What would you have as a tatoo and why?

TopQuark

onlyroz wrote: »

I'd maybe go for a double helix, or some of my favourite equations.

I'm with you on this. If I was ever to have one (unlikely), I'd probably go for the chemical structure of oxytocin or the chaos theory equation to represent my love of science

RedBern

mrcow wrote: »

Just write it on a piece of paper and keep it in your handbag.

That way, if you seriously can't memorise such a short piece of text without having it written down, you won't have to deface yourself in the process.

If you do that, I suggest you get someone to check your spelling.:):)

Gra76

I had my 3 kids names and dates of birth done on my lower back. It looks really good. They're the 3 things in life I can never change.

That and it's handy if I forget when they were born....

Errata

gingin wrote: »

I want to get a blue dot like Phoebe in friends. OH is getting a Maori tattoo soon, so I am temped ask the tattooist if he will do me a dot.

I have quite a few of those, the oncology radiographers took very great care to put them in exactly the right place.

gunsandbanjos

I recently got my first tattoo, I have Euler's Identity on my wrist.

It is a mathematical formula. I had it done as I said when I was in first or second year at university that if I got a first class honours in my maths degree I would have it tattooed on me thinking I'd never in a million years get a first.....

mrcow

onlyroz wrote: »

I'd maybe go for a double helix, or some of my favourite equations.

One of my favourite equations is calculating the velocity of an orbiting object.

Or what about respiration?
(As long as you don't get a dopey tattooist who tags "+ Energy" onto the end of it - that always riles me........

mrcow

Gra76 wrote: »

I had my 3 kids names and dates of birth done on my lower back. It looks really good. They're the 3 things in life I can never change.

That and it's handy if I forget when they were born....

What you should have said was, "I think it looks really good."

DKLS

I would love a tattoo but cannot settle on a permanent design. So havent followed it up, What would be ideal for me is if there was inks that lasted for 12 -36 months as over the years my artistic tastes have changed and expanded and I dont think I could live with a design for ever.

Hopefully the ink technology I want will be developed sometime soon.

Chickabiddybex

It upsets me that people think it's acceptable to be rude about the way people look as long as it is a tattoo. Weight, hair, dress sense, etc - we're all too polite to say. But it's fine to say someone's tattoo looks awful. To their faces no less! If I saw someone with an ugly brooch I wouldn't tell them it was ugly.

pigpen

Don't have any, I don't think anyone should.. they are vile and disfiguring and not ever nice on either sex.

Be different by not being a sheep and making yourself look cheap. Worse still after a few years when they fade or your body gets wrinkly or saggy and they look like Kermit the Frog has a stroke! I saw one of a piglet a few years ago.. it looked like a cigarette butt end in an ashtray.. disgusting!