― molly dahl (molly d), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Someone (drunk bloke in pub) once told me I wasn't a "real man" because I didn't have any tattoos.
― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― nklshs (nklshs), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Was that when you were wearing your wife's earrings? Because I can sort of see his point :-)
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Being in touch with my feminine side didn't stop me kicking the shit out of him.
― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv9wahoia61qar86bo1_500.jpg
― Paco de (Carnitas), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
who needs tattoos when you've got scars
― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
otm! i have awesome scars. but no tattoos.
― furnace mane, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
my birthmark is fading
maybe i need to get it tattooed
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
None. I might want one some time but not yet...
― gov. brownback blows a lot (henrietta lacks), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
None yet.
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
find tattoos pretty ridiculous tbh
― iatee, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
I have one that I got when I was 16. I dont think i'll ever get another one
― Paco de (Carnitas), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
that's it, i'm getting a tattoo depicting suburban sprawl across my buttocks
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
no text - none required
― Aimless, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
None, but I think about it pretty often. Think I've decided on the subject matter, finally, but I'd like to find a good example from old art and do it right the first time.
― Making like Melusine (Pyth), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
As with screensaver, desktop art, etc, would get bored fast with any tattoo, and get a new one, then repeat until whole bady was wasteland of bad ideas
― Sandbox James Morrison, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
whole BODY I mean, fuck it
That's not the worst idea in the world, though, if it's a testament to where, and who, you've been.
― Making like Melusine (Pyth), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
obligatory: my little league baseball coach
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
I have one tattoo that I let myself get to commemorate an event in my life that I felt - and still feel - was worth commemorating. However, I chose a somewhat obtuse symbolic representation of the event. As such, 1 in every 5 or so grocery store visits, a checkout clerk will ask me to explain what it means. I've reached the point where I can barely tell the story without sounding rehearsed and slightly exasperated. I've had the ink for 6 years now and I sorta wish that I'd kept the deep personal meaning crap to myself and gotten a flaming skull or a bent-over titty woman on my arm instead.
― sandbox vagina (rusty flathead screwdriver), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
pix?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah the disadvantage of having a tat is you have to have this little 15 second justification/explanation of its existence. NOT TOO MANY clerks want to hear about how the comics code authority came to be. If it's a long purchase I tell them the long version (as their interest quickly wanes) because I'll take any excuse to use the phrase "injury to the eye motif" (thank you saint Jack Cole).
― not uplifting (Abbott), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
Never considered one. Several years ago I had a nightmare that someone basically did a permanent doodle on my back and I kept thinking forever, it will never come off, forever, forever and was filled with anxiety, anger and sadness. It was all very real. Never.
― *tera, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
― mookieproof, Tuesday, November 29, 2011 8:01 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark
must have pretty huge buttocks
*hi fives iatee*
― dayo, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
i have a tattoo of a butt on my butt
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 02:00 (twelve years ago) link
hey dayo let's hang out on mookie's buttocks, meet u at the walmart parking lot 3 miles east of asscrack street
― iatee, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
ps watch out for the brownfield site
― iatee, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
No tattoos here. I've thought about it, but it just seems... I dunno, kind of pointless? I've never had an image that I am sure I love enough to have put on me forever. Don't mind other people having them at all; although I am not especially attracted to them, nor am I repulsed. Also, I think some people's are pretty neat - Abbs' comics code one I love, and... did you actually get a lemur/tarsier-type creature tat or did I just dream that?
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
no longer in this club. don't tell my mom!!!!
― bene_gesserit, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
I got a misquito bite on one of mine over the summer and I scratched the hell out of it to the point where it scabbed over and now it's faded in a weird way and I'm not very happy about it.
Abbott - I still wanna get the hedgehog/sloth drawing but I'm not sure where.
― ~curious orange~, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
don't have any, no interest. but i do like talking to people about their tattoos.
― moonbop, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
u thought i was joking
http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr251/mookieproof/dsotm.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
no tattoos for me.
― estela, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
i typed that with my eyes modestly averted.
― estela, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
it's just suburbia
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
i spent a few years thinking about mine before committing to it, then a lot of time trying to find the right person to do it. i actually had the opposite experience of tera: i had a dream that i got a tattoo (when i had never ever considered one before) and i woke up completely convinced that i needed to do it. mine is sort of 'obvious' enough that ppl don't really ask what it 'means' but i also chose something that did have a lot of sentimental significance to me.
― smoove operator, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
i guess this is probably really cliche, but i don't have any tattoos just because i can't think of anything i'd be happy with for the next year, let alone the rest of my life. no matter how old i am or what i'm doing, i always look back 2 years and fucking hate everything about myself. for example, if i got a tattoo a few years ago it would probably be something related to Charlie's "Spacer Woman" because i was totally obsessed with that song. and i'd probably be drunk enough to get it on my neck or something.
― Z S, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
totally understandable - i felt the same way, so much amazing art to choose from, WHAT I DO??!! in the end, i didn't pick my favourite piece of art, but i picked something that would translate well and the sentimental significance would always remain.
― smoove operator, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
No tattoos, no problem with tattoos or needles just no tattoos on me at the moment. Maybe someday if I feel like it's important for me to get one, I will get one. Until then, nothing.
― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
I got nothing, and I'm devoid of ideas, unlike smoove. (I enjoy art, honest). This thread plus reading LL's home-made gifts thread reminds me that I don't have a lot of creativity going on. A friend's daughter has plenty, all abstract - I'd probably go to her for ideas if I became keen.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
Is there a sandbox tattoo roll call thread?
― Eric H., Wednesday, 30 November 2011 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
used to live in a certain alt-rock town and never quite fit in and eventually decided it was because I1) did not have tattoo2) did not own pet snake
― wang dang google doodle (James Redd), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
I got what Fetchboy upthread got
http://www.richardsnotes.org/pictures/new_orleans_water_main.jpg
It's on my underarm, and it turns out that when I lift my arm up, it looks like my armpit is exploding. Might get stink lines on the other underarm.
― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
beneath the stink lines, don't forget: ^ haha
― Aimless, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
i am completely covered head to toe in tribal tattoos
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
None, for a stupid reason: onsen
― oPal, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
no tattoos, would have to be a text one if I ever got one probably
― silby, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
like wut
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
None here.
― god punch to hawkwind, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 09:37 (twelve years ago) link
Don't forget graphic designers!
Really anything but Sales and the finance-y stuffy jobs, p much. You keep 'em covered for the interview, and after that it's no one's business except yours, unless you're going somewhere to represent the company or etc.
― Making like Melusine (Pyth), Saturday, 3 December 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
Nope, Jesse. No one really cares what the behind-the-scenes TV employees look like, and if I find out they do, well, I'll just switch to long sleeves.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
I actually am a graphic designer, but at a university library. Ive worked in IT as well. My brother-in-law is very heavily tattooed and is a philosophy professor (and a DJ, I guess). The other people I know with visible tattoos are both fine arts professors. I really don't know that many people with visible ink.
― joygoat, Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
The most heavily tattooed person I know is in a PhD program for neuroscience or some insanely smart shit, doesn't seem to have had any effect there either.
― Making like Melusine (Pyth), Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
That's my fallback plan. To get a PhD.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
i know two recently-minted docs (one ER, one pathology) that have full sleeves on both arms, and have heavily tattooed legs as well
― river wolf, Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
So I think we can safely say that visibly tattooed people do mostly all the same jobs that non-visibly tattooed people do, except maybe, like, teach at a Baptist pre-school. I think the okay-ness is probably limited to arms, though, in terms of what you'd see in public? I can't imagine face or neck work being quite as acceptable.
― Making like Melusine (Pyth), Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure full sleeves + neck + scalp = consigned to work at Pizza Luce, but I could be wrong.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 December 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
I'm putting my resistance to the forearm tattoo idea I've had for a long time at +/- 2 more months, will upload a pic if I do it
― undervalued aerosmith tchotchkes sold in bulk, Saturday, 3 December 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
that was always an issue for me earlier - what if i end up in a job where tattoos aren't acceptable? but i'm almost 32, i think it's pretty clear that if i haven't worked in that kind of environment so far, i probably never will. and like joygoat, i would never get hands/face/neck tattooed.
― smoove operator, Saturday, 3 December 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
hey christine, if your husband is artistic there are a bunch of other ways he could utilise those skills that would be a lot cheaper/easier to implement: little original drawings, cards, that kind of stuff, is HUGE on etsy.com - you could start a store and try selling his stuff? not much overhead involved.
― smoove operator, Saturday, 3 December 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
I'm 37 and can't imagine ever ending up working somewhere that would care about tattoos. Even if I did I can always roll my sleeves down.
Also, based on the general dress aptitude of university libraries and engineering school IT departments - where I often feel dressed up by wearing a clean button down shirt and long pants - I can't imagine that tattoos detract from the general dress code.
― joygoat, Saturday, 3 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, December 3, 2011 11:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
+ hard times + t-rock
― river wolf, Saturday, 3 December 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Would work at all those places, tbh.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 December 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
After spending a lot of time in Portland the food service professionals in Minneapolis seemed pretty under-tattooed by comparison but breakfast at the triple rock more than made up for it.
― joygoat, Sunday, 4 December 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
i kindof really want to get this on my right calf
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3486/4030801293_e6c84ab2f3.jpg
― judith, Sunday, 4 December 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
it would have to be done like really well though, its not the kind of thing you can get away w/ half assed.
If I were to get a madonna:
http://www.hitomimatarese.com/pages/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Jean-Fouquet-Madonna-and-child1.jpg
With the red green angel background running Escher style around the limb.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 4 December 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Er, http://www.hitomimatarese.com/pages/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Jean-Fouquet-Madonna-and-child1.jpg
and red blue cherub tiles.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 4 December 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
i like how he's pointing at his ma<-- hey look over there
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Sunday, 4 December 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Debating Milo Goes To College cover w/ no text vs. I Don't Want To Grow Up w/ the words top and bottom. The former was a much more important album to me, the latter a better design...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/SMESX4F53BI/AAAAAAAALbs/IvhqWOFmprA/s400/descendents
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/67/Descendents_-_I_Don
― milo z, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6455531803_f519bba588_z.jpgUntitled by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr
― milo z, Sunday, 4 December 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
that was a quick decision.
― judith, Sunday, 4 December 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think it even matters anymore. Tattoos are now mainstream and prob the majority under say 30-35
― kamb, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 06:11 (twelve years ago) link
Although ¡maracas!.jpg might be an exception
― kamb, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 06:31 (twelve years ago) link
Awwwww
http://www.okgossip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ashton_KUTCHER_TATTOO.jpg
― kamb, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 06:36 (twelve years ago) link