Topic: Motorcycles and Tattoos

[heffay]

Got this as an MMI memento. 
It's going on 8 years old now.

[smithrelo]

I have NO tattoos - as Dear Hubby informs me he does not need a wife with printed instructions! (hahaha)

Linda

[kghost]

Linda, wish mine came with instructions. Or at least some sort of manual

I have at tattoo but its not Motorcycle related.

[Harry]

Yeah, ran over a coupla dogs the other day on my SOHC - got them tattooed on my arm to warn other dogs from chasing me.....

Why not add a non-bike option?

[Terry in Australia]

My grandfather fought in WW1, and before the war he got a neat tattoo of a naked lady (quite daring in 1915) on his right forearm.

Anyways, "Pop" was wounded several times, including being "shrapped", gassed, and shot in the ass. Sadly he suffered a deep wound across his forearm in one battle, and the field hospital sewed it up pretty hurriedly with not much thought for his tattoo.

I remember looking at his withered old forearm not long before he died in 1970 and wondering why the lady's top half was on one side of his forearm, and her bottom half was a couple of inches to the right! Cheers, Terry.    

[mcpuffett]

heres one of my "old school tat's" had this 25years or more? hope you like it     mick.

[Spear]

I tried to get a military tattoo once, but the bloody band kept breaking up.

[Harry]

I tried to get a military tattoo once, but the bloody band kept breaking up.

Aaah, Geez, Spear.....

[Raul CB750K1]

I do with my body the same than with my other stuff. No modifications, because I always regret later. I keep my skin as I keep my CB750K1: completely stock. What looks cool today, will look out of fashion tomorrow. You can always change your dresses or bikes or cars, but removing a tatoo is way harder.

Raul

[Terry in Australia]

You can always change your dresses or bikes or cars, but removing a tatoo is way harder.
Raul

So Raul............... How often do you change your dresses? Ha ha, Cheers, Terry.

[Raul CB750K1]

I change my underwear and get a shower every other week, even when I don't need to... ;-)


I mean, when we look at old pictures of ourselves, we usually wonder how could we wear those sideburns, or those shirt necks. Fashions come and go, and the outfit can be easily renewed to fit what is in vogue. Being young and wearing daring tatoos is cool, but comes tomorrow and you become 40 and have children and you become somebody you would have never imagined. It's going to be funny, in 20 years time, to see those dragons and butterflies tatooed in today's thin women waists. They will be a little distorted to say the least.


BTW, Terry, did you receive the magazine I sent you after the Vegemite?


Raul

[Harry]

Me, I waited until I was 40 with three kids before getting the tattoo I knew I would have since I was a kid of 20! I live in a fishing town in the west of Denmark, where tattoos are part of our culture. My tattoo is personal, stays hidden unless I wear a short sleeved tee-shirt (which doesnt happen too much here!) and represents to me continuity, a link with our Nordic (and maritime) past. In the old days, a tattoo was often the only way to identify a drowned sailor. For sure though, many get a tattoo as a passing fad and regret it later. Fortunately for them, removing a tattoo today is possible, albeit expensive and painfull - almost as painfull as removing VEgemite from your system if you do decide to eat it

[heffay]

now that some explanations are rolling in i figure why not. 
most people ask... hey heffay?  why is your chain broken?  the answer is simple... some people believe (yes, i am one) that a continuous band around ones arm stifles spirituality... long story short- the spirits that flow freely in and out of ones being are prevented from doing so... hence, the broken chain. 

[mcpuffett]

hey raul, what are you doing wearing dresses and looking at todays thin waisted ladies? mick.

[Raul CB750K1]

#$%*, I forgot that "dress" is only for women. No I have NEvER wore a dress, and I mean NEVER. Not even as disguise, not even when drunk, not even after losing a bet. Actually, I doubt there would be any that fits me...

[Terry in Australia]

#$%*, I forgot that "dress" is only for women. No I have NEvER wore a dress, and I mean NEVER. Not even as disguise, not even when drunk, not even after losing a bet. Actually, I doubt there would be any that fits me...

Ha ha, yeah, me neither mate, I never wore a dress, well there was that ONE time when I was drunk, but I stopped when that guy with the funny accent asked me if I was the Queen of Denmark? Ha ha, I said, what, did you smell the fish on my breath, or are all your women as ugly as me? Ha ha, then that prince proposed to me, so I got the hell out of that pub in Sydney real quick, and that was the last time i ever wore a dress, scouts honour! Cheers, Terry. 

[smithrelo]

Haha, guys!

Funny you should be talking about dresses....

Today I made an "executive" decision.  I've just bought an entire new wardrobe (lost some lbs!!!) and had picked out a bunch of clothing and realized I had NO dresses or skirts...so I went and got 3 skirts....and
then I made my Executive Decision:  ----Since I was forced for 18 years to wear skirts every day, I CHOOSE not to buy skirts because I CHOOSE not to wear them ANYMORE.    SO THERE!!!

I know that sounds silly to you guys, but ...some of us ladies...have emotional scars because we were forced to wear dresses or skirts to school for YEARS!!! - Strange, but true! 

So, guys, count yourselves lucky that you have not ever worn dresses - quite psychologically humiliating. 

Rant over!

Linda - who is certainly not going to where a dress on a bike!

[kghost]

Linda, What about Kilts? Are they ok?

[Tim.]

Just found this thread    I'm sure some of you will recognize this.  About 4" across.  And, I've worn a dress.

[smithrelo]

KGHost- yes kilts are fine!  (are they really "au naturale" ??)

We ladies wonder about that- and if the are "au Naturale" why would you wear them in such cold climates!

Linda - who's been off line because of death in family, and all that other stuff that happens - funerals, probate, etc. etc. etc.

[heffay]

Being an honorary member of the Scottish Clan Donald, I can honestly say that au naturale is the only way to go... but it still comes down to preference in most cases.

[kghost]

Au Natural is preferred. Undergarments will generally get you laughed at.

[heffay]

Tintin.  is that from zen?  way cool if that is what im remembering.

[Tim.]

Yep - I read two books when I was 22, at a pivotal time in my life.  I was driving from Canada down to the Navajo Nation as part of an ethnographic field school program out of North Western University in Chicago.

I spent 5 days driving on my own, winding through the various states back-roads etc.  Drove through the Black Hills, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah... great trip.  I was there for 3 months.  Got my first tattoo (not this one) at a place called the Crawling Squid in Pheonix, the day I saw the Allman Brothers and Blues Traveller play an outdoor concert.  A friend and I drove down from Window Rock to Pheonix for the concert.  5 hours, almost all down hill.

The two books were On the Road, and Zen and the Art.  That summer (yes, summer in Arizona) I developed a relatonship with who is now my wife and mother to my daughter.  I also left university upon my return in the fall and no more than 5 months later moved East and began a career in Telecommunications.

That was my 'transition' time from adolecence to adult hood, and those books, combined with the various experiences I had that summer were a big part of the transition.  The Reservation is a strange and wonderful place 

[Terry in Australia]

So you gave yourself a nickname? Geez, some people would call that pretentious, but I think it's a great idea, over here we have to live with whatever nickname someone gives us. That's it, no longer will I be known as "Sheep Shagger", from now on I am "Pants-Man", ha ha! Cheers, Terry.