Sweet Pete

The only place you're rushing to is the peace of the grave. Which will be a relief from your woeful attempted humour if nothing else.

You bottled it in other words.

The fact that you have no proper response is telling.

The shin flesh is right over the bone, making it taught too. I burst my left shin open in my teens and the fat was poking oot!

Mine are all on fleshy areas with the exception of the one on my back, which is my largest one. I do have plans afoot for a leg one in the near future though, which will combine fleshy calf muscle and boney shin areas.

I've got a tattoo across my back that covers my shoulder blades and a few vertebrae and it was pretty sore getting it done. Sitting backwards on a chair might look cool in Saved By The Bell, but when you're like that for 45 minutes having someone drag motorised needles across bony areas it loses some of its appeal.

I wasn't accusing you of anything, Dee Man. My final sentence was just a statement in general against that sort of behaviour. Try and be less sensitive, you'll live longer

Absolutely, but you're getting it in the first place in the knowledge that it's permanent (or that having it removed leaves its own marks), so having someone immediately ask "aye, but how will you feel about it when you're 60?" is simply nonsense. It's an attempt by someone who doesn't want a tattoo themselves to retrospectively impose their views on you. It's hypocritical, condescending, told-you-so bullshit.

In your fake tits example you are stating a personal preference. Grannydanger on the other hand is stating that women shouldn't have tattoos based purely on the accident of their gender. He gives no reason for it other than "it doesn't look good on women". Yours is a personal preference, his is a prejudice against women.

No, you aren't. Tattoos can be removed, covered, tattooed over etc. There is plenty of justifiable comparison with other life choices. Let's say you decide at 21 to buy a house. When you're 35 the house is no longer what you want, so you sell it and buy another one. Now, change that to a tattoo. You hit 35 and decide you no longer like it, get it removed, get another one over the top of it, or just realise that you wanted it at one point in your life and that it tells a story of who you were at that time.

The "how will you feel in the future?" argument is always the first one that people who dislike tattoos pull out when the topic comes up, but it could just as easily be applied to any life choice.

There's no correlation between IQ's and tattoos. There's a highly intelligent P&B regular who has 9 tattoos and he could never be accused of having a low level of intellect. Your post might as well say "if you're going to wear trainers, be prepared for people with an IQ greater than 70 to laugh at you". It's not fact, it's personal opinion. Just because you don't like chest tattoos that say "only god can judge me" (and neither do I), doesn't mean that the person(s) with those tattoos are less intelligent than you or I.

I've got a number of tattoos, as does my wife, so I'm naturally inclined to disagree with you (and of course, I also disagree with you due to the fact that you're simply stating your opinion and passing it off as fact). However, I will concede that some tattoos will look bad when people get older, however, not purely because the person is older. For example, a friend of mine has a large skull design tattooed across her chest. It's colourful and extensive and she has many others. I think that chest tattoo won't age well, but only because I don't particularly like it already. I'm not about to sit and pass judgement on it and say "in years to come there are going to be a lot of women in these age groups with terrible looking, and in some cases extensive, tattoos", because I'm not a judgemental p***k, but my personal opinion (which is by no means definitive) is that that particular tattoo doesn't look very nice and by extension won't look nice (in my opinion) in years to come. That's not to say that all tattoos will age badly or on all people. As to why you've singled out women I have no idea. I would suggest that you're simply a bitter sexist. I accept that you're older, but sexism, like any prejudice, can't simply be explained away by stating "it's a generational thing". To have to state that you "try hard not to be sexist" says it all really.

I see they also jailed some fella for sending a text message that said "I love you" to another man. If that was the rule of law in the UK then I'd get the jail everytime I text Smurph.

The "I've referreed at Power League 5's so know more about football than anyone else" lot are worse, imo.

When she started blathering I wanted the floor to open up and swallow me. What an odd wee speech that was. Murray came across very well and was intelligent, articulate and thoughtful in his replies and steered clear of cliche. His comments focussed a lot on professionalism and it's clear that he's been setting to work making the club as modern and serious as possible. Some of the things he highlighted were surprising, particularly the training facilities being unsuitable at Ravenscraig due to a lack of available pitch space and that he had sorted their pre-match meals. These are the kinds of things which I had assumed would already be in place, as these are the bare minimum professional standards that I take for granted. A highly encouraging meeting and I took a lot of positives from it. I think given time he'll have a very positive impact on the club and its fortunes on and off the pitch. I still haven't broken the news to Clarko_son that Nicoll is likely to be loaned out for fitness. I fear for his mental stability when he hears that.

Ok pokey.

Dunno but I ate mine then stole some of Lyn-Marie's when we were back on the subway.

We went to the chippy at Partick. Pub there was the Rosevale.

Old Schoolhouse is a cracking pub. Fudge, rules are any drink you like in each pub. Just suit yourself.

I was so gone by that point that after I got back from finding Sammy again I thought that folk were just drinking on the concrete path by the Kelvin. Weird place for a bar, it was really dark by that point too.

Which one was that?

Central.

London.

He'd only be in the boozer five minutes before Nizzy or Keith banned him.