Tattoos: Why?

Sorry but you are completely wrong about the epidural process. Also the placement of the epidural doesn't matter it is going to numb anything lower than the insert spot. This is due to the fact that the epidural numbs all of the nerves below the insertion point. If you study how the epidural works with some anatomy you will see how incredibly wrong you are on this point.

Also as far as the health factor. No I don't hang out in hospitals because I do believe they carry more diseases but at the same time it isn't like if I go I get sick. The tattoo places I have gotten mine from are very clean and in my state they do monthly checks. You may think that there is a health danger but honestly with your reasoning you should never eat out or go anywhere that people are around.

Letsrun Gunner wrote:

[Also,] if you go to a reputable place there is no risk of [disease:] everything is sterile when they open it.

Oh, my. Oh, my. I hope and trust no one, including Gunner, actually believes this.

In any case, even if (huge if) the needles are sterile when "opened," that doesn't insure that they'll remain so. How do many tattoo artists check, to make sure a needle is sharp enough? Right: they prick themselves with it.

Ok so when you go to get a tattoo they take the needle out of a sterile package. Just like at the doctors how they take out sterile products like a catheter. They do not test it on themselves. They put it directly into the machine dip it into the ink and start. New needle for each person, new ink for each person. Many of you need to get out of the 80's and learn what you are talking about.

What did u say? wrote:

innocent bystander wrote:

granted. not the point though.

But it is the point. Someone wears sexy underwear perhaps to feel sexy. Fine. When they no longer want to feel sexy, they change what they wear.

Why does someone get a tattoo? Especially one that will not usually be visible to others? To feel cool? What happens when that tatoo no longer gives them the same feeling? It's not underwear and not easily changed or removed.

well I just think that people get tattoos for many reasons, not just to show them off all the time, which was the original question by sLCsucks. and really there are only two places where a tattoo might be visible 100% of the time: hands or face.

so what happens when that tattoo no longer gives them the same feeling? well the way I see it, that's a different question. tastes change, and that is entirely within the realm of possibility, I do not argue that. then they are committed to keeping it or suffering through laser treatment. I concur with you on that point. i love tattoos, and the only reason I do not have one is that I couldn't ever decide what to get.

I'm glad you live in a perfect world, sonny boy!

Low class popular culture. Saggy cleft of the buttocks tattoos will look real cute in the future. I can see the adds for tattoo romoval in the future. Sad to see the lack of personal respect.

It looks awesome though, admit it.

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

I can see the adds for tattoo romoval in the future.[/quote]

Future? They're quite ubiquitous now!

Nope, not to me. Probably my sixty years showing. Sometimes I see a tattoo, and I think to myselfe "what in the hell is that." Some are so bad, the reds are blue and the blues are purple; it all merges together like a bad coloring by a three year old.

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

Sometimes I see a tattoo, and I think to myselfe "what in the hell is that."

THAT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE OLD AND YOUR VISION SUCKS GRAMPS!

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

I can see the adds for tattoo romoval in the future.

Why adds and not ads?

In the beginning, the trend setters got tattoos to show individuality and to be different. Now everyone has tattoos so everyone looks the same. To the trend setters, it must seem like a joke. There's nothing more attractive than a fat chick

with a tramp stamp on a roll of fat just above her ass crack spilling over her too tight jeans. It's what has happened to everyone that runs a marathon because its the "cool" thing to do. Marathons became a joke when Oprah and Jared from Subway ran them.

sLCsucks wrote:

Marathons became a joke when Oprah and Jared from Subway ran them.

Fvck you dude. I am eating a 12 inch veggie right now and I just finished a 10 miler. I may act like a goof on the ads, but I am not a douche bag in real life. They make me act like that, but at least I get paid mad cash for very little work.

Give me some credit, I lost 500 fvcking pounds.

I can probably still kick your butt...running that is.....

Gramps....

The Real Jared wrote:

sLCsucks wrote:

Marathons became a joke when Oprah and Jared from Subway ran them.

Fvck you dude. I am eating a 12 inch veggie right now and I just finished a 10 miler. I may act like a goof on the ads, but I am not a douche bag in real life. They make me act like that, but at least I get paid mad cash for very little work.

Give me some credit, I lost 500 fvcking pounds.

At least you have 12 inches of something. Your attempt at crude, juvenile humor

is pathetic. Too bad you got cut from JV X-country all five years of High School.

For that you have to get "JO" prominently on your abdomen. No exceptions.