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Post by Nie on Oct 28, 2003 19:30:29 GMT -5
You know still really pisses me off? The way so many people still won't accept piercings. Like, when I was working at the Cafe, Lee, the manager, asked me to start working with her knowing I had my tongue pierced. Then after a little while she started nagging em and Kiri-ann who had her nose pierced to take our piercings out and eentually gotthe owners to make a new dress code that stated piercingd of any kind, other than one set in the ears, were not to be worn. That was one of the reasons I decided to quit and move.
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Post by KoNeko on Oct 29, 2003 2:28:45 GMT -5
Liri, maybe people are slow to catch on. But with food handling places, I can see why some facial piercings and jewelry wouldn't be allowed. But yeah. I had one of those codes at my school... they said one pair of earrings... so I put them both in the same ear
Jules... ooo, what tats and where?
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Post by gnebe on Oct 29, 2003 5:04:57 GMT -5
i don't think i would ever get anything pierced.. just.. not me.
i got one tattoo. it's a design that my best friend and i made. he moved away not long after. i miss him terribly, even though he's just an email or a phone call away. but it's just not the same.
anyways, the design is an infinity symbol inside a circle. reason being, we were both born in 1980, and the infinity symbol looks like an 8 on it's side. we've also known each other and been best friends for 8 years.
we both put a bit of a spin on ours, though. mine is simple black lines, but the circle has a red glow around it. i'm more attracted to the setting sun when it's red. his tattoo actually has craters like the moon, and looks a lot better. more details and all. but ours suit our personalities. i'm much more simple, and clearly-defined. he goes for the way-out things. god, i miss him.
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Post by Julian Blake on Oct 30, 2003 17:41:12 GMT -5
KoNeko, on my left shoulder I have a Rose, on my right I have a Celtic Scottish Warriors symbol, and of course my left ear pierced
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Post by KoNeko on Oct 31, 2003 1:52:16 GMT -5
*grins* Left? You sure? ;D
Gnebe, that's really cool how you've got that story behind your tat. You know, he probably feels the same way about it too. And hey, in like, 50 years' time, that'd be a great story to tell the grandkids.
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Post by Julian Blake on Oct 31, 2003 6:42:14 GMT -5
Left ear or left tattoo? Yeah I have my left ear pierced if thats what your asking....am I missing something??
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Post by KoNeko on Oct 31, 2003 9:01:02 GMT -5
I meant left ear... ahhh, never mind. The moment for stupidity has passed.
Ooo, I'm looking at getting a tattoo (once I'm over 25, because I'm a wuss). I saw a really cute one this guy had on his forearm (the tat was cute, oh, the guy was alright I suppose ) and it was like, two concentric 5-point stars one inside the other. Cute.
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Post by Nie on Oct 31, 2003 23:24:59 GMT -5
I want my next tattoo to be a really delicate arm band with celtic knot work, tiny leaves and vines, and something special written in tengwar (JRR Tolkien Elvish). I've yet to decide what will be written, and I've yet to find a good translator, but I'll when I find both.
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Post by En on Nov 6, 2003 15:39:59 GMT -5
I have heard of some weird tattoos, but this completely and utterly takes the cake:
ineradicablestain.com/skin.html
Would you guys do it? I don't think I could.
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Post by KoNeko on Nov 6, 2003 22:46:43 GMT -5
Yikes... I read that... and that's very, uh, conceptual, but the very fact that as a "word" you 1) become someone else's intellectual property and 2) you never know your role in the wider context of the book and 3) chances are, you'll be a joining word like "and" or "the" or something, then I don't think she'll have enough people to fill a 20,000 word novel or what have you. *shrug*
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Post by gnebe on Nov 7, 2003 16:12:37 GMT -5
wow! that sounds so cool! i'm assuming that the participants will not be paid for it, considering there's no possibility of publication.
also.. when the thing's done, will all Words get a copy of the finished product? if so, then there's a good chance i might do it. (if a coin flip says so.)
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Post by En on Nov 7, 2003 17:47:22 GMT -5
*has been thinking more about this* I think the reasons I'd hesitate to do it would be a) because I don't know any of the other people and have actually never read anything written by Shirley Jackson, and b) I have problems with commitment, especially to one word unto death Words are a huge deal with me, and if I would be the word... I'd need to think about whether the word and I could make a life of it.
If it were, say, Hufflepuff House, doing a story that Koko wrote, I'd be all for it, because I know Koko's writing and I know the Huffs and it would be just one more thing to bring us together... but with strangers and an unknown story? No.
Yeah, I'm a chicken
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Post by Calantha on Nov 7, 2003 17:55:11 GMT -5
Okay, how interesting would that be? To get a word from a story tattooed on you...I hope it would be a good story though... It'd be like an adventure... I wonder if you could make the word as small as you like...which would mean in the end less pain on your part... I wonder if she has any requirments, like the word has to be such and such size or something. You'd be a part of a group that you'd never know until you met some... Sort of like when you see someone singing the same song you are in the car, I'd imagine it to be a lot like that...only more lasting. Hmm...I couldn't do it now, not until I turned 18, I don't think my parents would be too keen on having a word from some random story with other random people tattooed on my body, so I'd have to do it after I didn't need their permission... Saying that I'd ever go through with it, I'd have to bring someone else with me so that they could endure the pain with me...
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Post by Calavera Diablos on Nov 8, 2003 0:01:05 GMT -5
I have a feeling I'd want to keep changing my word according to it's meaning in my life. Like right about now I'd would like Moksha (freedom). I don't think I'd like an entire story, maybe a book quote or a line from my own poetry, but that would be so egotistical
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Post by KoNeko on Nov 8, 2003 3:46:30 GMT -5
Yeah, but even if you had the word tattooed on you, how would you even know if someone else had another word from the story? Like, first of all, you'd have to see the word, so it'd have to be somewhere visible at least. And then you'd have to actually figure out that they were supposed to make sense, like, if there were two people that both had the word "the" on them, then it's not like you could get much context out of it.
(Just more reasons I'm using to justify my wimpiness)
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