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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #25 on: September 17, 2009, 07:56:41 AM »
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Where?  :naughty:

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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #26 on: September 17, 2009, 11:56:42 AM »
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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #27 on: September 17, 2009, 12:22:51 PM »
Quote from: djones520 on September 16, 2009, 09:09:39 PM
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....


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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #28 on: September 17, 2009, 12:26:11 PM »
I have a grim reaper on my left shoulder with the word "Next" underneath.
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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #29 on: September 17, 2009, 01:08:59 PM »
  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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #30 on: September 18, 2009, 07:24:24 AM »
Quote from: Wayne on September 17, 2009, 01:08:59 PM
  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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #31 on: September 18, 2009, 07:42:31 AM »
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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #32 on: September 18, 2009, 10:44:27 AM »
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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #33 on: September 18, 2009, 12:01:35 PM »
Quote from: debk on September 18, 2009, 10:44:27 AM
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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #34 on: September 18, 2009, 12:18:01 PM »
I have a bunch.  Looking forward to getting a full sleeve.  My wife also has some.
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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #35 on: September 18, 2009, 01:38:29 PM »
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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #36 on: September 18, 2009, 02:21:57 PM »
One.  Arm.  Just after boot camp.
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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #37 on: September 18, 2009, 02:25:24 PM »
Quote from: Taxman on September 18, 2009, 01:38:29 PM
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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #38 on: September 18, 2009, 03:56:27 PM »
Quote from: jtyangel on September 18, 2009, 12:01:35 PM
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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #39 on: September 18, 2009, 05:18:18 PM »
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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #40 on: September 18, 2009, 09:55:14 PM »
Quote from: Schadenfreude on September 18, 2009, 05:18:18 PM
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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #41 on: September 18, 2009, 10:35:25 PM »
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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #42 on: September 18, 2009, 11:17:41 PM »
Quote from: ColonialMarine0431 on September 18, 2009, 10:35:25 PM
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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #43 on: September 18, 2009, 11:31:08 PM »
Quote from: debk on September 18, 2009, 11:17:41 PM

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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #44 on: September 18, 2009, 11:55:22 PM »
Quote from: debk on September 18, 2009, 03:56:27 PM

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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #45 on: September 19, 2009, 12:19:54 AM »
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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #46 on: September 19, 2009, 06:31:25 AM »
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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #47 on: September 19, 2009, 07:45:34 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on September 19, 2009, 06:31:25 AM
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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #48 on: September 19, 2009, 01:32:49 PM »
Quote from: debk on September 18, 2009, 03:56:27 PM
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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Re: Got Ink?
« Reply #49 on: September 19, 2009, 03:00:20 PM »
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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