A Conversation for Ask h2g2

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Post 21

McKay The Disorganised

Good Grief ! Thats not a tattoo - its a life statement.


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Post 22

Jack-oh, back on dry land for three whole weeks...

I've a tattoo of a semi-acoustic guitar on my bicep, done nearly ten years ago as a present to me from me... it looks like a cello now!


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Post 23

MissJonez Researcher 213755

I was, of course, only being silly.
Its a rose...I think Id rather the other though...


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Post 24

Chronicargonaut

My dearly departed grandfather had 2 tattoos on both forearms when he was serving in the navy. Very tasteful, one was a dove with a olive branch or something. I remember him saying that he deeply regretted having it done as he was in his Seventies and the tattoos looked blurry, and washed out.


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Post 25

Chili_666

Well, I got two tattoos. Got my first one when I was 19. Unfortunately now, about 10 years later, it has become sort of a post-it to remind of my current condition.

I do not regret it at all, though.

chili


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Post 26

Saturnine

MissJonez - See what I posted right in the beginning of the thread?? You're in the latter; generic tattoo, regret it later... smiley - smiley Where did you get it done???

Thing is with tattoo's...is people don't realise that they are on skin. And skin ages. I'm gonna have to get mine touched up in about 15 years - doesn't bother me one bit. I shave my legs every day...so it's hardly a big chore. Lack of understanding, and laziness is usually a big factor in why tattoo's go wrong, or people regret them. Not to mention other people going *oh, you'll regret it!* smiley - laugh


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Post 27

Cloviscat

What is the point in telling someone that they'll regret a tattoo once they've got it? What a watse of breath!

How odd, Sat, that your tattoo is on just about the only bit of your body that, dewhatever size you are at any point, you will never actually see it!

You shave your legs every day? *Sighs knowingly* ah yes, I was the same at 18. Come to thing of it, I still did 18 months ago. Funny what you give up when you give birth smiley - laugh

Are any of you tattoed people freckly or moley? I am, I feel my body is rather well endowed with natural, abstract art - perhaps that's why there's no novelty for me in tattoing! They'd be hard pressed to find an area without a mole somehere, and joinuing the dots wouldn't make any good pictures - I've been trying it since I was a child!


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Post 28

Saturnine

Ok. Nearly every day. Every other day.

I got my tattoo put between my shoulders because I see it as a somewhat religious place to put it...not 'cos it's out of the way! My next is going to cover the whole of my left calf!!! smiley - laugh I have quite a few planned in more visible places. It just lessens the shock of having something so permanent on your body...also, the density of skin to muscle and fat is nicely proportioned. I was trying to have a mid-way between painful and not so painful. Start as you mean to go on and all... smiley - smiley


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Post 29

Sho - employed again!

I'm freckly, and I have a tattoo (Yorkshire rose, outline only) on my left upper arm. I love it, but it's about 10 years old now, and needs touching up. But regret it? Nah, I love it. I thought long long long and hard about something about myself that I like to celebrate, and that will never change. One was my birth sign (Saggitarius, I found a lovely simple bow & arrow pic) and one is the fact that I'm from Yorkshire (boy oh boy, am I glad I let my grandad talk me out of the Sheffield Wednesday Owl, which while a cool image, would be totally naff)


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Post 30

Pinniped


This is a freakishly small world.
I WAS going to say that a good friend of mine has (the forementioned)Owl on her shoulder, and that it's beginning to look like she ought to balance it up with a Dodo on the other one.
But, you see, I promised Sho in another thread that I'd stop going on about Wednesday's demise.
So I never said a word.
Pin * zipped, and incidentally personally un-tattooed, unless you count blubber-creases *


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Post 31

Saturnine

Oh! And I have quite a few moles - on my cheeks too...


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Post 32

Cloviscat

Yorkshire!!!!
smiley - yikes

Someone has to come form there, but you don't need to advertise the fact!

smiley - winkeye

Cloviscat - with a red rose between her teeth

I sha'n't ask which cheeks you're talking about, Sat!


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Post 33

Sho - employed again!

I just KNEW you'd show up... with that "piggies" radar of yours! And I told my ol' man (who was moaning about United being live on tv for their next four matches) that they were the in form team.

Which reminds me, do you have a Blades tattoo? à la Sean Bean?


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Post 34

Saturnine

Cloviscat - all of 'em...smiley - laugh Honest, I checked!!! Actually, I have a nice straight correlation of three on my butt...

Well, *you* brought it up!!

smiley - laughsmiley - laughsmiley - laugh


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Post 35

Citizen S

How is in between the shoulders religious ? Which religion and what does it depict ?


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Post 36

Cloviscat

I did ask...smiley - winkeye

I could probably pull off a pretty credible eiffel tower on my right thigh - funny angle, though, and why oh why oh why would I want a tattoo of a phallic French monument on my thigh? smiley - laugh


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Post 37

PQ

No tattoos...I'm far too shallow and my tastes change quite regularly...I went through a delightful stage of wanting a cut along the dotted line-line around my neck (I'm so glad I'm not 13 any moresmiley - smiley). I'm quite tempted to get something done on the inside of my upper arm (almost, but not quite, in my armpit) but I'm reliably informed that it would hurt like buggary so it's not likely to happen for a while.

However....the freckles on my left arm/wrist (just next to my watch) do make the shape of a duck...sort of a fat duck/rubber duck style ducksmiley - wow.


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Post 38

Cloviscat

Now this *is* a fascinating but utter spurious topic drift: ladies and gentleman: your freckle constellations and birthmark shapes please!

smiley - smileysmiley - blackcat


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Post 39

Tefkat

smiley - bigeyes


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Post 40

Stephen

Dare to be different if you really are different. Above all, be you! People who affect "individualism" dont, in the long run look individual, they just look foolish.


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