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Tattoos
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07-28-2015, 01:46 PM -
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Those that are harking about sleeves, what is it you mean exactly? These footballers that are chucking down thousands to get one massive coherent tattoo that covers their whole arm?
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07-28-2015, 01:48 PM -
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I want to be a fly on the wall when this guy wakes up in 30 years and suddenly thinks, "What the fuck was I thinking".

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07-28-2015, 01:48 PM -
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Beards are out? Sad 
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07-28-2015, 02:00 PM -
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Is stubble tache a tache with stubble or a stubbley wee tache? Laugh
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07-28-2015, 02:02 PM -
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The latter would just be stubble, VS. It's the former. Big monster tache, with stubble on the rest of your face.
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07-28-2015, 02:04 PM -
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(07-28-2015, 02:02 PM)Roger H. Sterling Wrote: The latter would just be stubble, VS. It's the former. Big monster tache, with stubble on the rest of your face.

I meant a stubbley tache with the rest clean shaven tbf Laugh

IMO the tache is a tough one to pull off without looking like a full blown paedo.
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07-28-2015, 02:11 PM -
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Normally such a look would make you look like a Mexican drug cartel member. However, we must remember that hipsters tend to weigh about three stone when wet, and are whiter than Caspar the friendly ghost's sugarbowl, so the comparison fails to hold muster.
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07-28-2015, 02:13 PM -
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(07-28-2015, 01:41 PM)S.J. Wrote: Catalan birds as opposed to birds who are from other regions of Spain? Quite a specific geographical area to highlight.  Warnock

Or is it just because you holiday often on the costa brava?

A few trips to Barcelona for Sonar and Ibiza. Not having explored much more of Spain I'm not in a position to comment. You're reading way too much into it tbh.
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07-28-2015, 02:16 PM -
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Everyone else knew what you meant, Walter.
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07-28-2015, 02:17 PM -
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If there's one thing I hate more than anything else when it comes to comments on tattoos it's "WHAT WILL YE LOOK LIKE WHEN YER 90". Drives me mad. I don't get a lot of it personally, but you see it everywhere.
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07-28-2015, 02:20 PM -
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(07-28-2015, 02:17 PM)Roger H. Sterling Wrote: If there's one thing I hate more than anything else when it comes to comments on tattoos it's "WHAT WILL YE LOOK LIKE WHEN YER 90". Drives me mad. I don't get a lot of it personally, but you see it everywhere.

Awful is the only answer, pointless question Laugh
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07-28-2015, 02:24 PM -
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(07-28-2015, 02:17 PM)Roger H. Sterling Wrote: If there's one thing I hate more than anything else when it comes to comments on tattoos it's "WHAT WILL YE LOOK LIKE WHEN YER 90". Drives me mad. I don't get a lot of it personally, but you see it everywhere.

Agree with this, it's an extremely lazy argument. You should be far more concerned with looking awful at 26/27.
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07-28-2015, 02:26 PM -
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(07-28-2015, 02:17 PM)Roger H. Sterling Wrote: If there's one thing I hate more than anything else when it comes to comments on tattoos it's "WHAT WILL YE LOOK LIKE WHEN YER 90". Drives me mad. I don't get a lot of it personally, but you see it everywhere.

What isn't there to get? It's one thing dressing a certain way when you're 8 or 18 or 80. There isn't much cross-over between the ages though. Skin has a habit of wrinkling too.

That's not to say some can't look good on old folk. Some do. Most won't.
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07-28-2015, 02:30 PM -
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(07-28-2015, 02:26 PM)2NaFish Wrote: What isn't there to get? It's one thing dressing a certain way when you're 8 or 18 or 80. There isn't much cross-over between the ages though. Skin has a habit of wrinkling too.

That's not to say some can't look good on old folk. Some do. Most won't.

Our perception of old people comes from those around us. They're from the 50s, they're still cutting about in what they wore in the 50s. I don't think you get old and start wearing cords and beige jackets because that's old people style, it's the style from their day. With the popularity of tattooing rising, the majority of old people in 50 years are going to have them, so everyone is going to look the same. The fact that folk even worry about what they'll look like when they're old is probably the most disconcerting thing, tbh. What a shit way to live.
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07-28-2015, 02:40 PM -
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(07-28-2015, 02:30 PM)Roger H. Sterling Wrote: With the popularity of tattooing rising, the majority of old people in 50 years are going to have them, so everyone is going to look the same.

Yes, and they'll almost all look shit. You're conflating mass consumption with being good. Lots of folk will have them. Lots of folk will regret them. Just as they'll regret other stuff, but the other stuff will be confined to photographs. As i said, most art, of any form, is crap, and in that regard tattoos aren't special, but they are permanent. So if folk can regret a haircut, a jumper, a favourite song or a drunken fumble behind the bike shed, then they can also regret a tattoo. Just because everyone'll have them won't make them good. Most people of a certain vintage will own a phil collins LP.

As for old folk cutting about in the same style of clothes they did when they were young? My old man is 67; he doesn't wear flares anymore, nor are the length of his lapels measured in feet rather than inches and he favours a sport coat over a leather jacket. He also doesn't have a perm and and giant groucho marx moustache either.
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07-28-2015, 02:40 PM -
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(07-28-2015, 02:24 PM)Nicolas Sarkozy Wrote: Agree with this, it's an extremely lazy argument. You should be far more concerned with looking awful at 26/27.

This. You get "fashion" tattoos at 24/25 and look awful and dated by the time you hit 32. Not sure what Roger is referring to about 90 year olds, with his drug habit he'll be long deed before then.
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07-28-2015, 02:42 PM -
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(07-28-2015, 01:46 PM)Roger H. Sterling Wrote: Those that are harking about sleeves, what is it you mean exactly? These footballers that are chucking down thousands to get one massive coherent tattoo that covers their whole arm?

Trying desperately to define new parameters for "sleeves" so that he can exempt himself. Laugh
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07-28-2015, 02:43 PM -
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(07-28-2015, 02:40 PM)2NaFish Wrote: Yes, and they'll almost all look shit. You're conflating mass appeal with being good. Lots of folk will have them. Lots of folk will regret them. Just as they'll regret other stuff, but the other stuff will be confined to photographs. As i said, most art, of any form, is crap, and in that regard tattoos aren't special, but they are permanent. So if folk can regret a haircut, a jumper, a favourite song or a drunken fumble behind the bike shed, then they can also regret a tattoo. Just because everyone'll have them won't make them good. Most people of a certain vintage will own a phil collins LP.

As for old folk cutting about in the same style of clothes they did when they were young? My old man is 67; he doesn't wear flares anymore, nor are the length of his lapels measured in feet rather than inches and he favours a sport coat over a leather jacket. He also doesn't have a perm and and giant groucho marx moustache either.

I didn't say they'd look good when they're older. What I'm saying is it's a non-issue. Why does anyone give a toss what someone else is going to look like in old age? Pretty weird.


(07-28-2015, 02:40 PM)S.J. Wrote: This. You get tattoos at 24/25 and look awful and dated by the time you hit 32. Not sure what Roger is referring to about 90 year olds, with his drug habit he'll be long deed before then.

Hopefully I'll bow out at 27 in a tragic marijuana overdose.
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07-28-2015, 02:45 PM -
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(07-28-2015, 02:42 PM)S.J. Wrote: Trying desperately to define new parameters for "sleeves" so that he can exempt himself. Laugh

Nope. The idea of "getting a sleeve" is relatively new. I'm just curious as to what folk mean by it.
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07-28-2015, 02:45 PM -
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At what age do people's look stop mattering, rog?



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