David Dimbleby's tattoo....

At 75 does he have the body or lifestyle that might profitably reveal this piece of art to its best advantage?

And who gives a to$$ anyway.
Hopefully the weather will improve or the plumber get the heating going and I can get on with some other displacement activity.
 
Gwylan said:
At 75 does he have the body or lifestyle that might profitably reveal this piece of art to its best advantage?

And who gives a to$$ anyway.
Hopefully the weather will improve or the plumber get the heating going and I can get on with some other displacement activity.
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I remember Bill Tilman, fitting out Baroque alongside at the Berthon in Lymington in 1974, taking his shirt off. He did have a physique that drew admiring glances from passing girls - at 78.
 
Gwylan said:
At 75 does he have the body or lifestyle that might profitably reveal this piece of art to its best advantage?
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I reckon 78 ought to be the legal minimum age for tattoos...sixty years of adult life during which to consider the daftness of putting a permanent stain on the skin, and for what? Plus, at that age, fewer glances will go his way. Actually I think Dimblebug's scorpion is very restrained - it would almost be quite 'cool', if only he hadn't publicised its existence.

I read lately (sorry, can't remember where) about a curious correlation between tattoos on teenaged girls, and unplanned pregnancies. The author concluded it was lack of foresight.

Tattoos on chaps of a certain vintage and background - physical types whose everyday apparel will show off anchors, dragons, even their football club loyalties - seem fine to me...

...but a lot of 'artistic' colour on women whose bare beauty might otherwise be complete and dazzling, looks like a callow distraction. Much worse, it looks like a badge of stupidity.

Interesting...when celebrities' tattoos are in the news, the loudest roar of objections in the following comments is usually from tattoo-wearers, furious that many people remark negatively about their body-art. What could better sum-up the lack of foresight, than deciding impulsively to do something permanent which won't be generally well-received?

People like to say friends think a new tattoo looks great. I wonder how they'd feel if they heard the one word the same friends say, when the tattoo leaves the room..."Why?!"

Sixty years to think about it first? That's fine. But let Gwylan have the last word...

Gwylan said:
...who gives a to$$ anyway?
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:D ;)
 
Tattoo's are usually a helpful sign as to people to avoid if in doubt; however I do know one chum who is a big guy, bald, and has tattoo's - he looks like a nightclub heavy but is the nicest gentlest most considerate person one could hope to meet, god knows why he ever got tat's but even in our club he feels he has to roll his sleeves down- big life lasting mistake !
 
dylan said:
It's an error
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24929260
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One year I took the winter cover off the swimming pool (med - not UK) and left it to dry draped over a stone wall. When I got round to putting it away a day or two later it was full of scorpions which seemed to bear a grudge that I had disturbed them. I've no idea how many legs they had but I used my two legs to get out of dodge as quick as possible. :D
 
benjenbav said:
One year I took the winter cover off the swimming pool (med - not UK) and left it to dry draped over a stone wall. When I got round to putting it away a day or two later it was full of scorpions which seemed to bear a grudge that I had disturbed them. I've no idea how many legs they had but I used my two legs to get out of dodge as quick as possible. :D
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I have a similar scorpion story. I spent a year in Crete in the mid 70's doing various labouring jobs. One of which was to stack a pile of bricks that had been dumped off the back of a lorry a few months earlier. They had become home to numerous scorpions and as I removed more and more bricks they concentrated themselves so when I came to the last few dozen they were everywhere. Moving those last bricks was not a task for the faint hearted.
 
What is the difference between people with tattoos and people without tattoos?




People with tattoos, don't care if you don't have a tattoo :)
 
Magaz97 said:
What is the difference between people with tattoos and people without tattoos?
People with tattoos, don't care if you don't have a tattoo :)
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Furthermore with the huge percentage of young people who have them, that "stigma" of being an old wrinkly tattooed person will not apply.

Keep dodging the scorpions in the garden, the sting really hurts..
 
SamanthaTabs said:
Furthermore with the huge percentage of young people who have them, that "stigma" of being an old wrinkly tattooed person will not apply.

Keep dodging the scorpions in the garden, the sting really hurts..
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I'd heard many young people complaining about their parents' sagging tattoos, seemingly unaware that it's going to happen to them. I guess the advantage of getting one when you're old and saggy, is that it isn't going to sag. Or is it? :D
 
SamanthaTabs said:
Furthermore with the huge percentage of young people who have them, that "stigma" of being an old wrinkly tattooed person will not apply.
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Heavens above! That can't be a good lesson.

Perhaps ALL young people ought to have their minds similarly broadened, by let's say, a few months on class A drugs, a month in jail, and temporary indoctrination with some loony extremist religious politics? That way, the young 'uns will be understanding towards OLD criminals/delinquents/maniacs who have no excuse. So much for protecting the innocents.

Cripes, what am I doing? Why is this thread on Scuttlebutt? :confused: :rolleyes:
 
WestWittering said:
...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24906132


I have taken a particular interest as I have a scorpion tattoo as well.... However, mine has eight 'walking' legs & Mr D's has only six. I know that there may be an extremely rare scorpion out there with six walking legs, but is it like having a Manx cat tatoo - "Yes, I know it has no tail.... it's special...."?


Di

PS - Posted in Scuttlebutt as there is a mention of his new series - Britain & the Sea :)
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dylan said:
It's an error
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24929260
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dancrane said:
Only six legs? Is it the influence of Antie Beeb?
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Basically, scorpions belong to a group of organisms that are defined by having eight legs (Arachnidae); the group includes spiders and scorpions. So, Dimbleby simply got it wrong. There are a few insects (defined by having 6 legs) that look a lot like scorpions, but they aren't.
 
Something to do with "Britain and the sea"? (Scuttle explanation). Anyway it's nothing to do with lessons, merely the reality that many young people have tattoos. There will no doubt be a new scandalous situation up for debate, one could be how the heck having a tattoo could possibly equate to being a delinquent and violent drug user?
 
Sorry, sorry. :o

Was only thinking that it's scarcely a good thing to relieve the 'stigma' from older tattoo-wearers, by encouraging this frequently-regretted permanent stain on the skin of the young.
 
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