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    I could never imagine accepting a cash 'tip' for the job that I do, though I have accepted modest gifts. I respect the setting of a payment amount based on the ability and skill of the person. If they deserve more than that, they should charge more. I'm solidly with Steve Buscemi on the subject of tipping.
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    This thread would probably annoy me if I still lived in London. As it is, I can't help but find it pretty funny that people are getting these sorts of tattoos. It certainly isn't harming anyone. Or is it?
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    I love this film. From what I can remember, Leone wanted it to be called Duck, You Sucker! but it has been released in Europe as A Fistful of Dynamite. I recommend the 157mins version of the film. I think its the only time Leone featured a European setting, in the Coburn IRA flashbacks?
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    Lovely tattoo. I particularly like the creases in the jacket and the shading on the hands and face. You must be delighted.
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    Literal movie posters:
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    That's a neat little tattoo you have there - very well executed. Nice line work.
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    I'm trying to view this with an objective eye, and consider situations where a professional does not have to have first-hand experience of the service they are providing. However, for me the barrier to having a tattoo from an untattooed person would the issue of understanding skin and how the needle causes pain. Surely that is an integral part of being a good tattooer? Tattooists should surely have some empathy with the experience of pain caused by tattooing in order to tattoo in an empathetic way. In my opinion.
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    I was just showing this work to my wife this morning. I'm blown away by what Hooper is doing generally, but this is particularly exceptional.
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    Lovely tattoo @Turquoise Cherry, Xam really knows how to do colour.
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    Regarding the original Trash Polka tattoos, I would not have one done on me and I agree that they seem faddy, but I certainly recognise and appreciate the technical ability required to execute them. They certainly look like tattoos to me, albeit clearly different to (and perhaps deliberately in contrast to) most mainstream tattooing. I guess there are so many dreadful tattooists doing technically very bad work, but that many would consider to be recognisably 'tattoos', that I find it hard to dismiss this work which is at least shows talent and application to the task. Not a popular opinion, I know.
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    There was a lot of debate about that subject on another tattoo forum, and from what I can remember it came down simply to economic reasons. Tattoo magazines sell better when they have a scantily-clad, relatively young woman on the cover. Very pathetic and depressing, but more than that it highlights the issue of ethics and boundaries. Clearly there are certain things that those magazines will not do for sales, so why is a pattern of only having one type of tattooed person on their covers ok? Obviously some tattoo magazines do not do this, but the ones that continue to only have one type of person on the cover are projecting a nasty lack of diversity, in my opinion.
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    Yes, most of my family are Irish fishermen and they often had/have tattoos on the tops of their hands, and then maybe only one or two on their arms. I guess I grew thinking that was entirely normal. Seems like traditional tattooing comes with its own very modern ideas.
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    Yep. The sad irony is that the world, and the business world in particular, are populated by people who don't judge others purely by their ability to do their job well, and instead focus on how they look as a barometer of ability and skill.
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    Absolutely love it. What a cool idea.
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    Edit: Spacky finger double post.
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    It is definitely an area with people who have very specific, sometimes rather narrow, ideas. Someone will come onto the forum looking for help and you may consider them naive or wilfully ignorant. To not belittle or patronise them is the humanist thing to do, as hard as that may be. To offer constructive advice that isn't explicitly offensive is quite hard, although straight-talking is more useful overall. People are often completely different in person than they are on a forum - it seems to be a form of communication in which people are less self-censored or self-edited, and tend to also be places for people to blow off steam and vent towards individuals about bigger issues. Like I am in this very message.
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    That's true, but please bear in mind that this kind of pandering to other corporate cultures is one of the reasons that women, ethnic minorities and people with regional accents deemed to be working-class have also found it hard or impossible to be employed in the past. The courier/sales company that my brother works for have a strong presence in the middle-east and it has taken decades for women to attain managerial sales positions based on the perception of their abilities by certain middle eastern clients. I know tattoos are different, in that they represent a choice by the individual, but I think the parallels are there. I am interested in those on tis thread who work in education and universities specifically. I have worked for roughly eight UK universities over the last 13 years and I have always found it to be quite a heavily tattooed sector to work in. I think that it is quite accepted, unless I just haven't noticed prejudice. There are many conservative, corporate people who work in H.E. that would probably judge tattoos, but given that we work in a sector that provides a service to a demograph of society that is generally pro-tattoo, it would be odd to be too negative about it. It appears to me that almost half of University students have tattoos (the ones that are visible) and many of my colleagues have them too. I can't imagine being judged for my tattoos. I would be genuinely shocked.
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    Absolutely. Obviously you have to question why someone who does not give tattoos would want to open or co-manage/finance a shop in case it is based on opportunism or exploitation. But I know non-tattooists who would make fantastic shop owners based on integrity, proven business sense, attitude, as well as having as much or more knowledge about the art and history of tattooing than any tattooist I have met.
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    I was very impressed that people couldn't be bothered to reply to obvious trolling. Congrats.
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    Absolutely Brian. Her artistic ability and dedication to the craft of tattooing is undeniable. She is clearly pursuing her own path that is not making concessions to trends and popularism, and is carving her own way through her profession. I have a huge amount of respect for her work and her uncompromising attitude to the field. Obviously not everyone working with modern styles of non-traditional tattooing are the same, and it would be narrow-minded and ignorant to lump them all together. I think Berit is a great example and even if you don't like her work, her approach and dedication is worthy of respect.
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    Yeah, I read that when it came out and I have to say that it did a HUGE amount to educate people (including myself) about certain aspects of autism. The fact of the matter is that books and films tend to focus on high-functioning autism such as Asperger's because it can lead to almost miraculous skills (as shown in Rain Man), whereas the normal day-to-day lives for most autistics is more problematic, particularly spatial and 'face reading' issues. I don't work with autistic students anymore but I remember how much certain aspects of their lives improved because of how popular that book was.
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    Well, we are using the term fairly loosely, but after years of working with autistic students (a few high-functioning autistics too, such as those with Asperger's) I can see some of the same traits in Cholula. Autism is neurological, the communication issues are symptoms rather than the condition itself. Cholula has repetitive behaviour, very often fails to recognise things that cats learn to compartmentalise, and will often fail to read basic signs and patterned actions in people. She is semi-feral which doesn't help. We shipped her over from the States, but that's another story. I swear I try to avoid turning into one of those people who go on about their children all the time, but with this pair it's hard.
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    Pretty much Ursula. She is able to get around very easily using a mixture of very good smell and hearing, plus her whiskers which are longer and more pronounced than most. She jumps around and catches flies, and knows where everything is. She doesn't adjust very well to moving, obviously, but once she gets used to a place she walks around as if she has a fully formed mental map of the layout. Yeah MsRad, it took me a good while to get that. I'm not sure about those bumps - they could be tastebuds, although they may just be a way to grip food in the mouth - particularly if it is still moving (ugh). Yeah, Zatoichi had severe glaucoma and was dumped in a box by a canal in Liverpool. The eyes were too far gone and removing them was the only way to make sure she survived. Luckily, her glaucoma was so severe that she was most likely blind from birth so she can adapt brilliantly. Most of her quirks are related to her personality in a way that I don't think is because she is eyeless. I love that the dog barks when it sees others barking! I imagine it does other wacky stuff too that is in it's nature. Our other cat is autistic. Damned disabled animals....
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