I’m a little bit obsessed with tattoos, so when I saw that today is National Tattoo Day, I thought it would be fun to chat about tattoos!
I got my first tattoo when I was 18, and like most tattoos people get when they’re 18, it’s not great, but I didn’t realise at the time what good tattoos are.
Since then I’ve become obsessed with really amazing tattoos, and I’m lucky to be friends with some incredible tattoo artists.
I have a sleeve in progress and can’t wait to get it finished.
Now it’s your turn!
Share your Glib Ink in the comments.
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I only just started it… but the fourth post (of seven total) is my most recent work.
ETA: Probably looking at *at least* two or three more two-hour sessions to get it finished.
Hm… just requested to follow you. 😀
Consider it done!
I don’t do the Instagram, yo. Are you on Twitter? I keep an account there for news articles, not much else. Though I have recently started following CPRM and Steve Smith.
You bet!
Done.
I would, but I only have the one X chromosome.
I like your medic alert.
I figure if I lose the medic alert tattooed on my arm, I have bigger problems.
I actually had an appointment today with an artist to get my first. I’ll have something to show off in about a week and a half.
It’s going to be on my shoulder/upper back area. My wife and daughter’s names in circular gallifreyan (Doctor Who language).
That is, to DESIGN my first. Actual appointment is next weekend.
How exciting! Can’t wait to see it when it’s done!
Hell yeah!
I’ve seen some gallifreyan before (without having ever watched a single episode of Doctor Who). That sounds really neat.
“without having ever watched a single episode of Doctor Who”
Well, you should.
Yeah, yeah. It’s on the list. Right behind Bablyon 5
Well, I would suggest maybe one complete story from the Fourth Doctor? It would only take a couple hours.
I’ve never seen it either. Don’t feel bad.
DON’T DO IT
This guy gets it.
+1
I’m getting “Galt” tattooed over my right eyelid and “Roark” tattooed over my left.
Under your eyelids would be better.
So off topic. About to live stream some music.
No idea if the tech will work. My studio is ramshackle at best, and the stupid program I’m using is buggy as shit.
That said, I think you can listen and chat here.
Everything from Willie Nelson to KRS-One. Whole bunch inbetween. Hasil Adkins, Stevie Wonder, Oscar Brown Jr, etc etc.
And I’ll be getting drunk live!!
HASIL ADKINS!!!!! DUUUUUUDE!!!!
Soon! I just worked out the sound shit on my end.
BTW I left you some gushing praise in the PM Links, and an offering! Damn, the Spider-Man podcast really hit home for me.
Shit! I’ll look at it! Turns out, playing DJ was too much to do while smoking, drinking and playing tunes!
Wait, there’s more to DJing than booze, smoke and tunes?
I have an . . . adequate tattoo on my back. I like the design (a black-and-gray Chinese-style dragon in an ouroborous position, who is either about to bite his own tail, or has just let go of it). I’ve been meaning to go in for some work on it – a little repair on the tattoo, which is 15 or so years old, and some color, but just haven’t done my research and gotten it done yet.
So…. you have a tramp stamp, just like Sloopy?
Oh, and nice tat! I was always stubborn in that I wanted no identifying marks. Plus, everyone of my friends had tattoos. Seemed more rebellious not to.
A simple Rune for my 50th Birthday,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/CAiPY4peWffm1r3JA
Significance?
Despite spending 5 years in the US Army, my allergy to stainless-steel kept me from getting any ink.
However, I aim someday to get a giant W on either ass-cheek someday, so when I bend over it says WOW.
Upside-down it would be MOM.
I . . . I’ve never heard of an allergy to stainless steel.
Which of the alloy component elements is the culprit?
The sharp one.
Usually it’s the nickle.
I was wondering — nickel is a well-known allergen, but mebbe the chromium?
The only tattoo I ever considered getting was the UPC barcode for Starkist chunk white tuna on my ass.
So you can check out at the store in style?
I hate needles too. NFW am I sitting for an hour, or two, or more getting jabbed.
I’m not a fan of needles, but I don’t mind tattoos. It feels really good.
I have a few. All but one can be concealed with a T-Shirt.
Cross with a rose on the left. I have a tribal design on my right with a Chinese noodle soup character. Back when both were de rigeur. My children’s handprints are also the front of my shoulders. The only one that is visible is an old Air Force symbol, as military service now requires a service tattoo.
‘My children’s handprints are also the front of my shoulders.’
Now those are good tattoos. A well thought out choice.
“military service now requires a service tattoo”????
It’s true.
I somehow made it out of the infantry with no tattoos or a chewing tobacco habit. Sunflower seeds helped with the latter.
Well done.
Escaped without a tobacco habit, but I do love the smell of a fresh can of Cope.
I knew a guy who chewed so many sunflowers in the field, he impacted his bowel and had to be medivacced.
What did he do, eat the husk and spit out the seed?
Not my thing, but if I were to ever get any tattoo, the only one I’d want is the traditional red heart with white banner, with the word “MOM” thereon. On the right deltoid.
Call me sentimental.
I have a Fender logo there, call me sentimental.
I am not a tattoo fan, but my father had the heart/Mom on his right forearm (WWII vet).
I got my first tattoo on my 16th birthday. This was back in the 90’s when you could legally get one at a shop while still underage with parental permission. It’s a large spade on my left bicep with a sword slicing downward through the middle of the spade with smoke/ghost faces coming out of the puncture spots.
Thanks, mom.
My second tattoo was a very poor, drunken decision by a stupid nineteen year old me and I’d rather not discuss it. Ha!
A good artist can cover up evidence of your poor decision making…
Oh, I’ve considered a few cover ups over the years but spending the money on one never seems to be a priority. My second tattoo is nearly twenty years old now. I guess I’ve kinda sorta made peace with its existence.
Not peace enough to tell us what it is. C’mon, can’t be any worse than these:
https://www.reddit.com/r/badtattoos/
Or, rather…
https://www.reddit.com/r/badtattoos/top/?t=all
Oh, I’m making it out to be worse than it is, I’m sure. I was wise enough to have it placed somewhere unseen by the public.
*looks down thread*
No Playa, not a tramp stamp.
I do not have a tattoo. I’ve at times thought about what kind I might get. A wolf, a bear, a bar code on my forehead. I’ve just never had an overwhelming desire for one. Im not one for physical adornments. Plus they can be used to ID you.
^^^ so much that
Well, I keep, I mean, I’m planning to keep, my shirt on during my criminal rampages, so I’m not terribly concerned about that.
I can’t see getting a tattoo that isn’t covered by a t-shirt, with possibly one exception: when I retire from full-time work, I may get a tattoo of a broken chain around one wrist. I find that my job requires me to self-edit quite a bit, and I think being fully financially independent will be very liberating.
“’I’m planning to keep, my shirt on during my criminal rampages”
So we can rule out meth and PCP?
Unless he retires to Florida, and then I think we can expect the unexpected.
Something I’ve noticed:
Gen-X’ers who got tattooed in the 90s tended to get tattoos that could be covered with jeans and a T-shirt.
More recently there’s been a trend towards more visible tattoos, especially forearms.
So what I’ve noticed is, if you run into a Gen-X’er with a forearm tattoo, either (a) they started on the shoulders/biceps in the 90’s and are working on a full sleeve, or (b) it’s their first* tattoo and they got it within the past 5 years.
*possibly 2nd if you include women who got tiny ankle tattoos back in ’92
Chris Wallace interviews Russian President Vladimir Putin, from yesterday,
I’m watchin………
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rHY8yG4mVzs
Q: How do you get a Jewish girl’s number?
A: (rolls up sleeve)
Showed her your guns…works every time
If you’re into the bony look.
Awww, shwitz!
I don’t have any tattoos.
#MeToo
Me neither.
” Flat Earthers Think Australia ‘Doesn’t Actually Exist’
Thinking about packing your bags and moving to Sydney to live the Australian dream? Sorry guys, the country doesn’t even exist.
According to one flat-Earther, the land down under is all just smoke and mirrors. A ruse we thought responsible for greats like Kylie Minogue and Hugh Jackman.”
https://www.unilad.co.uk/viral/flat-earthers-think-australia-doesnt-actually-exist/
Do you know who else was from Australia?
Ned Kelly?
Rebel Wilson
Call me John, but totally would. Or at least until she had a chance to open her mouth and espouse her shitty lefty politics.
Alternatively, all the Bruces ?
AC/DC?
Military themed one on my upper arm, above the t-shirt sleeve. The only way someone sees it is if I have my shirt off, in which case they’re usually too blinded to notice much of anything. Would I get it again, now? Hell no. But I did and it’s there.
The explosion of visible tattoos (& its kissing cousin body mutilation) is probably the saddest cultural event in the last fifty years.
I started in the trades in’87 and if you had a visible tattoo, you weren’t getting hired, I got my first one 25 years ago and still kept it under my shirtsleeves. today’s ink explosion is gross,
IMO
Yep. I can’t imagine opening the door for a UPS delivery by someone that looks like a gangbanger.
You dial 9-1, and then open the door?
What irks me is not tattoos but people who get them and still think that they’re some kind of badass, rebellious thing that is going to offend pepole.
Guess what? It’s not 1930, and suburban mothers get their kids’ names tattooed on their arms, so tattoos have left “badass” territory and entered the mainstream.
They’ve gone the way of blue jeans and leather jackets – they may be cool, but don’t act like you’re a fucking rebel because you have one.
Unlike acid washed jeans, they can’t easily be donated to Goodwill when it runs its course.
“don’t act like you’re a fucking rebel because you have one.”
Agreed.
Yeah, I saw a comment recently along the lines of:
Full sleeve tattoos in the 70s = I’m in a biker gang, don’t fuck with me.
Full sleeve tattoos now = I’m a waiter at a farm-to-table restaurant
“The NRA is Russian funded and controlled.”
https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1019310457721503744
Well then I hope they increase their funding.
His face, so punchable.
It was only a matter of time once they railroaded that girl, be prepared to hear this mantra for the next couple of years at least.
I’m so glad Gauleiter Hogg is still around and about.
He’s gotta be in the top ten people driving Republican turnout this year.
If I was the NRA, this would be a golden opportunity to sue somebody for defamation. Its an obvious falsehood being propagated with malicious intent. Proving damages might be hard, because the more Gauleiter Hogg talks, the more members the NRA gets. Still, it would be fun, and as always the game is in discovery – it would be a good way to unpack all the dark money and scuzzy organizations that support the little totalitarian.
What I like most about Che Puerco is that just by continuing to breathe he disproves what the NRA’s opponents say about them. Otherwise someone would have shot him by now.
I love the replies.
“The NRA is funded millions of rubles”
So… about $16,000?
I’m not a professional nutritionist, but I think this would break Web Dominatrix yearly fat limit.
https://twitter.com/thisisinsider/status/1019094344827932672
“And while people have to throw away over half of this (which is true for all supersized food/drinks) there are people starving in the world. This whole trend is insulting.”
Thanks old bitty!
I would get one, and share it at a party, it looks decadent……..
It would break my sugar content for over a month, but probably not much more than a couple days fat.
/ketogenic
On the left shoulder blade is a Maltese cross with Captain’s bugles. There’s a white tiger walking out from behind it and three flame filled Chinese characters reflecting the Department motto of Pride, Honor and Compassion. The white tiger is an homage to my martial arts training.
On the right shoulder blade is a monotone tattoo commemorating 9/11. A circular memorial is filled with debris, the iconic picture of what remained of standing buildings, and a fire helmet with 343 on the shield commemorating the number of firefighters that died. There’s a scroll on the memorial with the words “Time passes, memories fade, but we will never forget”. Below the memorial is John 15:13, “no man hath greater love than this, that he lay his life down for that of a brother”.
I figured the shoulder blades were the best place to keep them from looking like melted wax when I’m an old man.
three flame filled Chinese characters reflecting the Department motto of Pride, Honor and Compassion.
I remember the Taiwanese woman we used to cook with looking at them and laughing hysterically. “What did they tell you those were????”
I don’t cook topless, dude. Grease splatters. Although there was this one time with a flight attendant…
Please let us know which characters they are.
Oh, hell no. I crossed referenced when I got the tattoo 14 years ago, but knowing the complexity of the language, someone here will say “hey, those actually say arrogant, prick, homo”.
大、痔、痛。
Now you’re just being rude. But I now know moar Chinese.
I always just assume they really mean “Kung Bo Chicken”
Was the tatooist saying “Chàbuduō, chàbuduō” when Spudalicious was confirming the meaning?
Lol!
I figured the shoulder blades were the best place to keep them from looking like melted wax when I’m an old man.
Exactly why I got mine between my shoulder blades. Also, I have a hellacious scar wrapping around one shoulder blade and across my back that I needed to avoid.
” to keep them from looking like melted wax when I’m an old man”
When?
“Juggalo Furries”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUTA68ubCcI
That took me to this gem. Lol.
https://youtu.be/LORGKCOZla4
Look what you’ve started!
https://youtu.be/erEq2HtrM84
I am so happy to live in this timeline.
It’s like staring into the Ark at the end of Raiders
I’m afraid to click that link.
Well, if HM liked it, how bad can it be?
4:22
I could go no further.
Further/farther?
I know I gave a specific time but the stoppage of the video was due to mental anguish. Which is appropriate here?
*mildly missing Nicole*
Atsui, ne.
I assumed the site was a parody until I saw this story
https://www.therisingwasabi.com/gaijin-tries-natto-dead-at-25/
Japanese person: “Can you eat Natto?”
Me: “No, I always stick it in my eyes.”
The other silly question I get repeatedly is “How many centimeters are you?”.
How many centimeters are you?
Oh, at least 15.24. 8^>
It’s cold in here.
My son called miso “halfway to natto” the other day.
We all giggled.
When I was fitter and buffer I wanted to get a spartan helmet on my shoulder. I’m glad I didn’t, I can only imagine what a goofball I’d look like.
Besides, now I know what really turns women on.
Yep. That’s exactly what does it for us.
Baldrick: How much blood will you actually be requiring, my lord?
Blackadder: Oh, nothing much, just a small puddle.
Baldrick: Will you want me to cut anything off? An arm or a leg, for instance?
Blackadder: Oh, good lord, no. A little prick should do.
Baldrick: [resigning himself] Very well, my lord. I am your bondsman, and must obey. [shoves knife down his trousers]
Blackadder: Oh, for God’s sake, Baldrick! I meant a little prick on your finger!
Baldrick: [plaintively] I haven’t got one there!
Let’s see, there’s some excema on my arms and some on my nose, some stretch marks from being a fatty fat fat, a surgery scar on my left wrist and a stingray scar on my right foot. Oh, tattoos, not random crap on my skin!
No tats, not really my thing, but I can appreciate the art.
An old friend owns a bar in Oshkosh, and b’gosh he’s made quite a bit of money off one of his tattoos. He has “Your Name” tattooed on one of his butt cheeks. Whenever some unsuspecting new female customers come in, he’ll tell them he has their name tattooed on his ass. When they don’t believe him, he places a wager and wins every time.
Now that’s a tattoo I understand.
My Vietnam era Dad had a Rooster Tattooed on the top of his foot, his cock was on his Foot, many bets Won.
He really did, and no other good reason made sense,
Lol.
I miss Wisconsin humor.
OT, my Tablet runs a real nice software Synth, Heat Pro, and it has MIDI capabilities. i tried it with a Small low power Pad controller and that’s fine but i needed more. Knowing that I can’t draw to much power form the table I thought about it. I hooked up my Big 88 key MIDI controller, it has independent power, and it Kicks ASS!
I find it funny that I’m using my largest keyboard for my Smallest Computer and Vice versa regarding my W10 machine, which has my smallest keyboard.
/Irony meter off
Get yourself one of these.
I had That! 19 years old, I learned Madman across the water with it, thanks for the memories……
Web Dom. The Dal Adas is cooking – smells great.
Ooooh! How’d it turn out?
A keeper. Served with brown rice and watermelon aqua fresca to drink.
“Papa” John Schnatter should’ve said he was talking about these Niggars .
“It’s the Niggar Fam,i ly!
“this is the Niggar I was tellin you about”
” oooh, step right this way”…………….
“Mr and Mrs Wetback?”
The Lightbringer is back to his old tricks.
Christ, what an asshole.
I can help him out with that.
” Niggar”
/Chappelle rocked that
I have considered tattoos but decided against it; not for any special (((reason))) but because I could never think of anything to get that I wasn’t convinced I would eventually get sick of.
My first was a Fender Tattoo, I’ll never not love Fender Guitars, my Wife……………
Hopefully its not Freddy Fender .
No, the Original Logo, OTOH, Don’t Talk shit about Freddy Fender and the Texas Tornadoes! some Badass TexMex from new Braunfels, a mix of Germans and Mexicans that goes back 150 years, Great Polka/Norteno music, try it some time.
Yufus? Let me assure you that I love Freddy…..before you next teardrop falls.
That’s pretty much my reason.
My brother has our family crest tattooed on his back, but I wouldn’t want to embarrass the family with my behavior.
I donate blood every 8 weeks. Been doing so since I was 17, and have skipped with a very few exceptions. A tattoo would make me have to stop doing that. so I have passed on that.
That doesn’t look like Trigglypuff?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44868069
Xena had them beat by 20 years.
Im still waiting for the live-action version of superheroine ‘Faith’
With Melissa McCarthy?
Rebel Wilson, if you please
LL was Hot in BSG, to be sure……..
Don’t forget her ‘wardrobe malfunction” at the Wings game.
I’m looking forward to the porn version.
I’m Building some good arps today, real Terminator stuff, maybe end up with some Tele/Marshall treats before I’m done, being in the mood is critical to Song Craft.
With a Korg Wavestation? That’s what Brad Fiedel used.
When I was in my late teens I used to think I wanted these tattooed on my arm in a triangular pattern and a 1700s style serif typeface:
iustitia • libertas • fidelitas
I am glad I never ended up getting inked.
Only thing I might consider in the future is my wife’s full maiden name in traditional Chinese script, but tastefully small.
No tats, nor any desire for any, and never had the urge, but turns out Rand Paul is a Putin puppet as well. Should have figured, he only got Jap tackled in his back yard because he was spotted consorting with his master Putin. The neighbor was trying to save us.
Rand Trumputin!
Famously staunch anti-war libertarian Republican sides against war. My God, what is this world coming to when Dems can’t rely on Rand Paul to tow the pro-war lion to oppose Trump.
Don’t point out shit like that.
LOL
+1
Someone said Oshkosh? This is all I know about Wisconsin.
Appletan Wiscansan
I understood that, Ha!
The Hat and The Hair Super Funtime Cartoon Show is made in Wisconsin; so now you know two things!
I give you Bill Krystal’s butt buddy, George Will.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-sad-embarrassing-wreck-of-a-man/2018/07/17/d06de8ea-89e8-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f4a441aad1af
But what about their double butt buddy, Max Boot? How can you have a neocon slurpy butt buddy orgy without all three?
Trump’s election has ripped the masks off of these assholes in a way I’d have never thought possible. Sorry fellas, you aren’t going to get a war with Russia.
I wish I were as confident..
Quotes from Graham, McCain, & Flake. Pillars of wisdom & judgement all.
Tattoos are…mostly awful. You aren’t Chinese, you don’t have a love of barbed wire or skeletons. It will look like shit in a few years. You will most likely divorce that person.
I’ve seriously told people in my family we need to start tattoo removal businesses. There is so much bad ink in the world.
But not yours, it looks great.
Either I Die or my Wife Dies, but I’ll die with my Fenders, as will my Fender Tat, YMMV
I know I sounded like an asshole and I should have tempered that haha. But the amount of terrible tatoos has turned me off to all of them.
As in everything, to each there own. Your tatoos aren’t hurting me and I shouldn’t care what people do with their bodies.
I think tattoos are a public display of a persons intelligence and common sense. I put a lot of time and thought into the two I have and both very easily stand the test of time for me. And you’re not going to see them unless I want you to.
My step FIL owns a $100,000 laser. It paid for itself in 3 months.
I wonder what qualifications one needs to have a freakin laser and maybe some sharks
What about these hefty suckers? You think a couple tribal tattoos would accentuate my guns?
Its like someone put Alfred E. Neuman’s face on David Hogg’s body.
It’s like Bono put on some mass.
Putin and Trump are fudge packin’ faggots.
I don’t have a problem with them taking that angle, I have a problem with it not being particularly inventive or funny.
Their own standards. Not mine.
That’s what I figured but I’m sure they have a good explanation for why they think they aren’t being hypocritical.
I was just thinking today that the NYT have devolved into a bunch of 2 year old screaming toddlers. Actually, that’s an insult to the maturity of 2 year old toddlers. I guess when they realized they’re not on the verge of getting communism, they just lost it.
But Trump is in the back, which means he’s driving the bus.
Fraternity tattoo on ankle and shamrock… On other side of same ankle. Small and neither obnoxious.
At least my name isn’t Brett.
Way to go, Chad.
Um…. which fraternity?
Tri-lambs.
When all else fails, tri-lam. Sexually.
From a guy in Venezuela I’ve been following in twitter for a while: https://www.ckaleb.com/what-remains-of-us/ Might paypal him a few shekels this week.
Oh yeah, for his regular updates from ‘just this side of hell’ : https://twitter.com/KalebPrime
Damn.
My company has employees in the country. I can’t imagine trying to go about normal work in that environment.
I don’t have any tattoos and haven’t had much desire for them since high school. Back then I was obsessed with H.R. Giger and wanted the Alien queen (his version, not the sterilized movie studio one) across my entire back. In hindsight I’m glad I wasn’t in any financial shape to bring it to fruition. The last time the urge reared it’s head was about ten years ago when I planned to get my now-ex’s name drilled into one of my pecks in that trashy script that is favored by so many forlorn lovers that drive El Caminos and evade child support payments. I ran it past her and she implored me not to. I correctly surmised this to be a sign that our relationship was headed for the rocks at a good clip, but it weirdly made me want to do it even more. I’ve always thought that branding yourself with the name of a girl who soon after becomes your ex that you never speak to again is baller as fuck. I don’t know why I didn’t.
Looks like the Russkies got to Scott Walker too:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22223220/scott-walker-maria-butina-photo-russia/
I guess everyone who has ever snapped a photo with a Russian or spoken a kind word to a Russian will now be considered a goddamn traitor.
That seems to be the goal.
You know, Joe McCarthy went for Communists. Not Russians, and not “people who talked to Russians”. Hell, his main target was the cabal of Ivy League commies that infested the American government under FDR’s reign of terror.
This shit is beyond the pale.
For people who claim to hate xenophobia (they’re lying BTW) they sure are acting like xenophobes.
OT: I fucking hate YouTube.
When I go tubeing, I click a video, watch it, then click the YouTube logo to go to the home page. Only for the entire day today, clicking that link takes us to the Barack Obama lecture about Nelson Mandela. (The only more-apt word to use in place of “lecture” would be “scolding”) There’s no special logo in place of the regular YT one; I’m certain that many/most people browse YT like I do and they are using this ploy to drive up the views count.
I doubt they’d have any problem fabricating view counts if/when they feel like it.
I suspect they think it’s a form of public outreach: get the stupid masses to accidentally watch a couple seconds of high culture, and they’ll be incapable of resisting.
That guy is the political equivalent of herpes.
Make sure you throw a thumbs down their way.
Its was doing that to me too. I checked and its 22K : 78K like/dislike.
That kinda makes me smile.
Class. Pure tattoo class .
That is…glorious.
Broke men are welcome, and money isn’t…? Or the panties are locked to broke men, but not broke equals not chastity belt…?
In any event, is it a cargo cult form of symbolism? “If I get this wholly classless tattoo, the money is sure to flow”? Or maybe she digs poverty.
I really don’t want to see the rest of her.
Some stupid tattoos I’ve seen:
– A guy with half a pizza tattooed on his forearm.
– A girl with a giant Nike logo on her neck. And here’s what’s hilarious: as simple as that logo is, it was somehow drawn poorly. It was sort of misshapen, the curved part looked blocky, the straight part looked wavy, and they had missed a few spots while filling it in.
– On a guy’s wrist: [picture of a beer mug] + [picture of a key] = DUI
Considering potential past behavior, that last one might actually be pretty smart.
I have a giant flaming skull with snakes coming out of its eyes, and a panther is riding the snake, and the panther is holding a dagger in his mouth and the dagger is wrapped in roses and if you look closely into the panther’s eyes you see the image of jesus on the cross
..then you converted to Islam…
Why are you so lazy?
I also have one that says, “Mom” but w/ a picture of the virgin mary. Its meant to make you think.
Well, yes.
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=376166
well, he probably wasn’t indicted because he’s already actively involved in litigation around the subject. a) i think that complicates things for mueller, and b) i think mueller’s whole point is picking targets who wont actually respond, so his claims will just stand as unchallenged fact
How anyone could think that Mueller is anything but a partisan Democrat whose only purpose is to do as much damage to the Pubs as possible is beyond me.
I was intially willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but the fact its been going on so long suggests to me there’s no case at all on trump, so he’s just trying to justify his existence by throwing charges at peripheral people and hoping it looks like he wasn’t just pissing away taxpayer money
As much as I view Assange & Kim DotCom’s blustering as…bluster, when I read about how the russians, operating on desktops made in china, that likely have vacuum tubes, “hacked” the DNC, Im sorry….my mind goes right back to Seth Rich. Who likely sent it all to them gift-wrapped with a bow on top.
Note to self: get more reynold’s foil @ COSTCO this weekend.
I’m right there with you man. It doesn’t even seem like a conspiracy theory to me; it makes more sense than the absurd “ROOSKEEZ STOLD MUH LEKSHUN” bullshit. Sure, Russia ran some Facebook ads and did some penetrations into the parties’ networks; not like they haven’t before I’m sure.
Then Seth Rich, who works at the DNC, shows up dead in a “botched robbery” in which his Rolex was not taken. Assange (not real trustworthy I grant you) says that Rich was his source. I don’t see that Assange has any reason to lie on that count.
couple things here
– the russians are some the best in the world at “hacking”. many of the best IT sec people come from that part of the world (or israel, or both)
– there is a long and well established history of Russian cyberfuckery for political reasons
– both of those things said, what is alleged happened neither requires any high-level hacking talent, nor needed any particularly new motive. fucking with foreign political targets is literally the jobs of entire departments in most countries. we act like this is some ugly and shocking thing when other people do it, but when WE do it we shrug like, “well what do you expect”
– there’s no mutually-exclusive claims about ‘who stole x emails’. its entirely possible/plausible that multiple people engaged in a variety of different incidents for different reasons. wikileaks sometimes solicits multiple leaks to ascertain that documents are real: if you get the same info from 2 independent sources, it reduces possibility its fake.
Did you mean to link the post or a specific comment? I can never tell with that website.
And for some reason, AoS is just fine at work, but the comments pages are verboten.
No tattoos, no piercings either
Come to think of it, my wife and I are about the only people we know our age without at least one tattoo.
On-topic oldie but goody:
https://soufoaklin.blogspot.com/2002/09/disgruntled-asian-tattoo-artist-inks.html
(Link to original article from the previous decade appears to be dead.)
I’ve got an ichthus on my right shoulder. Thought about another couple but wisely decided against them.
I don’t mind tattoos. I don’t have any my self and the ones my wife has are meaning full to her.
really, when you think about it, its amazing how few people realized the Village People were gay at the time. In hindsight it seems obvious. but it was a more-innocent time. people really thought they enjoyed the YMCA for the stated reasons, AND NOTHING ELSE.
Even ‘in the Navy’ didn’t really quite hammer it home for people. And I’m pretty sure i watched the entirety of “Can’t Stop the Music” (some of Steve Gutenberg’s finest work) in the theater with my mom, and the both of us were entirely oblivious.
I think they could have had a song titled, “We are men who enjoy sex with other men”, and many would have gone, “well, surely they mean ‘next to’ or ‘in the same way other guys do’…. not, you know, “With-With”
“well, surely they mean ‘next to’ ”
I dunno, how hot is the girl in between us?
How many people refused to believe that QUEEN was, at the very least, lead by a flamboyant homo?
Or Judas Priest and Rob Halford with such hits as “turbo lover” and “Hell Bent for Leather”? And albums like “Point of Entry” “Ram It Down” ?
oddly, i can’t remember a time when freddy mercury WASNT known to be gay.
Even by Live Aid (84?) … i remember being like, “everyone’s so over that.”. Whereas bizarely, the sweaty guys in costumes who sang songs about group sex in men’s locker rooms, somehow flew under the radar.
I can only explain it as some incredible form of mass reverse-psychology. by being so openly flamboyant, people abandoned their suspicions than anything might be at all amiss.
viper – you’ll cowards don’t even smoke crack
You dont even know grime .
[1000 fire emojis]
This is my Mentor for Electronia, Giordio Moroder, He found Donna Summer in Germany, and they did the Original Disco song,
I Feel Love,
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ljxm3NsnVI0
I have a tramp stamp. Yes, in Chinese. In my defense, a) it was actually a trophy I gave myself for an accomplishment, b) I got it before tramp stamps were a thing, and c) even longer before it was a despised thing.
Hawt.
As I told an ex who was considering the ‘trampstamp’ with asian characters….a red arrow that says THIS END UP isnt actually chinese.
LOL.
Although I was very careful about who I got to draw my characters, there is always that little bit in the back of my mind that says, “But what if it really DOESN’T say ‘insert gold coin here’?”
Nerd.
Hopefully it doesn’t say “we need more Calgon” >
Giant Super Happy Fun-Time Samples!
Fun fact: Seals & Crofts did this .
But then Busta jumped in, sped that beat up a touch, and made it this.
Fun stuff! I’d never heard that song or the remix. I think I like this Seals & Crofts remix better than the original.
a nice Tune, …Monsoon,
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Iqkg9uHNgRs
Whenever I think of tattoos I think of the episode of Saved by the Bell: The College Years; where Screech wants to get a tattoo and their RA (played by Bob Golic) tells him about the tattoo he has, which looks like Big Bird, but was of Tweety Bird (ie, the tattoo changed with his body in unflattering ways). Or I think of my Dad’s uncle who got a woman’s name tattooed on his back when he was in the navy, and so when he married another woman wasn’t allowed to take his shirt off for 40 years until he could afford to get it removed.
MLB All-Star Game is on right now…they’ve got to deaden the fucking baseballs. It’s 8-6 in the 10th and nearly every run is by home run. The home run used to be exciting because it was rare. Two or three in one night? Wow! Now that happens in an inning.
If the prevailing strategy in a sport is basically the same from team to team, you’ve got a dying sport on your hands. But you can’t play baseball any other way because the parks are small and the ball is practically a golf ball it flies so far.
This isn’t unique to baseball. In football, every team throws it more and more and more and more every year. In basketball, it’s 3s, layups, and FTs. I don’t blame teams for following the math; I blame the leagues for not doing more to change how the games are played.
To be fair, I’m guessing the pitchers aren’t really pushing it. No need to hurt your arm in a meaningless game in the middle of the season. As for football, the league is actively trying harder to make defense and the run game useless.
Well, yeah this is an exhibition, but your typical games are like that too.
I don’t think a low scoring game is inherently exciting, nor do I think that high scoring games are necessarily boring. It’s about variety and diversity. And it would be nice if you could look across the landscape and see a bunch of playoff contenders who play different styles of ball. I don’t see it, but I could be wrong.
I haven’t watched MLB in over 20 years. The only first hand knowledge is when I have to work a game, but then I’m working so I only pay attention to what I need to get my job done. But yeah, hearing game recaps when I’m waiting for NFL news it sounds like the game has gone in the crapper since sabre metrics took over.
MLB has a great deal more strikeouts now mostly due to the shift, so you have batters actively trying to hit more home runs and balls at a higher angle to avoid line drives and ground outs up the middle.
From my limited experience the only reason games aren’t quicker now is because you can’t foul out. There don’t seem to be as many on base plays, every batter is just swinging for the fences, so they may be striking out more but the games still take as long as before with less going on because it takes longer to strike out when you hit 6 fouls.
I can’t remember ever having a foul out rule in MLB. Have to check that out.
I’m not saying they could foul out before; but now that they are just taking swings they seem to take all the fouls where as before they didn’t want to load the count.
I had to check on foul ball counts and there doesn’t seem to be much of an increase over the last thirty years. Presonally I think there is nothing wrong right now with the game of baseball. There’s a number of things wrong with MLB.
It used to be a batter tried to get on base and only swung at what could be a foul if he thought he could make a good hit on it. Now, it seems like they don’t try to get to base, but instead try to yard every ball they can connect with, leading to more fouls before a strike out without ever getting a base hit. Like I said above, I haven’t actively watch MLB in over twenty years, but from osmosis of information this seems to be the case. I may be wrong. (but also they seemed to have cut down on ball scratching and test swings between pitches, so it evens out)
Christ! How did I forget to give this a mention on this article of all places?!
My cousin has this tattooed on her right shoulder:
https://www.poisonofficial.com/assets/5a02589/images/logo.png
And she also has White Trash written in cursive(Why? To class it up a bit? Does that not defeat the point? The fuck if I know.) scrawled across her inner wrist.
Who knows anyone with worse?
h/t to Banned for putting the thought in my head…you may now all hate Banned for putting thoughts in my head.
She sounds super classy. Top notch. The best hooker for under $10. Yuge success. It’s true. It’s true.
That’s hilarious. Would party with.
Fuck Amazon. Dumbass me stupidly waited to talk to the missus about an item, and apparently it had a hidden limited number of items at that price condition on it. Now $200 higher.
Um… What’s the item?
You’ll love this. Washlet.
You want water sprayed in your ass? Kinky.
If I had a time machine….
I wouldn’t have done that. Maybe.
TL;DR – Dumb bitch strips almost naked in Times’ Square and is OUTRAGED that people noticed her.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/fashion/a22025655/glitter-and-lazers-times-square-bikini-photo-comments/
I’ll even give this one to Rico since he got it right.
https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1019425994560671744
“I was ready to be outraged when men were disgusted by me, but it was the same outrage that they found me attractive! How dare people notice me! Ignore Me!”
Guess what lady? If you’re wearing less clothing than normal, people will comment. Humans respond to sexual signalling. Fucking deal with it.
People yell things out car windows at me when I go jogging in nothing but short shorts*, so can I write a big sob story for Cosmopolitan? Oh wait, I’m a man, so I’m probably oppressing women by going outside like that, or something.
* Hey, it gets fucking hot outside! Don’t judge. A little upper leg and hairy nipples never hurt anyone.
I am late but I have Mjölnir on my forearm to signal my rapey cislord heritage
Thor’s hammer?
yes
I saw some guys from Ft Campbell when I was kid who thought tats are cool but before I got one. One fellow was beautiful: ripped and at the height of his powers; he had his division patch tattooed on his shoulder: the screaming eagle on his flawless physique was quite impressive. But I knew I was on my way to being a bald, Scots Irish hillbilly with a spare tire, that my high school manliness would abandon me somewhere in my years of driving a desk, that any tat I got would eventually be lame because it would be attached to a lame-looking dude. I was right about all that: the perfectness of Mr 82d derailed my interest entirely.
Not to hurt anyone’s feelings, but I never saw the hot girl who would be improved by a tattoo or a the plain girl who would be salvaged by one.
I’ve offered to have new wife’s name tattooed under my wedding band; she thinks they’re gross. Good thing first wife never took me up on that offer, either.
Someone needs to file this away for future steve smith articles
https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1019440536640479233
I have an old tattoo of a demon girl from an old Dungeons and Dragons book which would probably look pretty awesome had it been done by a halfway competent artist.
Every so often I think about getting it covered up, but then I never bother following through with it.
“”Anna O’Brien, founder of curvy fashion blog Glitter and Lazers, wasn’t preparedfor the comments she received during a public photo shoot””
I think “Anna O’Brien is an idiot” is shorter way of saying same thing.
in other “foreseeable consequences” news…
https://twitter.com/McFaul/status/1019353506967257088
I have three tattoos. I probably wouldn’t get them again today, but I don’t regret getting them either. Theyre just things I thought were really cool when I was in my early 20s. I I have the Social Distortion dancing skeleton on my right shoulder, the Threat black sheep on my left shoulder, and a sort of stylized celtic cross on my left bicep. Can’t link a picture of that one, it’s kind of like a hybrid of a celtic cross and an iron cross. I came across it in one of the books at the tattoo parlor and just thought it looked cool.
The Minor Threat black sheep, that is
Draft beer at 7-11 nixed. Bastards.
Still thinking that a nice way of repping my service would be my army branch insignia on my right shoulder (outer bicep? Where the enlisted rank would go on Class As) and then my Navy branch insignia on the opposite location left arm. Esp. since it aligns with the side of the uniform those devices are worn. Thinking about metallic/shaded look. Then…if I went for a 3rd service, I’d get something to fit it either back or chest.
I have yet to get a tattoo. I always planned on getting a turks head (the knot, not an actual Turkish person) around a bicep when I sailed across a momentous line such as the Equator, or International Date line. Alas, life choices have me not sailing much these days so it is getting closer to that not ever happening. In honor of those life choices I am now considering getting this tattooed on my chest.
https://www.amazon.com/Dickhead-Shirt-Funny-Halloween-Costume/dp/B00E5RIZCY/
I have yet to see a tattoo that did not look horribly out of place on the person it marked.
You’ve obviously never given the right woman a mushroom tattoo.