[Closed] Stop with the leg tattoos already

[i]Think about it a bit more.[/i]

Hmmm...I just did and still think Oldgit is spot on!

As for 'awesomeness' mmwwaahahahaha! 😆

You know I had no idea that people still got so worked up about tattoos

i know surprising isn’t it. but then some people are still shocked by same sex or mixed race couples and nudity on the television.

I do quite fancy getting one of those M tattoos. (Not that I've done an Ironman, obviously.) They exude awesomeness and would make even me utterly more attractive.

I've got two and I can't even swim!

So if I can swim, but not very well. How many am I allowed?

Emsz dear - Being so full of holes, do you ever inadvertently leak?

No, but she never loses her car keys... :p

I hate tattoos, I make no secret of it, but the thing I hate most is the self-righteous indignation of the inked when you pass an opinion on it.

For god's sake, you had a tattoo as some sort of self-expression. An expression is useless if it falls on deaf ears.

So, for the record, my opinion of all tattoos: Chavvy. Cheap, chavvy, short-sighted, foolish chaviness by attention seaking, chavvy chavs hell-bent on confrontation.

And my opinion of you is.. not printable 🙂

shibby you so obviously have ink-envy, just summon up the courage to get one done yourself

although with your own levels of self-righteous indignation at the 'self-righteous indignation of the inked when you pass an opinion on them'
you might become a bit conflicted and enter some kind of paradox where you are so bigoted that your head becomes metaphorically trapped in your anus and exist in some kind of perpetual ouroboros loop

what I apsire to is be a normal and bland as oldgit and the usuall trolly little gimps and then I too can live in a perpetual state of bored frustrating middle rage(which is totally fine and perfectly acceptle way to be and in no way meant as a personal or derogatory statement about the un-inked)

Works both ways dude the healthy attitude is to not care

Have you considered rebelling in a edgy yet conformist way with say dreds and/or tats [ tribal of course]

kimbers runs and hides

Kimbers, I'm struggling to contain my self-righteous indignation at your self-righteous indignation at my self-righteous indignation at the inked classes.

I have beautiful, flawless skin... It would be a tragedy to deface it with some hackneyed clip-art.

Which reminds me, wasn't someone going to show us the hackneyed clip-art that he's designed himself over a 24 year period?

24 years... I certainly wouldn't give him a job - and not just because he's tattooed... I've designed several things so far today and it's only just afternoon brew time.

It would be a tragedy to deface it with some hackneyed clip-art.

You are aware that not all tattoos are clip art, aren't you?

I've [s]designed[/s] photocopied several things so far today and it's only just afternoon brew time.

You are aware that not all tattoos are clip art, aren't you?

Durrr... Of course... Some are bespoke, designed and displayed by jeniuses...

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hell-bent on confrontation.

just summon up the courage to get one done yourself

FWIW just sat here reading this months Skin Deep
there really are some good tats out there as well as some bad ones...just like [s]photocopiers[/s] designers

How about I have some apostrophes tattooed, so Junkyard can borrow them as his keyboard clearly lacks a key... 🙄

Surely that should be "apostrophe's"

Maybe in Junkyard's weird and wonderful world...

AS IT GOE'S I MUCH PREFER THAT PEOPLE MISS OUT APOSTROPHE'S THAN ADD THEM UNNECESSARILY WHICH ANNOY'S THE HELL OUT OF ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Call me old fashioned, but I prefer people to be educated.

... Which, ironically, raises an interesting point. If you look at a cross section of successful people, the most intelligent don't usually have tattoos.

Of course, there are your David Beckhams - successful primarily for kicking a ball and pouting, but your Bransons, Hawkins etc are largely ink-free. Funny that, innit.

the most intelligent don't usually have tattoos.

I'm assuming you're covered in them from head to toe...

If you look at a cross section of successful people, the most intelligent don't usually have tattoos.

Though equally, the most intelligent don't look at single characteristics and make leaps of assumption to come to conclusions about a link.

[i] If you look at a cross section of successful people, the most intelligent don't usually have [b]visible[/b] tattoos.[/i]

ftfy

I prefer people not to be judgemental idiots...we cannot get what we want apparently

Wow mocking me for grammar ....your so original and funny ..have you considered stand up?

Though equally, the most intelligent don't look at single characteristics and make leaps of assumption to come to conclusions about a link.

No, but the most intelligent know that if it looks like a dog and barks like a dog, it's probably a dog. 🙄

your so original and funny ..have you considered stand up?

My so original and funny what? Oh, did you mean "you're"??

Pass me my rifle...
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Only if you promise to use it on yourself 😛

We should sticky any Tat thread. This subject pops up once a month without fail, we could all refer to threads previous and attitudes towards them too.

Only Tat I've seem that made me "wow" inside was one of an Indian Chieftains head, complete with headress on a friend of my Mothers. He wore roll neck jumpers all year round and one day I mentioned it to him, to which he lifted his top up and there it was on his chest... a massive Indians head.

He said " I had it done years ago, now I wish I hadn't"

Thats the only thing I think of when I see one.

Your body, your choice.

I like tattoo threads, they help galvanise my opinion that tattooed people are easier to outwit. 😉

Off to ride my bike now :p

Please, not this hackneyed old cliche again Shibboleth. It's actually pretty simple - some people with tattoos are a bit dense, and guess what? Some without them are as well. You have a well documented history of stating you wouldn't employ anyone with tattoos. Exactly how long a queue of people do you have wanting to work for you anyway?
And finally, though I feel a bit uncomfortable doing this, I'm a charge nurse on a busy acute psychiatric unit, a job for which you have to have a certain level of intelligence, and I've got a fair number of tattoos. My wife is a senior lecturer at a large university, and guess what? She has tattoos. Of course, you're entitled to your opinions, but at least try and base them on something more than your own petty little prejudices.

[i]they help galvanise my opinion that tattooed people are easier to outwit[/i]

Do you take anything positive away from these threads? Just seems an exercise in you trying to wind people up most of the time and then feigning delight when it works.

Only Tat I've seem that made me "wow" inside was

most of the rest... i think there's a w missing from "tat".

sure it's your body, do what you like to it, but if it's "art" on display then expect others to appreciate or dislike it. especially so when it's on the back where the owner can't see it without use of mirrors and contortion.

Just seems an exercise in you trying to wind people up most of the time and then feigning delight when it works.

Its rather ironic that he come here to insult others though for lacking class and other qualities ....oh the ironing

I haven't seen Shibboleth outwit anyone yet.

He's certainly just trolling though.

ive got an 853 PA and a surgical steel PA

i might now get the 853 PA's headtube badge, tattooed on my right calf.

mike, wanna have your babies.

my opinion of all tattoos: Chavvy. Cheap, chavvy, short-sighted, foolish chaviness by attention seaking, chavvy chavs hell-bent on confrontation.

degree, several professional qualifications, very successful at work (though tbf its not that hard to be )and getting a full sleeve, hopefully, finished next month.... what's his point again?? why oh why if it winds him up soooo much does he keep coming onto these threads and being as much of a tit? . this is probably the first and only time I will directly type anything to mr (?) Shibboleth. Please leave these threads alone. so you don't like tattoos, so some people do. live and let bloody live and stop being a stupid arris when it comes to peoples choices.

'hey an Ironman finisher, which one did you do?'

Could have just been displaying his favourite tipple?

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beaten

outwit

Deary me...

Shibboleth. Please leave these threads alone. so you don't like tattoos, so some people do. live and let bloody live and stop being a stupid arris when it comes to peoples choices.

Daftvader. How apt. I may have got the wrong end of the stick completely, but isn't this a thread about not liking tattoos?

And isn't this a forum where people contribute with opinions and ideas for the purpose of debate?

So on what basis, exactly, do you think you're in a position to ask me not to post?

Who said the tattooed weren't easy to outwit?? 🙄

Why do you think all tattooed pepole are the same.

Oh wait you know what, don't bother. Must not feed obvious troll.

Why do you think all tattooed pepole are the same.

They share a lot of similar characteristics. They have lots of different ones, but they share a lot. This allows me to form an opinion based on my opinion of people with those characteristics, and I'm perfectly entitled to do so.

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And isn't this a forum where people contribute with opinions and ideas for the purpose of debate?

It is. However,

http://singletrackmag.com/terms-and-conditions/

See "Negative use of the forum". Including, but not limited to:

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Shib the attention seeker seeks attention shocker 😆

Wish I hadn't said anything 😕

I'd like something bike related to balance up the tats on my back, years ago I was going to get something 24 hour solo related, but I don't do them anymore and my tastes have changed. Still I'd like something to mark all the years I've been racing bikes.
Everything I have is family stuff.

Laughing my tattooed arse off! 😆

[quote=Shibboleth ]Why do you think all tattooed pepole are the same.
They share a lot of similar characteristics.

Eyes, mouth, nose, ears?

.... head, shoulders, knees and toes! Knees and toes....

Sorry, got carried away

If you resort to abuse of other forum users we will consider that a negative use of our forum.

Does that mean calling Shibboleth a bellend would be frowned upon?

it is a request pure and simple. I said nothing about outwitting. you seem offended by tattoos, and yet when these threads come up still deliberately post on them and bait people into arguing. it was a polite request that you as a forum contributor refrain from posting on these threads as, instead of polite debate, you seem to delight in offending. I understand the dislike of tattoos on an intellectual level, however you seem unable to take an intellectual stance and stick with derogatory and inflammatory comments. this is just my opinion and as such, being one of the disgustingly chavvy, ill informed, tattooed halfwits I expect you will ignore it and you will continue to try and inflame these threads as and when they come up.

Shibboleth - Member
Why do you think all tattooed [s]pepole[/s] [b]people[/b] are the same.

They share a lot of similar characteristics. They have lots of different ones, but they share a lot. This allows me to form an opinion based on my opinion of people with those characteristics, and I'm perfectly entitled to do so.

From reading this thread I have learnt that non tattooed people are very clever and tattooed people are stupid and on drugs. But who can ride a bicycle fastest?

Oh dear countzero, the spelling error you've highlighted in an attempt to discredit me was a quote from someone else! Silly billy!

In my experience, the tattooed classes typically share the following characteristics:

- A certain naïveté and badly formed sense of style and taste
- a very short-sighted attitude
- a propensity to adopt a rather immature "two-fingers" attitude to society
- a desperate need to feel part of a niche
- an alarming lack of originality and a sheep-like mentality
- high levels of narcissism and pretentiousness

I hope this answers the questions posed to me in sufficient detail and stimulates sensible debate. 😀

a very short-sighted attitude

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Still unable to stop yourself then Shib?

D'ya think Bob? I know so many people that have had tats removed, or bitterly regret having them done. I'd say it's the absolute definition if short-sightedness to have a very permanent body modification made without considering that you might regret it in only a few short years.

So maybe you'd like to expand on your opinion?

In my experience

How do you know if someone has a tattoo?
If you interviewed someone, I guess they'd be fully clothed?
How do you know if they have or don't have a tattoo?

Surely this blows your theory completely out of the water.

You see Richmars, your problem is that you don't understand the difference between a theory and an opinion.

I bow to your amazing internet skills. You are surely a giant of the internet, we are not worthy.

a propensity to adopt a rather immature "two-fingers" attitude to society

I'd say it's the absolute definition [b]if[/b] short-sightedness to have a very permanent body modification made

your problem is that you don't understand the difference between a theory and an opinion.

Shibboleth , whatever your thoughts are ,they are your opinions and not fact ...anyone can pick apart anyone's style ,look or personality .why would anyone need to ?

I know so many people that have had tats removed, or bitterly regret having them done.

And I know a lot more who have done neither. What's your point caller?

Think i'm going to get MY MORAL COMPASS IS CALIBRATED tattooed on my forehead.

why would anyone need to ?

Well, for the purposes of giving them a job, working out whether they possess good judgement, etc etc etc.

You're all very quick to judge me on the basis of what you read on an Internet forum, but for some reason you feel I shouldn't be allowed to judge people on the way the deface their skin. Bit weird, don't you think?

So tattooed people who do not possess good judgement cannot work for you !!

Please warn all prospective employees of your requirements !

I've got a tattoo on my leg.......and I'm cool as **** 😉

Boba , let's see it !

no, too cool

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Is it one of those regrettable ones?

I went on a stag do last weekend, and was one of the only lads without tattoos, nearly all of the others have them, ranging from small, discrete things, huge, bold designs on necks and legs, to one lad with a camel on his toe, genuinely laughed at that one.

Most of them were deeply personal, the names of close family & friends that have passed away etc, my brother in law to be & his best man have the name of my niece who was still born at almost full term, the best man also has a drawing his mum did before she died on his calf.

It struck me that while some were a bit garish, some plain shit, they all meant a lot to their wearer and did show how much they thought of, loved, and/or cared for these people who are no longer alive. Besides the camel toe tat - he was just pissed up!

So, I thought, it's a nice sentiment, but why does everyone else need to know? I still haven't worked that out....

I'm a bit shit at life, bit of a wanderer, struggle to self motivate, but there's a song lyric that I like a lot, that reminds me to mtfu and put some effort in. "If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could have won". A bit psilly perhaps, but I like it, and have thought about having it as a tattoo, just small, black, text somewhere I can see it, so it would serve as a reminder, but I'm unsure about having people asking me about it all the time. Any ideas?

Get it translated into something Far Eastern. Then only you will know what it means.

Write it on a piece of paper and keep it in your wallet. It's personal, best kept that way.

This made me chuckle

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Get it translated into something Far Eastern. Then only you will know what it means, even if the actual text permanently etched upon you reads, "Chicken in black bean sauce".

FTFY.

You're all very quick to judge me on the basis of what you read on an Internet forum, but for some reason you feel I shouldn't be allowed to judge people on the way the deface their skin

Of course. We've listened to a lot of what you say, and are responding to it. You seem to be dismissing people with tattoos without speaking to them in any way. You are making a snap judgement based on your understanding of their appearance, which is foolish. We're not doing that.

Core ,it's all personal choice body modification in all forms and one person may not like it but another will but the reasons for it vary from person to person .... Who am I to judge another persons journey or thoughts interpreted onto their body ,or even dare I say it because I like a certain design
Do whatever you want !

Breast implants, anyone?

Is it just me who thinks shib punches the air and goes 'YES!' every time someone replies to one of his posts?

I just had a calf tattoo. I would post a picture, but the only two people that would get it would be Taz and John Drummer 🙁

I love it though.

i just had a calf tattoo

Nearly as bad as a dolphin...

Is it just me who thinks shib punches the air and goes 'YES!' every time someone replies to one of his posts?

😆

I reckon you can guess what he's doing with the other fist.

😆