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Tattoos.

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  • #62
    Peist2007
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Peist2007


    Ralphdejones wrote: »
    Why did you judge them as being awful ?

    It's the tattoo designs that i would judge. Not those who get them


  • #63
    Ralphdejones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ralphdejones


    Peist2007 wrote: »
    It's the tattoo designs that i would judge. Not those who get them

    What gives you the right to judge their designs ?


  • #64
    Peist2007
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Peist2007


    Ralphdejones wrote: »
    What gives you the right to judge their designs ?

    Sorry, do you think i dont have a right to look at something and form an opinion? Do you need to have a sit down?


  • #65
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,048 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Thought about getting one down a good while ago, but decided that I'd think long and hard about it and not act on impulse. I reckoned that if I still wanted one after some time then I'd go for it.
    Just considering designs at the moment and will take the plunge soon.
    Looking at a tribal design on the upper arm and shoulder.
    Why? Because I want a change and as a bloke, there's not much we can do to individualise.
    I'd never judge another person's..apart from that Convict in the States that literally had the words "I am guilty" on his forehead :D

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #66
    Ralphdejones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ralphdejones


    Peist2007 wrote: »
    Sorry, do you think i dont have a right to look at something and form an opinion? Do you need to have a sit down?

    So you're judgeing me now as well ?


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  • #67
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,612 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Ralphdejones wrote: »
    So you're judgeing me now as well ?

    8/10


  • #68
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    everlast75 wrote: »
    Looking at a tribal design on the upper arm and shoulder.
    Why? Because I want a change and as a bloke, there's not much we can do to individualise.

    To be blunt, a tribal design on your upper arm isn't going to help you individualise. Everyone seems to get them. It's like the stars craze that was around a few years ago.


  • #69
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,941 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Ralphdejones wrote: »
    What gives you the right to judge their designs ?

    There is such a thing as good and bad design you know.

    I've seen some absolutely awfully designed tattoos over the years. I've also seen some great ones.

    It's a piece of art. You can have fundamentally flawed issues in a piece of art (a bad understanding of line and colour, failed realization of a concept)

    Sure, in the end it's on someone's body and it's 'theirs' so they can do what they want. Doesn't change the fact though that if it's a bad piece of art it's a bad piece of art. All the 'back stories' and 'meanings' won't mask a bad drawing.

    Moral of the story? - choose your artist carefully.


  • #70
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    smash wrote: »
    To be blunt, a tribal design on your upper arm isn't going to help you individualise. Everyone seems to get them. It's like the stars craze that was around a few years ago.

    We should have made this a drinking game. That would have been good craic.


  • #71
    Peist2007
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Peist2007


    Ralphdejones wrote: »
    So you're judgeing me now as well ?

    Not until you do your little dance


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  • #72
    Ralphdejones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ralphdejones


    Peist2007 wrote: »
    Not until you do your little dance

    Right there Ted, back to your juding again


  • #73
    Peist2007
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Peist2007


    Ralphdejones wrote: »
    Right there Ted, back to your juding again

    I havent liked Jude Law since The Talented Mr. Ripley


  • #74
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    everlast75 wrote: »
    Thought about getting one down a good while ago, but decided that I'd think long and hard about it and not act on impulse. I reckoned that if I still wanted one after some time then I'd go for it.
    Just considering designs at the moment and will take the plunge soon.
    Looking at a tribal design on the upper arm and shoulder.
    Why? Because I want a change and as a bloke, there's not much we can do to individualise.
    I'd never judge another person's..apart from that Convict in the States that literally had the words "I am guilty" on his forehead :D

    Ok one piece of advice I'll offer is not to simply walk into a studio, point at a piece of tribal art and say "I want that one". Yes tribal tattoos can be a bit cliché at this stage but if you do your research into tribes, learn about them, and find something admirable about them it might make the experience all that more better for you.

    People get tattoos for all sorts of reasons and you shouldn't let the opinion of others towards them sway you one way or the other.


  • #75
    chicorytip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,524 ✭✭✭chicorytip


    Can tattoos now be removed using laser
    treatment?


  • #76
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    chicorytip wrote: »
    Can tattoos now be removed using laser treatment?

    It's more painful than getting a tattoo in the first place.


  • #77
    MS.ing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭MS.ing


    on a girl who is already attractive an attractive body tattoo (mid back) can take her to another level


  • #78
    MS.ing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭MS.ing


    smash wrote: »
    It's more painful than getting a tattoo in the first place.

    who cares :confused:

    you dont get a tattoo cause it causes you pain (though some do Im sure)


  • #79
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,612 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Can't believe nobody said Sheeple yet.

    Sheeple.


  • #80
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    MS.ing wrote: »
    who cares :confused:

    you dont get a tattoo cause it causes you pain (though some do Im sure)

    So what? All I said was that it causes a lot of pain to get them removed.


  • #81
    MS.ing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭MS.ing


    smash wrote: »
    So what? All I said was that it causes a lot of pain to get them removed.

    lazers generally do bad things :/


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  • #82
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    I've none myself. Some of them are class. I've been known to go up to random peeps in bars to ask if I can have a closer look. Everyone, to date, have been happy to oblige.


  • #83
    Ralphdejones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ralphdejones


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    I've none myself. Some of them are class. I've been known to go up to random peeps in bars to ask if I can have a closer look. Everyone, to date, have been happy to oblige.

    Why don't you get some ?


  • #84
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Ralphdejones wrote: »
    Why don't you get some ?

    Honestly, no image or statement means enough to me to have it on me permanently. I get that some people get tattoos that don't have a deep meaning but for me it would need to.


  • #85
    Pippy1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Pippy1976


    kneemos wrote: »
    Don't much care as long as nobody anywhere within earshot ever explains the reason for their tattoo.

    People explaining the reasons for their tattoo is like people expecting me to have an emotional attachment to their dog or cat. Bores me senseless.

    [i've got tattoos. I don't have a dog or a cat]


  • #86
    Ralphdejones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ralphdejones


    Pippy1976 wrote: »

    i've got tattoos. I don't have a dog or a cat

    What's the reasons for your tattoos ?


  • #87
    Pippy1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Pippy1976


    I've come to realise I get tattoos [or pierced] as a physical way to feel pain that I may be experiencing... a physical pain to mirror emotional pain, so to speak.

    It makes things easier to deal with, for me anyway. It's not always the case but on occasion. Also, I think they look good when executed properly.


  • #88
    Ralphdejones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ralphdejones


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Honestly, no image or statement means enough to me to have it on me permanently. I get that some people get tattoos that don't have a deep meaning but for me it would need to.

    Why not ? (Not saying your wrong, but I'm just trying to understand the mentality of someone who does not have tattoos)


  • #89
    Ralphdejones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ralphdejones


    Pippy1976 wrote: »
    I've come to realise I get tattoos [or pierced] as a physical way to feel pain that I may be experiencing... a physical pain to mirror emotional pain, so to speak.

    It makes things easier to deal with, for me anyway.

    Deep. So the bigger the Tattoo the bigger the emotional pain was ?


  • #90
    Barely There
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    I have one.
    I had been thinking about it for a while, I was living in London at the time in my early-20's.

    I walked into a shop off Kensington High Street pointed to one of the designs on the wall and said 'I'll have that one please'.

    The tattoo guy looked at it and said 'Oh, the skull, I've been wanting to do that one for ages.'

    I said 'Er, that's not a skull'.

    He wandered over, looked at it more closely and said 'Yeah, you're right'.

    Still can't believe I didn't run out of the place there and then.


    Never regretted it since though.


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  • #91
    Pippy1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Pippy1976


    Ralphdejones wrote: »
    Deep. So the bigger the Tattoo the bigger the emotional pain was ?

    haha! Maybe. Not supposed to be deep but I was getting pierced last week as I was going through a rough time and I noticed that I seem to resort to that stuff whenever things get 'emotional'!! Thought it was interesting, 's all.


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