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I can't help but wonder about the eventuality of a literal plethora of 80-year old women with wrinkled roses and butterflies on their buttocks (and elsewhere)... it's actually a bit frightening, to be totally honest. :D
I've never come across something I'd feel committed to that I'd want on my body for the rest of my life.
 
i think tattoos are going to be en vogue for quite some time.
Don’t get me wrong, not saying I dislike them at all. They are nice when done tastefully but some people have gone a little too far with the coverage IMHO and I wonder how this fashion is going to now shape the future - just curious was all.
 
I can't help but wonder about the eventuality of a literal plethora of 80-year old women with wrinkled roses and butterflies on their buttocks (and elsewhere)... it's actually a bit frightening, to be totally honest. :D

Ah but if they are indicative of a life well lived, then imagine the stories to be told to grandchildren.
 
I don't have any tattoos. Like AFB, I can't figure out what I am attached to enough that I'd want to wear it forever. However, my daughter wants to convince me to get a tattoo with her when she turns 18, so I have my thinking cap on. I wouldn't get anything big or obnoxious, but maybe a small flower or something to link us together.
 
I don't have any tattoos. Like AFB, I can't figure out what I am attached to enough that I'd want to wear it forever. However, my daughter wants to convince me to get a tattoo with her when she turns 18, so I have my thinking cap on. I wouldn't get anything big or obnoxious, but maybe a small flower or something to link us together.
Not the Nikon logo? Apart from not really knowing what I’d choose, I’d also not like the pain!
 
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Not a fan of tattoos for myself, but I do appreciate the amazing artwork that some people do sport, and I also understand how it can be very meaningful in many cases as well, having a tattoo, even a tiny little one, which reflects something really significant and important to a person.
 
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Likewise, no ink here... my father-in-law was in the Marines and got a star tattooed on the inside of his left wrist... to honor him on his 80th birthday, all 7 of his grandchildren went together and got the same star on the inside of their left wrists... while I don't get the whole inked from head to toe that some sport, I can appreciate the kids' collective gesture...
 
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Long ago when I was young ;) my wife got very offended when I told her that I wanted to get a tattoo of my name on her neck. I said this as a joke when watching a gangster movie where the men had their names tattooed on the necks of "their ladies."

I just don't understand it. I have been married to this beautiful woman for over 40 years, and she still doesn't laugh at my jokes 😂 On the other side, we do care for each other and get along quite well after all these years.
 
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If she got the tattoo, it would have aged well... hahaha... Congrats on 40+ years!!!

What I find funny is how my post on editing out tattoos on pics with Photoshop (on topic), turned this into an off topic tattoo thread. LOL...
 
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I don't have any tattoos. Like AFB, I can't figure out what I am attached to enough that I'd want to wear it forever. However, my daughter wants to convince me to get a tattoo with her when she turns 18, so I have my thinking cap on. I wouldn't get anything big or obnoxious, but maybe a small flower or something to link us together.

I considered a bar code on my neck as a symbol of us all being nothing more than a number on a database.
 
If she got the tattoo, it would have aged well... hahaha... Congrats on 40+ years!!!

What I find funny is how my post on editing out tattoos on pics with Photoshop (on topic), turned this into an off topic tattoo thread. LOL...

Yeah that’s what you get when you ask a question on here…. You have to keep us on track or we wander…. I kinda like that about this little community of ours.
 
Long ago when I was young ;) my wife got very offended when I told her that I wanted to get a tattoo of my name on her neck. I said this as a joke when watching a gangster movie where the men had their names tattooed on the necks of "their ladies."

I just don't understand it. I have been married to this beautiful woman for over 40 years, and she still doesn't laugh at my jokes 😂 On the other side, we do care for each other and get along quite well after all these years.

I keep chuckling at those memes that keep appearing saying things like the chances of your bunny killing you are very low, but never zero….. and I think about my wife who loves me so much she tells me she would love to punch me in the face sometimes.

40 years is fantastic. Long may that number increase. I hope I last that long. She totally gave up on her standards standards choosing me.

I think at this stage she would recommend having my home address tattooed on me so if someone finds me they can put me in the mail and send me home….
 
Not a fan of tattoos for myself, but I do appreciate the amazing artwork that some people do sport, and I also understand how it can be very meaningful in many cases as well, having a tattoo, even a tiny little one, which reflects something really significant and important to a person.

My brother in law has the cover art from Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds on his arm. It looks amazing but I know what he went through for it and nah, I will take a pass on that.
 
I wouldn't get anything big or obnoxious, but maybe a small flower or something to link us together.
Reminds me of a time I was helping to manage someone's death in the intensive care unit, and after the man had died, his adult son - who was clearly very attached to him - put their arms together and then took a photo of their tattoos. I can't remember if they were the exact same or in some sort of sequence, but that act stuck with me... both that his son would think to do that as one of his last acts alongside his father's body, and also that they had gotten tattoos to link each other.

But also speaking of tattoos, I remember a time we were admitting someone to the hospital from the emergency department. I don't remember the full details, but this gentleman had all sorts of tattoos. As we stripped his shirt off, I saw some very elaborate tattoos on his chest and back. I won't recall the exact wording to protect privacy, but the tattoo was menacing, stating that this person was a weapon of God, and woe to anyone who would be reading these words. And as I looked at the man before me, unconscious and barely holding on to life, it just made me think that people really don't consider that tattoos are long-term and seen in all sorts of scenarios. Not that people should be considering how they'll look when they're dying and/or dead (although those DNR tattoos are an interesting idea), but you see some interesting things... people are interesting.
 
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Reminds me of a time I was helping to manage someone's death in the intensive care unit, and after the man had died, his adult son - who was clearly very attached to him - put their arms together and then took a photo of their tattoos. I can't remember if they were the exact same or in some sort of sequence, but that act stuck with me... both that his son would think to do that as one of his last acts alongside his father's body, and also that they had gotten tattoos to link each other.

But also speaking of tattoos, I remember a time we were admitting someone to the hospital from the emergency department. I don't remember the full details, but this gentleman had all sorts of tattoos. As we stripped his shirt off, I saw some very elaborate tattoos on his chest and back. I won't recall the exact wording to protect privacy, but the tattoo was menacing, stating that this person was a weapon of God, and woe to anyone who would be reading these words. And as I looked at the man before me, unconscious and barely holding on to life, it just made me think that people really don't consider that tattoos are long-term and seen in all sorts of scenarios. Not that people should be considering how they'll look when they're dying and/or dead (although those DNR tattoos are an interesting idea), but you see some interesting things... people are interesting.

Absolutely agree. The one of the son and his late father is beautiful. The final bond captured and protected for eternity.
 
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