January 04, 2005

• Why am I unsurprised that this link was posted by SideDish? ;)
• hee hee
• This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I have ever read. Whatever happened to giving blood? Don't these sponsors realize that the vast majority of people who will subject themselves to this are bottom-feeders? (Unless you're a fan boy/girl, in which case you're just doing something you'll probably regret in a few years, but hey, at least you got some duckets for your trouble... Where's my Halo 2 tattoo?) How much exposure do you think you'll actually get? Oh well, these folks will be managing a nearly defunct website outside of a year. That is, unless you want to get "EAT AT TEQUILA JOES!" tattooed on your forehead.
• Now that I've actually perused the site... I'm pretty disturbed. Apparently the "sponsor our college tuition guys" were just the first step in the "new marketing." The permanence of this scheme is astounding. Long after the money is spent, you'll still have an appalling tattoo saying "Citibank" on your bicep. Of course, not everybody thinks through their body art before submitting to the needle... I have enough friends with ill-advised tattoos of things like the COBRA logo from G.I. Joe to prove this. addendum: on the "chris and luke" website, they seem to derive satisfaction from the fact that they were featured in the film The Corporation, which i found odd, since they didn't really come off well.
• Punk. As. Fuck.
• Of course, after you get through college and are making that fat cash, you can always get it altered. and the_bone, I've got a friend who has flaming Decepticon and Autobot symbols on each calf, and they are AWESOME. Plus, Krokus will never die. Believe that.
• Well. I've been expecting this for a long, long time. About as long as I've been looking for tat-removal technologies to invest in. Because in a few years, tat kidz are going to be looking for that. It's going to be like wearing a pair of acid-washed jeans since 1988 and not being able to take them off! Up next: Billboard-size Hilfiger logos on houses -- hey, the paintjob's free!
• About as long as I've been looking for tat-removal technologies to invest in. Darn tootin. I expect in ten years there'll be an endless parade of ex woo-girls getting those swirly just-above-the-ass-crack tattoos seared off.
• Krokus!!
• "Hello. I'm Dr. Edward Turlington. Studies show that, next to smoking and having sex, getting a lower back tattoo is the best thing a young woman can do to be cool. And you ladies were cool. But now look at you. Let's face it, you're not young any more. You're not even close. That's why you need Turlington's Lower Back Tattoo Remover. Just apply once, every hour, for 72 straight hours. And watch that tattoo slowly burn away."
• Mom: Mother (bleep)!!
• TenaciousPettle my friend has the Autobot and Decepticon tats on his shoulders.
• Cool, this is happening where I live. Now I'll know who to punch if the need strikes me.
• Says it all.
• This discussion reminds me of Red vs Blue PSA 3 (quicktime).
• Why would someone have both Autobot and Decepticon tattoos? Flip-flopper.
• It's like Yin and Yang, if the Yang was a battle robot-cum-cassette player with three cassettes that transformed into a panther, a hawk, and a little ballte robot, and the Yang was a death-dealing-droid-cum-sweet-chrome-handgun that would realistically be as tall as a three story building. So you see, much cooler.
• *how the fuck did I get "ballte" from "battle"? Digital dyslexia...*
• Ah, I see now. I bow to your superior understanding of the Tao.
• (oops, just saw this... if the Yang was a battle robot-cum-cassette player... if the Yang was a death-dealing-droid. I retract my comment about TP's "superior understanding of the Tao"and suggest that he enroll in Rex Kwon Do) :P
• This is wrong, it's just wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong. And why is it Canadian? I thought it was just Americans who were money crazed advertising shills - but then I'm still waiting for someone to pay me to wear or carry anything with a logo. I want a new curious george tattoo thread - I can't see Sidedish's tat on that one anymore! ;-) Then I can add mine, hee hee - My daughter told me that a friend of hers had gotten Hokusai's Wave tattooed on his back. He came over and was showing it to her, all proud - until she said, "Dude! My mom has that same tattoo!" at which point his face fell. Poor boy. It's true, I do, that's my ass tattoo, hee hee.
• Yins are for pussies. It's all Yang. I should have said. ;E
• wow what an idiotic idea! and was i the only one thinking that for an advertising promotion thing, the pictures of the tattoo party spent an awful lot of time not showing the actual tattoos? i really wanted to see what companies were buying into this. so that i could AVOID THEM like the plague. i'm not going to encourage this sort of stupidity. and it would be funnier to see someone with a tattoo for a really, really dead company rather than one like citibank that isn't going anywhere. on the plus side, twenty years from now, the advertising tattoo will be like the new retro 80's band t-shirt worn by the ironically hip. these guys will be the new cooool folks. and i'll still despise and laugh at them for being tools. :Þ