The term “tramp stamp” became common when that particular placement became more widely seen, coinciding with the low-rise jeans phenomenon. It’s stupid IMO, because as a somewhat discreet placement, it’s a good one. There are relatively few places on the body where one can place a tattoo and still decide who sees it and who doesn’t.
Oddly, tattoos on the breast or near the breast never got a cutesy nickname- probably just the era, I suppose…
That would make:
14. The portrait
It’s a nice sentiment. Really, it is. My dad wanted to get a portrait tattoo of my grandpa right after he died, and I’m glad I was able to talk him out of it. Your skin is going to move and stretch and wrinkle and you’re going to have a sci-fi masterpiece stuck on your arm that scares you every morning in the mirror instead of reminding you of your dear departed loved one. Or you could end up with this right out of the gate.
If there was a tattoo that everyone called a dick magnet, and lots of promiscuous gay guys had it, would you get one - even if it didn’t look “slutty” to you at all? Would you tattoo a swastika on your arm, intending its Indian meaning? If that doesn’t illustrate the point for you, come visit sometime. I’ll take you out to a few bars in Scottsdale.
There is a woman that used to come in to where I work with a tatoo on her left shoulder. It was of a naked elf/fairy with wings. This thing as ta-ta’s like you wouldn’t believe. It looks very odd on the back of a pretty young girl - looks more like something a biker might wear. The rumor is that her father bought it for her - which is doubly odd.
Pretty much sounds like it coulda been a shorter thread with ‘I don’t like tattoos’
I’m pretty happy with my corporate logo, and I’m pretty glad You and I don’t care about either’s thoughts on the subject.
(http://www.millertwinracing.com/miketat1.jpg)
That was two years ago and I’m thinking idly about incorporating Jake into it, which would violate two of your rules: http://www.globalwebcart.com/bbvstuff/item.asp?n=ba3-xm592&d=16&b=1
I get your point, I just think it’s a bad one. So a woman gets a tattoo because she likes it even though most people call it by a derisive nickname. Why does that annoy you?
Oh hell yes!
Phew. I only have two tattoos, but both had a potential for candidacy, perhaps: a yin-yang on my left bicep and a star (red inside black) on the inside of my right forearm.
Hee, nice, especially if it were done a la Picasso, where “de planes” are askew.
I know someone who had this done on their chest… Covering pretty much their whole chest.
I don’t know if he’ll ever regret it… He is mildly crazy.
Oh… and tattoos don’t bother me, but there is one type of tattoo that drives me nuts. An ex girlfriend of mine had it too…
Cherries, or anything else for that matter, done very close to a female’s privates. I just think it looks super uber trashy.
A young friend has a tattoo that says: ‘Tres Belle’. It’s French for ‘very pretty’. Unfortunately, she has it tattooed vertically on her neck – it’s huge, and frankly, disfiguring. I call that the ultimate ironic statement.
We had a waitress that had one just peeking out over the top of her pants, it was a four leaf clover that said ‘Lucky You’.
Works well as a young, thin, 20-something…(I’ve tried to rewrite this three times now, I’ll just go for un-PC: ) I could also see it meaning something else entirely to the guy that’s unhappily married to her lazy, overweight, bon-bon eating self in 8-10 years.
I don’t have to enumerate all the tattoos I hate - I hate all of them (even the ones in this thread). Tattoos are just scribbling on your body (permanently).
While I’m not sure about this tramp stamp thing, I wouldn’t get any of the tattoo types discussed here so far and I think most of them are generally stupid looking. None of them include the worst tattoo I’ve ever seen, however - I once saw a guy on the beach with a bar code on his neck, like he’d escaped from the produce aisle. Actually I’m down on neck tattoos in general.
I appreciate people who are willing to get shitty tattoos. I feel like they’ve gone the extra mile for my amusement.
Mr. Cool Ice, Earth Crisis face, and Hatebreed moustache skinhead: I salute you for taking things to the next level.
This guy obviously knew that a ton of prison time was in his future.
Agreed.
In today’s world, anyone who *doesn’t *get a tattoo is the unique one. Look how edgy **featherlou **and I are, you conformist bitches. 
Yes, the people in the majority who trot out the “you’ll regret that tattoo when you’re 80” lines their parents and grandparents used are definitely the cool ones. Blaze that trail, man! 
I have been using the Herve Villechaise joke for years now.
“I’ve got a little tatoo of…”
No one ever gets it. :smack:
I got a tattoo of a Bible verse added on to my existing tattoo of a cross a few years ago.
It’s not the text, just the book/verses. And it’s from the New Testament. I asked God first, he said it was cool.
