Tattling tattoos

[Zippyjuan]

One of Danke's girlfriends with a temporary tattoo?

 

[Suzanimal]

Ron raul?

Google search found this guy sticking his neck out for a cause. Anybody from here?

 

[Zippyjuan]

Ron raul?

Actually wondering about who the person in the photo may be. Obvious who the tattoo was for!

 

[mtr1979]

Well, you are part of the tattoo group, so I will yield to your expertise on this matter that you are an illegitimate, drunk divorcee with a low credit score and a history of felonies.

Yeah I have a tattoo, but I'm able to detach my feelings and look at this issue objectively. I'm not calling out any specific individual saying person X is a piece of trash because they have artwork. Unlike the people who disagree with me and attack my character and not my argument.

 

[DamianTV]

Here are a couple of EPIC FAIL Tattoos:

http://justsomething.co/24-funniest-tattoo-fails/

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And... there are some EPIC WIN Tattoos:

http://justsomething.co/3d-tattoos/

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I think the people in the first set expected to look as cool as the people in the 2nd set. Then again, what are those tattoos on the people in the 2nd set going to look like when they are 80?

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Oh man, you have just taken this too far..

Well, I do tend to do that. In a way, that is called: "Being a libertarian." I think most or all of us have that tendency. We take broadly popular ideas -- Liberty, Self-Ownership, Keeping the Fruits of Your Labors -- and we examine them, dissect them, and then, if we decide we agree with them, take them way too far! We just go totally overboard! If we didn't have that tendency, we could happily get along holding one of the mainstream, normal, acceptable political ideologies. That would be good enough, close enough. But instead of playing hand grenades, libertarians are precision marksmen, obsessed with actually hitting the target. Actually getting at the truth of things, right in its meaty center.

Part of it, too, is that if I have an idea I like to try to frame it and phrase it in a provocative way, to bring the opposition out of the woodwork. I like getting push-back and debate from others with other contrary ideas, especially if they can express them well -- like you did! Plus, there's now relatively few people left on RPF, so I have to be extra provocative if we're going to have any interesting discussions or debate at all.

Anyway...

Conforming to society is great when society is pushing people to conform to things like honesty and integrity in business dealings and interpersonal relationships, but conforming to society's standards of bull$#@! like wearing frilly shirts or ties is not something to be respected.

Well, I don't know that I'd go so far as to say following dress code is something to be respected. It's not that hard to do, not that challenging, so it doesn't deserve some great respect. It just doesn't deserve disrespect either, which is what it mostly gets today and for the past fifty years.

People who try and uphold conforming to society's standards of BS damage society by making people afraid to act outside of those standards for no good reason, which makes life more boring.

I personally don't think it makes life more boring. When I go to church, everyone is basically dressed the same, but I am not bored. What makes them interesting is the variety of their ideas and personalities, the characters they are building.

One issue where we will probably disagree would be on modest dress.

True.

Telling people to cover up is one thing, I won't do it but I won't knock others for doing that, but telling people what style to cover up with I don't like at all.

I agree there's a big difference. Modesty is a morality issue -- don't go about trying to arouse lusts in others. Dressing in a classy, conservative, conformist way, on the other hand, is not a moral issue. It just is wise.

Here is my point, very simply, shown visually. We have one group:

These guys, or the American version of the Victorians the cowboys (The Victorians loved the cowboys; cut from the same cloth):

They may all be wearing the same hat. Boring? Conformist? I don't think so. They were more individual, more independent, more courageous, more rugged, and more determined to keep their liberties than these guys:

The true individualists, the truly unique individual MEN, that would be the first two pictures. They are the true non-conformists. The last two pictures are just a bunch of boring wannabes. They are not bucking anything. They wouldn't know how to stand up to a flea. They sure are making a statement with their appearance, though, right? And with nothing else.

 

[donnay]

This has to be one of the weirdest tattoos a person can get without being too over the top. Probably painful as $#@! too...

Better than a toe tag, I suppose.

 

[angelatc]

Another gross, British one. I hope she hates Andy or something? That's the only reason I can think of to make sure every other step crushes his name into someone's nasty cruddy foot.

You have not seen Toy Story, I assume? It's a cute movie. I recommend it.

 

[MelissaWV]

You have not seen Toy Story, I assume? It's a cute movie. I recommend it.

Sorry, I did see it. I didn't make the connection between a marked-on name on a toy's shoe and that nasty, mildly infected-looking tattoo on the actual foot of someone with dirt between their toes.

 

[angelatc]

Sorry, I did see it. I didn't make the connection between a marked-on name on a toy's shoe and that nasty, mildly infected-looking tattoo on the actual foot of someone with dirt between their toes.

LOL i guess because my kids were little when that movie was new I saw it about a million times. I recognized the writing immediately

 

[osan]

I have tattoos and recommend to people, "do not get them".

Never gave a shit about tats. I won't say I despised them per sé, but have found most of the people who have them... well, I would not piss on them if they were on fire.

I am sorry to say that the average American is bereft of nearly all the qualities that I myself find worthy of esteem. This tattoo thing is a cheap fad deal that has gone stupid now with damned near every half-wit, self-important, safe-space crutching, proudly-ignorant, weak-kneed phag gets because they think it is cool. So far as I can tell, the decision very often has little to do with anything significant beyond the most casually superficial desire for appearance.

When my elder daughter was 17 I alerted her to the fact that the day she no longer wanted to live, she was free to get herself inked. The younger, of course, got a small fine-line heart tattooed on her hand in college. Why not just go all the way and get it on your face? Anyhow, I got over it, but the disappointment was bitter at that time because I see this as the indication of profound stupidity in her generation. Thank God she yanked her head from her ass because she is otherwise a pretty brilliant young lady.

They used to make a powerful, bad ass statement about who and what you are.

Legend in their own minds, IMO, but that's just me. Morros... yeah maybe. Some of the rest... maybe. 99.99%, NOPE.

Now, they are just another prop that Idiot AmeriKa likes to carry around on their collective shoulders and are essentially pointless.

You are way kinder than am I on the matter. They are far worse than pointless, and for some of the reasons given in the article re: identification. Basic tactics dictates you remain as nondescript as possible when in a hostile environment, and the current political waters are infested with dangers anymore.

Of course, my freakishly god-like good looks hasn't helped me in the "nondescript" deal. It is one of the crosses I must bear with some grace.

 

[Jamesiv1]

This tattoo thing is a cheap fad deal that has gone stupid now with damned near every half-wit, self-important, safe-space crutching, proudly-ignorant, weak-kneed phag gets because they think it is cool.

+rep for innovative spelling of homosexual

 

[dannno]

Ron raul?

That's what my dog calls him.

 

[dannno]

I personally don't think it makes life more boring. When I go to church, everyone is basically dressed the same, but I am not bored. What makes them interesting is the variety of their ideas and personalities, the characters they are building.

Oh man... Church was the most boring thing in the world...and I hate wearing any type of dress clothes, give me a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and I'm good.

The true individualists, the truly unique individual MEN, that would be the first two pictures. They are the true non-conformists. The last two pictures are just a bunch of boring wannabes. They are not bucking anything. They wouldn't know how to stand up to a flea. They sure are making a statement with their appearance, though, right? And with nothing else.

I like hippies.

I'd have a way more spiritual experience at Burning Man or even EDC than church...

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Dang it, Zippyfilth and dannno, why have you got to post nudity here (not mad at you, dannno, just saying! I am mad at degenerate, evil Zippy, though)?

This is not what I ever want to see on my computer, certainly not what I expect when I come to RPF. I should be able to avoid it by staying out of obviously inappropriate threads. Guess not. I'm out of this thread.

Before I go, let me just say: I agree with osan.

 

[osan]

+rep for innovative spelling of homosexual

Actually, that was not my intention, but I would have done it that way had it been.

"*ag" means "weak". Chromosexuals were called "*ag" because they were seen as weak. I still use "*ag" to denote those whom I see as weak (typical "millennials" are a prime example), regardless of their sexual orientation. "*ag" is a great descriptive term that has been coopted and rendered unto a status similar to that of "******", the dreaded N-word. I must say I resent that more than passingly, as I do where people douche-up language in the ways they so commonly do.

 

[osan]

Oh man... Church was the most boring thing in the world...and I hate wearing any type of dress clothes, give me a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and I'm good.

I don't do the church thing, ever. But one year I was invited to the First Presbyterian in Freehold for Handel's Messiah at Christmas. When I walked in, my jaw damned near cracked the floor as it slammed open. What did I behold, but about 1000 people in shorts, flip-flops, and God damned baseball caps... on backwards, of course. Suburban NJ trash doing what they do best and most. Children running about like ill-bred little brats in need of a slap into next week, the parents needing about five of same.

I showed up in one of my proper suits. The ushers were the ONLY other properly dressed people in that edifice on that evening. I was taken aback by the vulgarity of those in attendance who had not the decency to keep their whelps under control or dress respectfully in the venue. And get that fidupulating hat off your brainless skull.

I like hippies.

You know this says nothing good about you... right?

 

[opal]

But it's so trendy!

Introducing the World’s First Electronic Ink Tattoo
http://www.emergeinteractive.com/insights/detail/introducing-the-worlds-first-electronic-ink-tattoo

Not sure why but I'm passing on this whole thing...

One type of tattoos I thought was very cool was the Blacklight Tattoos!

http://mentalfloss.com/article/50096/18-stunning-black-light-responsive-tattoos

If they arent visible under normal lighting conditions, I think it looks awesome! I wouldnt get one myself tho...

but this one looks cool



I have managed to get this far without ink.. mostly because I could never make the two big decisions.. what to get and where to put it - though ankle or toe ring tats can't get dragged too much further south via gravity.

The whole identifying marks thing.. Henna sounds like a much better idea.. the marks fade and can be changed - and henna goes so will with my skin and hair tones..