'There was no monetary incentive for this' = not what you want to hear about your tattoo

Tattoo-gun-wielders should be required to turn people away who are clearly insane.

What makes you believe that they will remain in business if they do?

Re: what about

I thought it was their (US local) phone number when I first saw it, but they list an 866 toll free number on their site.

Re: what about

Maximum value of a 32 bit integer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,147,483,647#In_computing

Re: what about

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Not much of a tatoo

I thought it was a tat on the back of the neck. Oh well, TIL

>but a "tramp stamp" is a tattoo located on the lower back, just above the bottom.

Does it include a barcode or QR code? Just in case..

Re: Life changes, tattoos don't

Standing in a queue at the checkout of a supermarket in Italy the woman in front of me had the two words "seriously moody" tattooed on the back of her neck.

Re: Life changes, tattoos don't

It's certainly for life for the poor dog.

Re: Life changes, tattoos don't

"Whilst a dog isn't just for Christmas, it isn't for life (hopefully) ."

I hear they make a tasty lunch.

Re: Life changes, tattoos don't

"As for those who get some unintelligible script tattooed down the side of their torso, (Mr Beckham?). What if, despite the tattoo artist saying it meant "We all live in harmony", it actually said "I'm a F*****g T**t"?"

I agree. Mr Beckham has been ruined by his tattoos. He is worth a meager $450m. He made only $65m in 2015. He's basically a pauper. He spent £2m renovating his home. £2m? What did he do? Throw some sawdust down? I mean you don't need to fly stonecutters in Sicily, but come on.

Re: Zune

What else was he ever going to be famous for?

It's emulating a Windows 10 PC trying to download and install an HP printer update for a Verizon account holder who just unknowingly hit his secret invisible data cap.

Progress bar

Every five years he goes in to his tattoo artist and gets another square filled in on the progress bar.

"Why has the progress bar not progressed in all these years?"

If ought to have a time left of 10 seconds if it's Microsoft

Why has the progress bar not progressed in all these years?

It's a Microsoft progress bar. It's been reading 30% all these years and one day it'll suddenly jump to 100%. I suspect that the morgue attendant will be quite surprised.

Yes, this...

Exactly my attitude to the darn things. Well said Sir; have an up-vote.

Leave it until you're 75. It will still be a shit idea, but you won't be regretting it for so long

Especially if the tattoo is "If this arrow isn't pointing upwards, please call an ambulance".

When my son was 14 he threw a tantrum because his mother and I would not permit him to get a "spongebob squarepants" tattoo. Now that he's 30 (and still without tattoos) he gets into a cold sweat thinking about the situation had we allowed him to have what he wanted. Thing is, no matter what your age, what seems like an excellent thing to have tattooed today will probably be an embarrassment in 10 to 20 years' time. Leave it until you're 75. It will still be a shit idea, but you won't be regretting it for so long.

I dunno , when i got to middle age I thought "hmm , theres no situation I've ever been in where i would have been embarrassed by a tattoo in a coverable location.

@UT.

Well done. Still maintaining your air of complete disregard for societal norms.

Now - have you done your homework yet? Remember, it's a school night so it's early bedtime.

Time that employment (and welfare benefits) were placed out of reach of anyone with a tattoo, or anyone considering one.

Why? Everyone does not have to live the same life.

I could be persuaded that anyone getting tats on their face and hands should face restrictions on unemployment benefits, but having a tatoo that fits under a suit does not seem to be any of my current or future employers business. That being said, you could make the same claim for those morbidly obese, or who didn't try hard at school, or whatever...... So while I could be persuaded, if you have a credible argument, you've not presented it yet.

(I don't have any tatoos, but I understand why some people do)

>Time that employment (and welfare benefits) were placed out of reach of anyone with a tattoo, or anyone >considering one.

I've noted all the sniffy "well, aren't tattoos jut stupid" comments, without needing to reply. But this one got my goat.

For the record, I'm in my mid-50s and earn (and have always earned) a respectable salary, doing respectable work for respectable organisations. Quite why I should be barred from this because I have a couple of tattoos (one of which is over 30 years old, and *no*, I don't remotely regret getting it) completely escapes me, unless it's because you, Mr "unwarranted triumphalism" want to impose your personal narrow view on what people can do with their own bodies.

Don't like tattoos? Fine - don't get one.

I believe the OP's post qualifies, literally, as body fascism.

Since when did you get to define societal norms to your liking? Maybe you should judge people on their actions, rather than on their appearance?

FWIW, I have no tattoos myself, but several family members and friends do, including the retired Physics Professor, and the Microbiologist who works for the local water supplier. I'm sure you'd feel perfectly safe drinking the water once they sacked their microbiologist...