Inked: The Tattoo Thread

[Coach McGuirk]

My Teachers Quorum adviser had a Marijuana Leaf that spanned his upper back. He never told you about it, we just got to see it during swimming activities. Don't do that one.

[cougjunkie]

I am not inked as I could never figure out something cool to get. However I do have a pact with a few buddies that if any of them dies the other 2 will get a tattoo in remembrance of them.

[Commando]

so you're pretty much doomed to get a tattoo at some point unless you die first.

[cowboy]

I've only seen a couple of tatoos that were actually worthwhile and not trashy, so I would play the odds and not get one. However, if you do, I wouldn't go cheap... I don't know if that is advice or not.

Along with not going cheap, be sure that the tattooer uses new needles and fresh ink. My BIL is a transplant surgeon who specializes in livers. He told me once that they traced a lot of hep C back to tattoos that were done with new needles, but the shared ink well transmitted the virus.

[TripletDaddy]

I am not inked as I could never figure out something cool to get. However I do have a pact with a few buddies that if any of them dies the other 2 will get a tattoo in remembrance of them.

time for the teardrop! orale!

[TripletDaddy]

I figured it was an accountability thing. You're going to feel pretty silly if you tattoo 115 on your hip and you're sporting 140.

Another non-tattoo option for weight loss accountability is to step on a scale every morning, keep a log of your weight, etc. Just a thought.

nik's explanation seems to make sense...memorialize an accomplishment that has personal meaning.

Lately, I have been toying with getting a CUF tattoo. Maybe the split U-Y logo or something along those lines.

[UteStar]

Many people think that my avatar is me. We all know its not really me. It is actually a Richard Simmons tattoo on my back. It basically fills my entire back and I have received many compliments from the ladies as I sit out on the beach shirtless.

[Donuthole]

Any of the latin aficionados want to chime in as to what the following phrase means:

"Constringo is ere inxi icum per aeternitas"

I'd like to know if it means what someone thinks it means, since he now has it tattooed across his back.

[YOhio]

Many people think that my avatar is me. We all know its not really me. It is actually a Richard Simmons tattoo on my back. It basically fills my entire back and I have received many compliments from the ladies as I sit out on the beach shirtless.

Your avatar is a picture of David Hasselhoff, not Richard Simmons.

[cougjunkie]

Any of the latin aficionados want to chime in as to what the following phrase means:

"Constringo is ere inxi icum per aeternitas"

I'd like to know if it means what someone thinks it means, since he now has it tattooed across his back.

The Latin translator machine does not help much:

To bind this ere inxi icum very aeternitas

[Donuthole]

The Latin translator machine does not help much:

lol. yeah, I tried that, too. I remember my little bro sending me a letter on my mission that he had pasted into the english-to spanish translator on our computer. It made absolutely no sense.

[MarkGrace]

This is the first time I've seen this thread. A tattoo to commemorate weight loss? wtf?!

The daughter one I totally get. Go for it!

[woot]

I dig the idea of it, but like many here I haven't ever seen anything I would want. Combine that with 90+% of all tattoos being silly and/or hideous, and it seems like a big jump. I have a half-baked idea of getting something when I get the PhD, but I wouldn't know what to get. There are a few cool ideas in Carl Zimmer's Science Tattoo Emporium but even most of those are either not relevant to me or ugly. We'll see.

[Pheidippides]

This is the first time I've seen this thread. A tattoo to commemorate weight loss? wtf?!

The daughter one I totally get. Go for it!

Yeah, this idea seems totally stupid two years later.

Last night my wife and I were talking about this. I have no real moral objections to getting a tattoo per se, but I can't think of anything I won't hate in two years.

[RC Vikings]

I like the idea of a small bike tattoo on my left calf but I won't do it. Maybe I'll so something original like some barb wire around my bicep.