Your ideal tattoo

Get one but put alot of thought into it. I always recomend you get it where it will not interfere with employment. As for it looking bad when you are 70? You will not care and will look pretty bad all over any way so who cares?
 
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If you get a tat, make sure you can cover it up if you choose to. I would say nothing on the face, neck or forehead.

I do have several myself, and I am going to get another. This next one will be the OPHA paw print.



I have this same feeling about tattoos. I don't have any problem with someone doing this to themselves, but I don't like to see them in a professional situation. I don't think that an individual's right to free speech should be an inked dagger on the forearm he is using to sign my home loan papers with! I am not saying that a tatoo is a shameful thing that should be hidden, I really like a lot of the art, but I do think that tatoos should be placed on the body where they can be covered for professional occasions.

All opinion aside, if I were to get a tatoo, it would be something dedicated to those things most important to me. It would be about my wife and children, some form of weaving their names into a ring of fire, right on my spine between my shoulders. To me this would symbolize the things that hold me up, the things that keep me going in this crazy world.
 
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Get one but put alot of thought into it. I always recomend you get it where it will not interfere with employment. As for it looking bad when you are 70? You will not care and will look pretty bad all over any way so who cares?


Looking bad at 70 is not a requirement.

Saw a woman just the other day at a music festival that had a tat on her back. It used to be a tiger and a flower. Now it looks like a road killed cat and some weeds.
 
The only one I've ever-and even still-considered is the Gadsden flag. You know, the snake with 'Don't Tread on Me' under it. Hard to spend my gas money on that though, AND I've gone without it for 20+ years since I first thought of it!
 
A co-worker of mine, who is a rabid-diehard-Raiders fan, got the Oakland Raiders emblem tattooed on his shoulder. He didn't spend enough money either because my 9-year-old could do a better job. The Raiders have been an embarrassment to the NFL ever since and my co-worker hears about it every time someone see's his bare shoulder.
 
I think it's pretty funny the people who think they are in love and get their boyfriend's/girlfriend's name tatooed on themselves then they break up... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
I always said the only name to get tattood should be your kids. That never changes. I have both my daughters names on my back. They may not talk to me anymore , but they are still mine and I still love them. I also did my last name in 3" letters just incase I forget who I am. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
My spin on Tattoo's. If you mark your body it should be something special, an NCAA championship, Special Forces, even the branch of service you served in, something special that few can claim. and the name of your kids. I'm not big on marking my body, but I must admit that the names of my kids has a certain draw for me.
 
You better take some serious thought into it and get what you want becuase tattoos can be like scars, or permanent reminders of stupid things you've done. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Mr Holly , I never meant that you yourself shouldn't of got one ,it was a general statement to the poster of the tread,

Tattoo's mean many thing to different people,
Some its to show there love for someone or something,some it to show respects for someone or something.

A tattoo don't tell you who the man is! if you look close it may tell you what he is about!


All the man in my family as far as I can remember had tattoos,
as a young man I got one also but kept it where I could cover it up,
Now here is how I feel at this time in my life.
I am getting my tattoo on the out side of my fore arm this time, the hole size of my forearm,
because I am who I am , I come from where I come from , No mater how much money I have made or what my position in society is now. My father and uncles where and are great man, and they had them and now so will I, my tattoo will be the name of the area I still live in, and grew up in , In the city of Philadelphia.
 
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This was for the one..........and I let her fly /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif




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Got a few and some I wish were no longer there. This one is a constant reminder of my blunders /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Grunter,,,
can i hunt deer with you /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

got some nice deer there pal /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
I agree that it should be something special. As I said mine ended up being special. Like I said before, I got mine on my birthday. My grandfather and I were into sharks my whole childhood. When we went to the beach we always looked for sharks teeth. We spent hours comparing them. Our favorite was the Hammerhead. On my birthday I went and got a hammerhead shark tatoo on my leg. When I got home, I was going to call him that evening to tell what I had done. That afternoon they found him in his bed. He had passed away in his sleep. Now everytime I look at my calf, He is what I think of.
 
OYH,

Sad but true. A real tat means something to YOU when you see it. Who cares what anyone else thinks about it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif


George,

Any time Buddy! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif Thats my 8-10 wall. The flipside looks more better /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
an ER nurse I know has one that I was thinking of getting, it's a bit morbid, but when you're in the EMS world you see things that make you think.

it's over her left breast and says "no witness DNR"
which tells any EMS'r not to try CPR or anything unless they saw you drop. I've been thinking of getting one with the inclusion of the blue EMS star of life. I've seen too many drooling vegetables after they were brought back too late and brain cells were dieing. defibrillators work great if you live in a city and someone (who gives a [beeep]) is standing next to you, but in rural Maine, they're worse then useless.
 
I have the Blue Knight Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club shield tattooed on my upper left arm and it also has my membership number inside of it...Just in case my body is ever found and they can't find any other identification marks that will work.. (Man, Is That A Morbid Thought)...

I've been in the Blue Knights for the last 22 years, see no reason for me to ever leave the organization, and have no shame in the few times it is ever publicly seen...and yes, I thought long and hard about it...

I've seen a lot of guys that got addicted to the tats and look like a wannabe circus sideshow character and they've been treated like second class citizens in some sectors of society.

If it's done tastefully, has some meaning to the owner, and can be concealed when desirable... I see no problem with them.
 
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