What are the coolest and most creative running inspired tattoo's? I know this is mostly a sprinter thing, or the Olympic Rings. Pictures or links are welcome. Anyone have wings on their heels?
What are the coolest and most creative running inspired tattoo's? I know this is mostly a sprinter thing, or the Olympic Rings. Pictures or links are welcome. Anyone have wings on their heels?
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Well it usually starts with the OP getting a bunch of random apostrophes all over his body. It then slowly moves to the winged foot before climaxing with the road runner in running shoes. Some, and only the fearless few move on to a OAR tattoo after that. Once you reach that point you will be at the pinnacle of running tattoos.
Butterflies or unicorns on your lower back. The chicks dig it.
treemeister wrote:
What are the coolest and most creative running inspired tattoo's? I know this is mostly a sprinter thing, or the Olympic Rings. Pictures or links are welcome. Anyone have wings on their heels?
Don't get a tattoo unless you want to be a janitor or trash man for the rest of your life. Tattoos are nothing more than a stamp to show that you're ghetto/white trash LCD.
Okay, you're young. Everyone around you is getting tattoos, especially if you're in college. Everyone I knew in college was getting "tatted up."
But, honestly, you should have to be 25 before you get a tattoo. The stuff you ink on your body between 18-22 will not be relevant just a few years down the road. I'm being dead serious here. I look at pictures on facebook (I'm a young guy myself at 26, back when facebook first started) and I just shake my head. I can't believe what people got tattoos of in college. My A-list of worst tattoos:
- verbose dead sea scroll looking bible verses on the back
- satirical/jesting tattoos (atari logo, mustache on finger, someones face, something everyone says "oh i can't believe he did that")
- tramp stamp - these look really sexy when a girl puts on a few lbs around the midsection
When I was in law school (just graduated) there were already ex-athletes backpedaling, talking about how much they hated the tattoos they had. They were in terrible shape and the tattoos were an eye-sore.
I've seen one cool tattoo in my life. It was very small and hardly noticeable. Actually, it wasn't the tattoo that was cool, it was the guy that pulled it off. He was a world class miler.
And you were how old when you got it?
Renato Canova wrote:
The REAL frednorris wrote:Don't get a tattoo unless you want to be a janitor or trash man for the rest of your life. Tattoos are nothing more than a stamp to show that you're ghetto/white trash LCD.
I disagree. I have a tattoo of a winged foot on my arm.
How original!
The REAL frednorris wrote:
How original!
I am not defending tattoos in any fashion, but I hate this whole "it can ONLY be good if it is original" crap. Look, in my mind a tattoo is a permanent addition you make to your body. It better be 1)something you can live with, but more importantly it should mean something to whomever is getting the tattoo. It shouldn't be decorative, or something to add to them, but rather it should mean something to the person, and they are ultimately the only ones who matter.
Now, I guess somebody could come back and say "that tribal armband means something to me", but no matter what it is that person who has to live with it - so if he/she is just lying then it will catch up with them later. There are those who get chinese symbols and that sort of thing and they say it means something to them. But most of the time they get it in the form of the chinese symbol because that is what everybody else is doing - they never took chinese and don't even care about the chinese writing.
I guess what I'm rambling about is that no matter what, no matter how original or unoriginal, as long as the tattoo holds complete meaning to the person (and isn't done in some way to be decorative or a fashion statement) then I have no problem with them. The one example I guess I can give here is all those runnrs tattoos on the outside, upper thigh representing their school, their country, the winged feet, etc probably means a whole lot to them. I know it is unoriginal because a ton of runners do it, but in my mind it is something that holds true value to them (hopefully) and it is in a relatively private place unless they are doing something they truly love (hopefully).
I'm thinking of getting the pyramid from the Dark Side of the Moon album. I'm thinking either on the claf or on the lower outside of my leg just above the ankle.
ehhhh wrote:
The REAL frednorris wrote:How original!
I am not defending tattoos in any fashion, but I hate this whole "it can ONLY be good if it is original" crap. Look, in my mind a tattoo is a permanent addition you make to your body. It better be 1)something you can live with, but more importantly it should mean something to whomever is getting the tattoo. It shouldn't be decorative, or something to add to them, but rather it should mean something to the person, and they are ultimately the only ones who matter.
Now, I guess somebody could come back and say "that tribal armband means something to me", but no matter what it is that person who has to live with it - so if he/she is just lying then it will catch up with them later. There are those who get chinese symbols and that sort of thing and they say it means something to them. But most of the time they get it in the form of the chinese symbol because that is what everybody else is doing - they never took chinese and don't even care about the chinese writing.
I guess what I'm rambling about is that no matter what, no matter how original or unoriginal, as long as the tattoo holds complete meaning to the person (and isn't done in some way to be decorative or a fashion statement) then I have no problem with them. The one example I guess I can give here is all those runnrs tattoos on the outside, upper thigh representing their school, their country, the winged feet, etc probably means a whole lot to them. I know it is unoriginal because a ton of runners do it, but in my mind it is something that holds true value to them (hopefully) and it is in a relatively private place unless they are doing something they truly love (hopefully).
I work with this Chinese guy and there is this black guy in our mail room (oddly enough) and he has some Chinese gibberish tattooed on his arm. One day me and the Chinese guy were talking about the black guys tattoo and the Chinese guy said that the symbol tattooed on his arm that the black guy was told meant "ying yang" or "balance" loosely translates to "Salt" and "Pepper". Now everyone calls him "Mrs. Dash". I think it's a fitting punishment for the crime.
People get tattoos because they want attention. They want you to ask them what that symbol means or what that picture represents. It's all part of the 'LOOK AT ME!' motif. Everybody has gone through different, unique, and tough experiences. That doesn't mean we need to paint them all over ourselves. The changes these experiences cause are reflected in our personalities.
The REAL frednorris wrote:
Renato Canova wrote:I disagree. I have a tattoo of a winged foot on my arm.
How original!
well being a runner, what else did you expect him to get?? a football? The angels logo? a bball hoop??
I like this one.
http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/109.jpg?w=500&h=594
The coolest: http://bit.ly/TwA50h
'moron' on your forehead.
Wow, the only thing that gets LRers up in arms more is a thread about teacher pay. Good job
I disagree. I have a tattoo of a winged foot on my arm.[/quote]
How original![/quote]
well being a runner, what else did you expect him to get?? a football? The angels logo? a bball hoop??
How about a winged arm on his foot?
Or an armed wing on his foot?
Or an armed foot on his wing?
Or a footed wing on his arm?
Or a footed arm on his wing?
etc.
Mine's pretty cool, ut mihi videtur. It's in Homeric Greek and is Achilles' primary epithet in the Iliad. Since I'm a classicist, it suits me well.
oral poetry for shizzle wrote:
Mine's pretty cool, ut mihi videtur. It's in Homeric Greek and is Achilles' primary epithet in the Iliad. Since I'm a classicist, it suits me well.
It does suit a narcissistic, unemployed person like yourself. Since you're in such a need of a job you want to clean my toilet for a buck?
