Man gets BSOD message tattooed on his arm
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 28th 2007 4:45AM
posted Jul 28th 2007 4:45AM
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look how red is arm is lol...
look how red his arm is lol...
never been tattooed before eh?
Its red with shame!
I wish people would wait until the redness goes away before showing people their tattoo... yuck. I dont know why they think the best time to take a picture of a tattoo is immediately afterwards when it looks like they have some infectious rash.
MORON!
Legend!
That's what happens when you try to run a desktop windows on an ARM processor. He shoulda gone with windows ce.
sooo nerdy and i laughed =)
good luck getting laid with that
I'd sleep with him... for a price :P
eh... i'd call it RSOP > red screen of pain.
Way cool ... !!!!
a billion times more original than havin some tribal thing from a tattoo catalog on ya body somewhere .. cos that is pathetic ..!!!
You go man !!!
EXIT.
15min geek credit... but the tattoo is nice, must be very difficult to get the font right.
totally - its as if the tattoo was done by some robot arm...
It's freaky how accurate that tattoo is. Even the font spacing is perfect....
Oh dear. What an idiot.
Except of course the BSOD is disabled by default in XP and Vista so most people probably wouldn't even know what it is.
you don't have mess around much, do you?
The only people who would mess about are geeks who want to see what caused the error. Most normal users wouldn't want to see the BSOD or even know what it is.
I dont know what is dumber ... the guy getting this tat or your statement that BSODs are disabled by default.
You dont have to be a geek or screwing around with computer to get a BSOD.
You can have a failing harddrive and easily get a "Unmountable Boot Volume" BSOD.
Or you can install something new like a new printer and on the next boot your PC may not like the drive so you will get the wonderful "IRQ Not Equal or Less" BSOD
Its a part of life when we use Windows. I have accepted this, but this guy has taken the acceptance to a whole new level.
Funny because in all the years I have been using XP and more recently Vista I have never had a BSOD.
As to the IRQ error thats something you should really only get if you've tried manually configuring your IRQ's and didn't know what you were doing.
seriously, can i come live with you in your fantasy world? of course, i've never had a bsod when i wasn't personally messing around with my pc, but i've cleaned out people's computers that would bsod whenever you'd boot in normal mode... loaded up with tons upon tons of malware. so yea, it can happen to non "geek" people.
oh and "As to the IRQ error thats something you should really only get if you've tried manually configuring your IRQ's and didn't know what you were doing." is one of the most laughable things i've ever heard. anyone who has spent enough time fixing other people's computers knows that windows isn't always savvy when it comes to irq conflicts.
Yes we all bow down because Only Clayton and SpeedMonkay know computers. They are the only computer techs in the world. The rest of us are just poor users.
Given that nearly all home printers these days are USB the odds on an IRQ conflict are slim to none.
I love the comment about if you spend al your time fixing computers you're going to find BSOD's. Thats like saying if you deal with ill people all the time you're going to find a dead one.
Most USERS, note the word users and not techs or repairman, will never see a BSOD on XP nor on Vista because it only happens on an exceptionally few errors. Anything else just results in the machine rebooting with a little message explaining that an error has occured and the machine will now reboot. Windows 98 on the other hand would BSOD for every little thing.
Yes we all bow down because Only Clayton and SpeedMonkay know computers. They are the only computer techs in the world. The rest of us are just poor users.
Given that nearly all home printers these days are USB the odds on an IRQ conflict are slim to none.
I love the comment about if you spend al your time fixing computers you're going to find BSOD's. Thats like saying if you deal with ill people all the time you're going to find a dead one.
Most USERS, note the word users and not techs or repairman, will never see a BSOD on XP nor on Vista because it only happens on an exceptionally few errors. Anything else just results in the machine rebooting with a little message explaining that an error has occured and the machine will now reboot. Windows 98 on the other hand would BSOD for every little thing.
Stupid bloody works proxy made my post get sent twice.
Nerd fight!
FWIW, I've had BSODs on XP. It can happen if a virus takes out a system file, or you have corrupt RAM, as well as all the various other reasons you've mentioned.
"I love the comment about if you spend al your time fixing computers you're going to find BSOD's. Thats like saying if you deal with ill people all the time you're going to find a dead one."
you're still defending your comment that the bsod is disabled. my comment was a demonstration that bsods happen to non-tech people. you know, you can work at a hospital and never find a dead person, that doesn't mean dead people are disabled at the hospital. continuing with this analogy, as medical equipment and techniques get better, less people die from various ills. on the other side of this equation now, it's nice xp (and presumably vista) handles memory read and write failures better and pnp has come a long way, but this doesn't mean that things still don't kill it... :P
So we agree that 98% of normal users will never see a BSOD and this guy who got the tat is a tit. A tat for a tit. Better than tit for tat.
Kids!
As 20+ yr engr using Win...I can state I only see these every blue moon (being once every 6 months perhaps)...and doing upnp, mediacenter, etc.
It still happens but is fairly infrequent even with heavy pounding.
All depends on the crap you have installed and how much it stresses your system...(i.e. your mileage may vary).
As far as being 'disable' though...hmmm...that's a new one.
Ok disabled was probably the wrong term. Replaced for all but the most serious/fatal errors.
98% of normal users will never see a BSOD? I think you highly underestimate just how ****ed up the average user's computer is. Not to mention that they also have no idea how to fix it, so the problems just pile up more and more...
Fatal? ive goten BSODs ages ago, i didnt know what it was for, or why it happend, so i just restarted and went along my happy little way. 4 years later, im fixing these things as a hobby, my parent's computers have had BSODs, but i wasnt there when it happend, so i didnt know what happend, but most of the BSODs ive had to deal with were rare, and a restart later, nothing was broken, computer acted fine. as far as non computer geeks getting them, anyone who has had one of those creative X-Fi cards know that they are prone to IRQ errors, ive seen many other people with them on creative's forums. the simple fix is just moving the card to a new PCI slot, and everything is fine. BSODs are not disabled, ive goten them on my old HP a735w computer 4 years ago running XP. knock the OS back to something like 95 or 98, then yeah, BSODs happen a lot more often, they have improved windows since then.
he has more muscle mass than any nerd of his caliber should.
ctrl+alt+tool
That's cause it's his jerking arm... his left is probably spaghetti thin.
how g33k!!!
AHAHA love it.
i already have BSOD in vista ...
Can't wait to see someone get the Mac OSX Kernel Panic tattooed.
Lol, they havn't found someone with long enough arms yet.
you mean the grey screen of panic and disarray?
would love to punch this guy on the face.. what a moron.
I would feel stupid later in life with a regular tattoo. I would probably shoot myself with that shit on my arm.
At that time Microsoft is a party which enslaves linux enthusiasts, gas them to death and use the gold in their teeths to build up a new empire. History comes and goes to be repeated over and over again.. humans never learn.
What I wanted to say with that is that; then, this tatoo will be his fall.
Oh.... my god....
I'm not convinced.
To be a real blue screen, the blue would have to be the background of the text and the text would have to remain white-ish.
I call for inversing of colour :)
Dude, it's not IRQ, it's IRQL, or Interrupt Request Level and it's caused by a driver attempting to either read/write data structures at an interrupt level that is too high or attempting to access paged data while at a IRQL that is too high. You have no control over it. The IRQ's you're referring to are hardware IRQs and do NOT cause this BSOD.
And thus the seeds of a new religion are sewn...
Steve Balmer is Lord Vader and Bill Gates the emperor who rules behind the scenes...
i found it alot easier to just switch to mac os.
Shh!
I guess my old DOS Tat, "Command Unknown" has finally been replaced.
If he gets sued for copyright violation, it will be funny, and unsurprising.
I have to say this guy was creative. Moron,Idiot? Na. But the BSOD is very odd. I don't think I wear that. But then again who knows? Now I'm trying to think of something creative as that. Watch it sweep the planet now. hehehehe Props Man Props
Michael Schofield?
Awsome :p
Have gotten a couple of bsods in xp/vista too :)
WTF? Surely he's going to regret that when he sobers up.
Loser went for a Windows 98 BSOD message, not a XP one..
Doh!!
What's the STOP: Error # he used?
Oh, and g33k or not, that's an awsome tatoo
I wouldn't mind seeing the rest of that pic............
"...but I've got Comcast Digital Voice!!"
"Sorry Roger, you broken now."
My new Vista PC just crashed with a similar blue screen. The new iMac couldn't come fast enough.
Can't wait for the 360 RRoD tatoos.. actually, that would be a pretty cool design.
Okay, this is actually my tattoo. Doesn't make sense to you? Just treat it like a piece of art you apply your own meaning to; whether it's the failure of a single operating system, a message about the futility of technology or just re-defining the space on my body using a non-conventional decoration. Think of it as a modern day equivalent of an old sailor's tattoo of a skull or a pair of dice rolling two ones.
Trying to put a meaning on it in simple technology terms doesn't make sense; sure i had plenty of driver problems using Win98 but it's not like that was branded in my consciousness for all time. Sometimes shit just happens and that's what this is about.
And the argument about XP/vista bluescreens is irrelevant. This is a win 9x bluescreen. Duh. Note that I omitted the 'Windows' at the top too. And no, I have no plans to colour it in blue.
Yeah he needs to get service pack 2.
I got that same tat on my junk. but before you can read it, all you see is a windows icon. you have to doubleclick it a few times to see the message.
O.O
I was the one who set up my sister's new Dell laptop, and I got six of these right out of the box. I'm surprised I haven't memorized Microsoft's long-standing logo!
That's fucking 1337.
I've gotten BSOD from Ultimate Vista and it is completely different message than that... found out it was the display driver giving me an attitude.
Did anyone figure out what that error was? 0137:BFFA21C9
I just noticed, he needs to add more tatoos of the buttons for Alt, Ctrl and Del in locations that will benefit him....
Nobody I know of ever got the Guru Meditation from the Amiga tattooed and it would have more style than taking the error message from a company that is mainstream. But then, maybe this guy doesn't know anything about computers and thinks he's cool now by showing everybody that he heard about Microsoft in the news.
Holy crap, he's got a bit of cellulitis on his arm!
Sure "normal people" can get a BSOD.... but my personal favorite is watching Gates with one (old Win 98 video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgriTO8UHvs
I'm amazed that they got the typeface pretty much exact.
Guess where he put the Red Ring Of Death?
He and the Zune tatoos guy are ill
I mean mentally ill... That's just plan stupidity
it's quite beautiful really
Ah, but is he going to get the rest of himself colored blue?
Can't be BSOD without the blue. Right now it's the PWSOD (Pasty-White-Screen-of-Death).
Please read the comment above yours. I am not colouring this in blue.
"Can't wait to see someone get the Mac OSX Kernel Panic tattooed."
why not a pinwheel of death on his forhead O.o
this is too funny
The day I got this done, my (mac user) flatmate actually suggested i get kernal panic error on the other arm, followed by a smug 'but macs never crash'.
The next day, his Macbook died. It was priceless.
considering the arm says current application will be terminated.....does that mean he won't kick my ass?
LOL
Yes, but is it any worse than the rather lengthy tats on Megan Fox or Angelina Jolie, which are more like putting finger paint on an Monet. Know you rights, indeed!
Why would he use the BSOD from the Win 9x? Surely for something so permanent he would have used the BSOD message from XP/Vista?
why? a previous operating system was a deliberate choice because i chose an obselete message. this wasn't a choice i made out of IT hate; more out of exploring the major part computer have had in my life and playin with the traditional forms of tattoos...
This is a perfect example of the idiocy of youth. Incredibly short-sighted and STUPID!!!
Wait until this guy hits his 30's, 40's, 50's, and beyond. Have fun, dummy, living the rest of your life with a completely idiotic tattoo that nobody will understand or care about - especially the ladies. Have fun spending the rest of your life being the center of ridicule. And have fun having a hard time getting a job with that dumb thing plastered all over your forearm - what a great testament to your wisdom, vision, and responsibility (NOT!).
Young people don't understand that they aren't going to see themselves, what they do, and the world the same way, as they continue to age. What seems cool now, will be completely moronic even a few years later, maybe even sooner, and especially beyond that.
Maybe he doesn't understand that tattoos are for life. And he better not count on laser removal unless he's planning on a very painful multi-session removal process costing thousands of dollars with results that'll be nothing short of lame, leaving his skin partially scarred. Again, have fun.
Tattoos are inane to begin with, but if you MUST get a tattoo, make sure it's something interesting... this is just dumb.
Should you have actually taken the time to read what you're commenting on, you'd see that the actual tattoo wearer posted above you.
This tattoo will never stop me getting a job. If your workplace is such that you can't show a tattoo, chances are you'll be wearing a collared shirt anyway. And given that I work in a technology industry, most IT managers would be bemused by it, rather than offended.
You clearly have no interest in any form of body modification so i don't comprehend your need to comment. You've also clearly made a lot of value judgements about me on the basis of a choice I've made that you don't understand. Maybe you're old enough so you're simply part of a generation that doesn't deem body art as socially acceptable.
I am happy with what I have done.
LOL...
paul 1...
Z...0...
Yes, Paul, I did notice that you commented. Perhaps I was too strong in the way that I said what I said; perhaps I was short on patience at that point in time; but there is still truth behind my words, and even though you're free to do as you wish (as anyone would be), you (or someone) did offer up your actions for public consideration by submitting it to Engadget, so considering that this is a public forum, I'm free to comment even if I disagree with your choice, and even if you don't understand why I do so. Bottom line: if you're going to make it public, you're going to have to take the good with the bad. Not everyone is going to think you exercised intelligence or common sense here - you can verify that by reading some of the comments from others above, or by simply reading my comment alone.
Although I'm certain I'd have the ability to understand why you chose this tattoo if you were to share, I'm simply not aware of your personal reasons for doing so, nor do I need to be. And considering the frivolous and shallow nature of the tattoo, your reasons can't be very deep, so obviously, I would never place as high of a value on your reasons as you do. But despite all that, it doesn't take away an ounce of truth behind my words - life won't give you a pass due to any reason, regardless of how much you value them; you're subject to life's rules like the rest of us. And although you're limiting your options, maybe there are jobs you won't have trouble landing despite your new "body art", your optimistic attitude about it all, or your ability to cover your arms with long sleeves now and again, but the rest of what I said you'll find to be true over time. Count on it.
Oh, and Paul... addressing your words, and keeping in mind that you don't know my age, the generation that one comes from has little to do with why someone deems or doesn't deem tattoos as socially acceptable, especially considering that tattoos have been around for thousands of years. And yet, after all this time, the majority still merely tolerate them, like how people tolerate that someone dyed their hair bright blue or that someone pierced the front of their face half a dozen times. It's tolerated, but never fully accepted (even if people play it cool and don't admit to that). There's a difference. Maybe you're too young or naive to understand or recognize that's the way the world is. Of course, how much people tolerate and accept tattoos, among other things, is dependent on the size, nature, placement, and number of tattoos - the more liberal a person is in these four areas, the less people in general tolerate or accept it: There's a big difference between someone who gets a single small tattoo on their shoulder or ankle, for instance, or in a spot few people will ever see (which can be and often is overlooked), as opposed to someone who gets a large one plastered all up and down their arm.
And mark my words... people might give a chuckle at your "body art", but most people won't respect you as much or take you as seriously. They'll tell you they do, in order to avoid conflict, but in their hearts and minds they'll think less of you. From a professional standpoint, anyone who knows you have this ridiculous thing will second-guess your ability to think clearly or responsibly. They'll think, "If he's that impulsive and irresponsible with his own body, how will he treat our company if we choose to hire (or promote) him?" I'm sure this may all sound like nonsense to you, but it's the way things are.
And again, I'm tellin' ya, as you age, you're going to grow real tired of this thing, REAL fast.
Personally, I can deal with many things people do in regard to their appearance, but of course like most things, even I know the rule of thumb is: "Everything in moderation", and I always support the idea that people need to strive to improve and take pride in their appearance. Tattoos don't add to that; they take away, they're distracting, attention-getting, and although people will list every reason in the book for why they got a tattoo, the root of why people get them is because either they're impulsive, or they're insecure about who they are and what their life is (which is more often a trademark of youth) - otherwise why do it? It's not temporary, flexible, and low risk, like putting on a new set of clothes or styling your hair differently. It's permanent. Does someone need to brand their body permanently to be confident, to remember or communicate to others who they are and what they believe in, or to exhibit style? Certainly not. Of course, anyone with a tattoo who hasn't come to terms with this, will disagree, which of course won't surprise me.
But that brings me to my next point: Although there are many reasons why, one common reason why so many don't fully accept, but merely tolerate tattoos is because of their permanent nature. Hair dye wears out, piercings can be removed, clothing can be changed, but tattoos are forever.
"Although I'm certain I'd have the ability to understand why you chose this tattoo if you were to share, I'm simply not aware of your personal reasons for doing so, nor do I need to be. And considering the frivolous and shallow nature of the tattoo, your reasons can't be very deep."
Amazing how you can contradict one sentence with the very next one. So you don't know, don't need to know, but have already made a judgement that it is frivolous and shallow? Yeah mate, you're a deep person yourself, clearly...
"They'll think, "If he's that impulsive and irresponsible with his own body, how will he treat our company if we choose to hire (or promote) him?" I'm sure this may all sound like nonsense to you, but it's the way things are."
Thankyou for speaking for the rest of the world. Mind powers?
"Does someone need to brand their body permanently to be confident, to remember or communicate to others who they are and what they believe in, or to exhibit style?"
And again... you're making totally uninformed jugements...
I did not submit this to Engadget. You can see this if you read the FOUR LINE article that was written about it. I went on the internet one night to find it on an online magazine i happened to read. And on hundreds of other web pages. It's surprising to find that you submit two images on a body modification website and then suddenly find yourself with tens of thousands of image hits. And certainly not the exposure I expected.
My tattooist was so incensed that she wrote this blog post:
"Easily the most discussed tattoo I have ever done; Paul's Blue screen of death Tattoo.
It has featured on hundreds of web pages since it was completed in one 4 1/5 hour session of the 23rd of June this year, including BME's modblog and Tattooblog.org, but mostly on geek forums.
A lot of people love it, a lot of people miss the point all together and think Paul is an idiot, He is, but that has nothing to do with the tattoo. Why would he get this tattoo? None of your fucking business, it's not your problem, stay inside your little bubble where everybody you know is content with doing the same as everybody else.
I'll tell you why, not because anybody is owed an explanation, but because I want people to know there can be more meaning and intent behind a tattoo than simply loving or hating something.
Paul's tattoo is based on a Windows 98 error message, which is what you see when your pc is fucked.
Part of what I love about this tattoo is its placement, it's a half sleeve, but instead of being half of his arm horizontally, it's cut vertically. It runs the entire length of Paul's inner arm, starting at a height where his watch can sit without obscuring it, and ends just before his armpit, leaving Paul with another full arms length of tattoo space (for which he already has plans).
When Paul's arm is down you cant hardly see he has it at all, when he holds his arm out crucifixion style, the text is perfectly aligned, and when he turns his wrist the words twist with his skin, which makes Paul's own placement just as important as the tattoo's.
The contrast of something so ridged as pixelated text on a computer screen being translated into something so organic as living human skin invokes a characteristic I so love in art; irony. The tattoo asks you to press any key to continue, an impossible task.
Its 1x1mm black pixels mark such words as 'fatal', 'terminate', and 'you will lose'. Tough words and statements much like what many would expect a tattoo to have. Fulfilling the assumption that that's what tattoos are for; to look tough, and hopefully get chicks. Irony strikes again in the geekyness of the words background juxtaposed with this assumed intent of the tattoo.
What Paul loves most is the idea of explaining this tattoo to his grandkids, when Windows 98 is so outdated as to be completely obsolete. The knowledge that this tattoo's subject will certainly become outdated was key to inspiring Paul's decision to make something so indefinitely fleeting so indelible. As was the idea of taking something so mundane and using it in such a way usually reserved for subjects the wearer deems important. Truth is Paul doesn't love Windows 98, and Paul doesn't hate Windows 98, Paul doesn't really give a fuck about Windows 98 one way or another.
The guts of it is; Paul wanted this tattoo because it goes against the norm, it is not an image that one would see and instantly consider appropriating as a tattoo. It encourages people to think and ask questions, not necessarily ask Paul questions, but question what they currently think or know about Tattoos. That's what good art does; it stirs conversation within the audience. The same goes for all other art forms, painting, film, music... You may not like it, you may not understand it, the important thing is that you're thinking about it, you're not just a passive viewer. All art has an intended audience, its very possible that what you are looking at, watching, or listening to …wasn't made for you. "
I think she summed it up quite neatly. And my point is; I don't care whether you like it or not, and you've clearly made up your mind. I simply think this: that art acts as a mirror, reflecting on the viewer. And yes, this tattoo has become a bullshit detector for judgmental, intolerant (and just plain stupid) people.
Amazing just what ink pushed under skin can do, isn't it?
Well, Paul, whether you read all of this is up to you, but I have to say, that I read the first two sentences of your last response and stopped, because not only would it be a waste of my time to read the rest, but from those two sentences alone I could determine how the rest of it would go. And as I mentioned before, your response doesn't surprise or enlighten me... you have a need to twist what I've learned from life experience and everything I said, to rationalize your silly tattoo. And why wouldn't you? Why would I expect anything different? You have a very silly, very permanent tattoo all up and down your arm; you're invested for the rest of your life, so naturally you have great need to work extra hard to justify it, even if that's accompanied by convoluted rhetoric and whatever ever else you use to "medicate" or ease your mind about the choice you made. To agree with me might show wisdom, but because of your tattoo, to do so would show your actions to be foolish. If you disagree with me, you might manage to content your conscience and sway a few others in the process, but once again, it shows you to be foolish. So you're in between a rock and a hard place on this one; but of course, your ego chose the path for you - which is defending your tattoo.
If you're this affected by the thoughts of someone you don't know, then you (or your friends, or whomever) better not submit your tattoo to any further public review; and barring that, you better keep that thing covered at all times if you're so sensitive about it, because it's not all going to be compliments and high-fives. My very words prove that, and I'm not going to be the only person you'll ever encounter who thinks as I do. But if your reasons are your own and you don't care what anyone else thinks, then why do you bother responding to and engaging me? To do so reveals you have this balancing act going on: you talk like you're apathetic and unaffected toward anyone whose view you find to be disagreeable, yet you're insecure about it all, otherwise you wouldn't feel the need to explain or defend yourself so much regarding something this trivial, to someone you've never met. Doing more of the same won't prove otherwise.
I have no need to invest any further in this, beyond what I say here. Time will teach you the rest.
I'm free to think as I choose, as are you. But you're going to have to thicken your skin a LOT more in regard to what other people think, because YOU'RE the one with that tattoo, and the two of you are going to be spending every waking moment together... for life. Have fun.
Actually, you're the first person I've taken the time to have this conversation with, and only because you posted such a long bloody reply.
No I don't cover it and yes I roll up my sleeves at my (office) job. Five days a week. Yes I get asked lots of stupid questions (blue collar and white collar responses vary significantly). I've lived through much worse.
My tattoo bothers you a lot, doesn't it. Maybe you missed this, but despite your obvious distaste, I got a fantastic response from you. Maybe you think differently but, frankly, you got involved in it as a piece of art, and that in itself fulfils its aim.
We are not going to agree, you have your opinions and I have mine. And you're probably right in that I shouldn't have even bothered replying to you. You've wated enough of my time already.
Have a nice day.
No Paul, your tattoo doesn't BOTHER me - I know a lot of people with tattoos - people in my own family have them. It's just that I find this conversation amusing, I think tattoos are inane, and that yours in particular is a bit stupid, and I think the reason you got it was foolish. Despite a few words from me, beyond that, I can assure you I'm not spending my entire days troubled about what some guy I don't know did to his arm. But if it pads your sense of self to think that I am, then by all means, be my guest.
I just took a few minutes to read the rest of what you posted before. I know that I said that it would be a waste of time, and perhaps it was, but I was curious. So I did. I found what your tattoo artist had to say, very interesting.
Let me sum it up.
She says that because of the tattoo, a lot of people don't understand it and think you're an idiot. Then she confirms that you are an idiot, but that you being an idiot has nothing to do with your tattoo (as if to suggest that the ink just climbed up onto your arm on its own or that you had no choice in the matter).
Then she goes on to say that the reason you got the tattoo is nobody's f***ing business. But immediately turns around and begins to reveal through multiple paragraphs why it is that you got it.
She goes on to reveal that you don't love Windows 98, you don't hate Windows 98, but that in fact, you don't even give a f*** about it one way or another, which of course begs the question, why did you get this tattoo in the first place?
As she continues to go on, she reveals a few of your artistic and mental motives or "sensibilities" which somehow tie into why you ultimately got the tattoo in the first place, which was, bottom line, to simply use your arm as a discussion prompter for people to begin dialoguing for better or for worse, about tattoos in general.
And then you confirm it all by saying that she summed it all up quite nicely.
Yeah, you're right, Paul. I pegged your actions all wrong. That isn't shallow, that's deeeeeeep.
And then in your last response, you again confirm why you got the tattoo: to stir up conversation; and that because of the "fantastic response" that you got from me (as you put it) due to my long posts (as though none of yours were), that your tattoo has achieved its objective. Well if that's the truth, then why do you talk to me like you have a chip on your shoulder? And then at the end, you say that your time has been wasted by dialoguing with me about it. That makes no sense! If the whole reason for the tattoo was to stir up conversation for better or for worse, then why would you consider any conversation about it a waste of your time? You and your tattoo artist both said that was the whole point of the tattoo. Besides, if it really is a waste of time for you to discuss it, don't blame others for what you choose to contribute. Don't complain about anything you permit.
I just think you're incredibly confused about what you want or the real motives for why you did it.
Obviously, none of us fail to understand that it's your arm and you can do whatever the heck you want, but that still isn't going to keep people from formulating ideas and judging your actions one way or another. And with that, I guess what I don't understand is if you felt the need to serve the tattoo community by keeping the subject matter alive through conversation, why didn't you just simply blog about it online?
Awesome. cheers. Thanks for the input. Already said I was done debating it. You're obviously unclear why you give a shit.
Yeah, you're right. Thanks for "clearing" things up for me.
No comment on the idea of getting this tattoo'ed, but the quality of the lettering is top notch and very straight, not an easy thing for a tattoo artist. So it's a pretty good tattoo.
Very nice, me like. "You will" must have stung like hell.
Looks pretty fake to me, tattoo's are pretty easy to fake in photoshop with clipping masks. Or a decent makeup artist.
If they get a video of him wiping it with metho, and it doesn't come off, maybe then I'd believe it.
Still cool though.
-Tim