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Re: Tattoos & Piercings Lose Favor in Russia
« Reply #25 on: March 04, 2015, 05:13:17 PM »
I have the name of the Welsh town in which I was born tattooed on my penis - "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch".

Manny is also from Wales, in 'Rhyl' but doesn't like to talk about his tattoo....
I have Miss on mine, reads Mississippi when........ :)
Mine was going to be "Super" which in and of itself should be fine.  However, I had to make use of the additional space, so I had them put the rest of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" on there....  :king:
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Re: Tattoos & Piercings Lose Favor in Russia
« Reply #26 on: March 04, 2015, 05:14:48 PM »
I am a clean slate myself but don't mind some ink on my women as long as they don't skimp on the artwork.


A waste of perfectly good flesh... :sick0012:
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Re: Tattoos & Piercings Lose Favor in Russia
« Reply #27 on: March 04, 2015, 09:36:51 PM »
A man who dares to make "high status" prison \camp tattoos without "deserving" it risks a lot, 'cause other prisoners would surely consider it disrespectful.

Right... I recalled i saw this documentary some time ago  :scared0005:


LOL "Gentleman" on left has several "Ladies" pictured with the word PUTAS ... spanglish for C U Next Tuesday - not a compliment...  even in the prison straight pimpin hip hop ghetto gangsta culture.


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Re: Tattoos & Piercings Lose Favor in Russia
« Reply #28 on: March 04, 2015, 10:15:25 PM »

LOL "Gentleman" on left has several "Ladies" pictured with the word PUTAS ... spanglish for C U Next Tuesday - not a compliment...  even in the prison straight pimpin hip hop ghetto gangsta culture.

Crazy stuff... I find it scary, but intriguing at the same time  :hidechair:  Not sure what "Lady" on the chest means, i think i read somewhere here that when tattooed on the arm it says 17th birthday spent in prison: http://vne3akona.narod.ru/
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Re: Tattoos & Piercings Lose Favor in Russia
« Reply #29 on: March 04, 2015, 10:47:06 PM »
The two gentleman on the video are Guatemalan gangbangers. The one on the lefts tattoo reads "I don't trust in anyone, much less in bitches". They look like MS13 members.

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Re: Tattoos & Piercings Lose Favor in Russia
« Reply #30 on: March 04, 2015, 11:31:42 PM »
The two gentleman on the video are Guatemalan gangbangers. The one on the lefts tattoo reads "I don't trust in anyone, much less in bitches". They look like MS13 members.

Googled that one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-13   :hidechair:
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Re: Tattoos & Piercings - weekly report from Russia
« Reply #31 on: March 06, 2015, 05:37:34 AM »
Thank you, Olga. I was hoping we would get a new report soon. tiphat I hate the neck tattoos. :(

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Friday, "housewives time" (means between 12 and 14).

Shower area - women in 30s-40s, no tattoos at all.

Lockers' room - one relatively young (though slightly overweight, at least by Russian standards) girl, with a green clover leaf tattoed on her... how to call this area? Not neck, not cheek... rather jaw? Under the left ear, or something like that.

OK, St-Patrick's day is approaching - but ON THE FACE... That's a bit too much, IMO  (:)
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Re: Tattoos & Piercings - weekly report from Russia
« Reply #32 on: March 06, 2015, 05:47:40 AM »

Lockers' room - one relatively young (though slightly overweight, at least by Russian standards) girl,

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that would be anything bigger than size 0  :laugh: ( & respect for that ;))
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Re: Tattoos & Piercings - weekly report from Russia
« Reply #33 on: March 06, 2015, 09:06:21 AM »
New fitness-club report (attn.Larry!)

Friday, "housewives time" (means between 12 and 14).

Shower area - women in 30s-40s, no tattoos at all.

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Every time I see your post in this thread it's the first thread I open. Thanks for the report, Olga.

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Lockers' room - one relatively young (though slightly overweight, at least by Russian standards) girl, with a green clover leaf tattoed on her... how to call this area? Not neck, not cheek... rather jaw? Under the left ear, or something like that.

OK, St-Patrick's day is approaching - but ON THE FACE... That's a bit too much, IMO  (:)

A tattoo on the face.  :o :(  I hope scientists are working on a painless and inexpensive tattoo removal machine.

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Re: Tattoos & Piercings - weekly report from Russia
« Reply #34 on: March 06, 2015, 04:21:28 PM »
Thank you, Olga. I was hoping we would get a new report soon. tiphat I hate the neck tattoos. :(

New fitness-club report (attn.Larry!)

Friday, "housewives time" (means between 12 and 14).

Shower area - women in 30s-40s, no tattoos at all.

Lockers' room - one relatively young (though slightly overweight, at least by Russian standards) girl, with a green clover leaf tattoed on her... how to call this area? Not neck, not cheek... rather jaw? Under the left ear, or something like that.

OK, St-Patrick's day is approaching - but ON THE FACE... That's a bit too much, IMO  (:)

+1  I am so glad the one promise I kept to my mother was NO tattoos on her "baby" when I served on nuclear submarines... the guys that got tattoos back then were from San Diego asian "artists" whose idea of a kool tattoo was a flame breathing technicolor dragon running the length of their arm - more of a joke on the guy who got it really. 

Though today there are 7 tattoo parlors in our downtown district - a sign of social decay or just cross border opportunism with nanny nation sanctimonious peoples republic of Massachusetts... which restrict said parlors in many towns - like they do head shops. 

The state of the art in photo realistic tattoos is now to the point where you can get a photographic quality tattoo of your favorite dog, woman and or kids which if done tastefully would not be too bad. 

Then you have to wonder if "body art" is really the "666" mark of Satan.

A real possibility considering most of the tattoo artists I have seen seem to think that looking like a Disciple of Satan is the mandatory fashion in the trade.  Not too many Picassos or Monets among them.  Much of their tatt work comprises skulls and various grim reaper themes - go figure...

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Re: Tattoos & Piercings - weekly report from Russia
« Reply #35 on: March 06, 2015, 04:31:59 PM »

Then you have to wonder if "body art" is really the "666" mark of Satan.


  :-X I have quite a philosophical understanding of what constitutes the Opponent, but indeed tattoos are forbidden in the Torah. I avoid bringing it up as many people love theirs, and even kids in my family have them - tiny, symbolical ones, but still; anyway, i loathe tattoos. I did want to get one when i was a teen and i couldn't be happier now that my parents were strongly against it/ threatened to disown me ;)
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Re: Tattoos & Piercings Lose Favor in Russia
« Reply #36 on: March 06, 2015, 04:38:50 PM »
This is a particularly awful tattoo:

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Let's hope true love runs a smooth course for this lady - for she's had her boyfriend's name emblazoned across her face - just 24 hours after meeting him.

The woman, known as Lesya, was so taken with new love tattooist Ruslan Toumaniantz, she allowed him to carve his name in five-inch high Gothic script across her right cheek.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/04/lesya-boyfriend-ruslan-toumaniantz-tattoo-name-face_n_2615450.html

Here is the formerly attractive Lesya:


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Re: Tattoos & Piercings Lose Favor in Russia
« Reply #37 on: March 06, 2015, 04:41:16 PM »
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/yakuza-liver-transplants/

Another reason why over doing it with tatts is a bad idea...

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Re: Tattoos & Piercings Lose Favor in Russia
« Reply #38 on: March 06, 2015, 04:44:23 PM »
This is a particularly awful tattoo:

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Let's hope true love runs a smooth course for this lady - for she's had her boyfriend's name emblazoned across her face - just 24 hours after meeting him.

The woman, known as Lesya, was so taken with new love tattooist Ruslan Toumaniantz, she allowed him to carve his name in five-inch high Gothic script across her right cheek.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/04/lesya-boyfriend-ruslan-toumaniantz-tattoo-name-face_n_2615450.html

Here is the formerly attractive Lesya:



She is lucky that Ruslan is not an uncommon name as that is all she will be able to date when her body Artist dumps her.

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Re: Tattoos & Piercings Lose Favor in Russia
« Reply #39 on: March 06, 2015, 05:45:59 PM »
This is a particularly awful tattoo:

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Let's hope true love runs a smooth course for this lady - for she's had her boyfriend's name emblazoned across her face - just 24 hours after meeting him.

The woman, known as Lesya, was so taken with new love tattooist Ruslan Toumaniantz, she allowed him to carve his name in five-inch high Gothic script across her right cheek.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/04/lesya-boyfriend-ruslan-toumaniantz-tattoo-name-face_n_2615450.html

Here is the formerly attractive Lesya:



Holy  :rolleye0009:  :sick0002:

Why!?

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Re: Tattoos & Piercings Lose Favor in Russia
« Reply #40 on: March 06, 2015, 06:02:38 PM »
Holy  :rolleye0009:  :sick0002:

Why!?

I suppose B.B. offered the likeliest explanation, on the first page of this thread:

On of my regulars is heavily tatted, but manages to pull it off.  I dislike it, generally.  I told her that she is only permitted one more tattoo, which is to read "PROPERTY OF B/B" in block letters.  :chuckle:

I've told her that I am going to tell her father to hug her tightly and tell her he loves her every day for a month, so she can stop getting inked.

Or maybe she was just effed in the head.

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Re: Tattoos & Piercings - weekly report from Russia
« Reply #41 on: March 06, 2015, 09:32:38 PM »
A tattoo on the face.  :o :(  I hope scientists are working on a painless and inexpensive tattoo removal machine.

Laser tattoo removal currently, but a PhD student is in the final stages of testing a low cost cream that appears to be very effective.

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Re: Tattoos & Piercings Lose Favor in Russia
« Reply #42 on: March 07, 2015, 06:39:29 AM »
Holy  :rolleye0009:  :sick0002:

Why!?

I suppose B.B. offered the likeliest explanation, on the first page of this thread:

On of my regulars is heavily tatted, but manages to pull it off.  I dislike it, generally.  I told her that she is only permitted one more tattoo, which is to read "PROPERTY OF B/B" in block letters.  :chuckle:

I've told her that I am going to tell her father to hug her tightly and tell her he loves her every day for a month, so she can stop getting inked.

Or maybe she was just effed in the head.

Don't be so hasty; girls with daddy issues are typically wildcats in the sack.  :chuckle:

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Re: Tattoos & Piercings Lose Favor in Russia
« Reply #43 on: March 07, 2015, 07:12:24 AM »
Holy  :rolleye0009:  :sick0002:

Why!?

I suppose B.B. offered the likeliest explanation, on the first page of this thread:

On of my regulars is heavily tatted, but manages to pull it off.  I dislike it, generally.  I told her that she is only permitted one more tattoo, which is to read "PROPERTY OF B/B" in block letters.  :chuckle:

I've told her that I am going to tell her father to hug her tightly and tell her he loves her every day for a month, so she can stop getting inked.

Or maybe she was just effed in the head.

Don't be so hasty; girls with daddy issues are typically wildcats in the sack.  :chuckle:

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« Reply #44 on: September 18, 2017, 02:22:56 PM »

Don't be so hasty; girls with daddy issues are typically wildcats in the sack.  :chuckle:

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Re: Tattoos & Piercings Lose Favor in Russia
« Reply #45 on: September 19, 2017, 02:48:37 AM »
Sadly, Tatoos seem to be gaining in popularity - judging by the beach bodies I've observed in Sochi  :( :( :(

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Re: Tattoos & Piercings Lose Favor in Russia
« Reply #46 on: September 20, 2017, 05:30:02 AM »
Sadly, Tatoos seem to be gaining in popularity - judging by the beach bodies I've observed in Sochi  :( :( :(

I can agree with that! St Petersburg is absolutely full of young women covered in tattoos and piercing , usually all down the arms chest and neck , most of the girls in the beauty salon in our block have tattoos , one who regularly cuts my hair has so many piercings I lost count  :laugh:

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