Society & Culture Things in life you just don't understand - Part 5

[Gavin Excell]

gin has gone up market these days

I remember in yr12 Aust History 1986 being taken with a historical drawing in a text book of when the convicts were leaving for Botany Bay.
"Gin sodden wenches" in the caption was quite an evocative description

 

[rocker_oz33]

Not a novel observation but I find tattoos something I struggle to appreciate
About 20 or so years ago when they started becoming popular outside the criminal classes, I thought it would be a passing fad but looks like here to stay

Tatts are everywhere.


I upset someone the other day.
I was talking to a co worker who been thinking about getting a tattoo.
I said just be Original and get none mate.

A woman's with a sleeve walked past gave me a dity look...lol.

But don't question what that charge .

 

[the_interloper]

Tatts are everywhere.


I upset someone the other day.
I was talking to a co worker who been thinking about getting a tattoo.
I said just be Original and get none mate.

A woman's with a sleeve walked past gave me a dity look...lol.

But don't question what that charge .

That's what I'm rolling with, I haven't completely ruled it out but at 43 maybe I can.

When I hang out with my brother in laws and their mates (early 30s) I'm usually the only one without tatts, this includes the females.

 

[GreyCrow]

I dont mind people with tatts and some look really interesting and well done by creative artists

But the prevalance of neck tattoos is probably a step too far for me . I dont mean the script of someones name but the neck beard type that makes me think a frill neck escaped

 

[Gralin]

That's what I'm rolling with, I haven't completely ruled it out but at 43 maybe I can.

When I hang out with my brother in laws and their mates (early 30s) I'm usually the only one without tatts, this includes the females.

You're never too old to start

 

[Xtreme]

Every day should be Australia Day

 

[raskolnikov]

I was still at high school when I got my first, it went down about as well you'd expect and exactly as I'd hoped.

I got my first at 30 and my mum still wasn't happy.

 

[Sinjin Smith]

Was never into tattoos. When I went to Bali last year sans family (school committents with kids, not marital problems, and I just wanted to surf) went and got one. Completely on the spot **** it why not.

Love it. Just a sun design on my right bicep.

 

[Sinjin Smith]

And Gough they asked if I needed any pain relief? Said nah its not bad.....they ended up giving me "pain relief'. I went back to my resort and watched the Hong Kong stock exchange for 3 hours on TV (can't swim nor sunlight).

 

[rocker_oz33]

That's what I'm rolling with, I haven't completely ruled it out but at 43 maybe I can.

When I hang out with my brother in laws and their mates (early 30s) I'm usually the only one without tatts, this includes the females.

Yeah heaps of females have tatts too.

Was never a thing when I was younger.

 

[rocker_oz33]

The amount of people that get sucked in to the para normal and ghosts etc.
I guess they creative tho.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Was never into tattoos. When I went to Bali last year sans family (school committents with kids, not marital problems, and I just wanted to surf) went and got one. Completely on the spot **** it why not.

Love it. Just a sun design on my right bicep.

Suns out .
Guns out .

 

[JackOutback]

You're never too old to start

Never too old to stop

Tatts were never my thing and now seeing people in their 40s rocking full leg tattoos, I feel comfortable with my choice. It’s no skin off my nose what other people do with their bodies, I just personally don’t find them aesthetically pleasing in any way.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Never too old to stop

Tatts were never my thing and now seeing people in their 40s rocking full leg tattoos, I feel comfortable with my choice. It’s no skin off my nose what other people do with their bodies, I just personally don’t find them aesthetically pleasing in any way.

More money in your sky rocket .

 

[Hamingja]

Ambulance in Queensland is free. I’ve had two trips in the past two years, none ever before that.

Free in TAS as well.

When I lived in VIC I paid up as a member. Too much of a risk when playing footy etc. Yeah it is part of private health but watch them try to claim that doing your shoulder in a marking contest is not an emergency.

 

[Gough]

I dont mind people with tatts and some look really interesting and well done by creative artists

But the prevalance of neck tattoos is probably a step too far for me . I dont mean the script of someones name but the neck beard type that makes me think a frill neck escaped

Unless it's cultural I think tats should remain a below the neck affair.

 

[gaskin]

Some tats look good. Some look shit.

I knew a girl who had a dream catcher tat on her thigh that just looked like someone scribbled on her leg when looking at it from more than 5m away.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

I’ve got a few. I think I’ll get a couple more and stop. There’s only one of mine that’s ever really visible now that I don’t wear bikinis anymore

 

[Sinjin Smith]

More money in your sky rocket .

Let me feel the fibre of your fabric

 

[rocker_oz33]

Free in TAS as well.

When I lived in VIC I paid up as a member. Too much of a risk when playing footy etc. Yeah it is part of private health but watch them try to claim that doing your shoulder in a marking contest is not an emergency.

Free in Vic if your on a pension.

 

[Gralin]

Never too old to stop

Tatts were never my thing and now seeing people in their 40s rocking full leg tattoos, I feel comfortable with my choice. It’s no skin off my nose what other people do with their bodies, I just personally don’t find them aesthetically pleasing in any way.

I don't really care whether people do or don't

Good tatts are awesome bad tatts are bad

There's a real conservative anti tattoo wave going around at the moment which is as usual gross but apart from that it really shouldn't matter

 

[Xtreme]

Unnecessary Australia already sticks it to Indigenous people every day

I reserve the right to talk like crocodile Dundee daily

 

[JackOutback]

I don’t understand my wife when she texts me at 3.15 to say she can’t talk, she’s in a meeting until 6. How to explain why the project is struggling without saying why.

 

[rocker_oz33]

I reserve the right to talk like crocodile Dundee daily

Remind me not get in a knife fight with you.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

The Luke Sayers scandal. I'd just always assumed that me not getting the motivation to, you know: "I'm really attracted to this person, I know, I'll send them a picture of my junk, what could possibly go wrong?" was my "Things that make you feel old" moment. It seemed to me to be a practice reserved for teenagers and the most desperate of desperadoes.

I don't know exactly how old Sayers is, but going by his Wikipedia (starting an internship in 1991) he must be in his 50s. This could be a really naive moment for me, but is this commonplace with Gen X and Gen Y'ers? People in their 30s/40s/50s just sending junk photos to each other through social media all day?