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Will Danny set up a certain Elvis musical in prison , one wonders :D
That 2070s Show , bah bye rapist
haha are we a conservative bunch! Maybe half the people i know have tattoo's, and like you, I only ever found one estetically pleasing, but I don't understand why one would want to wear one on the body. I love paintings of monet, but I don't need any bridge on my arm, no matter how beatifully drawn.
It's a cultural thing that took flight. In Brasil, i.e., I don't think there's a single person without a tattoo. But then again it's quite normal to adjust the boy over there. Operations are standard.
I think people think it adds to their uniqueness, whilst to my mind it does exactly the opposite.
One more reason to be a non-conformist.
Never in my life will I have anyone needle ink in my flesh and skin. Never will I have anyone put holes in my body either. Piercings and tats aren't my thing.
You are, of course, absolutely correct.
But people have been tattooing themselves for thousands of years. 'Bad boys' got a tattoo in the '50s. It's not like having your arm tattooed is a thing of today. That's why I don't think it's got anything to do with being conservative or progressive or whatever. ;-) What does seem to be a thing of today -- though I'm open to the suggestion that I'm wrong -- is that
- more and more young people get a tattoo, and get away with it (i.e. parents and schools allow it);
- people attach some meanings to it, like "this one reminds me every day that I am a fighter";
- some people get their first tat when they're already middle-aged, either "going with the flow", or trying to stay youthful that way.
Anyway, I still struggle with the idea that you'd voluntarily allow ink, and the heavy metals in it, to slowly leak into your blood, which may cause severe damage over time. I also don't get why your best friend's name or your lover's name has to be carved in your flesh; when they are your friend or lover no more, you're either stuck with it, or have to go through another painful procedure to have the tat removed. (A ring or a bracelet is so much easier...). And let's not forget that skins never stay the same. Eventually, tats lose color and shape and end up as ugly ink blots.
Truth is, tats are a major turn-off for me. I enjoy the purity of the human body. Same with piercings all over the place. But if other people are cool with them, or desire them, by all means, have fun! Whatever floats anyone's boat.
Today I almost had an accident while driving and trying to handle the Bluetooth connection because these bloody new cars don’t have bloody CD players, damn it! Oh, and I don’t have apple car play.
No, it was in jest. You see, with the majority wanting tattoo's and piercings, we're now the 'backbenchers'. That, and in the nineties, tat's were definately also something for the 'progressive youth'. Not that I, as a youth at the time, was ever willing to let someone mutilate me, but that's besides the point.
So, we're conservatives, as we, as @j_w_pepper stated it accurately, trying to preserve something.
@DarthDimi I have no intention to leave my wife, I love her more and more each day, so following your logic it would be safe to have her name inked in my skin. However, personally, I wouldn't for the life of (fill in the preferred diety) know why I would do that. She's in my heart, and I don't need an ink blob to remind me of it. Same goes with my son's name or anything like that. The only usefull tattoo I've ever seen is with very old people, stating 'don't reanimate me!'.
lol ;)
When I was in Venice (the REAL Venice , thank you very much) grocery store I heard "Nobody does it better" , shouldve been Moonraker :P
I guess we all have them. I had another one yesterday. An hour and a half, after regular work hours no less. It's not so much the length of the meeting that aggravates me, it’s the utter lack of efficiency that is consistent throughout it. The main reason is an IT colleague who thinks himself the funniest guy in the whole world, an expert in literally everything, and someone who must interrupt the rest of us pretty much all the damn time. But his jokes are worse than bad (borderline insulting, even), his suggestions are on par with what a 12-year old might say, and his attitude is just plain rude.
Much to our chagrin, the ‘chair’ of the meeting, my school’s principal, just lets it happen. I understand that she tries to avoid conflicts and that she doesn’t want to openly reprimand a colleague, but that level of inaction causes frustration and friction. It is not my place to tell the know-it-all IT guy to ‘shut it’, nor to push the meeting to the next point on the agenda. But oh boy, if this behavior doesn’t stop, I’m out of there next time, and it won’t be my fault. I don’t mind spending time on the job, but I refuse to squander it.
Well, you're lucky you're not a consultant, hardly any day goes by without a meeting or two, sometimes up to 6 a day. But in my experience it's better to speak out and say something about someone's behaviour. Usually a chair will pick up on it.
When it's a lame joke, you can say something like 'i'd rather we stick to the subject, so we can keep on going', and when he's pretending to be an expert, ask him to write it all down so it can be used as input for (whatever document you can concoct that will not harm anyone, but burn his time). Soon enough, he'll learn to shut it.
So, basically this:
There's often that kind of colleague in a working environment. I feel your pain.
Oh I only learned this after years of working as, and later for the civil service. When you have as many meetings as I do, you tend to get fed up with people all together, and not giving a toss on how they react. I'm always focussed on the results, and as though some hate me for it because I tend to hurt their ego's, it has helped me succeed. You might just want to try a watered-down version of this next meeting and see how it goes. In my experience, people like this are so not-used to getting some pushback, they usually succomb to it immediately. If he doesn't, you can just pull back on it. You'll be surprised how many people will thank you afterwards for at least doing something.
My experience is exactly the same, and spans both commercial and governent institutions. Good leaders are extremely hard to come by.
Better still, release him, along with an up to date photo of him.
I had to look that case up, and it's doubtless tragic. But J.V. wouldn't even have been put in jail over here, since the minimum age of criminal responsibility is 14. There wouldn't even have been a trial in the first place over here. He might have been put into juvenile delinquent care or even a psychiatric ward, but definitely not into a prison. He would have been checked constantly regarding whether he was still a threat to society, and if not, he wouldn't be released. But putting a 10-year old into prison for years is alien to our sense of justice, no matter what that 10-year old might have done.
Now if you tell me he killed (or even just molested) another young child when they let him roam free after the verdict, that may be a different story. But the fact for us remains, that a ten-year old is not legally guilty for things he (or she) might be doing. And I think it's good that way.
I read this and it still makes me feel physically sick.
As you say @MajorDSmythe some people are just evil.
A bullet in the head would be too good for scum of his nature.