Jumblerant: Tattoo

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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

All Inked Up

I'm not a great fan of tattoos, I can see how they are art and how others may enjoy them, but for me, I prefer to keep my skin 'clean'. I even used to watch Miami Ink with Ami James, Darren Brass, Chris Garver and of course, the irreplaceable Kat Von D.

An old friend of mine in the Royal Navy used to tell me not to get tattoos. He had arms full of them, the names of each of his kids, his wives (yes, more than one!) and a little symbol for each ship he'd served on. They were all beginning to fade somewhat, his kids are all in their 30's now so I guess the 'tats' were that old too.

Here a father shows his displeasure at his son's tattoos

And here is the main reason I'll never get a tattoo. Tattoo mistakes:

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Thursday, October 3, 2013

Miley Cirus, Growing Up Can Be Painful

Recently Ms. Cyrus has hit headlines with her twerking at the MTV TVAs. I was surprised to see her plastering her nether regions all over the place as she has in fact got an exceptional voice and a veritable bag full of talent.

Unless, of course, this was all part of the publicity machine. My inner skeptic believes that this just might be the case. Why is that? Quite simply, I believe that she had reached the zenith of her talent, heck, she sang with The Queen of Country herself, Dolly Parton, and saw little or no increase in sales because of it.

About a year ago Miley did a series of back-to-basics 'Backyard Sessions' which were very well received by critics and the public alike, but again, sales were not good and she just came across as someone from another era.

So what is a young girl to do? She needs to sell albums - which is probably harder than ever now that everyone (ahem) downloads music, especially singles, off the interwebz. She has to make a name for herself, and quick so sadly, a-twerking she must go!

We can look at Miley's latest work 'wrecking ball' and see just how amazing her talent is, and once she calms down in her videos, stops being naked and licking sledgehammers, she'll have yet another middle aged, overweight geek following her (from a distance, not stalking her!~)

To add to all the publicity, Skinhead O'Connor has written Miley a letter asking her to stop prostituting herself for the sake of 'The Man'. So that'll give her something to think about.

Sinead O'Connor pens open letter to Miley Cyrus: 'Don't let the music business make a prostitute of you'

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Sunday, August 9, 2009

White-out won't help here

Ever wondered what those Chinese lettered tattoos really mean? There are a few websites out there who translate these things for inquisitive tattooed individuals.

At Hanzi Smatters some of the questions and answers can be rather interesting:

from: David L.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:11 PM
subject: tattoo meaning

Hi, I'm called David Lopez.

I'm from Barcelona and I would like to know that it means a tattoo that I did to myself years ago.
I believe that it is Chinese and though I did it for aesthetics, now I am afraid of taking a meaning that I don't want.

My girlfriend and I would have a lot of interest to know the real meaning of my tattoo.

Thank you very much in advance. You will be of great help!

David

賈 means "buy/trade", 路 means "road, path", 卡 means "card".

賈路卡 sounds like a type of prepaid card that allows its owner to access public transportation. Typically it is called ~~乗車券~~ 定期券 (short for 定期乗車券) in Japan and 月票 in China.

Some readers suggested this could be translation of "Jeanluc", but that is not correct. Jeanluc is 吉魯克.

Laugh? I nearly fainted.

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