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Tattoos.

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by heyabbott, Dec 11, 2014.

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  1. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    My wife has a small tattoo of a newspaper. Not kidding. It's small and on her belly and, yes, she got it in college and at 41 now wishes she hadn't, but doesn't give it much thought.

    I got plenty of mileage out of joking whether it would expand into a Sunday paper when she was pregnant.
     
    playthrough, Dec 12, 2014
    #25
  2. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Curly Dub across your chest?

    Also, aren't you late for that? /ducks
     
    JackReacher, Dec 12, 2014
    #26
  3. RecoveringJournalist

    RecoveringJournalist Well-Known Member

    One of my friends who got a few tattoos in college and has since had them removed, swears the next big business is tattoo removal, right around the time when the people who started getting tramp stamps a decade ago start getting them removed as they get into their mid to late 30s.
     
    RecoveringJournalist, Dec 12, 2014
    #27
  4. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    Doesn't the Bible say something about tattoos? /hell
     
    Vombatus, Dec 12, 2014
    #28
  5. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    The key is kinda not to give a shit what anyone thinks about it.
     
    3_Octave_Fart, Dec 12, 2014
    #29
  6. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Tramp stamps were a thing a lot longer than a decade ago, weren't they?
     
    JackReacher, Dec 12, 2014
    #30
  7. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    My dad has one on his shoulder Navy related from his service; I've always taken that as my baseline/standard, "is the tattoo going to look good when I'm 70?"

    His does but nothing else that permanent has ever appealed to me.
     
    qtlaw, Dec 12, 2014
    #31
  8. joe

    joe Active Member

    One, on the inside of my right upper arm for my wife and first daughter. Next one goes on the inside of my left upper arm for my second daughter. Two others planned: family crests from maternal and paternal sides on upper arm where arm meets shoulder. And that will be it.
     
    joe, Dec 12, 2014
    #32
  9. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    why would anyone get something that is known as a 'tramp stamp'?
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Jan 1, 2015
    heyabbott, Dec 12, 2014
    #33
  10. forever_town

    forever_town Well-Known Member

    Never got any and never had any desire to get any.
     
    forever_town, Dec 12, 2014
    #34
  11. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    This thread is fascinating.
     
    Mr. Sunshine, Dec 12, 2014
    #35
  12. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    One on my left shoulder blade area for a friend who was killed in a bizarre Honduran firefight in 1998. It's a dagger with a rose wrapped around it -- his last name was Roseknife. There are 28 others just like it.
     
    three_bags_full, Dec 12, 2014
    #36
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