I’ve never seen him in person, but have seen him several times on TV: The Enigma is, by far, the worst idea for a tattoo I’ve ever seen. Not only is the guy a walking tattoo-slash-pincushion, but he is also attepmting to grow horns, just to confuse future archaeologists!
I guess it’s good to have a goal in life.
I know a guy who’s got Elmer Fudd on his butt with the rifle pointing towards his asshole and a word bubble: “Get out of that hole you wascally wabbit!”
And succeeding, according to Guiness.
Mentioned in this thread were chevrons. I saw something on Charmed this week that was called a chevron.
Exactly what is this body modification, and how is it done?
Chevrons aren’t a body modification. It’s what you see on army fellows. Those stupid stripes. It’s also in the logo for Chevron, the gas company. So when people talk of Chevrons, they’re speaking of getting a Chevron tattooed on their body.
My husband’s cousin, in a younger, drunken day, had two vampire bites tattooed on his neck. Very interesting conversation piece.
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**IMHO, anyone who has a tattoo that gets blocked by clothing is a hypocrite… :rolleyes:
Apparently you have never met my father who would disown me if he knew about the small tatoo on the back of my neck. It is small enough and my lnog hair covers it up so hopefully he will never know it is there.
I have seen ‘chevrons’ that were raised flesh. I am wondering if this is done by inserting something into the flesh, scarification, branding, or what.
I don’t have any tattoos, but if I ever did, I think I would get a design, or something that was ‘in fashion’ at that time.
I have a friend who has a cartoon devil with ‘Born To Be Bad’ underneath which is pretty bad. He also has a Garfield which has been badly drawn. I hope he sued, but I’ve never had the guts to ask, in case he likes it. It is the enduring image of this Garfield that will probably prevent me ever getting a tattoo.
I also remember putting a guy through Court (I’m a prosecution lawyer) on a drink driving charge. He looked like your typical middle class professional, but my eye caught the ‘marks/scars’ section of the police form on which was written ‘Tattoo - left buttock - Bart Simpson on a Skateboard’
I had difficulty keeping a straight face.
Er…that should be NOT something that was ‘in fashion’ !!
I have seen these…
An ageing skinhead with Doctor Martins boots on his face in place of sideburns
A home done potrait of Elvis with the word ‘EVIS’ underneath.
A half finished full back piece of the Mad Hatters Tea Party ( The tattooist went to prison so the biker guy had to wait 5 yrs to get it finished )
A picture of Dino from the Flintstones ( guess what his nick name is )
The words 'I’M KENNY ’ on the back of someones neck.
The words ‘FUCK’ and ‘OFF’ on the back of someones fingers (No he didnt have a finger missing, should maybe have put a ! on the end)
I went out with a woman who had a penguin on her shoulder. She was a psychiatrist.
There was a girl in my college Speech class who had a Chinese character tatttooed on the small of her back. She mentioned to the T.A., who was Chinese, that she had this tattoo of the Chinese letter for “K” (her name was Kristin, or something starting with a “K”). After giving her a weird look, he said that Chinese characters are not analagous to letters. She showed her tattoo, which he reproduced on the blackboard for the class, and explained that it meant “sky” or “wide” or something like that. She was red-faced, and the T.A. mentioned to me another time after class that it was better translated as “loose” but he didn’t have the heart to tell her. I’m guessing her tattoo artist gives that same one to any ditzy girl who comes in asking for an Asian design.
So: IMHO I think the dumbest tattoos are of Chinese/Japanese/etc. characters on people who have zero connection to that culture. Exotic? Nope. You look like a retard.
At the NASCAR race in Richmond, Virginia last May, I saw a many with a huge tattoo of Dale Earnhardt on his back: face and two cars – one from his early career (the Wrangler car) and the #3 GM Goodwrench he drives now. Judging from the body style on the “current” car, the guy got the tatt around 1997.
And at Dover in September, I saw a guy with the faces and cars of Alan Kulwicki and Davey Allison on his back.
I’ve known two guys who each made the decision to get a large tattoo on thier neck. of a Marijuana leaf.
It did seem to limit their available career paths.
For the record, I’ve got 14 tatts, two of which are normally visible (on the forearms) as are a lot more if I wear shorts. At least once/day I get a positive comment on 'em and often the other will raise a pant leg or shirt arm to show off their less visible one(s). It was a major step to go from having ink that was normally hidden under clothing to normally visible, but one I don’t regret.
For those wanting to get a tatt, I offer one advice - don’t rush. Think a long time about what you want, how it looks, and how will it affect you (now and decades from now) - I’d bet money that every one of the ‘worst ideas’ of the subject were quickie decisions.
Oh, and before I get too far off of the OP, I once dated a girl with her SocSec number on her left wrist. Looked like she spent her summer in a German rest camp, and the truth wasn’t any less bizarre: her mother had all the children done that way “in case they needed to positively identify the body.”
I just saw a guy with some solid dark 4-6 inch celtic swirls…ON HIS FACE! OK, you’re twenty years old, and you KNOW this is what you want to see in the mirror every day for the rest of your life?
Have you ever thought that one day you might like to get a job, y’know when you graduate from college?
There’s this guy I know who got the metal piece on a lighter superheated by leaving the flame on for a while, and then proceeded to brand himself multiple times w/ it. Why??
In that same vein, I think that branding is infinitely worse than any tattoo you could ever get. Besides the fact that you’re searing living flesh, there isn’t anyway to remove those, are there? (Besides getting your appendage amputated…)
Its called a smiley, I kinda looks like a smiley face. Its just a desctructive teen thing to do.
I know a women who got a daist tatooed around her belly button with the belly button being the center. It looked cute, but then she got pregnant. After her pregnancy, when she got back to her previous size, it was all distorted. Some of the petals were like 4 inched long, while others were really short and tiny. I think that it is a bad idea for anyone who plans on ever being pregnany to get a tatoo on their stomach.
I also know a girl who got her boyfriends name tatooed to the small of her back. She didn’t even like him that much and was always complaining that he was too clingy, “So why in the hell did you tatoo his name on you!!!” Needless to say, she regreted it only about two months after she got it.
Bar codes are seem to be quite popular these days.
A friend of mine has a bar code on his forarm, the number being some Orwellian reference (I would have gone for 655321, from A Clockwork Orange, myself).