The Rules for Tattoos

[expat]

>apparently when people have tear drops it means they've killed someone.

>one tear drop per kill

I heard it meant time in jail - each drop is one year in jail but thast is only what I heard

[citizenED]

Surely Quids they are fine on girls, unless you can see them.

Love and Hate across the knuckles, surely count.

[????]

There are a few other OK ones agreed - Love Hate, spiders web on face, Made in London on forehead and Swallows on shoulder blades are all passable.

[steveo]

A ginger skinhead used to drink in the ED. 'Cut here' dotted line around neck and swastika on forehead. It was a good look.

[Kells]

There are some brilliantly talented tattooists. I love the artwork, but not sure I would have one. And I really don't like girly designs, they wouldn't suit me.

So I'm probably better off without that snarling pit bull tatt I was thinking of getting on my calf.

[PeckhamRose]

I think the bar code one is good. I like that idea, I do.

[randombloke]

Tattoes don't look good on birds.

What might they have, maybe a snake around a pair of tits? Just a thought.

I'll fetch me coat.

[legalbeagle]

Oh dear. That's an overwhelming vote against my plan then. Not the snake idea, you understand, but the general "small discreet in a place not many people would see it" tatoo idea. But it seems the general view is that they don't look good on birds.

I feel all sad now.

[Brendan]

I say poppycock, claptrap and nonsense old boy. I have three words for you sir, suicide girls.*

*A fine upstanding chap was good enough to share their face the book page with me.

[????]

Look. Tattoos, like mullets and brand spanking New build buy to let flats, look fine at the time BUT...they soon look crap and one becomes bored of them and they're irremoveable, say unlike that charming print you got in {insert last holiday} which after a year you bung away. Therefore, the only tatoos that are really worth it are ones that have their original purpose of saying that you are part of a proper group/gang OR one's that are so in your face (and that normally means on your face)that people go "WTF was he/she thinking" poncey thai bands on middleclass kids on their gap years...do f*clk off. Tattoos in intimate places are also a waste of time and look dead stupid in moments of passion.

[RosieH]

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[brum]

steveo Wrote:

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> A ginger skinhead used to drink in the ED. 'Cut

> here' dotted line around neck and swastika on

> forehead. It was a good look.

I once saw a skinhead with '555' tatooed on the back of his head. After a few drinks I felt brave enough to ask him why. He said he thought it was the sign of the devil, but got it wrong.

True story.

Acceptable:

Swallows on back of hands between thumb and forefinger (a Navy thang)

Small tattoo of a tiger on a lady's inner thigh (a Brum thang)

[Brendan]

Being a bit overly generous to mullets and brand spanking New build buy to let flats there Quids.

[????]

Yup, agreed. Ok, Flares.

[SteveT]

Tattoos were always considered to be a 'branding' mark which one assumed from afar especially on the beach, were the worst of people.

It is not true they are not the worst, they just have suspect taste in what they do to their bodies.

My eldest daughter had been considering one for some months,

when my sister explained that most of her time spent working for the NHS was involved in removing unsightly and ill thought out tattoos on the bodies of people who new better but wilfully went ahead and did it anyway.

There are many thousands who would be rid of them if they had a magic wand.

Apparently the removal of them is costly and painful, and you can always tell where the procedure took place.

I hope and pray my daughters do not venture any further than the youngest one, having a piercing done at the back of her neck waiting to go sceptic.

I find them pointless, hideous, and extremely permanent.

[Santerme]

Stood behind someone with a barcode tattoo at Sainsbury's self serve checkout the other day.

He was mystified why Arsehole kept coming up on the till screen.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Unless you are a trawlerman, sailor or Monarch, don't do it.

[ImpetuousVrouw]

I love my tats so piss off Quids

[HonaloochieB]

I was talked out of having 'Anouska Hemple' imprinted on my forearm when I was much younger.

I don't know if you're still around Alan Heasman, but thank you so much.

[giggirl]

SteveT Wrote:

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>

> My eldest daughter had been considering one for

> some months,

> when my sister explained that most of her time

> spent working for the NHS was involved in removing

> unsightly and ill thought out tattoos on the

> bodies of people who new better but wilfully went

> ahead and did it anyway.

>

I hope and pray that the removal procedure is not being done on the NHS. If one penny of NHS money were to be spent removing tattoos then it would cause me to come over all Daily Mail. Seriously.

[ian164SE22]

welcome to Jamaica - have a nice day

[KalamityKel]

It's all bollox this "wot is acceptable and wot isnt". If ya dont like it dont look and certainly stop wiv the silly look down ur nose attitude.

If u r considering getting a tatt dont be swayed by wot others think. Its something u should do bcoz u want to do it not coz of wot others think u should or shouldn't do. As wiv wot kind of tatt and where u choose to wear it.

Each to their own

[Moos]

Shouldn't that have been 'Each 2'?

[HonaloochieB]

Moos Wrote:

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> Shouldn't that have been 'Each 2'?

Or perhaps even 'Each 2 dey ho'n'.

I merely aks.

[chez]

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