# Talk me out of a tattoo, please. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 21, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114 "2007-02-21T17:58:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/41 "2007-02-21T21:40:16Z")
[QUOTE=anamnesis] So Alice, what does the Eye of Horus mean to you? Do you worship Ra? Are you Egyptian? Are you a descendant of Egyptian royalty? Are you the reincarnation of ancient Egyptian royalty? This symbol represented a lot of things, not the least of which was the sun, moon, royalty and rebirth. If none of these things apply to you, you may want to, at the very least, consider being familiar with any of these topics, lest you be regarded as an emo retard when someone who is genuinely interested in what your tattoo represents asks you what it means … [/QUOTE] I think it means she’s an [Alan Parsons Project](http://www.amazon.com/Eye-Sky-Alan-Parsons-Project/dp/B000002VC3/sr=1-1/qid=1172093916/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-7813837-2739133?ie=UTF8&s=music) fan. ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/42 "2007-02-21T21:46:15Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] Ok - you guys may have talked me out of the ankle. However, the inside of my wrist is option B. [/QUOTE] :eek: :eek: _Inside of your wrist?!?_ God damn, just _reading_ that was painful! _Please_, go for the ankle! ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/43 "2007-02-21T21:52:54Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > I’m not sure why but this post really rubs me the wrong way. It’s trying to talk you out of something. Add smilies to taste, it’s MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/44 "2007-02-21T21:57:38Z")
[QUOTE=Mbossa] :eek: :eek: _Inside of your wrist?!?_ God damn, just _reading_ that was painful! _Please_, go for the ankle! [/QUOTE] Like I said. No surface nerves. Every reason to believe I won’t feel anything beyond a mild tingle. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/45 "2007-02-21T21:59:48Z")
[QUOTE=MostlyClueless] [Horus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus). [/QUOTE] Thank you. I knew that didn’t look right. Clearly you’re not as clueless as you like to pretend :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/46 "2007-02-21T22:01:17Z")
[QUOTE=Grossbottom] It’s trying to talk you out of something. Add smilies to taste, it’s MPSIMS. [/QUOTE] Well good then. I don’t mean to pick on you - it just read like a post my mom would write. 😃 **“BUT, IF YOU GET A TATTOO, NO MAN WILL WANT YOU!!!”** ::_Alice’s mom faints dead away._:: yano? ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/47 "2007-02-21T22:06:28Z")
Definitely not the ankle. It’ll ruin the line of strappy shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/48 "2007-02-21T22:08:20Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] Like I said. No surface nerves. Every reason to believe I won’t feel anything beyond a mild tingle. [/QUOTE] But but but…aren’t you afraid of those veins right near the skin of your wrist being pierced and erupting into a fountain of blood??? Because I am. And I’m not even getting a tattoo! I guess I’m just a wimp when it comes to wrists. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/49 "2007-02-21T22:09:26Z")
[QUOTE=Mbossa] But but but…aren’t you afraid of those veins right near the skin of your wrist being pierced and erupting into a fountain of blood??? [/QUOTE] Wow, that would be _COOL_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/50 "2007-02-21T22:10:50Z")
FWIW, my second choice is a full body giraffe with its feet at my feet, its body coming up my body with it’s neck up my arm and its head on my hand so I can just stick my hand up in the air and be a giraffe. How cool would _THAT_ be? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/51 "2007-02-21T22:10:58Z")
[QUOTE=WOOKINPANUB] Thank you. I knew that didn’t look right. Clearly you’re not as clueless as you like to pretend :dubious: [/QUOTE] Coincidentally, he’s clueless about everything but this. Eventually this thread had to come up. ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/52 "2007-02-21T22:16:05Z")
It’s a fad **Alice** , but unlike purple hair, leg warmers, saddle shoes and most piercings, it’s **permanent**. In a few years, when the fad passes, you’re stuck w/ it. I don’t want to insult anyone, but I can’t think of anything appealing about a tatoo on a woman, especially somewhere it’s almost impossible to cover up. I wanted one when I was in my late teens and I’m very glad I never got one. Of course I’m from an older generation, but I think you’ll eventually regret getting one. ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/53 "2007-02-21T22:39:27Z")
Dammit, **alice** , I just can’t get the thought of wrist tattooing out of my head now. I’m probably gonna spend the next few weeks with my arms folded, protecting my poor wittle wrists from the eeeevil outside world. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/54 "2007-02-21T22:44:35Z")
[QUOTE=A.R. Cane] Of course I’m from an older generation, but I think you’ll eventually regret getting one. [/QUOTE] How old are you? My dad is 65 and doesn’t regret getting his. (He has four - he’s all for the tattoo.) ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/55 "2007-02-21T22:46:14Z")
I’m just going to faint dead away if you get a full-body giraffe. A guy in Barons (where my parents live, population ~300) has a full-body zebra striping tattoo. Yep, everyone knows him. NO WRIST. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/56 "2007-02-21T22:49:24Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] NO WRIST. [/QUOTE] Why? ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/57 "2007-02-21T23:00:04Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] How old are you? My dad is 65 and doesn’t regret getting his. (He has four - he’s all for the tattoo.) [/QUOTE] I’m 68. Maybe your Dad’s agreeing is a bit of reverse psychology? I still say it’s a fad and I think you’re too smart to get caught up in something so frivolous, but irreversible. ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/58 "2007-02-21T23:05:24Z")
Folks, in case you can’t tell from her replies, she’s already made up her mind, she’s just trying to decide WHERE to get one… …and she’s looking for novel reasons not to get one…she’s heard all the rest for years (we all have) …but I’m with A. R. Cane and the rest of the naysayers… smart girl - poor decision ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/59 "2007-02-21T23:10:48Z")
[QUOTE=DirkGntly] Folks, in case you can’t tell from her replies, she’s already made up her mind, she’s just trying to decide WHERE to get one… …and she’s looking for novel reasons not to get one…she’s heard all the rest for years (we all have) …but I’m with A. R. Cane and the rest of the naysayers… smart girl - poor decision [/QUOTE] Wow - I bet you could be more condescending, I just can’t imagine how. Good job. ---
**Author:** ![badkittypriestess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@badkittypriestess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badkittypriestess)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114/60 "2007-02-21T23:29:06Z")
\*{{Badkitty dances around and says to Alice, "Get it! Get it! Get it!}} \* I have 6 tattoo’s and want more! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-out-of-a-tattoo-please/393114.md?page=4)