David, the statue, and the Mona Lisa painting.

[RED]

Just wondering. How much more do you think they would be worth if they had full sleeves and neck tattoos added.

[dryheat]

Michaelangelo had the sense to post his graffiti on something other. We have paper now and sharpies but, that's just for practice. So it's ten yr. old nonsense on your arm. If you have tattoos on your face you should be rounded up for a through mental examination. Short sighted people think everything they draw (or write) it art. If you are really good, you don't have room for it all on your body.

[Roadkingtrax]

Sounds like Red is mad at his granddaughter for getting tattoos or something.

Arrgh...rage at society again.

[dryheat]

Maybe a little disappointed. I would be. Especially if it was Pepi Le Pew on the ankle or something lame. Well, while I'm here-
Have any of you every actually read one of those long stories someone had on their arm? You should at least ask, it's the nice thing to do. But who reads anymore?
-Saw where someone had their eyelid pierced. Not recommended by doctors, but I've always thought if you want to break out of the mould, get your liver pierced. Show some guts, so to speak.
No one knows how cool you are after your sewn up, but you know. Oh, wait. That's not the point.
Have I seen good tattoos? Yes, I have. And awful. This poor kid has to block this out if she is ever to be able to live with regular people. Or maybe it's a great story around thanksgiving.

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[Major Tom]

An example of how wacked out some people are: my brother-in-law showed up at the family Christmas gathering and announced he couldn't afford to buy gifts for anyone. Ten minutes later he proudly showed his new tattoo saying it was a bargain at $500! BTW, he is a full blown welfare receipient!

[lyman]

re statues,

$10 a head to see Jeff Davis all graffiti'ed up,

[dryheat]

I'd like to dip some graffiti artists in a big bucket of paint. It's art you know.

[togor]

IIRC there was a tat thread on jouster2 a few years back. Case was made that they're not by themselves bad. Certainly a lot of people have them. Not my style.

[lyman]

IIRC there was a tat thread on jouster2 a few years back. Case was made that they're not by themselves bad. Certainly a lot of people have them. Not my style.

your body, your choice,, right?

[togor]

your body, your choice,, right?

Where all this gets interesting is that association is also voluntary. You don't have to work for the guy who bans face tats among his employees. But if that guy has that rule, he has to have a legit business reason for it--otherwise it's just discrimination.

One of the reason religion keeps coming up in litigation these days is that courts let religion be a "safe space" for discrimination. When something like that happens, it becomes an attractive legal strategy. The problem being not religion then but rather the law.

[Vern Humphrey]

Way back when, Post Exchanges sold a kit with two bottles of paint, one black and one white. They looked just like nail polish bottles, complete with the little brushes.

They were used to paint black rectangles inside your boots (near the top) on the inside of your belt (near the buckle) and inside the sweat band of your helmet. When the black paint dried, you used the white paint to letter in all the info on your dogtags. So you had four means of identifying your body -- and knowing your blood type. Some people had the same data tattooed inside the left forearm.

[dryheat]

Where all this gets interesting is that association is also voluntary. You don't have to work for the guy who bans face tats among his employees. But if that guy has that rule, he has to have a legit business reason for it--otherwise it's just discrimination.

One of the reason religion keeps coming up in litigation these days is that courts let religion be a "safe space" for discrimination. When something like that happens, it becomes an attractive legal strategy. The problem being not religion then but rather the law.

Religion is a very shaky "fourth pillar" of justice. It's last ditch. But when native americans decided that sending a man to the moon was wrong because the moon was "sacred" it loses it's legitimacy.

Near me there are about a million acres of beautiful countryside that also is home to probably the biggest source of copper in the world. It's going to become a moonscape unless the indians get their way, you know, because it's sacred. I doubt they will win this one.