NO TATTOO ROLL CALL

I have none. But when I was younger and obsessed with certain French writers I was on the verge of getting this in the middle of my back.

When I was younger and obsessed with certain French writers, I got a tattoo of an egg in my ass.

it's one day later and i still don't have any tattoos

Was that supposed to offend me rusty flathead screwdriver?

I actually have an amalgam tattoo on my gum

I could never get one. Not really because I have anything against tattoos, but I know that I would end up hating whatever tattoo I ended up getting within a week. I change my mind too much.

just write on your ass with a sharpie ans see how that feels first - look at is in the tub

I will pass.

Not tats. No piercings. Never have even changed the color of my hair. Not only do I not like it when people try to write on me, I don't even like putting scotch tape on my fingers when wrapping presents at Christmas.

If someone wants to paint their forearm like the side of a '78 Econoline, then have at it. But it's not for me and it's not something that appeals to me.

I really really hate having tape or anything sticky on my hands or arms.

A friend who is a therapist said that he has to cover his arm tattoos for his self-harm group and when seeing new patients or those who were harming themselves.

That's pretty much universal in health care.

not opposed to them and feel they can be quite hot, but don't have any myself. can't think of anything i need to have on myself permanently.

x-post - Yeah. Friend of mine made the mistake of showing up to her first day of nursing school with short sleeves on. It didn't go over well.

Peace sign on my arm when I was 18. Blessedly aborted a pinup girl on the inside of my right forearm when I was 20.

I like tattoos, don't see the "I'd get bored" reasoning (my tattoo is pretty lolz in a bad way but reminds me of a specific time and place in my life), but the only other things I'd get would be visible (forearm half-sleeves) and I couldn't do that without my life being more figured out and while I see my grandfather on a near-daily basis.

my tattoo is pretty lolz in a bad way but reminds me of a specific time and place in my life

Abbott has a good theory on this sort of thing. I do too but I don't really care. I mean, I got my tramp stamp before there was such a thing GODDAMMIT! ;) See also a small Chinese character that is now part of something bigger in part so that it's less obvious.

The next time any of you walk into a roomful of nurses, ask them to raise their hands if they have a tattoo. The only ones that won't have their hands up will be over 40. There's a lot of things that they care about in nursing school that no one cares about in the real world, and this is one of them.

one of our system enginners has all these tats that sometimes show when his sleeves are up - alwyas looks kind of silly / embarassing

Another therapist friend said that the other guy's tattoos could be a good model for an acceptable way of channeling the urge to harm or mutilate yourself.

They work in very different settings.

JacobSanders - no! I was just trying to make the most blatant Bataille joke I could think of. : )

I have one very small tattoo on my upper left leg that I gave myself w/ a sewing needle & calligraphy ink when I was 14. At the time, I did not think it would be permanent, but there it still is.

It is the owl symbol from Twin Peaks:

http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/1105267805/TP20_-_owl_cave_symbol_reasonably_small.jpg

HA! too much Blanchot and jokes take longer to sink in

Eventually I plan to have my arms covered from shoulder to elbow and at least one leg covered from knee to ankle, but I only have bits and pieces in these places now. I think about chest pieces sometimes too but that's a ways off.

Left arm is half sleeved already plus a big one inside the forearm, to the point that I look at it wonder why I don't just cover the whole thing up to my wrist.

The only one that I regret (and it's pretty regrettable) is that I decided circa 1995 that getting a tribal tattoo would be AWESOME but I wasn't ready to have it visible yet. So I got it on my lower back. Someday I'll have to turn it into a giant black rectangle.

I used some of those temporary stick-on tattoos that wash off with soap a few times. I think hearing that Offspring lyric about getting a 31 instead of 13 when I was a teen forever scared me away from getting a tattoo....

"skin untouched by ink like ever"

i've managed to live 40+ years by this rule and cannot see the situation changing.

will be interesting to see what happens with my teenkid given the popularity of such things these days.

there's a gal in the nursing school here who has a FACE TAT. she got it immediately after being accepted (or so i've heard), and is now (shockingly) running into trouble getting placed into clinical rotations to finish her training

Face tattys legit kinda freak me out

I've seen them done well on occasion, but mostly they are fucking mental.

I have no, neither does wife.

2 kids, as mark e says it will be 'interesting' to see if either want when older. Guessing not.

I don't really know many people with tattoos. I'm old obviously.

Oh, I know quite a few. They are younger, admittedly, but then again...

well, i have heard my teenkid use the phrase 'tramp stamp' in regards to certain styles of tats, so i'm hoping that my teenkid is of the same opinion as me.

cos there's no doubting it, they look great when the skin is all youth'd up, but add a few years and beers, and that stuff can end up looking worse for wear.

and i've not seen enough flesh of my social circle (thank the lord) to make any call re who has one or not.

and i've not seen enough flesh of my social circle (thank the lord) to make any call re who has one or not.

Yeah, that's more like it

Never bought the "what will that look like when you're old and grey" line of logic. When I'm old and grey, my tattoos aren't going to be what makes me too embarrassed to go out in public. It'll be my old, saggy, haggard self that keeps me indoors.

i still don't have any tattoos

hi-5

i figure that by the time we are old and grey the laser technology to remove these things will have advanced to a simple, painless procedure. and that we'll all have robot butlers.

Never bought the "what will that look like when you're old and grey" line of logic. When I'm old and grey, my tattoos aren't going to be what makes me too embarrassed to go out in public. It'll be my old, saggy, haggard self that keeps me indoors.

OTM!! for a long time, i thought 'oh but what about when i'm OOOOOLD?!?" but then i realised that i wouldn't be showing off those bits of skin when i'm that old anyway so it won't matter. another thing for me was that i'm not particularly enamoured with my body, so i didn't feel like i was "ruining" my leg by get it half covered in a tattoo.

As covered as I aspire to be I'll never get face, neck, or hand tattoos. I believe strongly in the "nothing you can't hide while in front of a judge" rule.

i don't know when i'll get another one but i have a couple things that i wouldn't mind having on me forever (himalayan tahr, tree shrew).

i am just going to end up covered in weird mammals (the first one was a pangolin).

Just gis'ed pangolin and, damn, that's like the perfect tattoo animal.

Anyone have words of wisdom on making a bunch of individual tattoos work together? I like all my tatts (except one tiny huge mistake) but the next step has to be something to integrate them all into something that makes sense, otherwise I'll just be a mass of disparate marks.

here is my pangolin (1st tattoo at 32):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kkVIq1Yc42Q/TpJfLwuJRFI/AAAAAAAAALU/yrak4Lky9EQ/s512/cid_497.jpg

it looks a bit lighter now that it's healed.

ugh i did an image search on "waveform tattoo" and they all look terrible. back to the drawing board, i think.

Nice. Were you the one saying that your underarm tattoo hurt? It looks like it took a long time.

it wasn't that bad until the last 45 minutes, when my tattoo artist was coloring over the parts that had already been tattooed. it took about 2.5 hours total!

ayo uninked btw

jess3, find the best tattoo artist in your area and just tell them you want to integrate all your pieces - if they're any good, they'll figure out a great way to do it for you.

Yeh, you're right. I realized that was a pretty useless question. I was just thinking "aloud."

the answer is clear anyway - massive rebel flag goes with everything

i checked -- no tattoos yet

By the time all of us are old, no one will be bothered by tattoos. Tattoos will be as mainstream as having your ears pierced.