Tattoo You: Immune System Cells Help Keep Ink in Its Place
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#2I love tattoos. I really do. Just not on me.
People go through cycles, where their personalities and interests shift every decade or so. Hardly anyone in the 40s and 50s is the same person they were in their 20s. I'm in my 40s now, and I love (in no particular order), Iron Maiden, Spiderman, Sci-Fi, LEGO, The Amiga Computer, Batman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Pink Floyd ... and that's just my top ten, right now. I couldn't pick something that iconifies my number one love, and certainly not something that I will feel the same about in 40 years time. So for now, I am content to just be a voyeur of other people's awesome tats.
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#3I love tattoos. I really do. Just not on me. People go through cycles, where their personalities and interests shift every decade or so. Hardly anyone in the 40s and 50s is the same person they were in their 20s. I'm in my 40s now, and I love (in no particular order), Iron Maiden, Spiderman, Sci-Fi, LEGO, The Amiga Computer, Batman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Pink Floyd ... and that's just my top ten, right now .…
Yes. Someone should develop the skin-equivalent of e-paper :)
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#4I love tattoos. I really do. Just not on me. People go through cycles, where their personalities and interests shift every decade or so. Hardly anyone in the 40s and 50s is the same person they were in their 20s. I'm in my 40s now, and I love (in no particular order), Iron Maiden, Spiderman, Sci-Fi, LEGO, The Amiga Computer, Batman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Pink Floyd ... and that's just my top ten, right now .…
I never got the tattoo, but when I talk to my friends who did, they usually describe it not as their personality, but as their personal history. This makes more sense: you change, but your past remains the same.
As for getting tattoo about a particular thing you like, like a rock band, this seems a stupid thing to do indeed. Never knew a single person with a tattoo like that.
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#5I love tattoos. I really do. Just not on me. People go through cycles, where their personalities and interests shift every decade or so. Hardly anyone in the 40s and 50s is the same person they were in their 20s. I'm in my 40s now, and I love (in no particular order), Iron Maiden, Spiderman, Sci-Fi, LEGO, The Amiga Computer, Batman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Pink Floyd ... and that's just my top ten, right now .…
Yes. Someone should develop the skin-equivalent of e-paper :)
I'm sure it's on someone's list.
There's been enough scifi with animated tattoos that I think it has to happen. :)
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#6I love tattoos. I really do. Just not on me. People go through cycles, where their personalities and interests shift every decade or so. Hardly anyone in the 40s and 50s is the same person they were in their 20s. I'm in my 40s now, and I love (in no particular order), Iron Maiden, Spiderman, Sci-Fi, LEGO, The Amiga Computer, Batman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Pink Floyd ... and that's just my top ten, right now .…
I have 4 tattoos. The oldest is 20 years, newest about 6. I don't care about the motives in any of them any more. Oldest is a cross and I'm 90% atheist now :) All the tattoos are crude by today's standards.
I don't mind at all though and I will never get them removed. I look at them (rarely or when somebody asks me about them) like a history of my personal development. The cross reminds me that even the things I care most about at one point will change, fade, die.
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#7I love tattoos. I really do. Just not on me. People go through cycles, where their personalities and interests shift every decade or so. Hardly anyone in the 40s and 50s is the same person they were in their 20s. I'm in my 40s now, and I love (in no particular order), Iron Maiden, Spiderman, Sci-Fi, LEGO, The Amiga Computer, Batman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Pink Floyd ... and that's just my top ten, right now .…
I never got the tattoo, but when I talk to my friends who did, they usually describe it not as their personality, but as their personal history. This makes more sense: you change, but your past remains the same. As for getting tattoo about a particular thing you like, like a rock band, this seems a stupid thing to do indeed. Never knew a single person with a tattoo like that.
BRB getting a Lego tattoo, always liked Legos.
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#8I love tattoos. I really do. Just not on me. People go through cycles, where their personalities and interests shift every decade or so. Hardly anyone in the 40s and 50s is the same person they were in their 20s. I'm in my 40s now, and I love (in no particular order), Iron Maiden, Spiderman, Sci-Fi, LEGO, The Amiga Computer, Batman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Pink Floyd ... and that's just my top ten, right now .…
Close to half of American millennials now have tattoos [1], so I figure in 40 years tattoo removal technology will have greatly advanced due to demand :)
Maybe I’m optimistic.
1. http://shoulditattoo.com/2016/09/03/tattoo-facts-statistics/
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#9I love tattoos. I really do. Just not on me. People go through cycles, where their personalities and interests shift every decade or so. Hardly anyone in the 40s and 50s is the same person they were in their 20s. I'm in my 40s now, and I love (in no particular order), Iron Maiden, Spiderman, Sci-Fi, LEGO, The Amiga Computer, Batman, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Pink Floyd ... and that's just my top ten, right now .…
I have a friend who got an entire sleave of an MC Escher piece. I asked him what it meant and he said: “I dunno but it looks cool right?”. I think that’s the way to go if you don’t want to regret it later. Just get nice looking art that has stood the test of time.
Up the irons.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never got the tattoo, but when I talk to my friends who did, they usually describe it not as their personality, but as their personal history. This makes more sense: you change, but your past remains the same. As for getting tattoo about a particular thing you like, like a rock band, this seems a stupid thing to do indeed. Never knew a single person with a tattoo like that.
BRB getting a Lego tattoo, always liked Legos.
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