Just roll your D20. Then whatever number comes up pick it back up and stuff the D20, in your closed fist, down the yabberer’s throat.
Every roll is a kill roll if you do it right.
Today I got a tattoo of my cholesterol medication and a bowling ball with CostCo in the background.
Try having dinner with a bunch of people who are into polyamory…
Some tattoos are nice in themselves, but are less attractive on the body. I was once going to commiserate with some girl that I thought I had a huge bruise on her arm. But it was a tattoo. Others look like someone scribbled on them with a ballpoint pen. Lots of times the tattoo clashes badly with the clothes the person is wearing.
I’ve never gotten one because I’ve never found an image I want permanently (essentially) on my body.
I gave the same answer you did, but would have selected your option had it been available. I’ve never been at a party where tattoos were discussed, but in the course of conversing with the maids who clean my apartment on Tuesdays, I’ve occasionally asked one if there’s any significance to the “ink” on her arm.
Just today, I was treated to a story from first-timer “Amy” about how her mother was always a “goody-goody churchgoer” until having a midlife crisis and deciding it would be fun if she and Amy both got some body art. Amy revealed that the stars on her own left arm cost a total of $275 and that she’s spiritual enough to have a cross on her right arm, but that bloody skulls and neck tattoos are bridges she doesn’t plan to cross. I also discussed plenty of other subjects with her – her family, her Thanksgiving, her upbringing – but not being tattooed myself, I like exploring differences, as well as finding similarities, between myself and these women.
I did that many times before learning they were polyamorous… I guess i just come across as too straight.
I have a little tattoo on my wrist and I wish nobody could see it but me. I try to hide it in public but people always ask me questions about it when I don’t. I was 20 when I got it, and in retrospect it was probably ill-advised (but not the worst decision I ever made at that age, so…) Further complicating things, it has religious significance, so I feel like I’m always roped into talking about my religion with complete strangers… like the flu shot lady who asked me not only my religion, but whether I would be raising my child that way. I’m not very good at telling people to mind their own business. I would not enjoy it coming up at parties.
I think tattoos in general, though, are fine. Some are good art and some are bad art. I love the ones that are good art.
As to the banality of talking about children, I agree and now that I have a child it’s often one of the only things people want to talk to me about. I don’t mInd talking about it but I also don’t blame people for finding it boring. I was always bored to tears hearing about other people’s babies before I had one. I didn’t realize how cool it was.
One of these years, a student will take me up on the idea of getting this tattoo (which is relevant to class content):
That looks pretty cool to me even though I don’t understand the language. Mine is in Sanskrit which I don’t know how to read and that’s partly why I feel dumb about it.
I’d still rather hear about that than about your essential oils or whatever other MLM crap you’re selling.
Hah, I thought this same thing but didn’t post it. I’m into roleplaying games and still think that someone talking at length about their campaign (that you’re not involved in) is one of the most tedious things ever.
“…and then when we were prisoners in the goblin caves, the bard tried to persuade the chieftain to let us go but he rolled a twenty and the DM said the goblin fell in love with him and they had to get married!”
It sure looks like somebody already did. Or am I misunderstanding something?
(I miss the smiley face with the big question marks over its head. All the canned Discourse ones are too ambiguous.)
Somebody did, but not my student.
You could instead tell everyone what their tattoos mean to you.
“Oh, this tattoo? It’s an illustration of a man who projects his insecurities onto phenomena he has no personal experience with nor connection to and thus has an entirely warped perspective of”
Have to say the only people who ever seem to make a big to-do out of tattoos are people who don’t have any, which is strange to say the least. And no, I’ve never heard anyone bloviating about them at parties. Probably one of those things you’d only notice if you’re looking for it.
They certainly bloviate about them here on the SD. Right here in this thread, actually. At least one can opt out of a thread and skip posts.
I have my share of tattoos, but have never brought them up at a party, because why would I?
I have had people approach me at parties with questions/comments, though. Several times people have recognized the artist (old school) who did many of mine and is no longer with us. I also had someone approach me with, “I don’t like tattoos!” to which I replied, “Yeah, I’m against laws that would require people to have them”.
Haha. You and I have definitely gone to different parties and surely know different sorts of people.
An actual conversation, reconstituted from memory:
Them: “Hey, wanna see my piercings?”
Me: “Sure!”
Them [drops trou]
Me: “Say, that’s a… nice tattoo you got there.”
But I have known people whose tattoos were deeply important to them, and were grateful for the chance to talk about them at great length. Who doesn’t love to talk about themselves?
One hopes that “Me” and “Them” were the gender combination where each wants to see the other trou-less.
One would be, and “They” were, perhaps, disappointed with the outcome. But ah, hope beats eternal? It was a nice set of piercings, I can tell you that much.
I would tell you more, but I expect hearing a second-hand story about another person’s piercings would only be surpassed in hideous boredom by a first-hand story about piercings.