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Scars have better stories..

Don't have any, and definitely don't see the appeal, male or female.

Hanco is gonna get stripes tated on his pecker so he can pull rank........

Ain’t big enough for many.

Agreed.

I'll have to remember that line .

I do have an appendectomy scar, from back in the days when appendectomies left scars.

No tats here. Nothing against them.

I met a guy in South Dakota with four sets of sun dance scars on his chest, prob'ly the coolest adornment I've seen.

Not quite as cool, but still uber, some Black fraternities wear a brand on their forearm.

Yep.

I see so much of that now, these young women have now idea how fleeting their young woman looks are, they can still remain attractive of course, but them wandering tats are just gonna emphasize their age.

I have one, Wife has none, daughter none, but my son, Prior Air Force) has a few, BIG ones,

I have a tattoo, and it's official in the same way as Ron "Tater Salad" White has a known alias.

You've all heard me grouse about how my first wife, Satan, had me thrown in jail. It does not bear repeating. The charges were quickly dismissed with prejudice. However, I did get transported to the county lockup and I was taken in and fingerprinted before being sent to a cell. There are a lot of funny stories about that afternoon and evening that I can share with y'all when we're around a campfire. This is just a small snippet.

There were a lot of "Well, you asked for it!" kind of moments. I was in good humor for the most part. At one point it got down to the questioning about "known aliases" and identifying marks and such. I do have a birthmark. It's very faint and obscure. However, it was identical to my father's, and I am quite proud of it. They asked me to show it. I had to hike up my pant leg past my knee, and they couldn't see it-- you have to be in the right light. A deputy took it on faith and wrote it up on his clipboard. Next they asked about tattoos.

I told them, "Funny you ask because I do technically have a tattoo in nearly the same place. While I have my pant leg up, I might as well show you. " I then proceeded to show them the single blue dot that my buddy Steve put in my leg in 8th grade when he stabbed me with a Bic pen. He was just being playful, but it left a permanent mark.

By this time, the intake staff at the jail were all out of there places concentrating on my right leg, while I did my best to show it off under the pale fluorescent lighting. Some thought I was making it all up. Some were honestly curious. Finally, one deputy said he saw it, and so it was included in my arrest report.

My friend, a trust funded santa barbarian, told me about his daughter asking if she could get one. She is of age but didn't want to upset her monthly checks. He was so proud telling me how he disallowed any tattoos, and finished his bravado with the statement his daughter had no tattoos. You could see him curdle when I added"at least not where Dad would see them. Ruined his night.

I've asked myself how life may have turned out different if I had a dragon in one forearm with a panther on the other.

I made it through 24 years in the Navy without any tattoos. But when it became clear that the wife's cancer was terminal, she wanted matching tattoos with me and my son, so we all went in and got them. It's her design and I think it turned out pretty nice. When she's gone, it will be one of many reminders of the life we have together.

Back in the winter of '83 I drove a truckload of blankets from New York State out to Pine Ridge in South Dakota, and subsequently met the guy who later played the role of the wise old guy in Dances with Wolves (the guy who gets taken out by Wes Studi's Pawnee).

In the movie he's always wearing a hide or buckskin shirt, long sleeves.

The reason for that is he was a lifer in the Navy, and down each arm had tattoed the names of several vessels, a bunch. I would guess those were the names of the ships he had served on.

None for me. My cousin has a memorial tattoo for her father. She's got other tattoos too, but I do kind of like this one. It's a hammer with angel wings on it. Her dad was a carpenter. My dad taught him everything he knew about carpentry. If I was to get one it would be something like this to honor my dad.

My two oldest grandsons are 13 and 11. A couple of years ago, they both bought temporary rub-on tattoos. The older boy, Owen, put one of his butt cheek. Not to be outdone, his younger brother Nolan put a tattoo on his dick. When I came to visit them that same day, they couldn’t wait to show old Grandpa Bud. They’re both great kids with my sense of humor.

This is an example of a passive/aggressive post. Speak plainly, you're not as clever as you think.

My grandson got his first tattoo at age 9, shooting my .50 caliber flintlock rifle lefthanded. The pan flash got his right bicep pretty good. Unfortunately, a hitch in the Marines added a few others to the collection.

I've collected enough scars by accident in 74 years that I have no need to engage in any sort of deliberate self-mutilation!
Jerry