Just Got Back From The Tattoo Parlor

[Alyn]

I'm with Hategear. hehe, I know someone that has a mispelt tatoo, it says something in welsh, can't remember what and it's spelt wrong. He's kinda embaressed about it but he jokes about it a lot.

 

[taoist]

holy **** man, me too!
just got to save the cash !

I'm getting quite a few:
1potleaf lower right belly, middle of boxershorts-line
2bob marley face lower right back (quarter of my back)
3A list of names of all my lovers on my ass, starting with "Mary Jane" and "Priscilla Villareal", and I'll add to it as I break some hearts
4chinese symbol for 'tao' on my neck/shoulder (left side)
5left arm sleeve up to elbow of tribal bands
6sun tattoo over my left nipple, so my nipple looks kinda like a sun

I cant get anything below my groin becuase I'm WAY hairy down there and there would be no place to put a tattoo (inner thigh, maybe, but no idea if I'd want one there and *what* I would want there)


I have 5 piercings in my left ear already...I'll get one in my eyebrow (maybe) and DEFINATELY get my left nipple pierced (the one with the sun tattoo on it) and I've always considered a prince albert...

 

[Acacia]

Originally posted by Hategear
In response to the comment that all tattoos mean something: It's not always true. People get tattoos for all sorts of reasons and sometimes, a tattoo is just a tattoo. Other times, a tattoo might mean something to the owner, but they choose not to share that meaning with the "Nosy Nates" of the world. I have been criticized for having tattoos that don't mean anything, when the reality of it is, I simply choose not to share their meaning(s) with strangers in a grocery store line. If you are one of these people that tells someone to their face that they shouldn't have a tattoo if they don't know what it means, stop it. You are playing Russian roulette and someday, you are going to get a good, solid punch in the mush.

One other thing I'd like to say is, it's extremely impolite and rude to tell someone their tattoo sucks, or looks like s**t, or that, "It's a heart, but it looks more like a pair of butt cheeks!" It's a permanent mark on their body and little can be done to change it if it doesn't come out right. Pointing out a flaw is very, very poor taste. Have some tact.

Congrats on the new ink, darkspec. I too like the posedown!

if you're referring to what i said:

i like to see the kids getting the tribal art tattoos and ask them what tribe the designs came from. gets em all confused. all my tats have meaning, a story behind them. i don't get em just to have em. but that's just me

"i" personally feel that "for me" they should mean something. it's rather pointless "in my opnion" to get inked just to do it. but that's "my" philosophy. and to the kids that i have made comments to about tribal art, they had it coming, but you had to be there.

i do, however, agree with you on not saying someone's tattoo looks like crap. i have seen some mighty crappy artwork that some people are proud of wearing...so be it.

 

[FretNoMore]

I personally don't like or recommend tattoos (how cool will they be when you're older and sitting in an important job interview for example), but if I were to get one it would have to have some lasting meaning to me. A bass clef is one rare example of something I could actually want. If I could take it off later, that is. They are just too permanent for me.

 

[FLOYDtheBARBER]

i'm only gonna get two
-a cool design i found (hard to describe), on my outside calf maybe, or upper arm
i like calf tatoos, and i always wear shorts. even right now, in the dead of winter in massachusetts
-the ace of spades on my right inner wrist (yes, ripping off edward norton in "rounders"; such a great flick)

maybe a line or two of lyrics from a song that means a lot to me (i won't say what song)

 

[Hategear]

Originally posted by Acacia
...if you're referring to what i said...

Actually, I wasn't referring to your comments, Acacia. And maybe this is a bit hypocritical of me to say, after what I just posted, but I agree with you about the tribal and arm band tats -- they are way overdone and way too trendy. In fact, the only tattoo that I regret having is my barbed wire tat. If I'd have known that every Joe and his sister were gonna have to have barbed wire around their arms, I'd have come up with something else (I got my wire back in 1992).

 

[PeaveyTNT]

When my band gets rich and famous (And of course we are because we are freshman and sophomores in high school and we know everything about music and how to work the music industry) I want to get a bass clef on my hand. A small one between the thumb and index, about an inch up from the middle of the webbing of skin... that would be neat.--sorta

 

[Sinker]

Asian language tattoos always confuse me. Not that it's wrong, I just don't understand it. Why would you want a tattoo in a language that you don't speak?

A friend of mine has one that's supposedly the Chinese symbol for Matthew, his son's name. I mean, how does he know it's not the Chinese symbol for '******* With a Tattoo?'


-Sinker-

 

[taoist]

if you're refering to me, becuase I want the chinese character for 'tao' on my neck...

I know what it looks like. I could draw it for you. I've read it in a copy of my old tao te ching =p
I'd get it in chinese becuase 'taoism' is an ancient chinese philosophy...and besides it looks cooler in chinese than in english can you imagine "Tao" tattoe'd on my neck?
besides, I can always tell people who ask "whats that mean" whatever I want..!

 

[BassGreaser]

Here is my tat. I'm also into old custom cars. thats why the flames and dice. the dice are were the dots are suppose to be

 

[bassmonkeee]

I've got three tattoos-- a bass clef on my left ankle, the kanji for 'music' on my right ankle, and the cover of "Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch" on my right calf.

I like 'em, and I also like the fact that I can cover them up simply by wearing pants.

I studied Japanese in college, so I was fully aware of what the symbol for music meant when I got it.

When I was sitting waiting for the Zappa Tattoo to be done, a hottie sorority chick walked in to get some ink. She mentioned my kanji tattoo, and said that it was like the one she was getting. I said, "Oh? What are you thinking of having done?"

She showed me a FRIKKIN' CHINESE MENU and showed me the symbol she wanted. It was the symbol for "Beef." I told her this, and I said, "Tell me what you want, and I'll show you how to draw it." She didn't trust me--I guess the kanji book sitting next to me meant I didn't know what I was talking about. She said it didn't matter since none of her friends would know what it meant, anyway.

So, she went and got the kanji for "Beef" tattooed on her bikini line. The irony was not lost on me. Oddly enough, she didn't seem as hot, anymore, either.


On a lighter note, when I was in high school, one of the cheerleaders that I spent a good bit of time flirting with (a true oxymoron--a smart cheerleader) asked what she should get as a tattoo on her bikini line. My response? "Warning: May Cause Drowsiness." Man, did she knock the poo out of me with a flurry of punches. It was great.

 

[Sinker]

Taoist, I wasn't directing that at you. Your tat makes sense (an eastern design representing an eastern philosophy), and you're sure of the translation.

I should also say that my understanding or appreciation of someone else's ink is pretty unimportant.

-Sinker-

 

[mark beem]

Originally posted by J. from Samsara
Hey darkspec, how bad did it hurt? I want one but I am a pu**y.

The worst part is the itching while it heals.... It sucks because you CAN'T scratch!!! I've got three right now and plan on getting at least 3 more.....

I dont know... If I'm getting one covered, does that count??? I've got one on my left arm that I want to get covered from my elbow to my shoulder with a tribal..

 

[BIg O]

Originally posted by Sinker
A friend of mine has one that's supposedly the Chinese symbol for Matthew, his son's name. I mean, how does he know it's not the Chinese symbol for '******* With a Tattoo?'

-Sinker-

LOL

 

[Josh Ryan]

Originally posted by bassmonkeee


When I was sitting waiting for the Zappa Tattoo to be done, a hottie sorority chick walked in to get some ink. She mentioned my kanji tattoo, and said that it was like the one she was getting. I said, "Oh? What are you thinking of having done?"

She showed me a FRIKKIN' CHINESE MENU and showed me the symbol she wanted. It was the symbol for "Beef." I told her this, and I said, "Tell me what you want, and I'll show you how to draw it." She didn't trust me--I guess the kanji book sitting next to me meant I didn't know what I was talking about. She said it didn't matter since none of her friends would know what it meant, anyway.

So, she went and got the kanji for "Beef" tattooed on her bikini line. The irony was not lost on me. Oddly enough, she didn't seem as hot, anymore, either.

That is very funny.

 

[jblaven]

Originally posted by Anders Östberg
I personally don't like or recommend tattoos (how cool will they be when you're older and sitting in an important job interview for example), but if I were to get one it would have to have some lasting meaning to me. A bass clef is one rare example of something I could actually want. If I could take it off later, that is. They are just too permanent for me.

I agree.

 

[tufnuts]

Originally posted by bassmonkeee

So, she went and got the kanji for "Beef" tattooed on her bikini line. The irony was not lost on me. Oddly enough, she didn't seem as hot, anymore, either.

So, she has beef in her pants all the time?

 

[jobu3]

tattoo:

 

[jobu3]

another tattoo:

 

[jobu3]

yet another: (looks like my dog. see my avatar )