# You must get a tattoo - what would you choose? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 17, 2014, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337 "2014-07-17T04:14:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/21 "2014-07-17T11:43:18Z")
mine would be letters if that is allowed “F\*\*\* You, (the name of the person who made the law.)” ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/22 "2014-07-17T11:44:25Z")
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**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/23 "2014-07-17T11:45:59Z")
I already have some and love the ones I’ve got. If I absolutely had to get another one, it would probably be Celtic knotwork, maybe on my inner forearm. ---
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/24 "2014-07-17T12:45:52Z")
Small sleeping kitten,upper arm. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/25 "2014-07-17T12:54:45Z")
The [owl](http://bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/owl.php) from Chauvet. Thirty thousand yeas old, and immediately recognizable–not just a bird (and owls are cool, inherently), but an action, a moment, an experience (the owl has it’s head turned 180 degrees). It’s a beautiful representation of the continuity of humanity. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/26 "2014-07-17T12:57:52Z")
I have many. For those anti tattoo, normalizing pigment in a de-pigmented area could work for you. I have vitiligo involving my hands and knees. I wear kayaking gloves to block the sun on my hands, but my knees kept burning. A tattoo artist/friend tattooed my knees Caucasian. Hurt like hell, going over the thick calluses of the knee over and over to get it just right. Now my knees look normal and I don’t burn. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/27 "2014-07-17T13:02:06Z")
If this is at gunpoint… “Nobody listen to Zathras.” on the inside of my wrist. or _“Si Opus Quadratum vis, angulos praecidere noli.”_ - maybe same location. or A two-inch rendition of the impossible triangle, high on my shoulder. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/28 "2014-07-17T13:19:44Z")
Would very well-done eyeliner/eyebrow permanent makeup count? If not, a small Orthodox or Coptic cross on my wrist. [This design](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.windstarembroidery.com%2FDetails.cfm%3FProdID%3D3403&h=0&w=0&tbnid=hlkwTbL2T0NKoM&zoom=1&tbnh=287&tbnw=176&docid=LBZxsKqD9ZUDsM&tbm=isch&client=firefox-a&ei=UM3HU7nfEcSbyASv-4DgBQ&ved=0CAsQsCUoAw) is rather pretty. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/29 "2014-07-17T13:29:01Z")
I got my first tattoo as a retirement present to myself. An American badger on my left forearm, love it. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/30 "2014-07-17T13:30:36Z")
A full-back tattoo of two chinese dragons, circling as a yin/yang symbol. Red dragon on the right side, green dragon on the left. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/31 "2014-07-17T13:54:58Z")
For the tattoo haters, hey, that’s your tattoo!!! “I hate tattoos” inked somewhere hidden. Me, I already meet the requirements of our new overlords. I have two. One is about 20 years old, from back in the days when I had a sailboat and was out at least once a week. A compass rose on my right calf. The second one I got about 4 months ago. It is the EKG of one of Mattie, my life dog, who passed away a few years ago. She had an irregular heartbeat, so her EKG is like a signature, completely unique. It runs down the lower side of my right forearm from elbow to wrist. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/32 "2014-07-17T13:59:31Z")
I have no tattoos, and probably won’t, but I have thought about it. Mine would be a memorial, incorporating: - a snuffed, still smoking candle as the centerpiece - A jack of diamonds playing card - a broken arrow - a daisy flower - leave room to eventually add a small keg of TNT It would be a full color, highly artistic tattoo - no junk. Probably on my upper arm or shoulder blade. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/33 "2014-07-17T14:51:12Z")
“[Leviticus 19:28](http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-28.htm)” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/34 "2014-07-17T14:56:40Z")
I have one, and liked it so much I do want to get another one. In neat Hindi font, I’d have written Om Shantih shantih shantih I do read Hindi fairly well so I wouldn’t be a poser. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/35 "2014-07-17T14:57:37Z")
You must have a limb amputated – what would you choose? ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/36 "2014-07-17T14:58:59Z")
Probably just the next tattoo I was planning on getting anyway: either the \*\*\*\*\* from Vonnegut’s _Breakfast of Champions_, or the [two dueling avatars](http://38.media.tumblr.com/49e60b381a2f7f7ccfae7f2d424e21f6/tumblr_mn9ylzBP161rs6hqwo1_1280.jpg) from the original cover of Stephen King’s _The Stand_. I do literary tattoos. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/37 "2014-07-17T15:00:14Z")
I would go for [something like this around the eyes](https://slm-assets2.secondlife.com/assets/2442321/lightbox/-EVORA-%20TATTOO%20VENDOR%20AZUL%20E%20BRANCO%20Floral%20Dots.jpg?1288842401) but more subtle. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/38 "2014-07-17T15:05:51Z")
The _Om_ symbol, and the word “Susan” in script centered underneath it, on my lower back. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/39 "2014-07-17T15:38:54Z")
What an excellent tattoo. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337/40 "2014-07-17T15:51:00Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > You must have a limb amputated – what would you choose? That branch that keeps getting caught in my telephone wires? As for the OP “Open with care” down my rib cage. (I don’t have or want any tattoos but I’m not against them) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-get-a-tattoo-what-would-you-choose/693337.md?page=3)