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Sonoma’s 3rd Ugly Tattoo Contest doubles as fundraiser for Planned Parenthood
Press Democrat ^ | 19 Mar 2017

Posted on 03/19/2017 11:09:57 PM PDT by rey

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To: rey

“They’ve helped so many people that I know in my life...”
I’ll bet they have, Tatoo Parlor Guy.


21 posted on 03/20/2017 6:35:24 AM PDT by Zirondelle ("disce aut discede")
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To: Charles Martel

In the 21st century, tattoos have emerged as popular travel souvenirs, but Razzouk Ink offers a truly unique experience—a link to hundreds of years of history through a visceral transaction of bloodletting and pain. While in that fuzzy zone that emerges from endorphins as a tattoo progresses, I channeled the many travelers who have endured a similar fate. And later, post healing, as the ink began to settle into my skin, a glance at the enduring mark conjured a heavy mix of memory and tradition


Well, salesmanship.....................................

Similar experience for those at Auschwitz?


22 posted on 03/20/2017 6:43:06 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Dusty Road
Maybe you're not smart enough to get a tattoo that's not "stupid" - Maybe it's none of your business what one person considers stupid and another does not.

atc23

US 3rd Fleet, Destroyer Squadron 13, US Surfaces Forces Pacific, USS Henry B. Wilson (DDG7) 1978-1983, B Division.1 Fireroom.

23 posted on 03/20/2017 7:08:29 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Fai Mao

Mike Tyson`s facial tattoo works. It’s abstract and it follows the line of the cheekbones. He accentuated his anatomy rather than subordinating his flesh as a surface for representational art.


24 posted on 03/20/2017 7:38:51 AM PDT by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I would love to hear the thinking behind that mess.


25 posted on 03/20/2017 7:46:46 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

(...and no, that's not me.)

26 posted on 03/20/2017 7:54:18 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: T-Bone Texan
"Tattos on a female serve as an early warning indicator. Tattoos say “STAY AWAY”. "

I dunno, I might make an exception for Jamie Alexander in "Blindspot."


27 posted on 03/20/2017 8:02:03 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: PLMerite

Umm yeah; never heard of the “hot-crazy matrix,” have you?


28 posted on 03/20/2017 8:11:00 AM PDT by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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To: rey

Tattoo parlors serve a highly useful societal function. They indelibly label the idiots so that the rest of us might know them on sight.

As Bill Engvall would say, ...”Here’s your sign!”


29 posted on 03/20/2017 8:34:59 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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“Umm yeah; never heard of the “hot-crazy matrix,” have you?”

I’ve dated all the way up and down that matrix, especially the upper reaches of “crazy.” I don’t remember any of them having a tattoo, except for one that had one forcefully applied when she was in Juvie, and later removed.

Crazy, I’m very familiar with.


30 posted on 03/20/2017 8:36:18 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: rey

How is it that drawing on yourself with an ink pen when you’re five is childish, but when you turn 18, having somebody else draw on you with ink that won’t wash off is “hip?”


31 posted on 03/20/2017 8:39:41 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: atc23

“”Maybe you’re not smart enough to get a tattoo that’s not “stupid” -””

Sorry for my stupidity but usually when a person scars or injures them self on purpose it’s considered signs a mental disorder. Good news is there is medical resources to help.


32 posted on 03/20/2017 9:56:52 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: xp38

LOL! Ouch!


33 posted on 03/20/2017 11:28:59 AM PDT by angryoldfatman
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To: atc23

Of course sailors were probably the first group of military personnel who got tattoos. The main reason is the sea is a scary unpredictable place, and if only follows that this drove superstition among sailors. Hence, most of the ancient tattoos contained talismanic symbols against bad luck.
They were also milestone markers to show nautical accomplishments to other sailors.

So that’s why it was OK in the 1940s to show Popeye with a big chest tattoo, but not a tramp stamp on Betty Boop.

https://tatring.com/tattoo-ideas-meanings/traditional-old-school-nautical-sailor-tattoos-meanings-origins-ideas


34 posted on 03/20/2017 11:47:05 AM PDT by angryoldfatman
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