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So, would the UK version play on my DVD player in the US or probably not?
Thanks! Would the UK version be a format that would be compatable to play in my DVD player here in the US or would it be an entirely different format, being a UK edition of the set? If it wouldn’t be compatable to play in my DVD player, I would have to find a set that is produced and sold for compatability in the US.
I’m kind of neutral on it. I checked it out from the library a couple of weeks ago and I was thinking it would be your typical 250-page autobiography, but was suprised, yet pleased at the same time, to see that it was very much a “picture book”. I did like that though, as I’m not so sure that I wanted to just spend 250 pages reading about her rise to fame.
ive only got my legs and pec inked so its not to bad. fairly hairless dude so its all good. although i dont find hairy guys anyless rank than any blokes. girl steal my attention 😛
Oh, and believe me, I’m just like you, man. I’m a TOTALLY straight, married man who is attracted on women only too. I can see how it might be a little awkward for someone when I admit that I shave virtually everything. Believe me, you’re not the first person who has given me the reaction of “Oh…you shave your (fill in the blank with any area of the body I mentioned)? Ummm…hmm…that’s….ummm…err…interesting”.
Whatever. I don’t expect those people to accept it, or even understand it. I just know that I do it because I like to do it and that’s all that matters to me.
Dude, I shave almost everything. Head, Face, Chest, Arms (from the elbow up), Pits, Small of my back, Ass, “Down There”. (I don’t touch the legs, though.) Body hair is f**king disgusting…ughh 😮 Especially excessive body hair. I get grossed out when I see those fat, balding, 48 year old men walking around the beach in bodybuilder-like tank tops and they’ve got so much hair rolling off their shoulders and peeking out from their back that they practically look like fur-bearing animals…that shit’s gross, dude. Especially when they’ve got 3 or 4 tats running down each arm, and the tats would otherwise look cool, but they’re covered in gross-ass, 3-inch thick arm-hair.
Maybe I’ll just wait another month or so just to play it safe.
So, what I’m saying is, if you want a sleeve but like individual pieces, just make sure they are thematically the same, and have similar colors so they can come together as one cohesive whole.
Love. Peace. Metallica.
Thanks, but I really don’t have the desire for sleeves. I already have my next two tattoos chosen and am currently thinking about what my third one will be. Like you, it’s a matter of scrounging up the money.
I think my tattoo is pretty much healed. I just have to keep putting the lotion on it for a few more weeks and keep it out of the sun for about another month, then I’m good to go. Thanks for your help, everyone!
it was small, over priced (as seen on tv anyone??) and no one from the show was working that day!
Let’s not forget these are “reality shows” so..they are all staged, How they have Yoji as the “gormless apprentice”
I am sure he could probably tattoo as good as the rest of them it just makes for more entertaining TV …
LA ink seems like they have a bigger shop I know in general Cory works somewhere near Upland, CA (the Inland empire)
Yeah, Corey runs his own shop in Upland (about an hour from High Voltage Tattoo in LA) called “Six Feet Under”. You can google the name for their website. He does some good portrait work. I like Miami Ink better than LA Ink, because I’m not a big fan of black and white tattoos, which seems to be LA Ink’s main area of expertise.
Yeah, but I don’t think I really have the desire for full sleeves. I think they would’ve had to have been something that I wanted from the very start. Besides, having now been a tattoo fan for 7 years, I have identified and recognized the fact that I am more of a fan of individual/seperate pieces as opposed to sleeves. And that is not, in any way, a reflection of me saying that full sleeves are bad. They’re not bad at all. Ain’t a thing wrong with ’em. I’m just saying they’re not for me personally.
Love. Peace. Metallica.
It was never crooked to begin with, smartass! :)….lol…just kidding. I do kind of agree with you on the placement. With that Kanji being in a prime location like that, I have totally dead-ended any possibility of a full sleeve or anything better than just a simple kanji symbol being on that arm. However, I do love it (especially with it being touched up and not being crooked and pink anymore…;) ) and I have no desire to get it covered up. However, I do like your initiative to help and if you would like to help me out in another area (pardon the pun), I am looking for a cool cross design for the inside of my right forearm. (I am not willing to negotiate on the placement (I’m dead-set on the inside of the right forearm), but I don’t have any idea as to what color I want it to be or what style I would like it to be, so if you would like to help me brainstorm some ideas, I would be very appreciative! That goes for you too, Matthew! And anyone else in this thread or on this site.
Yes your arm will be fine the surface should have healed up after 2 weeks and I would like tosee some pics of the touch up.
Take Care
Matthew
It is in my album.
LOL…I thought someone would get a kick out of that. But yeah, like I said, it’s still going to be a month or so before I go walking around letting the direct sunlight hit it.
No, not at all. Well, ok, maybe I embellished a bit. I don’t avoid washing it altogether, but I don’t go scrubbing at it and treating it as if it’s completely 100% healed and that I can now go frolicking to the beach and in hot tubs with it and stuff.
But while the tattoos themselves don’t require meaning, are the purest form of art’s for art’s sake, stories do naturally get attached to your ink. They don’t define the ink, but they define the inking process.
Take my zombie squid for example.
It in and of itself has no meaning. I like zombies, my nickname is squid, I thought it could make an awesome design. It’s just a piece of art.
But the process…
My artist wanted to do it in 3 sessions, six or so hours a hit. Ended up with those, plus a free 4th finish up session at four hours. The first two, I paid for easily enough, but then I got fired (along with everyone else making above a certain pay grade) and my third session became impossible.
Then my best friend came down from Massachusetts for the first time in four years to visit for a few days. After a few days, Christian asked me to take him to my tattoo shop so he could get an inner orbital piercing.
When we got there, he disappeared for a while to the second floor, told me not to come. When he came back, he had my tattoo artist, Troy, with him. They told me that Christian had paid for my third session, and Troy had time to finish it right there.
Six hours late, he said he was done for the day, and set up the free 4th appointment.
It’s a good story, and I love stories. I collect them like I do tattoos, or books.
And while the tattoo itself doesn’t mean anything other than a killer design, the story of getting it makes me happy.
Now, (let’s say) I got a tattoo by someone I want to get hit by the nonmetaphorical bus (let’s say Kat Von D)
The story of the process would be “This hot annoying chick did it. I had to stare down her shirt the entire time to keep from choking her”.
And saying that would make me a sexist asshole.
And I don’t wanna be a sexist asshole.
I’m fine being a normal, regular asshole, thanks.
Love. Peace. Metallica.
Dude, the others are right! This story is PHENOMONAL! That was a great tattoo story! Thanks so much for taking the time to share it.
I’m also glad to see members like DonnaMH posting in this thread. I thought her and a few others had surely written me off after the saga with my wife’s family. I still do feel bad about that, and would love to get back to chatting with her and the others on here.