Opinion on Tattoo

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[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
OneEye wrote:
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I also don’t know who decided that all east asian countries were now called “Chinese”, fucking racists. If you’re going to be broad and ignorant, atleast use the term “Asian”.

Chill out man. I know the difference between Asian written languages (I speak some Mandarin Chinese), and those were Chinese characters that he posted. Not Japanese, not Thai, not Vietnamese, not Korean. CHINESE. Now whether they mean what is written below them or not is a whole different story, but I’m not going to call it “Asian” because “Asian” isn’t a language.

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Don’t the Japanese use Chinese characters but give them a different meaning?

The Korean characters I have seen look radically different.

I think the use of the term Chinese character is valid.
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Some of the Japanese characters are Chinese in origin, but some are distinctly Japanese.

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[quote]Agent Frost wrote:
Easy E wrote:
Agent Frost wrote:
2. Never get words, character, numbers, or letters in your first tattoo. quote]

So whats left for choices??

All the other images in the world are left. I didnt have any wording or lettering in any of my tattoos until maybe my 8th or 9th (i cant remember now) and still only have a few that have any lettering or wording in any language.

Of my 27 tattoos i have Elektra, 2 geisha, a merman warrior, a snake, 2 dragons, an anime panther head, a thorn arm band (that is slowly being covered up because of the sleeve that is being worked on) 4 of Madonna (yeah im gay, get over it!

The 5th tattoo of Madonna, on the cross, does have Hebrew wording), an ankh, a cat with some tribal stuff, a Hello Kitty with a devil and an angel Hello Kitty (yeah yeah yeah… i just admitted i was a homo, and a small design that runs along part of my spine… none of these have any lettering, numbering, or wording of any sort.

There are litterally millions of options that dont include lettering, numbering or wording.[/quote]

Are you REALLY gay or do you just get GAY tattoos??? J/k Some of them sound cool. Where do you get your work done???

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[quote]OneEye wrote:
Roy wrote:

My point is that the books aren’t correct. You think they have a bilingual dictionary in the parlor to double check? I doubt it, since most people wouldn’t even know where to start looking.
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Yes, if they tattoo symbols like that, then they normally DO have those books.

REALLY?

Oh ok, “your eyes”, that sounds about right comming from a racist. So which is it Mr. Chan the ultimate asian american expert?

It wasn’t clearly written in chinese, it is NOT chinese. You only said that because you’re an ignorant redneck and think that all yellow people are chinese. Lemme guess, you also think all spanish speaking people are spanish correct? Or that anyone with dark skin is african right?

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[quote]Mike T. wrote:

What do you guys think ?

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It took me years to figure out what I wanted and then took 7 months to find the artist, create a design I liked and tattoo it.

At no point did I ever ask anybody’s opinion. I just knew what I wanted and was going to get it no matter what.

Most people like my tattoo, my sister thought I had no class and one woman thought it looked like a flaming arsehole from far away. LOL!

I just love it.

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[quote]TheSicilian wrote:
Agent Frost wrote:
Easy E wrote:
Agent Frost wrote:
2. Never get words, character, numbers, or letters in your first tattoo. quote]

So whats left for choices??

All the other images in the world are left. I didnt have any wording or lettering in any of my tattoos until maybe my 8th or 9th (i cant remember now) and still only have a few that have any lettering or wording in any language.

Of my 27 tattoos i have Elektra, 2 geisha, a merman warrior, a snake, 2 dragons, an anime panther head, a thorn arm band (that is slowly being covered up because of the sleeve that is being worked on) 4 of Madonna (yeah im gay, get over it!

The 5th tattoo of Madonna, on the cross, does have Hebrew wording), an ankh, a cat with some tribal stuff, a Hello Kitty with a devil and an angel Hello Kitty (yeah yeah yeah… i just admitted i was a homo, and a small design that runs along part of my spine… none of these have any lettering, numbering, or wording of any sort.

There are litterally millions of options that dont include lettering, numbering or wording.

Are you REALLY gay or do you just get GAY tattoos??? J/k Some of them sound cool. Where do you get your work done???
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HA HA HA HA Yup… i really am gay. And i am sure there are other gay body builders, athletes, martial artists, and men on this site. I almost said other gay dancers, but come on thats a given.

I get all of my tattoos dont at Professinal Tattoo and Body Piercing in Canton Ohio, Its acorss from the PrFootball Hall Of Fame. Melissa, the owner, is my artist but her staff is very well trained!

You can see some of them in my photos on here.

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PS that picture is about 3 years old now.

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[quote]wildarms wrote:
The first word the op posted doesn’t exactly translate to strength. I guess some white guy decided that it that word was close enough to strength to be considered so, however if you asked any Chinese what that word meant, they’d tell you it doesn’t mean strength.

Also, I would not suggest getting any chinese writings as tatoos unles it’s been done by a Chinese or you’re in China. The reason is that Chinese writing is composed of several strokes. Each of the stroke must be made in a certain proportion to one another. Again, the first word the OP posted is a really shittily written word. It looks like an 8 year old wrote that word- everything’s out of proportion. Of course, you’d never know unless you actually know what that word should look like in Chinese.[/quote]

Just to clarify on the characters - those two for “strength” are correct. That character for “power”, however, refers (on its own) to power in the connections-and-money-and-hired-thugs sense, not quite the insane-vertical-and-40 sense.

Hope this helps some.

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[quote]Agent Frost wrote:
PS that picture is about 3 years old now.[/quote]

From what I saw, most of them look pretty cool. Don’t really give an F if you’re gay or not, just curious. I was out in West Hollywood a few years back with an ex/gf of mine and her gay male roommate. They were both getting pissed at me because I was getting catcalls, whistles, and drinks ordered for me. I guess it was because I looked more masculine than most of the guy and most of the girls too. :wink: I could tell being gay in W. Hollywood was no big deal because the police cars had RAINBOW logos on them. Must be a bit different for you in OHIO though, are people accepting of your lifestyle???

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[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:

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Don’t the Japanese use Chinese characters but give them a different meaning?

The Korean characters I have seen look radically different.

I think the use of the term Chinese character is valid.
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From what i remember, there are 3 different Japanes “alphabets” The one termed “Kanji” is the 360 characters in the Chinese “alphabet” but with different phonetic pronounciations and only slightly different meanings. Japanese Kanji is considered a very formal way of writing and, again, from what i understand isnt used in every day writing.

I recently had a Japanese girl who was working with a Disney show take my hip hop class as a drop in with her friends. They asked her to read the tattoos on the back of my head, for which i used Japanese Kanji, and she said that she was having a hard time with all the ones except Death and Evil because they were Kanji.

There ARE 360 characters in the Chinese writing system, and those meanings span the dialects but can sound different.

I never learned to read Chinese, though i can pick out the words Dragon, Monkey, Jade, and Mountain and i can write my name. I can only speak and understand Mandarin Chinese, and i havent done that in a long time since i never see my dad anymore.

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[quote]TheSicilian wrote:
Agent Frost wrote:
PS that picture is about 3 years old now.

From what I saw, most of them look pretty cool. Don’t really give an F if you’re gay or not, just curious. I was out in West Hollywood a few years back with an ex/gf of mine and her gay male roommate. They were both getting pissed at me because I was getting catcalls, whistles, and drinks ordered for me. I guess it was because I looked more masculine than most of the guy and most of the girls too. :wink: I could tell being gay in W. Hollywood was no big deal because the police cars had RAINBOW logos on them. Must be a bit different for you in OHIO though, are people accepting of your lifestyle???
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People in Ohio are pretty cool with me being gay. But they might be tolerant because its not everyday that people meet a t-shirt and jeans, tattooed, gun shooting, sword weilding, comic book reading, action movie watching, pet snake owning, gay guy.

I also live in Columbus Ohio and we have a fairly large homo population… and a fairly large percentage of that population gets on my nerves. We also have Express and Abercrombie headquarted out of this fair arm pit of a city… so you can only imagine how all the homos look around here… then here i come, sleeves cut off of my Spiderman or Daredevil or some such t-shirt, ratty jeans from Old Navy, chain wallet, and combat boots all tattooed and things. Wouldn’t be able to tell im gay… well… then i talk. That gives it all away :frowning:

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Dude…I’m totally gettin’ these symbols on my chest…it’s the scripture of the Xiaolin monks, it means “Stronger than death, honor, virtue…”

But seriously folks…once you gotta tat…it’s yours for good – like a marriage, but the divorce hurts a lot more. Can you see yourself, realistically, wanting that on you in a couple decades? The only symbols I personally could imagine wanting for life are the name of a deceased loved one or a picture of my dog’s head…that’s just me…sleep on this a month or two…

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[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
Ghost22 wrote:
Don’t be a pussy, get a branding.

Can you actually get those? I asked around a few years back and was told that they are illegal and seriously underground. Now I don’t know any ‘seriously underground’ characters, but I would still be interested in at least investigating having one done.[/quote]

Yes, you can get them.

Or shit you can do it yourself, it’s not difficult and the patterns have to pretty damn simple anyway. Didn’t you see Jackass 2? Propane blow torch and metal design. Apply.

And the Omega brandings are usually from the black fraternity Omega Psi Phi, we have them on our campus.

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[quote]Roy wrote:
OneEye wrote:
Roy wrote:

My point is that the books aren’t correct. You think they have a bilingual dictionary in the parlor to double check? I doubt it, since most people wouldn’t even know where to start looking.

Yes, if they tattoo symbols like that, then they normally DO have those books.

those were Chinese characters that he posted. Not Japanese, not Thai, not Vietnamese, not Korean. CHINESE.

REALLY?

EDIT: the second does look a little more Japanese, but neither looks like a real character to my eyes

Oh ok, “your eyes”, that sounds about right comming from a racist. So which is it Mr. Chan the ultimate asian american expert?

but I’m not going to call it “Asian” because “Asian” isn’t a language.
If I saw something that is clearly written in German, would you also expect me not to call it German, but “European,” for fear of being racist?

It wasn’t clearly written in chinese, it is NOT chinese. You only said that because you’re an ignorant redneck and think that all yellow people are chinese. Lemme guess, you also think all spanish speaking people are spanish correct? Or that anyone with dark skin is african right?
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I’m not interested in arguing with you. There is no basis for anything you’re getting upset about. Think what you want, I don’t care.

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Tattoos are SOOOOOOO played.
Every ghetto chick in the world has their baby’s name or their baby daddy. or their own name??? Tattooed on their body.

My sister in law go a particularly jail house looking tat on her forearm of her name. My question was “What, are you gonna forget it?”

Now every trailer park loser is a tough guy because he has a tat.

I say, unless its meaningful. Or traditional. Forget it!

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[quote]emdawgz1 wrote:
Tattoos are SOOOOOOO played.
Every ghetto chick in the world has their baby’s name or their baby daddy. or their own name??? Tattooed on their body.

My sister in law go a particularly jail house looking tat on her forearm of her name. My question was “What, are you gonna forget it?”

Now every trailer park loser is a tough guy because he has a tat.

I say, unless its meaningful. Or traditional. Forget it![/quote]

We dont like baby daddy mama drama.

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Think about going to a tattoo convention and checking out the artists. Don’t get a tattoo at the convention though. Go back and visit the artist at their studio. Bring your own art and work with the artist to get it right. They’ll appreciate the challenge.

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So… after all that… any word on what u did decide to do with the tattoo???