I mean, it seems everybody is getting odd tats. They don't even seem logical. Some foreign writting, that makes no sense at all. And, they have not been to Korea, or China to get it. Just odd.
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Supposedly those oriental characters represent some kind of inspirational meaning, sorta like peace, love, happiness, chi, etc. Their body, not mine, as I don't need them. I am not a walking billboard. But I do like the artistic ones.
I know what you mean, it looks absolutely idiotic to see some white chick with some symbol on her lower back in another language. Makes ya wonder if Asians have English tattooed on themselves though.....
In a current movie one of the female characters is showing off her new tattoo to her friends. It is a couple of Chinese symbols. I forget what she thinks it says, but, the intelligent guy in the group tells her it says, "Soy Sauce".
Not being able to read the characters yet thinking they are cool, the recipients of those tattoos unwittingly have been branded with the characters representing "General Tso's Chicken"
What's up with all the SUPERSIZE tats?
The writing was probably in English, but I suppose a mega box of donuts everyday will wreck a good tat. The ink is spreading...especially up your way...
What's up with all the SUPERSIZE tats?
Food, Inc.
I don't understand getting one that the person can't see either (aka Tramp Stamp or Panama City license plate).
If I ever got one, it would be something like Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes) screaming his head off about something, because that is me sometimes. Top of my left arm if anywhere, maybe 2" high. I've thought about it, but never even priced it. I have better things to spend money on.
> I don't understand getting one that the person can't see either (aka Tramp Stamp or Panama City license plate).
Some are for the driver, some are for the passenger 🙂
my favorite is bobcat goldthwait's chinese symbol
Whats the matter? You got a problem with people looking like living comic books?
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people are stupid.
I think it's devolution.
> > I don't understand getting one that the person can't see either (aka Tramp Stamp or Panama City license plate).
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> Some are for the driver, some are for the passenger 🙂
A friend that has one, told us that when she went to get hers there was a girl that was just getting finished getting a small boxing glove just diagonal of her pubic area. the writing around it said "punch it like a champ"...
worst one yet?
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What's up with all the tats?>To each their own
it's all a personal choice, and if you look at societies throughout the world and history, you will find many odd ways that people try to individualize themselves, visually. Large things stuck through lips, ears and so on. i remember the old national geo articles that would gross me out!!
I have one small one on my left ankle, designed by me and done by a pro down in newport, before they were legal here in MA.
my buddy Tom has gone a little ink crazy, but as he says, it's his addiction...
Not that i care for the subject matter, it's his choice?!
True Picture of my friends Ink...
#2 son is a tattoo artist. He is very talented and has always had the ability to draw whatever he sees and from memory with no formal training. Maybe he will expand his artistic ability to other areas.
I remember someone that was infamous for starting a bar fight by saying "I got your name tattooed on my penis". He liked to fight and would do an imitation of Billy Idol and flair his lips and expose the F___ Y__ tattoo on the backside of his lips.
Personally, I would never have one by choice.
To have tats is a personal journey......
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Just a WAG from a psycho-babbler: It used to be that tatoos in our society were pretty much limited to prisoners, gang-bangers, military personnel, carnival freaks, etc. The common denominator among those groups (except the carnies who I guess had a financial reason to decorate themselves) is that their lives hung on flimsier string than most people. That is, they had a better chance of being dead tomorrow than the rest of us.
People without that threat of imminent death may have had more of a reason to preserve their bodies in more or less their existing condition because they were going to be needing them beyond the day when the skin-tone no longer supported the artwork. Could it be that more recent generations don't expect to live long enough for their tats to look stupid, or is that reading too much into it?
