar for the interviews, and tensor bandages over his hands. He ended up getting the job despite Japan being even more anti-tat than Korea. Cool guy.

If everyone is cool, then is anyone really cool anymore?


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Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2023, 04:51:23 am »
I have three. All in uni pre-1994.

1. My wife and I got "ama-gi", the oldest symbol of freedom, i on my right writing arm, she on her inner right calf, with vines added.

2. A Sanskrit symbol tattooed over my heart, translating roughly as "that which is not lost" about the inner contures remaining when thinking of what has been lost.

3. I got a colorful big tattoo on my right hip of a humpback whale, memoralizing a childhood canoeing experience up close and personal just out of a bay off Vancouver Island. Blue water, red sun, orange tinge, was told the "white" would hurt. I smirked, thinking yeah right, i was knocking the tattoos out no prob, but indeed: the whitecaps of the waves of the emerging whale hurt like a knife cutting through flesh. Why,why, why. ... ugh... anyways, only black ink ever again i thought (have had no tats in the quarter century plus since).

4. My best bud from late elementary thru college got a tattoo of Winnie the Pooh on his belly because his girlfriend thought it would be cute. He regretted it later.
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Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2023, 07:37:35 pm »
No. Pretty obvious that was a record, but I guess most here stream their music.


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Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #15 on: March 26, 2023, 11:56:13 pm »
I think that these days, it might be more interesting to ask who *doesn't* have a tattoo.

I don't. I guess I never had the courage to get any body modifications


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Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2023, 07:45:34 am »
Never got one.  I thought about getting one, once.  But then everyone and their dog got one meaning it was no longer cool or daring to be different.  I'd just be doing what everyone else was doing and following the lemmings. 


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Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2023, 08:18:14 am »
Never got one.  I thought about getting one, once.  But then everyone and their dog got one meaning it was no longer cool or daring to be different.  I'd just be doing what everyone else was doing and following the lemmings.

In China a lot of young people have tattoos now. Some of my students even have them.


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Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #18 on: March 27, 2023, 08:53:18 am »
Never got one.  I thought about getting one, once.  But then everyone and their dog got one meaning it was no longer cool or daring to be different.  I'd just be doing what everyone else was doing and following the lemmings.

So, then your decision to NOT get one was still determined by what everyone else was doing.  Still following the lemmings.  To be truly independent your choice to get a tattoo or not should be based solely on whether you want one or not.  With you, you were still influenced by what other people were doing.

I don't have any tattoos because I just don't find them cool or attractive.  I have never thought about getting anything done that's permanent.  I did get some henna work done when I had my corn rows put in while I was vacationing on a beach in Thailand.  It went well with my fisherman pants. 
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Re: Do you have a tattoo?
« Reply #19 on: March 27, 2023, 12:01:28 pm »
I have several. Here is the latest. Cudos to Pitbull Tattoo on Phuket.