# I pit patients with tattoos from head to toe (including swastikas) who whine over getting shots **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 18, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115 "2013-09-18T01:57:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/21 "2013-09-18T10:49:05Z")
> [@](#): > > I swear, I cannot make this stuff up. Honestly, I wouldn’t believe this stuff from someone who didn’t work where you work. I have no tattoos, but I DID get my flu shot yesterday afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/22 "2013-09-18T11:40:44Z")
The people where Qadgop works remind me of what we used to say when I worked at a drug rehab clinic: “If these people weren’t messed up they wouldn’t be here” ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/23 "2013-09-18T12:38:08Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > But these are Wisconsin Nazis. Different breed. Creamier. Cheesier. And actually German as opposed to those domestics. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/24 "2013-09-18T12:50:36Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > I nursed my daughters through many of their shots so they were pretty quiet but I’m afraid that’s not the solution you’re looking for. It might work. Are willing to visit the prison? ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/25 "2013-09-18T13:29:49Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > So get 'em drunk. 😉 If he did that my guess is that the whole prison population would line up for a shot…or two…or three. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/26 "2013-09-18T13:36:54Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > If he did that my guess is that the whole prison population would line up for a shot…or two…or three. …and then they’d get poked with a needle… ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/27 "2013-09-18T13:49:53Z")
I have a bad needle phobia and I can see the difference. Tattoo needles don’t jab deep into the muscle. While I’d never get a tattoo either it makes sense to me to fear shots and blood draws more. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/28 "2013-09-18T14:36:31Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > How is it relevant if the tattoo is a swastika? > > I think you’re just biased against Nazis > [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos. I prefer Al Franken’s take on NeoNazis: Say what you will about them but anyone who joined the Nazi Party after 1945 is no fair weather friend. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/29 "2013-09-18T14:56:05Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > I have a bad needle phobia and I can see the difference. Tattoo needles don’t jab deep into the muscle. it wasn’t going into his muscle. It was going into his joint. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/30 "2013-09-18T15:05:34Z")
Tell him if he’s good he’ll get a “Storm Trooperz Babies” band-aid afterward. ---
**Author:** ![Pazu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pazu/32/15522_2.png) [@Pazu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pazu)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/31 "2013-09-18T15:14:16Z")
Reminds me of the attending doc I worked with during residency at the VA, whose response to a vet who’d expressed some trepidation about a fine needle aspiration was “Big war hero afraid of a little needle? The needle’s smaller than a bullet!” ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/32 "2013-09-18T15:30:20Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > It might work. Are willing to visit the prison? I still have milk. Could I charge for access to it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/33 "2013-09-18T15:38:26Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > it wasn’t going into his muscle. > > It was going into his joint. \ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/34 "2013-09-18T16:00:33Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > I still have milk. Could I charge for access to it? You could act as Qadgop’s nurse… wow, wait… let’s change that to _assistant_. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/35 "2013-09-18T16:01:03Z")
My uncle is a veterinarian (I _swear_, this is relevant.) When I was a kid, he used to give rabies clinics, where he’d take over a county warehouse and people would bring their critters in for a $5 rabies shot. He did this on Sundays, so often recruited family members to help. I helped out several years in a row, sometimes registering the rabies tags to each animal, sometimes as the vet tech. [Relevance alert] In my experience, the little dogs would stand there, get their shot, and keep on wagging. They wouldn’t even flinch or anything. No reaction to being stabbed with a needle. The big dogs always yelped and cried and acted like my uncle was trying to cut their tail off. It’s always the big dogs who cry the loudest. [/analogy] ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/36 "2013-09-18T16:21:43Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > I still have milk. Could I charge for access to it? Do you take payment in cigarettes? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/37 "2013-09-18T16:36:34Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Do you take payment in cigarettes? Most prisons are non-smoking facilities these days. Get caught with tobacco and off to solitary you go! ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/38 "2013-09-18T16:45:44Z")
Yet another childhood image shattered, is NOTHING sacred these days? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/39 "2013-09-18T16:47:48Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Most prisons are non-smoking facilities these days. Get caught with tobacco and off to solitary you go! Where there’s no problem with second hand smoke. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115/40 "2013-09-18T17:08:33Z")
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