***Deep & Thought Provoling Topics*** WTF is up with Tatoos?

I also both look forward to and simultaneously fear the day we are on opposite sides of a topic. While my A game is pretty good; you sir have game I doubt you are even aware of. Originally Posted by Bob McV

"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill." ~Sun Tzu

"To win an argument on the internet is at once to accomplish both the impossible and the immaterial" ~Centaur

“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.” ~Sun Tzu

"The internet is a fairground, not a battlefield." ~Centaur

[QUOTE=Centaur;1055653759]Not that obscure really. Irezumi is a type of traditional Japanese tattoo. Oiran is kind of like a Geisha except that, unlike real Geishas, Oirans routinely took their clients to bed. Tribal and grinding are tattoo terminology anyone really into ink would instantly recognize, but which also have potentially ribald interpretations. Tawaifs were courtesans in pre-British India and The Illustrated Man is a mildly-famous frame story about a liberally tattooed man, each of who's tats "illustrate" a short story. I'm not saying everyone would necessarily know what creative stage names mean, but most people familiar with tattoo culture and the history of the world's oldest profession would recognize them. And besides, even if they're not universally recognizable, they're relatively unique and exotic. Isn't the goal to stand out from the crowd?

Incidentally, IQ, poorly and ineptly as it does so, attempts to measure problem-solving intelligence, which is not automatically congruent with trivial knowledge.



Do not take the posting wrong. I really love the way you state your opinions and offer enlightenment to the subject matter. Sorry but there really is a lack of creative and cognoscente thought to be found when reading the various threads. The IQ was my attempt to compliment the number of brain cells that show in your prose.

Do not take the posting wrong. I really love the way you state your opinions and offer enlightenment to the subject matter. Sorry but there really is a lack of creative and cognoscente thought to be found when reading the various threads. The IQ was my attempt to compliment the number of brain cells that show in your prose. Originally Posted by stevejones1969

No worries. I just don't want to give the mistaken impression that I think I'm some kind of genius. I'm just an extremely curious person. IQ scores have some limited use, but generally there exist more comprehensive ways of measuring different aspects of human intelligence, so I always try to knock it down a notch whenever anyone tries to use it as a shorthand for keen intellect, even when they're using it to pay me a compliment.

I met a chick just a couple of years ago at a bar in Austin, TX who told me that she had a tattoo on her back that consisted of some writing - a saying or something. I did not ask to see it. But, she said the tattoo artist mis-spelled a word. She told me that her boyfriend actually discovered the mis-spelling a few months later while he was doing her doggie and stopped mid-stroke when he discovered it. Classy chick. She had numerous other tattoos, many visible that all had some sort of meaning. To her anyway.

Austin has more tattoo shops per square mile than anywhere in the country. So it's not a stretch to assume we have a lot of tattooed people as well


you are really hung up on the Georgia girl and her derringer tattoo as you have referenced it several times now. Yet oddly pistol tattoos are fairly common. There is even a pinterrest devoted to it.

body modification is as old as humans themselves, the reasons behind them are as varied as the people that get them.

Art as always is in the eye of the beholder it would be strange for you to like all tattoos on everyone. Originally Posted by Bob McV

Bob, its always been my opinion that tattoos on women are tacky
Just as you like them I think they are mostly ugly. Many of us think PBB is too tatted out. Were she a girl walking down the street I would pay her no nevermind. But since she is trying to vie for business in this market I ABSOLUTELY can.voice my thoughts.

I simply won't waste my money on a graffiti wall. That's MY choice as a buyer, and my choice as OP of the thread.

Pointing out the supremely obvious.
.that tattooes have been around awhile doesn't really wash in the context of this conversation. No one said hoogars can't have tats. No one said hoogars can't have tacky gun tats. Some of us just say we won't see girls that look like a cheap graffiti wall is all.

And PININTEREST?,,really?,,there is probably an pininterest page on peeing through a straw or hearding cats...its not.much of an.accomplishment to have a pin interest page...just sayin'

This is my moms perspective. When one of u guys finally chops me into pieces at least they will identify my stumps.

Hmm ive seen some of the weirdest tats and crazy shit on clients more so than other hoogars. Originally Posted by NikkiWhite

Your mom has good perspective. Its reminds me of a flight when a scarred passenger made the mistake of sitting next to me. She nervously asked me why they want us buckled in even while it was a smooth flight. I looked at her and said "They want us buckled in because if the plane goes down, it will make identifying the bodies a lot easier with the seat strapped to our asses."

While tattoos are an individual thing there are issues that some are not thought of. Before getting a MRI, I was asked if I had any tattoos. I asked why and the tech told me several colors tend to blister from the MRI.

If the old timers can recall 20 years ago when the in thing was to get a tongue stud. I was talking with my dentist and I asked about the tongue stud fad and how he felt about it. My dentist just smiled and said he was all for the tongue studs. I asked why. He told me the studs rub against the teeth and wear the enamel off and eventually he will be putting a lot of crowns on those teeth.

Prefer weird toys, art and jewelry to ink any day. I'm of the generation that doesn't "get it" when it comes to ink and body art. Does not appeal.

I do realize that for many getting a tattoo is an effort to stand out as an individual.

Isn't it therefore strange that the tattoo is now the norm and the provider without ink stands apart from the Herd?