Tattoos and beards and piercings

[Zing]

Just curious to know more about you all.

 

[The Q]

Tattoos and piercings are unnecessary body damage.
Beards just get in the way..
Bo, only after several hours working in the garden, but that would followed by a long soak in the bath with an accompanying large whisky.

 

[Irish Rover]

The doc who did my last colonoscopy told me I needed to get rid of the beard.

 

[Marsali_1]

The doc who did my last colonoscopy told me I needed to get rid of the beard.

Why? Was the doc trying to work at the wrong end?

 

[Porthandbuoy]

Scars. Real sailors have scars.

 

[SimonX]

Scars. Real sailors have scars.

I have a few of those, none to do with sailing.
I have had a moustache since i was 17, grown to cover a split lip as the result of a bike accident, Grew a beard on/off while in the army, shaved off when I worked in the real world when told it looked disreputable. Grew again when I became my own boss but kept short.

 

[KevinV]

Assuming BO is boat odour? There comes a point in a voyage when wet-wipes just don't cut it

 

[Purple Velvet]

I have had a moustache since i was 17, grown to cover a split lip as the result of a bike accident

You and me both, from 14 when I hit a kerb on a small island, which split a road two ways at the bottom of a steep hill. Base over apex and face first into the gravel. Got rid of the slug about 20 years later.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

My tattoo is not of an anchor, naked ladies or roses. Just my blood group.

 

[Mark-1]

My tattoo is not of an anchor, naked ladies or roses. Just my blood group.

I'm assuming not SS, so vintage American origin?

In the early 1950s, schoolchildren in northwest Indiana and parts of Utah (Cache/Rich counties) were given blood-type tattoos on their chests as a Cold War civil defense measure.
Intended to facilitate rapid, "walking blood bank" transfusions during a potential nuclear attack, the short-lived program was abandoned within a year because doctors did not trust tattoos for medical information.

 

[Irish Rover]

Why? Was the doc trying to work at the wrong end?

Have you ever heard of a hairy arsed Paddy?

 

[Stemar]

Beard. It's less work than shaving

 

[Purple Velvet]

Beard. It's less work than shaving

And contributes to the "castaway" look on a boat, or the "slept in a hedge for a fortnight" look ashore.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

I'm assuming not SS, so vintage American origin?

In the early 1950s, schoolchildren in northwest Indiana and parts of Utah (Cache/Rich counties) were given blood-type tattoos on their chests as a Cold War civil defense measure.
Intended to facilitate rapid, "walking blood bank" transfusions during a potential nuclear attack, the short-lived program was abandoned within a year because doctors did not trust tattoos for medical information.

None of the above.

 

[Bouba]

I am not sailor but yesterday as the wife passed me in the companion way…she said I stink. So I ticked B.O.

 

[capnsensible]

And contributes to the "castaway" look on a boat, or the "slept in a hedge for a fortnight" look ashore.

Easy answer to shaving rash that can be long term and painful.....

 

[Stemar]

And contributes to the "castaway" look on a boat, or the "slept in a hedge for a fortnight" look ashore.

How did you know? Have we met?

 

[Bouba]

For an odour update…just returned from the port’s onshore facilities and I now smell lovely and am in a very nice restaurant

 

[capnsensible]

For an odour update…just returned from the port’s onshore facilities and I now smell lovely and am in a very nice restaurant

They have a sheep dip?

 

[Bouba]