This thread has elicited a record number of "Sigh...some peoples kids..." thoughts from me, and thats not easy.
So I let my friend tattoo me in my bedroom
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Are those manatees?
plural?Are those manatees?
bonus points for also being bike related.
Manati?
I meant I only see one manatee
What font is that? Meth-Sans?
Do you need a passport to go to Hawaii?
The little closet in the Den?
That's actually in quotes. 
Not a tattoo, but I believe its in the spirit of the thread. Mildly NSFW I suppose.
I'm really starting to think that I've made some good choices in my life. Or at least not so many bad ones.Not a tattoo, but I believe its in the spirit of the thread. Mildly NSFW I suppose.
pretty easy to add a respirator filter set..Not a tattoo, but I believe its in the spirit of the thread. Mildly NSFW I suppose.
My brother (who owns a tattoo studio) was telling me over Thanksgiving about the new fad of "gauging" the space between your lower/upper lip and using a clear glass puck so you can see teeth. Dear lord people need help.Not a tattoo, but I believe its in the spirit of the thread. Mildly NSFW I suppose.
I've seen that one several times now and finally had to Google to see if it was true. Unfortunately, not:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/bodymods/poo.asp
always amazed at the Venn Diagram overlap of people who have money for body mods but need a job and/or money for basic day-to-day life stuff.
"hey, i got this sweet new art/jewelry . . . now i just need to skip a few meals to make rent this month."
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also, not to get terribly political, but since there is now a clearer line between health costs and the community burden of those costs due to the current legislation mandating coverage, it will be interesting to see if there is backlash against modified people, given their inherently higher risk of having health issues related to the modifications (exposure to blood borne pathogens, complications such as infection and other dermal issues).
in any case, the old-age home will be a more colorful place than it once was (if those kids live that long).
in any case, the old-age home will be a more colorful place than it once was (if those kids live that long).
on the flipside, it may lead to better regulation / guidance on cleanliness practices. i know a guy from high school who has since become a tattoo artist. he put together a course on BBP's and best practices to fight them. every time adds another course session it fills up within hours.
agreed. the guys in the hook world are pretty active in the modified community, and very concerned with BBP's, and thus their potential for exposure makes the more prepared to deal with the risk. however, there are still lots of kids going out and getting piercing-gun work done, and stretching the piercings in unsafe ways, and getting bedreum tatteus from people who aren't following good practices. i trusted the guys who pierced me, and i still trust them when i watch them work (i was just involved in two suspensions last weekend, on the rigging side).
as is often the case in life, people who are easily observed as being "different" get targeted, thus people who have been modified to look different may very well become a lightning-rod for attention on this issue.
i'd say yes. there are some very interesting segments in the movie Modify about this issue. they cover modifications people often overlook, such as body building, or ones people accept as "normal," such as breast implants and other forms of cosmetic surgery.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455980/
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... of course trying to define what is "modified" inherently requires a definition of what the base-line is for "not modified." some modifications are more obvious than others. some modifications are not voluntary. my accident made me modified. i have metal implants that hold me together, but i didn't request them, though i was probably asking for it with what i was doing at the time. at one time, i needed a machine to breathe. at one point i used a wheel chair for locomotion... but, aren't cars just a chair with wheels, which "able-bodied" people utilize voluntarily, in order to help them get places faster than their legs can? where does the modification start and stop? Stelarc is brilliantly creating art which points at this very issue (lmgtfy, in case jK is reading this while pooping http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelarc ). it isn't hard to get into trans/post-humanism from there, which is likely another thread ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism ).
But it's so much fun, in the first two weeks
