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McKay The Disorganised Posted Jan 11, 2003
Good Grief ! Thats not a tattoo - its a life statement.
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Jack-oh, back on dry land for three whole weeks... Posted Jan 11, 2003
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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MissJonez Researcher 213755 Posted Jan 11, 2003
I was, of course, only being silly.
Its a rose...I think Id rather the other though...
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Chronicargonaut Posted Jan 11, 2003
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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Chili_666 Posted Jan 11, 2003
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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Saturnine Posted Jan 11, 2003
MissJonez - See what I posted right in the beginning of the thread?? You're in the latter; generic tattoo, regret it later... 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!*
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Cloviscat Posted Jan 11, 2003
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
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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Saturnine Posted Jan 11, 2003
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!!! 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...
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Sho - employed again! Posted Jan 11, 2003
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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Pinniped Posted Jan 11, 2003
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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Saturnine Posted Jan 11, 2003
Oh! And I have quite a few moles - on my cheeks too...
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Cloviscat Posted Jan 11, 2003
Yorkshire!!!!
Someone has to come form there, but you don't need to advertise the fact!
Cloviscat - with a red rose between her teeth
I sha'n't ask which cheeks you're talking about, Sat!
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Sho - employed again! Posted Jan 11, 2003
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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Saturnine Posted Jan 11, 2003
Cloviscat - all of 'em... Honest, I checked!!! Actually, I have a nice straight correlation of three on my butt...
Well, *you* brought it up!!
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Citizen S Posted Jan 13, 2003
How is in between the shoulders religious ? Which religion and what does it depict ?
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Cloviscat Posted Jan 13, 2003
I did ask...
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?
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PQ Posted Jan 13, 2003
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 more). 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 duck.
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Cloviscat Posted Jan 13, 2003
Now this *is* a fascinating but utter spurious topic drift: ladies and gentleman: your freckle constellations and birthmark shapes please!
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Stephen Posted Jan 13, 2003
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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- 21: McKay The Disorganised (Jan 11, 2003)
- 22: Jack-oh, back on dry land for three whole weeks... (Jan 11, 2003)
- 23: MissJonez Researcher 213755 (Jan 11, 2003)
- 24: Chronicargonaut (Jan 11, 2003)
- 25: Chili_666 (Jan 11, 2003)
- 26: Saturnine (Jan 11, 2003)
- 27: Cloviscat (Jan 11, 2003)
- 28: Saturnine (Jan 11, 2003)
- 29: Sho - employed again! (Jan 11, 2003)
- 30: Pinniped (Jan 11, 2003)
- 31: Saturnine (Jan 11, 2003)
- 32: Cloviscat (Jan 11, 2003)
- 33: Sho - employed again! (Jan 11, 2003)
- 34: Saturnine (Jan 11, 2003)
- 35: Citizen S (Jan 13, 2003)
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