I have two since I turned 40 and they are visible and I love them. They make me happy, make me feel more confident. This is who I am.
I really want more, actually, but don’t have the art ideas! Anyone want to sketch for me?
As for the “Queen of Canada”, there have been numerous stories over the years of them attempting to just take over property and harassing locals across the country. I’m fairly certain it’s known by the police/RCMP who is part of that group, and therefore who has or doesn’t have a license or may be forbidden access to one (I’m not a lawyer but I imagine that’s possible?).
Good riddance to them all, from what I’ve read about them.
In the United States it’s a Federal felony for a convicted felon to be in possession of a firearm. I await enlightenment from our Canadian Dopers on what the legal case is north of the border.
Right after my “poppyseed moment”, my fellow 2nd graders all started yelling for the teacher, claiming I was going to get lead poisoning.
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Nice try, but I’m still not a) going to be your alibi for that night; b) lending you my vintage “OddJob” tri-tool; or c) telling your wife it was all MY idea.
Interesting. I had always heard that having tattoos meant that you couldn’t be buried in a Jewish cemetery, but googling shows that is a myth. (But apparently a well-known one.)
It’s a slang term for a bit of pencil lead that gets shoved under your skin, usually as part of a childhood accident. It can linger for years in some cases, and bears a passing resemblance to a poppyseed in a muffin (hence the name).
I had a friend in junior school who stabbed himself in the thumb muscle of his hand with a pencil, it produced about 1/4 cup of pus when his mother (a trained nurse, but possibly a lttle too far in the “wait and see” camp) eventually drained it.
Another adult friend has a single point tattoo, but apparently that is not uncommon in radiation treatment for certain cancers, for aiming purposes.
Such a rule would have been awkward given the number of involuntarily tattooed Jewish people in 1940’s Europe.
Tattoos to preserve life - such as those used for aiming radiation in cancer treatment - are not only permitted but encouraged because saving life has such a high priority in Judaism (at least in theory - not going to derail the thread with exceptions).
Tattooing for frivolous reasons - as personal decoration - is still strongly discouraged, especially among older generations of Jews. Younger ones may be more relaxed about the matter.
Arguably, memorial tattoos for a deceased loved one(s) are still not OK given the wording of Leviticus 19:28
FWIW, one of my best friends likes to brag about his single tattoo, a “poppyseed” (I didn’t know this meaning of the word before, too) from a school fight not from a pencil, but a ball point pen. It’s blue, which makes it even more look like a real classic tattoo.
It is a totally new thing that the poster made up. The tiny black speck of pencil lead embedded under the skin looks like it is a tattoo of a poppy seed, which is a tiny black speck.
Sailor stuff: I’d half-considered getting the ancient tattoos of a rooster and pig on each foot, but realized I couldn’t go barefoot like the sailors who started the trend, and they’d just become blobs as the ink set. Bluebirds on the chest are traditionally tattooed for each 1000 miles of sea traveled, and I qualified for at least six, but 1000 miles is different when you’re unfurling top gallants in the roaring forties vs riding along in a giant gray bus.
And there were all the Marine kids fresh out of boot camp who’d washed down all those crayons with the Kool-Aide and gotten huge USMC bulldog tats, illustrating poser-dom. So ultimately I chose to be like in Jaws where Hooper and Quint are comparing scars until they get to where Quint’s USS Indianapolis tattoo had been removed: a life well-lived should mark a person enough on its own without artificial input.
