Hi all, I'm running out of time to be wild. So I've decided on getting a tattoo. Any suggestions on subject matter/position etc would be much appreciated.

Don't do it! Not a fan myself...

Thanks Isabel, not exactly the answer I was looking for!

 So there you have it: a tattoo of Isabel

mursal:

Hi all, I'm running out of time to be wild. So I've decided on getting a tattoo.

Noooooo! Such a cliche. And its not a choice - girls must get a heart or butterfly on ankle/hip. Men must get something butch on their arms - maybe a bit of barbed wire. I see some women getting them just above their *** cracks now :( Some of them that do really should ask the tattooist to put "Get it here", or "Wide load", and that sums it up. Also, dont get one of someones name, or anything in Chinese unless you REALLY trust the person not to write something rude about you.

Whatever you do, you will be ashamed of it in times to come. Especially when your skin is old and wrinkly.

Anyway, all the cool body mutilators (if thats possible) are doing this nowerdays. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_branding

Here is a list of some of the sick rubbish people like to do to themselves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_modification Why anyone would want to do things that were done to prisoners in the 1500s / cattle / concentration camp internees is beyond me.

But if you REALLY want to get one, get a useful one. Find your blood group and have it put on. Admittedly, its a bit like what the SS did, but at least it could convey some useful information in an emergency.

If I had to get one, I would go a step further and get a Braile tattoo? You can get small beads put under your skin that leave little raised lumps like braile, so then the blind can appreciate it too.

My advice would be to get a temporary one first, and see what the general reaction is before you scar yourself for life.

Mursal. So you are half thinking of a tattoo are you? Half thinking is what makes tattooists wealthy.

On the other hand there are those who think that a personality and identity can be expressed without the use of external and artificial means.

NOOOOOOO!! Don't do it! nothing worse than a tattoo...except for maybe a tattoo on old, wrinkly skin when the colour has run slightly- all you would then need is the god 'man' jewellery and a t-shirt with no sleves...... wow what a picture!!!

*i am not implying you have old, wrinkly skin (YET!!) or that you have 'man' jewellery and sleveless Ts- but once you get a tattoo you are sliding down that slippery slope!!

hehehe i think its a resounding no?! :D

Obviously I am all for it, if it is a tattoo of me.

It would be like the time the woman got one with all the members of Westlife.

Isobel, The local tattoo parlour doesn't seem to have your image on file. Now there not exactly the "Specsavers" of tattoo parlours, so I'll try a larger establishment the next day I'm in Dublin. Or would you have one handy?

PS I thought there was five members in Westlife?

I'm sure Dublin will have me on file...

PS Coming from Ireland surely you can name every member of Westlife and the date that the fifth member, Bryan (once Mr Kerry Katona) left them...?

TeslaCoils:

Also, dont get one of someones name, or anything in Chinese unless you REALLY trust the person not to write something rude about you.

Whatever you do, you will be ashamed of it in times to come. Especially when your skin is old and wrinkly.

You read my mind.

Thing to remember the subject of the tattoo may stay as youthdul and pretty as ever but the tattoo will wrinkle.

What the Ronan tattoo will look like in a number of years

Isabel Davies:

PS Coming from Ireland surely you can name every member of Westlife and the date that the fifth member, Bryan (once Mr Kerry Katona) left them...?

Well my sister, Patricia went to school with Kian's cousin Maureen (Kian out of Westlife not Kian the milkman) so if you want any bits and pieces Isabel, just let me know?

I'm impressed.

 I`ve got tattoos on my arms, chest and back, I had them done in my late teens and the odd one or two after, they do hurt when they are being done, and can take 2-3 weeks to heal.

I had the god and goddess done, my star sign, a unicorn, skulls and a pentagram, But do I regret them?.........No...........They say you can`t take things when you die but you can take your tattoos

Make sure the tattoo you have done is the one you like as it will be with you for LIFE.

A word of advice.......Never have a tattoo on the face or hands or neck in short never have a tattoo done where you can`t cover it up...........remember you may have somewhere important to go one day.

herne:

A word of advice.......Never have a tattoo on the face or hands or neck in short never have a tattoo done where you can`t cover it up...........remember you may have somewhere important to go one day.

Very wise words Herne.

What about a tattoo of something agricutural?

Tim.Relf:

What about a tattoo of something agricutural?

Well I tattoo my goats: does that count?  Mind you, if the OP were to be tattooed with his holding number he might find himself being shipped off to make bacon sarnies ...

Actually talking of that, there are some interesting goaty tattoos here

The whole thing is getting out of hand. tattoojohnny.com was the last straw. My head is spinning with options. I had thought of an agricultural tattoo as maybe a "Red Massey" or "John Deere for Ever" but that site just blew my head away.  

If its OK with you Townie I'll stick with your first option? All I have to do now is get Isabel to agree, well not so much agree, but to send me an image we can work from.

Good luck with that one mate!!!!!

Perry

 I see a lot of people are getting their medical data tattooed on themselves like blood type and allergys etc

I have an allergic reaction to Daz!! 

Tell you the truth I was thinking of something a bit more exotic, but I'll keep it in mind

How about scoobydo on your bum

Mursal

a) You are never running out of time to be wild - except when you are dead. I am the oldest teenager in the book!

b) Why does spending money to inflict pain upon yourself "wild"? Mad, possibly, painful, definitely, but "wild"? - no!

Find something that is free, painless (at  least to you) and non-permanent. Tastes can change!

what about a new zealand rugby player style one all the way up your arm that really would have a wild factor. that really would say "i fight bears and sh*t in the woods"

mursal:

Hi all, I'm running out of time to be wild. So I've decided on getting a tattoo.

If you feel your running out of time to be wild, why do something conventional such as getting a tattoo? Why not go wild in the mind rather than wild on the outside of the body.

Dependent on what your prevailing beliefs are, (and we have all got beliefs) why not really challenge your own beliefs. Push those beliefs to the limit of your intellectual power and then a bit more. Don't let the mind take a rest and decide that you have pushed enough, keep pushing. both in terms of theory and practice. Who knows where that will lead you and ............... your friends will see a difference, not in your external appearance, but in your internal one.

Go on. Be radical. Change you mind not your skin.

When I was a boy, about nine or ten, we took a trip for a couple oif days to liverpool to visit some of my mother's ancient relatives (she was born in Birkenhead).  Fifty years on I can only remember three things about the trip. 1.  Uncle Jim's (I guess uncle Jim was my maried to one of my mother's aunts) tatoos.  He had both forearms tatooed with designs featuring anchors.  I guess he had been a sailor at some point in his life as in those days no-one but sailors would have had such a thing.  2.  Uncle Jim taking me down to Liverpool Docks to see the ships.  3.  My father not being able to remember where we had left the car in a city he had never visited before!

I was very impressed by Uncle Jim's tatoos and resolved to have something similar myself when I had saved enough pocket money.  This was added to my other great dream at the time of becoming an engine driver.  That faded as diesel took over from steam and the tattoo desire faded at the same time.

One of Mrs J's sort of cousins married a chap with the SAS dagger and motto tatooed on his arm.  We went to the wedding and several other family gatherings where he was wont to corner anyone willing to listen and regale them with tales of his derring do.  After one of these occasions I was able to work out that to have served everywhere he claimed he must have been about 3 when he joined up.  Not long after that it came out that he was a thorough ne'er-do-well and in fact already had a wife when he married Mrs J's cousin.  He had joined the army but failed the basic training so had never served anywhere!

I also know a lady with a tatoo of her favourite, and most prolific prizewinning, ewe on her upper arm.  The first time Mrs J saw it she wanted one as well but she has never had it done.