Reply to: Tats

[kali]

kali, what the heck is that avatar about?

The sun's in my face at this office, but squinting I can make out what looks something like an Afghan hound being swooped on by a large eagle. Or maybe it's a confused black labrador trying to mount the Afghan sideways?

ROTFL - it's a goth My Little Pony (tm) hunni

[Marina]

well I still think they look nice and I'm having one!

kali, what the heck is that avatar about?

The sun's in my face at this office, but squinting I can make out what looks something like an Afghan hound being swooped on by a large eagle. Or maybe it's a confused black labrador trying to mount the Afghan sideways?

[Bagpuss]

Bagpuss - sometimes you really do suprise me

I know somone who just had one done of Dita von Teese, who is a bit of an icon in the young Goth community these days, apparently. Tattoos have certainly moved on since mum and dad, love and hate, etc

[Lucy]

Bagpuss - sometimes you really do suprise me

He doesn't ever surprise me.

Accuses me of being like a Nazi, but wants to sleep with me.

He must want to be beaten with copies of The Daily Telegraph

[Bagpuss]

I would have thought you were covered in them.

Yeah, all quotes form the Independent

[cailin maith]

Yes they look odd on old people unless they are Sailors. I like some tattoos, especially as I like alternative culture, but can't imagine being an old fogey with one. Also I'm so indecisive I probably wouldn't like it after a few months, hence I don't have any. The Tramp stamp lable may apply to chavs but there are many people with tatoos who are not scum bags.

Bagpuss - sometimes you really do suprise me

[The Lone Gunman]

One of the owners of "Capo's Bar" in Ulm has a tattoo of two women's legs in stockings under his arm. One leg either side of his arm-pit hair. Class!

What were/are you doing in Ulm?
I was there for 03 working at EADS.

[Lucy]

Yes they look odd on old people unless they are Sailors. I like some tattoos, especially as I like alternative culture, but can't imagine being an old fogey with one. Also I'm so indecisive I probably wouldn't like it after a few months, hence I don't have any. The Tramp stamp lable may apply to chavs but there are many people with tatoos who are not scum bags.

I would have thought you were covered in them.

[Bagpuss]

In years to come it will be the norm for grannies to tattoos which seems a little odd. So as the skin looses its elasticity, that little picture you have winding its way up your leg which looked great as a 20 something will eventually appear just like all the other varicose veins.

Yes they look odd on old people unless they are Sailors. I like some tattoos, especially as I like alternative culture, but can't imagine being an old fogey with one. Also I'm so indecisive I probably wouldn't like it after a few months, hence I don't have any. The Tramp stamp lable may apply to chavs but there are many people with tatoos who are not scum bags.

[Marina]

What a shame. The title suggested this might be a discussion on spuds.

As there are dozens of varieties, each with their good and bad points, we could discuss them for days.

[Churchill]

One of the owners of "Capo's Bar" in Ulm has a tattoo of two women's legs in stockings under his arm. One leg either side of his arm-pit hair. Class!

[The Lone Gunman]

well I still think they look nice and I'm having one!

A girl in a bar in Belgium we used to vsit had a wonderfully worked tramp stamp. It was a larger piece than the ual mind.
It was a butterfly, but there were two eyes in the lower wings.
It was well placed as whenever she bent over and her top rose above her jeans you could see the eyes peering out at you.

[kali]

tramp stamps or whatever

well I still think they look nice and I'm having one!

[Cheshire Cat]

Another student loan put to good use?

I guess so. I didn't drink for that year though. Swings and roundabouts. Whilst I didn't damage my liver through alcohol I probably ran the gauntlet of blood poisoning and potential hepatitis (tested and negative you'll be glad to know).
In all, 10 years on I feel fairly ambivalent about the decision. I don't suffer any ill-effects of it, or social stigma, although I do have to wear a vest under my shirt at the office.

[BoredBloke]

In years to come it will be the norm for grannies to tattoos which seems a little odd. So as the skin looses its elasticity, that little picture you have winding its way up your leg which looked great as a 20 something will eventually appear just like all the other varicose veins.