In my nursing days assisting with well women exams I have (unfortunately) seen many tats and piercings that have sometimes amused me or horrified me, but each to their own.

I have no ink, but if I was to get some, I think I'd go for high art...

http://www.yourmeatismine.com/

I think this guy's work is incredible. I just don't have the balls to do something quite so extreme!

Hhmmmm, I don't really get these. The only one I kind of like is the full back dolphin one, the arm ones I don't like at all, but maybe I'm just missing the point. Very neat work though and the colours are intense

Its certainly different, but the more extreme it is, the more likely it is that tastes will change. Who can honestly say they keep the same hairstyle, clothes style, shoe style, anything style for their whole lives...? I read somewhere that the biggest growing sector of the tattoo market was in tat removal - although all that could mean is that its gone from one shop to two so the market has doubled

I have tat's on my arms, shoulders, back... To be honest, unless they come up in a conversation (like this one) I don't really SEE them.
I guess over the years, you just become so used to the way you look that it doesnt register anymore.
The ones on my arms are obviously there for me to see, but I dont even notice them. it's just my arms and i don't pay any more attention to them than I would have done before getting the inkwork done.

Now I think about it, I could have saved myself the bother.

Its interesting that a lot of tattos seem to be in areas where the owner can't easily see them - eg the so-called Tramp Stamp (a phrase I'd never heard before this thread!). Wonder what a psychologist would say about that?

Give me wads of cash so i can talk bollocks for an hour?

I'll know I've been here too long when that will seem normal!

You are all going to hell:

"Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourself. I am the Lord."

Leviticus 19:28

Have a nice day

Yes my neighbour was saying that she'd told her sons not to get tattoos as they then couldn't be buried in the Jewish cemetary. She did herself say it was then rather nonsensical to require circumcision.

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although I can't actually remember the last time my kids were frightened by a sailor in a swimming pool.....

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Pretty sure i'd scare people in a swimming pool with OR without my tat's.

I'm probably in the same boat, with my stubborn belief that I can still fit in the same size speedos I wore in college 30+ years and 100lbs ago.....

Yay! I'm sure it is much more interesting/fun there anyway.

Some might say pasty, but I prefer to think of myself as having masculine porcelain skin or the male equivalent of a fair skinned English rose. But it is harder to think positively about my complexion after I was with my daughter at the pool and my wife was in the pool side bleachers watching on. my wife overheard some other folk ask amongst themselves, but about me, "Is he sick?", she told me she turned to them and said "No, he is just English".