Not being a sailor, I don't really get tattoos anyway, but this guy is clearly off his rocker.
Tattoo-gun-wielders should be required to turn people away who are clearly insane.
A database admin liked Brit database tools biz Redgate Software so much that he decided to become a walking billboard and get the company logo tattooed on his arm. Fast forward nine years and his world imploded. Sort of. Rodney Landrum sporting the old logo We will pay for its removal, marketing peeps told the admin... …
"I knew a woman who got uncontrollably excited whenever she got tattooed, so she married a tattooist. Sensible choice if you ask me."
The empire of the senses; no edges, but it's finite.
Unfortunately, he's doomed forever to bringing his work home with him. Not so sensible a choice for him.
"The Mersenne prime?" - assuming that was his intention.
Or he might have future-proofed his ink better if instead of having 2147483647 tattooed on his arm, he'd had MAXINT (or the appropriate symbolic representation in his favorite language) tattooed instead.
When 64-bit ints become ubiquitous, I don't fancy his tattooist having to rub that out and replace it with 9223372036854775807.
I've never understood why people get tats, for starters there is the pain.
Then there is fact that in ten years time "I luv Tracy" doesn't seem so cool now that you're married to Trevor (and for the record it was actually Tracey with an e!)
As for those who get some unintelligible script tattooed down the side of their torso, (Mr Beckham?). What if, despite the tattoo artist saying it meant "We all live in harmony", it actually said "I'm a F*****g T**t"?
Maybe a simple "Mum" would safe. Well yes, that is until the day you bludgeon her to death in an attempt to inherit her fortune. After that, having "Mum" tattooed on your upper arm might be a problem.
Please don't do it, buy a dog instead. Whilst a dog isn't just for Christmas, it isn't for life (hopefully) .
I've never understood why people get tats, for starters there is the pain.
Surely you must have heard the phrase "Pain is temporary, regrettable tatoos are forever".
I don't have any tatoos, but I do like the idea of a well drawn tatoo. "Forever" loses some of its potency after 40, when you start thinking about it as being "the next 25 - 40 years".
"As for those who get some unintelligible script tattooed down the side of their torso, (Mr Beckham?). What if, despite the tattoo artist saying it meant "We all live in harmony", it actually said "I'm a F*****g T**t"?"
I agree. Mr Beckham has been ruined by his tattoos. He is worth a meager $450m. He made only $65m in 2015. He's basically a pauper. He spent £2m renovating his home. £2m? What did he do? Throw some sawdust down? I mean you don't need to fly stonecutters in Sicily, but come on.
When my son was 14 he threw a tantrum because his mother and I would not permit him to get a "spongebob squarepants" tattoo. Now that he's 30 (and still without tattoos) he gets into a cold sweat thinking about the situation had we allowed him to have what he wanted. Thing is, no matter what your age, what seems like an excellent thing to have tattooed today will probably be an embarrassment in 10 to 20 years' time. Leave it until you're 75. It will still be a shit idea, but you won't be regretting it for so long.
When my son was 14 he threw a tantrum because his mother and I would not permit him to get a "spongebob squarepants" tattoo. Now that he's 30 (and still without tattoos) he gets into a cold sweat thinking about the situation had we allowed him to have what he wanted. Thing is, no matter what your age, what seems like an excellent thing to have tattooed today will probably be an embarrassment in 10 to 20 years' time. Leave it until you're 75. It will still be a shit idea, but you won't be regretting it for so long.
I dunno , when i got to middle age I thought "hmm , theres no situation I've ever been in where i would have been embarrassed by a tattoo in a coverable location.
Time that employment (and welfare benefits) were placed out of reach of anyone with a tattoo, or anyone considering one.
Why? Everyone does not have to live the same life.
I could be persuaded that anyone getting tats on their face and hands should face restrictions on unemployment benefits, but having a tatoo that fits under a suit does not seem to be any of my current or future employers business. That being said, you could make the same claim for those morbidly obese, or who didn't try hard at school, or whatever...... So while I could be persuaded, if you have a credible argument, you've not presented it yet.
(I don't have any tatoos, but I understand why some people do)
>Time that employment (and welfare benefits) were placed out of reach of anyone with a tattoo, or anyone >considering one.
I've noted all the sniffy "well, aren't tattoos jut stupid" comments, without needing to reply. But this one got my goat.
For the record, I'm in my mid-50s and earn (and have always earned) a respectable salary, doing respectable work for respectable organisations. Quite why I should be barred from this because I have a couple of tattoos (one of which is over 30 years old, and *no*, I don't remotely regret getting it) completely escapes me, unless it's because you, Mr "unwarranted triumphalism" want to impose your personal narrow view on what people can do with their own bodies.
Don't like tattoos? Fine - don't get one.
I believe the OP's post qualifies, literally, as body fascism.
Since when did you get to define societal norms to your liking? Maybe you should judge people on their actions, rather than on their appearance?
FWIW, I have no tattoos myself, but several family members and friends do, including the retired Physics Professor, and the Microbiologist who works for the local water supplier. I'm sure you'd feel perfectly safe drinking the water once they sacked their microbiologist...
"Don't like tattoos? Fine - don't get one."
I have a memorial tattoo. Its big . dont regret it at all.
I think Da Kidz today have gone a bit nuts though, not thinking twice about copying brain dead morons from the Reality shows and getting their huge ill thought out patterns on their necks and other permananetly exposed parts done . and the redon with ugly cover ups.
In the summertime (what little we get around here) tattoos help me distinguish tourists from locals. The women are wearing short-sleeved. Women tourists don't have visible tats. Local women do. When the circus pays its annual visit, they have an untattooed lady, and the audience gasps in amazement at such a thing.