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I stay away from "collector," has either a douchy connotation when used by yourself or a negative connotation when used by someone who tattoos. "Oh, yeah, dude wants it like right in this weird spot on the side of his knee.. fucking collectors n shit.."

Rus summed that shit up nicely. Now off to get some sweet freestyle tats so I can start this quarter squid pant.

Congratulations dude!

His Dudeness, what are you looking to get covered/changed?

That new Van Halen song is god awful. I love me some David Lee Roth but cot damn..

I think I'm done with this show. It's pretty flat and boring and slow and, let's be honest, not very smart. Other shows that have been accused of moving at a glacial pace have usually done so because of all the different plot lines or because it encompassed so much and usually built to a head. Not this one! There's one plot, one group, one issue and it feels like the writers have no idea what they're doing. Nobody's making choices –– just like the characters in the show! Oh man, Rick's the leader, or is he?! What's Shane gonna do next?! Oh, look, they're arguing! But is Rick the leader? And how will will Rick lead? And has Shane affected Rick's leadership –– or his marriage! Oh man, they're gonna fight again! (Oh look, a zombie.) I'm into it less and less each episode.

This is like part of a detective novel! Great photos/stories dude, so much fun hearing about your folks' tattoos.

THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN! I say just pick a day and whoever shows (and whoever's not sick) great. I'm outta work at 9 on Saturdays so I'm down for anything afterwards.

What's up dude, classy photos!

Welcome! I think you're one of a few Aussies on here.

Yeah, shit, woke up super sick. You dudes should do it if you can, if not, Saturday? Next week? Can't believe I'm the one that blew it but I am on my ass..

PMed ya. C'mon out tomorrow night if you can make it. And welcome!

Well, @LeoKraft swung on by for a quick one. Tomorrow I hope I'm feelin better! @Bauzzza come on by, too, if you're working in the neighborhood.

You're still waiting on those fucking things>?!

HA! This is exactly what happened to me last month.. got the outline done and I shot up and said, "I'm done!" We got the black in a few weeks ago, so hopefully not too much longer. But yeah dude, fuck if that wasn't the worst one so far. And I felt like a total jackass, all "havin' tattoos" and not being able to take that shit.. goddamn.

Cool hopefully can just sleep this shit off tonight.

Woke up with a sore throat and feeling progressively shittier -- you one or two up for tomorrow night instead?

@jayessebee, update? @CaptCanada, photo? @embers, I had a weird reaction with a red on just one section of my arm where it kinda got all rashy for a week or two about a month after I had it tattooed. Totally forgot about it til just now.. I left it alone and it magically healed up fine. I think red is one of those colors that can go ten thousand different ways.

But these are the top tattooers in the world!!! Don't you know?!?

Along the lines of being honest with people... Girl was in the bar the other night with a couple on her lower forearms and said she had a bunch of questions for me related to tattoos so I said, Shoot. She asked me if the inner bicep hurt and I said that for me, it was a lot less painful than I expected. She said that it couldn't be true. I said, Ok, it is, but next question. Then she asked me what the worst spot on my arm was and I said, The ditch probably. Then she asked me how much another spot hurt and I said, Look, everyone is crazy different when it comes to pain and that some places on me were awful but other people were okay, and vice versa, and she should just go for it because the reward outweighs the pain by far. Then she got mad at me and said I was jerk. I now realize this was probably because I didn't pick up on her (possible) flirtations at the time, but I have started being a little bit more honest when it comes to this stuff. I'd only make a face at someone's bad tattoo if it was really bad, otherwise, it's "Oh, nice!"

Ho boy.. @Bauzzza, in the interest of self-preservation, you may wanna bow out of that place as quickly and as quietly as you possibly can.

@Dan S, that's great, hope you don't ever cover it! And @BSAjunkie, awesome!

I got no choice, I'll be there from 4 on. See you then dude(s)

East River Tattoo? You mean, Cherry Bomb Tattoo?

@Perez, fucking Antonio Rules gets all the tattoos I want! Good thing he rules.