This is where I always jump in to say that I have just one tattoo: A poppyseed. On my right palm. I gave it to myself accidentally when I mishandled a very sharp pencil.
This happened to me, below my right wrist, when I was in elementary school. I just checked, and it’s no longer there.
I had one just below my eye(!) from third grade and it hung around until at least high school.
Back when I was growing up Mormon in the 60s and 70s, tattoos were just slightly less of scandalous than adultery, and their existence in the world was evidence of the coming end times.
My never tattooed father sexually, physically and emotionally abused his children. But thank god he never got inked. That would have been bad.
We’ve another genius who decided to dry out the hard way. This one’s actuall a doctor!
An NHS vascular surgeon who had his own legs removed has been jailed for two years and eight months for insurance fraud and possessing extreme pornography.
Neil Hopper, 49, of Truro, Cornwall, carried out hundreds of amputation operations before having his own legs removed in 2019.
Truro Crown Court heard he lied to insurers by claiming that injuries to his legs were the result of sepsis and not self-inflicted.
It heard that in May 2019 Hopper had below knee amputations after a “mysterious illness”. In fact he had used ice and dry ice to freeze his own legs so they had to be removed, said prosecutor Nicholas Lee.
The court heard Hopper, who admitted two counts of fraud and three of possessing extreme pornography, had a “sexual interest in amputation”.
Judge James Adkin said in sentencing that he accepted that Hopper, who had no previous convictions, was remorseful.
However, the “level of harm” in three videos of body mutilation which were the subject of the pornography charges, was “exceptionally high”, he said.
Hopper had both legs amputated after complaining that his feet were in pain.
He was treated for suspected sepsis before he was told by surgeons that he should have his legs amputated and he was operated on.
He did not tell the medics the real cause of his injuries, the court heard.
That’s it? Just thirty months? He can do that standing on his head.
I’m pretty sure that they are tattooed all the time.
mine is in the heart line, 6th grade, still there.
We should start a Poppyseed Club.
When I was in grade school kids informed me that if pencil lead got into your skin, it would travel through your veins to your heart and kill you.
Looks like it takes a while.
I never got a tattoo. It would be like putting a bumper sticker on a Ferrari.
Any minute now.
I’ve still got two (slow learner).
Or, as I call it, “The Modern Mullet” - business on top, party on the bottom!
I’m going to be using this from now on.
“My other car is a porsche”?
I think that “My other car is a Honda Civic” would be a lot funnier on a Ferrari. 
In my case it would be like putting gold leaf on a Yugo.
I got my first tattoo last year, when I turned 50. It doesn’t make me cool, and it doesn’t make me better-looking - it just makes me happy.
Also, as midlife crisis bullshit goes, it’s cheaper than a sports car and less complicated than a mistress, so it’s got that going for it.
Yeah, sure, just don’t talk about drinking milk in a wine bar.
Sheesh, you’d think some people were born yesterday. Have you ever read this board? Or do you just stick to safe posts?
If you think I think I’m a persecuted minority, You should reevaluate your biases.
And the rest of you? Are you still going on about this? Get over yourselves already.
One thing about the “Queen of Canada” raid article: “St. Germaine said RCMP got a report on Aug. 25 of one of the building’s occupants possessing a firearm. That led to the investigation that culminated in the raid.”
One person having a gun sparked a whole raid? Yeesh. As an American, that sounds amazing.
There has to be more to it. There have been a lot of stories of the cult members harrassing and threatening towns people. I am sure its not a very comfortable situation for either party.
I suspect someone was threatened with a gun, and its the act that matters not whether there were any real guns. I just hope the RCMP know what they are doing, which is not always the case. The last thing we need is for this cult to be given some sort of unjust persecution victory.
Gun ownership in rural Canada is quite high, but its rifles and shotguns not rambo shit.