I WILL HURL WORDS AT YOU!!!!!!

Well?

When I was young people got tattoos to be different.....now folks get tattoos to be like everybody else.

Nice. Placement is off putting for some reason. I thought you were supposed to be fat.

Well, I ain't thin. LMAO

Of course, I'm also not as fat as the anonymous cybertwats would lead you to believe.

If anyone ever gives you grief over your tattoo, the proper retort is to say, "This is actually somebody else's skin. I'm just wearing it."

All of this.

Please help.

If I didn’t have to work, I’d get a sleeve I the same theme as the Golden Shellback certificate thing I got while in the navy /crossing the equator and date line at the same time. For the uninitiated, the certificate thing is very cool, colorful, and themed around sea lore etc.
I also looked pin up girl tats, and also the old school looking tats. Like you might see in Sailor Jerry branding etc.

My current job wouldn’t care at all but my fear would be losing that gig, and having to go back to an engineering type firm and have to wear long sleeves all the time.
Maybe one day.

Let's see...I joined a branch of the service (Army). Went to Basic then AIT and then Airborne school..

I'll never forget the night we were "pinned". After the ceremony the tattoo parlors were doing a bang up job of those "Death From Above" tats. Me? Naw....

Eventually, after I retired from the Army, I got a Scotish tattoo on my right forearm. Never thought I would get one - but I have actually grown to love that thing. :)

Cool! Very cool! :clap: If you don't mind, what'd it set you back?

Is that billay's arm? (I'm f'ing with ya.)

Looks pretty damn good.

LMAO

1. Yes, I am fat.

2. No, I'm not fat enough that back fat juts out a foot beyond where my arm is. I know ****s like BitchBoy and cosmo, neither of whom have ever met me (or anybody else here), like to make it sound like I'm Jabba the Hut, but sorry, that's just not the case.

3. The tat sits right where a normal short sleeve covers it. Not sure where else I would put it in that area.

The 48 hour period that I have to leave the clear bandage on has nearly run, so shortly I'm going to take that off and clean all the crap off it. Looking forward to that, since it's basically looked like a giant black and red smudge for the past couple of days.

I'm a Shellback as well, although not Golden. While I'm less opposed to getting a Navy tat now that I've popped my cherry, so to speak, it still seems like I'd be doing it about 30 years too late. But you never know.

About $200. Probably too much, but keep in mind I do live in Illinois, where everything costs more than it should.

I don't know - sounds about right to me. My Scottish tattoo (a family crest) was fairly intricate and it set me back about $350.

But, I love the damned thing. I was always "taken aback" by my Sons Tatts (Navy guy - Gunners Mate) and his Mom was appalled the first time she saw them. But I have to give the boy (hell, he's now in his 40s) credit. They were all in areas that were easily hidden.