Ran against a guy in high school who had Pre's face tattooed onto one of his calves. He wasn't even that fast.
Ran against a guy in high school who had Pre's face tattooed onto one of his calves. He wasn't even that fast.
I must be getting old when high school kids are allowed to get tattoos...
people who get tattoos are attention-seeking wankers.
turd burglar wrote:
people who get tattoos are attention-seeking wankers.
People who call people with tattoos "attention-seekeing wankers" are the pot calling the kettle black.
My pot is clean and made of stainless steel. But yes, the kettle is black.
Blah, blah, blah... wrote:
turd burglar wrote:people who get tattoos are attention-seeking wankers.
People who call people with tattoos "attention-seekeing wankers" are the pot calling the kettle black.
You're right - pointing out that someone is attention -seeking is exactly the same thing as BEING attention-seeking. Wow, you really got me there.
Why are people hating on tattoos? I have my team's tattoo (dates back to the 90's) and love it because I know it will always remind me not only of what this team has meant to me the past 3-4 years but also of this period in my life where I have committed myself to seeing how good of a runner I can be.
A lot of the kids on the team have the tattoo, but I think it has a special meaning to each and everyone of us and we don't try to force it on anyone.
ivyrunner27 wrote:
Why are people hating on tattoos? I have my team's tattoo (dates back to the 90's) and love it because I know it will always remind me not only of what this team has meant to me the past 3-4 years but also of this period in my life where I have committed myself to seeing how good of a runner I can be.
A lot of the kids on the team have the tattoo, but I think it has a special meaning to each and everyone of us and we don't try to force it on anyone.
Here's the thing with tattoos - you SAY that it's to remind you of your team. Sorry, but that is total BS. How could you possibly need reminding, by way of body-art, that you were on a team that supposedly means a whole lot to you? Does not compute. No - the real reason you got the tattoo is to show other people, and to fish for compliments. This is the problem with tattoo wearers - they are show-offs.
screw you guys wrote:
The difference between people with tattoos and people without tattoos is that people with tattoos don't judge people without tattoos.
BS. Are you claiming that people with tatoos are not judgemental? Or that they only judge other people with tatoos?
I know you're trying to say something that sounds cool but it's utter nonsense.
its epinephrine (adrenaline)
turd burglar wrote:
people who get tattoos are attention-seeking wankers.
That's quite the generalization. My tattoo is in a discrete location, hidden from the public eye (even in running clothes). Only one other person even knows I have it. I'm hardly an "attention-seeking wanker"
A tattoo is similar to any elective surgery, including an abortion. It is a matter of personal choice, protected by law. If people have a problem with it, amend the constitution.
chem guy wrote:
its epinephrine (adrenaline)
Zing!
Getting a tattoo is a way of taking a memory and permanently embedding something symbolic of that memory in your skin. It also feels really, really good to get a tattoo (one of the best feelings I've ever felt, borderline addictive, I'm surprised I don't have more yet). The fact that it's a conversation-starter is just an added bonus.
Although I do like that mine shows in races because it usually leads to people asking me what it is on the starting line, me telling them, and them getting a little psyched out.
A group of my Junior College Cross Country team all got the Road Runner (with a puff of dust) tattoed on the back of their calves. I resisted the temptation. I always thought Wile E. Coyote (with knife and fork) on the right calf and the Road Runner on the left calf would be a great combo. If you could wash them off later!
Here goes my identity wrote:
From four years ago when it was fresh:
http://imgur.com/a/Ndi8oDon't regret this one at all. It's a good conversation starter, it only shows when I'm running, and I got it the day I decided to stop swimming competitively and start running competitively.
OHHHHH... I was thinking the transition from swimming to running required you to carry an epi-pen... I was like, "that warrants a tattoo????
I disagree. I have a tattoo of a winged foot on my arm.
How original!
herman alonzo wrote:
well being a runner, what else did you expect him to get?? a football? The angels logo? a bball hoop??
LOL. POD.
The actor Jonny Lee Miller, of the CBS show "Elementary" has a large "26.2" tattoo on his left shoulder blade, which I saw on an episode a couple of weeks ago. He's a 3:01 marathoner. It didn't look too bad, but most viewers probably did not understand the reference.
Even I liked that adrenalin tattoo.
Considering the pKa of epinephrine is 8.6, you should have read up on pKa's and ionization before you got that tattoo.