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Are You A Dead Weight?
Posted on 06/02/2014 7:50:49 AM PDT by Phillyred
DALLAS-Thirteen needles are simultaneously zinging in and out of Adam Metzger’s shoulder.
The 27-year-old is unruffled. He stares unblinkingly out the storefront window of Taboo Tattoo, a studio in the Bishop Arts District. To his right, Cody Biggs shades blue into a square of the Texas state flag. His movements are sure, even.
The buzzing suddenly falls silent. Biggs pauses to dunk the handpiece into a thimble-sized plastic cup of ink, then turns back to his canvas. Metzger’s shoulder is pink and puffy, weeping streams of ink and blood.
“How are you doing, buddy?” Biggs asks, rubbing on ointment in counterclockwise circles.
“It doesn’t feel good, man,” Metzger responds. “But I’ve definitely felt worse pain.”
Plenty of people know what he’s been through. As of 2012, 1 in 5 adults had a tattoo, up from 14 percent in 2008, a Harris Interactive Poll found. And when safety standards are followed, tattoos are usually trouble-free.
But tattoos can pose health risks that many people might not consider:
Unsterilized tools or contaminated ink can lead to infection, scarring, blood-borne diseases and other, less-obvious issues.
“It’s becoming much more common, but you still have to be careful,” says Dr. Bryan Wasson, an internal medicine physician at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center at Irving, Texas. “A tattoo is like a minor surgery.
You clean and shave the skin like you’re going to operate. You use surgical tools. There are dangers. So be careful in your selection.”
During the procedure, a gun with needles punctures the top layer of the skin, depositing pigment in a deeper layer called the dermis. As the skin heals, the ink remains trapped below the surface.
“When you get a tattoo, you bleed,” said Dr. Donna Casey, an internal medical specialist at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital...
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Yes, in all fairness, there was a new convenant in the new testament, but I still agree, folks shouldn’t do it.
All true, plus and for example, I can't imagine enjoying kissing a woman's body where it's covered with a tattoo.
I agree that tattoos look perfectly awful at any age.
Evidently many young people seem to think they cool.
They need to be made aware of the fact that as we age, their “body art” ages with the them, and not very well I might add.
I had thought of it but never really wanted to mark myself.
Shit, I was not even allowed to wear a uniform.
You weren’t allowed to? I was forced to most days heh.
Sometimes we wouldn’t wear our own nametags though.
I can't wait until the wooden plate in the lower lip becomes fashionable among this crowd. Gives "Ubangi?" a whole new meaning.
As much as I can.
Hush Hush stuff.
You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.
So welcome to my life, tattoo
I’m a man now, thanks to you
I expect I’ll regret you
But the skin graft man won’t get you
You’ll be there when I die
Tattoo
If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two—
The vampire who said he was you
There’s a stake in your fat black heart
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.
Now I’m older, I’m tattooed all over
My wife is tattooed too
A rooty-toot-toot, rooty-tooty-toot-toot
Rooty-toot-toot tattoo too
To you, too.
Ach, du.
We did nit wear uniforms on the boat and I was forbidden to wear uniform in foreign ports.
Even inconus we went to work in civvies.
We changed into uniform at the place of work.
Back to civvies at the end of the day.
A bit of a ruse.
Yep. I feel the same way.
I thought of it, hell I wanted a unit mark, but you just cant do it.
I had a friend years ago who was addicted to getting tattoos.
She had a really hard time walking past tattoo parlors if she could hear the needle vibrating.
The closest I ever came to getting a tattoo was buying some tattoo decals and wearing them
for a day or two.
One busybody at work got all huffy when she saw my rose “tattoo” on my chest just below
my collar bone. It was ~ 1x1.5”
She was pretty shocked the next day when it was gone.
My ears are pierced, and that’s all I have done to mutilate myself to make sure my earrings
don’t get lost. Some of them are a bit expensive, which is why women pierce their ears.
You Know? I suppose we all want to leave our mark on the world.
I’m just not sure that Inking your body is the way to do that.
I have put nose rings in a few bulls, snout rings in a few hundred pigs for $1/, and ear-tags in thousands of pigs and cattle. I could have made a fortune in the human business based on current charges by amateurs.
I know a guy that wanted a tattoo of some bands logo.
I said think this through.
Your tastes will change over the years.
He said eff you and had the thing done.
Came back one hour later and lamented the damned thing.
LOL
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