Tattoos

[No vice]

That sounds like a true scenario! Smokers lie to themselves, like all junkies.
I smoked for 20 years and thought I was trying to pack up over 15 of them.

I still went outside with 'the smokers'. I still left the house with enough change for a pack of 10. Can't remember if it was a lecture or something I read, years ago, that said smoking changes the chemistry of every cell in the body. It's my agument against it being smokers choice to smoke or not. You have little choice when you're an addict.

Back to tats. There is an 'addictive' aspect. I'd guess it's due to an adrenaline rush. However it's not a true addiction, otherwse I'd have had a half sleeve years ago

[wardeworth]

Hello.
I don't like Tattoos because It is so much painful and sometime it affects on our skin so I never try for this. Several cutaneous disorders show a predilection for tattooed skin.

[TurboTom]

DazH has the Moot Hall tatooed on his back.
I have a tattoo of a great fell runner....ME across my love truncheon

[Hanneke]

Nah, I'd say bad analogies...
Tattoos aren't addictive or cause cancers etc.
I've not been under the influence whilst having them
I've not been bothered about 'cool' for the last 20 years. Yet 50% of my tattoos are under 5 years old.

Drawbacks... none I know of. Mine are in positions where they are easily covered up and usually are, they're rarely displayed as they are done for me.

and I fancy another. Preferably 'Sak Yant' style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psM357MWXy0

Nothing nasty in the ink, if there was the cobra venom would kill it

If you want a proper Sak Yant, you will have to travel to Thailand... Only one monk does it to women I believe...

Why would you like a Sak Yant?

[Antisocial]

Paul,
Food & drink, in the correct amounts / ratio, are essential to life; tattoos are not!!
My problem is in keeping the amount / ratio at the correct level!!
Ian.

The RIGHT food and drink in the correct amounts - which I suggest given the overall choice of beneficial food and drink would not include beer, chips or curry, which are more likely to curtail life than a tattoo.

I assume you have a problem with binging on lettuce.

[Stagger]

Each to their own

[Antisocial]

Each to their own

Well you're not touching mine!

[Stagger]

Well you're not touching mine!

Not what you said last time

[No vice]

If you want a proper Sak Yant, you will have to travel to Thailand... Only one monk does it to women I believe...

Why would you like a Sak Yant?

Hi Hanneke, well the gender issue isn't a problem

I fancy Sak Yant style. I don't really fancy a true sak yant tattoo. Hygiene is reportedly better than it used to be as regards the tattooing itself, but I hear it isn't great as regards the ancillaries (tissues for wiping excess blood etc)

I already have the pani mantra tattoo on the inside of my right ankle. If I 'wander' whilst meditating on the breath I figured it could help bring me back to the moment. But basically I just wanted a buddhist tattoo (is that an 'attachment'?)

Apparantly the traditional thai view is that they shouldn't be applied below the waist, but I figured I'm not thai or in thailand.

"Namaste"?

[Antisocial]

Not what you said last time

you weren't using your hands last time!