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Apparently Britney Spears and Tamryn Manning got matching tattoos while working on Crossroads. The tattoos were a Japanese symbol meaning "mysterious." Amusing enough on an actress and a pop tart.

When Manning was in Japan, she showed someone her tattoo and learned that it actually means "strange."

Even(this is exactly why I researched chinese calligraphy when the OM thought about getting a new tat to honor part of his heritage.)Odds

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I think that would be illegal.

Oh, wait, you said SIMulaters . . .

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OK, did a bit of googling. Seems that body piercers and those who perform other modifications do the slicing and stiching. There are some really gross images out there. Why people feel the need to cut, mutilate, modify, stetch, and poke themselves is beyond me.

Here's a mild image. Kind of creepy. The most disturbing image had to do with fingernail modifications. Yes, it appears that they cut the skin away and extended the finger nail area back to the area of the first knuckle. I had to look it away, I was getting queasy.


Too much of a chicken to get a tattoo of my own.

Edited to remove queasy image. See post #5774 for a link if you are really curious. WARNING: The images are quite disturbing. Sorry if I offended anyone.

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This reminds me of my college roommate who was -- get this -- a womens studies major. This brilliant speciman went to a tattoo shop her senior year and picked out "the womens symbol" and asked that it be tattooed on her butt. She actually selected the symbol from those available and displayed on the wall. She did not ask the tattoo artist to interpret what it was she wanted.

I am not positive if she ever really forgave me for my reaction upon seeing her new tattoo. "Why the fuck did you get a fertility symbol on your ass?"

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since when has concerns about high-quality care and hygiene stopped anyone from mutilating their bodies in various ways?

I wonder how much the tattoo business would suffer if they truly could enforce the "no drunks" rules or had some waiting period, like states insist on for abortions.

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This has to interfere with eating dessert. Ergo, I would never do it.

Aside from the fact that her tongue looks like a really fat snake's.



edited at request of orginal poster. e/o

No More Oreos in California?
 

Obviously we have not met.

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The "no drunks" rule is partly so the newly tattooed can't sue the tattoo artist based on a drunk defense and partly because alcohol thins the blood and makes it really hard to get a good tattoo.

I think most people have thought out their tattoos long before they enter the shop. They may be more motivated when intoxicated, but it isn't usually a brand new thought.

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Ack! Surely that warranted some "spoiler" space!

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Holy shit. Are you kidding? The Subincision/Splitting and Urethral Relocation look 10,000 times worse. Good God.

TM

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How gaping must the void in one's soul be to compel this particular brand of self-destruction?

Now that we all know this is out there, I hope the fattie-bashers on the board will give the folks who simply overeat to fill that void a little more slack.

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Do you mean a little more *slacks*?

(So we don't have to seen so much "void" in the form of butt crack).

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Fuck. That shit is really beyond words. Fuck. I mean, fuck.

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(Groan.):rolleyes:

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What are you talking about? (Don't see any images anywhere . . .)

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For the love of god I hope you are not asking for the images to be posted here!

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Bartender at my cool local watering hole/restaurant. He's got piercings everywhere, including between his two front teeth.

He's also a performance artist who uses his body as a canvas. He inserts metal rods in his back by threading them through his skin, and on occassion he will be suspended by a hook, also through his skin. The rods, once you get past the fact that they're attached to his skin, are actually beautiful in a grotesque sort of way. If you don't know how they're attached to his skin, you'd probably think they looked pretty cool. His performance troupe went to Paris last year to perform during a film festival.

He is a great bartender at a very popular place. He makes fairly good money, and his lifestyle is such that he can take off for a month or two (like right now) and hang out in Europe without impacting his life too much.

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Getting through airport security probably takes the first month and a half.

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No, I mean I see no images, no links, nothing, anywhere.

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Did you click on the picture, click on properties, and go to the URL? If you cut off the surgical/tongue.jpg (sorry, couldn't resist), you'll get the main page, which has subject listings (no pics). I'm guessing that TM clicked on the "splitcock" subject line.

I left without looking at any pictures because I am a wimp.

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Terribly disturbing pictures; not safe for work (if you worry about that sort of thing)

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Here's a google link to the free images. They are very distrurbing!!!!!

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...UTF-8%26sa%3DN

The site where they come from is www.bmezine.com. It's a scary world out there. I don't dare do any further exploration. I may faint at my desk.

Off to get a breth of fresh air.They are very disturbing!!!

Edited to emphasize the disturbing factor.

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Extra emphasis on the disturbing part. I've got a pretty strong stomach, and I'm feeling a bit quesey. The non-surgical stuff is about as bad as the surgical. Scrotal implants? Saline injection. Fuck.

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Ack, I'm really getting quesy. What is this Freak Show Day? My real comment is, is that self mutilation/piercing has been going on for centuries. Remember the first time you saw a National Geographic and thought - who in the hell would put a plate in their lip? Who would stretch their ears like that (other than white teenage boys)? Now I know what you're thinking - I've gone and given a bright idea to some freak who's going to put ever expanding plates in their lips. Anyone got a website for that?:eek2:

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1. I doubt anybody would get fresh air at a BMezine.

2. click Here for just the cutest picture of a pierced baby.

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That shit ain't right. It just ain't right.

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I assume that you're speaking of AE's post which says "here's a mild image . . . ", only, on my screen, there's no image, and I am starting to wonder if someone deleted it.

[EDITED TO ADD]: I think my company net is blocking the image link. That would explain it.

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Yes, but dressing up a cat as a princess is fine. Just fine.

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I'm thinking the IT dudes have it filtered. All I get is a big red X. Considering, though, I think I prefer that. All that piercing stuff is squicky, even if it has fellating benefits.

[edited to note that bilmore's edits somehow were made between the time I read the post and hit quote]

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Good point.

One difference is that the self-mutilation that was showcased in National Geographic was usually intended as a decoration or modification that (1) reinforced the person's membership of the cultural or larger social group in which the person would generally spend his/her whole life, and (2) was generally viewed as beautiful or desirable, or at least necessary (in the case of genital mutilation) by the members of that group.

As you note, we generally view this stuff as just plain freaky.

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I can still load the image. I don't think that I or any of the other moderators have deleted the image.

A Note About Text Links
 

I am often afraid to click on text links because I can never be entirely certain to where I am being directed.

If you click on the "quote" button next to a post, it will reveal the web address.

Even(not specifically directed at Kafka, though he has crashed my computer more than once in the old days)Odds

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What a coincidence. The actual picture resembles a big red X.

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I'm back, the fresh air was just what I needed, and of course I have to click on the cute baby link. I'm actually going back to my Catholic roots and PRAYING that the image was created in Photoshop or similar software.

A substantially less nauseating link, except maybe for PLF
 

A California legislator wants to formalize the procedures surrounding the distribution of medicinal marijuana, as approved by the voters in a recent ballot initiative. So he introduced a bill to do just that.

The bill was numbered SB 420. Everyone is now denying responsibility for assigning it that number, but there's a lot of smirking in Sacramento.

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The people getting the most exercised about this, pun intended, should try therapy for their unresolved issues rather than mouthing off here. It would be more likely to show results in the long run and easier on the rest of us.

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Are you trying to prompt the "therapy is self-indulgent, blame-the-parents bullshit and people should just suck it up rather than whining about stuff" rant?

Update on car
 

Guy called, car is painted, and he's coming back this afternoon to finish the job. He gave me his drivers license to hold until everything is to my total satisfaction.

Who knew?

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Yeah right. "Medicinal" use. Like every little burned out freakhead suddenly has glaucoma. Whatever. And, by the way, guess what kind of people decide it is a good idea to have their penis split in two? Fucking bake-a-zoids, that's who. Yeah, a couple more puffs of the magic dragon, and suddenly it seems like a really great idea to have your genitals surgically mutilated. Like duuuuuuuuude! That would be soooooooo raaaaaaaaadical!!!!!! You'll be a free spirit!!! I mean, shut the fuck up, you drooling, glaze-eyed, slack-jawed loser. I don't give a shit if you want to condemn yourself to a career as a janitor at a tattoo shop - you have probably killed so many brain cells that even this will be a challenge - ("like, where did I put that mop . . ."); but don't be showing that shit all over the internet. I'm not trying to see that.

Update on car
 

It's remarkable how (apparently) honest business people still do things that make you think you're getting ripped off. Every contractor who does the smallest thing at my house seems to do something (or not do it) that really makes me think I'm getting cheated/ripped off. Thus far, however, they've all eventually come through without serious prompting on my part.

Mmmm(do you really need to wait a week before putting that final coat of paint on?)Burger