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YOYO wrote:

Nieghorn wrote:

Sards wrote: The last one. I have found an artist here that specialises in watercolor and I have been watching his work. I might just have to get one

I've heard they don't last long / mush together after a while.

Whatever you do, don't mix it with what you're doing now.

Never. I just can't find a Medusa I like .

This caught my eye

Should put it on a tee shirt made out of sequins. It’d be amazing.

backrow wrote:Forever Testarossa you mean?

A guy I went to Uni with had MOTO GUZZI tattooed... on his forehead.

houtkabouter wrote:Should put it on a tee shirt made out of sequins. It’d be amazing.

Don't discourage this one - can you imagine the job his "artist" is going to manage trying to free hand a human face?

houtkabouter wrote:Should put it on a tee shirt made out of sequins. It’d be amazing.

You are clueless. An artist can get great detail on the snake/Dragon hybrid which in itself is unique. Yeah those spirals on the cheek don't do it for me. I do like the idea of the spiral solar system which can link the Medusa to my sword. The woman is hot. Better than the ugly Madusa's I've seen. Can't say I've seen this one before

Demilich wrote:

houtkabouter wrote:Should put it on a tee shirt made out of sequins. It’d be amazing.

Don't discourage this one - can you imagine the job his "artist" is going to manage trying to free hand a human face?

Yeah I've found a new artist. They don't free hand.

Sards wrote:

houtkabouter wrote:Should put it on a tee shirt made out of sequins. It’d be amazing.

You are clueless. An artist can get great detail on the snake/Dragon hybrid which in itself is unique. Yeah those spirals on the cheek don't do it for me. I do like the idea of the spiral solar system which can link the Medusa to my sword. The woman is hot. Better than the ugly Madusa's I've seen. Can't say I've seen this one before

Really. I’m clueless.

Have you seen your tattoos?

houtkabouter wrote:

Sards wrote:

houtkabouter wrote:Should put it on a tee shirt made out of sequins. It’d be amazing.

You are clueless. An artist can get great detail on the snake/Dragon hybrid which in itself is unique. Yeah those spirals on the cheek don't do it for me. I do like the idea of the spiral solar system which can link the Medusa to my sword. The woman is hot. Better than the ugly Madusa's I've seen. Can't say I've seen this one before

Really. I’m clueless.

Have you seen your tattoos?

Yes . So have you. Let's see yours

This thread is packed with lols.
Here’s a decent tiger tat if anyone is looking for one.
Onwards gents.

Wow......That has to be done over a few sittings.........that Viking is fantastic

Think I might get me a Paul Kruger tattoo, with a backdrop of the Great Trek - ossewaens crossing the Drakensberg ... And a small tableau of the battle of Majuba ...

Wilson's Toffee wrote:Think I might get me a Paul Kruger tattoo, with a backdrop of the Great Trek - ossewaens crossing the Drakensberg ... And a small tableau of the battle of Majuba ...

Wow...what an excellent idea.

Sards.

You have all these people believing that you have that tattoo's

handyman wrote: Sards.

You have all these people believing that you have that tattoo's

You should get some yourself. Use Sards's artist. The third one, one of those he fired .. .

Adam Peaty has ruined his body with that awful tattoo.

As said on his Twitter feed at the time - no tattoos please. You are too good for that . It's 100 % Chav

I've never really understood what a tattoo can achieve that a bumper sticker or hallway art can't.

I have no issues with people who have meaningful defining things they want to take to the grave: family stuff, their career, where they're from, life changing events. But I've seen bumper stickers with "26.2" and thought "ok, big deal running a marathon, fair play. A bit showy, but fair play and at least you can take off the sticker when the buzz has worn off". But then I think "hey that person is a marathon finisher for life" as a guy walks past with a vampire tattoo. Surely the other way round would make more sense. 26.2 tattoo on that guy and sticker of a vampire for that guy on his car, or a nice photo of one in his hallway.

If the world freezes and the aliens come to study our corpses:
"ok this guy seemed to have a young family, was involved in the airborne military and seemed to come from that land mass we saw in the southern ocean"
"and this guy?"
"I think they were some serious f-ing problems on this planet before the freeze with beings we're finding no physical evidence of, we're seeing this body art everywhere. The huge chicken, sheep and cow populations but with no actual body art reference to those animals. I seriously think we should just abort on this one, its got mass ritual sacrifice written all over it."

Audi wrote:I've never really understood what a tattoo can achieve that a bumper sticker or hallway art can't.

I have no issues with people who have meaningful defining things they want to take to the grave: family stuff, their career, where they're from, life changing events. But I've seen bumper stickers with "26.2" and thought "ok, big deal running a marathon, fair play. A bit showy, but fair play and at least you can take off the sticker when the buzz has worn off". But then I think "hey that person is a marathon finisher for life" as a guy walks past with a vampire tattoo. Surely the other way round would make more sense. 26.2 tattoo on that guy and sticker of a vampire for that guy on his car, or a nice photo of one in his hallway.

If the world freezes and the aliens come to study our corpses:
"ok this guy seemed to have a young family, was involved in the airborne military and seemed to come from that land mass we saw in the southern ocean"
"and this guy?"
"I think they were some serious f-ing problems on this planet before the freeze with beings we're finding no physical evidence of, we're seeing this body art everywhere. The huge chicken, sheep and cow populations but with no actual body art reference to those animals. I seriously think we should just abort on this one, its got mass ritual sacrifice written all over it."

I worry more about your concern about what aliens might think of us than having a tattoo....

Sards wrote: I worry more about your concern about what aliens might think of us than having a tattoo....

It was just a point to illustrate the lack of functionality of a tattoo, and I hold my hands up, I have no response for why a tattoo needs to be functional. As an observer, they just make a bit more sense to me if they serve an true identifying function rather than merely being art.

I just love the design and line worrr .... ah hell ... siiiiide booooooob.

Varsity Way wrote:Adam Peaty has ruined his body with that awful tattoo.

As said on his Twitter feed at the time - no tattoos please. You are too good for that . It's 100 % Chav

Looks pretty good. (Not a fan of the Roman numerals but it's a quality tat. ... unlike the lame Olympic one on the inside of his arm.)

Tattoos = look at me, look at me. Sad

Last Line wrote:Tattoos = look at me, look at me. Sad

Posting = hear me roar?

Taranaki Snapper wrote:

I saw some really bad ones just recently...makes this look good

Sards wrote:

Taranaki Snapper wrote:

I saw some really bad ones just recently...makes this look good

In the mirror?

Taranaki Snapper wrote:

thats quite good

This thread has just come to my attention. If this is one giant pisstake thread Sards, well done you.

le chat wrote:If you're polynesian how does the tattoo process work over there is it just go into a place and get one as normal or is it more complex?

In Samoan culture, there are all sorts of cultural protocols to follow prior to, during the tattooing process, and in the ceremony at the conclusion of the work. No sex is one of them.

Traditionally, only those males with a tatau can serve the high chiefs and only those females with [the female tattoo] could mix the kava. All sorts of other special status, roles, duties etc reserved for them.

There is a saying - "women give birth, men have tattoos" (associating the pain of birth to the pain in getting the tattoo).

Btw, there is only one way to get these things done in my humble ultraconservative opinion - the old way with all the associated pain. Those rugby players with their "samoan" shoulder and arm tattoo bollocks would've done it the modern way for "look at me" reasons.

Tapped in!


I once read that some ancient cultures might have also dragged soot-covered thread under the skin to make a straight line.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/gwi ... -1.3796606

Not sure how these would have been done, but it's something that never made old 'westerns' (that I ever noticed).



They did do it for DDL and Russell Means in Last of the Mohicans

Perhaps because it was an 'Eastern'.

Nieghorn wrote:Tapped in!


I once read that some ancient cultures might have also dragged soot-covered thread under the skin to make a straight line.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/gwi ... -1.3796606

Not sure how these would have been done, but it's something that never made old 'westerns' (that I ever noticed).

probably like a plumb line

Auckman wrote:

le chat wrote:If you're polynesian how does the tattoo process work over there is it just go into a place and get one as normal or is it more complex?

In Samoan culture, there are all sorts of cultural protocols to follow prior to, during the tattooing process, and in the ceremony at the conclusion of the work. No sex is one of them.

Traditionally, only those males with a tatau can serve the high chiefs and only those females with [the female tattoo] could mix the kava. All sorts of other special status, roles, duties etc reserved for them.

There is a saying - "women give birth, men have tattoos" (associating the pain of birth to the pain in getting the tattoo).

Btw, there is only one way to get these things done in my humble ultraconservative opinion - the old way with all the associated pain. Those rugby players with their "samoan" shoulder and arm tattoo bollocks would've done it the modern way for "look at me" reasons.

Aren’t they based on aspects of your life story/ heritage and the tattoo fella interprets that and basically tells you what you should have rather then you just ask for something you like?
Or is that a Maori thing? Or have I got that completely bolloxed?