Tattoos

Is it just me or are a lot of questions on this thread lately about people asking what to get and in what style? I think its one thing asking people to impart knowledge on good artists/studios but to ask someone else what I should have printed on my body for the rest of my life just screams of indecision and not having thought it through myself. Is it that you you have no imagination or that you just want a tattoo that other people will think looks cool?

Serious question. Edit: aimed at RJ but general rant as well.

Ties in with my gut feeling that for many, tats are today's substitute for personality- an extension like an iphone, limited edition trainers....a bit like what Greg Wilson termed cultural tourism.

Pictures didn't seem to work properly before but this was finished yesterday

And I had a smaller piece done on my arm

Furci @ TFB

Definitely going to get tattooed by Andrea Furci at some point, his stuff is so good. I think it's pretty crazy he doesn't really have a wait at all.

Having said that, I think my next tattoo will be a crawling panther on my forearm from Stefano at Frith St - he and Jordan are smashing it just now.

Andrea isn't that known just yet, but he did a stint at Dan Smith's shop a month or so ago, that should have helped a bit. He does great stuff. Stefano's work is great, consistent and tight.

^^ hate to be a pedant (I don't) but shouldn't the tea coming from the spout be a different colour from the tea in the cup?

Only lunatics add the milk first.

only lunatics add the milk first.

wrong

Do you brush your teeth in the shower?

You scald the milk by adding it to a large volume of hot tea. This is if you are making tea properly with a teapot.

Teabags in a cup are a different matter.

Who adds milk to the pot?

No, tea brewed in pot. Milk put in cup, and tea poured in.

Won't the milk get scalded either way?

when do you put in the sugar then? if you're that type.

Won't the milk get scalded either way?

The milk has its temperature raised more gradually when the tea is poured over.

A bit like the difference between jumping into a hot bath or getting into a warm bath and then adding more hot water.

when do you put in the sugar then? if you're that type.

get out you heathen!

The milk has its temperature raised more gradually when the tea is poured over.

A bit like the difference between jumping into a hot bath or getting into a warm bath and then adding more hot water.

Makes sense for the weak tea drinkers.

I like my tea strong so I reckon it'd be cool enough to add the milk after the tea without the milk scalding.

Tea is for Grannies.

Tea is an anagram of eat. If humans don't eat then they die.
Therefore tea is a necessity and every human should drink it or they will perish.

That's a sound argument, I retract my statement.

Tea is for everyone.

I love tea arguments. they always pop up once in a while in different threads.
this guy's a top truck mechanic as well as an IoM TT rider. so he should know his tea.
Guy Martin 2009 itv Interview - YouTube

Never borrow paint from Guy Martin.

No, always buy it from him.

You scald the milk by adding it to a large volume of hot tea. This is if you are making tea properly with a teapot.

This has never been conclusively demonstrated and may just be justification after the fact. True or not, the upper classes see it as a lower class habit, possibly adopted by people who couldn't afford decent porcelain and so poured the milk in first to prevent the cheap cups from shattering. They find it hilarious that Middleton types think of it as a mark of good breeding, when (for them) MIF = OIK.

Orwell was Milk In Second purely on the basis that it gives you more precise control over the proportion of milk to tea.

Good googling.