The law should be that all head and neck tatts can only say 'I make poor life choices'.

/That's what they say to me anyway

Not then, no, but she's grown into a fine-looking woman, and to be completely honest, those tattoos aren't hideous. In fact, I like them.

Oooof that is a tiny violin.

His Mom and Dad must be soooo proud of him!



That face would break mirrors.

Yeah, I'd like to see him with a bad head-cold trying to eat some chicken noodle soup with all those piercings and rings out of his face. Just imagining green snot, soup and noodles coming out of all those extra holes in his head is a wonderful image.

Photoshop a .gif, anyone?

I've never had a tat but I've heard it's painful, so I have to ask the experts here -- is it really possible to fall asleep while someone is tattooing your FACE?

The stars are her destination.

S.T.A.R.R.R.R.R.R.Rrrrrrrss

Maori tattoos are the only tattoos that aren't hideous.

/but only when they're on actual Maoris.

ItchyBrother: His Mom and Dad must be soooo proud of him!

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That face would break mirrors.

Yeah, I'd like to see him with a bad head-cold trying to eat some chicken noodle soup with all those piercings and rings out of his face. Just imagining green snot, soup and noodles coming out of all those extra holes in his head is a wonderful image.

Photoshop a .gif, anyone?


I would guess anyone who does that to his face doesn't suffer much from sinus problems or bad colds.

As of Jan 13 2010 02:07:16 Beijing Time, this is what Guinness had certified as The World's Smallest Violin.

fickle floridian: I've never had a tat but I've heard it's painful, so I have to ask the experts here -- is it really possible to fall asleep while someone is tattooing your FACE?

Hey, Fickle - Your girlfriend acted asleep when i was ass-raping her, so i guess it is possible!

MooseUpNorth: Aw. I was hoping the headline was literal.

Me too.

/Came here to ask if it was, indeed, open-source.

bugmn99: Yeah, I don't think I'd be getting any ink from a tattoo artist with whom there was the slightest possibility of a language barrier between they and I.

/could I get a Fark grammar nazi to check that for me?
//I think I did alright.

them and me

/actual editor - and you're welcome
//but it's not an easy one, so don't beat yourself up over it; a lot of people find those tough

Ishkur: People change, their values and priorities shift as they move from young adulthood to mature adulthood. The things you want as a youth -- individualism, self-expression, recreation and socialization -- are not as important as you move into your prime adult years.

I've always been terrified of getting a tattoo, for the sane reason that I know I won't want it anymore 2-3 years down the road. Lots of fads are easy to drop and move on from. Tattoos aren't.

That's me, too. I've never been against tats. I've just never thought of one that I thought I'd want for a really long time, so I never got one. Piercings, yes. They close up. Tats, not so much.

ItchyBrother: fickle floridian: I've never had a tat but I've heard it's painful, so I have to ask the experts here -- is it really possible to fall asleep while someone is tattooing your FACE?

Hey, Fickle - Your girlfriend acted asleep when i was ass-raping her, so i guess it is possible!

Why would you rape your own mom?

Why is it that so many tattoo parlors have the ugliest, least professional-looking signage on the front of their stores? Wouldn't that put you off?

birdistasty: Silly question, but can't she just cover them up with makeup?

This was my first thought. But I guess it stands to reason that someone dumb enough to get facial tattoos would also be too dumb to grasp how makeup works.

I have never had a tattoo so I will defer to those who have....But she fell asleep while getting tattooed. This doesn't seem all that likely to me. I have heard they are on the painful side.

Aidan: vicejay: It kind of bothers me that when people pantomime "the world's smallest violin," they're only using two fingers on one hand in a rubbing motion. In essence, they are grinding up the tiny violin, rather than playing it.

That used to bug me, but I figure they're pantomiming that the violin is held between the crook of the index finger and the ball of the thumb, and the thumb itself is pushing the bow across the tiny violin... Although generally people do a circular motion which would be ridiculously exaggerated at the proper scale.

See, I learned the gesture differently. The way I was taught, you run the side of your index finger back and forth across the top of your thumb, making your thumb the violin and your finger the bow.

Lachwen: Aidan: vicejay: It kind of bothers me that when people pantomime "the world's smallest violin," they're only using two fingers on one hand in a rubbing motion. In essence, they are grinding up the tiny violin, rather than playing it.

That used to bug me, but I figure they're pantomiming that the violin is held between the crook of the index finger and the ball of the thumb, and the thumb itself is pushing the bow across the tiny violin... Although generally people do a circular motion which would be ridiculously exaggerated at the proper scale.

See, I learned the gesture differently. The way I was taught, you run the side of your index finger back and forth across the top of your thumb, making your thumb the violin and your finger the bow.

That makes a LOT more sense...

(What the hell, me? Why have I been doing it a stupid way all this time?)

bugmn99: Yeah, I don't think I'd be getting any ink from a tattoo artist with whom there was the slightest possibility of a language barrier between they and I.

/could I get a Fark grammar nazi to check that for me?
//I think I did alright.

You should have capitalized "Nazi." Also, try to avoid the pluperfect post-subjunctive ephemeral procompsognathuzation of adjectives.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: bugmn99: Yeah, I don't think I'd be getting any ink from a tattoo artist with whom there was the slightest possibility of a language barrier between they and I.

/could I get a Fark grammar nazi to check that for me?
//I think I did alright.

them and me

/actual editor - and you're welcome
//but it's not an easy one, so don't beat yourself up over it; a lot of people find those tough

But you're fine with "alright" and lower-case "nazi"?

/actual proofreader at newspaper and state legislature.
//true story.

Give it to Joe Biden

AssAsInAssassin: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: bugmn99: Yeah, I don't think I'd be getting any ink from a tattoo artist with whom there was the slightest possibility of a language barrier between they and I.

/could I get a Fark grammar nazi to check that for me?
//I think I did alright.

them and me

/actual editor - and you're welcome
//but it's not an easy one, so don't beat yourself up over it; a lot of people find those tough

But you're fine with "alright" and lower-case "nazi"?

/actual proofreader at newspaper and state legislature.
//true story.

Yes, partly because I'm primarily S&W while I'm sure you're AP -- different standards. (Indeed, different philosophies on style.) I respect style guides and house rules, but I don't consider myself personally bound to any of them outside of relevant contexts, which Fark is not. In the context of Fark, I enjoy a freedom of usage I would not indulge in formally.

"Alright" is nonstandard but no longer, by this point in history, strictly improper. It certainly was when I was younger, and only a decade ago I wouldn't have tolerated it. But it's gradually becoming more accepted, if still only informally, and this change is consistent with earlier changes such as 'altogether'. The usage is more common on the other side of the pond, and my own idiolect (a kind of 'North Atlantic English') tends to favour Commonwealth spellings and usages.

I started off much more prescriptive, like a lot of word nerds, but I've gradually warmed to a more descriptive approach over the years. Moreover, my personal sensibilities favour more discrete usage, which generally means more words overall. Alright / all right is an example of this kind of bifurcation: "All right" would be required in all cases specifically describing a plural object, and further stating that they are satisfactory -- but not required in all other cases. I advise that "alright" is still very informal and should still be strictly avoided in any formal usage. And yes, I enforced "all right" in all cases in my own capacity as a newspaper editor, even as a senior editor with more personal discretion, because my EIC prescribed that.

As for lower-case 'nazi': First, I don't consider lower-case usage improper in this usage, where it does not refer specifically to the National Socialist German Workers party or anything similar (Neo-Nazis, White supremacists, Christian Identity, etc.); in fact, I privately consider capitalising the jocular usage offensive, though I won't be rude enough to say so. Second, even if I did consider it an error in this case, the commenter did not invite me to comment on anything outside the text they specified, which did not include that. This being Fark, I'm not going to take even an opportunity like that to point out errors that I've not been invited to. I only indulge in that sometimes to make fun of people. (So if any of you see me being a grammar nazi, it's either because I really believed you were screwing up in some meaningful way, or I'm just having a go at you.)

Wow. You took that way more seriously than I expected.

For the record, I take a fairly descriptionist approach to English. If people didn't corrupt the language, we'd be speaking proto-Indo-European. Or whatever came before that.

birdistasty

Silly question, but can't she just cover them up with makeup? Granted, I have a heck of a time covering up the occasional pimple, but I know they make body makeup to coverup tattoos. So if she hates it all that much and is so embarrassed by it, can't she cover it up when she goes out in public?

Yeah, I know people with skin problems (like vitiligo) can get special make-up to cover it up, so why won't that work?

/and that's not too bad as far as tattoos go
//hell, they're even kind of attractive
///I sure wouldn't want them on my face though

It looks alright from the left side.