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SeanBateman:

--- Quote from: Westrunner link=topic=7913.msg577765#msg577765 --- What I find severely retarded, like a GAF of 22 retarded, is the idea that other people should be telling me what to like in a tattoo I'm considering. But you're welcome to your opinion.

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Fair enough, because I find stupid fucking tattoos completely retarded.

We are just trying, as a forum, to keep you from getting a retarded tattoo and becoming a complete dude-bro.

thehollow:

--- Quote from: Dirk Hopeless on 18 Dec 2007, 08:55 ---a complete dude-bro.
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I think this is the first time I've ever seen this term, but am now wondering how I lived without it. Many a time have I wished to effectively insult such a person, but thus far the best I could come up with was douchebag, which has become tired and old. I must thank you for expanding my vocabulary.

redglasscurls:
Westrunner, if you'd read any of the pages concerning tattoos on this forum before mentioning your plans, you would have completely expected this sort of response.
Maybe you read them and wanted the chance to yell about opinions for a while, or maybe you chose to post blindly, ignorant of the culture of the medium- a mindset your tattoo will represent wonderfully.

Westrunner:
Indeed, added to mine as well. I think here in the south-west I might use the variant "dude-bra", although that does sound like something else entirely.

I totally share your opinion of most Chinese character tattoos. They reek of someone walking into a tat shop and pointing at the wall and going "that one. The one that means 'douche'" Right up there with black panthers, pixies, dragons, dolphins, and your current significant other's name, they generally make for terrible tattoos. The reason I'm really gung-ho on this is I have done some serious studies into buddhism, buddhist mysticism, eastern religions, tao etc... and have developed deep personal significance with many of the meanings of "qi" or "chee" as it is often pronounced. It's a fairly amorphous idea that means different things to different cultures but I like what it does for me, it's one of the only paradigms I've kept around for over a decade, and I just don't see bastardizing it into english. The only reason I don't have it right now is probably for a lot of similar reasons, I don't want to be that tat guy with the retarded asian tattoo he doesn't know anything about, but I've thought about it forever and come to the conclusion "fuck it, I'm just not into other people's opinions that much."

I mean there's english equivalents, kinda, I guess I could have "spiritus" or "ka" done, but it just wouldn't mean the same thing, not to me.

Opinions? Thoughts?

Add: Nah, I knew the tolerance and general opinion, I didn't want to yell or whatever, I just expected to be called retarded and maybe be sent to a site with decent translation resources. I've found one since. I fully expected a less than friendly dialog to unfold. Just a little more hostile than I initially expected, but not completely surprising. Again, it's not like I don't see where you guys are coming from on this.

redglasscurls:
That is relatively respectable reasoning, but if you'll feel like a moron getting it done, don't want to bastardize the purity of the idea, and it really has significance to you, why get it tattooed? I am very much an advocate of tattoos with personal meaning, but maybe this is a concept which needs to stay spiritual for you rather than cheapening it with the troubles concerning turning it into body art.
If you want the tattoo itself to share the deep sense of meaning the idea does, maybe you should work it into a larger self-development plan. Save your money, and take a solo backpacking trip in southeast asia. Get your tattoo done there, as a symbol of the physical manifestation of its importance to your life.
Doesn't that sound better than trying desperately to convince a tattoo guy in a stateside tattoo shop that reallyreally, you're not like those other douchbags with tattoos they can't read? That yours actually means something? Prove it, do something meaningful with this.

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