Naturist resort?
While we’re on the subject, some people are using branding as part of their body modifications
But what if the lady getting naked has a tattoo of a naked lady?
But before they flew away Macklemore showed up and then this happened.
Wouldn’t a branding iron be much, much hotter than a logo on the outside of a common grill?
But it doesnt work. I mean it does make them look more trashy and easy, sure.
Dont get me wrong, I have seen a woman with a lovely piece of Celtic artwork on her back. It was very well done and attractive. But it didnt make her look any more attractive.
But few tats are actually artwork of that quality.
This is an official instruction to all thread participants to cease the side discussion regarding the Weber grill. If you feel the need to continue that conversation, take it to a new thread (in an appropriate forum).
The BBQ Pit?
I also once saw a “procedural” on line of a woman having a still life with bamboo carved into her back. As in, someone took a knife and used it to literally carve the design, removing partial to full thickness of skin to form the design.
The composition was beautiful, but the medium - scar tissue - I found extremely off-putting, more so than tattooing.
I get the folks who use modification to cover up scars, discolorations, and so forth and think those can be an improvement, but I seldom see tattooing on healthy, unmarred skin that, in my opinion, improves things. Purely my opinion of course, and I fully support the right of competent, informed adults to do what they want with their bodies.
OK, that was funny.
I find body modification in all of its iterations more understandable than pathological exaggerators/liars. In my opinion, of course.
I find people who can’t understand the distinction between “rare” or “improbable” and “impossible” to be irritating, but yet I am forced to interact with them.
As I have repeatedly said, I firmly support the right of people to control their own bodies, but I still have an opinion about what they do. I can understand that my co-worker who has the names of his children permanently inscribed on his neck did that because he deeply loves them and the tattoos are beautiful and enormously important to him. I can also think it’s ugly and looks like someone wrote on his skin with a dull sharpie. Meanwhile, there are other tattoos I do consider beautiful.
When it comes to scarification - I have too strong an association in my mind between scarring and injury. Even if the resulting pattern is a pleasing composition I have trouble seeing past the scarring, which to mean speaks of pain and injury rather than beauty. Clearly, not all cultures view it that way, some of them going for very extensive scarifications. It’s all what you associate with the practice.
Some people are never going to shake the association of tattoos with crime, sideshows, concentration camps, and shady characters. Those folks tend to be old, and a lot has to do with them being raised in a slightly different version of modern societies. As time goes by tattooing will become like getting your ears pierced - no big deal either way, and in some sub-groups it will be odd NOT to have one. I don’t think we’re quite there yet, but it’s coming.
Now there’s a good reason to get a tattoo.
Even my old Indian parents and Chinese inlaws are taking tattoos in their stride, and they are definitely of the caliber to think tattoos are the provenance of criminals. But these days, it’s no big deal. I know my cousin got a Supernatural tattoo on his chest! At least my tat was culturally significant, so it went over much better (an Om).
I just can’t see them as a big deal anymore. And of course there are degrees of tattoos. Upper arm and leg tattoos are significantly different from full back tats. A tattoo done professionally by an artist is going to look different from one your cousin John did in his basement because he’s trying to save up to be an artist.
And it’s your taste too. If you are going to go to the artist and point to the giant honking skull and crossbones and ask for them on your forearm, very few artists are going to say boo. They may respectfully ask you to consider how visible that tat will be, but if you’re sober and mature, they won’t stop you.
Sorry, I forgot to address this one. Probably because I had more important crap to deal with in my life that this thread.
My spouse is NOT in a wheelchair. I realize that some of you kiddies have this mistaken notion that disabled=wheelchair but that’s not the case. When this comes up I ask that the poster in question please link to the exact post(s) where I say my spouse is a wheelchair user.
Of course they never do.
Because they CAN’T.
Because that post does not exist.
My spouse had not needed a wheelchair since the age of 9 when a corrective surgery enabled him to finally walk. Once again, a bunch of people have taken a nugget of truth and confabulated it into fantasies, then convinced themselves I’m the one telling the lies here. I’m not. There are other posts saying he’s a wheelchair user, but they’re invariably by other people, not me.
Of course, if any of you disbelieve THAT statement it should be easy enough to disprove, right? Simply search the Straight Dope.
As to the precise details of the event I wasn’t there myself, it was before I met him. However, he unquestionably has a badly scarred backside. Which, no, I am not posting a picture of. Frankly, asking someone to post a picture of someone else’s naked ass is pretty scummy behavior and I find it more offensive than the frequent accusations that I am lying.
My note to the participants in this thread includes you, Broomstick. You can report posts that you take issue with. As I’ve already stated, there is to be no further discussion of this topic in this thread. By anyone.
understood.
Link to relevant pit thread: Broomstick - Does His Ass Say rebeW or Not? - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board
<Kevin Durant looks down at the “W” on his torso>
“What, you mean my ‘M?’”