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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: SilverOrchid on September 16, 2009, 02:16:53 PM
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I got a lame anarchy symbol on my left arm. It was a PUNK thing, not in a Stormfront way. I got a dragonfly on my back right shoulder and my first daughter's name on my right ankle. I am going to get Autumn's name on my left ankle soon as I find a decent tattoo person.
If you got them, post pics of them.
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If I showed you where, you'd faint.
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Nope...but if I ever get one, it'll be lizard/gecko.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/djones9916/mytatt.bmp)
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Jonesy, that's ate up. Twenty years USN and I've never found anything I'd want permanently on my body.
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Nope...but if I ever get one, it'll be lizard/gecko.
The Geico gecko? :-)
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I have a little thundercloud, but you'd have to know me very well to see it.
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I have 2, a rose and a tiger but in the body of a butterfly..both to cover motorcycle exhaust burns..
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I have 2, a rose and a tiger but in the body of a butterfly..both to cover motorcycle exhaust burns..
That's the first seemingly legitimate excuse for a tattoo that I've heard.
On the serious side, I had an old friend, Buck Painter, who was a WWII submarine Sailor. He had plenty of tattoos, but none were legible at his old age. They were merely green blotches on his skin. It was something he regretted and he advised strongly against them. I took his sage advice.
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The Geico gecko? :-)
Heck no...a colorful gecko!
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That's the first seemingly legitimate excuse for a tattoo that I've heard.
On the serious side, I had an old friend, Buck Painter, who was a WWII submarine Sailor. He had plenty of tattoos, but none were legible at his old age. They were merely green blotches on his skin. It was something he regretted and he advised strongly against them. I took his sage advice.
Not everyone regrets their tattoos...some do...but some do not.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/djones9916/mytatt.bmp)
Oh dear sweet Jesus. As much as I like Honda's I would NEVER get their logo tattooed on my body. EVER.
Hell, I ride a Harley but I don't have THEIR logo on me either.
:-)
KC
jk. Good on you for the pride.
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I have 2. One is the hot stuff devil and the other is an eagle over an American Flag that is painted on the RIGHT wing of an eagle.
I have no regrets.
KC
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I have one on my arm, but decided when psoriasis became a permenant part of my life that I couldn't see why I'd mark my own body in that way now when I so desperately wish mine wasn't marked as it is in this other way. I wish my skin condition was optional.
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I don't have any, but if I ever do get one it will be my avatar.
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If I showed you where, you'd faint.
I am in a fainting mood! :popcorn:
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Nope...but if I ever get one, it'll be lizard/gecko.
Where? :naughty:
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I have 2, a rose and a tiger but in the body of a butterfly..both to cover motorcycle exhaust burns..
:cheersmate: You wild child! If I got a tat, my kids would die. :lmao:
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More pictures of the men's Tats! :drool: :evillaugh:
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/djones9916/mytatt.bmp)
you got a TETRIS tatoo?
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It's been my life since I was born Thor. It's the only thing I would put onto my body.
To everyone else... ESAD :tongue:
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I have two. (yeah I know...officers don't have tatoo...)
I got a WWII looking pin-up on my right fore-arm and a concentration camp number on the in-side of my left fore-arm.
the last is for my mom's family who vanished after the germans took Kiev.
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I have two. (yeah I know...officers don't have tatoo...)
I got a WWII looking pin-up on my right fore-arm and a concentration camp number on the in-side of my left fore-arm.
the last is for my mom's family who vanished after the germans took Kiev.
Sorry about the loss of family members in such a way. Really remarkable way to remember them and show your respect though.
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Sorry about the loss of family members in such a way. Really remarkable way to remember them and show your respect though.
No one really 'knows' what happened to them. Of course, they were the 'wrong type' of people to survive the NAZI occupation. People ask me about it, younger people mostly. Some older people bring it up, I've even been asked if I was a surviver (not nearly old enough- by 20+ years). Or, people see it is then look away. You can see the realization in their eyes, but they don't want to confront the truth of what it means.
People forget real evil. This makes me remember everyday what happened. The small amount of pain in getting the tatoo is nothing to what those people suffered.
http://www.zchor.org/BABIYAR.HTM
RUDENKO, Azriel' Abov b. 1907
RUDENKO, Moshko Azrielev b. 1907
RUDENKO, Grigorij b.1906
RUDENKO, Kllin b. 1906
RUDENKO, Denis Artem. b. 1906
RUDENKO Fedir
RUDENKO Feodosei
RUDENKO Grigory
RUDENKO Ivan
RUDENKO Ivan a
RUDENKO Mikola
RUDENKO Mikola a
RUDENKO Petro
RUDENKO Petro a
RUDENKO Timofiy
RUDENKO Vasil
RUDENKO Vasil a
(The JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database indexes the names of persons in the necrologies — the lists of Holocaust martyrs)
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No one really 'knows' what happened to them. Of course, they were the 'wrong type' of people to survive the NAZI occupation. People ask me about it, younger people mostly. Some older people bring it up, I've even been asked if I was a surviver (not nearly old enough- by 20+ years). Or, people see it is then look away. You can see the realization in their eyes, but they don't want to confront the truth of what it means.
People forget real evil. This makes me remember everyday what happened. The small amount of pain in getting the tatoo is nothing to what those people suffered.
http://www.zchor.org/BABIYAR.HTM
RUDENKO, Azriel' Abov b. 1907
RUDENKO, Moshko Azrielev b. 1907
RUDENKO, Grigorij b.1906
RUDENKO, Kllin b. 1906
RUDENKO, Denis Artem. b. 1906
RUDENKO Fedir
RUDENKO Feodosei
RUDENKO Grigory
RUDENKO Ivan
RUDENKO Ivan a
RUDENKO Mikola
RUDENKO Mikola a
RUDENKO Petro
RUDENKO Petro a
RUDENKO Timofiy
RUDENKO Vasil
RUDENKO Vasil a
(The JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database indexes the names of persons in the necrologies — the lists of Holocaust martyrs)
One of my first boyfriends brought me home to meet his parents, both had numbers tattooed above their wrist. Naturally I asked him what that was all about and he told me his parents were at Auschwitz, they never spoke about that time to him.
Mom told me not to become too friendly with that boy as his parents would never except me, she was correct. However Mom did hit the library and took out books, including Leon Uris for me to understand why and what happend to them. Allot for a 13 year old child to absorb.
When I married at a very, very young age I married a Catholic Pollack who's mother had been rescued from the Warsaw Ghetto and converted to Christianity, adopted and came to America just before the War. Needless to say there was allot of shall I say lively conversation about if he was Jewish or Christian. This was one story I heard.
Unfortunately the mother had died 12 years before I met her son so there was no way I could get her story and no one in the family wanted to talk about her past.
Today my daughter is very interested in her Grandmother, who was she, where did she come from, was the story about her birth and adoption true or not. Who were her parents, and great grand parents.
Everyone is now dead, her father and his brother, all aunts and uncles, one whole side of her family shrouded in mystery. We do not have the money to hire a genealogy search, we are not sure about the spelling of the names, but we can start with her fathers birth certificate and work back.
Thank You Dutch, I have a few months free due to health problems and perhaps we can solve this problem of who my daughter is, and came from.
BTW, she came unglued when I went to the Hollicast Museum with out her, When I told her how I was removed from the Museum and sat on on the sidewalk crying and shaking like a small dog, she suggested that perhaps reincarnation is a fact.
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Where? :naughty:
Well, I haven't quite decided yet...Mr Flame has one opinion, but I have another. LOL
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I am in a fainting mood! :popcorn:
I warned you.....................
(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k179/Apogeespeaker/comic-book-guy-worst-tattoo-ever.jpg)
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It's been my life since I was born Thor. It's the only thing I would put onto my body.
To everyone else... ESAD :tongue:
I was born an Air Force Brat, too. However, I saw the light and joined the Navy's Air Force....
:tongue:
:fuelfire:
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I have a grim reaper on my left shoulder with the word "Next" underneath.
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I was going to get one when I was over seas in the service . Some thing patriotic with my name in it... I change my mind when I realized I could remember my name most of the time.
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I was going to get one when I was over seas in the service . Some thing patriotic with my name in it... I change my mind when I realized I could remember my name most of the time.
I chose to place my tats in just one area, right shoulder to elbow.
9 pointed star with Butterfly to symbolise metamorphosis, under that a full try colored bracelet with my faith printed in Persian.
Unfortunately since 9/11 some Muslims now think I am one of them and Christians think I am in league with the devil.
20 years ago I was helping dress my grandma and found SHE had a small tattoo on her hip, a Phi Betta Kappa Key. I believe that only my grandfather knew it was there. Those wild college girls in the 1914 era were some thing else.
Anthropology classes led me to get my tattoes, with millions of woman who had no tattoos how were the Gods to single out who to save. How to stand out from millions of others ----sort of like buying gold fish, one is going to buy the ones that have interesting markings.
I met a woman who had given birth to identical triplets boys and she had the doctors tattoo marks behind their ears in their birth order so she could never be fooled by who was who as they grew up. She herself was an identical twin and knew how much mayham she and her sister had caused the family and schools. " Mom and Dad could tell us apart most of the time but we took tests in school for each other and drove the boys crazy."
Body art is something that has to looked at as art, those on drugs or drunk at the time get dreadfull crap, sure to regret the next day. Real art has to be thought out for months, what does the art mean to someone, is it worth the price, why get it in the first place.
I see people with art that has their children's names in the middle of a rose and that is a statement and can be beautiful. When a child sees their name on their parents body, that is true LOVE.
Over seas men can get in in Asia a tattoo from a picture of their wives, Amazing, I hope their wife likes them. :-)
My favorite are the tattoes ex-servicemen get of them of Tazz wearing their uniform complete with metals and ribbons.
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I got turned off to tats early in life. A bunch of us country boys would strip down to the buff and seine a pond. This old WW2 Navy salt that had been a cook in the Navy would go along with us and cook the fish right there by the pond. Great fun and food for all concerned.
This once we went and needed an extra hand with the seine so the old, multi-tattooed, WW2 Navy salt striped off to help us. He bent over and there on his butt cheeks was tattooed a pair of hands. It looked like some guy was trying to climb out of his a-hole....OH THE HORROR......no tats for me, thank you.
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I don't have any....I have so many scars that I didn't have a choice about that I was never willing to voluntarily mark up my body.
My son has 5....they all mean something to him - and were all acquired while in the Navy...but I would cringe every time he got a new one... :(
My daughter doesn't have any....hates needles too much...
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I don't have any....I have so many scars that I didn't have a choice about that I was never willing to voluntarily mark up my body.
My son has 5....they all mean something to him - and were all acquired while in the Navy...but I would cringe every time he got a new one... :(
My daughter doesn't have any....hates needles too much...
Yep, Deb, your first line is why I'm not into them anymore. I have seemingly permenant skin issues now that make never willing to voluntarily mark myself up now too. Certainly puts that in perspective. That said, I don't really regret the little one that I do have, but girls with sleeves and such...I don' tget it. To mark up perfectly beautiful, healthy skin in that way.
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I have a bunch. Looking forward to getting a full sleeve. My wife also has some.
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I have one on a private part of my body. Most of the time it looks like it says "Wendy" But in reality it says "Welcome to Jamaica Mon. Have a Nice Day" Which only can be viewed at very special moments. I got it in a drunken state whilst in Jamaica on a cruise. Oh and it is in ultra large Font size. :-)
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One. Arm. Just after boot camp.
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I have one on a private part of my body. Most of the time it looks like it says "Wendy" But in reality it says "Welcome to Jamaica Mon. Have a Nice Day" Which only can be viewed at very special moments. I got it in a drunken state whilst in Jamaica on a cruise. Oh and it is in ultra large Font size. :-)
The shit is getting pretty deep in here. Too much for a shovel, might need a front end loader.......
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Yep, Deb, your first line is why I'm not into them anymore. I have seemingly permenant skin issues now that make never willing to voluntarily mark myself up now too. Certainly puts that in perspective. That said, I don't really regret the little one that I do have, but girls with sleeves and such...I don' tget it. To mark up perfectly beautiful, healthy skin in that way.
I was badly burned on a great part of my left arm on the day I was born. For years, I was embarassed and ashamed of it. Then, just a few days after my 13th birthday, I was in a bad car accident, that scarred up my face.
I didn't wear sleeveless tops...as an adult...until 1996. I bought a sleeveless cocktail dress to attend a black tie event where my daughter was one of the "honored guests". I will always remember wearing that dress, my daughter got teary-eyed because I was finally able to wear a dress like that. Why? because my sweet of heart was not embarassed by the way my arm looked.....
I have never been able to understand all the tatoos or facial piercings that people do.
Not that I don't think anyone should be deprived of the right to do it...because I don't feel that way at all. Maybe if I wasn't so "marked" ....I would look at it differently.
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I agree Deb, I have scars up and down my legs from knee surgery (about 6 inches long), 3 abdominal scars (those were baby exits), and one skull scar (covered by my mop).... who needs more detailing, I ask ya, WHO?
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I agree Deb, I have scars up and down my legs from knee surgery (about 6 inches long), 3 abdominal scars (those were baby exits), and one skull scar (covered by my mop).... who needs more detailing, I ask ya, WHO?
I have the skull ones too :cheersmate:.....if I ever lose all my hair....I will have what looks like a road map with a lake (missing scalp)... :whatever:
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No way. I know it's considered "cool" to get cut after Boot, but I didn't. I go my own way, and don't follow the crowd. And when my Buds harrass me for not getting Inked, I give it right back. "A Marine without a tat?" some people ask. And I stare the runts down at my 6'3" and say "You got a problem?" :-)
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No way. I know it's considered "cool" to get cut after Boot, but I didn't. I go my own way, and don't follow the crowd. And when my Buds harrass me for not getting Inked, I give it right back. "A Marine without a tat?" some people ask. And I stare the runts down at my 6'3" and say "You got a problem?" :-)
After boot was when my son got his first one...a shamrock under his bicep. He got a turtle on his calf after he became a "shellback". And he has a couple others that he designed himself. His response when I asked him why..."I'm a Sailor, Mom!" (maybe he did it, cause he's only 6'1"?)
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After boot was when my son got his first one...a shamrock under his bicep. He got a turtle on his calf after he became a "shellback". And he has a couple others that he designed himself. His response when I asked him why..."I'm a Sailor, Mom!" (maybe he did it, cause he's only 6'1"?)
To each his own. :-)
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I have never been able to understand all the tatoos or facial piercings that people do.
Not that I don't think anyone should be deprived of the right to do it...because I don't feel that way at all. Maybe if I wasn't so "marked" ....I would look at it differently.
I looked at it differently...I wasn't born with my scars...I developed them later...so I was "marked"...might as well "mark" myself with something beautiful. I consider my tats beautiful and a way to erase a few painful accidents when I rode a bike.
I am considering getting a tattoo with my daughter's name and an angel on my shoulder...but I'm getting too friggin old for that stuff...lol
Many people consider tattooing therapeutic...a way to either remember someone, or to deal with some sort of pain...
Of course there are those people who get one during a drunken stupor on a Spring Break night...lol
My exboyfriend had an eagle on his arm...I asked him what it meant to him...his answer, "nothing, I was drunk one night and Mike dared me to get one"... :whatever: :lmao: that's when I knew he was an idiot....at least lie and say he was patriotic or something along those lines..lol :-)
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I'm sorry. I still think they're stupid. When you get old it'll look like a big ink blob.
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To each his own. Mine's discreet, at least, and I was all of 18 (barely) when I got it.
Besides, the old expression is true: Scars are tattoos with better stories behind them.
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To each his own. Mine's discreet, at least, and I was all of 18 (barely) when I got it.
Besides, the old expression is true: Scars are tattoos with better stories behind them.
Now scars I got.....and a few nice ones at that.
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I was badly burned on a great part of my left arm on the day I was born. For years, I was embarassed and ashamed of it. Then, just a few days after my 13th birthday, I was in a bad car accident, that scarred up my face.
I didn't wear sleeveless tops...as an adult...until 1996. I bought a sleeveless cocktail dress to attend a black tie event where my daughter was one of the "honored guests". I will always remember wearing that dress, my daughter got teary-eyed because I was finally able to wear a dress like that. Why? because my sweet of heart was not embarassed by the way my arm looked.....
I have never been able to understand all the tatoos or facial piercings that people do.
Not that I don't think anyone should be deprived of the right to do it...because I don't feel that way at all. Maybe if I wasn't so "marked" ....I would look at it differently.
Your post really touches me, Deb. I didn't wear anything sleeveless until the last year for about the last decade. And I still feel a little self-conscious when it is flaring up. I could have written this myself, although for a different reason why. BTW, many people think I've been burned on my arms with the shiny, red, 'new' look the skin can have at times in places.
Hawkgirl, I understand why you did yours too. For me, I'd have to have sleeves to cover it and where I'd want other tattoos would be on skin that is perfectly healthy and I don't wish to mark those areas up. And actually what I have, tattoos can't really cover. The skin is always in flux so it will not look stable(a tattoo).
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Both of my grandfathers (WWII vets) had tattoos. To me, they were creepy, exotic and strange. Something only tough guys got. I have never felt the desire to get one. I cringe whenever I see "tramp stamps" on an otherwise pretty girl. I think you should do whatever floats your boat but I think ink on pretty girls is unbecoming. No offense to anyone here. :innocent:
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I don't like tattoos for me. I think discreet ones are fine for everyone else. What almost enrages me is a really young person with facial or neck tattoos. I am pretty sure there has never been or will never be a CEO of a Fortune 500 company or a POTUS with those things marring them. They look ridiculous and you cut your career option by a huge percentage.