Tuesday, November 5, 2024

I know how much everyone likes ink, so....

 


23 comments:

  1. I have never understood why someone would defile and disfigure their own body through tattoos, piercings, and intentional scarring. But then again, I am an old fart that is not from this generation. In my day, only the dregs of society would do that.

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    1. We're there now!

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    2. I asked my inked neighbor that exact question. He said most people who do that crave attention or want to look bad. He said he was told that from two tattoo 'artists:'

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  2. Looking likely at leukemia in some years

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  3. It's a beautiful piece of decorative artwork, but it would look much better on a slab of wood or even as a framed picture, just not on a human.

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    1. That was my first thought. I have enough scars on my hands and arms from working with my hands and all manner of careless moves that I don't need any tattoos.

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  4. Body ink is so incredibly compulsive and often, regrettable.

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  5. They are so beautiful when fresh! And a young canvas makes it better! Cool Tat!

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  6. Worked at a VA hospital for many years...lots of old tattoos on old vets. A lot of those tattoos were completely unidentifiable. Just bluish smears...

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  7. NOT condemning here.

    With the exception of a "few" military tattoos, I have always contended that tattoos are worn by those who have a "hole" in their lives and are seeking to fill it.

    The "hole" can be anything. Spiritual, emotional, physical...whatever.
    At least with members of my family and acquaintances, I feel this explains the habit you see of folks getting one...and then a second...and then 7 more.
    They are continually trying to fill that hole...to no avail.

    Think of all the people you know with tattoos (perhaps even yourself).
    Is any one of them happy and content with their lives or situations when they make the decision?
    In my experience, not usually.

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  8. This is a very perceptive comment. I have watched my stepdaughter, and a family friend try to fill the hole. In the case of my stepdaughter, she finally figured out only Jesus Christ can fill the hole.

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  9. May I be so bold as to say…fucking stupid. Legio XIX

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    1. Yes you may XIX. If I can't wear it on a hat or t-shirt that I can throw away when I change my mind, I don't need it.
      (Come to think of it tho, don't think I've
      ever throw any away!)
      Bubbarust

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  10. Is it real, or is it an AI creation?

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    1. https://artaistry.com/blogs/ideas/bear-tattoo-ideas-created-with-ai

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  11. Three quarters of my adult working life spent among hairy-assed tattoed seafarers. I've seen them all, the artistic, the mythic, the military, the romantic, the witty, the dumb, dragons, angels, tits, skulls, pinups, patriotic, the plain pathetic and the badly spelled. But there is one tatt I've yet to clap eyes on. That's the one that enhances the bearer.
    Now to cap things, every second stupid bint and her retard sister has them. What the h--- were they thinking? The best and most attractive they will ever look in their lives and they risk catching a dose of hep from some inkster with a man bun in rubber gloves in order to 'look cool'. Any man who dates an inked female should be hearing his sense screaming 'dive, dive, dive! pull up, pull up, pull up! abort, abort, abort!!!

    Mick

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  12. A ship I sailed on had a chief cook who was a great tattoo artist. We bought the machine, kept him supplied with needles and ink, and he gave us free tattoos. I never got one, but I was talking with a guy who had a snarling lion done on his upper arm, and asked why he chose that particular design. His answer was classic. He told me that when he gets home and his two little boys see it, they're going to say "Dad, you are so cool !".

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    1. Yep, that sounds like a chief sea cook. Their talents lie elsewhere; hence the mess chant "Who called the cook a swine?" and the echo "who called the swine a cook?"

      Mick

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  13. As with anything, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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    1. Yeah, I guess that even blind people "see" beauty.

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  14. Grotesque. Nothing says tuff guy like flowers.

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