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Der Tattoo Thread.
Mazlow01:
I like the way the birds looks now. No need to color it. And the better dead than red is awesome.
cheesepie:
--- Quote from: Boom on 14 Mar 2008, 14:38 ---Here is mine...
and
The tattoo artiest said it was the most painful places to get a tattoo, that might have been him just fucking with me, but it did hurt... a lot
please, no political debates... :-)
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I just hope you realise one thing, the Hammer and Sickle is as bad as wearing a nazi swastika for most eastern europeans. Stalin killed more people than Hitler. No debate here, no matter how much that tattoo offends me I'm not trying to lecture you, just hope you know.
David_Dovey:
thewayigroove, I say your friend should get some black shading, but not coloured.
PeeEss; two weeks til my next tattoo!
redglasscurls:
I'm voting for not colored as well.. that's a cardinal, right? That would be way too much red for a torso.
CamusCanDo:
--- Quote from: Rizzo on 07 Mar 2008, 15:58 ---
Are you Maori at all? Cause if not it's a bit ridiculous to get something from a culture you aren't part of and probably don't particularly understand. I don't want to demean your idea or anything but it can be quite insensitive to take something, moko and other symbolism for instance, that normally require a lot of mana to be worn (e.g. chiefs and so on) and have some random passerby wearing them. (Mana is Maori for... well it doens't translate well but it's a combination of power, charisma, spiritual strength etc etc) So if you don't have the necessary mana you're pretty much devalueing that symbolism...
Cause, that's just my interpretation of it.
Still have no pics of my tattoo.
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Nah, yeah dude, I'm Maori. Half Maori and half Aussie. I actually have no problem with non-Maori wearing a Ta-Moko on any part of their body, as long as it details their own geneology and isn't lifted from someone else's Moko, a Maori chief for example. I have even less of a problem if someone decides to get a kirituhi (Skin Art/Alternative to the traditional Ta-Moko). Although mana, like you said has a part of it, for me it's more about identity. Especially since a Ta-Moko is pretty much the detailing of their history.
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