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If all the stupid kids weren't already doing it, I could see myself sporting a tattoo on my shoulderblade.

As it is, body mods are getting so silly and mainstream, why bother?

JohnHwangDD wrote:

As it is, body mods are getting so silly and mainstream, why bother?

For the chicks, man!

I never understood the fascination with people getting something permamently and painfully inked on the or stuck in them. Myself, I go way out of my way to avoid being punctured thank you very much.

http://www.dannychoo.com/detail/mac/eng/image/21211/Japan+Body+Inflation.html

Frazzled wrote:I never understood the fascination with people getting something permanent and painful

I thought you were married ?

It's the same basic principles.

Involves careful thought, the probable purchase of jewellery, an exchange of monies and a hope that it don't go wrong in a few years and cost you a lot of money to sort out.

..and tattoos won't leave you and break your heart.

Tattoos also cost less in the long run.

I thought we were discussing retractable fingernail razors, mechandrites and headjacks for direct internet surfing here, not ink. Ink isn't edgy, chrome is.

Frazzled wrote:In the corporate world, visible tattoos would get you laughed at. Its not acceptable to besporting visible ink when meeting with the CEO of a multibillion dollar corporation, so sorry.

Funny how you mention that. I would rather die a slow, painful death than be involved with something as disgusting as the "corporate world."

I do think that the stigma of tattoos and dyed hair is a very outdated and stupid practice, but the world is anything but fair, so I'll go ahead and cover them up. No one takes away my blue hair though. No one!

FITZZ, can I ask what you what you do for a living? I'm very curious as to where you can work wearing them so openly (unless you play guitar for Leftover Crack, that is)

@ Mad Rabbit
Of course you can ask,I work in the highly profitable world of auto repair,and not just any old domestic Ford or Chevy,the shop I work in specializes in Lamborghinis,Ferraris,Aston Martins & such.
So basicly,every time an untattooed CEO of a billion dollar corporation has a few to many martinis with his business lunch and wraps his mobile status symbol around a light pole he gets the pleasure of paying me large sums of money....so I can get more tattoos.

That is... dare I say... quite "punk rock."

I like the idea of spending CEO dollars on tattoos. High five for you, sir.

Mad Rabbit wrote:That is... dare I say... quite "punk rock."

I like the idea of spending CEO dollars on tattoos. High five for you, sir.

I thank you sir,and interesting you would mention "punk rock" as I always have the Dead Kennedys,The Exploited & such playing on my cd player at the job as I plan my next purchases.

Mad Rabbit wrote:That is... dare I say... quite "punk rock."

I like the idea of spending CEO dollars on tattoos. High five for you, sir.

That would be thier insurance actually.

@Luna:
Ugh, please never post something like that ever again. Egh. That's worse than the time I saw a picture of a pierced uvula.

Frazzled wrote:

Mad Rabbit wrote:That is... dare I say... quite "punk rock."

I like the idea of spending CEO dollars on tattoos. High five for you, sir.

That would be thier insurance actually.

It's still the "Man" and all. And if they go wrapping expensive cars around poles and the like, they will pay more. So I'd say it's still their dollars that you're getting.

Hell, either way it comes from a huge and faceless corporation.

Mad Rabbit wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Mad Rabbit wrote:That is... dare I say... quite "punk rock."

I like the idea of spending CEO dollars on tattoos. High five for you, sir.

That would be thier insurance actually.

It's still the "Man" and all. And if they go wrapping expensive cars around poles and the like, they will pay more. So I'd say it's still their dollars that you're getting.

Hell, either way it comes from a huge and faceless corporation.

Evidently you don't pay car or home insurance then? Keep laughing. They are spending YOUR money

tee hee

I personally cannot imagine having someone punch a hole in my flesh so that I can stick all manner of objects through that hole in my flesh and parade around in public with said objects stuck in my flesh. It's not attractive at all. When I see someone with lip, eyebrow, and nose pierces I can't help but shudder. Why would you deform yourself like that? And the worst are gauges! Why on earth would you want to have huge gaping holes that will never close up in your earlobes? It boggles my mind. . .

P.S. Earrings are for pirates. Please, if your are a guy and you are not a pirate, do not get your ear pierced.

At the Alamo Drafthouse there used to be a server She Who Must Be Obeyed and I used to affectionately refer to as “metal face.” He had metal studs/rings whatever in a line in each ear, in his eyebrows, nose, and lip. You could always tell when they were about to graduate, all their metal would disappear and they would suddenly have a “normal” haircut.

I would go the whole hog and have my mind implanted into a swarm of different bodies, with most of my mind being implanted into a biological spaceship (vis the voidships in the Nights Dawn Trilogy (I think that is the right trilogy anyway)) and with the rest of my mind implanted into various other flying, walking and swimming bodies.

Then I would fly all over the universe exploring stuff (and blowing things up if at all possible) [bwahaha]

Id want robot arms. Like Jakks from mortal combat. That be cool, being able to crush steel. OOOOOOH! Id also want robot teeth!! How friggin sweet would robo teeth be?!?!?

I'd want an ork power Klaw.

Frazzled wrote:

Mad Rabbit wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Mad Rabbit wrote:That is... dare I say... quite "punk rock."

I like the idea of spending CEO dollars on tattoos. High five for you, sir.

That would be thier insurance actually.

It's still the "Man" and all. And if they go wrapping expensive cars around poles and the like, they will pay more. So I'd say it's still their dollars that you're getting.

Hell, either way it comes from a huge and faceless corporation.

Evidently you don't pay car or home insurance then? Keep laughing. They are spending YOUR money

tee hee

Funny that you mention it. No, I don't. So they aren't spending my money at all.

You don't have a car? Then they are spending your parent's money my child.

BrookM wrote:Ugh, that would mean rise of the furries.

Find the furry, BURN the furry

I would prolly go as far as nothing. I like myself the way I am, and won't change myself.