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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Money question.
Just to annoy everyone else on here, last month I actually cleared my overdraft. If I follow my budget for this month I will actually end up with as much as £200 'spare'. Just for once I have no idea what to spend it on, non of my bikes need repairs, I have piles of books CDs and DVDs waiting for me to get round to them and there's not much else I spend money on.

SO, my question, how would you spend £200?

I may get a tattoo.

Alt: what's the most awesomest tattoo design ever?

it'll probably need to involve a skull before I'd consider getting it though.

Edit: Oh bugger, sorry for the threadstomp.

AltAlt, should I delete this?
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:32, 154 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
get one
I love mine. or I will once the fucker stops itching.

this is going to seem pretty gay, but I think Lab's sleeve is one of the coolest I've ever seen.

don't worry about the threadstomp. There's nothing wrong with having more than one thread on the go at a time. People are just wankers about it.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:34, Reply)
I'll see if I can find a pic of Lab's sleeve
I'm not going to get something that big for £200 though or for a 1st tat.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:35, Reply)
mine cost me about £70
which I thought was reasonable
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:36, Reply)
The missus got some new ink yesterday.

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:37, Reply)
what is it?

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:38, Reply)
A Greek word on each wrist.
She's put a pic up on Faecebook.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:40, Reply)
lovely

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:41, Reply)
I still remain unconvinced about getting one myself, though.
Despite her best efforts.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:43, Reply)
Rufus Hound Has a Darlek
you guys could become tat-buddies
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:45, Reply)
Oh, I know what I'd have done if I did get one.
I'm just not convinced it would be a good idea to get one.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:46, Reply)
I've said it before and I'll say it again
Doesn't it, like, really hurt? Surely that is reason enough for not getting one?
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:53, Reply)
it's not that bad
and mine is on my chest which apparently is fairly painful.

anyway, a little bit of pain never hurt anyone
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:55, Reply)
Depends on where it is.
On the wrists absolutely knacks, according to the missus.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:06, Reply)
This is true.
I guess because it is a delicate area.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:17, Reply)
It took a long time for me to find the right thing
I'm well pleased now I have it though.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:45, Reply)
Thanks for the compliment Vipros!
Here's a pic of my sleeve just after it was finished.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:42, Reply)
Very nice
is it Polynesian or Maori or something?
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:46, Reply)
Belgian

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:48, Reply)
Thanks
The tattoo is mostly Polynesian, with some Maori elements.
The artist is Belgian, Dan DiMattia at Calypso Tattoo.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:18, Reply)
Nice mate, no colour?

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:58, Reply)
Nope, I'm keeping all of mine black

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:18, Reply)
Needs moar negative space.

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:32, Reply)
nice,
I like having a bit of colour, most of mine are three tone, including skin.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:33, Reply)
Most charge by the hour so you could get 2.5 hours of work done then finish it when you have more cash.
I have spent 600 in the past couple of weeks and still have more to do.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:57, Reply)
My new one is being done tomorrow.
It's been 15 years, I've forgotten what it feels like.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:51, Reply)
Having never had one
I would imagine that it is like having needles poked into your skin. No?
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:54, Reply)
it is exactly like that

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:55, Reply)
not at all, really.
tattoo guns have multiple needles and they hit the skin too close together for nerve endings to differentiate individual hits, so it's quite an odd sensation.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:55, Reply)
it feels like being poked repeatedly with loads of needles
mine was less than two weeks ago, I remember it clearly
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:57, Reply)
It's not too bad though is it.

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:58, Reply)
I'll tell you for sure tomorrow afternoon
but I'm pretty sure I remember not being able to distinguish individual needle hits at all.

Either I've got less dense nerve endings or you, sir, are a huge great Mary.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:59, Reply)
I'm not saying it hurt
but that it did feel like needles. Not individually, but a pointy buzzing as if someone was running a tiny sewing machine over you.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:04, Reply)
Yeah
You're not really selling the idea to me.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:00, Reply)
It's a burny scratchy feeling.
But bearable.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:03, Reply)
I actually quite enjoyed it

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:04, Reply)
Why don't you buy something worth £50
and then next month you'll have £350
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:37, Reply)
I never have money 'spare'
by the end of every month I am utterly spent up. If I had £200 spare for a couple of months I'd save up and go on holiday.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:39, Reply)
Why would everyone else here be living on an overdraft?

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:39, Reply)
Fine
everyone else on here +Monty
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:47, Reply)
Seeing as you have just stomped my first ever thread
I think £200 worth of Manners...



*available at all good stores*


altalt no mine was shit anyway it was just a long winded lead in to me saying that I have a big German car named Eva Broom
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:40, Reply)
Sorry mate
it was all clear when I started typing, but evidently typing and spell checking left long enough for you to post yours. I keep meaning to say I like the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band reference if that's what it is.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:49, Reply)
Me too
They soundtracked my drive to work this morning
♫Here comes the equestrian statue...♫
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:03, Reply)
Not a problem,
Like I say it was merely a hugely ham fisted way of crowbarring in a joke that amuses me about my car... and yes it is a Vivian reference
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:13, Reply)
Do it!!!!!
But then I'm biased.

I would get another tattoo, a train ticket to visit someone or a new cooker.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:41, Reply)
can't get a cooker worth having for £200

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:42, Reply)
I would put it towards a new cooker.

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:42, Reply)
That's next on our list
as our cooker is monumentally shit. The fucking thing keeps cutting out if you put it above gas 6. It's very annoying.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:45, Reply)
I'll put you towards a new cooker
IFYOUKNOWWHATIMEAN!
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:45, Reply)
Hahahahaha!
GET IN!!!!
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:48, Reply)
;-)

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:48, Reply)
Tickets are already bought
and my cooker came with the flat and works fine. Tat it is I guess.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:50, Reply)
Wooo!

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:51, Reply)
I know
it's so cool to have a nice cooker. :)
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:54, Reply)
Pfft!

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:59, Reply)
Why not just save it?
It's easy for me to say this, but I always spend my money. I have absolutely no savings.

alt: There's not really a load of awesome tattoos I've seen, most of them are flash that I've seen, I like mine under my boob, quote from one of my favorite books. So at least it has meaning, other than "mom" in chinese script or whatever.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:42, Reply)
Because I, like you, seem unable to do so.
but if I can't think of anything to waste it on I may have to.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:51, Reply)
I've been planning all week what I was going to do with this paycheck coming up.
But last night I played a playstation 3 for the first time, and I played Final Fantasy XIII [first time playing anything other than mario], and OMG IT'S FUCKING AWESOME. I now know my arse will be glued to the couch playing this game all fucking weekend.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:58, Reply)
If I had £200 I'd pay it torwards my overdraft
or some clothes. Clothes are always good
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:42, Reply)
Clothes! now there's an idea
I haven't bought clothes (beyond the odd work shirt from a charity shop) in ages.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:53, Reply)
Burtons has some lovely stuff in right now.

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:00, Reply)
Have we met?

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:02, Reply)
Hahaha!

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:04, Reply)
There you go, sorted

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:00, Reply)
I could totally have a retro shopping extravaganza in Camden Market
And I could get some more pants with Lenin in them.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:03, Reply)
In them?
Won't he be needing them then?
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:06, Reply)
It was an evil man
who put the I and the O next to eachother on the keyboard
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:10, Reply)
Alt: my friend Nim has the best tattoo I've ever seen, Labs' sleeve taking 2nd place
There used to be a shot of it on Xed le Hed's website, but it's not there any more. There is, however, some absolutely astonishing stuff;

www.xedtattoo.com/

but I seriously doubt £200 will cover it.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:46, Reply)
is that a circle of penis on the front page?

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:47, Reply)
Yup!

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:49, Reply)
Oh jesus, it is as well
I genuinely had not noticed that
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:50, Reply)
mercy sakes alive

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:53, Reply)
I love his stuff
if I were to ever get a tattoo, I'd want one from him. But since I'll never be able to save up enough to afford it, I'll never have to decide whether I actually want something permanently inked in to my skin or not.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:50, Reply)
There's a girl at the place I use
who is seriously fucking good. But she's booked up for months in advance.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:52, Reply)
Why do you always have to bring it back to hookers?

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:55, Reply)
roffle.
Morag at Tribe, although their website is bolloxed at the moment for artists profiles.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:57, Reply)
I'll be honest mate, the train fare alone puts me off
That and not knowing what on earth I want, and the promise I made myself that I wouldn't get another tattoo until I've shifted my man-gut
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:01, Reply)
Man guts
Are cool. Fact.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:09, Reply)
Yes they are
Cool AND sexy
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:11, Reply)
I love man gut.
FACT!

But then I am a little strange.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:12, Reply)
My word
After this weekend and Tuesday's BBQ I am SO cool and sexy
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:12, Reply)
I've been cool and sexy since I was 13
as reflected by the number of girls I've slept wi...

Guys? I've found a flaw in this theory
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:16, Reply)
That actually reads as I've slept with guys

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:18, Reply)
You've slept with guys?
BENDER!!1!1!!!ELEVENTY!!!
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:39, Reply)
I'm in much the same position
Since my friend got her back piece, which is just amazing, done by him I've found it a lot easier to decide not to get a small design done by a local artist. But yeah, I'll never be able to afford to do what she did.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:53, Reply)
I still have momentry flashes of OMG! I have this on my skin forever.
I would still get more though.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:53, Reply)
His work is stellar
I will either get my right arm or back done by him.
My chest will hopefully be done by Tomas Tomas at In2U in London.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:19, Reply)
Hire a babysitter
and me and wife can fuck off out for the entire night and enjoy a shitty hangover the next morning.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:47, Reply)
Where do you live?
I'd babysit for free. I'm getting maternal urges that need releasing.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:55, Reply)
"Man hires babysitter from internet, children are never seen again"

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:56, Reply)
Thats were
we'll be getting our Au pair from the money we save on rent.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:57, Reply)
We're in the middle of a move across Ireland which has
resulted in the lack of funds but shall soon be living it up in the glorious green hills of Cavan Ireland.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:57, Reply)
Oh wow!
I'm definitely babysitting then.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:57, Reply)

mate ca

rofflepaedo.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:02, Reply)
Records
Always records.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 13:55, Reply)
this is also possible
I have some vinyl that needs replacing
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:05, Reply)
You are Norris McWhirter AICMFP

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:08, Reply)
Medications what you need
/castlelols
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:16, Reply)
I'm not planning on breaking any

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:20, Reply)
I have a fuck ton of records. They were my dads.
I don't even know if they play. Must check on that.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:09, Reply)
If anyone cares
I have uploaded a possible tattoo design what I made on Facebook, of course only my Special Friends will be able to see it.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:14, Reply)
It is cool
Like the bike cog of DOOOOOOOM!
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:14, Reply)
it started from here
www.blackbirdsf.org/chainwheels/

but I wanted to have a skull in it
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:18, Reply)
I've not seen anyone with them before

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:20, Reply)
I like the idea of gears though, an internal steampunk imagining of the human insides.

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:21, Reply)
well fuck you then I didn't want to see it anyway

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:15, Reply)
Friend Request sent

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:17, Reply)
bitch you don't know me
okay it's not too hard to figure out
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:18, Reply)
No, I don't
hence why I didn't request you before. But, as you say, there's only onme Kristine who's friends with all my b3tan facechums
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:22, Reply)
true true
i like the design, sort of of a steam punk sort of thing?
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:23, Reply)
I hadn't thought of that
but, yes I suppose to, it was meant to be merging bicycles and skull as 2 things I like.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:24, Reply)
ahh
I'd quite fancy a bicycle, but I know nowt about them
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:26, Reply)
they are easy to use
harder to maintain and harder still to repair, but if you have any mechanical aptitude you can get a cheap old one and fix it up a bit, if you don't walk into a local bike shop and ask advice.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:45, Reply)
bikes and DEATH

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:36, Reply)
two things that go together
if you commute through central london.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:46, Reply)
this, *cries into pillow*

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:20, Reply)
No idea who the fuck you are on FB
I'm easy to find, request away.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:23, Reply)
sent, wierd blue pic.

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:25, Reply)
yeah I recognised your tat design.

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:35, Reply)
nice, being finished next week then I'll put some pics up.
I like the one that guy has of gears from your link.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:39, Reply)
I like them too
which is why I stole/adapted his idea
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:47, Reply)
I'd put it towards a GoPro HD Hero for my Japan trip
Or finishing my feet ink. Realistically I ought to put it towards paying off my towering credit card debts, but I have a plan for those.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:17, Reply)
tattoos or art, buy something you normally wouldn't

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:19, Reply)
art!
I'd quite like a painting to hang on my wall.
Someone paint me a painting so I can hang it on my wall.
Preferably an ocean wave.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:24, Reply)
I got me a proper picture last week, by an artist and everything

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:25, Reply)
banksy?

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:26, Reply)
John Squire

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:27, Reply)
Is it any good?
His album covers were shit
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:29, Reply)
I like Pollock and have a load of silkscreens of his work, Squire adopts different styles and his last few exhibitions have been quite expressive
His cover art has generally been good, with the exception of a few single covers
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:33, Reply)
Interesting.

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:33, Reply)
Not too shabby!
I like.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:39, Reply)
I'm painting a thing right now
it's very brown. I used other colours but they were bright so I added more brown.

My hands keep looking like I've been doing a Kroney
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:40, Reply)
You could do something really crazy and off the wall and adult and set up an ISA, or perhaps start a pension scheme for when your all old and have no great need for saggy faded wrinkly tattoo's
Perhaps buy something of educational worth for your child
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:24, Reply)
DULL

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:26, Reply)
You're just the kind of teacher this nation needs

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:27, Reply)
For some reason I can picture you sat in a classroom with a book upside down like Bush was for 9 11, and not even noticing that none of it makes sense

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:29, Reply)
We mostly put books on the smart board now and make them interactive.
You know nothing old man!
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:30, Reply)
Does it have spellcheck on it?

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:31, Reply)
we scan it Rory.

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:32, Reply)
EDIT: Dan Quayle and his "potatoe"

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:31, Reply)
That's at the genius end of the Bobby spectrum

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:35, Reply)
It was deliberate. Ahem.

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:56, Reply)
Put it into a savings plan that pays for private education.
Then your progeny will not end up at a school where Bobby is a teacher?
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:28, Reply)
Just dial Rent-A-Troll

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:27, Reply)
I have a pension scheme
and an ISA for The Boy.

/old and sensible
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:49, Reply)
a skull on fire
which is on a motorbike on fire. The skull is playing a guitar which is on fire and there's music notes coming from the guitar and they are ON FIRE
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:34, Reply)
Needs MOAR FIRE

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:38, Reply)
hey!
where'd everyone go? Have I done a b3th?
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:46, Reply)
I'm working
and swaering at face book for refusing to send messages.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:51, Reply)
working is for chumps

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:54, Reply)
spoken like an art teacher

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 15:01, Reply)
Paying off my overdraft.
Lab's sleeve is definitely one of the best I've seen, as is Kip's.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:51, Reply)
I'd love a sleeve but old ladies upper arms are not good to be showing off.

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:52, Reply)
HOUSE!

(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 15:07, Reply)
Not quite reached the Bingo obsession yet.
But the arms are there ready for when I do.
(, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 15:08, Reply)

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