Tattoos
 

Anyone have some they want to show ???

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Yes and not really. I don't have any pictures anyway.

Mine are both upper arms/shoulders. They show when I wear a tank top. I was caught up in the Harley thing for quite a while. I was cool being the guy with no tattoos for a long time. Then my wife got a big butterfly on her belly she felt she needed. I had no choice but to roll with that. I didn't agree with her reason for getting it. Since I was a biker and my wife had a tattoo, I decided to get some. I don't really regret that, but I do feel it was not me following my own path. They tell a story of a segment of my life. I guess that's what they were originally about

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Does the full back "my little kitty" count ? or the chinese writing on my neck that translates to "Turkey sandwhich " ? :lol:

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Yes, and same is Tim, not really willing to show them.
Mine are both arms, shoulder to back of hand. Flames, skulls, and dragons, typical biker stuff, from the late 80s/early 90s, none of the trendy tribal stuff though.

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I don't have any but I've always wanted two old school Sailor Jerry/Flash style pin up girls on me somewhere. One with an Army theme and the other Navy to represent/honor both my grandfathers service. Not sure it'll ever happen now, the wife hates my ear gagues enough, my mother in law would probably file the divorce paper work for her daughter if she found out I had a tattoo.

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Well that wouldn't be me ! :lol:

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You wouldn't be very interested in mine. One dot on each hip. They use them to align you on the radiation table when you're getting cancer treatment.

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44 years with military and I have none. Just never wanted to be stabbed.

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I have one on my butt. Wanna see it? :lol:

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Never got one. I always wanted Chinese dragons on my forearms but never got around to it. Now I'm just too old to try and look cool. Nobody's looking anymore. I could get one on my butt saying "Take it easy' for my proctologist.

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:lol::lol::lol::lol: Oh, the drama!

Never saw the need for tats or "ink" I guess is the cool word for such. Never got any while I was in the military and tattoo shops were always all over around the bases and posts I was stationed at, both Germany and Vietnam. That and I can identify with Palf70step, got enough needles shoved in my arms and backside during my US Army days. Don't like needles at all and only endure such when there is a NEED for one.

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Must be a big M, 1 on each cheek. One way says MOM. The other way say WOW

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None for me . I had a co worker years ago with "YOUR NAME" tattooed on his butt . He would win money by telling someone "I bet I have your name tattoed on my a$$." :lol:

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I told my last butt cam team to remember that "...this ain't Disney Land!"

:D

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Just gave me an idea, LOL

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Do you want a picture of the one I removed using the road rash method?

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I had a couple old ones that I always wanted to get covered up , one on my shoulder blade and one on the top of arm and one on the top of the other arm that will stay and get restored later.
With all the sun and age over the years they looked like a blob of ink.
I went and got a new one on the calf and he didn't sound to interested in doing cover ups on the crappy ones so I moved on to another guy that didn't mind taking my money and did excellent work
I don't mind showing the 2 cover ups he did.
He says that he made me into a tattoo junky ,I'm going back for me

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That is fun-EE! :lol:

I don't like getting poked with needles at all. Tattooing doesn't poke you, it pricks you. Big difference, the skin is not pierced. I think the fact that military guys have been the maintainers of the tradition ties to the origins of tattoo art. They were to tell a story, to represent a meaningful life event. It wasn't about being cool or impressing anyone. Of course, being art and/or a decoration, there does come the element of impressing people. You either like them or you do not... or like me, you like some and not others. Either by the type or by the location.

Tattoos also went through a popular era where they had been more widely accepted. This followed an era where most frowned upon them, seen as only worn by seedy characters. Once they became more accepted they spread to the mainstream and a banker might have some, though not visible M-F under their white collar button-up. You started seeing "cutesy" tattoos as much as "scary" ones.

My first tattoo came with deeper meaning. My oldest sister (Heather) was a well-known silver jewelry maker in Toas, NM who passed away way too young weeks after her 40th birthday from a burst brain aneurism. My next older sister (Holly) went out to deal with closing down Heather's shop and liquidating stock. Heather learned silversmithing from a Hopi craftsman, which is rare with her being white. She did her own interpretations of traditional Hopi designs. Holly brought back a paper pattern of the Peyote Bird, which symbolizes our journey to heaven, and I was moved to get a tattoo styled after that, to symbolize her journey.

From there, it was get one done on the other arm, then balance the first side with the second side. I might have never gotten tattoos had it not been for the disturbing loss of my healthy as can be, lived life to the fullest, major influence on my life big sister. My she rest in piece. She is missed by many

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There is a stripper chick "personality" named Wendy O Williams who had that done years ago. It was a big deal at the time.




Back in the 90s, when I was running with bikers and going to Easy Riders Rodeos, there was a dude who had that tattooed on his "junk". His trick was that the bet would be "if it really says your name, you have to kiss it"

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I remember a stripper who had a tattoo of the Tasmanian Devil pushing a mower making a cut into the 'bush'. I found that to be very creative :rolleyes:

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I made it this long without getting one, I think I can make it the rest of the way. Both of my sons have tons of them, and my daughter in law has them. My grand daughters mom has them. Nieces and nephew have them. My grand daughter turns 18 this summer my guess is she'll get them. ... Its not edgy anymore or anything, nothing burgers in my eyes.

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I remember her. She was the singer in the Plasmatics. Kind of hard to forget.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...asmatics_2.jpg

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I regret getting mine :lol:

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I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I saw that!!!

But, apparently you were when you did it. LOL!

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Older fella that used to work for me told me that he had a $100 bill tattooed on his manhood. When I asked why he said his wife was terrible with money so he told her anytime she got the hankering to blow $100 to come see him. True story

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I remember years ago on this site we had a thread for members to show their Chevy truck tattoos, and there were plenty. This thread shows how things have changed. I have always felt my "ink" looks unfinished, a bit out of balance, and still would like to do something about that. But I hardly ever think about it or have the spare money. Good tattoos ain't cheap. I'd hate to be buried all out of balance like that :lol:

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Now that is priceless
That would look like $10 cents on me

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That is one of the reasons for myself getting the old ones covered , before they close the doors on me .
A good artist here is $150-$200 an hour

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The only tattoos that I dislike are really bad cheap ones. We've all seen them and thought WTF is that? Seriously... You cheaped out on a tattoo? Spend a couple bucks and get a good one.

The only worse one is getting your girlfriends name tattooed. DO NOT DO THIS!! 100% guarantee your next girl aint gonna like it one bit. It's bad idea.

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The other bad idea, don't get a spider web tattoo on your elbow. It has a different meaning to another segment of the population and might get you into some hot water with those that you might not want to tangle with.

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Hmmm. I never knew that. My old roommate had them and he was just a guitar player that was always late on the rent. He probably just thought they looked cool. He wasn't the brightest bulb.

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I always heard the spider web on the elbow meant the person murdered someone or had been in prison? Or was the murdered someone the tear tattoo? Mine are art, not evil-based. They combine my love of American motorcycles, Harley on one side and Indian on the other combined with Native American & Western styling as well as a bird theme. Feathered wings and the Peyote Bird. Nothing sketchy or scary. They are of my own design. Oh yeah, a war shield with a Buffalo and a cattle skull. All these things represent America to me.

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Well...Here's mine. I was 50 years old when I got my 1st one. The Panther is in memory of my Dad, as he had one. Two of my younger brothers have done the same. I added the blood drops coming from the claws.

The second one came about from my 51st birthday. There might(?) have been some influence from magical elixirs. (12) of us headed to the inksters. The only one that didn't get ink that night was the one that suggested it. My oldest daughter.

Any way...Myowndamnself, and the artist, customized that one as a merge of the Texas Flag and the Flag of The United States Of America. :flagw::flag:

For your viewing pleasure...;)

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this is my right arm. I still have 1 more session to finish it. It's been an ongoing process for a bunch of years. I also have one for my dad on my left arm and for my kids going across the front of my shoulders/chest. One for my mom on my left pec and a small one for my kids on the back of my left shoulder.

https://i.ibb.co/R3jzZyC/IMG-0795.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/SXnZgnY/IMG-5739.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/p0NkXJ8/IMG-4602.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/NLhnhLn/IMG-4603.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/f47H3S0/IMG-4604.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/n6rkWyC/IMG-4609.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/Pxy18Sv/IMG-7146.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/12RcB80/IMG-7147.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/2P7K6p9/IMG-7148.jpg
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https://i.ibb.co/pfmWpsw/IMG-0796.jpg

I didn't get my first tattoo until I was 40.

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The spider represents how much time you were in prison, aka "The Big House," not jail. The larger the web, the more time you spent in the "joint."

I was talking to a somewhat friendly parolee one time (as a side note, I enjoyed talking to those guys. I always learned something from them). As we were chatting, I asked him about his tattoos. We always documented them, he knew the routine :). Anyway, I asked him what he thought about the people who had the web tattoos. He minced no words, and I will not repeat them here. Just suffice to say he "earned" his and it made him mad when he saw Joe Schmuckatelly wearing them on his elbow.

The tear drop next to the eye generally means you murdered someone. There are a couple of other meanings for it, but generally that's what that one stands for.