March 09, 2004

• Hey, I only pressed "Post" once!
• Suuuuure. :D You're a chick??? What colour are your panties?
• I always wanted to get my family's crest on my left arm, and one of those big Yakuza-style yellow curlicue dragons across my shoulder blades. But Mrs. Fes put the kibosh on that idea pretty quick, along with motorcycles, ritual scarification, impromptu fraternity brother weekend visits, dropping acid, and those leather knee-high Society For Creative Anachronism-issue moccassins I used to wear all the time when we started dating.
• As a tatooed heathen, let me be the first to declare these to be "for losers". In my defense, my first tattoo is the triforce, and I got my wife's permission.
• Now that is clothing for the non-committal.
• have i told you about my tattoo? heh. i amuse myself.
• Have I told you about the pearls in my penis? Heheh. I amuse my wife. And my several condubines. And Captain Johnson. And his wife. And the artillery corps...
• Wait - why do you have to be a man to get a tattoo?
• PRECISELY, msvader.
• A girl I know got a tattoo last summer at the age of 19. Her parents' reaction? "Well, congratulations! You're the first moron on BOTH sides of the family!"
• women have a long and proud history of tattoos.
• Fes, do you mean mukluks? I dearly want a pair for next winter. Though I'm going to have to get past the "got lost on his way to RenFaire" style issue. My wife seems reassured that I no longer talk about an eye in pyramid blazon. She would have just shit if I had met her in one of these shirts in our long-distance days last year. I haven't seen my mother in a few years, but will be visiting her this spring. Hmmm....
• Goetter: That's them! Only the soles of mine weren't stacked so high - mine were very flat, and when they got wet? Almost totally friction-free, as I used to find out regularly to my chagrin. Nothing says bad footwear decision like a couple of really spectacular ass-falls. Nostrildamus: I bow (in the traditional fashion) to the subtlety and elegance of your follow-up Yakuza reference.
• I've always fancied getting one of those "MOTHER" love-hearts. And then getting "YOUR" tattooed above it. You know, so it says "YOUR MOTHER" I'm the funniest man alivekill me!
• my first tattoo is the triforce wait... you mean you're tattooed with the triforce from the legend of zelda games...?! i think those shirts are kinda neat, would make for some good hallowe'en costuming.
• Dish and ulotrichous are both characterized by a revolutionary zeal to overthrow the established order of Church and society. Stay tuned for my radical new reading of the Book o' Revelation, conclusively demonstrating that the mark of the beast will be given UPON the booty.
• ulotrichous: I concur. If you want tattoos, get 'em. If you don't, don't pretend you do. Fes: Does your wife let you have *any* fun? At all?
• Rodger, it's a permanent cosmetic change. Hesitancy is only prudent.
• Great...so after people criticize your choice of tattoo, then make fun of the fact you're wearing a fake tattoo, they can make fun of you're wearing a body stocking.
• oh come on, pyrrthon1, get inked! dare ya! dare ya!
• Huh! I can't say I've ever even heard of the idea that tattoos are a "male" thing! I wonder if this is a regional thing. Next you'll be telling me that women shouldn't have short hair. ;D But back to the actual thread, as a tattooed person, I wouldn't say these shirts are for losers as much I would say they're for, on the harshest side, poseurs, but mostly for people who just like to have fun with their clothing. :) I might get me one.
• I can't say I've ever even heard of the idea that tattoos are a "male" thing! I wonder if this is a regional thing. Next you'll be telling me that women shouldn't have short hair. They shouldn't be allowed to drink pints either. Or swear.
• I can't say I've ever even heard of the idea that tattoos are a "male" thing! *sigh* They're not. (Note to self: smilies are my friend.)
• pyrrthon1! there you are! GET INKED GET INKED!!! go for it!!!
• pyrrthon1! there you are! GET INKED GET INKED!!! go for it!!! But I'm scared it'll hurt!
• wait... you mean you're tattooed with the triforce from the legend of zelda games...?! Well, yes. ***pulls up sleeve to the sound of the zelda 'found an item in a chest' theme***
• okay...so why a blanket condemnation of tattoos and their bearers? yes...i've got two....one very old and out of view....the other about ten years old, on my wrist, from when i had a business and was trying to 'soften' my middle-class' look. both are well done, although the wrist one needs a professional touch-up to modernise it. i have fun in the summer, being dressed up some days, and going into a 'proper' setting and watching people trying to reconcile their glimpses of my wrist with everything else. are middle class and middle aged ladies supposed to sport them? how should they treat me....as the person or the tattoo? in fact i seem to inspire so many folks to pull up sleeves etc to show me their hidden ones! they are proud, but bosses usually won't let them display. i'm a big hit when i go into the pens and end up discussing tat's with the boys. the majority of tat's are rather crude, i must admit and repetitive....but the art is becoming so refined through shading techniques etc that visual beauty is possible....just a matter of good taste, again. but they are like clothes....they make a statement about the bearer in their quality and display and that is the unavoidable truth when someone gets a 'fuck you' 'in your face' display. you have to be prepared to live with the consequences. as an aside...i put a nasty murderer on his knees one day when i firmly shook his hand just after he'd had the h-a-t-e taken off his knuckles. i was most contrite.....good job he liked me!