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I dunno, "fat as hell" sounds pretty tough.

Damn, Rev...you got hit three times?!?!?!?!?!?

i only do it if i'm at the gym; because i hate most people and it helps me block them out like white noise.

I have and get alot from my friends but plenty of randoms too, i think its being tattooed all over that makes you look cohesive haha

What??? I have seen plenty of fat folks with both done and I am a fat person getting my back done!

Please start a into thread instead of bumping threads with posts that don't contribute.

Are you going to go around to every thread and reply until you get to 10 posts? Just wondering...

I wear scrubs at work - because I deal with people and their faces and sometimes "stuff" comes out...
That's pretty much what I did tell him! LOL! I told him I wanted to buy a whole bunch more skirts just so I could show them off!

Hi everyone!
Just signed up to say thank you for one of your threads on lower leg tattoos, I recently (5 days ago) got the back of my calf done and my ankle and foot has swollen, which being a novice at this it made me panic, so asking the good doctor Google what was wrong it lead me to one of your threads and now I'm much more confident about the healing of my tattoo!
so thank you, much appreciated!
Ailsa

Hahaha caught! I feel weird about posting it when it's in progress, but @Graeme and I are down in NYC for more work on our respective big projects next week, and I am sure there will be some photos on instagram!

Speaking of "can't wait to see your back"... when do we get to see your back? Where are you in your back piece @Pugilist? Have you posted any updates about it lately?

This is something I have thought about quite a bit. Except for my first 4 tattoos (all done by a tattooer who has since passed away) I have only been tattooed by the same guy for 10 years. I always felt that if I went somewhere else I would feel guilty for having someone else tattoo me. Silly as it is it I felt bad about it. Since coming to this forum and seeing how much is out there I decided to have one of my legs tattooed by all different tattooers, a single piece from many.
Already started but the first one done was from my usual guy. Seemed like a good way to kick it off. Next is a trip to another local shop, then Portland, Chicago and Oakland this year.

So, this definitely doesn't have anything to do with tattoos, but I thought y'all might get a kick out of it.
This was Monday evening, around 18.30. The temp was like five degrees, an it was heading south to minus five Fahrenheit. Cold.
We had just finished dinner, and my oldest boy and his daughter and dogs were leaving to go home. he let his dogs out, and stopped to fire-up my car so it could warm-up. When he turned his head to do that, the dogs made book.
Now, the dogs. There are two, the older one is a dawg, maybe 75 pounds, short hair, curly tail, yellow looking thing, kinda resembles a dingo. He's a real nice dog, but has a screw loose about running away. When he puts his mind to it, he's fast as hell, and if he decides to go, you aren't going to catch him till he's ready to come home. The other one, the little fella, he's a boxer pup, maybe four months old and 35 pounds, skin n bones.
Anyhow, the dogs took off, and by the time my son noticed, they were out in the field already. My place is on the middle of about 500 acres of corn, so it's pretty dark at night.
We all got in separate cars and went out looking for them...no sightings, and really, no chance of coming across them except by sheer luck. All of our spotlights were burned-out, batteries cashed, and the cars weren't digging the temperature. My oldest had walked our road, about two miles, both ways a few times, and saw nothing. About 24.00 we packed it in, and hoping that at least the little guy might be holed-up in a barn somewhere, went home.
06.00 Tuesday my oldest gets a call from a Lady, asks if he belongs to a couple of dogs. Yes he do. She was driving up from Illinois to go to work, and when she got to the state line, she noticed sommething odd in a deep ditch. Stopped, backed-up to it, and saw it was two dogs curled up together in the bottom of the ditch. Couldn't tell if they were dead or alive, but she went down and check on them. When she got close, the older guy got up an made unfriendly noises at her, but when the dogs saw the door to her truck was open and the motor running, they decided maybe it would be better to bite her AFTER they got warmed up.
Sums it up. She delivered them to my son who had been busy trying to resign himself to them being dead...but was sure 'nuff glad they weren't. They spent the next day racked-out together in my office, the old fella is a bit TOO old for that kind of thing. Thought this was decent...

... unless you're Oliver Peck

There is pain beyond what can be imagined, almost beyond what can be felt...and it ain't fun, and a tattoo ANYWHERE doesn't even come close.

I read that thinking that there are a bunch of ladies on this board who have had children who are reading this thinking youse guys are total pussies.

Let's amend that to "the worst TATTOO pain a human being could possibly feel."
Tell you what, there are whole other levels of pain I hope y'all don't ever find.

Who does your tattoo work? I want to stress that I am saying this with the most possible respect to you and your ideas/body/etc. as possible...I would take a look around this site and find out some more about what quality tattoos look like. There are tattooers and tattoos out there that would far surpass what you thought is possible. Most of these people could probably also articulate your ideas better than what looks like the drawing for your planned half sleeve. Take a look around, ask some questions, and find a good tattooer that does clean work.

That one's easy.
Get tattooed.

This sentence could only get better if it involved bacon.

Jesus christ. I don't sign in for a few days and this thread goes nuts. I'm getting the itch from all this good shit.

@Eilin, I kinda want your back now. Even though I'm chubby and a dude.

Thanks for the compliments @10PieceNuggets @Graeme @slayer9019 @Dhopper @hogg @Delicious
All credit goes to Mr.Conn of course. I'm just the lucky sob that has it :)

I'm not taking anywhere near as big or exciting a plunge as @ChrisvK, but I decided I was sick of making excuses and working a 9 to 5 I don't love, and I'm packing up my things and moving all the way across the country to try and make an honest go at things with my music in a new city with a new scene. It's a smaller leap of faith, for sure, but it feels like a leap of faith nonetheless and I couldn't be more excited about it!

Outlaw biker gang sounds like fun. If only I had a bike. Or a license to ride one for that matter. In all seriousness I will be spamming you with pictures and stories from my adventures as much as I can. I love this place so I won't want you guys to miss out on my travels