Who knew a little prick could be fatal?

Yes, subby, the handful of injurious cases are surely an indictment of the entire practice of tattooing.

gopher321: Who knew a little prick could be fatal?

This.

Hooters wouldn't hire my wife as waitress because she has a small tattoo on her upper right arm. Hear that girls? If you get a tattoo you can blow an opportunity of a lifetime.

Here I was thinking this story would be about someone getting a Bad Tattoo (say, Nazi-related on the forehead) and getting beat to death over it.

As for TFA yeah, sticking needles in your skin for any reason can potentially give you an infection, which is why you should be careful. Makes me wonder about the shop, but then anyone can also get unlucky I guess.

Still, he was inactive due to the pain and then got "economy class syndrome" it sounds like, from the end of the article? If it was that painful, he maybe should have had it seen earlier, but... as always hindsight is 20/20.

Another submitter shakin' the jar to see if we'll fight.

Did it cost 300 big ones?

innocent looking but deadly

Ikimasen: Another submitter shakin' the jar to see if we'll fight.

And you always do. Hell probably half of my headline greenlights are flamebait and Fark never disappoints.

b...b...but I'M MR. COOL ICE?!

JC

Well, I expect getting involuntarily disfigured isn't all that fun either. And that deep vein thrombosis has killed quite a few people who have sat still for long trips on buses and airplanes, so better outlaw those too.

Yeah! Tattoo thread!

He probably didn't follow proper hygiene and his doc sounds like he failed as well. The guy who inked him sounds like he did the job right.

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: Ikimasen: Another submitter shakin' the jar to see if we'll fight.

And you always do. Hell probably half of my headline greenlights are flamebait and Fark never disappoints.

In that case, my tattoo is farkin' sweeeeeeet, and you folks who are always talking shiat just don't have the cojones to get one. Why don't you go out and live your life a little bit, subby?

/does it need more?

... you prudish coont.

//hm...

... proodish coont.

///interior slashies!

NotSubby: He probably didn't follow proper hygiene and his doc sounds like he failed as well. The guy who inked him sounds like he did the job right.

Yeah, it said he was given pain meds and Antihistamines? I'm no doctor, but wouldn't antibiotics be the thing to use?

But how else will I express to the world that I am a complex, mult-dimensional person with layers of insight that would be unravelled if only someone would stop to ask about the Celtic cross on my ankle, subby?

Isn't the fact that they're universally and inherently ugly, reason enough?

Exodus2001: Hooters wouldn't hire my wife as waitress because she has a small tattoo on her upper right arm. Hear that girls? If you get a tattoo you can blow an opportunity of a lifetime.

I LOL'd

Recently found out my cousin has MRSA after getting a tattoo in New Orleans at Mardi Gras, so I'm NOT getting a kick out of this.

/worried

Was his name Mr Belpit if his leg was so swollen?

Exodus2001: Hooters wouldn't hire my wife as waitress because she has a small tattoo on her upper right arm. Hear that girls? If you get a tattoo you can blow an opportunity of a lifetime.

Pictures to prove it!

Ikimasen: Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: Ikimasen: Another submitter shakin' the jar to see if we'll fight.

And you always do. Hell probably half of my headline greenlights are flamebait and Fark never disappoints.

In that case, my tattoo is farkin' sweeeeeeet, and you folks who are always talking shiat just don't have the cojones to get one. Why don't you go out and live your life a little bit, subby?

/does it need more?

... you prudish coont.

//hm...

... proodish coont.

///interior slashies!

I'm not the submitter of this headline, haven't even submitted any today actually (need to get on that)

I was simply saying that Fark never fails to bite the flamebait. Ever.

Exodus2001: If you get a tattoo you can blow an opportunity of a lifetime

you consider yourself the opportunity of a lifetime?

Came here looking for Mr. Cool Ice.
/left disappointed

and you folks who are always talking shiat just don't have the cojones to get one. Why don't you go out and live your life a little bit, subby?

THAT'S what my life has been missing! All this travel, art, theater, and outdoor activity, and the ONE thing I need to make it all complete, to fill that empty void within, is to let some high-school drop-out draw pictures all over me like a little five-year-old with a crayon!

DAMN I've been missing out!

/shakin that jar

berylman: innocent looking but deadly

I wonder if someone has a tattoo of Tattoo.

blablablabla only an idiot would get a tattoo blablablabla I'm a self-righteous asshole who thinks I'm superior to anyone who has ink blablablabla anyone who has a tattoo that got it because it has meaning to them is a fag blablabla


wanted to be first

/has a tattoo

FTFA: Peter Dean, the Suffolk coroner, said it was not clear whether the DVT had been related to the tattoo, or whether it developed due to Mr Chillingworth being inactive due to the pain.

Mr Dean, who said that the tattooist had followed all necessary hygiene procedures, recorded a narrative verdict of a pulmonary embolism following a tattooing.

So, the coroner has no idea if the tattoo killed him, and the tattooist isn't to blame either way. Good job subby!

/have tattoos
//never had a problem with them

Too bad the article notes that the ME doesn't attribute the death to the tattoo process (which was specifically noted to have followed correct procedures). But don't let that get in the way of your previously scheduled rants.

Yay! Tattoo thread! I don't have one, but I've been looking for ideas these past twenty-some years. Come on Fark, show me something I haven't seen. That one of the guy with Darth Vader holding the severed head of George Lucas was pretty cool.

If I had the skin space, I'd get a Firefly-class transport being chased through Reaverspace, but for the level of detail I'd like, I am simply not broad enough across the back. So I made a t-shirt of what I wanted and put it on my fiance, who is somewhat larger, being all male and stuff. And then I made a version for myself that just kinda wrapped around. Serenity looks to be flying just over the cleavage, while Reavers chase it across my back. It probably would've hurt like crazy to actually tattoo on.

...Actually, that's what's happened to every tattoo design I've ever liked. I have a lot of t-shirts.

Guess I just solved my own problem there.

Ikimasen: Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: Ikimasen: Another submitter shakin' the jar to see if we'll fight.

And you always do. Hell probably half of my headline greenlights are flamebait and Fark never disappoints.

In that case, my tattoo is farkin' sweeeeeeet, and you folks who are always talking shiat just don't have the cojones to get one. Why don't you go out and live your life a little bit, subby?


All I need to do to live life is have ink injected into my skin in a recognizable pattern? Pfft, and here I am wasting my time enriching my mind with math and science when instead I should have been living on the surface of my body!

Whew, thanks for clearing that up!

EddieMoscone - Heh. Kinda awesome.

Is subby my grandma?

Ah, socialized medicine at its finest. Here, take some motrin for that raging infection.

FTA: His leg was swollen and red within two days and a scab formed. Mr Chillingworth had trouble sleeping because of the pain.

He visited his GP, who cleaned and dressed the wound and gave Mr Chillingworth painkillers and antihistamines.


Maybe antibiotics woulda helped.

A tattoo is the mark of the lower class. Even if you get it removed with a laser beam, you're still low class.

I had a tattoo and lazer removal. I was young and dumb. Now I am old and "GET OFF MY farkING LAWN!"

Magics5RIP: I am wasting my time enriching my mind with math and science when instead I should have been living on the surface of my body!

you got a brain tattoo?

not as hard core as a lung tattoo, but still cool, bro

/my dad owns a dealership

Kingsman: Ah, socialized medicine at its finest. Here, take some motrin for that raging infection.

This

santadog: Yeah! Tattoo thread!

Residents FTW!

itazurakko: EddieMoscone - Heh. Kinda awesome.

Thanks. I was trying to think of the most generic tattoo possible. The font is Times New Roman.

/Tattoo the rich...

randomizetimer: Kingsman: Ah, socialized medicine at its finest. Here, take some motrin for that raging infection.

This

pay for play docs never kill anyone with their negligence

/not my fault, they set two hooks

Kingsman: Ah, socialized medicine at its finest. Here, take some motrin for that raging infection.

More like "Have some vicodine for that headache!".


/if I ever get cancer I am going to really wish I was canadian.
//Fark the U.S healthcare system.

SkinnyHead: A tattoo is the mark of the lower class. Even if you get it removed with a laser beam, you're still low class.

BS!
People get inked for many reasons. Don't assume.

/Middleclass
//business owner
///free spirit
////3 tattoos and lots of slashies.

Kingsman: Ah, socialized medicine at its finest. Here, take some motrin for that raging infection.

Sounds like a military doc...

Ikimasen: Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: Ikimasen: Another submitter shakin' the jar to see if we'll fight.

And you always do. Hell probably half of my headline greenlights are flamebait and Fark never disappoints.

In that case, my tattoo is farkin' sweeeeeeet, and you folks who are always talking shiat just don't have the cojones to get one. Why don't you go out and live your life a little bit, subby?

/does it need more?

... you prudish coont.

//hm...

... proodish coont.

///interior slashies!

Is it just me, or would "Proodish Coont" be an awesome name for a band?

/oh, and antihistamines and painkillers, but no antibiotics?
//sounds like a malpractice suit to me.

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: I'm not the submitter of this headline, haven't even submitted any today actually (need to get on that)

I was simply saying that Fark never fails to bite the flamebait. Ever.

(I know, s'just that after you said that, I bit.)

Magics5RIP: All I need to do to live life is have ink injected into my skin in a recognizable pattern? Pfft, and here I am wasting my time enriching my mind with math and science when instead I should have been living on the surface of my body!

Whew, thanks for clearing that up!

Life isn't about math or, or, or... science! Live is about getting into the world and doing something! Feel some excitement for a change! Make rash decisions! You know you've always wanted a tattoo.

(Am I doing this right? I guess it's supposed to be more flamey...)

... you coontish prood.

SkinnyHead: A tattoo is the mark of the lower class. Even if you get it removed with a laser beam, you're still low class.

If you need to look down on someone else for something as common and immaterial as a tattoo in order to get some sort of ego masturbation that makes you feel high class, then I'll happily be lower class, thanks.

Some of them can be dangerous.