There are some doozies out there. Sometimes it's not the style but the questionable taste and placement.
The bike messenger girl who had a Charlie Chapin tattoo on the back of her neck... Chaplin from the Great Dictator. So Hitler basically.
There is a server on the Hill here who has a huuuge atrocious (and I think un-ironic) Nicholas Cage tattoo. And not the cool Nicholas Cage.
And I just saw a guy with an REO Speedwagon Tat on his chest. No. Not the logo of the band. THE BAND photo from the Lost in a Dream album cover. He couldn't have been older than thirty.
@8 When I was in high school and worked at a chinese restaurant there was a prep cook - a wiry grizzled old former merchant marine - who had a tattoo of chicken on his ankle.
Why? For the sole reason that, when one of the waitresses came back, he could reach down and rub it and declare with a cackle "I'm a scratch'n mah cock," and then lift up his pant leg to show them the tattoo.
He found this endlessly hilarious. I was a 16 year old stoner - and it was tedious to me the second time he did it. And he do it EVERY DAY. I'd throw a cleaver at him by the end of my first month.
What I hate is when someone has a jumble of oddly spaced unrelated tattoos. Kind of like the tattoo version of a word salad. Please, think overall design people!
I knew a ship's engineer who was covered in cartoon character tattoos like Tweety Bird and Mickey Mouse, but only so far as the sleeves of his t-shirt. I had no idea until he wore flip-flops and I saw the large paws tattooed on the tops of his feet.
@9: pigs and chickens were/are traditional tattoos on sailors' feet. The superstition goes: a pig and chicken on each foot protects against drowning - most likely because the creatures were kept in wooden crates and would often survive shipwrecks.
So harassing waitresses probably wasn't the tattoo's only purpose - just a convenient bonus.
I'm not anti-tattoo at all. In fact, I have a tattoo myself. But good christ, people, give some thought before you tattoo yourself. There are SO many bad tattoos out there. Amazingly bad.
Think long term. @1, if you think that tattoo looks ridiculous now, just think how stupid it will look 20 years from now. The horror.
I have a HUGE naked pin up girl on my left shoulder that I adore. However, I cannot have it showing because I am a teacher! When my girls were little, we went swimming at the public pool a lot. One of the mothers inside the dressing room saw it and seemed to be so offended and said to me, "Why don't you get at least a swimsuit tattooed on that thing". I've lived the majority of my life fending off people who seemed to be "put out" by my pin up girl. Another time, I was in a grocery store wearing a tank top and the lady behind me in line said, "What in thee WORLD would possess you to get a tattoo like that?" I - being so damn sick of nasty comments about my tat - said, "I'm a lesbian" and walked out with my groceries ;) I'm actually not a lesbian, but I was really proud of that response anyway. the look on her face was priceless! lol!
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It's like Qbert and a frumpy, aging soccer player had a baby.
The bike messenger girl who had a Charlie Chapin tattoo on the back of her neck... Chaplin from the Great Dictator. So Hitler basically.
There is a server on the Hill here who has a huuuge atrocious (and I think un-ironic) Nicholas Cage tattoo. And not the cool Nicholas Cage.
And I just saw a guy with an REO Speedwagon Tat on his chest. No. Not the logo of the band. THE BAND photo from the Lost in a Dream album cover. He couldn't have been older than thirty.
Too each their own, I suppose.
Why? For the sole reason that, when one of the waitresses came back, he could reach down and rub it and declare with a cackle "I'm a scratch'n mah cock," and then lift up his pant leg to show them the tattoo.
He found this endlessly hilarious. I was a 16 year old stoner - and it was tedious to me the second time he did it. And he do it EVERY DAY. I'd throw a cleaver at him by the end of my first month.
I know someone who has a tattoo that says "BREATHE" on it. She smokes cigarettes...I love it.
So harassing waitresses probably wasn't the tattoo's only purpose - just a convenient bonus.
Think long term. @1, if you think that tattoo looks ridiculous now, just think how stupid it will look 20 years from now. The horror.