Tattoos

On a different note I got tattoo spotted in the shop by my house last night. A guy asked me where I was getting tattooed so I told him the name of the studio, he then proceeded to tell me the name of my artist. It transpires that he's currently being inked by another artist in the studio. Odd.

Only you would own your own bloody tattoo artist.

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mine again , on my arm , in bangkok thailand

And just seen this...

If your flatmate started tattooing people in your kitchen without really asking you, would you have a problem with it?

Fuck yeah, I'd have a problem with it! Even when my current homie had an apprentice tattoo-ist living with her (=cheap ink for us) she would never tattoo at home, always in the studio.

Hilarious piece in the Guardian. Author rightly castigated in the comments section.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/aug/11/devastated-by-my-sons-tattoo?INTCMP=SRCH

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mine again , on my arm , in bangkok thailand

Took me a few seconds to work out what it was. A tongue sticking out from between some tightly closed teeth, one of which is a gold tooth. I cant say I'm impressed, sorry.

Hilarious piece in the Guardian. Author rightly castigated in the comments section.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/aug/11/devastated-by-my-sons-tattoo?INTCMP=SRCH

H O L Y F U C K

That's insane. Can't be real, must be some uber-trolling going on.

Its probably real. My mother was alright when I got my first one, but got more pissed off as time went on as they stacked up. But she's in her fifties and from a rural village, different attitudes to now. I can imagine how some stuck up mothers financing sons who go to university would flip their lid. But some of her remarks are unfathomable. The bit where she says she would find it easier to deal with if his arm was torn off in a car accident is where for me it descended into farce. You seriously mean you'd be able to deal more with your son being disabled for life, than him getting a mark on his skin?

I hope it is real, and the author reads the comments.

Hilarious piece in the Guardian. Author rightly castigated in the comments section.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/aug/11/devastated-by-my-sons-tattoo?INTCMP=SRCH

The Guardian has plummeted in my estimation over a time span so short it's surprising.

Before the TdF I read it daily. But then the bias and skew became more obvious. And with the Olympics I read it even less, the articles were just crazy. Then I read the Pussy Riot stuff, this tattoo piece and a couple of others... and I'm left thinking that the Guardian may well be the left equivalent of the Daily Mail... presuming that it's better than it is, and putting out a relentless stream of bullshit.

I've fallen out of love with that paper. I can't read a damn thing on their site any more without seriously questioning why I'm doing so.

When occasionally I follow a link, I know I'm there just by reading the hyperbole and neuroticism.

Why is media so fucked? Is it really just because it panders to the last stronghold of old media purchasers, the middle classes who still get their paper delivered daily?

I'm going to put the Guardian in my hosts file and treat it the way I treat the Daily Mail... inaccessible from this computer.

The Guardian has plummeted in my estimation over a time span so short it's surprising.

Before the TdF I read it daily. But then the bias and skew became more obvious. And with the Olympics I read it even less, the articles were just crazy. Then I read the Pussy Riot stuff, this tattoo piece and a couple of others... and I'm left thinking that the Guardian may well be the left equivalent of the Daily Mail... presuming that it's better than it is, and putting out a relentless stream of bullshit.

I've fallen out of love with that paper. I can't read a damn thing on their site any more without seriously questioning why I'm doing so.

When occasionally I follow a link, I know I'm there just by reading the hyperbole and neuroticism.

Why is media so fucked? Is it really just because it panders to the last stronghold of old media purchasers, the middle classes who still get their paper delivered daily?

I'm going to put the Guardian in my hosts file and treat it the way I treat the Daily Mail... inaccessible from this computer.

^why I stopped reading papers in the 70s, I want to challenge my own biases not unwittingly absorb theirs...

The Guardian has plummeted in my estimation over a time span so short it's surprising.

Before the TdF I read it daily. But then the bias and skew became more obvious. And with the Olympics I read it even less, the articles were just crazy. Then I read the Pussy Riot stuff, this tattoo piece and a couple of others... and I'm left thinking that the Guardian may well be the left equivalent of the Daily Mail... presuming that it's better than it is, and putting out a relentless stream of bullshit.

I've fallen out of love with that paper. I can't read a damn thing on their site any more without seriously questioning why I'm doing so.

When occasionally I follow a link, I know I'm there just by reading the hyperbole and neuroticism.

Why is media so fucked? Is it really just because it panders to the last stronghold of old media purchasers, the middle classes who still get their paper delivered daily?

I'm going to put the Guardian in my hosts file and treat it the way I treat the Daily Mail... inaccessible from this computer.

This is why I've not bought it for several years. I also realised the only reason I was still buying it was for the Saturday magazines.

Hilarious piece in the Guardian. Author rightly castigated in the comments section.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/aug/11/devastated-by-my-sons-tattoo?INTCMP=SRCH

Words fail me. For both the lack of faith in her son's independence and her crippling sense of self-importance and ignorance (the "I know I'm wrong but I'm still upset" rhetoric does little to disarm her prejudice).

A disgusting read, nothing more than a diatribe of delusional middle class plight.

"I'm an accountant and I have a giant tattoo of topless woman riding a motorbike in to hell on my back. It's never burdened my career"

Amazing comment!

This article is ignorance at its best. Would've expected to see it in the Daily Mail though.

"I'm an accountant and I have a giant tattoo of topless woman riding a motorbike in to hell on my back. It's never burdened my career"

Amazing comment!

This article is ignorance at its best.** Would've expected to see it in the Daily Mail though**.

Swap out the middle class superiority complex for a healthy dose of xenophobia and it'd be a frontpager.

The Guardian has plummeted in my estimation over a time span so short it's surprising...

Buy the actual newspaper. Then you'll find that it's 90% perfectly reasonable, intelligent and thoughtful stuff and only a bit of nonsense in the magazine section or whatever. That 10% of rubbish has always been there, but you wouldn't notice it in the print newspaper, because it would come after 50 pages of mostly well-written current affairs and intelligent political debate. The problem with reading it online is that more people want to read the absurd, controversial stuff (which is why the Daily Mail website is so popular), and they react by giving it more focus. They don't do this with the print newspaper because it's more formal, the audience is completely different, and they have more pride in it.

"my son had deliberately turned his back on a light Victoria sponge and stuffed his face with cheap doughnuts"

Fucking arsehole... I'm with the mum.

The son can have the sponge and the donuts - I'd yentz the mum.

"chef in the kitchen, whore in the bedroom..."

"tattooist in the kitchen, whore in the bedroom..."

ftfy

I only scanned through the article because it is such tosh - but what a silly cow. She needs to get over it.

The Guardian are just trying to bump their online hits by emulating the Daily Mail in publishing a knowingly controversial and ridiculous opinion piece that they know will be shared to oblivion on social networks. It's probably been demanded by the marketing department in order to meet their online targets. Just sayin.

I've posted some of my paintings in here before, this is slightly unrelated but i thought i'd show y'all the birthday card i just made for my Mum.

Maybe girly birthday cards are my calling, rather than tattooing haha.

Bravo sir.

did you get excited about the flower?

did you excited about the flower?

Eh?

Ha!