| Author | Message | ||
     Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2317 Registered: 03-2006 |
Cuz I live in what feels like the Land of the Tattoo, I'm relentlessly curious about 'em, though I don't personally have one. Seriouly, every soccer mom, every kid over the age of about 10, has one. There as many tattoo parlors out here as Starbucks, one on every corner, just about. How many of you out there have a tatt? And what is it, what symbol, picture, etc.? Any Go-Betweens tattoos? | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 169 Registered: 01-2007 |
Nor me, weird I was thinking that loads of people have them and wandered if it was just something to personalise them in this mundane world, were everything is the same and it is their only way of doing.None of my friends have them I just feel if you have one well why? Oh I better stop or risk offending someone | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1834 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nah, not me. However, I'm of the opinion that one, maybe two, subtle small tattoos can be quite tasteful. My wife doesnt have any either, but if she asked me what I thought about getting some like I described above I wouldnt object. Anyway, its now surely more cool not to have any tattoos, they are SOOO common!! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 170 Registered: 01-2007 |
Bet Grant never had one, nor Roberto for that matter | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2319 Registered: 03-2006 |
Interesting. It sounds like they're just as common in Scotland and England as here. And yeah, it's hardly a sign of individuality any more when they're that omnipresent. I will be disappointed, though, if no one on the board has a GBs tattoo, maybe a tasteful reproduction of the artwork from "Liberty Belle" on their lower back, or Robert or Grants' mug on their bicep... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1541 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Go-Betweens and their fans are just not the tattoo demographic, are they? I've never been remotely tempted to get one. Kev's right: having no tattoos is the new having tattoos. It's just not outrageous or special to have them anymore. Kids, be rebels and DON'T get tattoos! I used to work with a guy who had Smiths lyrics tattooed on his body. I'm not sure which part or which song--believe me, I didn't want to see. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 728 Registered: 09-2006 |
Nope, no tats here...nothing against them, my ex-wife had a couple, just, once again, no real desire or even interest in getting one myself. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1749 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don't care who I offend: Tatoos are fucking stupid. Worst of all is the tramp stamp. It looks like the women in question forgot to wipe their arse properly. In Northern Ireland you can tell a sectarian halwit of one side by his paramilitary/Scottish football club beginning with r tatoos, and his cheap, tatty jewelley. I'm sure there are distinguishing features for sectarian halwits from the other side too; it generally doesn't involve ethnic cleansing tattoos and pound shop sovvy rings and necklaces though. So, to me tatoos mean a/ hating someone based on their religion, b/ women who may have questionable hygeine standards, c/ people who think doing the exact same thing as everyone else makes them an individual / rebel (see also emo). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1750 Registered: 05-2005 |
That should read halfwit. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1390 Registered: 03-2005 |
Gee, I had just scribbled "note to self: investigate 'halwit,' apparently some sort of Irish sports signifier." No tatoos for me either. There are certain things where I am very conservative and tatoos and jewelry are among them. I just can't see why you'd want to write on or pierce your most precious possession. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 305 Registered: 07-2006 |
i'm with you randy....i just don't get it either. there's something almost offensively unoriginal about having some sort of chinese symbol or t-bar accross the "small" of ones back...y'know, in the interest of expressing oneself. gross....do or say something beautiful instead. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 927 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'm clean, too. I guess if I were going to go for one or the other, I'd choose a piercing, if only because, in old age, you can take a nose ring or a bellybutton stud out and it's gone. I see all these pretty girls with tatoos nowadays and I can't help but picture them in the old age home, wrinkled and sagging, adorned with these faded and misshappen ink drawings. My policy is that it's fine to indulge in a fad - back in the '80s, I had my hair cut like one of the MTV VJs. Just don't make it permanent. I've got the McLennan t-shirt. I don't need it injected into my arm. That said, if I ever met a woman with a "Liberty Belle" tramp stamp, it'd be hard not to propose to her on the spot. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 928 Registered: 08-2006 |
Before the posts turn ugly, I'm not implying my ownership of said McLennan t-shirt represents a fad. I swear. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 257 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ahem.. Forgive my naivety, but what is a "Tramp Stamp"? | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 521 Registered: 04-2006 |
catherine, in germany it is called 'arschgeweih'. just google and you will immediately know waht it is. btw: surely, no tattoos. why should i hurt myself? and i have no polynesian background... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 933 Registered: 08-2006 |
Catherine, basically the "arschgeweih" (nice, Andreas) is a tatoo placed where the butt meets the back, kind of at the underwear line. Because they kind of peek out over the pants, they can make it look like the people sporting them haven't washed thoroughly. Not the intended effect, I'm sure. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1792 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes that are sgit really. taste hads gone. Helen mirren sports a nice wallow on her left hand though, that's ok, however I wouldn't want my kids to have one. I was gonna have some gaelic shit under my right arm once, just coz it looked better in gaelic, and that I have scotis blood in my bones... think its quite sadly ironic US/UK soldiers having arabic tatoos, when tehey're shooting their way through iraq... | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 710 Registered: 08-2004 |
It seems we're all un-branded here which is quite refreshing. The tramp-stamp is also amusingly known as a whoremark. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2321 Registered: 03-2006 |
It is refreshing. Another insight into the Go-Betweens demographic... More on "arschgeweihs": Latino gangsters out here, in California, New Mexico, etc., will often get the Virgin Mary tattooed across their lower backs to discourage rapists, if they end up in prison. At least, in that case, the tatt has a highly utilitarian purpose. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 724 Registered: 10-2004 |
No tattoos here, but I enjoy them on other people if they're done professionally and *tastefully*. Tattoos are so commonplace that they've more or less lost all shock value, except on the odd occasion when you see someone who's actually tattooed his or her face. What's truly depressing is the number of heinously embarrassing tattoos I've seen on well-exposed sections of the body, like necks, arms, etc... | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 14 Registered: 01-2007 |
I've got one. Thinking about getting another. I believe they can be subtle and I know for sure that the majority of my family and friends don't know I have one. I didn't get it to make a statement and I don't rip my shirt off to show it at any opportunity. It's a Celtic design , chosen simply for it's size and the fact I liked it. My idea for my second one is to mark something personal and important that has recently happened in my life. And I don't care if Grant or Robert do or don't have a tat or anyone else for that matter. And I do and say beautiful things to people all the time. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 332 Registered: 01-2006 |
I'm not surprised nobody has owned up to having a tatoo after some of the comments on this thread and it surely does say something of the demographic on the GBs forum. I don't have one and don't intend to but don't really mind them either. Saying that the vast majority I see are really brutal, it's rare to see a good one and even rarer to see an old good one that has stood the test of time. When I was New Zealand about 9 years ago an awful lot of backpackers were getting tatoos and a lot of these were either Maori or Celtic in style and the people getting them were neither.... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1796 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lewisdhead, ooooh, I do!, how dare you have one without Robert's consent LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 87 Registered: 10-2006 |
Have just finished John Irving's latest looooooooooong novel, Until I find you, which tells the reader far more about tattoos than anyone can possibly be interested in, and which I only finished out of warm nostalgia for the pleasure given by Garp and Cider House. Never imagined ever getting one, and surely won't after ploughing through these wrist-wrenching acres of arid prose. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 260 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's what I love about the German language! I knew as soon as I read the word arschgeweih, the type of tattoo it was. As a result of some googling, I've discovered they're also called Ass Antlers. Classy! So Irving's latest is to be avoided then Stuart? | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 15 Registered: 01-2007 |
Hi Spence. Maybe I got Robert's consent.;) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1801 Registered: 05-2005 |
OK, if you did, I hope its a nice Banksy GRAFFITTI style one, erm, maybe, an ornate Victorian picture of The Clarke Sisters!! ;) | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2327 Registered: 03-2006 |
I actually read that Irving novel and agree that it was way too long. At least 50% of it could have handily been excised, I think. One of the factoids about tattoos from it I remember: people with extensive coverage in one area, say a sleeve, or over their entire back, get cold in those areas - it affects the heat transfer of their skin. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 831 Registered: 01-2005 |
No tats here either, and never have desired one. All the original members of The Allman Brothers Band got a mushroom tattoo by one of their ankles. I think the road crew also did the same. I always thought that was pretty cool, but again that was like 1970/71. I'm not sure if all the subsequent members also got one. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2329 Registered: 03-2006 |
Reminds me of the Dixie Chicks, who have little baby chick tattoos on their ankles for each of their hits. Being the Dixie Chicks, they of course make it cute and sexy...I wouldn't really care to see the Allman Bros. ankle tatts, but if the DC's offered a peek, I must confess, I'd probably take a look! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2395 Registered: 03-2006 |
These were probably not the greatest tattoo choices ever made: http://www.gamerhelp.com/article_viewer. cfm?article_id=129780 | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 754 Registered: 10-2004 |
Ha! Wow... I think these are pretty amusing/depressing: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1070/1220 725335_412128a005_m.jpg http://www.wunderkraut.com/art/ice1.jpg | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 755 Registered: 10-2004 |
And this one: http://modblog.bmezine.com/wp-content/up loads/2007/09/skullboy1.jpg | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2396 Registered: 03-2006 |
Good Lord! Amusing (for us)/depressing (for them) is right... | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 756 Registered: 10-2004 |
And how would you like to wake up in the morning to this? http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1389/1220 787527_3f423ebba8.jpg?v=0 | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 986 Registered: 08-2006 |
Whoa. Think of their poor mothers. I hope I don't run into the skull guy at my retirement home someday. I'd have trouble holding food down sitting across from a shrivelled up version of that face. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 757 Registered: 10-2004 |
And think of their limited job prospects! And imagine the buzz kill of the poor girl Mr. Cool Ice brings home when he takes off his shirt! I bet the skull guy scares the crap out of small children. And I wonder if he ever looks in the mirror some mornings and thinks, "holy crap, what the fuck did I do to my face?" | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 298 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wouldn't you love to be there when he finally has that moment of clarity and thinks "Shit, what was I thinking?" Or better yet: It's 40 years time, the guy's senile: He takes a look in the mirror, and dies of shock - is the official cause of death suicide?? | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 269 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think tattoos are definately not in the Go Betweens ethic - more of your Led Zeppellin melieu - I always refer to them as "Physical Grafitti". Maybe it's our age group. Young folks, like one of my nieces and one of my nephews, must think they are SOOOOOOO radical as they both went out and defaced their bodies. Meanwhile, they will vote for some right wing Nazi at the next election(like Howard) because he holds out the carrot of another tax cut! Australian male tattoos often take the form of a Southern Cross and/or a "Made in Australia" logo to signify rascist overtones to any "un Australian" immigrant. Does this shit happen in the U.S. and the U.K. or is it just Australian youth that is stupid enough to proclaim to the world that they are rascist and proud of it??? My sister told her (just) 18 year old daughter that she could forever forget about buying expensive clothes because she will always look cheap with her tattoo!! GO SIS!!!! HATE THEM HATE THEM HATE THEM!!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1793 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff, surely no-one is dumb enough to fall for the tax cut? It's such a blatant bribe. Can anyone really be that dumb? Maybe I'm being naive. The phrase "Aussie pride" makes me want to vomit. Especially when uttered by dumb, Sutherland Shire, Liberal-voting bogans. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1794 Registered: 05-2005 |
Speaking of things I hate; I despise cigarettes even more than tattoos. I had a letter in today's Sydney Morning Herald about smokers. It's the third one down at http://www.smh.com.au/letters/?page=3 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1795 Registered: 05-2005 |
Clover Moore, whom I mention in the letter, is the Mayor of Sydney. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 762 Registered: 10-2004 |
Geoff - so many people in the US have tattoos these days that it's impossible to categorize them along racial or political lines. Even my mother's yuppie friends' preppy daughters have a few tattoos. You've got people of nearly every stripe with tattoos that are probably fitting for their particular socio-economic situation. I'm sure there are plenty of racists and jingoistic jar-heads with tattoos, but living in Oakland and working in Berkeley (CA), two of the most progressive towns on the planet, that's not likely something I'd encounter in my day-to-day routine. That said, my girlfriend loves the Go-Betweens and she has a tattoo. A very tasteful one on her back. As I said in an earlier post, if tattoos are done really well, and tastefully, I think they're fun to look at. But there's no way in hell I'd ever get one. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 349 Registered: 01-2006 |
Padriag couldn't find your letter there, what's the jist of it? Cigarettes, smoking, smokers? Are you an ex-smoker? They're ususally the most voiciferous | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1803 Registered: 05-2005 |
I quit a long time ago and didn't smoke a whole lot anyway. It was an anti-cigarette litter letter. About the fools who chuck their butts on the ground and care as much about the environment as they do about their health. If instant karma doesn't get them lung cancer will. There was a letter in today's paper backing me up! | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 304 Registered: 05-2005 |
Link to Pádraig's letter - that old link seems to go to todays letters. http://www.smh.com.au/news/letters/deadl y-outcomes-if-governments-forsake-nuts-a nd-bolts-for-glamour/2007/10/17/11923008 52850.html?page=3 As an ex-smoker, I agree with you Pádraig, and would do, even if I still smoked. It goes for any street in Ireland too, unfortunately. As to ex-smokers being more vociferous, that's definitely true. On the (many) other times I gave up smoking, I promised myself I wouldn't turn into one of "those" ex-smokers, but it's impossible not comment. Of course I felt like a hypocrite, when just a few weeks later, I'd be back smoking, as the result of some stressful situation. And next time I gave up, I made that same promise again. This time, I made no promises to myself or anyone else. So far so good, and I make no apologies if I do turn into one of "those" ex-smokers! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 350 Registered: 01-2006 |
Thanks for the link Catherine. I smoke rollies so the butts are biodegradable! This reminds me of a frined who saw a guy light up a big spliff outside the Central Station in Amsterdam only for a warden or station employee to point them to a No Smoking sign, hilarious... And sorry folks but there's nothing as boring/irritating as ex-smokers preaching about it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1808 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm not preaching about smoking (I'm sure you've read about the smoking/cancer link before); I'm preaching about litter. The biggest litterers are cigarette butts. Biodegradable my arse, you seem like a decent person. I'm sure you put them in a bin. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 351 Registered: 01-2006 |
I don't mean the two of you either, I was thinking of some friends of mine... They don't mind when there's something a little stronger in them though!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1809 Registered: 05-2005 |
I read somewhere that Jon Stewart wanted to use a line that Barack Obama smokes so much the only thing about him that's really black are his lungs. But he didn't use it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1810 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just clicked on those hideous tattoo links above. OMG. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 305 Registered: 05-2005 |
In XY's defence, rollies would be technically be biodegradable, being just paper and bits of leaves... Knowing the organisation he works for, I'm guessing you bin them XY??!! I try to keep my "preaching" limited to where people smoke. It's those who stand in the open doorway, and virtually blow the smoke into the bar/restaurant that piss me off. They pissed me off when I was a smoker too! I couldn't bother with the whole "smoking is bad for you" line. If they've learned how to string the phrase "20 Marlboro please" together, I assume they're capable of reading the "Smoking Kills" warning. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 306 Registered: 05-2005 |
Suddenly "Mum" on a bicep, or a butterfly on someone's ankle doesn't seem so bad, eh? | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 352 Registered: 01-2006 |
I try my best Catherine but I ain’t no saint! Jesus, those tatoos are hideous. One of the worst ones I’ve seen was on a friend, it was a swordfish on a BMX bike and it was above his ankle, no sh1t…. He had been a cycle courier in San Francisco and was working as a fish farmer in Tasmania…it was truly awful. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 308 Registered: 05-2005 |
And he wanted to immortalise them in tattoo form? I worked in a crappy fast food place and a second-hand clothing shop while in college. Should I get myself a tramp stamp of a big mac on a clothes hanger? | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 353 Registered: 01-2006 |
Sounds good CV, where ya gonna put it? On your forehead? | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 309 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tramp stamps are those ones at the base of the back (sometimes called ass antlers) I learned this very recently - about 32 posts up in fact!! I think for my forehead I think I'd keep it classy. Maybe the words "What the F**k are you looking at?" | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 354 Registered: 01-2006 |
Ahh thanks for the info CV. Another innerestin one I saw was in a very late bar in Sydney years ago and this tough guy had a spider's web tatooed onto his bald patch at the top of his head. I suppose he could just keep extending the web as he got more bald. I was pissed and was trying not to stare in case he lamped me... | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 311 Registered: 05-2005 |
That reminds me: Why did the bald man get some rabbits tattooed on his head? Because from the distance they looked like hares!!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1812 Registered: 05-2005 |
The anti-cigarette letters saga continues in the SMH. Today, Sydney city council used the letters page to respond to me! They said that on one day last month they fined or cautioned 44 people. Big whoop! That only leaves 9956 others who got away with it that day. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1403 Registered: 03-2005 |
Tatoos not being my thing I hadn't looked at this thread when it revived. Padraig, you owe me a new laptop. I was sipping my morning coffee when I read your entry: "Geoff, surely no-one is dumb enough to fall for the tax cut? It's such a blatant bribe. Can anyone really be that dumb?" I suppose it's a matter of what country you live in . . . . The smoking thing is interesting. Maybe it's my crappy eyesight but I've never really noticed cigarette butts as a major litter issue. Now, dog poop? My crappy eyesight's led me into some sad situations there. Except for some brief spells in my teens when I'd run out of something more agreeable to smoke, I never smoked cigarettes and I'm grateful for that happy accident. I do enjoy going to public places--especially bars--and not being gassed by the clouds of cigarette smoke. But there's a dissonance within me on this subject. It seems like more New Puritanism. I have a natural aversion to it. How long do we want to live anyway, and on what terms? I'll bet a cigarette yields a nice little quiet comfort to the folks who smoke them. Catherine, did you make up that joke? I love silly jokes like that. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 312 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sorry Randy, I can't claim to be that smart.. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 316 Registered: 07-2006 |
catherine...how've you pulled it off this time do you think? i love smoking and always kinda will, but it's making me sick and i know i'll feel a lot better if i can give them away for good. as i have in the past! the pill, the patch, the jesus? | ||
| Dr Girlfriend Member Username: Doctor_girlfriend Post Number: 3 Registered: 10-2007 |
i guess i'm the outcast on this board because I have a tattoo on my left shoulder of a butterfly. but it's not a pretty girly butterfly, its a more evil-looking butterfly. i wouldn't get a tramp stamp though! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1849 Registered: 05-2005 |
tis ur life mate, don't mean it not right avin a tat just because dis it dis board!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1813 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe, when you do finally quit you won't feel like you "always kinda will" smoke. You'll feel disgusted that you ever did. Trust me on this one. There's another letter in the SMH today following up on mine. That's four days in a row. It's a movement people. Randy, sorry about that. That is a tad naive of me. People always fall for the tax cut. They always say in polls that it should be spent on extra services. But they always really mean "show me the money". BTW Randy, I do hate smoking but it's the fact that smokers feel they've got a divine right to just throw their butts anywhere that really irks me. They also believe they have a divine right to smoke under "no smoking" signs. If people want to smoke themselves to death in the privacy of their own homes that's fine with me. I always say to people who litter - cigarettes or anything - "Why don't you put that in a bin". Except if they have a tattoo; in which case I'm too scared to do anything. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 113 Registered: 02-2007 |
We need more outcasts Dr G. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2411 Registered: 03-2006 |
Amen to that. That actually sounds like a cool tattoo. I've long thought butterflies were evil, by the way - the sumbitches are very sneaky and just kinda come out of nowhere! One question though, Doc: why not a tramp stamp? | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 315 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe, as regards quitting, I know it's a bit of a cliche, but you've really got to want to give up. I don't recommend going cold turkey, unless of course there's someone you actually want to kill! Get yourself some gum, or patches... If you hate your particular government, work out how much of the price of a pack goes to them - and then take pleasure in the fact that you're not giving them that dosh any more. Visualisation works too - I piture all the pram-faces and other assorted undesirables with a ciggy in the corner of their mouth, coughing away, and hocking up big gobs of phlegm with every second breath. For the first few months, I avoided 40's/50's movies featuring the like of Greta Garbo/Marlene Dietrich etc, who it could be argued make smoking look pretty cool/sexy. And remember, you don't actually love smoking - that's the addiction trying to convince you that you do. Thus endeth the lesson... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 790 Registered: 09-2006 |
Outcasts are great, and it's also nice to see some relatively younger members on the board...I don't know how much exploring you've done here so far, Dr. G, but you may have begun to notice that a fair number of us are up around Robert's age. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1577 Registered: 04-2005 |
Are you saying we're a bunch of boring old farts, Allen? Well, Dr G, I think you'll find some of us are old, but we're a pretty hip bunch--and not too boring. Well, I am when I get overanalytical...  Good luck when/if you quit the smokes, Joe--I feel fortunate I never started because I know quitting is brutal. I've watched many friends and family members struggle with it. Once they get over the hump, they're glad they quit. Partly because they start saving a lot of money they can use to buy more CDs, DVDs, etc. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 316 Registered: 05-2005 |
Allen's only speaking for himself.. Most of us got into the GoBes when we were about 2 years old... Personally I was still a fetus... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1579 Registered: 04-2005 |
Unfortunately for me, Robert and Grant were only about 5 years old when I was 2...I would love to hear what sort of songs RF was writing then, however! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2412 Registered: 03-2006 |
Catherine, do your tips work only for quitting smoking CIGARETTES? Would they work, say, for quitting smoking other substances? A, ummm, "friend of mine" has a bit of a problem... | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 317 Registered: 05-2005 |
She teaches kindergarten, she's very beautiful I can't tie my shoelaces and I'm quite plain She writes on the chalkboard, so close to nap-time For good behaviour, stars on my desk... I I I I I love Miss Smith, she's my teacher Or something like that... | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 318 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hmmmm let me think about that one LK... I suppose your "friend" could watch Reefer Madness a couple of times? Nah, on second thoughts, that's best watched while smoking a gigantic spliff - or so I've been told by a distant acquaintance... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1580 Registered: 04-2005 |
You two are talking about clove cigarettes, right? Catherine, your "Bobby Forster, age 5" song is genius! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 317 Registered: 07-2006 |
i don't know....i think i'm an oddball in the world of substance dependency as for over five years now i've been a light smoker (technically classed as less than 20 a day...i'd be lucky to hit five most) who can go a day or two without any. in spite of this clear superiority i possess, i can't give them away completely. the last time i tried i went without for five months then succumbed to "christmas smoking" which soon slid into "new year smoking", "post holiday slump smoking" and so forth. and i think you're spot on there...i can't watch any prisoner whilst i'm getting it out of my system. i counted it once.....86 cigarettes being smoked in one single episode. sincere thanks, i will revisit your post a few times over the next couple of days whenever i get tetchy. and i actually did have a teacher called miss smith who i truly loved. she had red hair, freckles and taught me italian. she wasn't a hit with the ethnic parents (shocking i know), but i thought she spoke the most beautiful italian i'd ever heard. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 791 Registered: 09-2006 |
I think that'd work..."Reefer Madness" being such an accurate depiction of the effects of that particular activity. When I think of all the times I've gone into a speedy frenzy after just two quick tokes...the number of people I've strangled to death without even realizing what I was doing... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1405 Registered: 03-2005 |
It keeps the population down, Allen. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 792 Registered: 09-2006 |
My sentiments exactly, but try explaining that to the morality police...sheesh... | ||
| Dr Girlfriend Member Username: Doctor_girlfriend Post Number: 5 Registered: 10-2007 |
why don't I have a tramp stamp? are you coming on to me, little Keith? | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 995 Registered: 08-2006 |
I wouldn't worry, Dr. LK's doing his doctoral dissertation on body art. Or so he claims. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2414 Registered: 03-2006 |
Ummm, I didn't think so, Doc...but if you want me to be, sure. But don't worry, if I am, it's that non-threatening, asexual, GoBees fan, cardigan-wearing, Earl Grey-sipping kind of "coming on". Nothing would ever result from it except some mute pining away in some bedsit somewhere, or maybe a wince while eating a Madeline. Actually, it's more what Rob says. They are so ever present in the world today, I'm just kind of morbidly fascinated and endlessly curious about them. Kudos to you for having one, Dr., and for having the cojones to admit it here! | ||
| Austin McLean Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 49 Registered: 09-2004 |
I have always thought that the "Streets of Your Town" 7 inch cover (with milk man, etc.) would make a great tattoo. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1855 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeesus that's sad! LOL | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 328 Registered: 05-2005 |
Go for it Austin. Blaze that trail!! So would you opt for the bicep, or go all out with a 12" version across your chest??! |