Strange "tattoo".

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Just got back from the VA medical Center where I saw a man with an artificial right leg.  He was sporting a lot of tattoos all over but the one that really stood out was his right leg.  It was beautifully painted to match the tattoo on his left leg.

 

I have no tats of my own and don't generally pay much attention to people who do, but this work of art deserved recognition.

[Alpo]

6 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

I have no tats of my own

What about the one in your left armpit?

[Blackwater 53393]

So, Forty!!  Are ya’ a veteran again or did they demote you to rookie status??  

[Warden Callaway]

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 10/10/2024 at 1:33 PM, Alpo said:

What about the one in your left armpit?

I guess it's still there.  It has faded into the horizons of the past for the most part, so I don't count it.  I never really did.

[Pat Riot]

One of my nieces has a boatload of tattoos. This chick has no money, ever. Yet she’s covered in tattoos. She finances them. She goes to a tattoo parlor and takes out a loan to get a tattoo. How she does this is beyond me. 
She said that she always pays on time because if she doesn’t they’ll “come after her”. I guess the loan is from the parlor, not a bank. 

What a maroon! 

[Alpo]

That's the weirdest thing I ever heard of. That's like financing a steak dinner, or financing a prostitute. I don't make the payment they going to come get that steak out of my belly? Or that prostitute going to take her mmm mmm back? If I don't make my car payment they'll repo my car. They going to repo her tattoo?

[Stump Water]

2 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

One of my nieces has a boatload of tattoos. This chick has no money, ever. Yet she’s covered in tattoos. She finances them.

 

Pretty common.

 

Don't like your tattoo anymore?  No problem.  Just tattoo over it.  "Covering" tattoos are a pretty good part of a shop's business these days.

 

Not having a single tat, my observations indicate I'm in the 1th percentile.

[Warden Callaway]

Not long ago I stopped in at a gas station and covenance store in a little grain elevator town. I had to go in to get receipt. Young black woman working the register was covered with tattoos everywhere it showed. 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Where did my response to Blackwater go....and why?  It was in no way offensive to anyone but someone with a bug somewhere.

[Three Foot Johnson]

8 hours ago, Alpo said:

That's the weirdest thing I ever heard of. That's like financing a steak dinner...

About thirty years ago, a neighbor, who spends most of his spare time drinking beer, smoking cigarettes, and playing Keno at the local watering hole, was admiring a Makita 3/8" VSR drill I was using. He said it was a lot better than the ancient 1/4" Skil he had, and asked how much I paid for it. I told him sixty bucks (or whatever), and he said, "I'm going to the credit union tomorrow and borrow some money to buy one of these." He actually financed a drill. 

[watab kid]

didnt used to pay much attention to tattoos but recently i see so many and some in strange places and some that make no sense and some that are really ugly , i guess these days its all the rage , some folks should think twice on the whole idea tho , 

[Alpo]

6 hours ago, watab kid said:

some folks should think twice on the whole idea tho , 

"Some folks"???

 

Fella I used to work with was Hawaiian. His college freshman daughter come to him one day and told him she was thinking about getting a tattoo. He asked why in the world she would want to do something like that. Well it was to show her Hawaiian heritage. "Because back before Captain Cook, Hawaiian's tattooed. Right Dad?"

 

He said, "They tattooed their slaves so people would know who they belonged to".

 

He never did tell me whether she got one or not.

[Blackwater 53393]

Never saw any piece of art that I’d want to keep that long!!

 

I see old people with tattoos that they got when they were young.  Most of ‘em have sagged to the point that they’re like bad cartoons!!

 

EDIT:  My buddy, Painted Mohawk has some of the best tats I’ve ever seen!  I guess he’d be a good one to explain the other side of the coin.  Not that he’d owe anyone an explanation!!

 

 

MATTER OF CHOICE!!  Like a lot of things!

 

 

Edited October 13, 2024 by Blackwater 53393

[watab kid]

13 hours ago, Alpo said:

"Some folks"???

 

Fella I used to work with was Hawaiian. His college freshman daughter come to him one day and told him she was thinking about getting a tattoo. He asked why in the world she would want to do something like that. Well it was to show her Hawaiian heritage. "Because back before Captain Cook, Hawaiian's tattooed. Right Dad?"

 

He said, "They tattooed their slaves so people would know who they belonged to".

 

He never did tell me whether she got one or not.

yea . she may well have thought better of it , 

 

i was remembering the numbers the jews wore after the war 

[Texas Maverick]

On 10/11/2024 at 10:20 PM, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

I guess it's still there.  It has faded into the horizons of the past for the most part, so I don't count it.  I never really did.

I still want to know how Alpo knows about that tattoo. LOL

 

TM

[Rip Snorter]

Judy Collins 

 

[Alpo]

19 minutes ago, Texas Maverick said:

I still want to know how Alpo knows about that tattoo. LOL

 

TM

He told about it, some years back, and I remembered.

 

When he was a little kid in elementary school they came in and tattooed everybody with their blood type.

 

Had to be a long ass time ago because I certainly can't see them doing it today. The massive lawsuits if they did something like that today.

[Stump Water]

4 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Had to be a long ass time ago because I certainly can't see them doing it today. The massive lawsuits if they did something like that today.

 

Like mandating covid shots?