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    #32
    ray o
    Registered Users Posts: 701 ✭✭✭ray o


    Ceepo wrote: »
    Why

    I've not seen the Mdot tattoo discussion on here yet. Please discuss


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    #33
    RedB
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    ray o wrote: »
    I've not seen the Mdot tattoo discussion on here yet. Please discuss

    Maybe here?


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    #34
    Ceepo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,522 ✭✭✭Ceepo


    Tara Thousands Cue wrote: »
    Ceepo wrote: »
    Why

    Ask yourself this would you get a tattoo of microsoft, mcdonalds or even haribo on your skin?
    No would be the answer to that.

    But I wouldn't compare ordering a Happy meal or down loading the lastest thing from Microsoft to doing an Ironman.
    Not everyone eats at McDonald's.
    Not everyone gets a tattoo
    Not everyone does an ironman,
    and not everyone who does an ironman will get a tattoo.

    Most who do, get it as a symbol of something the have achieved more than trying to be a symbol to corporate world

    That's in my opinion

    Each to there own


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    #35
    ray o
    Registered Users Posts: 701 ✭✭✭ray o


    RedB wrote: »
    Maybe here?

    I said here not there


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    #36
    griffin100
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    Ceepo wrote: »
    No would be the answer to that.

    But I wouldn't compare ordering a Happy meal or down loading the lastest thing from Microsoft to doing an Ironman.
    Not everyone eats at McDonald's.
    Not everyone gets a tattoo
    Not everyone does an ironman,
    and not everyone who does an ironman will get a tattoo.

    Most who do, get it as a symbol of something the have achieved more than trying to be a symbol to corporate world

    That's in my opinion

    Each to there own

    An mdot is a corporate logo, nothing more, you might as well get a Microsoft logo tattooed on your leg. I also suspect its not about commemorating your achievement, it's about saying to the world 'look at me, I did an ironman' - that's my opinion on it but each to their own ;)


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    #37
    RedB
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    ray o wrote: »
    I said here not there

    That's right :)


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    #38
    ray o
    Registered Users Posts: 701 ✭✭✭ray o


    RedB wrote: »
    That's right :)

    you've lost me....are you acting the pr1ck or am I missing something :)


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    #39
    RedB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭RedB


    ray o wrote: »
    you've lost me....are you acting the pr1ck or am I missing something :)

    neither - just not that interested in a thread about tattoos here. Work away though


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    #40
    Brick Session
    Closed Accounts Posts: 455 ✭✭Brick Session


    griffin100 wrote: »
    An mdot is a corporate logo, nothing more, you might as well get a Microsoft logo tattooed on your leg. I also suspect its not about commemorating your achievement, it's about saying to the world 'look at me, I did an ironman' - that's my opinion on it but each to their own ;)

    I think this is going to be a case of each to their own. If you want a tottoo that shows that you have achieved something that most people dream about (or hold on, maybe most sane people don't dream about 140.6) then get one.

    Only those who know what the symbol of an MDot represents will understand it and recognise the achievement that it represents. Maybe you will have to explain the tattoo to some people if they ask. At the end of the day, everyone is individual, get the fecking tattoo if you want. Don't get it if you don't want it but don't knock those who do or don't get one.

    As Ceepo said, I don't think you can compare buying a fecking big mac or Windows 7 to the adventure that is an Iron distance race but again everyone will have their own stance on the whole issue of getting a tattoo after completing the distance within the time.

    Live and let live.


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    #41
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    I decided not to get an mdot because:

    I felt my IM time was too slow.
    After the event was such an anticlimax - a tat didn't seem important.
    An mdot is like wearing a target in every other race you ever do.
    Its like a form of showing off. :)


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    #42
    ray o
    Registered Users Posts: 701 ✭✭✭ray o


    RedB wrote: »
    neither - just not that interested in a thread about tattoos here. Work away though

    Your right, it's off topic.


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    #43
    BTH
    Registered Users Posts: 3,075 Mod ✭✭✭✭BTH


    RedB wrote: »
    neither - just not that interested in a thread about tattoos here. Work away though
    ray o wrote: »
    Your right, it's off topic.

    With my newly acquired mod hat on I'll have to agree with these two gentlemen. If you want to discuss the merits or otherwise of an M-dot tattoo please feel free to open a new thread on that topic. Otherwise, can we keep this one back on the original topic. Thanks.


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