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Tattoos are a very personal thing. If you get one it should mean something to you. Some people just get it to show off or for the shock value. I don't agree with that practice at all. I have 15 so far, including 2 Quake and one Unreal tattoo. All 15 mean something and reminds me of something. I can respect people for deciding not to have any. Having a diverse world make it much more interesting.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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Agree with one exception. One of my best friends was the only survivor from his squad in Iraq, now he has a tattoo commemorating his squad mates. I can understand that, but short of something of that scale they seem utterly pointless to me.
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Off-topic question - by any chance are you an alumnus of Wright State University[^]? The "Rowdy Raider" user ID caught my eye, as I graduated from there in '84.
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Indeed I am, class of '07. You still in the area? I for various reasons transitioned to the Columbus area about 1.5 years ago.
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Yes. I work at Eastman Kodak in Dayton.
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"Habit not confined to seamen only" I like that!
I never was in the Navy but I shot a lot of seamen.
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Mike Hankey wrote: I never was in the Navy but I shot a lot of seamen.
Now that is a mental picture I really didn't need.
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I'm with Jimmy on this one - abuse is what I call it, where is that mind bleach.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It's an old Marine joke and I'm an OLD Marine.
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Mike Hankey wrote: but I shot a lot of seamen
Did you know you misspelled that or did you think spell-checker always gets it right? Maybe you wanted to put your a on the line?
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I guess I am getting my first tattoo on Thursday.
Just three little dots so they can line the machine up for radiation treatments.
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djj55 wrote: Just three little dots so they can line the machine up for radiation treatments.
Sorry to hear that.
Hope all goes well.
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Sorry to hear that
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Oh wow. Best of luck.
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Cancer sucks ass, and not in a good way... Good luck with it all. Try to stay positive and ignore all the advice you get from randoms on the interwebs about staying positive!! Oh wait...
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_Damian S_ wrote: ignore all the advice you get
Thank you.
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You will be in my thoughts tomorrow djj55. Best of luck and hope those dots will be a conversation piece for many years to come.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Interesting and a little surprising.
Tattoo removal and re-tattooing are also popular at the moment.
Talking about Fads I wish the YOYO would come back again.
It always used to every few years.
Haven't seen it for sometime now.
It was always sponsored by Coke and Fanta.
Guess they found something else as a promotional medium.
I am not going to get a tat, but I think I will get out the
clutched Yoyo and see if I can still do a walk the dog,
a dog bite (my favourite), an around the world and a rock the cradle.
I use to see a lot of Sanskrit tats on people but now they are often Chinese characters.
A friend recently got a tat that consisted of 2 Chinese characters. I asked him what it meant and he said, "Truth and Wisdom"
I googled them chars and had to reveal to him that it really meant "Elephant you, you round eyed Sunshine."
Sorry the last sentence is actually a lie, but it very easily could have been permanently true.
Interesting Post Greg Thanks
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Simple household rule regarding tattoos: must be 50 years of age or older to get one. By then, all your beliefs and opinions are not likely to change; you are wiser too.
As for me having a tattoo: would you put a bumper sticker on a Lamborghini?
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Member 7733261 wrote: you are wiser too I don't know about that, I feel much more like an idiot now than when I was 15.
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People are like dim sheep. Something becomes popular with little Johnny or little Mary and everyone else says "Me too!". Marketing people take advantage of this constantly. (Personally this explains the whole Apple Mac and Ipod and Iphone phenomena for me.)
The obvious answer to this is the ubiquitous answer your mother had when you were growing up. "If everybody went and jumped off of the bridge...."
I was born with all of the holes and pigmentation my body will ever need.
I am on the I don't get it side.
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