Kats show Rocks!!! She is ten-times the artist as the guys on Miami Ink, her show is fun to watch without all the DRAMA shit of Ami and the guys!!!

Kats show rocks!!!she is 10-times the artist as any of the guys on miami ink, her show is fun to watch without all the DRAMA shit of Ami and the boys!!!

No but obviously your “mensa qualified redneck mind” has either forgotten how to use a search engine, or your pathetic attempts to bait people with a loaded question are not fooling them.

Dimebag -
This is a common term used for a $10 bag of marijuana. In this context it is used as either an adjective or a noun. As an adjective dime describes the noun bag in “Dime Bag” (of marijuana). In this context, it has also become commonplace to use the term as a noun where one seeks to purchase a “Dime”.

This was the origin of guitarist Dimebag Darrell’s nickname; among guitarists and Pantera fans “Dime” is often used as a shorthand to refer to the late musician.

Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_%28slang%29#Narcotics

A law degree does not make one immune to poor choices in life, nor does it seem to make one able to find the question you were asked.
he question counselor, is ( and was) ” what exactly is a dimebag?” you have managed to grasp the obvious that it is ” a nickname” and further that he is dead. but have managed not to disclose what a dimebag is. Apparently my mensa qualified redneck mind has offended you to the point that you have lost your ability to follow the conversation. I will ask again
What is a Dimebag?

Attn: Mark Haskett

Dimebag Darrell was a nickname for a guitarist in a band,who was murdered, is that to hard to understand? Your perspective that tattoos equals criminals belongs in the 1950s!

You seem to have a problem with those who are tattooed, you have a nice little pidgeonhole labelled criminals/lower classes/the tattooed.
I am heavily tattooed and I am a lawyer with a functional family, the complete antithesis to the stereotype you have in your little redneck mind. Do us all a favour and think or do some research before offending people with your small minded attitude.

“Well if there was ANY doubt about tatoos being the original art of choice of lower socio-economic classes, criminals,addicts and rock star wanna-bees the new L.A Ink hammers the point home. She says “rad” more often than a mechanic in a heat-wave. She often finds herself “totally stoked about some Rad dude”, Too bad Kats father, a Doctor, never found time to make Kat functional in non-ghetto english communication. Tune in next week when an auto cooling specialists arrive for a rad, rad tatoo….”

And you are a small minded fuckwit!
If you don’t like it don;t watch it.

not sure how any one is “spreading hatred”. The statistics I quote.. you call simpleton logic.. but other than that.. you have had no rebuttal..other than saying it is “hate”.. let me remind you , my premise is that people who make rash decisions based on what they want “right now” regardless of how they might feel in the future tend to do different things than people who have a longer term view. Crime is one of those things, Tattoo’s are another. All I asked for was what a “dime bag” was. Someone named “dimebag darrell” lost his life and his widow was getting a Tat from Kat. My question was ” what exactly is a “dimebag”? As you know, I am not really a follower of this culture and my prejudice is that most people in this culture ( ones who get tattooed)tend to be involved in criminal activity. I am trying so desperatly to understand the culture you embrace and I thought this poor widow would be worth understanding as I am sure she will help support your premise that many non-criminals get tattoos. I am guessing that “dimebag” was a nickname for a man who spent his life giving change to those who needed it most and helping in a cahritable way those poor people in our soceity. Giving away bags of change to the needed would lilkley end up with him having that nickname and his widow paying tribute to him would make perfect sense. Hence my question ( that you avoided) what is a “dime-bag” exactly?

I have been busy lately tattooing honest people and haven’t been on this thread for quite a while, but then, what have I missed ?

A bunch of hysterical W.A.S.P. witch-hunting easy targets ; remember, most criminals are males : then all males are criminals (you included)… nonsense !

A brilliant example of tolerance and charity : “Let him that is without sin throw the first stone” said some long bearded & haired pacifist hippy… Then this thread must be only crowded with angels !…. LOL

I leave there all of you pure souls spread hatred around you ; there is nothing anyone can learn from you and your prejudices.

Adieu !

tune in this week for Dime-bag darrells widow getting tattoos.
I am unsure what a dime-bag is. Can anybody help me on this. I have decided to listen to you all about how tattoos and illegal stuff are really not connected, but I need to know what a dime-bag might be, and what the widow of somebody who married someone named “dime-bag” might need a tatoo of

hehe, this type of simpleton-logic, and close-minded, sweeping-argument, makes evident how undeserving Mark is of an actual rebuttal..
Actually it is true.. 94% of prison inmates have tattoos. Let me help you understand this as a ’simpleton” should. There are some groups that embrace body art. It would seem statistically that the prison population embraces body art. What this means.. simplistically is that Not everyone who is tattooed is a criminal. But it would seem that the vast majority of criminals are tattooed. The statistical breakdown of ” those who commit crimes” and “those with tattoos” is interesting Tattooing is laking a long term choice for something that is cool “right now”. Crime is risking a long term jail term and criminal record to do or get something “right now” Both groups speak to a limited view of their future possibly being different from their present. And that…simplistically is the reasons tattoo’s and criminals go together so well…. Remember not every person with a tat is a criminal… that’s not what I said.

Is it some kind of marketing ploy that you keep plastering this freak, kat von d all over the network? I can’t even watch the channel for more than 20 minutes without a stupid LA Ink commercial, maybe you could start a new network called “freaks” and move both La ink and Miami ink to the new network.

I thought TLC stood for The Learning Channel, I do not want to (learn) anything for this a bunch of inked up smokers on LA ink. Let get back to what it should be.

LA Ink is rubbish compared to Miami Ink. LA Ink simply trots out pathetic stereotypical glamour rock chicks and expects that that will make up for the lack of talent and any interesting characters in the show. I switched it off with 15 mins still left of the show I was that bored with it.

While I think Kat was great on Miami Ink, she had the guys to balance. This is just to much Kat and her “girl power” mates….. *yawn*

“94% of the prison population.. has a tatoo.. not people I want to be like”

hehe, this type of simpleton-logic, and close-minded, sweeping-argument, makes evident how undeserving Mark is of an actual rebuttal.. oh, that and the fact that he can’t even seem to spell the word “tattoo” correctly in any of his posts.

now moving along, L.A. Ink destroys Miami Ink!

Well, I guess that is the way canadians or americans behave towards tattooed people, I should better stay in a truly democratic country, on that subject.

Being tattooed and hanging around with my town’s mayor, or congressmen and their staff, or policemen in uniform,as I do here in France, doesn’t seem possible across the atlantic, then…

I do feel sorry for you, having to betray your folks to get a position in society. I think integrity is above all my highest quality, which I wouldn’t barter for any social status (which is not needed here anyway).

The conservative party I belong to was quite happy to have me by its side for the presidential and dcongress election last spring. (which we won). I got introduced to ministers, senators, congressmen and not one of them missbehaved because of my inks, which I never hid from their sight. Now I am in charge of a security commitee for my town ’s mayor election, next year.

I do think your point of view is the fruit of the country you live in, mine also is. And on that topic, the society I live in is much more advanced than yours. I guess yours will evolve one day too.

By changing the subjsct or refining the subject I do not implicitly agree that what I said previously has no merit.. it just means I am looking at both the choice and the person who makes it. When I was a bike gang member I wore gang colours, and it seemed to threaten non gang members.. and I kept trying to explain to people that they should hire me to look after thier businesses.. but it seemed they “judged” me by the fact that I was trying to be a part of a culture they did not know much about.. but the company I kept ( you are known by the company you keep).. murderers, strippers, drug dealers etc.. and the group whos approval seemed important to me.. strippers, murderers etc seemed to put those people off. I looked just like them, I tried to be like them.. but I was starving for a meal and had no long term prospects. I could not beleive that just because I was an active gang member.. that people thought I was bad news.. it was cruel of them to judge me by my gang colours.. and It was my right to wear them.. how dare they judge me. Once however I was over my need to fit it with my small group of friends and gang associates and wanted to fit in with the larger society, I removed my gang colours and found it easier to prosper.
By the way.. you cant remove a tattoo that easily. As far a divorce and tattoos goes… care to guess who gets divorced more as a group??
Tattooed folks… or non??
Come on.. give it a try !!

Then, the conversation as moved form Tattoo itself, to tattoo subject : I am glad you implicitely admit your position was a bit extremist.

I have a friend with a ninja turtle tattooed just above his ankle and is quite proud of it ( it is very nicely done in fact) : he works as a computer salesman in a big supermarket and has no problem with his bank. I have another friend with a big spiderman on his leg, he owns an aluminium windows workshop with his brother and just bought a house (he also has two full sleeves)!

The subject of a tattoo depends on the bearers intelligence and culture : someone stupid will often get something stupid tattooed on him, someone very intelligent might get a stupid tattoo too because he doesn’t care about the other people’s judgment. I rarely saw a stupid person with a beautifull and creative tattoo ( or his tattoo artist might be smart, then). Well, there are stupid people on both side : tattooed and not tattooed. And I do agree that some pieces of art I saw in my office made me -inner- laugh. But people with ugly or stupid things on their skin often wear ugly clothes, drive ugly cars…. as do other tasteless people with no tattoo, the problem being there good taste, not tattoo.

I have 4 japanese films titles tattooed on my left arm, because their aesthetic appproach of the image changed my own art. 3 of them are manga (animation), because I am very fond of this type of movies. I also have my company’s logo and three japanese warriors, two of them being kamikaze pilots, a kamon (japanese family emblem) and a mitsubishi Zero fighter on that arm. I am fond of japanese culture, you might have guessed. And a Rammstein cross around the elbow (a german rock band; my “fan” side). I also have “ASHES’ written across my belly in huge gothic letters : reminder of the bible (ashes to ashes : don’t be too bold), and a private joke for the morgue employees who will handle my mortal remains. I also have plenty of sticker size inks more related to other parts of my life and interests.

This is my culture, not yours and not most of the people’s. But it does represent something to me, the rest I indeed don’t care about. Neither does the guy in the bank who is in charge of my accounts : he just sees the figures on his computer (and smiles).

I don’t tattoo under 16 years old, and only with parent’s permission between 16 and 18. A bit young, I agree for this kind of decision. Maybe there is a lesson for them to learn there.

I always try to test a future “tattooee”’s motivations, but in the end the decision is his, which I do not judge.

Taking example among extremes, as you highlighted yourself in a precedent post, is so easy. Stigmatize a whole group by the conduct of its margins is not the best way to handle a topic.

No dramatization required, tattoo is becoming quite common and will continue its way in human societies, as it has always done since 10 or 20 000 years, older than most religion which forbid it.

If 20% of tattooed people want to change it, they are far more reasonable than the 50% of people who divorce…

so you are trying to make this about me “judging a person by the colour of his skin”
Gee is that my only choice?? Cant I judge people by the fact that the vast majoirty of Tattoos are received by people who dont qualify for a mortgage?? Cant I judge people who Tattoo Vanilla Ice’ first album cover onto their chest?? Cant I judge the teenage boy who loved ABBA so much he decided to have “Dancing Queen” tattoed across his back?? The fact of the matter is the fastest growing profit centre for dermatlogists is tattoo removal for generation X slackers who got ink.. and it now holds them back from advancement at work
“dont you know that”?? Cant I take a lesson from the fact that 20% of Tattoo owners admit to covering it up, hiding it because it is harming their lives a few years later??
Dont you know that?? where do people like you live?? the home of the skaterboi slacker??
Fact is Tattoos are for some.. and not for others and I judge not by the colour of your skin.. but if you have “Vanilla Ice forever” on your sleeve.. you have bigger judgement issues than I need to hire.. andif you dont agree on that point we dont have much to discuss.
Just this week I saw a kid with “green day” album cover art tattooed on his forearm.. ya know what…I did not judge him by his ink.. I judged him by his lack of personal hygene and inability for form a sentence.. the tattoos were not the source of the judgement, they just fell perfectly into context with all the other poor decisions he was making that were holding him back from finding a job. I am sure the green day tattoo “made him stronger and was truly a symbol of long term thinking, self reliance,creativity ( he was creative enough to steal album art I guess) just as having Dancing Queen tattooed on your back if you love Abba is all of the above.. in your world anyway..
You are in the business.. you base your income on encouring people to get their current view inked on themselves, the dermatologist makes 10 times removing the tattoo that the velvet elvis artist got putting it there.. and that is your right. The fact remains that once the slacker with the green day tat wants to get a real job and a mortgage, he starts hiding the symbol of irresponsibility. My 9 year old wants a Ninja turtle tattoo.. my 16 year old wants a portrait of Lindsay Lohan and my 19 year old wants her current boyfriends name on her lower back. Tell me oh great advocate of body art.. does anyone here sound mature enough for a “rest of her life decision”??

You didn’t understand my position : people were actually sent to concentration camps because they were tattooed : and got there another free tattoo (their inmate code) from their generous torturers before being executed. This is an historical fact you should consider before telling me my arguments are irrelevant.

Tattoo is considered by integrists like Bin Laden as an offence to god and is punished by torture, skin ripping or (and) death. These little freedoms are often the first to be aimed at by intolerant regimes.

I have already told you why people have more tat in jail than anywhere else : because they do it in there! That doesn’t make of any tattooed man a criminal, this would be so dangerously simple. And by the way, Jail tats are so easily recognisable, there is no confusion to be made.

Why would people have to “fit in” a society because of ink? They are already part of this society : tattoo is a huge market, with many ink and machinery brands; TV shows like Miami Ink or LA ink are only a restricted mediatic approach of a wide subject.

People who make the TV shows and the movies you watch, the music you listen to, the clothes you wear and the cars you drive are tattooed in larger proportion than the rest of the population : maybe, there, it identifies an elite (?).

Your view is pure intolerance because you say tattooed people don’t “fit in” a society that is also theirs not only yours. Tattoo, as you say, is a long term choice, which most untattooed people are simply unable to make, they cannot project themselves far enough in their own future, or have not enough confidence. Can’t You understand there are many ways to evolve within a social context, not only yours, and not only worst than yours ?

My view is tolerance because I do not judge someone on wether he has or has not tattoos.

When I did my full sleave I knew what I was Heading for, it made me stronger and more confident to build my enterprise without anyone’s help. Most of the full sleaves I know are entrepreneurs… I can tell you noone critises me on that issue, or maybe haven’t I yet met your kind of people. Then as I said before I am very implicated in my town’s community : where do people like you dwell? Only in America ? Where is the land of the free, then ?

A visible tattoo is a sign of long term thinking, and self reliance, not the contrary. A sign of creativity and responsability. A full sleave takes a lot of money, a lot of pain and a lot of courage, which you should admire, and is not made on an impulse but on well-thought-of-choices. This I know because it is my job.

Our ancestors, gaul, celtic and saxxon warriors were tattooed as proof of their highter dedication to their tribe, as were crusaders of the middle ages, as were GIs in WW2, as are a lot of US marines in Irak and Afghanistan.

Can’t you hear that?

Tattoo didn’t isolate me from society, it helped me engage conversations with people in cafés, meetings or public places. I have had passionate discussion on art with people who wouldn’t have a tattoo but do not consider themselves superior because of their virgin skin, which is nonsense.

Ok Manson had an ugly tat, but Hitler had no tattoo, nor Mussolini, nor maybe Bin Laden : nice guys ? So maybe I should fear the untattooed, evil people with no colours ? lol…

In some oriental christian churches tattoo is compulsory for every member of the community and considered as an act of faith. First christians bore a fish tattoed as recognition sign.

Don’t you know that ?

As I am trying to explain to you tattoo has, most of the time, no moral value, neither good nor bad.

If we were to meet would you act umpolitely towards me because I have tattooes? What kind of an antisocial behaviour would that be then ?

You cannot judge someone by the color of his skin : if you don’t agree on that point we don’t have much to discuss about.

IT IS JUST INK IN SKIN.

The last gasp of any failed argument is to equate the opposing position with World war 2 Germany.
Your Body is yours and i will fight for your right to be free in all ways with it.
If you ” cant see any link ” between body art and prison inmates you are simply being obtuse to advance your position. Clearly… positivly and irrefutably clearly there is more body art in a prison per capita than in the general population.
Secondly.. calling me or implying that I am intolerant is without merit, it is not MY tolerance that is the issue. The elements of soceity that hire people so they can support themselves, make long term decisions and have a long term view. Sk8erboi’s with full sleeve tats show that they make long term decisions without regard to how they may need to ” fit in” with the majority in later life. As a result, it is hard for the full sleeve sk8erboi to get a “serious job” that will allow them to support a family etc. I cannot think of a person with a tattoo who has not admitted to .. or been forced to cover it up to meet their needs for acceptance or employment.( with the possible exception of Kat VonD) As far as my preference for “9.11 bombings and concentration camps” goes you are clearly grasping at straws.. imaginary straws to support your position. By the way, your posiiton needs no support, ultimately you are right.. as I said above,.. it is your perogative to tattoo, Just as Charles Manson had the right to tattoo a swastika on his forehead, you have the right to your body art.
However i am sure that if Charles Manson wanted to show he was not anti-social.. removing the swastika from his face would be an excellent place to start. I am not “intolerant” of Mr Manson, I simply dont have much sympathy for people who do things that isolate them from a soceity that might help, hire, parole or support them.. and then complain about “Intolerance”